60 - Choosing good property for zakat

عن أبي هُريرةَ رضي الله عنه، قال: قال رسولُ الله ﷺ: «أيُّها الناسُ، إن اللهَ طيِّبٌ لا يَقبَل إلا طَيِّبًا،وإن اللهَ أمَر المؤمنين بما أمر به المرسَلين، فقال: {يَا أَيُّهَا الرُّسُلُ كُلُوا مِنَ الطَّيِّبَاتِ وَاعْمَلُوا صَالِحًا} [المؤمنون: 51]، وقال: {يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا كُلُوا مِنْ طَيِّبَاتِ مَا رَزَقْنَاكُمْ} [البقرة: 172]، ثم ذكَر الرجُل يُطِيل السَّفَرَ أَشْعَثَ أَغْبَرَ، يَمُدُّ يَدَيْهِ إلى السماء: يا ربِّ، يا ربِّ، ومطعمُه حرامٌ، ومشرَبُه حرامٌ، ومَلبسُه حرامٌ، وغُذِيَ بالحرام، فأنَّى يُستجاب لذلك؟!»

Abu Hurayrah narrated that God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said: 

1. People! [Know that] God is good and He only accepts what is good.  2. God has commanded the believers the same as He commanded messengers, as He says: ‘Messengers! Eat of that which is wholesome, and do good deeds: I certainly have full knowledge of all that you do’. (23: 51) And: ‘Believers, eat of the wholesome things We have provided for you’. (2: 172)  3. He then mentioned the case of a man who goes on a long travel, uncouth with dust on his body. He raises his hands to the sky and says, ‘My Lord! My Lord!’ Yet, his food is unlawfully earned; his drink is unlawfully earned; his clothes are unlawfully earned; and he was fed, when young, with what was unlawfully earned. How can such a supplication be answered?

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