Stingy.. Who? me?
We as Muslims know that it is our duty to help those in need for our Prophet – Peace Be Upon Him- has mentioned the benefits of doing such good deed in the hereafter. However, people tend to ignore doing humanitarian activities.. I somehow wonder why?
What should be happening is that we should be competing each other in trying to win the highest rank in paradise and not compete each other in wasting our money in things that Allah has forbidden or for the sake of just playing around with money..
Allah has mentioned in the Quran:
[17:27] Verily spendthrifts are brothers of the Evil Ones; & the Evil One Is to His Lord (Himself) Ungrateful. (al –isra’a)
It really astonishes me when I hear mothers tell their kids to save up money for their future and don’t mention anything about donation, contributing in building a Masjid or something similar.. All what people care about nowadays is “saving up money” for their future, as if they can guarantee that they will live until the next day.
Not only that but what upsets me the most is when I see people giving out money, as if it has no value, and spend them on non-sense such as having a HUGE wedding party, buying the most expensive and heavy gold and buying the most expensive wedding gown. Don’t people know that Allah will question them about each and every amount they spend? Or is it just ignorance?
I don’t like it when people think or believe that I’m stingy, just because I refuse to play around with my money. I just like to spend my money in the right way. People call me stingy without even knowing whether I actually spend money and on what?
Do I have to go shopping daily so that I would stop being called “stingy” or should I throw a huge wedding party to satisfy the needs of people so that I would stop being called “stingy”?
I really don’t want to satisfy people’s needs but would rather please Allah for He is the most Merciful and our Creator..
May Allah have mercy on All Muslims..
Ameen
Yeah I totally agree with you. The other day i was reading the papers online, and there was a guy who bought a license plate for 3 million Dirhams! Are you kidding me?! A license plate for 3 million dirhams?!! and you know whats funny too? the next day on the same paper they had a story of an ‘emarati’ family living in a car park place because they had nowhere to live!! People spending 3 million on a license plate and people not having anywhere to live?!! With that 3 million he could’ve helped an entire family and got them a house, and i guess he’ll get more ‘ajar’ from doing that than showing off his license plate to ppl, cuz in the end who honestly cares?!!! your never going to be asked wut ur license plate number was, will you now?!
About the huge weddings, I understand, they say ‘men elwajeb - ekram el’9ayf’ so I dont think it really matters if you spend that much on weddings, after all your honouring your guests!
DxBroSe –> Allah yihdeehoum..
about wedding.. this is considered as israf..
you know huge wedding parties how much they cost..
plus people mayi3jibhoum il 3ajab!!
so no matter how much you spend on trying to honor your guests
they STILL won’t like it
yzach ALlah khair sister
where can i dn the anashid of the website?
http://www.emanway.com/play_anasheed.php?cid=0&id=144
Where was the Lecture ?
what lecture?
lol it’s just that i was influenced by the lecture
these are my words
it’s every thursday in masjid al twar
Is it in English ?
nope.. arabic
as-sa;amu aleykum
I can guess your wedding is around the corner right? well regadless mUbarak inshaAllah..
ضحكت فقالوا ألا تحتشم — بكيت فقالوا ألا تبتسم
بسمت فقالوا يرائي بها—عبست فقالوا بدا ما كتم
صمت فقالوا كليل اللسان— نطقت فقالوا كثير الكلم
حلمت فقالوا صنيع الجبان—ولو كان مقتدراً لانتقم
بسلت فقالوا لطيشٍ به— وما كان مجترئاً لو حكم
يقولون شذ إذا قلت لا—وإمعة حين وافقتهم
فأيقنت أني مهما أرد— رضى الناس لابد أن أذم
thats ture ..and even if we kept telling them abt this issue on how to spend their money they wouldn even care ..Alaah yehde ilgamee3 inshalla
thanks for such amazing post
AD_Queen
Al-Hanbali —> sub7anAllah so true..
alhamdulillah 3ala kulee 7al..
Jazak ALlah khair..
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Ad_Queen —> ameen..
You’re getting married ?!!?! … MashaALLAH!
There’s a typo in the end of the article. May Allah have mercy…
Creation –>
inshaALlah will get married when the right time comes..