 أنا بسيارة بعض الأشياء التي يجب أن يتكلم فإن شاء الله هذا سيكون لدينا أحسناء الله ألخمي كل فقير، التي تقوم بأخذ كل واحدة now when we see this line seems pretty clear I don't think it, you know on the surface level needs a genius to work it out okay so anyone who is poor the guy that maybe I see when I'm walking from the station to my office in central London I'm like okay yeah he's sleeping on the street he is what I define as poor you know when I do this I'm thinking yeah may Allah give him some extra wealth some money so you can look off for each other it doesn't seem particularly challenging to the mind and this is the whole goal of these sessions I think this is the goal of sheikh al-fahm's book which is for us to be able to actually dig deeper into this answer okay fine that translation is there given that outward meaning is there given but there's probably something a bit more depth that we can realise and actualise when we analyse this and inshallah that's what we're going to dig into today so let's dive in a bit deeper my first question is when we say the poor person in this verse what is the definition of poor? like who is poor? I've given my simplistic definition as the guy who all the people that I see when I have gone from the station to the office in central London and I see many people unfortunately nowadays who are on the streets and not even central London now it's even further across but that's you know in my simplistic mindset someone that comes across to me as poor and therefore I'm praying for them but of course there's a deeper meaning so I'm asking you what do you think this definition of poor could actually be who could poor in compass and to answer this we'll look to the Quran I'm sorry I'm at 35 my number 15 الله سبحانه وتعالى وسلم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم يا أيها الناس أنتم الفقراء أنتم الفقراء إلى الله والله هو الغني الحنيد oh human beings you are needy to Allah and it is Allah who is affluent the praised one oh maybe poor includes me so whilst I have this Alhamdulillah a lovely house and garden and furniture and this and that whilst I probably won't describe myself as poor actually Allah سبحانه وتعالى is making it very clear يا أيها الناس not specific types of people no no no oh human beings all of you no conditions يا أيها الناس whether you are a believer or a non-believer أنتم الفقراء you are needy to Allah okay so then who's the rich one if you're all poor who's the rich one والله هو الغني الحنيد and it is Allah who is affluent the praise one of course that versus أنتم الفقراء إلى الله you are needy to Allah Allah alone is the rich one and every single one of us regardless of our wealth our status our race our creed we all recognize and must recognize that we are dependent we are dependent and we are infinitely dependent upon أنتم الفقراء إلى الله to Allah سبحانه وتعالى we are all dependent to Allah سبحانه وتعالى regardless of who we are evidence by what you can drop tomorrow morning and be buried and no one could have done anything to you no one you could have done nothing to yourself you are needy to Allah he is the rich he is the all-powerful we are all poor and this source that we are dependent upon which is Allah سبحانه وتعالى must therefore be independent and again we are coming back to a very core principle belief of ours which is that if we are dependent on something then that thing we are dependent on must be completely independent and whose existence must be necessary and essential but completely reliant on Allah سبحانه وتعالى we owe nothing this chair this plant this laptop this lamp this camera enough of it ultimately is Allah سبحانه وتعالى thus we are all poor thus we are all needy thus we are all in need of Allah's grace and mercy we should never take it for granted and we are actually fortunate that our Lord is that merciful and that bountiful that he doesn't forget about us he is always continuously bestowing his grace upon his creation and of course we pray or at least hopefully we do pray to be continued to be bestowed with this grace from Allah سبحانه وتعالى and that actually that we can that we can receive it because actually we're poor when we don't realise that it comes from Allah سبحانه وتعالى from his grace and his blessings because they can be taken away at any given time and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do and that's what we do myself and it's a doubt for me to recognize actually do I recognize that I am poor that I am nothing without the risk from Allah سبحانه وتعالى or have I completely taken it for granted have I always thought all the poor one is there and there and there because I have I have I have asked how many people have been in an affluent job in just the day later there's nothing left and the struggling and it's not just wealth it's health how many of us with this virus that's been going around we know of people who just the very next day that's it off to hospital one event later that health is their wealth we're completely dependent on Allah سبحانه وتعالى so we pray that الله continues to enrich us as the poor ones as well as those in his literal understanding that we see it as well so it's a very important point for us to recognize and hopefully changes the way in the dimension by which we see this line and it's a reminder to ourselves to say have I done my شكرا to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and have I humbled myself to remember that all of this can be taken away within a blink of an eye because I'm completely dependent on him and the moment I think I'm dependent on someone else or something else when I need to recalibrate myself because it can happen it can happen but you have to recalibrate and let this be a line that helps you recalibrate so that's slightly you know new dimension that we can now see this line in on a more you know uh obvious translation of the of this line of the dial which is you know enrich all of the poor from there yes there is actually something to derive from as well as a lesson to derive from from there as well and we are not short of initiatives for those who are in need and giving to the needy and the destitute you know there are many initiatives be they locally or internationally and Alhamdulillah may they continue and may they receive the blessings and guidance from Allah سبحانه وتعالى but the question becomes is okay if I'm giving to this cause if I've you know been showing these um been been explained through these descriptions of what's happening that these families living here here in here require extra money to help them survive and yeah I want to react and I want to give but that's that's good but that's not the end of it and the question is how can I increase that level of my giving how can I go to that extra point and there's something quite quite deep here which we can uh take from this line of the start and it resides actually within our motivation our intention so what do I mean let me give you an example right so we've just get we've just said you know yes there are these initiatives and I read this and I'm like okay cool maybe I should give call I give and you know cool that that that that's it maybe someone says well done whatever I don't know you know so I don't know I've just given I'm prompted in that situation if you like whereas if we give this example when I'm hungry I'm hungry I want to satisfy myself I want to satiate myself so I'm going to go to the fridge and I'm going to go make myself a sandwich I'm going to you know make myself something to eat I don't do it to seek some kind of reward or recognition for it no I'm just doing it because I'm really hungry and actually innately within me I'm like you know what it's it's bad if I'm hungry I should you know not bad but at some point I need to look after myself and feed myself so at that point if I believe that's the right time I have the yearning to go and satiate myself so I go make myself a sandwich and no big deal I'm not expecting anything else from it it's normal it's natural it's part of who I am it's part of me similarly I should have this mindset when it comes to this charity when I ask a lot to enrich the poor I don't just see it as something else put to the side no I should do it with a mindset where I truly innately desire for it to be the case that every single person who is financially poor is no longer that I innately want that that I have a yearning for it the same I have a yearning to satiate myself I also have a yearning to ensure that everyone has the right amount of money to sustain themselves and you saw this within them I want to tell you some of the way that he governed it was so important to him إنcredibly important to him that everyone had a good amount of income such that they could live in a decent manner it meant so much to him and it means that you know we have narrations from so many the way that they thought about charity that it just seemed innate they would go forget the extra mile the extra hundreds of thousands of miles it was it was important to them they strived for it for zero reward in the night in the darkness and it's a next step for me first than anyone else but for us to learn and go you know what's that next step that I can take that that that that intention to I feel actually it's my concern and my burden that I need to go and solve and إن شو that those who are financially poor that I have looked after them so to summarize this line of اللهم أغني كل فقير we started with quite a different way of thinking about the style a different dimension which is that who is the poor and we said we're actually as seen in the Quran that we are all as creations of الله completely reliant upon him and he is ultimately independent and he is a necessary existence for us actually we are poor and it reminds us of our state that we should be in that we're completely dependent upon him and that anything that we have comes from him and anything can be taken away in a blink of an eye from so we should seek out attitude it's الله سبحانه وتعالى it's نعم and his blessings that he's given on to us and that we should never become fixated by something that we think is giving our sustenance because in the background actually it's always الله سبحانه وتعالى so it's addressing us as those who are poor to recognize that we are dependent upon him and that we should never take it for granted and the second thing that we mentioned is that with all of these amazing initiatives that happen in شهر المبان with giving charity to those who are in financial need that actually we can take this giving that in شهور that we do and that I highly encourage that we do that we can take it to the next level that we should feel it's actually our necessity that we want to do it that we have a yearning to do it just like اهر بيض عليه وسلم did the same way that we want to satiate ourselves when we get hungry and it's not questionable there's no challenge to it no one is able to take you off that task of you saying i'm hungry and i want to eat of course unless you're fasting and decreed while lying there's certain hours but in that time no one's getting away i'm gonna go eat there's no question the same way we should have that same yearning that same flame to go out and to ensure جسايمة معني عليه السلام دين that everyone is able from a financial perspective as well it's difficult but we should try and graduate ourselves that mindset again so that when we are saying this it's not just a lip service but actually it's coming from within and it's something that we truly believe in so that's the conclusion of this part of the دعاء اللهم اغني كل فقير الهيامين ان شاء الله you'll be able to join us for the next line of this دعاء والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته