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Asam Anikum, welcome to Allah loves.

So last time we talked about the strong believer and in this episode I want to focus on

independence this idea of actually being independent. So obviously a person should seek to be in a place in which they are giving the

Prophet-Sala al-Ih was said a mention in Allah you habul Abd al-Fakir al-Mutafif that

verily Allah loves a servant who is poor yet at the same time maintains a sense of

dignity does not go out and beg does not put themselves in a vulnerable

situation but instead tries to pick themselves up.

And the Prophet Sain mentioned Abil I mean, even if that person might have a big family,

they still do their best to be as independent as possible.

The Prophet Sain taught us to seek refuge in Allah from debt, to seek refuge in

a law from being in a difficult situation.

Yet there are entire chapters of Hadith on the virtues of poverty, the virtues of being in these types

of tests that are not self-inflicted but at the same time

they're tests and trials that come and that a person tries their best to maintain as much

of modesty as much of their independence as possible even in those situations.

And it becomes a mindset.

Sometimes if a person finds himself in a difficult situation and has to resort to something they typically would not, then they can actually

adopt that as a mindset and that's something that the scholar has mentioned that a

person should try to avoid.

Allah loves that person who is trying even in their most difficult moments to be as

independent as possible. The Prophet Salah Allah al-Iah

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