[SPEAKER_00]: issue that I wanted to talk about today and its remedy and its solution from the Qur'an is the challenge and the issue of financial stress.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is something that's a very human issue, it's a very human challenge, it's something that affects all of us and it's something that is very real.
[SPEAKER_00]: We all feel that stress, because of finances and money.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's not even rooted within a desire for luxury and more.
[SPEAKER_00]: But sometimes it's just a very, really human concern about fulfilling our responsibilities.
[SPEAKER_00]: Being able to keep a roof of our heads.
[SPEAKER_00]: Being able to take care of the people that we are responsible for.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Allah SWT speaks about this in the Qur'an in Surat-Hud.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah SWT says, Wa Ma'am in that, but in Ful-Arli illa al-Allahi r-Squham.
[SPEAKER_00]: That there is not a single creature on this earth in existence whose sustenance and provision is not ensured in taking care of by Allah SWT, that every single living creature
[SPEAKER_00]: is something that it's taken care of, is guaranteed by Allah SWT.
[SPEAKER_00]: That even Qatirah, may Allah, to Allah, when commenting on this verse, he says, the Qafall Allah will be arzaki jami al-Makhluqati.
[SPEAKER_00]: That Allah SWT has taken the responsibility of the sustenance of all creatures, of all creation.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah SWT tells us in suratud that yats,
[SPEAKER_00]: that your sustenance and everything else that you've been guaranteed and promised by Allah is already taken care of, arranged for, in the heavens, that your sustenance, even though visually, in terms of our interaction with it, we can say that our sustenance comes from underneath us.
[SPEAKER_00]: It grows out of the ground, or the animals, they graze on the ground,
[SPEAKER_00]: So in terms of our interaction with our sustenance, it's beneath our feet.
[SPEAKER_00]: But al-Las-Hanawata, they're shifting and changing that perspective and saying, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, in actuality, you need to understand that your sustenance comes from above.
[SPEAKER_00]: It provided by al-Las-Hanawata.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so provision sustenance, it's from Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then, where does this panic, the anxiety, the stress, the worry, the concern?
[SPEAKER_00]: Where does that come from?
[SPEAKER_00]: In a last panel with Tallah tell us that that comes from Shafan.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the last panel with Tallah speaks about this Indakoran.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're Allah's panel with Allah says, A shaytan who we are a dukhum will fakara.
[SPEAKER_00]: In suratul bakara Allah says, shaytan is the one who is constantly threatening you.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is the one that's constantly inciting within you this paranoia, this concern, this worry, this panic, this anxiety about poverty.
[SPEAKER_00]: That poverty is around every corner.
[SPEAKER_00]: That actually comes from shaytan.
[SPEAKER_00]: with your actual sustenance.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a completely, totally separate problem.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, what we're understanding is this financial stress that we have actually has nothing to do with actual sustenance and risk and provision.
[SPEAKER_00]: But this has to do with Shethon.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a completely different issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the great scholar of the seed,
[SPEAKER_00]: of the last century, Ibn Ashur, Rahim Allah, to Allah, he explains that he says, ah, you, how we focus in al-Fakrili tatrukul in Fakr.
[SPEAKER_00]: That shaitan has a very clear motive and objective.
[SPEAKER_00]: His motive is he keeps threatening you with poverty.
[SPEAKER_00]: He keeps frightening you with poverty.
[SPEAKER_00]: And his goal is so that you stop spending
[SPEAKER_00]: that you stop giving to causes, that are actually a means to your salvation.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the actual goal, and that's the game that Shaitan is playing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah's Pana Wa'Tala and the Quran, he tells us many, many places, amongst the mislead of Allah, who, yapsu t'oris al-Qadimayyasha wa yakadir.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah's Pana Wa'Tala expands a person's provision, and Allah's Pana Wa'Tala is the one who restricts it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So when we understand that this fear, this anxiety, is actually from shaytan, and our risk is only and solely from Allah, then we're able to actually understand that the discussion of risk, sustenance, provision.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is actually a theological discussion.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is a theological and spiritual one.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is not an economic discussion.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not an economics issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not a numbers issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not a mathematical issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is a theological and spiritual issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's where the Prophet ﷺ, he gives us this very powerful example.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, in a Hadith, in a Tirmity,
[SPEAKER_00]: If you were to put your faith in your trust in Allah, as you should, as it has been asked of you, then you would be provided for the way that the birds are provided for.
[SPEAKER_00]: that when they fly out, when they leave their nest in the morning, they are hungry, but when they return back to their nest in the evening, they are provided for and they are completely taken care of.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah would provide for you in that way.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there's an interesting insight that comes from this, because there are, as is the case with many issues, there are two extremes.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is the extreme where we completely remove
[SPEAKER_00]: And we take it upon ourselves solely.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's when Shaitan moves in and then creates all the paranoia and all the anxiety and all the different issues.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then we end up in that problematic place.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there's the opposite extreme as well that we can't go to and that extreme would be that we just completely don't do anything about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we just say, well, if provision and sustenances from Allah, then I don't need to do anything.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that was also spoken about that has also been addressed historically, very famously, Umruv Nuhatapra Adiyalah Utala Anhu, there was a group of people who were operating on that extreme, and they wouldn't work, they didn't practice any kind of responsibility, they didn't put any kind of effort in, and they were starting to become a burden on their families and on their communities and on the society at large.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Umruwati Al-Aqutala Anhu, he confronted them,
[SPEAKER_00]: And they said, they said, they said, we are people who have put our faith in trust in Allah and he said, they are not people who have put your faith in trust in Allah your free loaders.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a big difference between the two.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the great scholar Ibn Rajab, Rahim Allah, to Allah, he actually writes on this hadith, where the Prophet ﷺ gives the example of the bird.
[SPEAKER_00]: that this hadith should not be understood to say that we're not supposed to put in any kind of work.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because if you pay attention to the wording that the Prophet ﷺ uses in the hadith, he does say, Duhdu Khimasan.
[SPEAKER_00]: When the bird is hungry in the morning, it flies out from its nest.
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't just sit there, waiting for the sustenance to arrive.
[SPEAKER_00]: It flies out, it goes out.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we do put in effort.
[SPEAKER_00]: We do put in a decent, good effort in line with our principles and our morals and our ethics and our dean and our spirituality, we do put in an effort.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we put that effort in as well, why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because Allah has commanded us too.
[SPEAKER_00]: We put the effort in because that's what Allah has asked of us.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what Allah's prahnawata'la loves and that's what has been demanded of us.
[SPEAKER_00]: A person tries, a person puts in the effort, a respectable, honorable, dignified effort.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then, after that, we do have to leave the rest to Allah ﷻ. Wa'ala Llāh, la Llāh, la Llāh, la Llāh, la Llāh, la Llāh, la Llāh, la Llāh, la Llāh.
[SPEAKER_00]: that the believers put their faith in trust in Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those people who have true trust in Allah keep reminding themselves that I've put my faith in my trust in Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: The prophet of Allah, Salah, islam.
[SPEAKER_00]: In a very beautiful narration in the Sunnah, Vibben Majah, he says,
[SPEAKER_00]: that no soul is allowed to leave this world.
[SPEAKER_00]: No human being is allowed to die in depart from this world until they have fully collected on all the provision and the sustenance that Allah had destined and written for them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Meaning what has been written for me?
[SPEAKER_00]: I cannot die and leave this world until I've collected every grain, every scent, every penny that is written in my name by Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the level of guarantee that our is in our sustenance has from Allah who Subhanahu Wa Taala.
[SPEAKER_00]: And to understand this, Al-Ibn Abitalebra Diyallahu Taalaan who he explained this, he said, a brisqur isqan.
[SPEAKER_00]: Rizqun tutl tatlubuhu wa rizqun yatlubuqa.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said that your sustenance is of two types.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a provision that you seek and then the provision that seeks you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so, what that means is the provision you seek is you put in your work in your effort.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then what's actually written for you will come and find you as long as you put in a responsible dignified effort.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the remedy, so if what is written for me will come to me one way or another, then we
[SPEAKER_00]: The beginning of the discussion, that the problem that we actually have is not a sustenance problem.
[SPEAKER_00]: The problem that we have is a stress, anxiety, worry, problem.
[SPEAKER_00]: That we've allowed Shethon to occupy too much space in our heads.
[SPEAKER_00]: And now we've actually fallen prey to the fear mongering of Shethon.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, how do we break that grip, that hold, that Shethon has on us?
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Prophet ﷺ, in a Hadith and Sahim Muslim, he tells us, man, naka satsada katun min malin, gift charity.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because when you give charity that does not actually decrease your sustenance.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because remember, you will collect everything that Allah is written for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Every grain that has your name on it will land up in your belly one way or another.
[SPEAKER_00]: So when you give charity, you're not actually giving away your sustenance.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's why it doesn't decrease what was written for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you constantly worrying about it, will not increase it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you doing what Allah SWT has asked of you, you following in the footsteps of the Prophet ﷺ will actually increase the quality of it, the experience of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Al-Hassal-Basal-e-Yahim Allah Qutjala very beautifully, he says, Al-M-Tu'an-Nar-Ras'an-Ris-Ri-Layyat-Hudah-Hudah-Hudah-Hudah-Hudah-Hudah-Hudah-Hudah-Hudah-Hudah-Hudah-Hudah-Hudah-Hudah-Hudah-Hudah-Hudah-Hudah-Hudah-Hudah-Hudah-Hudah-Hudah-Hudah-Hudah-Hudah-Hudah-Hudah
[SPEAKER_00]: Langyak hudahu reiri, that no one else can claim what is written for me, Fatma Anakalbi, and that's when my heart found peace and tranquility in contentment.
[SPEAKER_00]: That I stopped stressing, I stopped worrying, I stopped being riddled with this kind of anxiety.
[SPEAKER_00]: So last Harawatala, guaranteed our sustenance, our risk before we were born.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then a last panel with Allah provided for us throughout our infancy in our childhood and why we were growing up.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then we become adults.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then all of a sudden, we start worrying about it because we allowed Shaitan to worry us and stress us out about our sustenance, our risk.
[SPEAKER_00]: When if you just look back at your life prior to this, you are worrying about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you were a baby, when you were a toddler, you weren't stressing out about your risk.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Allah's upon our telafed you, and that's how you ended up here today.
[SPEAKER_00]: But rather, the reminder is the remedy is for us to understand that our job is to make some effort.
[SPEAKER_00]: To put in a hard day's work, the live of life of dignity and responsibility,
[SPEAKER_00]: and understand that the responsibility of actually feeding us, providing for us, is a responsibility that doesn't belong to us and belongs to Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: As Allah, Sallallahu al-Sallallahu al-Sallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallallall
[SPEAKER_00]: In Nallaha, who are Razakul al-Quwaitin-Matim, because it is Allah's Panoatala, who is the ultimate provider for everyone.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah Huqaydu Razik-Lim, and Allah is the best of those who provide.
[SPEAKER_00]: So may Allah's Panoatala grant us, peace and tranquility, may Allah's Panoatala grant us conviction and true reliance upon Allah's Panoatala and may Allah's Panoatala allow us to live a life of responsibility and dignity and learn to put our faith and trust in Allah's Panoatala.