Sadullah Khan – Parables and Wisdom from the Quran (Power of Collective Intentionality) Night 19
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The transcript discusses the highest form of charity in Islam, which is giving people the necessary help they need to achieve their needs. It touches on the importance of protecting others' position in order to avoid wasting one's pocket and creating a sense of community. The speakers also touch on various verses of the Quran, including those related to mutual care and public contribution, and emphasize the importance of individualism and helping people in needy ways. The conversation also touches on Turkey's small town where two tourists and two people sat on a winter'sday in a soup shop and a woman in Turkey who wants to lower her self-esteem to beg for a free cup of soup. The speakers discuss the positive power of collective intentionality, which is a positive power.
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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,
Roger lune to set the kabisa 14 For Aqua hat Taganga Muna, who
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.