Sheikh Uthman Hadi - Charity that Purifies your Wealth | A Journey to the Divine - Ep. 8

Episode Date: February 26, 2026

Money. We all want it. But why? Is it to become more famous? To use for this Dunya, Is it to gain more? Or is it to please Allah? To Earn a Special Spot in Jannah Just because of your charity. Charity is not a means of loss of money, Rather It is a Purification of our Wealth. A Sign that What Allah gives Us, we give out of love, generosity, and Gratitude for His blessings.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/sheikh-uthman-hadi--6689369/support.https://sheikhuthmanhadi.beam.lyhttps://open.spotify.com/user/315hadqmwxllibu6ubi5us2cbn2y?si=572b4d8898284e9ehttps://open.spotify.com/show/3MQHfrpjj3XXcqoPbN5Dl8?si=v6YQ42kpSx-VONBFhT3CzA

Bismillah, Rihman, and al-hameh, al-hameh, and al-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-aaaa and aishaaa and allahe, and allahehah, and Aishaa, and Aishe, and sisters, I pray that everyone is doing well, and I ask Allah, to forgive us all of our sins are our shortcomings, to the grass of special mercy, and only in this life, but mainly in the next.

My brothers and sisters, particularly in episode 7 of the series, turning back to Allah, Sufana, which is a short reminder series, I pray that everyone is learning, and benefiting from it, inshallahata a for the sake of Allah. And I also pray that, inshallah, that we all are tuning in for it.

It comes in the morning time. Lately, though, the scheduling has been a bit off. I apologize for that, actually, because just today we came out with the first one at, I believe, 8, 9 o'clock or something like that. So I apologize for that. We didn't have it rightly scheduled. But, inshallah, we will resolve the issue.

Inshallah, won't be like that again. It will go back to 5.30 just to let you know now. My brothers and sisters, in that particular episode, we speak about sadaka and charity and how it's a very fundamental aspect of our lives and how it's very important. And we all want money, right? And we all need it in this dunya. But also we have to give out of love for the sake of Allah, Supanahua Tala, and out of gratitude for the fact that he has bestowed blessings upon us, he hasn't bestowed upon others. And in the, it is, you know, it is our pursuit of wealth driven by the desire, you know, for fame, for stay. or for material possessions of this world, or is it truly motivated by a higher purpose

to please Allah, Sufana, hua Tallah, and earn a special place in Jinnah, through our charitable actions, which is why in society, you really realize that money is often equated with success and happiness, right? But you see individuals striving tirelessly day after day to accumulate that wealth,

believing that it will bring them some sort of fulfillment and recognition, but otherwise it actually doesn't. And it means it actually just tires you out, and it's a waste of time. Because if you really look at it, how we have been taught to use our wealth, we use it in a ways,

in a means of goodness, right? And how we spend our wealth, how we earn our wealth, and trying to ensure that we are not building a relationship with our wealth over Allah, Sufana-ho-ta-ta-da. Because it happens. Sometimes people worship money

and sometimes people worship wealth. We ask Allah-Supam-Han-a-to-prot to protect us all from that, I mean. But when you start to worship wealth, it becomes your main priority to gain so much of it, to spend of it and to use it so much. And then at this point now,

you started to stray off from believing in Allah and worshiping Allah and trying to better your relationship with Allah to now trying to worship money and believing in money as it will bring you goodness and it will bring you pleasures of the dunya, right? And this is exactly why. Allah, Sufana-ha-a-ta-a-ha-ha has blessed us with wealth. It is essential for us to remember that this wealth that we have

is a test from Allah sufana-ho-ta-a-ha-ha. And it's not merely a means to elevate our status or indulge in luxuries, but rather it should instead be an opportunity to demonstrate our gratitude to Allah, Supperan, Hehā, Allah, for his countless blessings. As Allah suhpana huaara reminds us in the Quran, he says, and spin in the way of Allah, Sufana, He says, and do not throw yourselves with your own hands into destruction by refraining by refraining. And do good, indeed, Allah suhpanao Tala loves the doers of good.

So Allah'supamata reminds us that if you truly want to be loved by Allah, then you have to give. If you want to be loved by Allah, one of the qualities that Allah subhpamata loves is giving. He loves those who do it for his sake. But also, my brothers and sisters, don't forget that charity or saddaka is a fundamental aspect of our amen, right, or our faith. Because just as iBada, right, we think that our ibada is just worship. and praying and making dua and performing dikr, it also is charity as well for the sake of Allah suhpana huaada. And when it comes to charity, it's not a loss of money,

because many of us say that. Many of us say, oh, man, you know, I only have such and such amount of money. If I give, you know, half of this money, if I give this little portion of money, it's going to reduce it. And this is why the hadith I want to mention in a minute is going to go and pertain just exactly to that. But when it comes to our, you know, money,

it's not a loss, right? But rather it's actually a purification of our wealth. which is why when we give, we are not diminishing our resources, but rather we are enhancing our spiritual state and we're drawing closer to Allah, suihan or what'sh. Which is why the hadith I wanted to mention here was when the Prophet of Allah a.m. said, the charity that you give will not decrease your wealth.

So this statement that he's making here encapsulates the essence of our giving, saying that when we give out of love, generosity, gratitude, and compassion for others and for the sake of the love, we actually are acknowledging that everything that we possesses, ultimately belongs to Allah supranahua our wealth is an amana from Allah is a trust and how we utilize it reflects our a alaqa and our iman right it reflects our character and our faith which is why

charity also serves as a means of earning Allah supranahua ta'al pleasure and securing a place in Jinnah which is why the Prophet of Allah a a a lai al-h a salem emphasized the importance of helping those in need stating that the one who helps the needy will be shaded on by or shaded by Allah supranahua ta on the day of judgment. So this promise that Allah subana huta is giving to us is a reminder that our

acts of generosity, our acts of kindness have eternal significance, right? It shouldn't just be about temporary significance because the dunya's temporary. The money is temporary. The material possessions we have for temporary. Because just like I have my clothing, when I return to Allah, it's going to go, right?

When you return to Allah, when you return to anything in this room right now, anything in the entire world, goes back to Allah. So all the material possessions we have don't belong to us. They are just given to us and they're held for a certain portion of time by us, which is why it is also, my dear brothers and sisters, a very big responsibility for us to have wealth and very financial responsibilities. And we have to ask ourselves these questions day after day of are we actually using our wealth to uplift others? Are we contributing to causes that align with our values and the teachings

of Islam? Are we mindful of our impact on you know of our financial decisions and how they what they have upon this umma upon the community and upon the world at large because in this blessed month of Ramadan my brothers and sisters we should not just be training ourselves to think about ourselves right should not just be training our nefs think about yourself think about oh allahum the nefsy nefsy oh allah help me with my nefs my nefs but rather allah humita umita all help me with my umma help me umma right so ensure my dear brothers and sisters that you are trying your absolute hardest to give for the sake of

Allah and during the month of Ramadan we are also reminded of the importance of charity and generosity as it is a time for us to reflect on how we can use our resources the wealth that Allah supanah has granted us to serve those around us which it doesn't have to just be our family it doesn't have to be our loved ones our friends it could actually be our community it can be the umma at whole so trying to help my dear brothers and sisters because charity is a purification of wealth, not a loss. So just if you really want to, you want to give out of true sincerity,

out of really loving Allah, suhphanahua-ta-a-da, then you have to give for the sake of Allah. And like I said before, we all want money, but why? The true question is if we want it just so we can become famous, if we can use it for this dunya, or is it to gain more? And you have to truly understand that it should only be to earn the pleasure of Allah, to earn a spot in Jinnah just because of your charity.

because charity is not a means of loss of money. It's a purification and it's actually an enhancement of your spiritual state. It's going to help you, not in this life, but in the next life. Because just as you're giving, you can't see the reward for your giving if you're only doing it for Allah, which is why yesterday we also talked about sincerity in your iBada, which is very important. Because a sign that Allah, Sufana-ho-ta-ta-a-a-a-a-a-a-l gives you and he loves that when he gives you is sincerity as well. when you have the sincerity to give because Allah's Allah has blessed you

if you are watching right now if you are sitting here right now if I'm standing where I am standing right now Allah's blessed us because there are people who don't have limbs there are people who cannot speak there are people who cannot do anything for themselves there are people who actually barely can breathe

and they have to be on a machine to breathe yet I can breathe fresh air we should be grateful this is the month of Ramadan the time for gratitude my brothers and sisters be grateful and be generous to others, be grateful for the blessings

of Allah Sufana-hoi-ta-a has placed upon us and give out love, give out respect, give out honor to those around you. It's not just about the conditions that people have going on, but rather it's about being grateful for the condition that you've been placed in, for the fact that you've been placed in a condition

that's actually better than a lot of people. A lot of people have to worry every day, am I going to have a morsel of food? Am I going to actually be able to eat something? Even if it may just be a piece of grass, people have to think about that. but we don't. We can open our refrigerators whenever we want.

And when we're fasting, we feel these hungers and we get upset and we say, oh, I'm so hungry right now, just want to eat something. And then after that, we go and we're, oh, man, I just, oh, the food's so good. But think about those who are actually suffering right now who actually don't have the food to eat. But your brothers and sisters, do not let the consumption of wealth and the blessings of Allah, Sufana, Hei, Allah, be overtaken by your nefs and by your desires and by the love of money in this dunya. Focus on your relationship that you have with Allah

and focus on the relationship you have with money because it's good to have money. I'm not saying you shouldn't, right? And that's a commonality thing. People believe that as Muslims, we shouldn't have money. We shouldn't strive to have money. No, we are supposed to have money

for the sake of Allah. We're supposed to use it in good, which is exactly why Allah, is upon our huazada has made it compulsory upon us for zakat. You have to pay your zakat if you have the amount of money. And I'm not going to get too in depth into that. Inshahah, that would be a talk

on that, not in this series, but maybe in this series, I don't know, but not in this series, not right now, but my brothers and sisters, remember that your blessings from Allah Sufana-ho-ta-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a are far greater than the blessings of a lot of people have. Just being able to have a dollar or two dollars and giving amount of money, it's not about the amount that you give, it's about the quality, right? Which is one thing I also want to teach you here, my brother and sisters for the short period of time I have for about 30 seconds. sometimes we look at the quantity but not the quality and Allah

Sufana hua Tala has taught the Prophet of Allah have someone and the Prophet of Sama a sultan in which he says the best and most beloved of these two Allah safana hua Tala are those that are done consistently even if they're small right so even if you're only giving one dollar a day in the month of Ramadan it's multiplied only Allah safahan a know us how many because we can say 70,000 We can say it may be 7,000. We can say it's 70, but only Allah, Sufana-Hu-Tahah notes.

We're going to leave that to Allah. But my dear brothers and sisters, this month of Ramadan give, and don't just give in the month of Ramadan, but give, period. Because it is an obligation upon every Muslim to look out for your brothers and sisters around the world,

not just in your community, not just in some little part of the world that you like, not just your friends and your family, but rather around the whole world, my brothers and sisters. We ask Allah, to grant us the ability to give for

his sake to renew our intentions, to allow for our intentions to be purely for his sake, to forgive us for our sins and our shortcomings, to grant us his special mercy not only in this life, remaining the next, to accept our fast from us as we have now entered into day eight for us and day nine for others. Midey and sisters, we are almost hitting the first portion, the first quarter of the month of Ramadan is about to be over. My brothers and sisters, try your absolute hardest to work more towards bettering yourself, bettering your relationship with Allah, Sufana-hu-Tala,

bettering the bad habits that you have, bettering the good habits that you have, you know, and try your absolute heart of my brothers and sisters to give, even if it's small, consistently, just a small portion of sadaqa or charity

in the Matur-Ramadan. We ask Allah to accept it all from us. Zahul-Haharan the good for joining me again tonight. I pray that Allah grants us Tafiq and grace us the understanding to be able to benefit from these things in place them in our lives. I speak firstly to myself.

Please forgive me if I said anything wrong if I made any mistakes. I ask Allah, Commileur, Toallahate of the Ghost Ball, my dear brothers and sisters, and our palette, and al-a-wa'a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-aqt and your brothers and sisters.