Tom Facchine – Minute with a Muslim #278 – How To Worship Allah With Your Money

			People need to get used to the idea of converting their everyday habits into worship. This is
something I've been on Pygame talks about a lot for the person who's kind of heedless. Their worship
becomes habit, right? Mechanical motions, test be specialized. But for the wise person, their habits
become worship. So let's say for example, you go buy gas, how many times a week? Do you buy gas?
Probably at least once a week, maybe maybe at least once every two weeks? Maybe more? Where do you
go? What are the factors that shape your decision for where to go buy gas? Are you just going to the
place that has the cheapest gas? Is there one particular gas station that's owned by a Muslim? And
		

			one that's not? Would you choose the one that's owned by a Muslim over the one that's not even if it
was more expensive? If there's one that's owned by a Muslim and he doesn't sell lottery tickets or
alcohol? would you prioritize that one over the other two, even if it was more expensive, right?
Very, very easily. How we spend our money has ethical dimensions. We are too caught up in usually in
North America and North American Muslim scene into just getting the best deal. We want to especially
if it comes from another Muslim, or we want the feasts of Villa discount. We want the brother our
brothers in the faith. You know, I should get it for cheaper. Instead of thinking I had the
		

			opportunity to worship Allah with my money and help this person earn a livelihood keep this person
in business. Were too selfish for that right now. We think what can I get? What am I getting out of
it? What's my bottom line? There's an amazing story of hip hop the laminate best. No Rahim, Allah de
la, where he sends his slave to the market to buy a horse for him. And the slave he goes and he
negotiates a price and he negotiates a really, really good price. He haggles, he talks him down, and
he comes back to us. And he says, Look, I got this great horse, I haggle the price way down for you.
Okay, the love and invest says, Okay, you did a great job, thank you very much. He comes to the
		

			market to collect the horse and to deliver the payment. He sees the horse and he tells the seller of
the horse, he says, What did you agree to pay for this? And he tells him the price that he had
agreed to? And he said, that's too low. So I'm gonna give you more, I'm gonna give you this much.
And the buyers like, Okay, well, that's crazy. But sure, right. Okay, I'll agree who's gonna turn
down extra money after Lebanon best kept on saying, that's not enough. I'm gonna give you more.
That's not enough. I'm gonna give you more. And he kept on bumping up the price bumping up the
price, bumping up the price, until it was more than the seller originally asked for. The seller was
		

			embarrassed at a certain point. But tell him that best. He said the reason he did it was because if
I had your horse, this is what I would sell it for. This is what I think it's worth. They'll let him
know best was worshipping Allah with his money. That's his Muslim brother, his Muslim brother has a
family to support his Muslim brother has kids to feed kids to put in school, he has a wife at home,
he has all these sorts of different things. Why are you going to squeeze out of him a few extra
dollars? Why wouldn't you be happy to pay the extra in order to let him live and have a decent
livelihood and have a decent life. And if your intention is to seek Allah's budget, and you're also
		

			going to get rewarded in the afterlife for it, there's a lot of places, you know, like, I was
recently at mass, and you see a lot of different vendors and stuff like that. And some of the stuff
is very, like,
		

			I don't want to say cheap quality, but you can tell it's just like, you know, it doesn't have
sustainability in mind. mass produced synthetic materials, you know, produced in a factory somewhere
shipped around the globe. Okay, is it permissible? It's not permissible. That's not what I'm talking
about. I'm talking about what's ethical, what is the best thing that we could be doing? Whereas if
you put your money into something that is handcrafted, it's from people that you can actually go and
visit and see the individuals who are making this and ensure and ensure that they have a decent
livelihood and that they're paid well, and that to the end of it? Are you gonna pay more? Of course
		

			you are, but if you have the right intention, you will be worshiping Allah with your money.