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who spends out of wealth he has earned without sin.” Not to make the offering
from the best one has is to be guilty of bad manners, since it means that one is
keeping the best for oneself, for one‟s servant or one‟s family, and so preferring
others over Allah, the Almighty. To treat a guest in this fashion, offering him the
worst food in the house, would be sure to annoy him.
That is to look at it from the standpoint of Allah, the Almighty. If we look to
ourselves and to reward in the Hereafter, no sane person is going to put others
before himself. Whatever we possess, we may either give it in charity and so
make it truly ours to keep, or consume it for some immediate purpose and say
goodbye to it forever. But it is unreasonable to concentrate solely on the present,
neglecting to lay by for the future, Allah, the Almighty said:
“Believers, spend of the good you have earned and of that which We have
brought out of the earth for you. And do not intend the bad of it for your spending;
while you would never take it yourselves, except you closed an eye on it.”
(Koran Ch. 2 verse 267)
from the best one has is to be guilty of bad manners, since it means that one is
keeping the best for oneself, for one‟s servant or one‟s family, and so preferring
others over Allah, the Almighty. To treat a guest in this fashion, offering him the
worst food in the house, would be sure to annoy him.
That is to look at it from the standpoint of Allah, the Almighty. If we look to
ourselves and to reward in the Hereafter, no sane person is going to put others
before himself. Whatever we possess, we may either give it in charity and so
make it truly ours to keep, or consume it for some immediate purpose and say
goodbye to it forever. But it is unreasonable to concentrate solely on the present,
neglecting to lay by for the future, Allah, the Almighty said:
“Believers, spend of the good you have earned and of that which We have
brought out of the earth for you. And do not intend the bad of it for your spending;
while you would never take it yourselves, except you closed an eye on it.”
(Koran Ch. 2 verse 267)