Quotes About Poverty

“...winning a billion dollars may be the greatest calamity ever to happen to me if it takes me away from God—my ultimate purpose. On the other hand, losing my job, all my wealth, and even falling ill, may in fact be the greatest blessing ever given to me if it brings me closer to God—my ultimate purpose.

Yasmin Mogahed

“God may deprive you of things to cure you of the need for it. Then when you no longer need it, it's returned to you. In your hand—not your heart.

Yasmin Mogahed

“When Allah wills good for you He gives you only what is safe for you, and withholds what will corrupt you. So never grieve for what has been withheld from you.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Maybe Allah withholds something from us in this life in order to give it to us in its perfect form in the next.

Yasmin Mogahed

“By Allah I don’t fear for you poverty, but I fear that the world would be abundant for you as it has been for those before you, so you compete for it as they have competed for it, so it destroys you as it has destroyed them.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“If money is the focus, you will find that no matter how much money you have, you will always fear losing it. This preoccupation is poverty itself. That is why the Prophet ﷺ says about such people that poverty is always in front of their eyes. That is all they see. No matter how much they have, there is no contentment, only greed for more and fear of loss.

Yasmin Mogahed

“The foundation of Islam is tawheed (Oneness). But tawheed is not just about saying that God is One. It is so much deeper. It is about the Oneness of purpose, of fear, of worship, of ultimate love for God. It is the oneness of vision and focus. It is to direct one’s sight on one singular point, allowing everything else to fall into place.

One of the most beautiful traditions of the Prophet ﷺ captures this concept perfectly. He ﷺ said: “Whoever makes the Hereafter his preoccupation, then Allah places freedom from want in his heart, gathers his affairs, and Dunya (worldly life) comes to him despite being reluctant to do so. And whoever makes Dunya his preoccupation, then Allah places his poverty in front of his eyes, make his affairs scattered, and nothing of the Dunya comes to him except that which has been decreed for him.” [At-Tirmidhi]

Yasmin Mogahed

“The more we chase wealth, ironically, the more poverty we feel.

Yasmin Mogahed

“I don't care how poor someone thinks he is - if he has a loving family, he is rich beyond measure.

Yasir Qadhi

“The worst poverty is the poverty of ignorance.

Yasir Qadhi

“A scholar observed: "How frail is man! If only he feared Hell as much as he feared poverty, he would surely enter Paradise!"

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