Shadee Elmasry – The RICH vs. the POOR- Who is Being Tested
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The importance of giving is highlighted, including the physical reality of giving and the need to avoid embarrassment. Prayer- attention is necessary for spiritual and spiritual well-being, rather than just wealth or money. Success in praying alone is essential for spiritual well-being and the ability to focus on one's spirituality and well-being. Money and money a month can be difficult to reach a certain amount, but it is important to prioritize one's spiritual and spiritual principles.
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Someone said that giving when you don't have
a need is less reward than when you
have a need.
Of course, when you have a need and
you give, you have more reward, no doubt
about that.
And Sayyidina Ali is the one who said,
when you give after being asked, it's adab,
it's just manners, it's not charity, it's just
manners.
Of course it is charity, but he's saying,
min mubalighah, this is just being polite.
Rather, true charity is that you go around
looking for the poor.
And noticing, oh my, this guy's had a
hole in his shoes for the last month.
Let me drop some money in his pocket
while he's not looking.
Something like that.
Let me just put an envelope of cash
in his mailbox.
Just say, gift on it.
Stick it in his mailbox.
Like that.
The secret sadaqah is what makes the poor,
it deflates the envy out of their hearts
from the rich.
Because the natural reality between rich and poor
is that the poor will envy the rich.
How can you share a masjid?
See, most people don't have a shared space,
right?
The poor, the third space of the poor,
there's work, home, and there's a third space
where you socialize.
The third space of the poor is like
some dingy bar.
The third space of the rich used to
be like a country club.
But still, they have these fitness clubs that
are like ridiculous $600 a month.
And you just go there, get on a
machine, there's some snacks, there's some food, there's
a massage, whatever.
$600 sometimes more too, by the way.
$2,000, $3,000 a month, right?
So they still separate.
They don't hang out in the same space.
Well, in Islam, that's not the case.
In Islam, you hang out in the same
place.
You go pray in the same masjid.
So someone's riding up in a rickety Honda,
another person's coming on a bicycle, another person's
walking, and another person's coming in an Audi,
another person's coming in a SUV, Mercedes, another
person's got a driver, and you're all praying
in the same masjid.
So what's happening?
Allah has done this for a reason.
So you all see each other.
It's a test and a benefit.
It's a test for both.
You're coming in in your Mercedes SUV and
parking.
You pay $800 a month for your lease
or your car payment.
And you're praying next to a guy who
has been praying with the same outfit on
for the last week.
So Allah wants us to notice people.
There's this idea, okay, don't look at anyone
and pray.
That's good to a degree.
There's a time and place for that.
But there's also a time for, do notice
everybody.
You have wealth.
You should be noticing everyone around you.
Take notice.
Who has holes in his socks?
Whose kids have holes in their pants?
Whose kids, you can tell where this stuff
was bought.
You can tell this shoe is not even
worth $10.
And you can tell other people when they
buy their kids those ridiculous, ugly looking Yeezys
for $300.
Piece of plastic, flip-flop.
Looks like it's made out of marshmallows.
And it's $300.
That just tells you something, right?
So that tells you that that person doesn't
need sadaqah.
And it tells you another person does need.
When you pray, look at the socks of
this guy.
You can notice these things and the rich
should notice them.
And they should take the initiative to find
a way to get that person a gift
of money.
It's not have to be a lot.
$50 can go a long way for people,
$100 in a way that they don't feel
it.
You can go to the masjid administrator and
say, listen, that person over there, just give
him this envelope and don't say who.
Anonymous.
The muezzin, the front row brothers at the
front row, they know everybody.
They see everybody all the time.
And they simply say, here, a gift from
one of the muezzins.
Oh, who is it?
Don't say it.
It's just a gift.
Oh, I'm embarrassed.
OK.
What's embarrassing?
I don't want it to be awkward.
Poverty is more awkward.
Poverty is worse.
So it's not awkward, number one.
Poverty is more awkward.
Some people, if you earn, let's say, $50,
$60, $70, $80 a month, I'm telling you,
you can all make that amount of money.
It is not hard to make that amount
of money.
You just have to follow certain principles and
you have to have sabr and focus.
And you have to go against your desires.
And you have to take a mentor.
But you can get to that amount of
money.
It may not be overnight.
It may take you five, six years, eight
years, 10 years, but you can easily get
to that if you follow certain spiritual and
worldly principles.
But if you're making 80K a month, then
your sadaqah can be $1,000 a month.
What is really the difference between $79,000
and $80,000 a month?
It's nothing.
Imagine now you go to the bank every
beginning of the month.
At that point, you don't have a beginning
and end of the month because you're earning
from like 10 different places.
So you just click on the ATM machine,
$1,000 withdrawal in hundreds.
You'll put them in envelopes or in a
piece of paper.
You go to the event every few days.
You see that brother over there just slipped
this in his pocket.
Tell him it's a gift from an anonymous
source.
This is the function of why the Prophet
ﷺ said, it's better to pray in Jammah.
It's by focus, intention, and sincerity.
It's far better to pray alone.
But Islam is not just focusing on your
own spirituality.
It's focusing on the bodies of other people,
the wealth of other people, the well-being
of other people.
Hence, it's greater to pray in the mosque
so that you can see other people.
When you have, I'm telling you, if you
become somebody who prays regularly in the masjid,
you will eat so much for free.
The amount of food that just gets passed
around, all of these benefits, I'm telling you.
So many benefits, but it's up to the
rich to be aware.
It's not even Zakah, this is Sadaqah.
In the realm of Sadaqah, the rich have
to keep their eye out and notice.
And it is a test.
This shared space of the mosque between the
rich and poor is a test for the
poor too.
Don't have envy.
This is the Qismah of Allah.
Allah has divided the wealth like this.
And we can also say, one of the
ways in which maybe you are to blame
too.
Poverty is not always based in innocence.
It could be and it could not be.
It's your decisions.
You decided to go into poetry as a
major.
Nobody forced you to do this.
Your best childhood friend, he said, you know
what, I'm going to go into dentistry.
And you all live the same way and
you don't realize any difference in that one
decision.
Until you're now hitting the age of 20
and 30, you're living like this now.
Your poetry, this is what it got you,
crumbs.
And dentistry, you said, ah, this is so
boring.
You're just, you know, a laborer, but at
a higher level, that's it.
Our dentist always makes fun of himself.
He's just like high level skilled laborers, that's
it.
I always joke around with the gastroenterologists, the
guy who studied, the people who do stomachs
and intestines, and I always introduce them.
It's funny when I see them.
And some, there's a third person we don't
know.
I said, this is a plumber.
He is a plumber.
He's just a plumber for humans, right?
So that's why he's making 30 times more
than a plumber for toilets.
But it's for the poor not to envy
the rich, and maybe you'll learn something from
them.
Maybe you'll get a job from them, and
maybe you'll start to ask a question.
Hey, how did you get like this?
I wouldn't mind a six-figure salary as
a monthly basis, right?
As a monthly salary, six figures.
Person makes six figures over two years.
Another person makes six figures in a month.
So why don't you learn something, right?
That's why the third space that is shared
between rich and poor, those are the wisdoms
behind it.
If that's implemented, you don't have socialism and
Marxism.
As revolutions of like jealousy, this really like
anger and hatred, injustices, rich not being just
to the poor, poor having no spiritual teaching.
That is amazing from the Ansar.
They said to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
we will give them some of our wealth
and give them the whole spoils of war
of Bani Nadir.