An Introduction to Financial Sacrifice — Page 32
32 came those who sacrificed millions and now we see sacrifices of tens of millions. " 54 H A D RAT KHAL I FATUL MA SIH V at KEEP YOUR AFFAIRS WITH ALLAH CLEAN AND STRAIGHTFORWARD "If you acquire more income after the Budget has been drawn, you must not continue paying according to the Budget. Rather you must pay in relation to the blessings which Allah has showered upon you. If our dealings with Allah are straightforward, He, being the All- Hearing and All-Knowing, will hear our prayer all the more. And if there is anything which we need for this age and for ourselves, it is the mercy and blessings of Allah and prayers which find acceptance at His threshold. So I beseech you that, for your prayers to be accepted, it is important that you keep your dealings with Allah clear. " 55 SPEND YOUR HOLY THINGS IN THE WAY OF ALLAH " ……Hadrat ‘Uqba bin ‘ A m i r reported that the Holy Prophet sa said: "On the day of judgment, the one who has spent in the way of Allah, will remain under the shelter of what he has spent until the Reckoning is over. " [ Ahmad Bin H ambal ] But this will only happen if the money that has been spent is pure and is spent out of a pure income. You can’t expect to win Divine blessings and to stay under the protection of your spending, if what you have spent is impure. Moreover, those with impure incomes never do spend in the way of Allah. Even if they manage to spend a rupee out of a hundred thousand, they tell 54 Friday Sermon, November 11, 1994. 55 Friday Sermon, June 6, 2003.