On Rizq and the Meaning of Wealth in Islām

﷽

Welcome to Episode Two of the Middle Ground Podcast. For this episode I’m joined again by brother Dawud Aleman. We discuss wealth and provision (rizq/رزق) in Islām in light of some verses of the Qur’ān and statements from the Prophet, ‎ﷺ.

We start the conversation, and frame it, with the verse from Sūrah al-Qaṣaṣ:

وَٱبْتَغِ فِيمَآ ءَاتَىٰكَ ٱللَّهُ ٱلدَّارَ ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةَ ۖ وَلَا تَنسَ نَصِيبَكَ مِنَ ٱلدُّنْيَا ۖ وَأَحْسِن كَمَآ أَحْسَنَ ٱللَّهُ إِلَيْكَ ۖ وَلَا تَبْغِ ٱلْفَسَادَ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ ۖ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يُحِبُّ ٱلْمُفْسِدِينَ

“Seek the abode of the Next World with what Allāh has given you, without forgetting your portion of this world. And do good as Allāh has been good to you. And do not seek to cause corruption in the earth. Allāh does not love corrupters.” - Qur’ān 28: 77

Other āyāt and aḥādīth reference in this episode:

• Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim #1054;

• Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ #2339;

• Sūrah al-Ra'ad v. 26;

• Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ #2399