Quotes About Wealth

“If you wish for your wealth to increase and your sins to be forgiven, then give in charity

Muhammad ibn Salih al-`Uthaymeen

“When there is money in your hand and not in your heart, it will not harm you even if it is a lot; and when it is in your heart, it will harm you even if there is none in your hands.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“Of the signs of the wretchedness and misery of the servant [of Allah]:
That whenever his knowledge increases, his arrogance and pride increase, and whenever his [good] deeds increase, his boastfulness and self-love increase, and whenever his age increases, his aggressiveness and desperation increase, and whenever his wealth increases, his stinginess and miserliness increase, and whenever his lot and prestige increases, his distance from people and his looking down on them and disregarding them increases.

Waleed Basyouni

“When Allah blesses us with money, we depend on the money rather than Allah. We forget that the source of our provision is not and never was the money, but rather it was the giver of that money. Suddenly we’re willing to sell alcohol to avoid losing money in our business, or we need to take out loans with interest to feel secure. In so doing we are foolishly—and ironically—disobeying the Provider in order to protect the provision.

Yasmin Mogahed

“What I have or do not have in a worldly sense is only relevant in as much as it brings me closer or farther from my Aim: God. This dunya (life) becomes nothing more than that dream that I experience for a moment and then awaken from. Whether that dream was good or bad for me, depends only on my state once I awaken.

Yasmin Mogahed

“...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

“What is important is not how much we have, but how much barakah there is in what we do have.

Gohar Mushtaq

“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

“Detachment [from Dunya] is not that you should own nothing, but that nothing should own you.

Imam Ali bin Abi Talib

“But, for the ones who focus on Allah, the dunya comes to them, and Allah puts contentment in their hearts. Even if they have less, they feel rich, and are more willing to give from that wealth.

Yasmin Mogahed

“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

“As long as you have a contented heart, then you and one who owns everything are equal and the same.

Imam ash-Shafi`i

“Let the Wall Street protestors benefit from the Quranic message as well: "..so that wealth is not just circulated amongst your rich" (59:7)

Yasir Qadhi

“Knowledge is better than money: knowledge protects you, while you must protect your money.

Yasir Qadhi

“Man continues to age, but two things remain ever young in him: love of wealth and love of life.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“The two most destructive matters to man is having more money than he needs and saying more than needs to be said.

Ibrahim an-Nakha`i

“Security depends not so much upon how much you have as upon how much you can do without.

Waleed Basyouni

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