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preferable not to save wealth because remaining free for Divine remembrance is vitally needed and whatever hinders it, is forbidden.
10. Those who have perfect trust in Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ with no concern about the availability or absence of wealth, have the authority whether to keep wealth or to spend it in charity.
11. To spend surplus money without saving it is Wajib in the third case and is preferred in the rest. For an individual person to accumulate wealth is disliked and despised as it indicates being trapped in long hopes and love for the world.
The Beloved and Blessed Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم has said, ‘Live in the world as if you are a traveller or even a wanderer, and consider yourself to be in the grave. If you find the morning, don’t think that evening will come; and when it is evening; don’t think that morning will come.’
(Sunan-ut-Tirmizi, vol. 4, pp. 149, Hadees 2340)
On one occasion, the Beloved and Blessed Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم stated: ﴿يَا اَ يُّهَا النَّاسُ اَمَا تَسۡتَحۡيُوۡنَ﴾ O people! Don’t you feel ashamed? The people asked, ‘Ya Rasoolallah صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم! Of what?’ He صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said, ‘You hoard what you would not eat and construct the building in which you would not live,
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