Purify Your Wealth | Al-Sirat Al-Mustaqeem EP. 13 | A Journey With Shaykh Alauddin ElBakri

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1. 0:00Assalaamu 'Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh
2. 0:02Welcome back to our Ramadan series "As-Sirat al-Mustaqim"
3. 0:07One of the greatest resources that Allah gave us
4. 0:10human beings, is wealth. The ability to work and earn it,
5. 0:15and the ability to spend it, and the ability to manage it.
6. 0:19When you look at wealth, few
7. 0:22eye opener's are very important to lay the foundation for this resource.
8. 0:27Number one, wealth is something
9. 0:31that you have to work very hard to earn
10. 0:34and the only way to enjoy it, is by losing it.
11. 0:38What do we call that?
12. 0:39Spending.
13. 0:41So don't get caught so much in wealth because it will drive you
14. 0:47to lose your mind.
15. 0:49Number two, wealth was always in someone else's hands.
16. 0:55Then it comes to your hands
17. 0:58and then it passes to someone else's hands.
18. 1:01I want you to think of a flowing river.
19. 1:04Your father is standing there.
20. 1:06You're standing in the middle.
21. 1:08Your son is standing after you.
22. 1:10And then your grandson, four generations.
23. 1:12And you all put your hand in the river and the water is running
24. 1:17while you are washing your hands in the river.
25. 1:20It's that same water that will touch the father's hand
26. 1:24the son's, the grandson's and the great grandson's.
27. 1:27None of you will end up catching the water with your hand,
28. 1:31and then it becomes yours and only yours.
29. 1:33So deal with wealth as something that you will earn
30. 1:39and you will lose, and it will change hands multiple times.
31. 1:44The third eye opener, when it comes to your wealth, you're only a manager,
32. 1:49you're actually not an owner.
33. 1:52This will help you to stay alert,
34. 1:55aware, awake,
35. 1:57and careful in how you manage your wealth because you're only been hired
36. 2:02by Allah to be the manager of this wealth, not the actual owner.
37. 2:07You are a very, very temporary owner.
38. 2:10The actual owner, Malikul-Mulk, is Allah SWT
39. 2:15The fourth eye opener,
40. 2:18if wealth becomes your goal in life,
41. 2:22you will lose everything else
42. 2:25and it's not guaranteed that you will be able to make wealth.
43. 2:30When wealth becomes a person's
44. 2:33goal in life, they are willing to do whatever it takes.
45. 2:36Haram, Halal
46. 2:38Right, wrong.
47. 2:40Rob a bank, whatever.
48. 2:42I just want wealth and I want it now,
49. 2:45and I want it in an easy way.
50. 2:47But if wealth becomes the means,
51. 2:52then you can do so much with it. Why?
52. 2:55Because now your wealth does not own you.
53. 3:00You own your wealth.
54. 3:02And that leads us to the fifth eye opener.
55. 3:06The Companions, may Allah be pleased with them,
56. 3:08told us that the Prophet PBUH taught them
57. 3:11that when they earn wealth in Duniya "life",
58. 3:14they earn it with their hand, and they spend it with their hand.
59. 3:18It never should enter their hearts.
60. 3:21How do you become the owner of your wealth?
61. 3:23Instead of your wealth becomes your owner and enslaves you, and you'll become
62. 3:28the slave of money as the Prophet PBUH said:
63. 3:32"Wretched is the slave of the dinar!
64. 3:34Wretched is the slave of the dirham!"
65. 3:35Miserable life is for the servant of the dollar.
66. 3:39Miserable life is for the servant and the Abd "slave" of the cents
67. 3:44you should be the owner and the master of your wealth.
68. 3:48Your wealth shall not be your master, your owner,
69. 3:51or in some cases it becomes someone's God.
70. 3:54May Allah save us from that.
71. 3:56The sixth eye opener is that your wealth
72. 4:00could be your way to Jannah "heaven" because as we see in the Quran
73. 4:05that nothing Allah SWT rewards 700 to 1,
74. 4:10I mean forget 10 to 1,
75. 4:12We're talking about 700 to 1, is the charity that you give
76. 4:16from your wealth.
77. 4:18So instead of your wealth become a barrier between you and Allah
78. 4:24and a reason why you're drifting away from Allah
79. 4:27because you think your wealth is going to be enough
80. 4:31for you and it's going to protect you, and you don't need anyone else.
81. 4:35That's the Achilles heel,
82. 4:37and the killer of a believer is Iman and Faith.
83. 4:40Your wealth cannot save you or protect you,
84. 4:44only Allah SWT
85. 4:46will be able to protect you and save you.
86. 4:49The seventh eye opener is to understand
87. 4:53the role of Zakat in your wealth,
88. 4:57Allah SWT chose this word,
89. 4:59"Zakat" and Zakat has two meanings.
90. 5:01Subhanallah, and they are related to one another.
91. 5:05The first meaning is to purify something,
92. 5:11and that's what we,
93. 5:12when we go through the journey of purification, we call it "Tazkiyah"
94. 5:15it's from the word "Zakat"
95. 5:17And the second thing "Zakat" means is growth.
96. 5:21When you grow something, you're doing Tazkiyah to it.
97. 5:25Subhanallah, Allah wants you to have it deep in your heart,
98. 5:30that when you pay Zakat, your money is not going to become less,
99. 5:34it will become more. You do two things,
100. 5:37you purify your money and you grow it at the same time.
101. 5:42The example that I find very suitable for this is that when you go
102. 5:47and have a slaughter, a lamb, just for you to eat,
103. 5:50you and your family, after you slaughter it and skin it,
104. 5:54you give it to the butcher and you say: "Take the fat out,
105. 5:59the chunks of fat out of it" because that fat, if you eat it,
106. 6:04it will cause you heart attack and stroke and God knows what else,
107. 6:08and high cholesterol and this and that.
108. 6:10But you clean that,
109. 6:12that's Zakat. The Zakat of your money,
110. 6:16If you consume it yourself, it will hurt you.
111. 6:20That's why Allah wants you to purify your money and give it to the poor.
112. 6:24It will be good for them, but not good for you.
113. 6:28The second thing is when you tell the butcher:
114. 6:32"Please cut one leg, I want to give it as a charity" you know,
115. 6:38now you're talking about Sadaqa "Charity"
116. 6:42Now, when you give
117. 6:44the butcher the lamb and you say" "Can you just give me like one fourth
118. 6:49and the rest I have to give it away?"
119. 6:52What do we call that?
120. 6:53"Odheya" on the day of Eid al-Adha
121. 6:56That's called sacrifice.
122. 6:58And when you give the most and keep the least,
123. 7:02Zakat is very, very essential to our Iman and faith.
124. 7:07And it's one of the things that helps us to be
125. 7:10not completely attached to our money and wealth, to the point
126. 7:15that we lose our humanity and our generosity.
127. 7:19Now, when it comes to managing our wealth,
128. 7:23Islam has a beautiful recipe, that I feel now,
129. 7:27people are teaching it
130. 7:28all over the world and universities and institutions of knowledge.
131. 7:33Is that the way you should manage your wealth,
132. 7:35is to divide it into four segments.
133. 7:39The first segment is your basic necessities and needs
134. 7:43and don't overspend on your basic necessities and needs.
135. 7:47When it comes to food and eating less is more less eating more health
136. 7:52when it comes to spending on your clothes, also less is more
137. 7:56because you are not going to be able to wear all of these clothes.
138. 7:59So the first thing is pay for your needs rent, utilities, gas,
139. 8:05and the things that you need every day in your life,
140. 8:09and don't overspend on that. Why?
141. 8:12Because the second segment that our faith encourages us to do is to save.
142. 8:16We need to save money, and
143. 8:19that was the instruction of the Prophet PBUH
144. 8:22to Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas when he felt he was going to die,
145. 8:25May Allah Almighty be pleased with him
146. 8:26He said: "I want to give all my wealth for the sake of Allah"
147. 8:29He said: "No"
148. 8:30He said: "Oh Prophet,
149. 8:31I want to give two thirds of my wealth"
150. 8:34He said: "No"
151. 8:35"Half of my wealth?"
152. 8:36"No", "One third of my wealth?" He said:
153. 8:39"And the one third is a bit too much"
154. 8:42And then, Prophet PBUH I told him: "For you to leave your children
155. 8:45with some wealth is better than you leaving them with nothing"
156. 8:50Subhanallah, saving is a part of our faith.
157. 8:54The third segment of your money is when you re-invest,
158. 8:59you'll find that the Companions and the followers
159. 9:02and the four Imams, they all had businesses and they invested.
160. 9:06And the fourth segment of your money, that is the part that you give
161. 9:12for charity, whether it is Zakat
162. 9:15or Sadaqa or sacrifice
163. 9:17or you help another Muslim, give them a loan,
164. 9:20you know, because they are at difficult times and hard times.
165. 9:24But managing our wealth is essential to our faith.
166. 9:28Finally, the Prophet PBUH said,
167. 9:32What a beautiful match.
168. 9:33What a good match, good wealth for a good believer.
169. 9:37This Islam was built on the wealth of the righteous.
170. 9:41We need wealthy people in our community.
171. 9:44I make Duaa "prayers" for all of these youth.
172. 9:47May Allah help you to,
173. 9:48you know, have a career and then have your own start up company
174. 9:51and make a lot of money so that you can give a lot of money.
175. 9:55This is something very essential.
176. 9:58We don't hate wealth.
177. 10:00We just don't make it our Lord and our God.
178. 10:03We make it the means to Allah SWT
179. 10:06May Allah the Mighty and the Majestic give us
180. 10:09Halal and good sustenance
181. 10:12which is, pure,
182. 10:15good, permissible, and good for us.
183. 10:19Ameen Ya Rabb Alameen
184. 10:21May Allah blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad and all his family and companions