An Introduction to Financial Sacrifice — Page 15
15 SPENDING IN THE WAY OF ALLAH WILL PROLONG YOUR LIVES "If you perform righteous deeds and do some service at this time, you will set the seal upon your sincerity. You will live longer and your wealth will increase. " 33 FAITH AND MISERLINESS CANNOT COEXIST "I believe that faith and miserliness cannot exist in the same heart. One who believes in Allah with a sincere heart, does not only believe himself to be in possession of that which is locked in his safe, rather he believes all the treasures of Allah Almighty to be his; and thus miserliness is as removed from him as darkness is removed from light. It is not only a sin that I should call the Jam a ‘at to do something but no one should pay any attention to it, rather it is also a sin in the eyes of God that one should perform any service and imagine that he has done something…. " 34 ALLAH BECKONS YOU "We praise Allah and invoke blessings upon His Prophet, who is kind and trustworthy, and upon his progeny who are pure and clean, and on his disciples who are perfect. These disciples strived in way of Allah and, cutting themselves off from the world, bowed themselves completely before Him. So, O friends, you should know—and may Allah have mercy on you—that a Beckoner has come to you from Allah at the appointed time. Allah's mercy has come to your aid at the head of the century. You were waiting for that Beckoner like the thirsty one, so now he has come by the grace of Allah, so that he may warn those whose forefathers had not been warned and so that the evil-doers should become apparent. He has been ordered to call you towards the 33 Tabligh-e-Ris a lat , volume 10, p. 56. 34 Tabligh-e-Ris a lat , volume 10, p. 55-56.