The last blog was discussing truthfulness in abstaining from the excess aspects of the material world and the difference between how the righteous predecessors earned and spent their wealth compared to the majority of other people.
Unfortunately, some muslims use the names of the righteous predecessors in the incorrect way by claiming they also earned and spent wealth. In their eyes this somehow justifies earning, hoarding or incorrectly spending wealth they do not need. Their very behaviour contradicts the actions of the righteous predecessors who only earned to fulfil their necessities and responsibilities. Those who were wealthy only spent their wealth according to the pleasure of Allah, the Exalted, never wasting it through extravagance or hoarding it through greed. How many well-off muslims today can say the same about themselves?
In addition, muslims should understand that the righteous who obtained wealth were the trustees of Allah, the Exalted, on Earth. They were only the guardians of the wealth and never saw themselves as being its true owner. Chapter 57 Al Hadid, verse 7:
“Believe in Allah and His Messenger and spend out of that in which He has made you successive inheritors…”
They understood why Allah, the Exalted, created them and what He desired from them. So they only spent wealth according to the commands of Allah, the Exalted, and never spent on things according to their own desires.
These righteous people were certain that their souls and possessions belonged only to Allah, the Exalted. So they reached the highest level of gratitude by using each worldly blessing according to the command of Allah, the Exalted. These people may have been given plenty of worldly things but they did not put their trust in them. They only put their trust in Allah, the Exalted. They took no pleasure in their belongings and only saw them as a duty which needed to be discharged according to the pleasure of Allah, the Exalted. Their hearts were not attached to what their belongings nor did they exclude others from enjoying the worldly blessings they possessed by greedily hoarding them. This is why they possessed worldly things but the things did not possess them. They had wealth but chose poverty for themselves as they spent to fulfil the needs of others. They took delight only in the obedience of Allah, the Exalted, by using their worldly possessions according to His wish instead of their own. Neither did they grieve or show displeasure when they lost worldly things as they preferred the choice of Allah, the Exalted, over all things. They took no pleasure or joy in their worldly possessions. So in reality, they had abstained from the material world even though they possessed worldly things. The possessions were in their hands not in their hearts. They understood that the true love of Allah, the Exalted, consisted of turning away from this material world with their hearts and intentions. Chapter 20 Taha, verse 131:
“And do not extend your eyes toward that by which We have given enjoyment to [some] categories of them, [its being but] the splendor of worldly life by which We test them. And the provision of your Lord is better and more enduring.”
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