Qur'anic Themes in Nahj al-Balaghah: (10) Poverty - Shaykh Dr. Usama al-Atar

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[0:09][Music] ald [Music] Muhammad [Music] a [Music] [Music] the words of Amir

[2:02]if they are studied from different perspectives we see the great blessing

[2:11]that Allah subhah wa ta'ala bestowed upon Humanity through that's why the

[2:26]loss of Imam is a loss for Humanity at Large tonight if

[2:31]Allah gives us we'll take a look at the theme of poverty

[2:41]in relationship to the Quran when we speak about poverty most people

[2:49]think of financial poverty people who are living in poor conditions for

[2:53]example they don't have much money they are need of support that

[3:00]is true however IM gives different definitions of poverty we will go

[3:09]over some of them inshallah if Allah gives us tonight the Ayah

[3:13]says inak 268 promises you poverty and he orders you to do

[3:30]evil Acts Allah subh promises you forgiveness and more although this Ayah

[3:43]comes when we take a look at the series of ayat it

[3:47]comes at that concept of in spending giving so Allah subhana wa

[3:56]taala According to some mu they say that when thean is promising

[4:00]you poverty Shan is telling you don't spend money you have $100

[4:06]if you give 20% you're left with $80 if you pay yours

[4:13]for example you're left with $20 you're left with $80 that's less

[4:18]than the 100 Allah subhah wa ta'ala says don't look at it

[4:23]this way in another Ayah which is close to this Ayah in

[4:27]terms of the numbers those who spend in the way of Allah

[4:44]their spending is like one grain this gives rise to seven and

[4:57]this seven gives rise to 100 and Allah gives rise to even

[5:00]more gives more to whomever he Wills Allah can multiply that $20

[5:05]many many FS for you and gives it back to you so

[5:10]don't calculate things in this way we do have also in the

[5:15]rat that when a person makes a pledge commitment know especially during

[5:20]fundraisings fundraising times people sometimes go become enthusiastic they say okay I'll

[5:24]donate $1,000 okay I make a pledge then they go home they

[5:31]open the mail bills bills and bills these days we only get

[5:37]bills in the mail you know you hardly get anything else on

[5:39]the in the mail so you open oh this is my you

[5:44]know my my bill it's been really cold this last month my

[5:51]my utilities bill has doubled okay next bill oh my my son's

[5:54]tuition fee okay this is also mashallah he's taken five courses this

[5:58]semester all okay so then you call you say you know that

[6:02]that $1,000 I'll make it $100 you know make it $100 okay

[6:08]Shan tries to make you think about bills tuition problems etc etc

[6:16]so that you don't pay the $11,000 that's why in theat it

[6:21]said once you make a pledge you make a ni to donate

[6:23]then do it right away right away do it so that Shan

[6:28]does not have time to dissuade you from it so although the

[6:31]Ayah is talking in the context of spending money but if you

[6:37]take a look at the global context promises you poverty poverty in

[6:45]everything not just in financial poverty so what other poverties are there

[6:53]let's take a look at so that we can develop some understanding

[6:58]he speaks of poverty in knowledge in for example he says there

[7:11]is no wealth better than wisdom knowledge if you have some nice

[7:16]knowledge good knowledge that's true wealth no poverty like ignorance that's a

[7:27]form of poverty which is lacking knowledge not knowing what to do

[7:33]when someone does not have knowledge starts giving opinions then you can

[7:39]see what problems can arise know a person sits down here and

[7:43]for example says I my stomach is not feeling well these days

[7:46]mallah everyone becomes a doctor you know try uh hot water you

[7:52]know when you break your at thear hot water it's really good

[7:55]you know so should I add tea into it other person says

[7:59]yeah you can add tea to it it's no problem hot water

[8:01]with tea just the teas are just a flavor third person says

[8:05]no add also a mint in it as well mint put mint

[8:09]and and the four says no all that did not work for

[8:11]me the Other M everyone becomes a doctor you know all everyone

[8:15]when it comes to religion everyone is a everybody is a you

[8:24]know this is this is yes why not should we doid on

[8:30]Wes day yeah everybody is doing so why not let's do whether

[8:33]we see the moon we don't see the moon that country in

[8:39]that particular region it declared three days earlier it said that so

[8:44]and so is we all doid this food you know it's Halal

[8:48]everyone is eating now I have to check everyone we all eat

[8:54]together but that's a problem you know if you don't know about

[8:59]something say I don't half of knowledge is to say I don't

[9:11]know it is said one it is attributed to Big from about

[9:18]150 years ago 150 years ago he became the of his days

[9:22]every on that day was doing so a group of people come

[9:33]from he was in and today if you go to the of

[9:35]if you enter from the B called B look to the left

[9:41]you'll see his is there you see his picture and the is

[9:45]there so a group from Iran came his they do of him

[9:52]they asked him a question he paused for a few seconds he

[9:56]raised his head he said I don't know the answer to this

[10:00]particular question I don't know okay so then continued he answers a

[10:03]few more then they asked another question he looked at them he

[10:06]said that one I don't know few more questions he answers and

[10:09]then some he said I don't know so then like you know

[10:13]maybe three times four times five times out of all the questions

[10:16]that they had said I don't know because when they came they

[10:21]came with a list of questions you know we're not talking about

[10:24]telephones on those days or things so they went around their whole

[10:27]town they said we're going to Naf who has question so everybody

[10:32]starts and they come with maybe 200 questions for example so he

[10:35]answers out in total maybe 10 questions give or take he did

[10:40]not answer he said I don't know so they said then what

[10:41]shall we say to these people the says I don't know you

[10:46]know what will they say they say Ansari does not know he

[10:49]said tell them tell them anari knows enough to become the is

[11:00]not IM to know all the answers what does not know is

[11:04]far more than what he knows go tell the sh this you

[11:08]this is out of his humility this is it's not easy for

[11:12]to say I don't know you know but he does it he

[11:17]says it says I don't know he doesn't give fwa he doesn't

[11:23]he's not sure and you have everybody giving fatwa that's why the

[11:26]IM refers to the time of the second the second I read

[11:32]to you the other day the third sermon of people started getting

[11:45]in confusion they have no clue what's going on about religion one

[11:47]day he gets up one day he gets up and he says

[11:54]to the people if I hear anyone of the women taking a

[11:59]doy more than the of the of the Prophet s Al if

[12:06]I hear any of that I will take it away from her

[12:10]so a lady gets up a lady gets up from the in

[12:11]the Masjid in the crowd she gets up and she said this

[12:14]is not up to you it's not you who are you to

[12:18]tell me that you're going to take our Dar away because Allah

[12:21]subhah wa ta'ala says ay 20 if you give any one of

[12:36]them any money you cannot take it back this is her do

[12:39]her how dare you to take this if Allah says you cannot

[12:45]take it you come and take it he looked at her and

[12:49]he said she's right said he said all people are more knowledgeable

[13:02]than me this is the second Khalifa speaking even the wom in

[13:08]their homes and the women who are Housewives who don't interact much

[13:14]with men and so on so forth he's saying even they know

[13:16]more than me so it became a trend you know a trend

[13:20]you know these days you have a trend on Tik Tok or

[13:25]something you know this became a trend so for example he said

[13:36]says even everyone knows better than Omar so how did he become

[13:43]the Khalifa imagine this is the khif of the Muslims and therefore

[13:45]this this is one of the problems one of the issues one

[13:52]of the issues and hence IMI says people got really confused during

[13:57]his time about the of Allah subahu waala so one kind of

[14:03]poverty someone who does not have much knowledge he's he has poverty

[14:10]that's one two sometimes it is not knowledge sometimes people have knowledge

[14:16]but Subhan they lack awareness they lack why you know to be

[14:22]awakened I have come across somebody with a PhD someone with a

[14:28]PhD and he also does research and publishes it might be safe

[14:34]to say that this person really does is not a very intelligent

[14:37]person it might be safe to say this you know you'll be

[14:41]surprised you when I sit down and have a conversation with him

[14:45]you think like which world does this guy live in you know

[14:48]does he not read the newspapers does he not talk let me

[14:52]tell you another example easier for you to understand these last American

[14:57]elections the last one when when Biden became the president Trump and

[15:02]Biden right they say 75 million Americans voted for Trump 75 Millions

[15:12]Americans voted for Trump this is after four years in office and

[15:14]then you saw what they did after Biden took office you know

[15:20]the whole attack on the White House you saw that what do

[15:23]you call those people those 75 million people all of them uneducated

[15:27]no all of them don't have degrees all of them carry rifles

[15:33]and walk on the streets some people you know this guy who

[15:37]I told you last night spends $110 million engulfing so if anyone

[15:43]sits there and thinks for himself like he's a billionaire why is

[15:45]he taking our tax money and spending it on his gulfing and

[15:48]then they go and vote for him again this some this is

[15:55]a kind of poverty IM says he says the worst kind of

[16:03]poverty is someone to be an idiot lacking awareness does not have

[16:11]a clue about this world yes you may have someone with a

[16:14]PhD he knows this field Kal this is it this is how

[16:18]he sees speak to him a little bit outside this field that

[16:20]has no clue what's going on I would sit down with this

[16:25]individual with a PhD and I would talk to him for example

[16:27]about Iraq would talk to him something you know he has no

[16:31]clue it's as if this is like a different world I'm speaking

[16:33]of not a country that you know people talk about and there's

[16:39]been Wars and invasions and no clue you be like which world

[16:43]does he come in come from he's a PhD this is a

[16:49]kind of this example one day a man came to uh Jaan

[16:54]the cousin of Al mans Abbasi mans Abbasi when he became the

[16:57]Khalifa mans is the one who ordered the killing of Im so

[17:03]doing the abas his cousin became the governor of U Medina and

[17:06]meca for some time and then he became the governor of Bas

[17:11]so a man comes to him he says says my neighbor is

[17:25]a he hates he's also contradiction as a group of Muslims they

[17:35]were deviants you know but contract complete opposite to the who are

[17:42]the people of it's not time for us to discuss about all

[17:45]this okay so he says he said to him why he got

[17:54]surprised at this you know all contradiction why do you say this

[18:01]he says he says he swears he he he insults Al who

[18:18]who destroyed the over he sat down looking at him like this

[18:28]he said he says says I don't know should I envy you

[18:36]on what you know I feel should I be jealous of you

[18:41]because of your deep knowledge about the theology the different theologies of

[18:49]the people you know you tell me complete contradiction you're either a

[18:55]or you're a you can't be the two at the same time

[19:01]where what are you talking about and then he says I don't

[19:11]know what to what he says go Allah but such people you

[19:15]know sometimes in history they come up and until this day and

[19:20]age until this day and age and you're laughing here I was

[19:23]reading the other day about dangerous Tick Tock challenges you know some

[19:32]individuals come on Tik Tok and they pose a challenge they say

[19:35]like let's do this Challenge and people imitate and people end up

[19:40]in hospital some of them get die some of them end up

[19:44]with the police the other day Ontario Police just last year in

[19:47]2023 in November I believe they issued a warning about a new

[19:54]challenge that you go to somebody's door you ring the bell and

[19:57]you kick the door three times as hard as you can and

[20:01]run away so Ontario Police issued now a warning they said please

[20:04]parents educate your children about this trend this is dangerous they can

[20:10]get into trouble if they do this this is trespassing on people's

[20:16]property they can end up in jail you know but people follow

[20:18]follow follow this kind of Trends so where where's the this is

[20:25]kind of poverty kind of poverty that's why it's important brothers and

[20:29]sisters it's important for us to sit down with our children as

[20:32]I was mentioning last night I know I'm I sound like a

[20:36]broken record now but it's important to sit down with our children

[20:39]regularly talk to them educate them I'll tell you for example why

[20:44]is it to sit down with is it's a form of why

[20:52]because the alims what do they talk about sports car or fashion

[20:58]or they talk about in the Quran second the when he talks

[21:04]he just smiles and talks like this you know no he's talking

[21:06]with dignity with respect so the more you sit down with the

[21:10]inevitably subconsciously what are you going to be absorbing some useful knowledge

[21:15]the way he sits the way he talks when someone walks into

[21:20]the mag for example what does the do how does he for

[21:22]example greet this individual does he stand up does he sit down

[21:27]when he stand up who does he stand up for who does

[21:29]all this is knowledge all this is this is this must have

[21:37]read heard seen and so and that's why we read in Du

[21:51]maybe you didn't you you did not see me sitting with the

[21:56]sitting down with the so you let me down Ya Allah I

[22:01]became a failure is when you have success for for worship obeying

[22:09]Allah is the opposite see how important it is this is why

[22:14]we should sit down with our children if you remember if you

[22:16]remember those of you who are a bit older in your maybe

[22:20]60s 50s 60s and all of you young older I said not

[22:26]doesn't mean you're old older a friend of mine he says I

[22:35]went to the ha back in the 80s in the 80s early

[22:39]' 80s said I went to Hajj this friend of mine is

[22:44]from Iran he says as I was doing ta I saw next

[22:46]to me a very old man from Iran doing ta very old

[22:53]but he's doing ta he's walking said I looked at him old

[22:58]man so I told told him you know out of respect he

[23:03]said father P you know out of respect you know father why

[23:07]you doing the TA walking you know you can back in those

[23:12]days if you remember they used to carry you you know those

[23:14]people used to put you on this kind of something and then

[23:18]they would carry you if you remember that so he said they

[23:20]can carry you and that that's enough this friend of mine is

[23:25]a sheh he says it it suffices for you they can do

[23:28]the TA they take you around he said he looked at me

[23:35]like this said son he said do you know how old I

[23:41]am he said no he said I am 114 years old this

[23:46]is my 99th ha I've been coming to Hajj since I've been

[23:51]15 15 says this is my 99th ha and if Allah gives

[23:56]me life next year I will come back for myund he says

[24:03]all my hes I do all the on my own the I

[24:09]I walk the I go he says what are you talking about

[24:13]sitting then on this whatever you so what I'm trying to say

[24:18]if you are under 114 you're still youth alhamdulillah you're still shabab

[24:22]and you have health masallah so so but if those of you

[24:26]who are 50s 60s if you remember if you remember the parents

[24:29]when they used to take you your father your fathers your mothers

[24:33]used to take you for Gatherings and they used to sit down

[24:39]tell you sit down next to me you sit down and you

[24:40]would see your mother your father how they talk with the other

[24:46]people for example when someone comes in your father would tell you

[24:50]stand up and go say Salam alaykum to him so you go

[24:54]sayam if your Salam is not good your father would tell would

[24:56]teach you this is not the way you do Salam you know

[25:00]this is how you do Salam do you remember these things okay

[25:02]slowly you learned you learned all you're absorbing everything so then you

[25:07]learn how to sit down I've been to countries where you find

[25:13]like a 10-year-old 10-year-old in the shop selling no one is supervising

[25:19]him mashallah 10y old you know they so in this country they

[25:22]call it child labor but this 10 year old mashallah you want

[25:25]to buy something you say like you know how much is this

[25:28]he says this is for example this is like for example $5

[25:32]but if you want this one I have this one for $6

[25:33]this is much better quality see he's 10 year old masallah he

[25:38]will sell you the whole St he'll sell you your own clothes

[25:40]you know he knows how did he learn all this where did

[25:46]he look at our 10year olds mallah you saw yesterday you know

[25:49]on their games and whatever in their own world this is what

[25:54]but where do they learn it when we sit down with our

[25:58]children we teach them we educate we bring them to the husse

[26:02]we sit next to them in the husse and we educate them

[26:05]we teach them this is how they're learn so this is a

[26:07]second kind of poverty the poverty of lack of awareness third the

[26:16]Third Kind of poverty that IM refers to is a poverty in

[26:23]terms of security and political protection for example he says you are

[26:41]not a pillar that one can lean against you're not someone I

[26:48]can reliably trust and lean against you nor are you people who

[26:52]are worthy of being trusted I cannot trust you people he says

[26:59]in another he says you are the likes of men but you're

[27:04]not men you don't act like men you have filled my heart

[27:10]with wounds you know you're pain it's painful being your leader says

[27:18]there is no there is no command ship for someone who's not

[27:25]obeyed it says I I picked up the sword I was under

[27:30]20 when I picked up the sword and here I am over

[27:35]60 and I'm still fighting and now people are accusing me of

[27:41]not knowing about wars he says I don't know about wars what

[27:45]he's trying to say I was born with a sword in my

[27:50]hand fighting next to that's what he's trying to say the battles

[27:53]of bad and and who brought the victory to the Muslim I

[27:59]was the one the tactics I know tactics of War you know

[28:02]but you guys don't listen to me and what am I going

[28:06]to do if you don't listen and I give this example to

[28:10]the Muslims to the people you put the two strongest people in

[28:13]the world together but when the people disobey what happened in Muslims

[28:21]lost Allah teaches the Muslims yes both of them could have defeated

[28:26]the whole Army but using their and from a worldly perspective no

[28:35]the worldly matters no the Army ran away those were the bigger

[28:40]crowd they won the battle but this is what the IM is

[28:45]saying you guys are not worth you you have poverty you're impoverished

[28:49]for security there is no security with you so this is a

[28:51]kind of of poverty look at the way the Muslims are living

[28:56]today they're impoverished for security they don't have any Security today small

[29:03]group of people can dominate the entire region and manipulate the whole

[29:09]region and monopol the whole region you know that's what happens so

[29:14]that's a third the fourth kind of or poverty the IM refers

[29:18]to is the poverty of the that's another kind of poverty he

[29:27]says the worst kind of poverty is the poverty of the nafs

[29:36]what he refers to is the you have some people who are

[29:41]very successful but when it comes to manners they have absolutely no

[29:45]manners when I say successful maybe financially successful that person who became

[29:50]the president of the country who's now going to become the president

[29:55]again financially he's a billionaire powerwise he became the president of the

[30:04]US Fame he famous and known but what about his have you

[30:12]seen him how he talks and how he interacts with people how

[30:16]he humiliates people if he has the the ab ability he would

[30:22]come out and say I am your God and Kal worship me

[30:29]but who cares who cares about this it's so akl is extremely

[30:38]important you may have someone who's poor but very humble very kind

[30:45]rich but very humble very kind you may have someone who's poor

[30:49]but very arrogant the other way around it works this way is

[30:57]extremely important manners do you remember the 10 things I advised you

[31:02]on the the second thing was do you remember manners after I

[31:06]said the manners pray for good good interestingly they showed there is

[31:17]this uh researcher she did research from 40 major corporations in the

[31:23]world she asked the CEOs of those 140 big corporations she asked

[31:27]them about the characteristics of a leader that would make a good

[31:31]leader interestingly the number one response that came was empathy you know

[31:40]what's empathy empathy is putting yourself in someone else's shoes as a

[31:44]leader if you put yourself in someone else's shoes then you would

[31:51]try to see things from their perspective so you'll be nice you

[31:55]know basically it's being nice being nice is a great attribute of

[32:00]a leader and it makes Common Sense anyone of you who has

[32:02]ever worked for a nasty boss you hate your job every morning

[32:08]you go to the work and you say I wish I can

[32:12]quit Okay the whole environment is toxic but if the boss is

[32:14]nice you would love your work you go there your well-being you

[32:17]would like to give it 200% why because he's nice so that's

[32:24]an important attribute this man was with IMI don't confuse him with

[32:38]different one he was with IM Ali in the Battle of he

[32:44]flipped and joined mua he disappeared and he disappeared he they woke

[32:48]up in the morning he's gone they didn't know what happened to

[32:52]him so some people thought he got killed in the battle he

[32:55]disappeared when they went back to kuf after the battle his wife

[33:01]said where is my husband they told her he got killed he

[33:04]was killed in the battle so she did not go and ask

[33:11]IM Ali she did the and then she went and remarried after

[33:16]some time he comes back to kufa at night he comes home

[33:19]he knocks on his door no one is home comes in the

[33:25]middle of the night he goes asks people here and there where

[33:28]is this lady so on so forth they told her she got

[33:32]married her husband died and so she got married so he goes

[33:36]where who did she get married to so and so he goes

[33:40]and knocks on the door she opens the door she finds her

[33:41]husband in front of her he tells her you're my wife let's

[33:50]go home she says what wife what home I'm married someone else

[33:53]now so he sat down he's like you know who can solve

[33:59]this problem for me now who can solve it only one person

[34:06]can so the next morning he goes to looks at him tells

[34:16]him why did you do what you IM Ali knows Ali knows

[34:21]what happened tells him how could you leave us and go to

[34:23]mua and all this now he had prepared a nice response he

[34:28]said okay I did what I did will this deprive okay I

[34:38]did what I did but will this deprive me from your Justice

[34:41]he knows who he's coming to he knows you know he says

[34:46]no this is not going to deprive you of my Justice IM

[34:49]which leader would do this today today in today's world this would

[34:55]be called treason treason and many countries developed countries in the world

[35:01]they would kill him that he would be killed in today's world

[35:03]IM looks at him and says no this is not going to

[35:07]deprive him of my of of my just and he gives him

[35:11]the H he gives him the H he goes and fulfills the

[35:15]H she never asked IMI she never investigated she did she acted

[35:19]on her own so the IM solved the problem for him but

[35:24]this is the wealth of of and Subhan Allah his sh his

[35:32]companions were just the same I told you about the story of

[35:34]Malik if you remember Malik when someone hit him with a pebble

[35:42]how how same he's with IM Ali he's gained his the of

[35:44]IM this is the we need to aim for this is the

[35:50]kind of manners next the last one that I will discuss here

[35:55]for the sake of time is this so all this poverty we

[36:00]talked about poverty of knowledge Poverty of awareness and education the Third

[36:06]Kind of poverty we talked about the poverty of security and political

[36:09]poverty fourth one we said about the the fifth one is financial

[36:14]poverty indeed indeed Financial poverty is there let me tell you something

[36:24]in 2006 a professor from bangaladesh by the name of Dr Muhammad

[36:29]yunus won the Nobel Prize for Peace he had established a bank

[36:38]that would give micro credits to poor people and without complicated micro

[36:42]micro $100 200 300 he says the maximum we would give is

[36:47]$300 loan we would give it to the people on a handshake

[36:51]he said most of these people can't even read and write so

[36:53]you don't give them like long loan applications and all this they

[36:57]would come to me for example so he started propagating this idea

[37:03]someone comes for example a widow a widow she's living in impoverished

[37:07]conditions she would come to him he would say okay what would

[37:09]you like to learn let's say for example she says I would

[37:14]like to learn sewing say okay how much will it cost for

[37:16]you to learn sewing maybe let's say for example $50 says okay

[37:21]we'll give you $50 as a loan you go learn sewing once

[37:24]you learn you come back so she goes she learns sewing she

[37:28]comes back say okay I learned sewing he says okay now we

[37:30]will buy you a sewing machine how much for example let's say

[37:33]$100 okay we we'll buy you a $100 sewing machine so now

[37:39]she starts sewing for people so now she's learned a a profession

[37:43]and she's working so she becomes independent and slowly when she starts

[37:48]making money she starts paying back she said he says most of

[37:54]these people pay back most of them this is the whole concept

[37:56]of micr credit and he says on a handshake he says those

[38:01]people don't know how to read or write she tells me 150

[38:04]for example take it okay someone comes he says I need a

[38:09]motorbike and I will deliver things with it says okay how much

[38:11]a motorbike cost for example let say $300 okay we'll buy you

[38:13]$300 on a handshake he goes and he starts delivering making money

[38:19]and he starts paying back he says most of those people pay

[38:21]us back most of them they appreciate the value that we give

[38:26]them independent so he won the Nobel Prize for Peace for this

[38:30]idea in 2006 Dr Muhammad yunas I read in one of his

[38:33]books he says the following he says the reason there is poverty

[38:41]in the world today is not because there is lack of resources

[38:45]he says the reason that there is poverty in the world today

[38:50]is because of the lack of the distribution the distribution of these

[38:54]resources and then he gives this Statistics he says 94% of the

[39:08]world's wealth is in the hands of 40% of the world's population

[39:15]I repeat 94% of the world's wealth is in the hands of

[39:22]40% of the world's population the remaining 60% has to share the

[39:28]% he says that's why there's poverty in the world today just

[39:31]to give you an analogy so that you can see the picture

[39:36]you have 100 people in a room and you have a cake

[39:37]with 100 slices logic says each one gets how many slices one

[39:44]slice correct 100 100 that's what logic dictates what it happens in

[39:51]the reality of the world you take 40 people you say you

[39:53]step aside 60 people on this way 94 slices you give it

[39:59]to the 40 people how many slices are left six you tell

[40:03]the 60 people here there go you share it what's going to

[40:05]happen Wars are going to happen battles are going to happen fighting

[40:10]is going to happen poverty is going to happen you he says

[40:13]that's the problem this is a professor Noble laat and he's written

[40:19]many books IM Ali gave that in a one line 1400 years

[40:26]ago listen to what IM says those of you who understand Arabic

[40:50]you saw the one n I'll translate it for you Allah subhanahu

[40:55]wa taala that's what he's saying surely Allah forever obligated in the

[41:02]money of the rich the sustenance of the poor Allah subhana wa

[41:09]tala differentiated yes he did not give equally he did not give

[41:14]equally but he gave enough if he had not given enough he

[41:17]would not have been Fair that's not fair but Allah tests people

[41:21]he tests the rich to see will he give and he test

[41:25]the poor to test if he's going to be patient so it's

[41:28]set test for people so he says Allah mandated obligated the wealth

[41:37]of the poor in the money of the rich so he says

[41:40]no poor person goes hungry except with what a rich man has

[41:48]deprived yeah in theory in theory if every person in the world

[41:55]today pays and pays zakat in theory there would not be a

[42:00]single poor person in the world today and then IMI says Allah

[42:06]will ask them about this on the day of judgment on the

[42:10]day of Jud he's going to ask them I gave you all

[42:11]this money I remember once brothers and sisters there is a very

[42:17]famous basketball player if I say his name most of these youth

[42:19]will be ah I know him you know very famous some of

[42:23]them may be having his picture in their in their bedrooms you

[42:26]know interestingly you walk into some of these youth bedrooms you see

[42:29]pictures of you know actors actresses uh Sports people you say like

[42:34]where is an a of the Quran do you have an Ayah

[42:37]in the Quran calligraphy for example picture of one of our for

[42:41]example put a what a picture of these this Sportsman very famous

[42:49]very famous he wanted to get married his wedding his wedding cost

[42:54]$50 million we're talking about a wedding of a very rich the

[42:58]last day I tomorrow is the wedding so all the guests are

[43:03]coming in everyone is in he calls the wedding off so he

[43:06]calls his friend he calls his friend and he tells him uh

[43:11]you know the wedding is off but you guys I'll give you

[43:13]my credit card go and have fun enjoy the party you know

[43:19]$50 million on a wedding how how how many people would have

[43:24]been you know fed with $50 million can you can you imagine

[43:29]just now in in in in a country I won't mention which

[43:32]country in in a particular country they say this person had the

[43:38]most luxurious wedding in the world inviting one very famous singer to

[43:42]the wedding to S to sing they say it is estimated it's

[43:50]estimated that her cost was about10 to 12 million just hair cost

[43:54]the wedding lasted for a whole month a whole mon month not

[44:00]one day a month of the wedding so you can imagine if

[44:03]just this person cost him $12 million how much did that whole

[44:09]thing cost and in that country there are millions of people who

[44:15]are impoverished that if you give $10 $5 to people it will

[44:19]feed them for a week maybe so imagine now you see why

[44:25]there are poor people in the world Dr Muhammad yunas is a

[44:27]professor and he's a noble orat he mention IM aliam mentioned it

[44:30]1400 years ago this is one of the reason why there is

[44:34]poverty in the world today one of the reason I'll leave you

[44:39]with this brothers and sisters one of the said we should be

[44:42]reading each and every one of us should be reading but read

[44:46]it from the lens of your profession if you're a psychologist read

[44:52]as a psychologist you're a doctor read as a doctor you're a

[44:58]financial adviser and someone who's in like finance and economics read it

[45:02]as an economist and so on he says you'll find wonders in

[45:06]I told some people when I did my PhD on the Theology

[45:11]of I said I wish there is someone who does the PHD

[45:16]on the letter of IM Ali to Malik that requires a PhD

[45:21]we still don't have one at least in the English Academia in

[45:24]the English Academia in Western Academia it does not exist this is

[45:28]what we need to invest time on not on so and so

[45:32]people sometimes you look at their their thesis they're writing about so

[45:35]and so X Y and Z and I'm like who is X

[45:38]Y and Z with all due respect okay whatever he's a philosopher

[45:41]what philosophy does he have when you compared to and this is

[45:48]the true knowledge so you see how IM gives us this beautiful

[45:57]description of poverty with such deep thinking we have been thinking about

[46:01]poverty as just Financial IM no expans and hence now we understand

[46:05]the a oh people you are in poverty and need of Allah

[46:12]we are all in poverty even if you're a billionaire you have

[46:16]some knowledge poverty even if you're whatever you have a knowledge you

[46:20]have money poverty and so on so forth we are all in

[46:22]need of Allah let's raise our hands inshallah in the Dua brothers

[46:27]and sisters in these last couple minutes before the Adan in this

[46:31]Holy Night of this holy month and we are in the final

[46:33]few nights may Allah subhana wa taala accept our Dua fulfill our

[46:39]haat and needs many people have requested us to remember them in

[46:43]our Dua may Allah inallah fulfill their needs cure those of them

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