Episode 12 - A Winning Deal

Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah. Dear brothers, we are still living with the best generation and seeing how faith responds immediately to the words of Allah the Almighty. When His words came down: ((Who is he that will loan to Allah a goodly loan, so that He may multiply it to him many times?)) Abu Dhaadha (may Allah be pleased with him) said: O Messenger of Allah, does Allah want us to lend? He said: ((Yes, O Abu Dhaadha)). What is the meaning of the verse? Its meaning is that Allah wants us to spend in His cause so that He will return to us what we spent on the Day of Judgment as a loan is returned, but in the case of dealing with the Generous One, He returns it in multiples. How did Abu Dhaadha respond to this divine incentive? He said to the Messenger of Allah: (Show me your hand)... meaning he wanted to make a pledge with him, so the Prophet gave him his hand, and Abu Dhaadha said: (I have lent my Lord my orchard) meaning his garden. This garden had six hundred palm trees. With a simple calculation, one does not expect the area of the garden to be less than three dunams! And where? In Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah, and you can imagine how much this land was worth at that time. Abu Dhaadha gave the Prophet the freedom to dispose of it for acts of charity to Allah, as soon as he heard: ((Who is he that will loan to Allah a goodly loan)) Then he went to his garden with his wife and children and called out: O Umm Dhaadha, she said: At your service, he said: Come out, for I have lent it to my Lord (the hadith was authenticated by Al-Albani). His wife and children were satisfied with this word to sacrifice the garden and the beautiful times in it because they knew its meaning (I have lent it to my Lord). Imagine you are a resident of Amman and you have a garden in Al-Ghor, and someone comes to you offering to give up this garden now and in return gives you a palace with a large garden in Khaldah or Abdoun after a year! For Abu Dhaadha and his family, their certainty of the Hereafter makes their deal more tempting than this deal, for the fleeting world to them is less than a year in our calculations, and the garden they left for Allah cannot be compared to the land of Paradise which the Prophet said in what was narrated by Al-Bukhari: ((A whip in Paradise is better than the world and all that is in it))... Wow! The whip with which horses are beaten, if placed on the ground, would occupy an area not exceeding a few square centimeters. This area in Paradise is better than the world and all that is in it. It is enough that it is eternal and the world is fleeting. And so did Abu Talhah Al-Ansari when this verse was revealed ((You will not attain righteousness until you spend from that which you love)) donated his garden. The Messenger of Allah said: Make it for the poor among your relatives. Therefore, my brother and sister... whenever you read the Quran and come across verses like these, try to spend even a small amount, to maintain the living response to the Book of Allah. And you can put a box at home and put this small amount in it whenever you read the verse and take out the total every now and then, so that you may attain righteousness and Allah will multiply it for you many times. Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah.