Sadaqah

Zakat, mountains.

Sadaqat, mountains.

Hajj, mountains.

Every good action he has, mountains of those.

Allahumma salli ala Muhammad wa ala ali Muhammad kama salli ala Ibrahim wa ala ali Ibrahim.

إِنَّكَ حَمِيدٌ مَجِيدٌ وَبَارِكَ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ كَمَا بَارَكْتَ عَلَى إِبْرَهِيمٍ وَعَلَى آلِ إِبْرَهِيمٍ فِي الْعَالَمِينَ إِنَّكَ حَمِيدٌ مَجِيدٌ أما بعد we continue with our weekly dars on Zad al-Ma'ad or the Muqtasir of Zad al-Ma'ad and we currently are on the chapter pertaining to Sadaqah فَصْلٌ فِي مَنْ يُعْطَى فَصْلٌ فِي مَنْ يُعْطَى السَّ A chapter on to whom the sadaqah is given.

وَكَانَ إِذَا عَلِمَ مِنَ الرَّجُلِ أَنَّهُ مِنْ أَهْلِهَا أَعْطَاهُ When he ﷺ, he identified that a particular person is from the people of zakah, i.e. from the lawful recipients, from those who are eligible for zakah he would give him.

Pay attention guys, this is important.

He would take from the mediocre, the one that is in between.

وَكَانَ يَنْهَى الْمُتَصَدِّقَ أَنْ يَشْتَرِي صَدَقَتَهُ And he used to prohibit that the one giving charity, that he would purchase his charity afterwards.

وَكَانَ يُبِيحُ لِلْغَنِي أَن يَأْكُلَ مِنْهَا إِذَا أَهْدَاهَا إِلَيْهِ الْفَقِيرُ And he would allow the rich person to eat from the Sadaqah if it was given to him by a poor person.

وَكَانَ أَحْيَانًا يَسْتَدِينُ لِمَصَالِحِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ عَلَى الصَّدَقَةِ And sometimes he would borrow from the charity in order to benefit the Muslims.

And so everything followed the Sunnah, you know, after that.

But the point is, it was somewhere around the year 1000 or something like that, that the Sultan who was ruling the area in Egypt, he found that the poor people, people were not given Zakat and Sadaqah.

So he wanted to inspire them to give zakat and to take care of the poor, you know, and to give sadaqah and whatnot for the poor and the needy.

So he said, let's do this, you know, on the occasion of the birthday of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.

Subhanallah and alhamdulillah, they fill the space between the heavens and the earth.

Sadaqah is a burhan.

Burhan means? Dalil.

It's an evidence of your faith.

When you give sadaqah and you give $100, Apparently, you've lost $100.

But the Prophet said, no, don't think like that.

Sadaqah will never decrease your wealth.

The Prophet said this.

And the Sahaba said, oh, Sadaqah doesn't decrease.

If I give Sadaqah, Allah will give me more compensation.

And Allah will replace it.

That's such great positive thinking.

You're responsible for them.

And Sadaqah erases your sins and takes you to Jannah." And he tells them about Hajj and tells them about Umrah and tells them about Salah and tells them about dua, and most importantly, tells them about Allah Azzawajal and who Allah is, and that Allah is forgiving and just and wise, and that Allah is perfect and complete.

And he tells them about Allah in ways that is not available to the people of the book.

For the people of the book, Allah c- is imperfect.

The khutbah should be about i.e. the action.

And no doubt the person, the action that the person should have done before, but an encouragement and the person asks for the action to be accepted and the likes of that And an encouragement that the person continues to give Sadaqah as well, and they don't just use that as one opportunity to give Sadaqah.

Um, what can also be understood as well from the encouragement of Sadaqah in, in, uh, the Salatul Eid al-Fitr is because what is generally understood is that the people, they will give their Zakat when? In the head of the-

Zakat al-Mal.

Zakat al-Mal.

Now, people generally know 'cause-- It's sad to say people don't generally know the Islamic calendar, so they won't know the year, but they-- everyone knows Ramadan.

So then they will use the Ramadan as their, as, as their halal ho As their, as their year.

So in that, uh, in that regard, they will give the, the Sadaqah in Ramadan or the Zakat al-Mal, sorry, in Ramadan.