Sadullah Khan – Parables and Wisdom from the Quran (Power of Collective Intentionality) Night 19

Amen and deserve and they will learn Kenny Eisenman.

All the bIllahi min ash shaytani R rajim Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim

Allah Jana Timken m salwak mominul Quran Al Karim lights of

empowerment, parables and wisdom from the Glorious Quran.

When we reflect upon the Quran and the content of the Quran, we find

the numerous instances in the Quran where attention is drawn to

the beauty and the wisdom of mutual care of mutual

consideration and concern for the well being of fellow human beings

and the rest of creation.

And among these verses, yeah you had Lavina ominous Bureau was our

bureau or arbitral but Allah Allah Allah come to for the whole Oh you

who believe?

patiently persevere and facilitate patient perseverance for others.

Be ever ready to do what is right and what is good. And be sincerely

dutiful to Allah, so that you may attain unto piety.

We these kinds of verses arouse our empathy and they motivate

within us a heightened awareness of our duty towards our human

family. It also prompts our spirit of generosity.

Allah says in the Quran introduced to the Carty for neon Mahi. We're

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If your charity is in the open public, it is good.

And if you do it privately, and you make it reads the poor, it may

be better for you. Because that charity will atone for some of

your sins. And be aware that Allah is fully informed of whatever you

do.

Now when you give donations to institutions,

that is something specific because sometimes public contribution can

motivate other people to be generous as well. So Islam does

not disdain or look down upon public charity or helping people

in public. But there is this preference specifically when it

comes to individuals, friends or family or neighbors of a charity

be private. And this in regards to assisting those who may be

impoverished or in need. In fact, such acts are highly cherished.

There's a hadith of rasool Allah Allah wa salam, documenting the

salary of Imam Al Bukhari, we've been assaulted Sebata nuloom Allah

He Li, Yeoman Allina Illa vindaloo there are seven persons from Allah

will shade on the Day of Judgment when there's no other shade

besides the shade which Allah will provide. And among the seven

people, you know, suits said Allahu alayhi wa sallam said,

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Martin fixie Malou, a person who spins in charity, and conceals the

charity that even the right hand does not know what the land has

left hand has given

that it's come down to us from previous stages through history.

There are different categories and degrees of charity

or assistance to the needy or the impoverished. Some categorize it

as aid. But Allah Allah, they say, the lowest form of charity is when

you give charity but you give it grudgingly, unwillingly

reluctantly.

But the work week is for charity to give charity you give it but

reluctantly, unwillingly, and of course, not with an open heart or

free spirit,

when one gives willingly, but you give far less than what you could

or what is needed, and you are in a position to assist. They say

this is a better level of charity, but still not as good as it

shouldn't be.

Then there are those who give to the poor when the poor ask them

better than that, or those who give to the poor. When they don't

ask them before they ask. Then there are those where the

recipient, one who receives know who the giver ease, but the giver

does not know who is giving to better than that is when the donor

or the giver gives and the recipient does not know who that

person is.

The highest level in that is charity where neither the giver

nor the receiver knows who's given it or receives it and the highest

form of charity. And this is a whole new approach and requires an

entire discussion is

To make sure that people are not impoverished in the first place

that they don't require to go in big. So in other words, it can

come to when you have people working for you pay them properly.

So don't have to go out in big

or seek to the needs of those who are around you. So that you don't

need to go in big.

That's why in Islam, you can't give a cut your own household why?

Because you supposed to see to the needs. So the people who are

closest to you make your best effort to ensure they don't end up

in a position where they have to beg. So this is the highest form

of charity, to help the person in order to strengthen his or her

position, so that they don't need ever to depend on other people.

I want to give an incident that occurred. And this is documented

by tourists that went to a Turkish small town in Turkey.

And I want us to reflect upon this as beautiful. And pajamas, we can

implement something like this here in South Africa. So these two

tourists, European tourists, they say they were sitting on a

winter's day in a well known soup shop in a village town in Turkey,

enjoying some soup.

A man entered and set in an empty table besides them, he called the

waiter in place in order for soup. But he said two cups of soup, one

for here, and one for the wall.

So they noticed the person wrote down the waiter, and the two pages

one brought the soup the person paid drank it. And the other one

she wrote down or he wrote down, put it on the wall

after a while. So another two people came in a couple came in

husband and wife or something. And they also ordered some the other

three suit. They paid for three, two of them drank. But the third

one, the way to put it onto the wall. So in other words, two, four

here and one for the wall.

After a while then the font is very strange. What is the wall

suit for the wall? What does it mean? And why would they pay more.

A little while later, a poorly dressed woman perhaps in poor

woman came and seated herself. She looked at the wall and said one

cup of soup from the wall. The waiter served the took to the lady

with respect and dignity that she does to anybody else, any other

customer. The lady had a soup left with all revenue to pay us in. And

we notice the great respect for the needy shown by the

inhabitants. And these two visitors European visitors said

they will move to tears because of what they saw.

They said we ponder upon the need of what this woman wanted. She

enters the shop hungry without the necessary money to satisfy her

hunger. She does not want to lower her self esteem to beg for a free

cup of soup. So without begging or without having to beg. She looked

at the wall with soup available being paid for by someone she does

not know.

And she goes there not knowing who paid for the soup. She placed an

order for herself enjoyed herself and left super grateful. hunger

satisfied, dignity intact.

This is what they call the power, the positive power of collective

intentionality, your good intention.

The people who are giving the soup don't even know each other. Nor do

they know the person who's going to receive the soup. You do it I

do it I drink a soup I ordered another one. I don't know. But

collectively we have an intention if someone comes and if they need

the something for them to serve the needy whenever they need. That

is called the positive power of collective intentionality. Each

one on his own does something for others, and many people can be

helped, as in this case, generous individuals who may not know each

other, each buy a cup of soup with the intention that it may feed

some hungry person and collectively, hundreds of people

hundreds of people can be fed in a dignified manner.

The lesson we learn from this three. When we think of charity,

we contemplate compassion, compassion towards others empathy

and compassion towards others. And we manifest that compassion within

ourselves with generosity and service. A habit very much loved

by Allah subhanho wa Taala to the extent in the Hadith documented in

the summary of mum, Muslim Rasulullah said, Man Yes sir Allah

wa salam yes sir Allahu Allah if dunya will Kira wala if he only

lived, Madame Abdul Omar can only have him Whoever relieves the

difficulty of a needy person. Allah will be relieved the

difficulties in this world in the Hereafter and whoever comes to the

assistance of a person you need. Allah subhanho wa Taala is the

assistance of that person as long as he assists the others

Second point for us besides this charity being something of

compassion, which we manifest, public and private charity is

good, public and private charity is good. But privately assisting

the needy, especially those who may know, family members, friends,

neighbors, dear ones, people who you know, when you give it

privately it's meant to ensure your own sincerity, because you

are focusing on the act of charity, and the need of the

person rather than your own generosity of giving. And thirdly,

generosity is always good. Asakawa generosity is always good, but

nobility in generosity. nobility in generosity is manifested in how

we maintain the dignity of those who we assist. Akula kolyada was

tough for Allah. Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah.