Continuation of the explanation of the athar of Qays ibn 'As, in which it says: ( ... and beware of asking people ... ), and in it is a warning against asking without need.

The Shaykh : He said: "And beware of asking people": He warns his sons not to ask people for anything. In reality, this advice alone is also among the advices that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to give to his Companions. It came in some authentic hadiths that he (peace and blessings be upon him) took a pledge from some of his Companions not to ask people for anything, even if he said: "Hand me the whip." The whip is a lash. The pledge was made with this precision: "You are pledging with me for Islam, but I am imposing the condition on you that you do not ask people for anything at all." Even if you were riding your mount, your horse or your camel, and the whip fell from you, and a person passed by next to the whip, you do not say to him: "Please, hand me the whip." Rather, you dismount from the camel and take the whip with your hand, or you stop the horse and dismount from it and take the whip with your hand. Why? Because this is, in reality, part of the perfection of servitude to Allah (Mighty and Majestic). When the Muslim strives not to ask people for anything, he achieves the rank of: to the broadest extent. This, of course, does not mean that it is forbidden for a person to say to his friend: "Please, hand me the whip, hand me the pen, hand me the paper." No, this does not mean it is forbidden, but it means that the Muslim should rely, after Allah, on himself. Therefore, this noble Companion also advises his sons and children with this advice, saying: "And beware of asking people, for it is the last of a man's earnings." Asking people is the last of a man's earnings. He indicates that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) has forbidden begging, asking people for money, "Give me a qirsh, give me a lira," and so on. And there are details, of course, in the books of hadith and jurisprudence, the summary of which is that asking without necessity makes the face of its owner deformed on the Day of Resurrection, the most deformed deformation, where he comes with scratches and cuts on his face. These are Arabic expressions meaning that he comes with various types of blows, punches, and scratches on his face. Why? Because he used to ask people without being shy, and he was not in need of asking. Therefore, it is not permissible for a person to ask people for anything unless he does not have the food for a day and a night. And from this we know that the begging known today is forbidden in the religion of Islam. It is not permissible for its practitioners to engage in this profession on one hand, and it is not permissible for people to give to them on the other hand, because they are helping them in this filthy profession, religiously. Therefore, he advises his sons not to ask people at all, because asking them for money is the last of a man's earnings: meaning a man who is going to die of hunger, has no food for a day and a night, and has children, at that time he asks people. This is the last resort. So he wants his sons to be noble, to be honorable, to be people of high ambition, and the like, and he does not want them to degrade themselves by asking people for their money.