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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)

9. Spending in the Path of Allāh

The evidence is the saying of Allāh, the Exalted:

قُلْ إِنَّ رَبِّى يَبْسُطُ ٱلرِّزْقَ لِمَن يَشَآءُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِۦ وَيَقْدِرُ لَهُۥ وَمَآ أَنفَقْتُم مِّن شَىْءٍ فَهُوَ يُخْلِفُهُۥ وَهُوَ خَيْرُ ٱلرَّٰزِقِينَ

Say: "Truly, my Lord enlarges the provision for whom He wills of His slaves, and (also) restricts (it) for him, and whatsoever you spend of anything (in Allah's Cause), He will replace it. And He is the Best of providers."[1]

And also the saying of the Messenger of Allāh (صلى الله عليه وسلم):

"Allāh the Most High said: 'Spend, O son of Adam and you will be spent upon'."[2]

From the fruits of spending in the way of Allāh (through charity) are the replacement of what has been spent and Allāh spending upon the servant.

Footnotes
1. Sabaʾ (34:39).
2. Reported by Muslim.




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