Rasool Allah's
SallalahoAleheWasalam
love to the Poor [Ya Rasool Allah Ya Habib Allah]
One of Rasool Allah's (saw) splendid characteristics was his love to the poor. In the deep of himself he had great love and sincerity toward them. He was a father, shelter, and refuge to them. They got from him indescribable kindness and charity. He often recommended Muslims to be kind and charitable to the poor. He made to them an imposed share in the wealth of the rich. Rasool Allah (saw) legislated zakat (Islamic religious tax) for that purpose and made it obligatory. From his love to the poor was that he often prayed Allah (SWT) to resurrect him with the poor.
Abu Sa'eed narrated, "I heard Rasool Allah (saw) saying, 'O Allah make me live a poor, die a poor, and resurrect me with the community of the poor. The most wretched one of the wretched is he for whom the poverty of this life and the torment of the afterlife are gathered.'"
Anas narrated that Rasool Allah (saw) said, "O Allah (SWT), make me live a poor and resurrect me with the community of the poor on the Day of Resurrection." Aishah, the wife of Rasool Allah (saw), asked him, "Why, O messenger of Allah?" He said to her, "They (the poor) enter the Paradise forty autumns before the rich. O Aishah, do not reject a poor even by (giving him) a half of a date. O Aishah, love the poor and approach to them, because Allah (SWT) will approach you on the Day of Resurrection."
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