Is it wrong in Islam to want to be rich?

let me check the super chats did i miss any rami you're doing it you're doing it much love much love see people rami is also part of the executive task force now it's doing it rami he's making a me contribution so so people how much is too much what is the islamic view of materialism versus asceticism the bible i think has a quote about the struggle for the rich man to enter paradise the quran sends some signals against wealth but seems more so about abuse of wealth but still huge emphasis on giving from wealth so okay

again how much is too much how much is too much people and that your honor was where the misunderstanding began sorry the question was how much was too much [Laughter] your honor this was applied philosophy taking place

this was applied philosophy how much is too much yeah so uh see these questions rami can get one into a lot of trouble if if you discuss if you practice the applied sciences before the theory so yeah you see islam is not against the aggregation of wealth right so you know making money islam is fine with people making money

okay so it's not an ascetic religion but asceticism seems to have won the cultural war throughout the decades that ensued in islamic history that unsued people oh right so [Laughter] right because if you look at the hadith literature the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is saying when the companions ask that they say you know

we we would like each one of us or we don't we tend to like in antakuna you know don't we want our clothes and our shoes to be good and and you know look good we want that and the prophet's response was that he said in allah he said of course he said because you see this hadith is an extension of where the prophet is condemning arrogance and the companions say but ya rasulullah we like dressing up good

we like having you know expensive shoes and expensive clothes and full from their day and age so the prophet said well in allah allah is beautiful and he loves people beautifying themselves and taking care of themselves aesthetically and he loves this but he said that i'm speaking about arrogance which is where you despise other people because of it so you see it's not what you do to you it's the moment you treat others

based on you that this is where come in okay because this is an element of the rights of other people that exist so you can wear very expensive clothes you can wear expensive perfumes you can do whatever you buy expensive jewelry you can save money you can there's nothing wrong with it the question is in fact these things are actually very good sometimes i would highly i personally advocate that people do make money that they do um you know amass

wealth if they can that they do dress well if they can or by investing i say invest but i would rather replace investing enjoy things you see because why not but the question is that don't look down on other people don't think haha ah you [ __ ] don't that's haram yeah now you looking down on someone you trying to make fun of the poverty or the um the vicissitudes of life that have struck

them this this is haram okay and and it crushes their hearts as well so these things this is why islam was just against that and and you see having wealth means you can give wealth you know you can't you know in arabic there's a saying you know that somebody who doesn't have something can't give it you need wealth to be able to give and it's true you can just give in charity in the sense that you know a person says look whatever little i'll get i will just give that is true you can do that but really

to make a difference you need to be able to you need to be able to have money have influence you know imam malik in his day and age he would wear expensive clothes and he also had this thing about having a strong build every day consume meat and you don't understand how expensive meat was in malik's time it was a luxury it was not deemed a like today meat is quite common you know having chicken or having because it's it's so abundant but in malik's time obviously they didn't have chickens in medina but they

uh had other you know whether it's going to be mutton or other meat but buying meat was a luxury that people who could afford it maybe had once a week that was the the kind of the average malik every day ate meat every day and he was criticized by the scholars of his day and age for you know this kind of exuberance this kind of um this this this almost for this arrogant display of uh of what they thought was

wealth or um they didn't understand it and they they saw it as just this is ignorance and it's arrogance that you are eating meat every single day this is what in fact there's a famous letter an open letter to imam malik that was written by the some of the scholars in his day and age where they criticized him for his his lavish clothes uh for eating meat every single day whilst people can't afford it and only those who can eat it once a week maybe and for not praying much or fasting much apart from he prayed the obligation obligatory

prayers and fasted ramadan but other than that you never caught malik you know praying these extra knuffles why do you think we love imam malik so much but this is why they wrote this open letter to him yet people in his time he was the dawn of madinah and malik responded to these people he said look he said as to expensive lavish clothes and eating meat every day he said that i find that if a person maintains himself he said the meat maintains your posture

it's protein and it maintains your posture and he says it maintains your posture and makes you look strong and the good clothing gives an impression like it is whether you like it or not but good powerful dressing power dressing it it it impacts people subconsciously and he said i find that when if the people of knowledge have this impact then knowledge will impact and he said and as smalling much and not fasting he said well i read i

learn and i teach and he said that look what you do he said what you do is good but what i do is also good he said that teaching and learning and researching is not any less than you praying your nuffal and he said that that we're both doing something in its own way that's good like basically mind your own business [Laughter] so that's that was imam malik's reply to them and so yeah there's nothing wrong and in fact people should amass wealth it is it is power it is influence it is all of these things

but not never become arrogant and the quran just highlights more about giving it never the quran never condemns wealth ever that that now one may say oh it speaks about it in things like al haq you know but yes you know or that is true all malue that is true but then what allah is saying is that yes wealth it distracted you from any meaning in life don't let that happen you see get all the money you need make all the money but have some purpose

to life as well have some mission have some you know some engagement let it let there be meaning to life not just because you know you'll get money you'll get this but you need some substance some meaning some value so that's these verses that speak about look wealth it distracts and so on it's talking about that otherwise the quran never condemns people for being rich cool i hope that makes sense people right uh is there another

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