In pursuit of your rizq

alul we've now arrived at the beautiful Topic in by about provision sustenance content and we have called it pursuit of sustenance and risk so hands up if you know or heard of the word every Muslim says that word all the hands up you can stretch if you like just act put your hands up r r okay good alhamdulillah for those of you who don't know the word risk has been repeated in the Quran more than 128 times so it's a very very important and big topic it's what comes to people's mind all the time my

provision my sustenance my money my income all of that risk that's what people usually think about I got to chase risk I got to chase the money I've got a Pursuit for my livelihood so basically livelihood So today we're going to talk about pursuit of your risk and how it is written for you already and the muslim's position and how we deal with interacting with future fears will I get a job will I get married or not are my children going to be good will I have enough money am I going to have a house

will Allah give me children how will my health be and I begin by saying that human beings in general their worries and anxieties revolve around two matters what are these two matters the human being all our fears and worries and anxieties revolve around two matters everything around them what are they they are death we're always knowing that our time's running out we're going to die there's worries and anxiety of the future death and number two our health and wealth will I have enough money will I be healthy enough and Allah subhana tala has taught us

how to minimize that stress and that worry so I begin with the verse of the Quran first of all which is in Surah 51:22 very quickly Allah says Allah says and in the heaven is your provision and also what you are being promised in the heaven mean the heavens meaning from Allah the the has written in the in the preserved tablet above in the heavens every single person's sustenance their livelihood and their provision all the rain that drops on the Earth all the the sustenance and the resources and everything that comes to us as human

beings in this world has already been decided and it is written in a preserved tablet in the heavens no one can change it it has ended it has been written the the the pages are closed the ink has dried and it is set the second part of this verse and whatever you are promised that's talking about both Believers and non-believers that the day of judgment is coming and the promise that Allah has given that a day of judgment will come accountability will come about and then Allah will judge and Rule and sentence who deserves what

Paradise or Hellfire punishment or reward forgiveness or consequence this is a promise from Allah it's a it will come and so this world begins to become like a mirage or an imagination and truly this world will be become like that my brothers and sisters the Hadith presented to us is in sari and I'll quote it to you the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said the matter of creation of a human being is put together in the womb of the mother in 40 days when your mother first conceives you when you are a drop of sperm mixed

with uh your um your your mother's egg and you become a little tiny embryo or a whatever it is for 40 days you stay that way the prophet s wasallam says and then he becomes a clot of thick blood for a similar period for another 40 Days that's now 80 days so you change your form slightly and then a piece of Flesh for a similar period you become like a little flesh with no face yet just something that is a creature that cannot be identified very well except of course with new technology for another 40

Days that's 120 days then he said then Allah sends an angel who is ordered to write four things he is ordered to write down his meaning the new creature in theic you and I to write down your Deeds everything you're ever going to do number two his livelihood everything you're going to earn in your lifetime his date of death exactly when you're going to die it will not be changed and whether he or she will be blessed or wretched in religion then the Soul is breathed into him or her that's when you become a living

being with a soul and a body 120 days what does this mean that Allah has written all this stuff because a person can look at that and say so everything I do Allah decided it I have no choice the answer is no it's the other way around Allah's knowledge of you in your future he knows what you're going to do and he tells the angel at that point write down was what what I already know in other words that has been written in the preserved tablet why does Allah write it because there is a wisdom

there's a way that Allah runs this world and the way the system works number one Allah knows then he writes then he preserves then he creates then he makes it happen the way he makes it happen is first of it is written where is it written Allah Only Knows by whom by the Angels why cuz the angels have a job to do they're going to carry out certain things that are going to facilitate what happens in your life based on what based on Allah's prior knowledge of what you're going to become like a time machine

going to the future seeing what you're going to do and then writing everything you're going to do and then coming back into the past and there you have it you have a report of what you're going to do in your future Allah does that because it gets created that's the only way things get created created by Allah knowing them writing them creating them willing them Therefore your Deeds are your choice number two his livelihood all the provision you're going to get has been set by Allah how much money you're going to earn throughout your life

the time that you have the resources that you're going to get the health that you're going to have all the different types of Provisions that you're going to get in your life they have been set within a boundary again based on Allah's knowledge and a few other things we're going to explain and also your time of death there are people who try to take their own life but they don't die and there are those who Allah allows to die when they take their life but they'll they have a consequence for that and that's another story

that's up to Allah to judge them but the the the why I mentioned that is to show you that just in case someone says but if their date of death is written we have no control what about those who take their life I say to you that's only with Allah's permission and there are those who don't want to take their life but they still die and in the end everybody will meet their death one way or another it is inevitable it's been written before you you were even born and lastly whether you're wretched or blessed

what does that mean it means whether you're going to be from the people of paradise or Hellfire what does that mean it means Allah knows what you're going to do and where you're going to end up you might ask then why would Allah create us this is not this is not our business to ask Allah about himself Allah is nothing like us but it is for us there is a wisdom why he created us and put us in this world and here we are but it is written and created and everything comes to be you

start living it out of course it's all based on your choice as well Allah didn't say this person's going to pray this person's not going to pray because I don't want them to pray or I want them to pray no no Allah doesn't do that Allah just writes what you are going to do in the future now that we've said this Hadith the the the you could see these four matters every single one of them is called in Arabic which means sustenance and provision what does risk actually mean in in Arabic in Islam and and

in the Arabic language it literally means anything that you receive that benefits you I repeat one more time that R mentioned in the Quran 128 times or so means anything that you receive that benefits you unfortunately the majority of people when they talk about provision and risk what's the only thing they think about or majority of people what's what do they focus on money is money the only thing that benefits us it benefits but is it the only thing I will argue with you and lots of Scholars argue that it's among the last ones a

lot of people say money brings you happiness it brings you some happiness yes but it's not all the happiness so provision and sustenance comes in many different ways and types why do I say this some people have more money than others just because you have less money than someone else does not mean that Allah is not looking after you in other ways because if you start thinking only money then you've restricted your entire life and your happiness to just that that is a very shallow thinking and very narrow thinking I'll give you an example a

person cannot make money if they don't have the intelligence a person cannot make money if they don't learn how to make it a person cannot make money from you know areas that they want to get into without having the knowledge and the skill for it a person cannot make money if they don't have the opportunity a person cannot make money if for example they want to get into an area that requires Health but they're not healthy so everybody has their own sustenance in a way that Allah knows you need it and use that to your

advantage as much as you can it doesn't mean everybody's exactly the same doesn't mean just because you're not rich it doesn't mean Allah is not looking after you so change first of all the mindset that risk is not just money money is just a just just a means to something else for example if you have connections that's wealth you have connections with other people with powerful people that's wealth you have a really good way of communicating communication is wealth people are making amazing uh you know careers out of insignificant things such as knowing how to

use Ai and the internet social media isn't that correct so the idea is risk is not just money but it's a whole lot of different types we'll go through them inshallah so anything a person benefits from is called risk benefit from in your livelihood and for a Muslim also in your Hereafter some people forget that risk provision and sustenance is also for you Hereafter let me explain to you in the Quran when Allah says the risk the provision the sustenance the gift which Allah gives you is far better and more Everlasting what's he talking about

here every time risk is mentioned in the Quran that Allah gives it to you it generally means Paradise J jna is better than anything that you can ever imagine and it is Everlasting which risk would you like a temporary sustenance or an everlasting sustenance which one would you choose Everlasting or temporary Everlasting would youe would you prefer a sustenance that's Everlasting and better than a temporary and lessor worthy one or would you prefer a temporary less worthy than an everlasting better one obviously you want the latter what's Everlasting and better and far more greater worth

so for us let's begin from here a Muslim Works backwards the ultimate sustenance that we are after is the Everlasting ultimate best sustenance which the end is jna because we're all going to die now who's worse somebody accumulates a lot and then has to leave it all behind and gets buried in that little tiny um hole in the ground or a person who has much more to look for forward to beyond their death person who has more to look forward beyond their death and that is our belief alhamdulillah as Muslims this is just a testing

life here it's just a a means money is a means risk is a means and there's some happiness so here are the types of risk that's mentioned in the Quran and in hadiths and different types of statements from Scholars so risk comes material and immaterial the material is obviously money things like money gold silver food clothing Farm livestock home and so on the immaterial risk sustenance and provision and things that people Allah gives people is you know things like intelligence knowledge connections health status inherently good character looks family even love love is risk you are

granted that from Allah subhana you can work on it but the granting of it is from Allah so brothers and sisters is is far wider than the narrow mindset that most people think of of when they say only money I mean what is money money is a is is a currency which we as human beings gave importance to otherwise there's no there's nothing important about it we made it important isn't that correct so brothers and sisters broaden your mindset and watch your provision and your sustenance and your happiness and your content also grow wider so

that you don't look at someone else and say man they drive a better car than mine and then you start feeling that you've been betrayed no they may have a better car you may have better skills they may have more money you may have better connections they may have uh a nicer house you may have greater intelligence whatever it is this is all part of risk and that is why s Al wasallam he told us the way to contentment and to seeing everything in a good way is one of the strategies is try not to

focus on those who've got more than you in a particular area but rather look at those who have less than you in a particular area and then he said because if you keep looking at people whove got more than you you will then you will then fail to see the blessings which you already have which they don't have that is how we start becoming ungrateful to Allah by not recognizing what Allah has given us because we're focusing on one thing Subhan Allah so brothers and sisters we begin with that so that's basically what risk is

and where does risk come from where does risk come from who's the one look sustenance has to come from somewhere it either comes from yourself or it can come from the universe it can come from people can come from your parents or it can come from Allah who is the source of everything that is given to us and Allah Muslims believe it is Allah he is the source of everything where Who provided your parents Who provided your employer Who provided the earth that is growing for you who brings the rain down from the cloud above

and makes the crops grow for you who is the one who gives you water who is the one who gives you protection in this universe a drought happens who's the only one that can save you from it we come together we try but at the end of the day Allah is the one that provides the sustenance he is the source so we are first and foremost grateful to the source who is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala if you are not grateful to him then watch poverty come to you and I don't mean poverty money only poverty

remember we said risk is a a whole lot of things you may have a lot of money but you will be the most miserable person you may have uh a lot of money but maybe your family is dysfunctional disunited maybe you've lost sense of fulfillment and purpose in life who who are you where are you going perhaps when death comes to you you'll be the most miserable and most scared to die because there's nothing Beyond this world that's terrible just to live this world and die in it and that's it so my brothers and sisters

moving on I gathered 15 best types of risk in life if you have these or most of them then you are the happiest person in the world number one peace and Tranquility of your soul number two purity of your heart number three Clarity of your mind number four health of the body number five Mental Health number six caring and loving parents parents who make Dua for you like your mother and your father who shows you compassion risk of happiness is number seven siblings who love and care for you number eight righteous and loving children a

progyny who smile to you number nine a loving spouse a loving husband or a loving wife number 10 an honest and genuine friend is good risk in this life number 11 Ean your spiritual health number 12 knowledge and wisdom number number 13 material wealth and money and number 14 a natur a natural respect and acceptance of people for you due to your good character which Allah gives you and your personality you find that people lean towards you and accept you and they like you but on condition that you're the same in private and in public

that is a sign of good risk if you have this or part of it then know that alhamdulillah you have a wealth of provision that Allah is looking after you with my brother and sister I want to give you a little case study a little scenario and ask you what you think with this question are you ready for it I heard this from one of the scholars a story about two brothers one brother we call him lazy he's got lazy dependence in Arabic is called remember the word which means to rely on Allah this one

this kid he's got which literally means lazy dependence won't do anything and relies on others his other brother he's the opposite he's proactive with and he relies on Allah so they had a debate the one who is proactive says to his brother get off the couch start working you will not receive your sustenance your risk unless you pursue it you have to work for it otherwise you're not going to get it his other brother says to him the lazy one he says no whatever Allah has written for me is going to come to me even

if I sit right here on my couch so the brother who is believes that you have to work for it goes out and he starts looking for sustenance on his way he sees a branch of a tree full of apples outside of someone's uh Farm or backyard onto the road and you know in Islam if it's outside on the public road whatever drops you can take it it's public property so there were apples that had dropped and a little bit on the branch he took them and put them into his basket and brought back about

50 or so apples back home looks at his brother and he goes look look at this sorry Case of a brother of mine here man take an apple his brother looks at him eating the apple and he goes I told you you cannot get apple without working I had to go out seeking it and this is why I got the apples his brother Smiles on and he goes you you've you've lost the case I sat here and the Apple came to me now the question is who's right and who's wrong the brother who said you

have to work for your sustenance or the one who sat down the sust came to him without doing without lifting a finger who's right who's wrong H anyone want to have a little jab at it maybe brother there both of them are right both of them are wrong and you my young son the lazy one is wrong the lazy one is wrong but he got the apple he got the Apple he can't be wrong you we just read here that Allah has written your risk isn't that correct so if he's written your risk you are

sure going to get it and that is true you will get your risk and it will chase you and you will not die until you get it mark my words that is a factual belief in the Quran every single one of you will not die until whatever has been written for you you have received it and once you've received it all then you'll die so he's kind of right but at the same time the other one is also right brother both of them are right halfway let's combine the two let's combine the two and answer

the question you see there are two types of risk which Allah gives you the risk without effort and the risk with effort about 70% of the risk which is with effort is a are given and about 20 or 30% could be risk without effort and even if you put the effort the amount of risk that you're going to get is also variable it all depends on Allah how much he wants to give you but you know what the scholar said about both these brothers they said they are both right but there's only one difference the

one that went and worked for it he gets the reward from Allah while the other one who sat there gets nothing from Allah he only gets the Apple whereas the other one gets the apple and the rewards of the Hereafter so he gets more apples in paradise and that is the meaning of the verses in the Quran and the statements of the Prophet Ali wasallam that the person who gives is better than the person who receives the person who supports is better than the person who is dependent always now Allah subhah wa ta'ala gave that

person who was sitting down an apple how often do you think this will happen if he stays with that attitude though he's got a much smaller chance of having as much as his brother because Allah has also made the system of life to be that majority of your risk will come through your working why because Allah wants you to act he wants you to work because that's what he created for you for he created you to do to work to move and that's how he rewards you that's the whole purpose of life reward you do

the right thing help other people if you everybody just sat there what's the difference what's the purpose of life anymore so Allah has made your risk dependent on number one what he decides to give you that will not change and number two partly also your seeking and your Pursuit as for the rest of it yes your risk will still come to you some of it by you sitting down example if a person inherited a large amount of wealth from their parents who passed away you didn't do anything they did everything but you inherited it you

didn't lift a finger that's risk from Allah alhamdulillah a person can go fishing you fish fish fish and you may come with fish you may not come with fish isn't that right that's also risk from Allah subhana wa tala you can think about the title waves you can think about the timing you can think of you know get some information you can use your resources but at the end of the day the quality the the outcome is to who to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala but Allah never leaves anyone out my brothers and sisters here are

some things I wrote about this second part that allaha gives you the risk that comes from your effort number one sometimes Allah looks into well first and foremost Allah looks into your future and knows what you're going to seek and what you're not going to seek and based on that he writes what you will be allowed to get out of what you seek and when you're not allowed to get out of your seeking so if you don't get what you intended just say my Lord has pre-measured and what he Wills he does alhamdulillah whatever he

Wills for me is inshallah better move forward move on don't think about the past rely on Allah because you're moving forward towards the Hereafter number two sometimes what you will get is through Haram means did you know that if you did something Haram to earn your money in Haram in a forbidden way you may get it as well with the permission of Allah and that is called risk that is a provision as well but there's a big problem with that one Allah may allow for you to earn your money and your wealth and your provision

and your resources from Haram but that would be based on your choice meaning that Allah knew you're going to choose that choice and he allowed it to come to you through the choice that you made you could have done it Halal you could have done it haram that risk was written for you but he allowed you to go either way and he knew you're going to go through the Haram so he permitted it within his wisdom but it really is your choice you could have done it you could have done itam and you did itam

Allah may allow it but you will suffer its consequence by being judged about it and either forgiven or punished by Allah and you may even suffer the consequence in this life and also the Hereafter you you could steal that $1,000 and it will come to you but Allah has already written for you had you worked in the Halal way it was still going to come to you risk will come to you but your choice of how you went about it in some cases may be that Allah will allow you to earn it in Haram number

three sometimes you don't seek it in Haram you don't seek it in Haram you seek it in halal but you still don't get what you really wanted you might say BR my mate next door my cousin so and so has got a big tobacco farm he's got a big marijuana firm right and they're getting away with a lot and they're making millions and I'm sitting here working in my my this this job that I have I'm struggling and and striving and I'm not even getting you know 2% of what he or she is getting that's

not fair I might as well go and work in Haram sometimes you don't seek it in Haram but then you say to yourself if only I took the Haram means I'll be like my cousin I'll be like my mate no that means you were not meant to have it that's number one you were not meant to have it anyway and that if you went to the Haram it would be written against you and you still won't get it and if you look back and you say hm if I had worked in the marijuana business in

the drug business you know the last 20 years of my life I would have been a billionaire the fact that you are not a billionaire means no matter what you could have done you were never going to be a billionaire in the last 20 years years it was not written Don't Look Backwards now you've got a choice to change and say I'm going to go through the Haram you may may not get it but guess what it comes with a consequence some people Allah subhana tala lets you go sometimes Allah stops you if Allah stops

you thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala don't say if only don't have that narrow mindset if Allah lets you go into the Haram you should be concerned you should be concerned the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam he used to teach us a beautiful Dua he says oh Allah I ask you for paradise and everything that leads me closer to it of words and actions that I do guide me to those words guide me to those actions and I seek refuge in you Allah to protect me from the fire and all the words and actions that will get

me closer to it but if Allah allows a person to go into Haram and lets him go and you're enjoying this great money don't ever think for one minute that this is a blessing from Allah my brother and sister for it could be your punishment that is being prepared for you in the Hereafter or probably even in this life and then there are people who Allah subhah wa ta'ala just lets them have whatever they want to have in Haram or Hal and he leaves them to themselves those are the people who just don't care about

Allah and people who don't even believe in Allah you might think how come they're more wealthy don't ever make that mistake Allah subhah wa taala he tells us in the Quran and do not ever assume do not ever assume that those who you see are receiving more in this life while they are against Allah they are disbelievers in Allah they are and some of them are evil or bad don't ever think that this is a blessing from Allah but rather it could be that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has just allowed them to take their share

in this world because in the Hereafter they will have nothing nothing and if they say anything Allah will say to them I already gave you your share you took it all in the former world the sad thing is you'll never go back to it or it could be that Allah subhana wa ta'ala is giving this person wealth for another wisdom we don't know what's going on in their life and what pathway Allah is leading and using this person for someone else that person could accumulate all the wealth and never enjoy it and then die and

leave those billions for someone else to work it because maybe Allah has a plan so brothers and sisters do not ever look at that Allah says to the prophet s alh wasallam he says to the prophet wasallam don't ever allow yourself to look outside at the wealth and the uh accumulations of what they have meaning the enemies the who fought the prophet wasallam they are only receiving a temporary flower of this world it's a metaphor what's a flower but those of you know how a flower grows does it last does it Blossom for very long

how long does a flower stay in its beauty and its nice smell a few days and then it Withers away and that's how Allah describes this entire world says this world is like a flower it grows blossoms everyone looks at it is nice but it looks nice it smells nice and then what happens it doesn't last for it it Withers away and it crumbles as if it was never existing so Allah says then look at them those who are enemies to Allah what Allah has for you is far better and more Everlasting now of course

a Muslim it doesn't mean that you don't go after provision and get wealthy in this world you could have both worlds and I've mentioned before that seven out of 10 of the companions who are mentioned in one continuous Hadith by the prophet Sall wasallam who are promised Paradise you know the 10 promised Paradise there are more there are more who are promised Paradise but these are the 10 mentioned in a row in one setting that said so and so so and so so and so is in Paradise seven out of 10 of of them were

extremely wealthy with money but they used it for the sake of Allah my brothers and sisters sometimes Allah may give you a different type of risk which may be replaced instead of money such as skills Health mental health lessons and so on and as I said once again the problem is that when we assume risk is only money of course even money you need it but remember if you focus on the other resources you have that can be a pathway to even Allah giving you more money you see instead of having this restricted mindset have

an abundance mindset have a broader larger mindset inshallah things will be well optimistic mind is encouraged in Islam and relies upon Allah and if things don't come your way then say alhamdulillah either Allah has a plan for me or it is a test for me or good is going to come out from this suffering or it was a mistake I made which I'm going to learn from that's it no fourth thing four things my brothers and sisters I will now go to eight reasons eight reasons for the increase of wealth and the quality of life

you don't just want wealth right you want quality of life as well don't you Allah says in the Quran [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] whoever does Act of righteousness whether you are a male or a female while you are True Believers and faithful in Allah subhana wa taala then we will surely give them a goodly life here now now here a quality life now in this life and also in the Hereafter we will reward them abundantly without reducing or decreasing any of their rewards so you can have both worlds inshallah here are eight ways to

increase that wealth and quality of life number one brothers and sisters top of the list for a Muslim getting closer to Allah by implementing what he told you to do and avoiding what he told you to avoid to the best of your ability the verse in the Quran which back which backs this up or is evident to this in verse 2 to3 Allah says Allah says and whoever fears Allah meaning that you try to do what he commanded and stay away from he avoided and you get through it even if it's hard Allah says he

will open up doors for you and create an exit from every hardship you go through fears Allah properly Allah will always make an opening and an exit out of all of your worries and your hardships you are currently go through and inshallah the opening will come and then Allah subhana waala says not only will he make an opening in an exit out of your hardship he will provide you with sustenance from places you never imagined you're going that way and Allah takes you that way and says there it's from that door I'm going to give

you you did not expect that did you and you say Subhan Allah truly Allah gives me from places I never imagined I was thinking about her to marry her Allah gave me right from there where where from the Moon from the Moon Subhan Allah she came to me from such and such countries she came to me Allah drove him to me yeah Allah subhana wa taala helps you sometimes the wealth comes from places you never expected you're going this way Allah gives you that way you go for this job Allah gives you that job sometimes

you're going this way Allah brings it for you that way whoever fears Allah then Allah will create an opening for them and Grant them from places they never imagined but also remember this Allah says and whoever relies truly upon Allah and trusts in Allah and assumes well of Allah whatever happens to them they say I accept the decree and the whatever Allah brought to me even if it wasn't what I wanted who truly relies and trusts in Allah that is sufficient for you Allah is enough for you if you trust in him you need no

one else you have to understand and know that without a doubt Allah is going to continue to reach what he has decreed nothing's going to change it he's going to reach it one way or another so it's not up to us up to Allah Allah has made for every single existing thing a pre-measured destiny your atoms have a des your hair has a destiny everything has a destiny so my brothers and sisters this is the case number one the second way to increase your wealth and quality of life is to be proactive meaning avoid procrastination

this is this is discouraged in Islam and one of the ways the scholars say is try to wake up early and start to your day early now there's a few hadiths that say that the prophet wasallam made Dua for people who wake up early and St stay up after F all these Hadith are actually weak in their narration so we can't rely on them they're not necessarily uh you know the law but in general starting your day early uh not procrastinating and leaving things at the last minute and in general starting early you have a

fresh mind you have a more focused mind uh your body is energized and there is a lot of alhamd results and studies that have shown that people who start their day early whether you go to the gym whether you take a walk walk whether you uh read something whether you do something else before you start your work uh there is great provision and goodness inshallah in starting early I know a friend who is back in Adelaide I went and visited there mallah he's very successful in his business and whatever he does and mallah he takes

his prayer mat with him he prays in his office where he works but he um he runs his own business in this big uh apartment and he says to me for the past 10 or so years my work has always been from 5 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. that's it I don't work a single thing after 12:00 how he managed to do that it doesn't apply to everyone but the point is that he loves to do his work in the morning after 12: he does his he goes after his Hobbies he doesn't touch anything of his

work and he says wall it has made a huge difference for me right mentally I have time for my family I have time for my hobbies I have time for my other things so uh it's not a luxury for everybody of course those of us those of you who work 9 to5 I mean I was working 20 years 9 to5 until last year alhamdulillah so uh once you build your skills and expertise and you're able to do something else alhamdulillah if you're not able then remember that every hardship and every struggle that you go through

uh so long as you're doing it in halal and for a good purpose Allah will not let your efforts go in vain number three is optimistic mindset planning and setting goals this is part of Islam the prophet s wasallam would wake up in the morning and he would plan his day the day number four trusting in Allah in all matters big or small coupled with coupled with carrying out the means to it and using your resources that Allah gave you uh it's it's it's Haram in Islam to only rely on Allah and not use the

means and resources he gave you this is called as you have to follow the means you can't just say I Rely and sit where you are you have to tie your camel and at the same time rely on Allah number five consistent repentance and repeating and means words of remembrance Allah says whoever avoids and abandons my remembrance then they will have a restrictive life you may have a lot of money big house but your life is just always claustrophobic you have too many problems you have problems in your family you have problems with your kids

you have problems within yourself you're always angry you're always frustrated and you have the world really but if you've abandoned Allah's remembrance you're not doing the right way you're not doing it from your heart then Allah says you will have a restrictive life claustrophobic life and on a day of judgment they will be gathered blind those who avoided Allah's and Remembrance so and seeking Allah's forgiveness has a way of opening your sustenance number six connecting Family Ties and good relationships with your relatives to the best of your ability those you are able to connect to

said whoever loves that he be granted more wealth and that his uh life be belonged with goodness then he should keep good relations with his kith and kin be good to your parents be good to your siblings if you can your uncles and aunts people who your brothers and sisters of course within your ability within your ability I always say to people some people they have toxic family members unfortunate it's very hard to create a good relationship with them you do good to them they do bad to you so Islam doesn't tell you you have

to subject yourself to get yourself stepped on and abused but of course look at how far you can get if you cannot have a totally good relationship have half a good relationship if you can't have a half have a quarter if you can't have a quarter have a bit less a tenth whatever it is have but don't cut it off you know completely I know people whose children for example became really bad and you know I had mothers and fathers come to me and say what should I do with this some with my daughter or

with so and so and I say to them listen no matter what keep even if if if a thin thread of hair that you can keep between you and them even it's just a messaging just every now and then keep it one day they may wake up and may come back to you and inshallah you'll rebuild that relationship but don't cut off a person completely and that's what Allah is asking you to do you're not the person who cuts it off for no reason if the other one cuts it off it's not your fault but

you always are open inshallah to a relationship but it doesn't have to be the same as before it doesn't mean you give all yourself it doesn't mean you don't learn from it it doesn't mean you have to trust them in everything some people think that if you forgive someone or you establish your relationship that you're going to have to be best mates and you have to you know give your money to them no it doesn't mean that but it means to maintain some elements of TI because family brothers and sisters there are many studies about

it that family and having good relationship with your parents with your children with your family actually gives you a better mental health and people like that are more focused and they have a much more quality of life if you can if you can't do it with your parents do it with your children inshallah and break the cycle number seven gratitude gratitude with your tongue and with your actions how do you show gratitude to Allah subhana wa tala by saying alhamdulillah by obeying his commands as much as you can by giving the zakat for your money

by donating from it by uh using it in the right way by earning it in halal by not wasting it in Haram by not being an extravagant spender to the point where you can't afford your own things by putting it in the right places this is being grateful for your wealth and number eight charity charity giving and spending on others especially your depend first and then others that increases your quality of life and your wealth inshallah finally I'll talk about the 10 causes that decrease your risk your wealth and your quality of life and the

the scholars have summed them up into 10 10 of them number one a person's risk and sustenance is decreased and their quality of life is decreased if they are lazy dependent like that boy who said sustenance will come to me lazy dependent person will decrease your risk and your quality of life number two which means extravagant spending wasting and mismanagement of resources so if you have a lot of wealth and you are able to afford you know more things then go for it but if you have less wealth and you want to buy the same

thing as the wealthy person then you are doing is you are extravagantly spending so extravagantly spending is relative within your affordability within your affordability wasting your money is when you spend it on Haram things when you spend it on Haram things that's called said those who waste their money on Haram things are the Brethren and brothers and sisters ofan and those who are meaning that you overspend beyond your means Allah says Allah does not like those who are extravagant Spenders beyond their means and uh the final ones of them are that decrease your your sustenance

is repeated sins and its accumulation it has an effect on your sustance quality of life number four ingratitude and ungratefulness including thanking others instead of thanking Allah number five stinginess you're stingy on yourself you're stingy on your family you're stingy on others what does stinginess mean it means that you do not give yourself the minimum right and you don't give your family their minimum rights and you don't give the rights of others with your wealth that means you are stingy if you give more than their rights then you are considered starting on the Journey of

being generous so I know that some people they might think that others are stingy because they didn't take them on a holiday for example or to a restaurant it doesn't mean you're stingy it means you're just trying to manage your wealth but being stingy meaning that when you are stingy on food on clothing on shelter on livelihood you know the minimum requirements of a person to live uh number six is relying on superstitious and delusional beliefs these decrease your wealth people like that go mentally crazy they rely on superstitions delusional beliefs Omens and signs to

increase their wealth and their quality of life number seven abandoning zaka zaka purifies your wealth and that's when you work something and some Haram wealth comes into your wealth let's say a small percentage of it and you couldn't avoid it zaka purifies your wealth otherwise your wealth is not blessed and there is no Baraka number eight abandoning your obligations the which Allah said to do that decreases sustenance and quality of life number nine carelessly earning forbidden income you don't care where it where it comes from there are people who can't avoid it Allah is not

talking about them he's talking about those who don't care I don't care if I get it from Haram and number 10 destroying family relationships destroying them of course this is we already talked about it outside of your control when you just you want to destroy it for your own whims and desires that creates a bad quality of life even if you think it's going to be better uh last things I want to share with you my brothers and sisters is a few duas a few that you can do inshallah that the our sh has taught

us the prophet Sall Ali wasallam taught us it's also in the Quran and I'll just say a few of them and conclude the beautiful poem If you don't mind so one of the duas that Prophet wasallam taught us to increase sustenance and quality of life is the following I just chose the shortest ones oh Allah I ask you for knowledge that is of benefit a good provision and deeds that will be accepted and you should recite this Dua upon waking up in the morning once again the second one is a Dua of yunus to take

you out of any difficulty oh Allah you are so perfect I am not I have oppressed and wronged myself saying this Dua will take you out of every hardship the prophet wasallam said so another Dua that you can say and is this oh Allah I seek refuge in you from poverty and from uh and from and from lack of resources and humiliation needing to ask people and I seek refuge in you my lord from being an oppressor to others and from others oppressing me uh and this is wasallam told immed so these are some ways

brother and sisters some download a book called Fortress of the Muslim and take some duas from there that inshallah when you say them by the will of allaha it has an effect on the provision and Allah works with you when you make this VI finally I finish with this beautiful poem of reflection someone wrote it I don't know it's an anonymous person but I really loved it it says I asked for riches that I might be happy I was given poverty that I might be wise I asked for power that I might have the praise

of men I was given weakness that I might feel the need of God and empathy I asked for all things that I might enjoy life I was given life that I might enjoy all things I got nothing I asked for but everything I had hoped for almost despite myself my unspoken prayers were answered I am among men most richly blessed in the Quran every time I saw RIS there are always four things about it that Allah connects number one RIS is always ACC companied with gratitude you have to be grateful to Allah for the risk

number two that it is accompanied with knowing that you get what you need not what you want always Allah gives you what you need for what he wants you to be in this life number three it talks about Never Letting pursuit of wealth take over your obligations and worship you stop it you pray you don't let it overcome your purpose of life and your worship and number four risk is always attached to charity give and not and when I say say charity I don't mean just to the poor and through charity organization everything you spend

to benefit others is called the charity in Islam your wife your husband your mother your father your children your siblings your uncles your aunts whatever is within your means and abilities even what you spend on yourself for your sustenance and livelihood is also called s and in charity may Allah tala protect our brothers and sisters in festine and everywhere around the world may Allah tala guide us to that which is best and forgive our shortcomings