children stay with you for a few weeks?’ It’s inconvenient because you have
your own family, you have your own things to take care of and they’re saying
can we come over for a few weeks? Actually we
are supposed to understand
that, that is their right. That your house, the house that you live in, is actually not
only your house; when they are in need, a piece of it is for them, according to
Allah. This is their
ḥaqq
and we have to give it. We can’t say, ‘Oh, well, you
know, it’s a busy time right now. I don’t really know if I can do that. I can give
you some phone numbers for local hotels’. No, no, no! We have to have the
attitude of giving.
Now Allah says all of this:
wa-āti dhā al-qurbā ḥaqqahū wa-l-miskīn wa-ibn
al-sabīl
—but
the ending of this
āyah
is remarkably a completely different
subject. He says:
Dostları ilə paylaş: