Prioritizing the love of wealth over charity and the love of Allah
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: If one prioritizes the love of wealth over giving or performing charity and good deeds and righteousness, does this contradict the love of Allah (Mighty and Majestic)?
Answer:
It contradicts the perfection of faith,[Ali 'Imran 3:92], [Al-Insan 76:8]. If you spend from the wealth you love, that is proof of your faith that you have prioritized the love of Allah over the love of wealth, and obedience to Allah over the love of wealth. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: If one prioritizes the love of wealth over giving or performing charity and good deeds and righteousness, does this contradict the love of Allah (Mighty and Majestic)?
Answer:
It contradicts the perfection of faith,
Never will you attain the good [reward] until you spend [in the way of Allah] from that which you love.
لَن تَنَالُوا الْبِرَّ حَتَّىٰ تُنفِقُوا مِمَّا تُحِبُّونَAnd they give food in spite of love for it to the needy, the orphan, and the captive,
وَيُطْعِمُونَ الطَّعَامَ عَلَىٰ حُبِّهِ مِسْكِينًا وَيَتِيمًا وَأَسِيرًا
Source
إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان 08-07-1439هـ — alfawzan.live (39:12)
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