Islam has flourished for 1400 years now and throughout that time a small group of practicing Muslims have become incredibly wealthy by following one little-known and very counter-intuitive secret many of these people did not even intend to get wealthy and it simply fell into their lap in this video I'll explain what this strategy is give five real life examples of this strategy working and outline how you can get started with this strategy today is one of the 10 promised Jannah by the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and one of his many characteristics was his generosity who used
to say that all of the people in Madina were living off Abdullah he said that one-third of them had debts which paid on their behalf one-third of them had taken loans from him that he never requested repayment on and one-third had received direct Salah from him I'm getting Goosebumps just talking about it now why am I sharing this it's because a prominent beneficiary of the secret that we want to share with you today which is that Allah promises to multiply our wealth many fold when we donate he says 245 who is it that would loan
Allah a goodly loan so he may multiply it for him many times over he also says in Surah al-anfall in verse 60 whatever ye shall spend in the cause of Allah shall be repaid unto you and he shall not be be treated unjustly the prophet salallahu also said whoever facilitates the Affairs of a person in distress Allah the almighty will facilitate his Affairs in this world and in the Hereafter he also famously said that charity does not in any way decrease wealth but oftentimes we hear these teachings and we think Ah that's a nice reminder
we shrug our shoulders and we carry on but there are certain people in our community who take this to heart and run with it their economic outcomes have been spectacular and I'm going to share some examples with you now up first I have an example from Ibrahim so I donated an amount that felt large to me about a few months ago and I wasn't sure if I'd gone too far but then within the next week I found that unexpectedly we had this investment of over 500 000 pounds that was made on the platform and then
a few weeks later I donated you know I think it was about 100 pounds and the next day I got an unexpected ten thousand pounds windfall from hmrc so thank you Allah thank you hmrc next we have a rather funny one for those of you who love to travel but can't afford it from Iqbal Nasim assalamualaikum when I was in my Investment Banking career and I had made the intention to leave and to give it all up and to sacrifice a lot of money to go on a better path to to serve God's cause and
to to do something more meaningful and I suppose faithful with my life I remember thinking that um I'd never end up going on luxury holidays again or to nice places again so in my budgeting for the future um I had to kind of cut out all the stuff that I'd been used to and I remember just thinking to myself you know what I'm just going to give up on the idea that I'm actually going to be able to travel much or at all uh on on what will be probably a very low compensation compared to
what I've been used to but in the 10 years since Allah has taken me to dozens of different countries amazing trips lots of travel um and so it just shows he provides from where you just don't expect here's a really powerful story of from to fail over Islamic relief where the return was almost immediate in 2010 I was presenting a live Appeal on Islam Channel and we were raising funds for Pakistan which had been devastated by floods a brother called in and immediately became emotional shared with us a story that for years he'd been working
to save enough money to go to Hajj he'd struggled but it just met his Target alhamdulillah and was about to book his ticket but then when he witnessed the suffering of his brothers and sisters in Pakistan he felt compelled to do something about that and instead donated decide to donate every penny towards our Pakistan appeal I mean subhanallahu Akbar is it was so emotional two three calls later a travel agent called in and said that he wanted to be connected to that brother because he was willing to take him to Hajj all expenses paid subhanallah
it reminded us of the Hadith or the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam when he said that if you give up something for Almighty Allah Allah will replace it with something better in that moment that Hadith came to life and it was inspirational subhanallah here's another incredible story of continued donation which adds up over time this time narrated by ustad yestro over at Muslim hands to give just an example of a a family-run business from Birmingham who have mashallah over the years continued to give thousands upon thousands of pounds and I remember that you know I'd come
back come and see them in in Ramadan and I would certainly ask them you know from the uh you know the donations you'll be giving and they seem to be increasing every year do you how how is the business going are you finding you know like like I'm kind of getting at the fun are you finding some sort of you know decrease in the amounts or uh or how it is and they said alhamdulillah every single year they see an increase and I find that really remarkable especially if there's a card which is on the
increase uh what's beautiful about the word zakar is that no doubt it has the meaning of purification but it also has the meaning of which is increase in growth who continue to give staggering amounts of donations may Allah give them more in return I mean what incredible stories Masha Allah we interact with alhamdulillah very affluent folks as part of our work with curate capital and we consistently hear stories like this one of our investors for example was sat on a large amount of money of uninvested cash and had a large zakata Bill he gritted his
teeth and donated and then miraculously found that the exact amount of zakat he had given had come back to him in the form of a currency exchange fluctuation folks usually with investment strategies that we discuss on YouTube and other videos discuss you'll always see a caveat your capital is at risk and past returns are no indication of future returns but alhamdulillah here there is no such caveat to give Allah's promise is true and as Muslims we hold to this sincerely getting started is simple just donate pay yourself give charity find good charities to give to
and good opportunities and sincere opportunities to give to and most importantly have a sincere intention and occasions like the last 10 nights of Ramadan are amazing opportunities to really double up our efforts in the hope of searching for Lay little so how much is too much charity well the prophet salallahu said that the best of Charity is the charity which you practice while you are healthy Penny counting and afraid of poverty and wish to become wealthy so you should give just until that point where you feel like you might have gone a little bit too
far that's the peak of charitable giving and as I mentioned it's really important to keep your intention pure give purely for the sake of Allah not because you want to return but seeing that the promise of Allah is true and the return will come either in this life or the next and in fact the next is probably preferable and if you're looking to calculate your zakat and give to high impact Charities then I highly recommend our Zagar calculator it is the best calculator out there in my opinion to deal with the various types of investment
classes and also we don't charge any fees at any point in the journey it is our annual community project I say all of this as a reminder to myself first and foremost may Allah accept all of our efforts and a special request from all of us at ifg to keep us in your duas during these precious days and nights I'm going to be looking out in the comments for any stories that you've got about the unexpected benefits of giving in charity until next time assalamu alaikum foreign