The Abundance Mindset | Your Relationship With Allah Ep.8 | Sh. Alauddin ElBakri | Ramadan Series

2 moments mention “Mercy”: 5:035:11

1. 0:00As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh and welcome back to Tawasaw's Institute
2. 0:04series for this Ramadan 1446. Your relationship with Allah SWT
3. 0:10We go back to Surah Al-Ma'arij and to the statement that Allah said
4. 0:14To open our eyes to our own defects and to give us the remedy and the solution
5. 0:19Allah says
6. 0:21(and withholding when touched with good, )
7. 0:23And in another verse, which means when something good happens to the human
8. 0:27he doesn't want to share it and he want to keep it just to himself, meaning the human becomes
9. 0:32miserly and becomes stingy. Allah SWT in The Noble Quran
10. 0:38showed us the remedy for that
11. 0:40What's the problem and what is the solution? The human because he realizes that he has limited resources
12. 0:47he does not want to spend his money except where he or she
13. 0:52see it's worth, and when you're self-centered and self-focused the only place where it's worth it to
14. 1:00spend your money is on yourself, for your own
15. 1:04needs
16. 1:06wants, pleasures
17. 1:08entertainment, not only necessities but complementaries and accessories, and when it comes to the others they become
18. 1:16you know, insignificant this is not who the believer is
19. 1:20this is not who you want to become, this is not how you
20. 1:25become honorable and noble in the eyes of Allah SWT, how do you attain that? Through
21. 1:31generosity, it's interesting that in The Noble Quran the word "Generous" has two meanings, one
22. 1:38it means honorable, and two it means generous, as if in the Arabic language if you don't have
23. 1:46generosity you will never have nobility and that's why Allah SWT opens our eyes and encourages us
24. 1:53to give and give and give. It's challenging, we don't want to give, we want to keep it for ourselves
25. 1:59for ourselves and families and spend it on our children and our immediate family
26. 2:03But Allah SWT invites us to look beyond the horizon and share our wealth with the rest of the world
27. 2:11That's through two mechanisms, first mechanism by giving "Zakah"
28. 2:15Which is a specific amount of money of what you saved for one year and you didn't touch
29. 2:20the 2.5% of your savings or Allah invites us to go beyond that up to even one-third of your wealth
30. 2:28That you will give it in "Sadaqah"
31. 2:32charity, how did Allah speak to our soul and to our psyche in The Noble Quran to encourage us to give?
32. 2:40First, He told us if you spend for my sake I will replace it
33. 2:45(And whatever you spend in charity, He will compensate ˹you˺ for it)
34. 2:48Whatever you spend Allah the Majestic and Almighty will replace it. He knows what you spent
35. 2:53He looks at your heart, He sees why you spent it, and then Allah will replace it
36. 2:58But not only replace it Allah says I will replace it with multiple folds
37. 3:03Not only that, Allah invites you and uses your entrepreneurial, you know, psychology and love to
38. 3:11multiply your money and grow like we invest in the stock market and real estate and cryptocurrency
39. 3:17Allah tells us that I will
40. 3:19multiply the reward for you and with Allah minimum ten to one, you do one action you get ten
41. 3:26Except when it came to charity Allah promised us up to
42. 3:30700 times more and that we will see the fruit of it in our life in this world and in the hereafter
43. 3:37Our Prophet PBUH said "Heal the sick amongst you by giving charity"
44. 3:43You're sick? You have someone that you love sick in your family? Heal their sickness by giving charity
45. 3:49Our Prophet PBUH told us that charity extinguishes
46. 3:52sins like water
47. 3:55extinguishes fire. We're all sinners and we all need to extinguish these sins
48. 4:00Our Prophet PBUH said that when you spend for the sake of Allah, Allah SWT
49. 4:07loves you, that your money will never become less
50. 4:10but it will become more
51. 4:11Allah in The Noble Quran encouraged us so much to give for His sake and in His name and in the Hadith the Prophet
52. 4:19PBUH was generous
53. 4:20he was always generous and honorable, but he was the most generous in the month of Ramadan
54. 4:26The more you give it's a sign language that I am giving it shows that you are
55. 4:32detached that you don't drive your sense of security and your sense of strength and
56. 4:39your sense of peace from your wealth, that you have no problem giving it away for the sake of Allah
57. 4:46Why? Because you drive your sense of security your sense of strength your sense of peace and happiness
58. 4:53from Allah SWT and Allah's wealth and Allah's resources will never run
59. 4:59Allah tells us in the Quran in a verse that makes me smile
60. 5:03(Say ˹to them, O Prophet˺, “Even if you were to possess the ˹infinite˺ treasuries of my Lord’s mercy, then you would certainly withhold ˹them˺,
61. 5:08fearing they would run out, for humankind is ever stingy!”)
62. 5:11Say if you are the one who owns the treasures of Allah's mercy
63. 5:16you would have held back in fear of spending because the human doesn't want to spend because he thinks he's gonna run away and
64. 5:22run out of money. So Allah said even if I gave you My own resources
65. 5:27you will still not spend, unless you have that relationship with Allah that relationship will make you giving
66. 5:35generous and Glory be to Allah, you will start diving into an experience with Allah you give and you will see that Allah gives you
67. 5:42give and you will see that Allah gives you back multiple folds
68. 5:46Almost, one of the ways you multiply your money and invest your money is you give it as charity
69. 5:52Because you literally realize from real life events that every time you give Allah will give you multiple folds
70. 5:59So it becomes like investing in a company or in a stock that every time you invest in that stock
71. 6:03the price keeps on coming up and you keep on making more money. Who doesn't want that? And that's how Allah
72. 6:10interestingly speaks to our psyche in the Quran
73. 6:14May Allah the Majestic and Almighty make us from those who are in his eyes
74. 6:18the generous, giving, and honored servants
75. 6:22Which means His honored servants and may Allah make us from the pious in this month of Ramadan
76. 6:27May Allah help us to liberate ourselves from attachment to our wealth to attachment to Him
77. 6:33and may Allah make our sense of security and peace and happiness from Him and His relationship with us
78. 6:40Ameen Ya Rabb Alameen
79. 6:42May God’s blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad and Praise be to Allah