Page 156 - The Importance of the Ahl Al-Sunnah

HARUN YAHYA

The Virtue of Cooperation
Cooperation had a great place in our Prophet’s (saas) life.
He informs us that the best of all aids given are the ones given
in secret. Our Prophet (saas) says:
“Seven are (the persons) whom Allah would give protec-
tion with His Shade on the Day when there would be no
shade but that of Him (i. e. on the Day of Judgment, and
they are): … a person who gives charity and conceals it
(to such an extent) that the right hand does not know
what the left has given: and a person who remembered
Allah in privacy and his eyes shed tears.” (Sahih Muslim,
Book 005, Number 2248)
Satan inspires fear for future in people so as to hinder them
from giving away from that which Allah (swt) has blessed them
with. This way, he drifts them into stinginess. Our Prophet
(saas) says that this is a great danger for believers.
“Spend and do not calculate, (for) Allah would calculate
in your case; and do not hoard, otherwise Allah would be
withholding from you.” (Sahih Muslim, Book 005,
Number 2244)
“He who gives time to one who is financially hard up (in
the payment of debt) or writes off his debt, Allah will pro-
vide him His shadow.” (Sahih Muslim, Book 042, Number
7149)
“If any owner of gold or silver does not pay what is due on
him, when the Day of Resurrection would come, plates of
fire would be beaten out for him; these would then be
heated in the fire of Hell and his sides, his forehead and
his back would be cauterized with them. Whenever these
cool down, (the process is) repeated during a day the
extent of which would be fifty thousand years, until judg-

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