Tom Facchine – Do We Trust Allah

			charity is the opposite of Riba. And Allah subhanaw taala. Towards the end of Surah, Bacara, he does
something absolutely amazing. He talks for pages about charity. And why is that significant because
charity, it takes faith, right? Good charity, pure charity, real charity, that's like you have to
watch something, leave your hand and have the faith that it's going to come back to you, which is
incredible. And it's not like investing in stocks or your bank account balance. Because that, you
know, you can open your phone, you can keep on checking it, you can check your balance 100 times a
day, if you want. When it comes to charity, it's gone. It's out of sight. And so you don't know
		

			what's going to happen to it, you literally just have to trust that Allah subhanaw taala is going to
make good on his promise and return it to you in the dunya and an afterlife. And so Allah subhanaw
taala promises us, you know, he compares it to like, a head of grain, right. And so we can get this
example for us. In North America with corn is everywhere, right? And so you have one single ear of
corn, okay has like over 100, maybe a few 100 kernels on that ear of corn, every single one of those
kernels, you plan it, it'll become an entire new plant, an entire new corn plant, every single corn
plant has about maybe three years, right? So for every single kernel that you plant, you might be
		

			getting 1000 kernels in return. So last month, Allah compares charity to this. And this the metaphor
of planting it is so accurate to charity, like giving it away because you can't open up the earth
and check it out. You can't keep on looking and see you're gonna kill it. It's gone. It's out of
sight. It's hidden from you. And the first definition that Allah puts forth at the very beginning of
the chapter who are the people of Taqwa they're the people that you'll meet want to be the like,
people who believe in the unseen. And so it's a huge, huge test, right? You have to believe in the
unseen in order to be able to have the courage to let this thing go and then trust that it's going
		

			to come back to you. And then Allah has found data talks about river right after that, what's the
relationship because rivers the opposite group is the absolute opposite the person doesn't trust the
blessing and the botica of Allah. And so they feel like they have to rig the game and control
everything so that they get more and that's why Allah subhanaw taala says William hackled Riba, he
says that he does the opposite of what he does the charity charity, you take that one kernel, you
plant it up to 1000, and return the river, you it looks like in your hand, it looks like more and
more and more is coming but Allah saying that he's depriving everything from blessing, it's actually
		

			less and less and less, no matter what you are looking at, it's actually less and less and less. So
it's a huge test. It's a test of our paradigm. Are we really just like materialists that are
masquerading as Muslims? Right? Do we only believe in the things that we can see? Or do we believe
in something more than that? We believe in something that's going on beyond that, which is why then
you know, last month, Allah says, shaitana Yeah, document fakra where Muhammad fascia he says that
the devil is the one who threatens you with poverty, right? The devil is the one with threatens you
with what you can see. There's not going to be enough to go around you better get yours. Everybody's
		

			out to get you everybody's your competition. And then Allah says that he promises you Allah is the
One who promises father month at a time in our funda. He says, you know, forgiveness from him and
bounty. So you have the shaytaan over here, who's trying to threaten you and scare you with scarcity
and then you have the last final data who's promising you abundance and blessings so you have to
choose