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Episode 20: A Caller from Heaven's Gates
This is a Hadith you probably haven't heard yet in a fundraiser. Charity should be a daily habit in our lives. We should never underestimate the blessings we gain through it, blessings we may have not considered.
Transcript
This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. One of my biggest issues with the topic of charity is that it only comes up in the context of a fundraiser. And so you've heard the verses about sadaqah, the hadith about sadaqah, all these different things being used and these concepts being deployed in order to raise money for noble causes. But you can feel spiritually disconnected from that action of charity. And I remember sitting at a fundraiser with Imam Siraj, and Imam Siraj said something so beautiful about this particular hadith. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he said that when a person wakes up in the morning, every day two angels are sent to that person. One angel says, Allahumma a'ti munfiqan khalafa, the other one says, Allahumma a'ti mumsikan talafa. Oh Allah, give to the one who gives, and oh Allah withhold from the one who withholds. Okay, so Imam Siraj said very beautifully, he said that there is a book, a record book right now, the angels are recording those amounts. It's not just the people putting them into the excel sheets or documenting the numbers themselves. And he said, when your name is there, do you want there to be a zero next to your name or do you want there to be something else? Right, so this idea of never allowing there to be a zero next to your name when it comes to sadaqah. Now this hadith about the two angels descending and saying, Allahumma a'ti munfiqan khalafa, Allahumma a'ti mumsikan talafa, Oh Allah, give to the one who gives and withhold from the one who withholds. This is obviously in accordance with your capacity. But there's another hadith in Ibn Hibban, which is a beautiful visual to take with this. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that barely there's an angel at one of the gates of paradise that is holding on to that gate of Jannah and saying, man yuqrid al yawm yujza ghadam
man yuqrid al yawm yujza ghadam. Whoever gives a beautiful loan today will be given a beautiful reward tomorrow. Whoever gives a beautiful loan today will be given a beautiful reward tomorrow. And as he's hanging on to the gates of al Jannah, what he means is that paradise that Allah Subhanu wa ta'ala has promised for the believers and promised as a reward for generosity. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that on another gate of Jannah, there's an angel saying, Allahuma a'ti munfiqan khalafa, Allahuma a'ti mumsikan talafa, Oh Allah, give to the one who gives and Oh Allah, withhold from the one who withholds. This is also in a hadith that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned that there was a man that was walking one day and as he was walking, he heard this voice from the clouds that said, asti hadiqata fulan, irrigate the garden of so and so, water the garden of so and so. And so the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said this man looked up and he saw the clouds form and then suddenly it started to pour rain and the rain came on this stony surface and then it perfectly formed into a channel that flowed directly into this garden. So he followed where the water was going and he saw that it was going perfectly into this man's garden and he saw the man that was then distributing the water across his garden and he asked the man, you know, what his story was without telling him what he had just seen and the man was a little apprehensive because he didn't want to tell him what his story was. He was curious why he was being asked and then that man said that I saw the clouds form and I heard a voice from the sky that said water the garden of so and so. So that's why I came to you and subhanAllah that man responded he said everything that I earn I cut it into into threes. So I have one third that is for my family, one third that I invest and one third that I give in charity and that's how I allocate all of my wealth. One third
for my family, one third I invest and one third that goes to sadaqah. So this is a divine equation for good in our lives. Now what I'd want for you to take from this beyond just the angels and things of that sort, charity should be a daily habit. Don't wait for the fundraisers, don't wait for somebody to invite you to jannah, right? This is your place, this is your reward, this is something between you and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and this is especially true when people are not attending the fundraisers that they typically would because of their circumstances, right? This is particularly true now that you push yourself and you don't hesitate and charity becomes due upon you every single day even if it's a small amount. One of the things that my parents did may Allah have mercy on my mother and preserve my father, we used to have for one of the charities, the dome of the rock and the dome would come off and we would put some charity in there every single day and so whether it's a dollar that you put in a day or you put in a coin a day, then it was just to get everyone in the habit of putting in something, a penny, a nickel, something every single day that goes towards sadaqah and then at the end of the month we'd give it away in charity and so even when you're thinking about your families, if you've taken a course with me before, even if you take like a two liter bottle and call it our jannah bottle and teach your family that look every single day we're going to give something in sadaqah because if I could find the most righteous person in the world and say hey I want you to make dua for my well-being every single day, if I had that moment to find the most righteous person in the world and say hey I want you to remember me every single day and ask Allah to give me, then all of us would take that opportunity. But here you have an opportunity that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is saying where you could have an angel
literally holding on to the gates of al-jannah praying for you, making dua for you to be rewarded with that.
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