How did you save? You must have known an opportunity of a lifetime was coming and you prepared for it. Perhaps you made the conditions right to call in favors and to leverage business advantages to acquire big sums for the emergency donation. But how did you save?
Scrupulous with the world and its resources, but openly magnanimous for The Divine? Perhaps it was hatred for the material world and unconditional love for The Divine?
Perhaps it was all love. Saving and giving. Perhaps it was all love….
120- Also on this subject, ‘Abdu-Rahman Ibn Abi Habab al-Salmi narrated that prior to the Battle of Badr, God’s messenger delivered a sermon concerning the Army of Hardship, and he admonished the people to support it. Initially, ‘Uthman pledged to equip one hundred men. When God’s messenger further invited the people to share in this responsibility, ‘Uthman made an additional pledge to equip another hundred. God’s messenger spoke again on their behalf, and ‘Uthman again added a pledge to equip another hundred. God’s messenger then said: “‘Uthman does no longer need a deed of righteousness (i.e., to please Allah) after this.”