One who is afflicted by the poverty...
One who is afflicted by the poverty, is afflicted by four characteristics – the weakness in his certainty, and the deficiency in his intellect, and the weakness in his religion, and lack of shame in his face, so we -asws seek Refuge with Allah -azwj from the poverty ’’. [9] Introduction: In the remainder of the section, we will review more Ahadith on poverty (sufficiency and extreme poverty, i.e., desperation) in order to attain a better understanding of the subject.
Poverty of (the understanding of) religion: معاني الأخبار ابْنُ الْوَلِيدِ عَنِ الصَّفَّارِ عَنِ الْيَقْطِينِيِّ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ ذَرِيحٍ الْمُحَارِبِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: الْفَقْرُ الْمَوْتُ الْأَحْمَرُ (The book) ‘Ma’any Al Akhbar’ – Ibn Al Waleed, from Al Saffar, from Al Yaqteeny, from Safwan Bin Yahya, from Zareeh Al Muhariby, ‘From Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘ The poverty is the red death ’.
فَقِيلَ الْفَقْرُ مِنَ الدَّنَانِيرِ وَ الدَّرَاهِمِ It was said, ‘The poverty is from the Dinars and the Dirhams!’ قَالَ لَا وَ لَكِنْ مِنَ الدِّينِ. ‘He -asws said: ‘ No, but it is from the religion ’’. [10] – وَ قَالَ ع لِابْنِهِ مُحَمَّدٍ يَا بُنَيَّ إِنِّي أَخَافُ عَلَيْكَ الْفَقْرَ فَاسْتَعِذْ بِاللَّهِ مِنْهُ فَإِنَّ الْفَقْرَ مَنْقَصَةٌ لِلدِّينِ وَ مَدْهَشَةٌ لِلْعَقْلِ دَاعِيَةٌ لِلْمَقْتِ. And he -asws said to his -asws son Muhammad: ‘O my -asws son!
I -asws fear the poverty upon you, so seek Refuge with Allah -azwj from it, for the poverty (leads to) deficiency of the religion, and confusion for the intellect, caller to the hatred (by the people)’’. [11] – وَ قَالَ ص أَبْوَابُ الْجَنَّةِ مُفَتَّحَةٌ عَلَى الْفُقَرَاءِ وَ الرَّحْمَةُ نَازِلَةٌ عَلَى الرُّحَمَاءِ وَ اللَّهُ رَاضٍ عَنِ الْأَسْخِيَاءِ.
And he -saww said: ‘The doors of Paradise are open to the poor and the Mercy descends upon the Mercy, and Allah -azwj is Satisfied from the generous ones’’. [12] – وَ قَالَ ص الْفَقْرُ فَقْرَانِ فَقْرُ الدُّنْيَا وَ فَقْرُ الْآخِرَةِ فَفَقْرُ الدُّنْيَا غِنَى الْآخِرَةِ وَ غِنَى الدُّنْيَا فَقْرُ الْآخِرَةِ وَ ذَلِكَ الْهَلَاكُ. And he -saww said: ‘The poverty is (two types of) poverties – poverty of the world and poverty of the Hereafter.
The poverty of the world is richness of the Hereafter and richness of the world is poverty of the Hereafter, and that is the destruction’’.
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