Taimiyyah Zubair – Taleem al Quran 2012 – P02 029D Tafsir Al-Baqarah 219-220
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The speakers discuss the concept of "will" in Arabic language, where people are encouraged to ask questions when they hear something that is bothering them. They also talk about the prevalence of lottery tickets and the potential for wasting one's money. The conversation also touches on the benefits of moderately drinking wine and the importance of avoiding harm to one's health. The conversation ends with a discussion of the concept of spending money on one's interests and avoiding certain activities.
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Let's continue. Yes Aluna coronial hamari will may said, they ask you about an homage and and May said
about wine and gambling? Who asked the prophets a lot isn't the companions? Notice how yes Aluna is coming again and again. What is the true that the Sahaba they asked questions from the Prophet sallallahu sallam, but you don't find every other verse in the Quran? Yes, Luca. There are only a few times that the CS Aluna is mentioned, what does that show that the Sahaba they asked questions, but not too many.
They were eager to learn, which is why they would listen attentively. They'd be very careful about whatever the Prophet sallallahu Sallam instructed them.
But if there was something that they were unsure of, than they would ask the prophets
or they wanted to know what to do or what not to do, if something was permissible or not, then they would ask the prophets
and why would they ask? When is it that you ask a question when something is really bothering you?
Right? Otherwise, yes, we come across scenarios when you're wondering is this okay? Or not? You like oh, forget, it doesn't matter. But if something's really bothering you,
for example, fasting in the month of Shawwal Okay, one person's attitude could be you know, what I have so many fast to make and I don't know whether you can fast your voluntary fasts before making up your obligatory fast so, forget it, I just give up. But there is another person that like no, I want the reward of fasting for the entire year and I need to know how I can fast in the month of Shawwal. So, what will they do?
What will they do? They will ask right? So, what does it show that a person is eager to do something or something is really bothering him. So he wants to know is it okay or not? Is it allowed or not? It shows the sincerity of a person.
Because when a person has Iman in his heart, then it's as though he has come to life.
And when a person has come to life, when a person is awake, he is alive, then he feels things he becomes sensitive.
Then if he sparked he gets hurt,
right? His senses come alive.
So likewise with a man a person wonders, is it okay to do this action? Is it okay to buy this? Is it okay to engage in such a transaction? He wants to know because he wants to make sure that whatever he is doing is acceptable to Allah subhanaw taala.
So the Sahaba they asked the Prophet sallallahu Sallam about intoxicants and gambling, that are they allowed or not, these two things, wine and gambling were very common in the Arabian society. And it's not just the urban society where it was very common. It's common till today and many, many places across the world.
But the Sahaba they wanted to know is it okay or not? Is it allowed or not?
What is a Hummer Honnef is from the letters hombre. And Homer is primarily used for grape juice. Okay, that has fermented.
And when it has fermented, it means if you drink it, then you will get intoxicated.
But it doesn't just apply to fermented grape juice. But it also applies to anything that has a similar effect, meaning anything that intoxicates a person, it could be drugs that a person is taking through a needle,
or he is digging in through his mouth.
It could be smelling something continuously so that it is toxic. It's his mind, it could be inhaling something through a cigarette or through a pipe or whatever.
Okay.
It could be drinking something.
So, anything that intoxicates a person, but why is it called conch? What does hunger mean in the Arabic language?
How
Muhammara is to cover something to build something
to cover something to veil something and we see that this is exactly what camera does, what intoxicants do, what do they do? They cover the mind of a person. They veil the intellect of a person.
So he's not sleeping, he's awake, but he's not in his senses anymore. He's
trying to walk straight. But he's not able to. He thinks he's walking straight, but he doesn't even know he is walking somewhere else. This is why when they test drivers that if they're intoxicated or not, what did they do? They make them walk or they do different tests. And people fail when they're intoxicated, right? Because it shows that they're not in control of all of their senses, their intellect has been covered by something. They are intoxicated.
Likewise, when a person is intoxicated, he is saying things that he should not be saying. He is screaming, or he's singing, or he's babbling. Or he is doing extremely obnoxious things and he doesn't even realize. So this is the effect of Homer that it covers the intellect of a person.
The scholars have said that could Luma a scholar, I know what you live
for Hua, Alchemy,
that anything that intoxicates the mind of a person.
But why did he take it? Why did he ingested? Why did he put it into his body to gain pleasure? To gain pleasure? For the purpose of pleasure? That is uncommon? Because if you think about it, a person could have been given anesthesia because of some surgery. All right. And as they're regaining their consciousness, it's possible that they're looking and they're closing their eyes and they're talking and halfway through this talk, they doze off again, right? But that's not haram. Okay, anesthesia is not haram, because person might say, Oh, that also covers your intellect. So don't take it. It's haram. No, it's not. Okay. This is what is taken for the purpose of pleasure lever.
Alright,
because it could also be that some medication,
right medication, when you have it, it causes your particular part of the body to go numb, so you don't feel the pain. Right? That also happens. There are medications like that? So don't say this is an intoxicant? No, it is taken for the purpose of pleasure. And like I mentioned to you earlier, it is not just wine, alcohol, but it includes all other things. It could be cigarettes, it could be I'm not talking about common cigarettes, even those many scholars say that it's haram, but in particular drugs, right, inhaling, or ingesting orally taking all of this comes under control.
So they asked about a Hummer
when they saw it, and also al mace it what is my sir? gambling?
gambling?
What is gambling?
A game of chance? What happens in that game?
What happens in the game?
Okay, so for example, you put your wealth, your assets, your money, anything of value, you bet, or you play a game, and if you win, then you will take your money and the money of another person, right, or if they win, then they will take your money and everybody else's money, and you went with $1,000, but you come up with 7000, or you come up with zero, right? This is what gambling, gambling is the pledging of money,
or something of material value, I got this off the internet, if you search, you'll find it as well. So don't tell me to talk slowly so that you can write every word okay, you can research it yourself as well. But listen, focus, understand, write it down as well if you can, but if you're not able to, then don't get worried about that.
Gambling is a pledging of money, or something of material value on an event with an uncertain outcome, uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money or material goods.
So basically, it's a game
you don't know what the outcome could be, it could be in your favor, it could be in favor of another
but you are pledging your money or something or material value. Why so that you can gain more your intention is to get more
why is it called Mason? Mason is from the root letters Yes, in raw from the word user what is user easy.
So my set is a game through which you can get money very
easily people become millionaires, billionaires, after playing just one game, or they lose money very easily as well. They spent so much time and effort in making money and they went and played a game off whatever at a casino and those 1000s of dollars that they took with them. Gone.
You can win easily
You can lose easily.
It's also means to distribute to divide. Yes, it is one who distributes.
Okay, one who distributes one who divides.
So the machine, what they would do is that they would bring in, let's say, camel meat, or animals like camels and horses or whatever. And then they would have a game. You can say like, you know, we have dice today, right? So they used sticks, arrows, they would have a game as well, whoever won, took all the camels or took all the caribou meat, and whoever lost lost everything.
Okay, so there are different versions of this game that are all across the world today. And also in the past in various societies.
Can you think of some examples that are prevalent today? How Mesa is played, in what form
the common lotto lottery tickets
that a person buys a ticket for $1 for $2 for $3. Okay, and he is risking that money, or $15, even sometimes $30, sometimes under dollars, he's risking that money in getting more out.
But you don't know what the result could be. It could be in your favor, it could be in the favor of other people.
But you know, what? These lottery tickets
there also known as the idiot tax, have you heard about that? They call it the idiot tax that if you're playing lottery, then you're an idiot, you deserve to waste that money.
You know why? Because the chances of winning through lottery are as rare as getting hit by lightning.
In fact, there are more chances that you will be hit by lightning than you will win a lottery ticket.
And some say even twice some lotteries are such that you could get hit by lightning twice.
Instead of winning the lottery or something like that.
You know, somebody I know, at their workplace. People collectively buy these lottery tickets, okay, every month or every week or something like that. And they keep telling them that, look, you're wasting your money, you're wasting your money, you're not going to win, you're not going to win. It's been years and years,
that all those people in that office are buying lottery tickets together. But still today, they haven't won even once. And this person, he did the math for them once
that, you know, until today, you bought these many tickets, okay, 50, or whatever, or 50 or more like 100 or 200. And you know how much money you spent.
He calculated it. For them, it was 1000s of dollars that they had spent collectively. You have spent all this money collectively, in purchasing lottery tickets, what did you get out of it? Nothing.
Yes.
It's a form of addiction. You know, sometimes I'm shocked to see people they will go to a convenience store or at a grocery store even and they will buy the lottery ticket and they will hold it and they will go to the side or they will sit at a table. And they will take a coin or a key out and they will try to read those numbers. They're so focused and so hopeful that they will make money somehow or the other. If they spent that money in something else, probably Allahu Akbar kinda risk.
Even Muslims do the same thing. I'm not talking about non Muslims, even Muslims do that.
And the other forms of Mesa that are prevalent today
are the forms of gambling.
Poker, so these games that are played at casinos, and not just casinos, but also online, right, that people will pay for it, or they will pledge a certain amount of money. Right, and they will spend a lot of money that their card games or slot machines 1000s of dollars are spent in this other forms of gambling that are prevalent today. Yes.
horse races? Yeah. Because they bet over that right. That if so and so wins in this much time. Right? Or this one comes second within this much time then you know, I bet this much money. So sports, right sports, I'm not just talking about horse races, but even football and soccer and what do you call it baseball and all of these games. There's so much gambling involved in that. People will even bet over this much time will be taken for singing the national anthem. Yeah, that if it takes one minute and these many seconds, you know, I bet this much money
If it does, then they actually win. And if it doesn't, then they lose
a chance by this for a chance to win such and such. What are you doing? Buying spending money, pledging your money so that you can get something?
Supporting
people justified saying that, Oh, we're supporting a charity, we're supporting a hospital, we're supporting a good cause. So it doesn't matter. No, it does matter. It definitely matters. I mean, you can even give $100 $1,000 In donation and you will get your tax receipt right? From the government and that's okay for you. But participating in a program like this, this is not permissible because it involves gambling. In our religion, there is no concept of easy money. You get money through hard work, okay, through working through service through effort, or through inheritance or through gifts that are given to you, but you don't get money just by playing a game
and becoming a millionaire in a day in a moment. Because this spreads many evils in the society as we will discuss inshallah.
So, yes, Aluna AKA, I kneel humbly will may say they ask you about intoxicants and gambling. Allah says on say, femur it noncollege in these two in both of them. There is if mancha bead a major sin a great sin.
Meaning indulging in these two
is something serious, it makes a person sinful it makes a person guilty. And notice if mancha bead, what does that mean that these two are not halal?
They are not permissible. What are they? They are haram because some people argue that for intoxicants. The word Haram has not been used it in the Quran. So it's okay. You can drink
because the word Haram has not been used. What does Allah say over here
kullfi Hema if mon could be telling me if something is if mancha bead a major sin would that be allowed? It would not be allowed and if you don't believe that, then in the Quran we learned that call in nama hug Ramallah BL for Wascher mela Hora minha baton well is SMA that say My Lord has forbidden such and such and also sin This is mentioned sort of out of i 33.
So committing sins is forbidden if indulging in intoxicants and gambling is a sin that means it is forbidden even though the word forbidden may not be used in the Quran, but it has been used in the Hadith very clearly.
But Allah subhanaw taala he's very just he says, Woman AirFit really nervous. In these two? There are also some benefits for people who have like what something haram how could it have anything of benefit it can have?
woman after woman after is a plural of man Farah from through letters noon firing NESARA to benefit men after benefits.
So there are many benefits in these two. Can you think of some benefits? We'll discuss cover first, what are the benefits of commerce? Yes.
Okay, so for example, red wine or drinking a little bit of wine moderately, may be good for your health. Okay? But obviously, overconsumption is very detrimental, but modern science may have proof that it's actually good for your health. Okay, benefits are there. Agreed? Yes.
It is a disinfectant. There are benefits alcohol, there's rubbing alcohol. I mean, if you work in a laboratory ever, if you work with some dangerous things or harmful chemicals, you have to clean your hands with rubbing alcohol afterwards, right? If you get injured, if you've got to cut, then you have to clean yourself with that because it's a disinfectant.
So yes, it is not clean. It is not halal, but there are some benefits in it. Yes.
It's used to make fragrances okay. It's used to make medication even, right? Alcohol is used for many things.
But what about the taste? You know, when you are looking at all these recipes, and they say, marinated in this wine for this long, right or deglaze the pan with this wine? And you're like, Yes, I'm using a substitute. Right, I'm using grape juice, but you know that it's not the same as the original recipe, right? It's not going to produce the same result. flavor, right? Some people may enjoy the feeling of being intoxicated.
This is why they drink. They say it takes all my worries away. It relaxes me. Or they will drink so that they don't even feel it's very cold. Right and they will continue to wear their normal clothing even when it's snowing. Right to warm up their bodies.
So, yes, there are many benefits in alcohol in intoxicants. Even in drugs, there may be benefits. I'm not talking about medication, drugs, but other drugs like bad drugs, okay. Like, through smuggling people may make a lot of money, right? Through selling a little bit of, or making growing a little bit of marijuana or opium or whatever, they could make a lot of money. Okay, when that fear or their benefits are there. What about Mason?
What about gambling, what benefits are there in it? Like it was mentioned earlier, that people say you buy this ticket, you spend this much money. And you may have the chance to win these many 1000s of dollars, you're supporting a charity, you're supporting a hospital. Okay, there may be benefits, any other benefits? The person who wants the casino, he's just growing and growing in his money in his wealth and his assets, because so many people are coming to play. Yes.
Thrill entertainment, quick, easy money.
So there are benefits. But what does Allah say? What is more humor, but the sin of these two is act Ballroom in a free humor, it is greater than the benefit of these two, the sin outweighs the benefit. The disadvantages outweigh the advantages, the harm outweighs the benefit.
And when that is the case, then you're not going to indulge in that
many things, many things that people do that people indulge in, they have benefits. And they also have disadvantages, it can cause you benefit it can also cause you harm loss. Right? So what should you do? You should always compare the pros and the cons, the advantages and the disadvantages, the benefit and the loss always compare the two, what is greater, whatever is greater go for that. Go for that?
How is the sin of these two greater than the benefit? How
that no matter what benefit, what worldly benefit, you can gain through these two things. The fact is that Allah subhanaw taala has forbidden it.
And when Allah has forbidden it, no matter how much you benefit from it in this world, in the Hereafter, you will suffer.
So the harm the disadvantage outweighs the benefit.
Likewise, we see that people may feel that if they are drinking a little bit moderately, it benefits their body, it keeps them healthy, it keeps them warm, whatever controls their blood pressure. But can it lead to addiction? Can it yes, very easily.
So we see that where people are benefiting from these two things, they are also suffering a lot because of these two things.
And the suffering is much more. When a person is at a party, he has a good time drinking, having fun. And then he is intoxicated, but he asked to drive back home and he can't wait any longer. And he's driving back home, he doesn't realize he hits somebody, and they end up on a wheelchair for the rest of their life.
The other person or they die, doesn't it happen? Doesn't happen. It happens all the time.
So the harm is greater than the benefit. Can your partying the pleasure that you had, can it ever justify that another person suffered because of you
and other person lost their life because of you and a family was ruined?
It can never justify
that, for example, if there is a woman who is expecting and she takes drugs or she drinks a lot, then what's going to happen it's gonna affect her child, it's gonna affect the baby in the womb.
So many people even say that the health benefits of wine, they're not actually true. This is just a misconception that is common amongst people. So Allahu Arlin. Allah knows.
So the same the harm outweighs the benefit. Right? So what if mobile Matt could borrow money for humor?
And this is the reason why Allah subhanaw taala says, This is not allowed. This is something that's not permissible for us.
A person may feel that if they own a restaurant, and they start serving alcohol there, they might make more money.
Right? It happens with many people. I remember a friend of mine, her father, he had a very famous very good restaurant, it was running very, very well. And he was being pressurized to
serve alcohol there as well.
And
If he did that, yes, he could have made more money very easily. But he made that decision. He said, No, I'm not going to. I'm not going to because the more money that I could get that will ruin my religion, it will corrupt my religion. So he did not go for that because the harm was greater than the benefits. What if Mohammed aka bottlemen never Hema.
Also we see that people who when, for example, a lottery, and they become billionaires, and just one day, they got this huge check there on the television on the news, and everybody's looking at them with Hustla I wish I was in their place.
Ask them 10 years later, 20 years later, do you have any regret in your life? What will they say?
Taking that money? Because it destroyed us.
We know many famous stories, right? You've heard of them. People who became millionaires within days, and they've corrupted them. It destroyed them.
If the doctor said that this medication is good for you, it is going to suit your body but you know that it's haram it has alcohol in it, then again, the harm will outweigh the benefit. The doctor might say that this is good for you. It might be scientifically proven, but you know what, at the end of the day it's huddle.
And who's a Shafi not the medication but who? Allah subhanaw taala only He can give you fat.
So if you're using wrong means to get that Chifa it's quite possible Allah will not give it to you. And if Allah does give you this as a test for you.
Right, so if Mohammed aka bottle Midna for humor,
there is a question that was just asked right now and that was about playing Monopoly.
Is that like me? Is that gambling? Or playing a simple game of cards? You're not betting or let's say poker, you're not betting nothing. You're just have those chips. Okay? You're not winning anything? Not even candy? Not even chocolate, not even lunch? Nothing at all. You're not winning. You're not losing. It's just a game.
That is that, okay? Yes, it is. Okay. Why? Because you are not winning or losing anything. What is gambling, gambling is that you are pledging some money. Okay? You don't know what the outcome could be, and you intend to make more.
But when you're playing a normal game, then there is no big deal. I mean, there's nothing to win, nothing to gain, nothing to lose. But there is a problem with such things as well. In the Quran, we learn that through Masons Shavon puts our Dawa, and Baba amongst people hatred and enmity
isn't a true that people who gamble,
right? Especially on a table, they're playing poker with all their money, like stacks of money, could be the two friends walk in. But as they leave their miles apart, now, they're not friends anymore.
Because one person lost and the other one.
Same thing. If you're playing Monopoly, or you're playing another game excessively all the time. Right, then what will happen, you will start disliking your friend or your brother like every time they buy that expensive hotel, which one is that the Parkland one, in Monopoly, I don't even remember.
So anywhere you like, every time they get it.
And then they're so happy when you go to jail, right?
They're so happy when you have to give a fine, or when you have to pay rent or whatever. They're so happy at your loss. So it's going to create enmity between the two of you hatred between the two of you, love and friendship will turn to and muddy and hatred. So I'm not saying that never play Monopoly. Again, never play any game again.
Because any game you play, there's going to be some winners and there are going to be other losers. This is a part of life. But if you engage in these things excessively, then that will become problematic.
I remember once upon a time, we got those Uno cards, right.
And we played and we played, and my mother came, she took those cards away and we never saw them again after that. And I'm so grateful because we spent so much time hours and hours playing them. And we were not allowed to play that afterwards.
Many times that happens. The children siblings, not even children, even adults, they're playing. And by the end, you see they're fighting with each other physically fighting
by taking out their rage and their frustration and their anger. Yes.
She's mentioning about the game pyramid that people would play. It was secret
At least because it was illegal, that some people will be at the bottom of the pyramid and others will be at the top. And they will be friends, siblings, relatives, spouses that would walk into that some would be at the bottom and others would be at the top and it will cause great rifts between people.
So yes, this is true, we see this we witness and listen, they like this is why Allah says that the sin is greater than the benefit.
Likewise, when a person is intoxicated, he's doing things wrong, he is harming other people, he's harming himself, he's missing your Salah. He cannot remember a lot and how can it be justified?
Again, if you are playing a game in which you are spending something,
you are giving some money or something of material value, and at the end, one or more individuals could win all of that and you lose then that is gambling whatever shape or form it takes. Now, I know there are many things Okay, under this topic, but don't worry inshallah this topic will come two more times again in the Quran.
Okay, so let's keep some discussion for that time as well.
Why is alone aka and they ask you mother unicorn, what should they spend? Look at the Sahaba
they're not asking about how can we make quick, easy money?
How can we take the wealth of other people as well? They're asking, What should we spend? How much where should we spend?
What does Allah subhanaw taala say kulula are for say, a laugh that which is extra, that which you can give easily?
Awful from the root that resign farewell means forgiveness pardon.
But it doesn't just mean forgiveness it also means cathedra or fuddle. Surplus favor extra meaning that what you have as surplus, right? Beyond your need.
All right. And awful also means that which is easy and convenient, meaning what you can give easily. You can spare easily if you give away it's not going to cause you any damage. You don't have to suffer because of that. So Allah says spend that which is an awful spend there which is extra with you spend that which you can easily give easily afford to give.
When do people buy lottery tickets? When they have extra money?
Right? They will say okay, I have these $5 I can afford to buy a $10 ticket, I can afford to boil into a ticket that is worth $50 or $100. They have extra money. They want to spend it on humble and may set What does Allah say? spend it on who? Those who are needy
because Hamada and makes it make a person selfish,
isn't it a person is concerned about his desires, His pleasure, his wealth, he wants to increase in his own money, he doesn't care about others.
But spending on the other hand, makes the person care about who other people.
You have extra $10 Instead of buying a lottery ticket go feed a hungry person, go clothe a naked person, go sponsor a student, go help somebody in need.
So the Sahaba wears a luna comanda you and your own canola for sale that witches extra day we're concerned about spending. And if you notice, this has mentioned in the same verse, isn't it?
Common and Mason and spending are both mentioned in the same verse because Allah subhanaw taala wants us to do Hijra from Cumberland Mesa to what? Spending on others.
Once there was a group of people who came to visit the Prophet salallahu Salam in Medina, and it was a particular tribe. They were desert dwellers and they were extremely poor.
When they came, they had their clothes, it revealed their poverty, the way their animals were the way their things were. All of that revealed their poverty, their physically weak bodies, it showed that they were in need.
So the Prophet sallallahu Sallam he got on top of the animal of his camel, look at all people in order to address them. And he said, Whoever has an extra such and such then he should give that away. Whoever has an extra such and such than he should give that away whoever has a spare this he should give that away. And the Sahaba they said that the Prophet sallallahu Sallam listed so many things that we felt that we're not allowed to keep anything extra.
We're not allowed to give anything spare.
You know how like we have done hijabs. Right. If we lose
was one or if we have to give one away? Does it affect us? Can we survive on the nine hijabs that we have? Can we easily? And if we need it again, can we go purchase it the next day or a week later or the Next Conference? Can we very easily.
But there are other people who desperately need that for them, it will be be only one.
We have extra food, extra money, extra books, extra stationery that is sitting and rotting away, while other people may be in need.
So Allah subhanaw taala wants us to start caring about other people.
Call Allah, whatever extra you have, give it away. And if all people started doing that, whenever extra they have to give it away, believe me, nobody would be bored today. No one would be needed.
Does it ever happen? That you have to go to a wedding or a party? And you look through your wardrobe and you're like, I don't think I have anything that's suitable for this event. Let me see if my friend can lend me a pair of clothes. And you go to her she's like, Yeah, sure, no problem. I just came back from so and so place. So in so country with all these new clothes, so come and borrow whatever you want.
So she can easily lend one to you not a problem for her.
Right? What does it mean? That we can also easily give one thing away not a problem for us.
We go to a store, and we buy so many favorite creams or fragrances, right? So many things without even thinking without even any difficulty.
But there are other people who are not concerned about buying cream or lotion or fragrance they're concerned about buying food or paying for their fees.
So that they can have an education.
So Allah subhanaw taala wants us to worry about others not be selfish, but be concerned about others with a luna comanda unicorn. Call the law for say that which is extra, in Sahih Muslim, we learned that Allah subhanaw taala says, Oh, son of Adam, it is better for you to spend what is in excess of your needs?
What is excess that you have? If you spend it, it's much better for you.
And worse for you to keep it if you keep it that's much worse for you. You know why?
Why do you think so you have all this extra stuff, extra clothes.
What happens after some time
you feel as though you are buried in your stuff.
You feel as though you can't find what you need, because there's so many things. And then you say we need to spring clean, we need to do junk.
Whereas before shopping before buying more things, if we thought of giving some things away, or instead of buying more, and spending that money on the needs of others, it would have been much better.
So Allah subhanaw taala says that if you spend what is an excess of your needs, it is much better for you. And if you keep it what is excess, what is extra, it is worse for you. Because either it's going to make your life difficult, or you're going to end up wasting it, which is going to be a cause of sin for you.
Right? Like we buy so much food at the grocery store.
And as we're walking out, there's a huge bin for food bank, we could easily put some food over there, but we don't what do we do, we bring it home, we let it sit and rot. And then we throw it in the garbage.
If we keep extra, with ourselves selfishly greedily, it's worse for us
that we're wasting our money in this world, we're not benefiting from it. And secondly, we're also accumulating sins by wasting things.
But if we spend it, that's much better. Because when you spend something in the way of Allah it is as though you are saving it for yourself for when for the hereafter.
And then the Hadith continues that you will not be blamed for keeping enough to cover your needs.
If you have to keep something for yourself because you need that thing, then there is no harm you're not blameworthy for that. Begin with your immediate dependence, meaning start spending on who those work closer to you.
So you just came back from Staples and you have all these pens and pencils ready for school, and your sister didn't get to go and she's looking
at your highlighter or at that very funky file that you have.
So what should you do at that time? What should you do give one thing at least share one thing at least there's no harm. Begin with who? Those who are closest to you
because we think about, you know sponsoring orphans in whatever country would I go, I can't do it. So, do bed. No start with those who are closest to you spend on them, the upper hand is better than the lower hand.
There are these ends with this that the upper hand is better than the lower hand. So be the upper hand meaning give, spend, spend that which is extra, and Allah will honor you.
Gallica Ubu Hola. Hola. Como el ad? Thus does Allah clarify to you the vs. La La Quinta for karoun. So that you can all fonder you will think you will reflect.
And you may decide what is best for you what is worse for you, you make the correct decisions for yourself,
for dunya, will occur in this world and in the Hereafter, meaning that you reflect over the matters of this world. And you also reflect over the matters of the hereafter. You see what is good for you in this dunya you see what is good for you in the Hereafter. And then you make the decisions accordingly.
So when you're spending think, is this going to benefit me now? Is it going to benefit me in the hereafter and make the right choices?
Where's Aluna, Cornelia tama and they ask you about the orphans who are the orphans, those who are
of the weakest members of society, those who are in most need of love and care, not that you become selfish when dealing with them, but very giving and generous when dealing with them. So this How about they asked about the utama?
Because the orphans remember, they lived in the houses of their guardians, these days, we have this concept of orphanages back in the day, there were no orphanages. This is why now religion, there's so much reward for having an orphan in your own house, that he's living with you. But obviously, if the orphan comes and lives with you in your house, then what comes along with him?
What comes along with him, his property, whatever he has inherited, right? It could be a little bit, it could be a lot.
So whatever he has brought with himself, let's say, the person said, Okay, we'll pay for his these expenses with his money, and we'll cover the rest of the costs. Okay.
What happened at that time was that the orphans when they would live with a family,
when they would bring their money with them, many times, their guardians would take all of their money and not give them anything. And when the orphan would grow up, he would have nothing with himself, even if their garden was their own uncle or their own distant relative.
So many times they will do this.
So Allah subhanaw taala revealed an ayah. In the Quran, which is mentioned Surah Nisa, I attend that those people who consumed the wealth of the orphans unjustly they are not consuming anything but fire with a a slowness, arrow and they will burn in the Hellfire
that consuming the wealth of an orphan. This is a crime. This is like taking a share of the Hellfire for yourself.
So then the people became very careful. They said, No, we're not going to touch the orphans money at all.
So for example, they could not afford to keep the orphan.
So what would they do? They would take from the orphans money to buy his clothes to get his food even.
So you can imagine, in the same household in the same kitchen, two meals are being prepared, one for the rest of the family and one for the orphan because you don't want to eat from the orphans money, but you don't have enough to feed the orphan either. Okay, it's possible. And this shows that it wasn't this the wealthy people who kept the orphans, even those who had limited resources, even they kept the orphans. And this is completely permissible. But you can imagine that if food is being prepared for only one person, how much can they eat? Especially a child? How much can they eat?
How much children usually leave some of their food
and who eats it?
Who eats a generally the mother?
But if it's the orphans, food, the mother is not there. Let's say the father is obviously not there. The siblings are not there. It's the orphans food only the Guardian cannot eat it his children, his wife, nobody can eat it, that food eventually what's going to happen to it? It's gonna go bad.
Right? It's going to be thrown away.
So, this is something that became common that people said no, we cannot use the orphans money at all.
We cannot use it to this way. And things became very difficult. Very, very difficult. You know, people who manage different accounts, it's very difficult for them. You can't keep track of what goes where and what belongs to which one is
gets very complicated. So it became very difficult. And it also led to waste not just a food food is just an example that I'm giving you. Okay of other things as well. So the people ask that, to what extent are we allowed to touch the orphans property?
So why is Aluna, carnal yet Amma? Allah says all Islam, Allah who say that reformation for them is better.
Meaning if ever you do touch the money of the orphan, you should be concerned about the Islam of the of that money, what is Islamic reformation improvement to fix something.
So let's say the orphans money is there, you say it's sitting there, by the time he's an adult, this money is not going to have much value. Or this child, his father was a farmer, he had these many cows or these many goats. And if the orphan he can't manage them, I can't manage them. Because I'm a businessman. Let me say for example, if I want to sell it and invest that money, so that by the time the orphan grows up, he has more money. Is that okay?
That's okay. Because it's law, you are concerned about the improvement, improvement.
So, all is left on the homepage, we're into holiday to home and if you mix your affairs with them to call it to from the real life is highly I'm taught how to mix. Because you're living in the same house. You're eating at the same table. So if you slightly mix your affairs with them, so for example, Their food is there, your food is there, and you take a little bit of their food, they take a little bit of your food. Is that okay? Yes, it's okay. We're into holla to whom Allah says fi one accom then they're like your brothers. If one is a Florida
this is just like your brother. If you go to his house, then do you not eat easily? Yes, you can. You go to your sister's house. You go to your parents house. You go to your children's house, you go to your relative's house, your uncle's your aunt's house, you take permission every time you fill a glass of water.
You don't
So likewise, when they are living with you than they are like your brother so you will deal with their property just like you deal with the property of your own brothers. But remember, Allah Who ya Allah and Allah knows I'll move set million Muslim
move cities who one who does facade? One who causes corruption. And Muslim is one who does is law. One who fixes things.
So Allah knows your intention.
Do you want to corrupt destroy consumed the wealth of the orphan and you just pretending to mix your affairs?
Or do you really want good for the wealth of the orphan? Allah knows your intention? Because enamel Armello Binney yet
well, oh sha Allah, and if Allah wanted, let our Netta come, surely he could have caused difficulty for you.
In the Lucha Aziz and Hakeem indeed Allah is Mighty and wisely are another con from the rule that is already known that Anita is to be in distress. It is basically when a bone that was previously broken and mended breaks again, to can imagine how much distress a person would be in how much difficulty he would be.
So if Allah wanted, he could have caused this to be very difficult for you that no, you cannot mix your affairs with the wealth of the orphan at all, you cannot touch it, you cannot do anything to it, then you will be in a lot of difficulty.
But it is the Mercy of Allah, that Allah has created this ease for you. What do you think the connection is between this verse and the previous? Because also, if you notice, this verse is connected, that for dunya will occur could have been mentioned at the end of the previous verse, But it begins in this verse, why? What's the connection? Yes.
Yes, against spending that which is extra and taking care of the orphans, you see,
there's two characters, right? One is a person who is selfish, and the other is a person who is not selfish. He's in fact caring for others, the person who is selfish, he will think, Oh, the orphans living in my house. I have to charge him I have to take this money and he's pretending to help the orphan but he's in fact eating up all of the wealth. The same person indulging in gambling, intoxicants and the other is giving generous Allah wants us to be who generous, and the person who will stay away from Cumberland Mesa, then he will also stay away from harming the property of the orphan. May Allah subhanaw taala because all generous people and not selfish
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