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REPORT • Thursday, 02 Mar 2023

Ways of Acquiring Sustenance

Fifteen legislated ways and means that help a person to acquire rizq (sustenance).
By Abu Iyaad


Table of Contents

1 — Seeking Forgiveness
2 — Repentance
3 — Piety (Taqwā)
4 — Reliance Upon Allāh (Tawakkul)
5 — Spending Upon a Seeker of Knowledge
6 — Establishing the Legislation of Allāh
7 — Performing Hajj and ʿUmrah
8 — Keeping Ties of Kinship
9 — Spending in the Path of Allāh
10 — Benevolence Towards the Weak
11 — Emigration in the Path of Allāh
12 — Supplication (Duʿā)
13 — Remembrance of Allāh (Dhikr)
14 — Earnestness in Seeking Provision
15 — Gratitude (Shukr)

3. Piety (Taqwā)

Due to the saying of Allāh, the Exalted:

وَمَن يَتَّقِ ٱللَّهَ يَجْعَل لَّهُۥ مَخْرَجًا وَيَرْزُقْهُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَحْتَسِبُ

And whoever has taqwā of Allāh, He will make for him a way out (of difficulty) and provide for him from (sources) he could not imagine. [1]

And also the saying of Allāh, the Exalted:

وَلَوْ أَنَّ أَهْلَ ٱلْقُرَىٰٓ ءَامَنُوا وَٱتَّقَوْا لَفَتَحْنَا عَلَيْهِم بَرَكَٰتٍ مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَلَٰكِن كَذَّبُوا فَأَخَذْنَٰهُم بِمَا كَانُوا يَكْسِبُونَ
And if only the people of the various townships (to whom we sent messengers) had believed (in their call to pure monotheism) and displayed piety (by abiding by Allāh's commands), we would have certainly opened up blessings upon them from the sky and from the earth. But they belied (the Messengers), so we seized them (in retribution) for the deeds (of ingratitude and disbelief) they used to earn.[2]

From the fruits of taqwā are removal from every difficulty, provision from where one would not imagine, opening up of blesings from the Earth and the heaven.

As for the definition of taqwā then it is, as related from Ṭalq bin Ḥabīb (رحمه الله):

To work in obedience to Allāh, upon light from Allāh, hoping for Allāh's reward and to abandon disobedience to Allāh, upon light from Allāh, fearing the punishment of Allāh.[3]

The meaning of "upon light from Allāh" is upon knowledge and insight in His religion, that you obey Him and abandon disobedience to Him upon knowledge of what He ordered and prohibited.

Footnotes
1. Ṭalāq (65:2-3).
2. Aʿrāf (7:96).
3. Siyar of al-Dhahabī (4/601).




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