We are obsessed with the conversation about “How Can I Take Something That I Don’t Need”, ‘I have no reason to have it, there is no explanation for me for having it but still finding a way to somehow make me feel better about having it.
We have a lot of discourse, conversations & discussions in the Muslim community today about sharia (Islamic law) compliance, financing, halal (permitted) this & haram (prohibited) that but Islamic financing, banking, financial monetary system is very simple, one does not need a Phd to understand it.
It is: “If You Don’t Need It, Don’t Buy It!!!”
“I am not asking for more Allah, I don’t need more, oh Allah, what you have given me is more than enough, it suffices, what I am asking for is that, put blessings in what you have already given.” This is the concept of barakah in Islam. Barakah is not more, it is about the ability to do more with less.
That’s Islam. That’s shariah compliance. If you never buy anything you don’t need, you are living a life according to the Islamic law. It’s as simple as it is.
And this is something very interesting & profound, “more in less” “blessed & not blessed“.
Today we have got 1 home, 5 people within the home, everybody has got a job, everybody is working & still we are in debt. There is something wrong, something is missing.
We need to understand this. We can live in an apartment for our whole life & we will be ok, we can drive a used beat up old car & we will still be alive. The rule is simple, even if you have cash in the home but you don’t need it, don’t buy it, live a simple life. It’s a very very straight forward simple philosophy.
But the sad reality of today is that people judge others by looking at the house & the car they have. If someone lives in a big house, it means they are happy, even if they are the worst family on earth & if someone lives in a small house, they start telling them, ‘don’t worry, it’s ok if you dont have a big house, you will have it one day’.
Nowadays, people think that the amount of wealth decides whether the other person is happy or not. But this is something really wrong!
I would say, don’t make others feel that they are poor or they don’t fit in the society. Treat them as normal human beings. Because making them feel that they are poor will create problems for them. They may fall into the disease called “inferiority complex”, and as a result what happens is, wives fight with their husbands just because the next door neighbour has a big car & she does not. Children hate their parents because of these insignificant material things.
Don’t judge people by the brands they wear or the car they drive or the house they live in. Many are suffering because of this competition. Competition of, ‘trying to fit in the society.’ They spend more then they have & due to this insanity, families are breaking, crimes are increasing. Live your life according to the Islamic teachings, according to the golden rule “Don’t buy it, if you don’t Need it”.
And my advise for the rich is, “don’t make it difficult for others, try to live a simple life, do not show off, buy only, the things you need, even if you can afford, this will make life easy for the poor.
Bitter Truth 