Adnan Oktar A9 TV; December 9th, 2012

Material possessions should be distributed, they should be spent on the Way of God. What would you do if you simply pile them up, what good would that do to you? On the other hand, if you spend what you have, you become richer and even more beautiful. You would be in comfort both in this world and in the Hereafter.

How could a loving person be stingy? He would of course be very generous and distribute all he has in the path of God. When a person loves, he becomes crazy for the love of God. He would only have eyes for the love of God and he would say, "What else would I do with all these materials things?" He searches and becomes madly in love with the love of God.

At the time of our Prophet (saas) they were intimidating weak and characterless people. They were thus preventing them from joining our Prophet(saas). But those with strong faith and personality always remained beside the Messenger of God (saas).

Some people talk within the lines "But how are we to find the money?" about helping those who are in need. God would bring plenty in folds. The good deeds that will be attained is important, attaining the good pleasure of God is important. If you attain the good pleasure of God, He would give you riches. If you do not act in a way to attain His good pleasure and are stingy instead, God would take away everything you have and you would lose all your goods and possessions.

It is of course very important to be at our Prophet (saas)'s elbow. It is a great comfort for the Companions of our Prophet (saas). Actually people do not know the Islamic community that well. Muslims are like a big family. If one has a mansion with thirty rooms for instance, he fills it will Muslims, the food is cooked for all of them. The goods are distributed. Trade is done together, everything is shared and done commonly. That is an unprecedented system.

There is no ambition of ownership in the morality described in the Qur'an. Everything belongs to everyone; brotherhood comes to the forefront. Everyone shares everything they have with their brothers. They will share everything they have, everything they eat, they drink, they wear, everything they own. There will be no such thing as hoarding goods, acting ambitiously, etc. These are all things that they have come up with later on saying, "You are to give one fortieth of the gold you own," etc. There is no such thing. The Qur'an tells us to give whatever is surplus to our actual needs.

It is not befitting of a Muslim to make estimations or calculations when handing out a part of his possessions as charity. A believer gives his possessions without counting and bragging about it.

If you are handing out charity to the poor, why do you care about how much it weighs? You may give or hand out as much as you can afford. You may give as much clothes or food as one can carry. Why are you measuring it in grams or whatnot? It is not befitting of the morals of Islam for one to weigh the goods to be handed out. One should hand them out by handfuls, in abundance.

God commanded us to spend money, property and wealth for good causes and not to hoard it.

A Muslim never pursues his personal interests; he gives for God’s approval.

According to the Qur’an, Muslims have an obligation to give away a part of their livelihood –what is left from their needs- to the needy. Muslims look after one another. There is no selfishness in Islam.

Actually it is very easy to keep those who are in need, happy. God commands us to give away whatever is surplus to our needs.

Believers are happy to spend their wealth for God. Hypocrites have an insane greed and consider spending for God as a loss. Believers don’t collect and accumulate wealth. It is a compassionate act of worship to distribute wealth.

Hypocrites have an extreme fear about their future and dread what will happen in the future. They also fear losing their wealth. Hypocrites stay with believers for their own self-interest and when they have no self-interest left, they leave. Hypocrites greedily accumulate wealth and property. Muslims always distribute their wealth to earn the good pleasure of God.

Muslim spends and distributes wealth in the way of God. Otherwise God could make that money hospital expenditure for that person, may God forbid.

Wealth turns into a disaster for those who hoard that wealth. The wealth of believers is for distributing on the Path of God and for being instrumental in goodness.

They will slander, they will attempt to agonize, they will use a vile language, they will use insults and what would a Muslim say in the face of this? He/ She will simply say" Peace" and will walk away from them without even giving them the time of day.

The Qur'an should be kept by your side. It should be on your pillow. You will read it at night before you go to bed, you will read it when you wake up. It will be on your desk.

Genuine Muslims are humble, they are tranquil, they are companionable. They never engage in artificial behaviors, they never act haughtily, never put on airs pretending to be a pompous hodja or a mullah. They do not put on airs pretending to be a saint. They do not put on airs pretending to be a crispy voiced, special guy. Their manners are always normal and kind.

Satan wants to keep you away from the Qur'an. They keep women away from the Qur'an for almost half of their lives. Saying; "Beware do not touch the Qur'an! You cannot touch the Qur'an!" A Muslim's hand will be clean anyway, so she can take the Qur'an to her hand and read it as she likes. If your hands are clean, you can go and read the Qur'an. A woman or a man, anyone can read the Qur'an as they like. You can read it from the translation, you can read it as ever you like.

Violence, terror, cruelty are acts that should be strictly avoided, I mean they are directly features of the Hell. These should be strictly avoided.

Muslims will go to the Heaven, unbelievers will go to Hell; but no one will be sure of him/herself. They will not be sure if they will go to Hell or to Heaven. They will be in between fear and hope. Allah wants it that way. By that, a Muslim would become perfect and very painstaking, insha'Allah.

Lovelessness brings about lack of quality; lack of quality brings about lovelessness. Lovelessness progresses very rapidly in an environment of poor quality. Love and quality is nested in one another. We will strive for our brothers to be very high quality Muslims. We will strive for love to develop to the utmost.

Hatred has nested in the hearts of many people. The people of hatred are very heinous. Their lives are like the life in Hell, they are acting very stupidly.

Lovelessness is the scourge casted upon the world. Some people take lovelessness normally. Actually lovelessness is like Hell. It is a terrible thing. Our brothers and sisters should constantly denounce lovelessness.