Yahya Rhodus – Futuwwa Letting Go of Wealth
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Salah more Allah hi guys ain Al
hamdu lillah wa salatu salam ala. While earlier he was so happy
woman why Allah Hamdulillah we thank him subhanho wa Tada for all
of his blessings. The greatest blessing of all, is the blessing
of being from the Ummah of our Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
wa Sahbihi Salam, believing in Him, and that He is a messenger
sent from Allah subhanho wa Tada. And we ask our Lord, from the
blessing of the various Salawat that we've been making and the
Dharwad that we've been making, that Allah subhanaw taala blesses
to be from the causes of those in this time to our Prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi salam, and we be from those that when they're
mentioned to him, while he is in the buzzer in the intermediary
realm is that he becomes happy Salah liason and he becomes
joyful, and his heart expands and inclines towards us. And may we be
from people who give victory to his son.
And especially the abandoned sadness, there's so many people
have left, where we give victory to them in a very special way in
and of ourselves, and be a means for other people to also act upon
them. And in this of course, as we all know, and we need to move
beyond a mere intellectual knowledge of it and so that we
experience it all side, all Felicity, it was in following our
Prophet Muhammad salallahu idea I do service and virtue after virtue
we have to learn and we have to understand, and we have to strive
to implement, to make a part of our lives and to be a means for
others as well to experience those very realities. And one of the
great teachings of our Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam that
Allah has taught us in the Quran is to learn to let go.
And the connection that we have to everything in the world but
specifically wealth is something that our deen teaches us to let
go.
And the Quran acknowledges that our wealth is something that we
love.
And we incline towards, and the very word itself, one of the words
for wealth and property and even money is mine. And it relates to
the same word for inclination, we inclined towards our wealth, we
like to hold on to our wealth. But learning to let go
is one of the great teachings of this Dean, one of the great
teachings of our Prophet Salah Lloyd is him in Indeed, it is one
of the great traits of for to one, it is one of the great traits of
spiritual shivery and is one of the most important things of all,
and a lots of other cortada has given everybody to various
degrees, wealth that they can learn to let go of.
And in learning to let go, little by little we can chip away and to
be do that act outwardly such that it is a means for a heart to
become pure inwardly, which is the whole point.
And so when Allah subhanaw taala describes bitter in the Quran. And
in this particular instance, that a lot of other guttata tells us
that righteousness is not just facing your faces towards the east
or the west, or either direction of the cupola lacking we're
lacking net build, I'm an amateur Biller, but righteousness is to
believe in Allah, whether you're male,
and to believe in the hereafter, what am I good at? Well, Kitabi
when they begin into believe in angels in the book and the
prophets, and after that which pertains to belief, what is the
first thing that Allah Allah mentions, what I tell Malala hub
is that this person gives out from their wealth, their cherished
wealth that they love. I love her bed,
that they give it out, even though they love it, they give it out.
It's the very first rate of righteousness. And then he goes on
subhanaw taala to mention the types of people that we give it
out to the widow quarterback at a time when my Sakina weapon the
Soviet was alien and what they call a number of different
categories, to their relatives, orphans, the poor and needy,
travelers beggars, and for free and captives, all of these
different categories. And then he goes on to mention other traits of
righteousness. Well, we're going to focus on this first trait.
Well, I tell Marla alahabad learning to let go. We give out
from our cherished wealth, the wealth that we love.
If we let go and give it out, knowing that it is actually a
board Han a proof of our fate, a proof of our faith,
a sadhaka to Bardhan. Charity is a proof. Do we believe in the
promise of Allah or not? Anything you give out Allah will replace
and not only replace, he'll give you even more.
And that's in relation to the outward, let alone the reward that
you get from Allah. And everything that happens in this world that
will Medaka Masada cure, heal your sick by giving charity, all of the
many things that happened in this world, let alone the next world
from giving out in charity, learning to detach.
But then the other meaning here I love rugby is what I tell Milan
rugby, they give out their wealth, for the love of Allah I let her be
he a Allahu Akbar Allah. They give it out for the sake of Allah to
adequate data. And the dual meaning there teaches us the way
to let go.
Your heart is a container, it's only one container. The more you
move towards the hereafter, the less the more you move away from
the world, the dunya and the offender like the East in the
West, the closer you get to the west, the further you get to from
the east, in your heart, the more you filled up with the love of the
Hereafter, the less love of the world that you have.
And so the best way of all to detach is to replace the love of
this world with the love of Allah Tabata cortada will Atal Mata the
hook be they give out from the wealth out of their love for Allah
subhana wa Tada.
And then, in another verse in Surah insaan in a series of
verses, Allah to Baraka speaks not about beer here righteousness as a
concept, but about those who are righteous abroad.
In another brora that Allah says, The righteous yes showed a boon
among cats and cat enemies ADRA cafetera they will drink a drink
of pure wine flavored with camphor. Iranian Yoshida worry
about Allah you fed your own death JIRA.
And that from a spring where Allah servants will drink flowing at
their will you fed you don't have to have JIRA in Jannah, it's
different than this world. If you want something in this world, you
want to for instance, be successful, you want to get a
certain job, you want to do something when you're older, you
can't just want that and then expect it to just appear before
you know you have to work for it. You have to do everything that you
need to do in order to attain that.
But in Jannah is different.
As soon as you want something, boom, it's there before you. You
forget, you don't have to have JIRA that these rivers flow at
their will. Whatever you want to do. As soon as you want that thing
you ever thought that you desire that thing. It's right before you
Subhanallah what a blessing from Allah Tabata cortada. But who are
these people, Allah is going to describe them. This is what
they're going to receive and the aka and the hereafter you phone up
in another city. These are people that what they fulfill their vows.
They fulfill their vows. When they say that they're going to do
something, they do it. They fulfill their promises, of course
to but specifically their vows. If they vow to do something done,
they do it.
And this is a last trait. That is one of the great traits of the
Prophet Muhammad, Salah lightsome. And all of the prophets and the
companions that came of the prophets that came before us. When
they said that they were going to do something they would do it. And
it actually meant something in their society. Think about how
many people break promises in our times. They say they're going to
do something and then they don't do it. And then people just get
used to it so that it just becomes normal, where people just keep
breaking, keep breaking, keep breaking their promises, and
people's word becomes cheap. And that is a serious problem. In
previous times, people took their word very seriously. It was
something that they tried to preserve in society because it was
regarded so highly and you and I can revive that. And every time
that we say that we're going to do something we do something. And
parents, this should be the way that we are with our kids. If we
tell our kids that we're going to do something, you should do it.
Don't tell them that you're going to buy him something in the you
don't buy it. Don't tell them that you're going to take them
somewhere if you're not going to take them.
And we actually, we actually know that there was an imam who did not
no longer took Hadith from a particular scholar, because that
he saw that he was
trying to get an animal to do something with food. And then once
he got him to do it, they didn't give it to him anymore.
So he didn't take Hadith from her. Look at the criteria. Imagine if
the criterion of a hadith scholars was applied to the media, we'll
forget the media historians
how much history would actually be in the books.
If those stringent conditions were applied to people of our time.
You phone up another way a halfling. A Yeoman can a chatroom
muscle tiara. These are people that think about the hereafter.
They have fear of a day of sweeping whole horror shadow
muscle Tiara because of the difficulty of that day but then,
just as in the other verse when Allah Tada speaks about Bill here
what is their trait will yield Mona Tom as a hobby.
They give out food, despite loving it.
Or you could say despite their desire for it,
yet a Mona Tamela HERBIE, they give out food. I let her be Miskin
while your team in Subhan Allah wa Sierra are cheap. They give out
food to the poor. Okay, that makes sense. They give out food to the
orphan. Okay, that makes sense. But they give it out to the
prisoner. Wha Sierra?
And some of the commentators say this relates to Muslims have been
in prison. But then other commentators say is that when this
verse was revealed the only prisoners were the machete King.
Well, the poly theists they even give out their wealth to people
the only reason they've been taken captive because they were fighting
them in battle.
What kind of traits are these?
Do we realize that if we even would just start to take on some
of these traits, how things would change around us? What would
happen to the societies in which we live.
But and this is why knowledge is not enough. Knowledge is
important. It has its place, everything we do has to be based
upon knowledge. But people to varying degrees will have access
to that every single one of us can be people have traits.
Just as the amount of scholars outwardly amongst the Sahaba were
few, but all of them were people of traits. Every single one of
them was a person of traits that exemplify great traits of
character.
With a mana to armor there have been mosquito at Masirah. But then
the description goes a little bit further in NAMA, not a more
commonly what Sheila, we are only feeding you for the sake of Allah.
La Norito min come comm Jessa. And what our show Cora, we do not want
any recompense from you, or any thanks.
We don't want you to recompense us. We don't have any ulterior
motives whatsoever. Bismillah we give out, we do whatever it is
that we do. And this applies to wealth. And that's how we learn
it. And imagine if every time that you gave something of your wealth
feasibility,
no strings attached feasibility law.
And we don't expect favors, we don't expect people to give us
things we don't expect people to know we should give thanks, if
we're the ones receiving, but from our perspective, feasibility lab,
and even to the point where we were somehow deceived, and we gave
to someone wrongly, meaning that they weren't really deserving the
way that we thought they were, that harms them, not us. And
hopefully, from our sincerity, it will be a means for them to
transform.
And there's a beautiful story about that, where there was a
particular man I don't forget, remember all of the details. But
he went out he gave wealth to someone one night, and it turns
out, that person was a thief.
And then people started talking in city about how someone gave money
to a thief and then that thief made Toba and never stole again.
And then he gave out and he gave one time to a woman who's doing
something she shouldn't have done. And it was a means for her Toba
and a third Hakka. If you give out with sincerity, it will be a means
of transformation.
And they mentioned about these great people of Fatah. There was
one by then
Name of Abu Torah
and when he was performing Hajj one year, he was outside of Mecca.
And someone came to him and brought him according to the story
10,000 Durham's a Durham's, a silver coin
10,000 dirhams, that's a lot of money, imagine their coins, 10,000
coins.
And they just laid it down in front of him.
And so he took a few coins and he said to one of his companions, go
buy me some cloth.
And so he comes back with cloth. And he starts ripping up pieces of
the cloth. And he starts taking handfuls a handful are two of the
silver coins, he wraps it up, and he says, go give this to so and
so. Next person comes until they're about to end. Imagine
there's like a mountain of silver coins 10,000. And they're about to
that he's about to be finished. And someone comes up and says,
Your companions, only those who are traveling with you haven't
eaten anything for days.
And he says, Okay, here's a little bit for them, so they can have
food. And then a lady comes reminds he says, but your own
family, your own family hasn't eaten.
And so he says, Is there any left, and there was only two silver
coins left. And he said, Give this to my family. If you tell people
that story in the modern world, and the sisters aren't gonna
really like that, oftentimes. But this is the way that the true
people of Allah were.
The more righteous you get, the more that you take the spiritual
path seriously, the more you prefer others, over your own
selves, and especially your family, the higher expectations
you have of your own family.
And I've heard a story from a very close friend, heavy, passionate
men cell, that he witnessed this same reality firsthand, from his
grandfather heavy Ibrahim Benaki.
He said, A Tasman a businessman brought him a chest of money
filled with cash.
And he said is that he kept passing it out, kept passing out,
kept passing it out, until someone said, What about your own family.
And in this story, I heard this from my own ears. He said there
was none left. He'd pass it all out. And they had just enough by
just eat a little basic food for the day.
And this is not about making the family suffer. This is about
someone being so immersed in these traits of good character that they
didn't even remember.
This is how these people were. And there's a similar story. The likes
of Habib Nakada suck off that I've heard firsthand from Happy Valley
Jeffrey.
Where he said that have you ever called it was given 1 million
Saudi riyals.
And he went out, and he knew where the poor people lived, and he
himself and that's what's mentioned in the story of chivalry
is that he didn't make the poor come to him, he went out to give
to them.
And have you ever know called that went from house to house, to house
to house to house.
Until that it was all every single that last rial was given out. And
they said then they saw him put the bag upside down like this, and
say Allah, Allah fish head, oh, Allah bear witness.
Now we might not be able to be like them. But we can start taking
steps in the right direction, minor little steps, learning to
let go, learning to be at least be sincere, and the little that we
do. But let's try to
give a little bit of charity every single day even it's a single
dollar. Even if it's a single dollar, a worthy project of some
sort.
Give a little bit every day whatever you can regularly
learning to let go and desiring to be like these great people. And
one of the most beautiful lines of poetry by Abu tamam that speaks
about this great trait of generosity and how these people
are and it's really not just generosity. It's generosity with a
deep sense of being detached combined with a deep concern for
people in preferring them over one's own self. That he said about
them to our the bustle Caffee Hatillo and know who are the NK
bother them to who and Emmylou eautiful they got so used to
extending their hand Yanni and giving that even if they decided
to close their hand and to not give their fingers
Wouldn't obey. Even though he told himself don't give, their fingers
would still give. Well let him your comfy coffee that you don't
have see. Let Jada behave failure, tequila say hello is that we're
the only thing that they had in their hand be their own soul, they
would have given it. So let the one asking them have Taqwa of
Allah, don't ask.
Because they'll give you everything.
And just ask those who have seen the real people of Allah, this is
how they are, they would do they would give everything for you.
They would give everything for you. And you know that and you
feel that in your heart. And that's why that Allah Tada brings
a deep and profound love in the heart for them. So let's revive
this beautiful trait, learning to detach learning to prefer others
over ourselves learning to be generous, and learning to that,
that detach and let go and may have lots of other good data that
blessed us to live this and that may we experience its beauty in
mulata to get us great openings and blessings and all of our fares
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