۔4After the Ijtima’, I will approach people to say Salaam, shake hands and make individual efforts upon them.

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                                  صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Dear Islamic brothers, the topic for our Bayan today is ‘Good and bad greed’. In today’s Bayan, we will hear about: The tongue that was hanging down to the chest, what greed is, the consequences of greed, the affliction of greed for wealth, the lure of greed, the methods of avoiding bad greed and adopting good greed, and we will also have the honour of listening to other important points as well.

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                 صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

The tongue hung down to the chest

The exegete of the Quran, ‘Allamah Ahmad Bin Muhammad Saawiرَحْمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ عَلَيْه  writes in Tafseer Saawi: Bal’am Bin Ba’oora` was a great scholar, worshipper and ascetic of his time, he even had the knowledge of Ism-e-A’zam, and by means of his spirituality, he was able to see the ‘Arsh (throne) while remaining seated in his place, and his supplications were mostly accepted. He had a large number of students, and it is well known that the inkpots of the students of knowledge at his institute numbered twelve thousand.

When Sayyiduna Musa عَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلَام set off with the armies of Bani Israel to do Jihad (battle) against the Qawm-e-Jabbareen, the nation of Bal’am Bin Ba’oora` came to him and worryingly said, ‘Sayyiduna Musaعَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلَام  is going to attack with an enormous and strong army; he wants to drive us out of our lands and give this land to his own nation, Bani Israel. Therefore, مَعاذَ الـلّٰـه make such a supplication against Musa عَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلَام that he returns defeated, because your supplications are accepted, so it will definitely be accepted now as well.’