your Islamic brother to go by car or bus etc., sharing or giving it to someone if you get a comfortable place in a Sunnah-inspiring Ijtima’ etc., eating less or even nothing if food is in less quantity and many people are hungry, in fact, there are various such occasions at which, by making the Nafs to suffer a little, one can earn Sawab of selflessness, free of cost.
Sayyiduna Imam Muhammad Bin Muhammad Bin Muhammad Ghazali عَـلَـیۡـهِ رَحْـمَـةُ الـلّٰـهِ الۡـوَالِی has narrated in Ihya-ul-‘Uloom: Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ said to Sayyiduna Musa عَـلَيْـهِ الـصَّلٰوة ُ وَالـسَّلَام, ‘O Musa (عَـلَيْـهِ الـسَّـلَام)! There is no one who acts selflessly even once in his life and I won’t feel Haya by carrying out his accountability on the Day of Judgement (i.e. I will feel Haya in carrying out accountability of such person)! His place is in Jannah, he may live wherever he wishes. (Ihya-ul-‘Uloom, vol. 3, pp. 318)
If I pray to Allah to enter someone in Jannah, then why should I abstain from showing selflessness for wealth!
Sayyiduna Sufyan Bin ‘Uyaynah رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه was asked that what generosity means? He said, ‘To treat the brothers well, and give them wealth, is generosity.’ He رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه added: My father رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه inherited fifty thousand dirhams so he filled them in bags and distributed among his brothers and said, ‘While offering Salah, if I used to pray to Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ to enter my