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🔹SEEKING PROVISIONS🔹
Shaykh Saalih Al-Fawzaan, may Allah preserve him, explained:
Many of the youth today are upon the idea that a person must either have a job, or else he will not work. He thinks he must be employed, and if not, then he sits idle, having given up on the means, so he loses out. Whoever thinks he must have a job, this is a mistake. If you do not find a job, then seek provision through something other than a job.
In fact, seeking provision through something other than a job is even better, because a job is limited. We have never seen anyone grow wealthy through a job. With great effort it barely covers him and his children. But the one who buys and sells and works, this one usually becomes rich and gains wealth.
So we direct the youth not to restrict themselves to a job. Rather, they should seek provision, and a job should be the last thing. They should seek provision through buying and selling. They should seek provision through work and taking up a craft. They should seek provision through any of the many means.
The doors of provision are many, and praise be to Allah, and among them is what is right in front of us now, which is buying and selling. If this young man worked in buying and selling, little by little, it would be better for him than a job. A person, through buying and selling, little by little, grows and increases until he becomes one of the wealthy, better than the employees, better than the government ministers. The merchant is better than the minister. The merchant has money and has wealth, while the poor minister has nothing except his job. Even if we take the position to its highest, say a minister, still the one who works is better than him and has more wealth.
So we direct the youth to seek provision through its many avenues. Even the Prophet ﷺ directed people toward gathering fodder and collecting firewood from the mountains, carrying the firewood, and selling it. He ﷺ directed to this. The Prophet of Allah Daawood, peace be upon him, was a king and a prophet, and along with prophethood, in spite of this, he did not eat from the treasury that he had. Rather, he worked with his hand and ate from the earning of his hand, upon him be blessings and peace. He used to make coats of armor from iron and sell them and eat from their price, and he was the Prophet of Allah, upon him be blessings and peace.
So the avenues of provision, Alhamdulillah, are many and open. But a person must fear Allah:
{And whoever fears Allah, He will make for him a way out, and will provide for him from where he does not expect. And whoever relies upon Allah, then He is sufficient for him. Indeed, Allah’s plan will surely be carried out. Allah has already set for everything a measure}
[Surah At-Talaaq: 2-3]
This is a promise, because whoever fears Him, then Allah provides for him from where he does not expect. And taqwa, there is no doubt that it is among the greatest of means for seeking provision. Fearing Allah is the greatest of the means for seeking provision.
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