A word to the virtuous owner of the farm who hosted the Shaykh there; this word is about giving and spending the wealth that Allah, the Exalted, bestows upon His servant.
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The questioner : I will follow up with a simple word from my side to my brothers. May Allah reward you all with good.
Praise be to Allah; we praise Him and seek His help, and we seek refuge in Allah from the evils of our own selves and from the badness of our deeds. Whom Allah guides, none can mislead, and whom He leaves to mislead, none can guide. And I bear witness that there is no deity but Allah alone, with no partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and His Messenger. As for what follows:
The best of speech is the speech of Allah, the best of guidance is the guidance of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), and the worst of matters are their innovations, every innovation is a religious innovation, and every religious innovation is misguidance. And after that:
My brothers, by Allah, how much I have been pleased with this pleasant gathering. I did not expect this attendance, because I had agreed with my brother, Dr. Taysir, that we would hold a feast because of this blessing that Allah has bestowed upon me at this time. So I said to him: Let us slaughter a sheep to feed those you know, my brother. He said to me: There, if Allah wills, we will slaughter a sheep or two. So I knew that other individuals had learned about this sheep and so on. He said to me: Do you see any objection to the attendance increasing? I said to him: Slaughter ten sheep. If the people will attend and eat these sheep, take a thousand dinars for me.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you with good.
The questioner : Look, why did I say that? I wanted to draw attention. Truly, our virtuous Shaykh, may Allah have mercy on him with a wide mercy, Abu Yusuf, taught us the great generosity of the Sunnah. He reads us hadiths, and a hadith passed by me in which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:, so he would encourage us to give.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward him with good, and it is the truth... Yes.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Giving, especially when wealth increases and begins to flow from every direction, and this is overwhelming. Another hadith passed by me from our brother, the Shaykh Abu Yusuf, that the believer must always, when he sees wealth bursting forth, and this is from Allah, not from intelligence, to scatter it thus and thus and thus in all directions, and scatter it in good. So I said: I will conduct an experiment; because I was poor and destitute, and by Allah, I could not, as a boy in Qalqilya, buy a single date.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed for you! Praise be to Allah who...
The questioner : And Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, succeeded me in my studies by His grace, and I went and studied. Before I entered the university, I said: O Lord, I am poor. This study, if Allah wills, I will have a share in it for the people of Islam, if Allah wills, and by Allah, I was ignorant. And Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, gave me much through this engineering study and great secrets in mechanical engineering, and Allah has blessed me now in my study and in my work for twenty years. So I saw that I should choose land, if Allah wills, where I am close to comfort and I sit and rest, if Allah wills. So I saw that I should buy a garden, and I said: I will buy it near my people from my hometown here in al-Majdal; we have owners, if Allah wills, who are excellent. I bought it, and praise be to Allah, it had a good share. This garden, I bought it and it was rock and thorns.
The Shaykh : So it is not a garden.
The questioner : A mountain.
The Shaykh : You will make it, if Allah wills, a place of song.
The questioner : So I saw, after we invested in it and plowed it, that it was extremely suitable; it was, meaning, contrary to my expectations.
The Shaykh : Barren.
The questioner : Yes, barren.
And we intended, if Allah wills, that we will plant it and tree it. And every work you want, my brother, my personal experience, advice to my brothers in Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He: everything you want to plant for yourself, fertilize it. Trees need fertilizer. What is the secret of success that the tree grows more? And the success of the works I have passed through is that I do not do a good work except that I attach to it for the people, for the Muslims, and for the righteous.
The point is: So if you strive for this rule, you must always set aside something of your work for Allah and His Messenger and for the believers.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you with good.
The questioner : And do not forget this matter; so that Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, will bless this work. And you know better than me and are more knowledgeable than me, my Shuyukh, through them Allah, then our Salafi brothers, are those through whom I was guided. So you know the hadith how the clouds and rain passed over the garden, and a caller was heard calling: Let the rain descend in so-and-so's garden. And he found the secret, in brief words, after he asked the owner of this garden, and he said: I eat one third, and I put one third in the ground, and the other third I give in charity. And if we walk upon this and walk upon the subject that we honor ourselves and love each other, and these are matters that nurture the hearts with each other, they become good and tender; this is better than much of focusing on your mind and neglecting your heart. Many people focus on the mind, but their heart has no training; meaning, this practice is necessary.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed!
The questioner : So if Allah wills, based on the Shaykh's good opinion of this, and by Allah, a map is here with me, a design for the top, at the peak, if Allah wills, a house of two hundred and fifty square meters, below it a diwan, I will furnish it, a diwan, if Allah wills, I will furnish it and put in it a library, if Allah wills, an expensive and valuable library, if Allah wills, we will collect in it hadith, and it will be a place of visitation and recreation for the good people of Islam, and we do not want anything except for Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He. May Allah bless you.
Another questioner : The Shaykh's good opinion of you is in its place.
Another questioner: May Allah reward you with good, our Shaykh.
Another questioner : , O Shaykh.
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
Another questioner : If you please.
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
Praise be to Allah; we praise Him and seek His help, and we seek refuge in Allah from the evils of our own selves and from the badness of our deeds. Whom Allah guides, none can mislead, and whom He leaves to mislead, none can guide. And I bear witness that there is no deity but Allah alone, with no partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and His Messenger. As for what follows:
The best of speech is the speech of Allah, the best of guidance is the guidance of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), and the worst of matters are their innovations, every innovation is a religious innovation, and every religious innovation is misguidance. And after that:
My brothers, by Allah, how much I have been pleased with this pleasant gathering. I did not expect this attendance, because I had agreed with my brother, Dr. Taysir, that we would hold a feast because of this blessing that Allah has bestowed upon me at this time. So I said to him: Let us slaughter a sheep to feed those you know, my brother. He said to me: There, if Allah wills, we will slaughter a sheep or two. So I knew that other individuals had learned about this sheep and so on. He said to me: Do you see any objection to the attendance increasing? I said to him: Slaughter ten sheep. If the people will attend and eat these sheep, take a thousand dinars for me.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you with good.
The questioner : Look, why did I say that? I wanted to draw attention. Truly, our virtuous Shaykh, may Allah have mercy on him with a wide mercy, Abu Yusuf, taught us the great generosity of the Sunnah. He reads us hadiths, and a hadith passed by me in which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
The first of this nation was saved by certainty and asceticism, and the last of it will be destroyed by stinginess and hope.
نجا أول هذه الأمة باليقين والزهد ، ويهلك آخرها بالبخل والأملThe Shaykh : May Allah reward him with good, and it is the truth... Yes.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Giving, especially when wealth increases and begins to flow from every direction, and this is overwhelming. Another hadith passed by me from our brother, the Shaykh Abu Yusuf, that the believer must always, when he sees wealth bursting forth, and this is from Allah, not from intelligence, to scatter it thus and thus and thus in all directions, and scatter it in good. So I said: I will conduct an experiment; because I was poor and destitute, and by Allah, I could not, as a boy in Qalqilya, buy a single date.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed for you! Praise be to Allah who...
The questioner : And Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, succeeded me in my studies by His grace, and I went and studied. Before I entered the university, I said: O Lord, I am poor. This study, if Allah wills, I will have a share in it for the people of Islam, if Allah wills, and by Allah, I was ignorant. And Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, gave me much through this engineering study and great secrets in mechanical engineering, and Allah has blessed me now in my study and in my work for twenty years. So I saw that I should choose land, if Allah wills, where I am close to comfort and I sit and rest, if Allah wills. So I saw that I should buy a garden, and I said: I will buy it near my people from my hometown here in al-Majdal; we have owners, if Allah wills, who are excellent. I bought it, and praise be to Allah, it had a good share. This garden, I bought it and it was rock and thorns.
The Shaykh : So it is not a garden.
The questioner : A mountain.
The Shaykh : You will make it, if Allah wills, a place of song.
The questioner : So I saw, after we invested in it and plowed it, that it was extremely suitable; it was, meaning, contrary to my expectations.
The Shaykh : Barren.
The questioner : Yes, barren.
And we intended, if Allah wills, that we will plant it and tree it. And every work you want, my brother, my personal experience, advice to my brothers in Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He: everything you want to plant for yourself, fertilize it. Trees need fertilizer. What is the secret of success that the tree grows more? And the success of the works I have passed through is that I do not do a good work except that I attach to it for the people, for the Muslims, and for the righteous.
The point is: So if you strive for this rule, you must always set aside something of your work for Allah and His Messenger and for the believers.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you with good.
The questioner : And do not forget this matter; so that Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, will bless this work. And you know better than me and are more knowledgeable than me, my Shuyukh, through them Allah, then our Salafi brothers, are those through whom I was guided. So you know the hadith how the clouds and rain passed over the garden, and a caller was heard calling: Let the rain descend in so-and-so's garden. And he found the secret, in brief words, after he asked the owner of this garden, and he said: I eat one third, and I put one third in the ground, and the other third I give in charity. And if we walk upon this and walk upon the subject that we honor ourselves and love each other, and these are matters that nurture the hearts with each other, they become good and tender; this is better than much of focusing on your mind and neglecting your heart. Many people focus on the mind, but their heart has no training; meaning, this practice is necessary.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed!
The questioner : So if Allah wills, based on the Shaykh's good opinion of this, and by Allah, a map is here with me, a design for the top, at the peak, if Allah wills, a house of two hundred and fifty square meters, below it a diwan, I will furnish it, a diwan, if Allah wills, I will furnish it and put in it a library, if Allah wills, an expensive and valuable library, if Allah wills, we will collect in it hadith, and it will be a place of visitation and recreation for the good people of Islam, and we do not want anything except for Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He. May Allah bless you.
Another questioner : The Shaykh's good opinion of you is in its place.
Another questioner: May Allah reward you with good, our Shaykh.
Another questioner : , O Shaykh.
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
Another questioner : If you please.
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
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