مَنْ ذَا الَّذِيْ يُقْرِضُ اللّٰهَ قَرْضًا حَسَنًا فَيُضٰعِفَهٗ لَهٗ
وَلَهٗٓ اَجْرٌ كَرِيْمٌ ( الحديد: ١١ )

Salient Lesson

Before giving out any hadiya (cash or items) to a Shaykh or render your services (Khidma), your intentions must be for Love and not any other intention whatsoever. What love couldn’t give, nothing else can give.

Many had given out huge sums of cash as Hadiya and others did khidma for many years but couldn’t harvest the fruits of their labor because of their ill intentions.

Mawlana Khatm-Awliya’Allah Shaykh Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Tijani رضي الله عنه said,

إن الأخذ والعطاء لا يكونان إلا من الله ولله، ومن أعطى لغير الله تعالى أو أخذ من غيره فماله إلا الويل

“Giving and taking gifts shouldn’t be save for Allah and by Allah; whoever gives nor takes for other reason but Allah will gain nothing except woe.”

For this reason, Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse رضي الله عنه always admonished his Murids by saying:

وتصدقوا بالمال لوجه الله

“And give out money as charity only for the sake of Allah.”