The poor man

[HELWAA]

It was a usual meeting. The Prophet (p.b.u.h.) was in his place and his companions gathered around him to hear the words of wisdom and guidance.

Suddenly a poor man in rags appeared, saluted the assembly:
“Salamun Alaikum” and finding a vacant place, comfortably sat down. The Prophet (p.b.u.h.) had taught them that all Muslims were brothers and in an assembly one should sit wherever one finds a place, regardless of any status.

Now, it so happened that this poor man sat next to a very rich man. The rich man felt disturbed and tried to collect the edges of his dress around himself, so that the poor man did not touch them. The Prophet (p.b.u.h.) observed this and addressing the rich man he said:
“Perhaps you were afraid that his poverty would affect you?”

“No, O Messenger of Allah,” he said

“Then perhaps you were apprehensive about some of your wealth flying away to him?”

“No, O Messenger of Allah.”

“Or you feared that your clothes would become dirty if he touched them?”

“No, O Messenger of Allah.”

“Then why did you draw yourself and your clothes away from him?”

The rich man said: “I admit that was the most undesirable thing to do. It was an error and I confess. Now to make amends for it, I will give away half of my wealth to this Muslim brother so that I may be forgiven.”

Just as he said this, the poor man rose and said: “O Prophet of Allah, I do not accept his offer.”

People present were all taken by surprise. They thought the poor man was a fool. But he explained:
“O Prophet of Allah, I refuse to accept his offer because I fear that I might then become arrogant and ill treat my Muslim brothers the way he did to me.”

[Warsan_Star_Muslimah]

Jazakallah sis.

It is amazing that people were actually rejecting wealth in those days, now days some people would go to drastic measures to have wealth.

Sad to say, but I believe some people are literally worshipping money! The live for it, their whole lives is built on it, revolves around it, and it is not just that they are working to live, they are working to live larger.

[SultanOrder]

Amazing wallahi and moving, Rasulka scw said ' it is not poverty that I fear for you but wealth'
Jesus (as) is reported to have said ' it is easier for a cow to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven'

WSM I don't know if you know this but humans have always symbolically represented what they prize most or worship (in a loose sense) by making that the highest point in their cities.

ex: If you look at lets say Medieval cities of Europe what use to be the tallest buildings in the cities? Churches
In renassaince Europe what use to be the tallest buildings at that time? Princely buildings or palaces
In Modern cities what is the tallest buildings? Banks

I hope the muslims avoid this danger amin

[Warsan_Star_Muslimah]

Jesus (as) is reported to have said ' it is easier for a cow to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven'

It makes you think.

WSM I don't know if you know this but humans have always symbolically represented what they prize most or worship (in a loose sense) by making that the highest point in their cities.

ex: If you look at lets say Medieval cities of Europe what use to be the tallest buildings in the cities? Churches
In renassaince Europe what use to be the tallest buildings at that time? Princely buildings or palaces
In Modern cities what is the tallest buildings? Banks

I hope the muslims avoid this danger amin

Amiin. These days they are tearing down churches to build banks or any other thing that'll make them get more money and make people spend more money.

Muslim countries are also affected to an extent, look how money driven society the gulf has become?

Truely sad.

[SultanOrder]

I wonder what New York values most?

But then again I don't believe that making places of worship more fancy and huge and expensive is the way to go.
It is the Gulf countries who are the most affected it reminds me of the hadith where rasulka scw says something like ' the hour is near when arabs come out of the dessert to compete in bigger and bigger buildings.' not exactly the ahadith.

[Warsan_Star_Muslimah]

lol, I'm not suprised. They value buildings that'll get them money. It is the same pretty much in England. If you notice the churches are empty nearly all the time, it is like a ghost house. The only communities that go to churches are mostly non-European.

Yes I remember that hadith. I agree that we shouldn't go OTT with masjids, especially the inside should be kept simple, so as not to distract the abid. But I'm glad that in muslim countries masjids are still active, even in western countries it is active to an extent.

[SultanOrder]

I don't know about Europeans but when i was in Sweden last month they had this beautiful masjid high tech brand new everything built for free by Qatar, lakin it was mostly empty basically the whole day except for jimcaha, and the qutbaha was in arabic but the community was Turkish, Somali, other african, and Arab. I don't think the Imam could speak Swedish either

[Warsan_Star_Muslimah]

Lool, London is better, more muslims and a lot of the imams I've seen can speak English or get a translator. It is pretty much the same though, masjid is usually fuller on Fridays, & especially on jumca prayers.

[HELWAA]

Jazakallah sis.

It is amazing that people were actually rejecting wealth in those days, now days some people would go to drastic measures to have wealth.

Sad to say, but I believe some people are literally worshipping money! The live for it, their whole lives is built on it, revolves around it, and it is not just that they are working to live, they are working to live larger.

waa iyaaki sis.Waa runta hada dadki lacag bay ku waashen.