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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 يدخل على يوم عليكم مسكين.

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

They were very stingy about the wealth that they had.

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.

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

In the Lord, your Lord decides who to give the risk and who to keep it away from.

And Allah, as the wajah, says in the Qur'an,

are they the ones in charge of distributing Allah's mercy?

Are they the ones who distribute their money?

They're Mahisha. Mahisha here means they're careers.

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