Name: Ep. 17: Poverty Leads to Disbelief | The Faith Revival
Uploaded: 2017-06-12T15:14:57.000Z
Channel: Dr. Omar Suleiman
Description: Poverty is a difficult test to a person’s faith. Seek refuge from poverty with this supplication.

Poverty is a difficult test to a person’s faith. Seek refuge from poverty with this supplication.

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 Salamualikoum wa rahmatollahi wa barakato. Welcome back to the Faith Revival. So last  time we talked about the two most dangerous threats to your iman, the love of wealth and  the love of fame. Like two hungry wolves being let loose on a flock of sheep. But this is  a really interesting hadith that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam gives us. He says  salallahu alayhi wa sallam, and some of the scholars say this is actually a saying of  Umar radiyaAllahu anhu, but there are certainly many narrations, that poverty may lead to  disbelief. That poverty almost leads to disbelief. Al-fakr, which is poverty, can lead a person  down to disbelief. And Umar radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, not only did he say it, Umar radiyaAllahu  anhu said, if poverty was a man, then I would have choked him with my own two hands. So  poverty is a difficult test to a person's iman, and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa  sallam, he recognizes that. And this narration comes in various formats. One of them we learn  from the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam that he used to seek refuge in Allah subhanahu  wa ta'ala after every salah according to some narrations, Allahumma inni a'udhu bika minal  kufri wal-fakr. Oh Allah, I seek refuge in you from disbelief and poverty. And in one  of the narrations in Ibn Hibban, he was asked salallahu alayhi wa sallam, about why he always  uses those together, disbelief and poverty together, and he said they're the same, subhanAllah,  like they are equal. Not that poverty is equal to kufr, because poverty is not something  that a person chooses most of the time, but it's something that's inflicted on a person,  whereas kufr is deliberate, disbelief is deliberate. But that a person could be led down to that  path where they start to have questions about faith, or they start to do things that would  harm their faith. He mentions salallahu alayhi wa sallam in one narration, there was a man  that heard the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam always seeking refuge in Allah from  debt. And in this narration by Aisha radiyaAllahu anha, as he's always seeking refuge in Allah  from debt, the man said, how often you seek refuge in Allah from debt? And the Prophet  salallahu alayhi wa sallam said, when a man gets into debt, he speaks and he tells lies,  he makes promises and he breaks them. Meaning sometimes a person might have to resort to  unethical behavior. And we see there's a direct correlation in many parts of the world, and  of course, even here in the United States, between poverty and crime. So poverty can  lead someone who never would have thought of doing criminal behavior to criminal behavior,  right? Because it's a condition where people start to resort to certain things. And the  Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam recognizes that, and eventually, that criminal behavior  could lead to a sense of disbelief. So he's teaching us salallahu alayhi wa sallam about  the harms of poverty. So what do we learn from this? Number one, is the Prophet salallahu  alayhi wa sallam blaming the person who's in poverty? No. Self-inflicted poverty is not  something that we seek in Islam. And I know that that should sound like common sense.  But in Islam, a person does not inflict poverty as a means of asceticism on themselves, which  is actually a trait in many different philosophies and religions, that a person should force  themselves into difficult situations so that they can spiritually elevate themselves. And  this is a concept that does not exist in our faith. However, if a person is forced into  poverty, then the majority of the people of Jannah are fukara and masakeen, are people  who are poor and people who are in poverty. Why? Because wealth takes more people away  from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala than poverty. So we don't have a philosophy of self-inflicted  poverty in our religion. Number two, the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam taught us to seek  refuge in Allah. So a person should frequently seek refuge in Allah.  اللهم إني أعوذ بك من الكفر والفقر  Oh Allah, I seek refuge in you from disbelief and poverty. And in one narration the Prophet  salallahu alayhi wa sallam says,  وأعوذ بك من عذاب القبر  لا إله إلا أنت And I seek refuge in you from the torment of the grave.  So seek refuge in Allah from it. Number three, the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam put  the burden on society, not those that are in poverty. Society has a job, a responsibility  to eradicate poverty. Now this is a very powerful connection if you can make that connection.  The same passion that we have in eradicating kufr, if you will, eradicating disbelief,  in teaching people about Allah, in doing da'wah, if you equate poverty and disbelief, we should  have that passion to also eradicating poverty from a society. And that's why the Prophet  salallahu alayhi wa sallam said,  The believer, no one of you believes and sleeps at night while his neighbor is hungry. Right?  That that is a weakness in iman in the person that if he allows people …

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