لَنۡ   تَنَا لُو ا  الۡبِرَّ   حَتّٰی   تُنۡفِقُوۡ ا   مِمَّا   تُحِبُّوۡ نَ   ۬ؕ

You can never attain virtue until you spend things in the path of Allah, which are beloved to you.

[Kanz-ul-Iman (Translation of Quran)] (Part 4, Aal-e-‘Imran, verse 92)

and said, ‘Therefore, I spend that valuable in Allah’s cause that I like the most and collect it for the afterlife.’

(Tafseer Durr-e-Mansoor, vol. 2, pp. 261)

May Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ have mercy on him and forgive us without accountability for his sake!

اٰمِيۡن بِجَاهِ النَّبِيِّ الۡاَمِيۡن صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيۡهِ وَاٰلِه وَسَلَّم

If only we were blessed with even a half drop from the ocean of enthusiastic selflessness of Sayyiduna Abu Zar Ghifari رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ. Regretfully, it is as if we don’t have the concept in our minds of sacrificing something for Allah’s sake! Every moment, we are preoccupied with the desire of earning more wealth! Especially, our Nafs does not permit us from spending on something that earns great Sawab – for example, even though, the Sawab of reciting the Noble Quran or religious literature which we purchase ourselves is greater, we still prefer to receive it from charity or as a gift.

Despite the fact that one attains unimaginable Sawab by travelling in Madani Qafilah to learn Sunnah from his own expenses but