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The story is well known, we're not going to go there today.

But the story is of course of a group of wealthy people who owned a fancy garden.

And they decided that one day they're going to go and have, you know, a CS store fun in the garden.

But they didn't want to give anything of the fruits to the poor, right?

So, Allah ya'dhchulannu alaykum miskeen.

Make sure that no miskeen comes so that we have to give him any money.

They were very stingy about the wealth that they had.

And this reality of the tension between wanting wealth and the tension between wanting to preserve wealth.

And also giving wealth.

This is one of the standard motifs of the whole Qur'an.

The concept of wealth, wealth accumulation and wealth management and wealth distribution.

It is something that troubles every single one of us.

In the end of the day we all love money.

In the end of the day we want money and the test of money.

And the trials of money is one of the greatest trials of this world.

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions in the Qur'an that he is the kabilt and the basit.

The one who gives and the one who withholds.

In the Lord, your Lord decides who to give risk to and who not to give risk to.

So your Lord is the one who decides who to give the risk

and who to keep it away from.

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