This Is When We Spend We Should Not Be Giving That Which
We Would Not Like To Receive. What This Means Is When You'Re
Giving People Charity Don'T Give Them Such Food Or Such Clothing
Or Such Items That You Yourself Would Not Take.
This Is A Strict Instruction From Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala.
So If You Want Your Charity To Be Accepted, You Must Give
That Which You Would Use Yourself Or You Would Consume Yourself.
And Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Says
Don'T Give The Evil Or The Bad That Which
You'Re Spending, But You Would Never Take From It.
Remember This.
It'S A Very Interesting Teaching Of Allah.
Sometimes People Say Well Look I Have Leftover Food.
What Should I Do With It?
Well, If It'S Clean Enough For Someone To Eat In A Very Respectful
Way, You May Pack It And Give It To Them. Those Whom You Know
Would Appreciate It But You Cannot Throw Remainders And You
Know That Which Is Left Over At People And Without Any Respect
Whatsoever Treat Them Like Animals Simply Because They Have
A Need. You'D Rather Give That To The Birds Or Give It To
Animals. May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Grant Us Goodness Or
You May Want To Respectfully Word It To A Poor Person To Tell
Them, Look I Have A Little Bit Of Left Over, Perhaps If You Would
Like It Or Maybe You Could Give It To Someone Else.
Word It That Way.
Or Word It In A Respectful Way But Remember If We Treat
Others Disrespectfully And Keep Giving Them A Charity That
Is Not Of A Standard Acceptable By Allah Then We'Re Asking For Disaster.
We'Re Treating People Unfairly And That Has An Effect. The
Effect They Will Not Respect Us.
They Will Talk
Behind Our Backs Bad About Us.
They Won'T Have The True Love For Us.
And This Is Why You Can Give Leftovers But Once In A While
Make Them Proper Food And Like I Said With The Conditions.
Once In A While, Give Away Good Things, Give Away That Which
You Like And You Love Subhanallah.
You Really Want To Give A Charity, Give Something That Is
Honorable. Remember The Charity A Point That We Forget, It Is For Allah.
It'S Just That Allah Has Put A Poor Person To Collect It
On His Behalf Subhanallah Subhanallah Think About It.
So When I Have A Charity In My Hands, I Need To Tell Myself.
I'M Giving This For The Sake Of Allah.
This Is Allah That I'M Reaching Out Too Because He Wants Me
To Reach Out To Him By Giving Food To A Poor Person.
That'S What It Is.
When You Think That Way You Will Automatically Be Respectful
In The Way You Treat Others.
Don'T Throw Money At Someone Give It To Them.
Don'T Throw A Coin At A Beggar, Give It To Them The Beggar
Respectfully And Pray For The Beggar And Pray That The Almighty
Accepted From You. Allah Says The Real Beggars Are Those And
This Is Now The Etiquette Of Those Who Are Poor, They Are
From Amongst Us Many Who Are Suffering, Many Who Are Struggling
They Are In Crisis And Allah Says, The True Beggars Or The
True Poor People Are Those Whom Others Think That They'Re
Not Even Poor, Why? Because They Have Self-Respect. That'S Why
If You Can Search For Those In Need And Spend On Them, Spend
On Those Who Don'T Beg Whom You Know This Person Is In Need
But Their Honor, Their Dignity, Their Level, Their Respect,
Their Self-Respect Does Not Allow Them To Come And Ask Me.
Let Me Give Them Without Them Asking And I Will Make Them
Feel So Good About It, You Know, So You Give Someone A Gift
And It Happened
So Respectfully. You Expect Nothing In Return.
Why Is It That In The Modern World Many People Spend?
Yes, But They Expect In Return From The People Or From The
Person. They Want Something Back, At Times Something Immoral,
They Wanted Back.
Where Are Those Who Fear Allah Enough To Give Others And
Still Consider Themselves Fortunate For Having Been Chosen
To Give. So Give In A Good Cause, Search For Those Who Are In
Need, For Indeed By Reaching Out To Them,
You Will Achieve A Lot Of Goodness.
They Will Pray For You From The Bottom Of Their Hearts.
They Will Ask The Almighty To Bless You Further.
They Pray For You Without You Knowing Simply Because You
Reached Out To Them At A Time Of Their Need. So They Thank
Allah By Praying For You Too.
Wow, Look At How We Would Achieve Comfort Without Even Knowing
That There Was A Crisis Heading For Us.
And Allah Diverted It. May Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Protect
Us, When We Deceive People And We Steal Their Wealth, Allah
Tells Us, Don'T Consume Usury And Interest Don'T Consume It
And Allah Says It Is Allah Who Causes Charities To Multiply
And Interest To Die.
So If You'Re Consuming Interest It'S Going To Die.
Do You Know Why? Because You'Ve Given Money To Poor Person
And You'Re Asking Them For More When You Are The Wealthy
One. So All You Did Is Made The Poor Person A Slave Of Yours
By Asking Them To Give You Back More.
So Allah Says, You Know, What? Yours Will Also Deplete If
You Really Wanted Give Them Tell Them To Give You Back Exactly
What You Gave Them Or Give It To Them And Tell Them Not To
Give It Back To You Because It'S A Charity But If You Gave
Them And Told Them To Give You Back More, Allah Says
We'Re Going To Cause Your Wealth To Deplete At Some Point.
May Allah Protect Us, But That'S A Verse Of The Quran Allah
Says You'Ve Announced To War With Us How Then Would You Expect
Comfort In Times Of Crisis.
In Fact, You'Re Asking For A Crisis While You'Re Comfortable
And That'S Something That We Need To Protect Ourselves From.
So Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Says Those Who Believe, Those
Who Do Good Deeds, Those Who Establish Their Prayer, Those
Who Give Charity To The Poor, Their Reward Is
Their Lord, It Will Never Be Wasted.
They Don'T Need To Fear
They Don'T Need To Fear And They Will Never Be Sad,
That'S What Allah Is Saying.
Why? Because They Believed They Did Good Deeds Together With
That Belief.
This Is Where Many Are Lacking. We Believe But We Don'T Do Good Deeds.
So Allah Says They Believed They Did Good Deeds.
They Prayed, They Gave Charities To The Poor, For Them
They Will Get Their Reward. May Allah Reward All Of Us.
May We Be From Among Those Who Have No Fear And No Need To Be Sad.
Neither In This World Nor In The Next, Whatever The Almighty
Does. He Always Does It For Us.
We Know It'S The Better For Us.
It'S Always The Best Actually So Allah Says
Verse Number 281 Of Surat Al-Baqarah.
Be Conscious Of The Day That You'Re Going To Return To Allah,
Be Conscious Of The Day That You'Re Going To Return To Allah At All Times.
Whatever You Do,
Remember You'Re Going To Go Back To Allah.
Remember You Came From Somewhere.
He'S Going To Call You Back.
Remember He Released You Into The Earth And He'S Going To
Call You Back.
Always Think Of That.
Why Are You Here? To Do Good, Do As Much Good As You Can, Worship
Allah Alone And You'Re Set. You Will Never Have A Day When
Your Forsaken By Allah, So Even During Your Tough Days
Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Says
We Will Never Test A Soul With More Than It Can Shoulder.
We Will Never Burden A Soul With More Than It Can Handle.
That'S What Allah Says And This Also Is In Surat
Al-Baqarah, Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Is Telling This To Us
Verse Number 286 Of The Surah.
In Fact, It'S The Last Verse Of The Surah Al-Baqarah And
Allah Is Saying You Know What?
Anything That Comes In Your Direction, We Know You Can Manage,
We Know You Can Cope.
We Know You Can Cope, Don'T Give Up, Don'T Ever Give Up.
Keep Going.
We Know That You Can Keep Going And When You Go, You Know,
It Reminds Me Of Something Unique, A Person Is Digging For
Diamonds Or Gold Or Platinum Or Something And They'Re Digging
And This Is Say 100 Meters Away.
So They'Ve Dug For The First Whole Week.
And They'Ve Dug For The Second Whole Week And They Got Nothing
And They Are Now 90 Meters Away And They'Ve Dug For The Third
Whole Week And There Are 99 Meters Away.
One Meter Left.
They Gave Up Allah Says, But You Know What We Told You Not
To Give Up.
If You Had Gone One More Meter.
You Were Going To Strike Gold, You Are Going To Actually Receive And Achieve.
So The Same Applies In All Our Crises.
Keep Going, Subhanallah Now, Let'S Not Misinterpret This To Say
Well If I'M In An Abusive Marriage, I Need To Keep Going
Even Though I'M Beaten Up And Even Though I'M... No.. No, No Remember.
There Are Certain Things That Allah Has Blessed You With
If You'Re In An Abusive Marriage, You Need To Ask Yourself.
How Bad Is It, If It Is Really Bad Do Something About It?
If Someone Is Beating You Up You Have To Do Something About
It. You Can End That Marriage, You May, If The Situation Is
Improving Then You Can Have Patience, If There Is No Improvement
And It'S Deteriorating.
Then You Don'T Need To Have That Patience Or It'S Not A Sign
Of Patience To Allow Your Body To Be Harmed, Your Mind To
Be Harmed, Your Sanity And Your Mental Health To Be Harmed
And Else To Be Harmed.
It'S Not A Sign Of Patience, That Is Actually Being Foolish.
So Let'S Interpret It In The Correct Way When Allah Has Chosen
A Circumstance For You And You Know That I Have No Option
But To Keep Going, Keep Going. Don'T Give Up On Life, Don'T
Kill Yourself, Don'T Ever Contemplate Suicide Because That'S
The Worst Thing You Could Ever Think Of Allah Is Merciful.
Don'T Kill Yourself, Don'T Ever Allow Yourself
To Think About Ending Your Life.
It'S Never As Bad As That.
Remember This May Allah Protect All Of Us. May Allah Grant Us Goodness
And Ease. My Brothers And Sisters,
Yes, We Go Through Many Challenges And This Is Why Right
At The End Of Surat Al-Baqarah The Beautiful Prayer That
Is There, O Our Lord
Rabbana O Our Lord Do Not Hold Against Us Our Mistakes.
And That Which Was Forgetfulness, O Allah Do Not Test Us The
Way You Have Burdened Those Before Us And O Allah Don'T Burden
Us With That Which We Have No Power To Actually See Through.
Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Says To Us To Pray To Him,
Forgive Us, Forgive Us In A Greater Way, Have Mercy On
Us. You Are Our Protector.
So Help Us Against The Oppressor And Against Those Who Don'T
Believe. May Allah Protect Our Belief For Us.
May He Protect Us From The Oppressor, May We Never Be Be An
Oppressor, May We Never Oppress Others For Indeed One Is To
Pray To Be Protected From An Oppressor.
But What'S Worse Is To Be An Oppressor And Not Even See It.
May Allah Protect Us All.