5. VARIOUS ADVICES
The wise among mankind manages his living with his intellectual capacity. If he is poor, he strives in a craft or a profession that protects him from degradation, reduces rations and exercises contentment thereby living safely from people’s favours and being honoured from them.
If he is wealthy, he must manage his spending to avoid poverty’ (Jaqr) and needing to put himself at the mercy of others. It is foolish to be extravagant and boastful with spending to rile his enviers, because this (ironically) exposes him to envy. One should be moderate and conceal what he is able to.
A cleaner found some money, so he started spending beyond his usual capacity’. This was noticed and the money was taken away from him making him poor again.
Manage to preserve the money and be moderate in spending, while hiding what should not be displayed. It is considered a mistake for the husband to show his wife how much money he really has, because if it was little, she thinks little of him; and if it was much, she will demand more from him.
Allah the Almighty said,
“And give not unto the foolish your property.” [al-Nisa’ (4):5],
the same applies to the child. The same principle applies to secrets. They must be kept and guarded, just as friendship is because a friend may turn. The poet said:
Beware your enemy one fold
and your friend a thousand folds
Because the friend may turn against you
and he knows what harms you better
By Allah’s praise, we conclude the recording of the gathered thoughts, restricting them to purge spiritual illnesses and adorn Islamic manners and acceptable virtues.
May Allah make it from the best of guidance on the platform of exhortation and preaching, and a beneficial book for the guidance of people.
Praise is due to Allah,
First and Last.
May Allah bestow His blessings and peace on our Master,
Muhammad, his Family and Companions.
(Source: al-Hafiz Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-jawzl [d. 597AH] “CAPTURED THOUGHTS being” a translation of his masterpiece ‘Sayd al-K hatir)
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