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Generosity
As the swallow adores spring and vows himself as its forerunner. As the
nightingale adores the rose, he sings melodies from its fragrant, and as earth
adores rain, it weaves meadows from its sprinkles .Also man adores the
principles that attracts him to his heavenly origin to deserve the title the
nobler creature and what distinguishes him from the blessing of the mind. A
human believer who communicated in his mind with the laws of nature and the
wisdom of existence. He knew that God entrusted his secret to all his creation
and he made cause for everything. Man who knew that he is the only creature who
choose his activity by his own free will and take the responsibility for this
choice. Everything else is conducted innately by the compulsory laws of nature.
This is the man who knew that he is the only ethical creature in our existence.
He is able to choose knowledge or ignorance, loftiness or villainy.
Al Akhnaf was asked who was the most generous of all people , he said who
bestows lavishly with what he owns upon the needy. If he owns many, he bestows
it on the poor and if he owns knowledge he bestows it on the ignorance and if he
owns power he bestows justice on everyone. It was said to Hatim : What is
generosity? He answered: It is to search for the one who is hungry and feed him,
the one who is afraid to encourage him, the one who is homeless to give him
shelter and let him join your type.
God said in his holy book: God Knows the good you do. God’s knowledge of the
good repays the doer in this world and in the afterlife a hundredfold. God
compared this with the grain of wheat the sprouts seven spikes and in every
spike a hundred grain. That’s why it was said that it resembles the impact if
worshipping. The influence of God is generosity and charity because God is the
Benevolent, the Generous and the Merciful.
The prophet “God’s blessing and peace be upon him” said that the generous is
close to God and close to people, and the stingy is far from God and far from
people and he also said that the eminent people are those who are generous in
this world, are in the afterlife pious.
As for the real generosity it is the one that grows by days, it grows until it
enriches the needy and makes him satisfied as if you give the poor a chance to
learn a career to live from it by his own work, or you give the one who’s able
to work and he’s not working for one reason or another, an honorable chance to
work.
However, to allay someone’s hunger for one hour or a day and then he becomes the
second day hungry again for a loaf and self dignity together. This, by my life,
is the generosity of the tyrant and the unjust who thinks that he can’t be
strong unless others are weak, and his work won’t be prosperous unless others
are unemployed. It is the ignorance that prevails our country and the stupidity
that we rotten ourselves by it.
Ibn Abbass said : people are of four kinds the generous who gives his money to
the poor and his courage to the weak, his humility gratuitously. The squanderer,
he who gives his money for the pleasure of his world and his arrogance that
surpasses his end. The moderate who gives everyone entitled for his rights, his
rights. The stingy is the one who holds his hand and his mind from himself, from
God and from the people.
Aisha said: the hearts are brought on love to those who treat it well and hate
who treat it badly. The she added who gives his money openhandedly, people would
love him, whether he likes it or not.
Rasmaty was asked, which verse best praised by the Arabs about generosity? He
said: They never close their door without a guest in and they never curse their
servants while eating.
While Abo Firas the king of sword and pen said: We have a house that has a
lustrous neck from above; its iris of religion is elaborated eminently. The
horsemen lose it during its support and sons serve the food.
The best said by Arabs on generosity and told by Dooble Al Guzaai. God knows
that nothing pleases me more than a guest knocking at my door. I’ll welcome him
till you think that I’m the guest and he’s the host. On the other hand, it can
be said that the true generosity is that which is kept under the laws of the
mind and committed to the laws of reason or else its converse will be born out
of its subordination and it will capsize on himself and its proprietor. The real
generosity is in dealing with people justly and righteously and contributes in
the growth of their creative, productive and moral capabilities and make of them
people who respect the person of their like and the likes of others and respect
the law of the mind as well , in which the law of development and progress is
the most significant and the law of the responsible freedom and the law that man
is a social being innately in which he develops as the group develops but never
develops on the expense of the group.
Contributed in producing the text Kamal Sari al Deen
Edited
in 1432 H. 2011 A.D on 20/5/2011
Twaheed
guidance
Issued
from the Office of Druze Sheikhdom
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