Shakiel Humayun – Mo Money 29th Sermon
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The transcript describes a jumbled mix of disconnected sentences and phrases covering topics such as poverty, wealth, and the test of how we deal with people and poverty. They emphasize the importance of building wealth for the sake of pleasure and pleasure, rather than a hazard to them. The speakers also discuss the importance of building wealth for the sake of pleasure and pleasure, rather than a hazard to them. They emphasize the importance of building wealth for the sake of pleasure and pleasure, rather than a hazard to them.
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Adam and Eve
and then sent them down
to this duniya.
The word
duniya means something
that is lonely.
Even when Allah sent
Adam and Eve to this world,
he used
the
word
meaning go down
from this paradise.
It's a dissension.
It's a coming down.
So the dunya
in contrast
to the earlier,
which means something that is
of higher form, higher standard, higher quality.
So this status of the duniya
of being
a lower form
of living
has created certain beliefs
around it by some people.
Some people think that the duniya in its
entirety
and that everything in the duniya
or in this world
is evil
or it's bad.
So they renounce
the dunya of the world,
especially
wealth.
They think
that money
is evil.
Wealth
is bad.
And it's a sin
to be wealthy.
If someone's wealthy,
that person
is sitting
or or must be a sinner.
Some even go
far to use
the status of this duniya as an excuse
to be lazy.
Oh, I'm not gonna work to provide for
my family
properly
because this is the duniya.
I'm not gonna be involved in the duniya.
I'd rather
sit home,
sit on the couch,
and spend
time in front of the TV
instead of properly
providing
a proper residence,
food, provision for my family.
And some of them get these beliefs about
wealth
from the hadith of the prophet Muhammad salallahu
alaihi wa sallam
where he said,
Where the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
I took a glance
at paradise
and I saw
that most of the inhabitants
of paradise
were poor people.
So their conclusion is that since most of
the people in paradise are poor,
we should be poor too, and that will
get us into paradise.
But that is an incorrect belief
because poverty is not an act of worship.
Poverty will not get anyone into paradise, and
that's not the definition or the meaning of
the hadith. Rather,
eradicating
poverty
is an act of worship,
and this is why Zakat was legislated.
This is why sadaqa, charity has been legislated
in Islam.
And so
poverty
is not a virtue.
But what is meant by the hadith of
the prophet
it is a statistical
hadith
since if we look over history, most of
the people
that are on this earth are not
the richest, the top 1%.
Most of the people throughout history and today
and
most probably in the future, we look at
the world today, most of the people live
in poverty.
And so
we find that this
incorrect belief
is repudiated
by many instances in the Quran.
Allah subhanahu talks about Sulaiman alaihis salam
where he says,
where he says, I have
intense love for wealth out of the remembrance
of Allah. Can you imagine?
A prophet of Allah saying, I have love
for wealth.
And what's interesting here is, he didn't say,
I love wealth. He said,
I had love for the love of wealth,
literally.
Meaning, I intensely
love wealth out of the remembrance of Allah
subhanahu.
And what's also interesting here is,
the word that he chose
or Allah subhanahu wa'ala chose for the word
wealth in Arabic
is Khayr
in Arabic means good.
Wealth is being
labeled here as something good where
suriman alaihis salam is saying, I love
wealth,
calling it good.
And we find this in the Quran as
well. Allah subhanahu wa'ala said,
Where Allah subhanahu says,
it's It has been prescribed
upon you
that if death comes upon one of you,
that
and if you leave any wealth behind, you
should write a will.
But the word for wealth in this ayah
is.
Allah uses the word
good.
Means good
for the term of wealth here.
And so,
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam himself
also
clarify
that wealth in itself is not evil
but something good, something that we should ask
Allah for.
As one day,
the mother of Anas ibn Malik came to
the prophet Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa sallam with
her 10 year old son,
It said, oh messenger of Allah, I want
him to serve you.
And so the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
Anas ibn Malik who was known to be
then Khadibun Nabi salallahu alaihi wasallam, the servant
of the prophet Muhammad salallahu alaihi wasallam.
The prophet shalallahu alaihi wasallam then made dua
for Anas.
And his dua was,
The Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam then said, O
Allah,
increase
his wealth,
his children,
and bless him in whatever you give him.
Here the
prophet is asking Allah
to make Anas ibn Malik wealthy someone who
has a lot of money.
Anas ibn Malik later says,
as he grew up and
in the later years,
he said,
by Allah, I have a lot of wealth.
The dua of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
was answered.
He said, I have a lot of wealth
and the amount of my children and my
children's children today number 100.
So the prophet
here clarified
that wealth is in itself not something evil,
but it is something that is to be
sought from Allah Subhanahu.
And so when Allah Subhanahu says,
that surely your wealth and your children are
a fitna.
For some people, the word fitna automatically means
something evil.
Something
that should be avoided.
But that's not the case. The word fitna
in the Arabic language means a test.
So when Allah subhanahu wa'ala says, surely your
wealth and your children are a fitna,
it means it's a test.
It's a test in how you will deal
with your children, deal with wealth.
And the test is we know Allah subhanahu
wa'ala test us with good and bad things.
And so
poverty,
if one is afflicted with poverty,
it's a test.
If one is granted wealth,
it's also a test.
So both of these are tests in how
we deal
with others and Allah subhanahu wa'ala while in
poverty,
and how we deal with others and Allah
subhanahu wa'ala while we have money, we're wealthy,
are we stingy?
What do we spend
on our family,
on our societies?
What do we do with that?
And both
wealth, children can be a positive force or
a negative.
It's similar to
the Quran.
If the Quran is misused,
it can take someone to the * fire.
Well, the first people to enter the *
fire
will be the person
who memorized the Quran,
who is to recite for fame
or for people's praises.
The Quran was misused.
Even though it's a sacred book, but once
it's misused, it led that person to the
hellfire.
Wealth
is the same thing.
If wealth is misused, it can lead one
to the hellfire.
But if the Quran is used properly,
if it's understood and practiced upon,
it can lead one to paradise.
And the same is the case with wealth.
If wealth is used properly,
it can also lead one to paradise.
And the companions, they understood this.
And this is why they said,
They said They went to the prophet Muhammad
and complained. They said, the wealthy, and the
affluent, and the rich people have gone away
with a lot of rewards.
They fast as we fast, they pray as
we pray.
But they're able to give their surplus
wealth
away for Allah subhanahu. And we can't do
that.
So the companions didn't see being wealthy as
something evil, something bad, something to shun that,
oh my God, this is a person of
the duniya
because he's wealthy.
They rather sought to be wealthy because they
knew that wealth was a means to enter
paradise.
So the prophet then told them
that if you say
you're enjoying good or forbid the evil, it's
also accounted for you
as a,
as a charity.
So we see here that the prophet
didn't demonize wealth for the wealthy,
but he actually
praised in this context.
The wealthy for the good that they were
doing and gave alternative
solutions to those who didn't have wealth.
The prophet said,
The prophet
said
that the strong believer is better
and more beloved to Allah
than the weaker believer.
And the strength of a believer
comes in 4 things. Number 1, the strength
in their faith in iman.
Number 2, the strength in knowledge.
Number 3, physical strength, being healthy.
And number 4,
financial strength.
And the prophet
then said,
And there's good in both of them, the
weak believer and the good believer, because they
all have some degree
of
these 4.
But the stronger we are financially,
the more
beloved we are to Allah
subhanahu. So Islam teaches us
not to be weak financially, not to settle
for less or little,
but to be wealthy and strong
financially.
And so Allah subhanahu has ayats,
Where Allah says, and move in the regions
of the earth
and consume from his provision, his telling us
to take advantage
of his provisions.
Where Allah
forbid transactions
in business during Jum'ah. But once it's over,
Allah subhanahu wa'ala says that when the salah,
the prayer Friday, the Friday prayer is over,
then go out to the earth and seek
from the bounty of Allah.
Being seek his provisions, seek his wealth.
It was prohibited, now
it's per permitted.
Where Allah subhanahu also
said, Allah subhanahu wa'ala said that, If the
people had believed and were mindful of Allah,
we would have
overwhelmed
them with blessings from the heavens and the
earth. Meaning given them wealth and provision.
So wealth
is being deemed here as a reward from
Allah subhanahu for believing in him and being
mindful of
Allah And throughout the Quran, Allah also mentions
his names and his attributes
which make us understand
that it's okay to be wealthy.
It's actually a positive
thing. Allah subhanahu wa'ala says that he is,
that he is the giver.
And this is the name of Suleyman alaihis
salam used when he asked Allah for a
kingdom that will never be matched by anyone
else. He said,
you are the givers. If Allah gives,
we should be in the receiving end of
receiving provisions and wealth and money and so
on and so forth.
Allah subhanahu says he is
That he's the best of providers.
And so if he's the best of providers,
there's nothing wrong in receiving from Allah subhanahu
the bounties that he has given.
So the idea of demonizing
money
or thinking that being wealthy is sinful
and that somehow being poor and wearing ragged
clothes and
not being employed is an attribute of piety
or some kind of religious religious
significance
is
not found to be supported
by the Quran or the hadith of the
prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam. But rather most
of the sahaba were wealthy and they were
rich.
Yes. It was their choice
that a lot of them gave everything away.
Like the prophet Muhammad shalallahu alaihi wa sallam
was a millionaire.
He was rich
but he gave everything away. He gave valleys
of cattle away to people. Imagine the value
of a value of cattle
in today's time. The prophet Mohammed
was a millionaire,
but he gave everything away. That was his
choice.
And so we can't impose
what is optional,
giving everything away. That's optional.
As that to be the default lifestyle
and if that's not lived, then people are
sinful.
And so when Allah sent us to this
earth calling it the duniya,
the lowest form,
It was not meant to me that we
shun
everything from this duniya,
but what was meant
by the word duniya that if you see
pleasures
and if you see beauty
and if you see delight on this world,
then that is the duniya form. That is
the lowest form.
Just imagine
how the highest form in paradise would be
of these things, of the beauty, of the
pleasure, of the delight that we witness that
is temporal.
So I ask
Allah
to make us financially strong as it's an
act of worship,
and that we do it out of the
remembrance of Allah and out of worship that
we spend in ways that are pleasing to
Allah so that wealth doesn't become
a hazard
to
us.