Dear Islamic Brothers, the topic of today’s Bayan is ‘the excellence of Poverty’. Poverty is generally considered to be a great calamity, is it really so? Is every type of poverty an adversity or are there benefits of this poverty too? Today we will hear something about how the poor are at an advantage. What is benefit of poverty? How is it to be ungrateful to Allah Almighty because of poverty? May we be fortunate enough to hear the whole Bayan with good intentions and complete concentration.

اٰمِیْن بِجَاہِ النَّبِیِّ الْاَمِیْن صلَّی اللہ علیہ واٰلہٖ وسلَّم

The Beloved of the Beloved of Allah Almighty

It has been narrated: Once, the poor (Fuqara) noble Sahabah رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ عَـنْهُم sent their representative to the court of the Holy Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم who presented himself there and said: I am the representative of the poor (Fuqara). The Beloved Prophet صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم replied: Welcome to you and to those from whom you have come! You have come from those people whom I love very much. The representative stated: O Messenger of Allah صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم! The poor (Fuqara) have requested that the rich people have taken the ranks of Paradise, they perform Hajj and we cannot afford it, they perform Umrah and we are not able to do it, they get sick and accumulate wealth for the Hereafter by giving their extra wealth in charity (Sadaqah). He صَلَّى الـلّٰـهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم replied: On my behalf, convey this message to the poor (Fuqara) that those of them who are patient (in their poverty) and hope for a reward will have three things that the rich do not have:

1.   There are such lofty palaces in Paradise, which the people of Paradise will see like the people of the world see the stars in the sky. Only the Prophets who adopted poverty, the martyrs who were poor and the poor believers will enter them.

2.   The poor will enter Paradise half the duration of Judgment day, that is, 500 years before the wealthy.

3.   If a wealthy person says, ‘سُبْحٰنَ اللّٰهِ وَالْحَمْدُلِلّٰهِ وَلَآاِلٰهَ اِلَّا اللّٰهُ اَکْبَر’ and the poor person utters the same, the wealthy person cannot attain the same