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Often people without Islam struggle to understand how there could be value in what the world today throws or pushes away. The earth is recording the oppression that it is witnessing and on the day of Qiyaamah, it will let out its loads. However, Islam came to remove all of this pride and prejudice to give every person an opportunity to struggle for the palaces and pure dwellings with gardens beneath which rivers flow in the true life to come.
Sayyiduna Anas ibn Malik Radhiyallahu ‘anhu reported: The Messenger of Allah, Sallallahu ‘alaihi wa Sallam, said,
“Whoever is concerned about the Hereafter, Allah will place richness in his heart, bring his affairs together, and the world will inevitably come to him. Whoever is concerned about the world, Allah will place poverty between his eyes, disorder his affairs, and he will get nothing of the world but what is decreed for him.”
Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhī 2465
عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَنْ كَانَتْ الْآخِرَةُ هَمَّهُ جَعَلَ اللَّهُ غِنَاهُ فِي قَلْبِهِ وَجَمَعَ لَهُ شَمْلَهُ وَأَتَتْهُ الدُّنْيَا وَهِيَ رَاغِمَةٌ وَمَنْ كَانَتْ الدُّنْيَا هَمَّهُ جَعَلَ اللَّهُ فَقْرَهُ بَيْنَ عَيْنَيْهِ وَفَرَّقَ عَلَيْهِ شَمْلَهُ وَلَمْ يَأْتِهِ مِنْ الدُّنْيَا إِلَّا مَا قُدِّرَ لَهُ
2465 سنن الترمذي كتاب صفة القيامة والرقائق والورع باب منه
Sayyiduna Abdullah ibn Umar Radhiyallahu anhu reported: The poor emigrants complained to the Messenger of Allah, Sallallahu ‘alaihi wa Sallam, because Allah favored the rich over them.
The Prophet Sallallahu ‘alaihi wa Sallam said,
“O you in poverty, I bring you glad tidings that the poor believers will enter Paradise before the rich by half of a day, the length of which is like five hundred years.” Musa ibn ‘Ubaydah recited the verse, “Verily, a day to your Lord is like a thousand years in your count.” (22:47)
Source: Sunan Ibn Mājah 4124
عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ اشْتَكَى فُقَرَاءُ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَا فَضَّلَ اللَّهُ بِهِ عَلَيْهِمْ أَغْنِيَاءَهُمْ فَقَالَ يَا مَعْشَرَ الْفُقَرَاءِ أَلَا أُبَشِّرُكُمْ أَنَّ فُقَرَاءَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَدْخُلُونَ الْجَنَّةَ قَبْلَ أَغْنِيَائِهِمْ بِنِصْفِ يَوْمٍ خَمْسِمِائَةِ عَامٍ ثُمَّ تَلَا مُوسَى بْنُ عُبَيْدَةَ هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ وَإِنَّ يَوْمًا عِنْدَ رَبِّكَ كَأَلْفِ سَنَةٍ مِمَّا تَعُدُّونَ
4124 سنن ابن ماجه كتاب الزهد باب منزلة الفقراء
Anas narrated that the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu ‘alaihi wa Sallam supplicated:
اللَّهُمَّ أَحْيِنِي مِسْكِينًا وَأَمِتْنِي مِسْكِينًا وَاحْشُرْنِي فِي زُمْرَةِ الْمَسَاكِينِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ
“O Allah! Cause me to live needy, and cause me to die needy and gather me in the group of the needy on the Day of Resurrection.”
‘Aishah Radhiyallahu anha said: “Why O Messenger of Allah?”
He (Sallallahu ‘alaihi wa Sallam) said: “Indeed they enter Paradise before their rich by forty years. O ‘Aishah! Do not turn away the needy even if with a piece of date. O ‘Aishah! Love the needy and be near them, for indeed Allah will make you near on the Day of Judgement.”
”” . فَقَالَتْ عَائِشَةُ لِمَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ ” إِنَّهُمْ يَدْخُلُونَ الْجَنَّةَ قَبْلَ أَغْنِيَائِهِمْ بِأَرْبَعِينَ خَرِيفًا
يَا عَائِشَةُ لاَ تَرُدِّي الْمِسْكِينَ وَلَوْ بِشِقِّ تَمْرَةٍ
يَا عَائِشَةُ أَحِبِّي الْمَسَاكِينَ وَقَرِّبِيهِمْ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ يُقَرِّبُكِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ ” .
| Reference | Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2352 |
From these Ahaadith Mubaarakah, one comes to know Islam has lots of space for the poor and the rich should understand the importance of the poor!
