{"id":14202,"date":"2019-11-04T15:25:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T13:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=14202"},"modified":"2019-11-04T15:45:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T13:45:53","slug":"the-mindset-of-a-believer-in-regard-to-sustenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=14202","title":{"rendered":"The Mindset of a Believer in regard to Sustenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sustenance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14203\" src=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sustenance.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sustenance.jpg 258w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sustenance-190x127.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a>Hazrat Moulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi (rahmatullahi \u2018alaih) once mentioned:<\/p>\n<p>If Allah Ta\u2018ala blesses a person with halaal livelihood without difficulty, then this is indeed a great favour and bounty of Allah Ta\u2018ala. However, at times, a person who acquires livelihood without difficulty falls into self-admiration, pride, attributing good towards himself, boasting, being negligent of what Allah Ta\u2018ala wants from him, looking down at the poor and taking undue advantage of the weak.<\/p>\n<p>The remedy and solution for such a person is for him to reflect and ponder over the favour he is receiving from Allah Ta\u2018ala without difficulty. He should think within himself, \u201cThis blessing is solely the grace of Allah Ta\u2018ala upon me. If it were not for His divine favour upon me, then most surely, I would not have been in this position, as I am not deserving of this favour and there is no goodness within me that makes me worthy of this bounty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, one should reflect over his shortcomings, weaknesses and sins and think, \u201cOn account of my sins, I am actually deserving of Allah Ta\u2018ala\u2019s punishment. Even if I possess some qualification through which I feel that I am able to acquire a livelihood, then really, it is not my qualification which provides for me, as there are many other people who have qualifications like myself, yet they are struggling to earn a livelihood. Hence, I should realize that it is only out of the sheer grace and mercy of Allah Ta\u2018ala that I am being blessed with all that I enjoy. Thus, what right do I have to be proud and boastful over my condition?\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Jameel Noori Nastaleeq; font-size: 22px;\">\u0627\u06af\u0631 \u0631\u0648\u0632\u06cc \u0628\u062f\u0627\u0646\u0634 \u0628\u0631 \u0641\u0632\u0648\u062f\u06d2\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Jameel Noori Nastaleeq; font-size: 22px;\">\u0632\u0646\u0627\u062f\u0627\u06ba \u062a\u0646\u06af \u0631\u0648\u0632\u06cc \u062a\u0631\u0646\u0628\u0648\u062f\u06d2 <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>If sustenance was based on intelligence then all the ignorant would have been in poverty.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In essence, earning a livelihood is not based on one\u2019s intelligence, education and skill. To believe that livelihood is based on one\u2019s capability is in actual fact subscribing to the belief of Qaroon.<\/p>\n<p>(Malfoozaat Hakeemul Ummat 23\/363)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazrat Moulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi (rahmatullahi \u2018alaih) once mentioned: If Allah Ta\u2018ala blesses a person with halaal livelihood without difficulty, then this is indeed a great favour and bounty of Allah Ta\u2018ala. However, at times, a person who acquires livelihood without difficulty falls into self-admiration, pride, attributing good towards himself, boasting, being negligent of what &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[340,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-hadhrat-thaanwi-rahmatullahi-alaihii","category-malfoozaat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14202"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14212,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14202\/revisions\/14212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}