Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the honorable prophets and messengers, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, and upon the most obedient of the most obedient.
From Abadu, my brothers and sisters, we are looking at the Hikaiyat, the advice of Hatim al-Aswari, may Allah be pleased with him, and the eight pieces of advice that he gave to the people.
And we spoke about four of them, and this is the fifth.
And the fifth one is, he said that I noticed that people find fault with each other, they insult each other and so on due to jealousy.
And then I read in the Quran,
أَهُمْ يَقْسِمُونَ رَحْمَةَ رَبِّكَ نَهْنُ قَسَمْنَا بَيْنَهُمْ عِيشَتَهُمْ فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا
وَرَفْعَانَا بَعْدَهُمْ فَوْقَ بْعَادٍ دَرَجَاتٍ لِيَتَّخِذَ بَعْدُهُمْ بَعْدًا سُخْرِيًّا
وَرَحْمَةُ رَبِّكَ خَيْرٌ مِّمَّا يَجْمَعُونَ
Where Allah said, which means, is it they who distribute your Rabb's mercy?
Is it they who distribute your Rabb's mercy?
We alone have distributed their very livelihood,
among them in this worldly life, and raised some of them in rank above others,
so that some may employ others in service.
But your Rabb's mercy is far better than whatever wealth they amass.
Surah Al-Zukhruf
And so, Hathim al-Assal said, therefore, I stop myself from jealousy,
and I don't concern myself with others.
I know for certain that the distribution of wealth is entirely in the hands of Allah .
I therefore don't hate them.
I don't hate somebody because a person's effort has little to do with his being rich or poor.
It has been decided by Allah.
Hence, I do not feel angry with anyone.
I remind myself anew that Allah in the hadith of Ibn Abbas ,
Rasulullah ended by saying,
The pens have been lifted, and the ink is dry.
Now, on the other hand, you might say,
Well, if you say this, then why should we work?
Why should we do anything? Right?
The key thing to understand is, there are two aspects of risk.
One is the amount, the quantity.
And the second one is the place where you earn it from.
If you want to call it the quality of it.
So, where do you get it from?
Allah kept the quantity with Himself.
So, total amount that is written for you, is written for you.
This will not change.
But Allah gave it into our control, where we want to earn it from.
Halal source or haram source.
The total amount of life, for example, number of years, is decided by Allah .
Allah said,
You cannot delay it, and you cannot bring it forward.
But the quality of that life, this Allah has kept in our control.
So, for example, at a physical level, if you take care of your body,
you do not indulge in substance abuse,
you exercise regularly, you eat sensibly, and so on,
then your body will, you live the same number of years,
but the quality of life will be good until the end.
We ask Allah for this.
On the other hand, you do the opposite of that.
Smoking, drinking, substance abuse, drugs, you name it.
Even eating, drinking, you know, without any control, no exercise.
You still live the same number of years, but you are miserable throughout.
All kinds of ailments, especially in the old, towards when you get older,
geriatric life quality is almost total.
Almost totally because of lifestyle choices.
It's not disease.
It's lifestyle choices.
Because you won't move, then you lose strength in your legs.
You end up in a wheelchair.
Not because there is anything wrong with you physically.
It's not a disease.
You just lost muscle because you didn't do anything, any work.
Muscle gone, you can't stand up.
You need help to stand up.
You need help to climb steps.
And so on and so forth.
So, so also with regard to wealth, Allah has written what He has written.
But how do we take it?
Do you want to take it from a halal source or a haram source?
Allah has given this in your control.
You will still get the same amount.

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