Sayyid Al-Hakeem: miserliness is more unjust and dangerous to Islam
In the 16th Ramadan lecture on 16/4/2023, Sayyid Ammar Al-Hakeem, head of Al-Hikma National Movement, continued his speech on the letter of rights of our imam Zayn Al-Abidine Ali bin Al-Hussein "PBUH", And spoke about the right of the hand and addressed its true, metaphorical, metonymical meanings and their testaments in the Holy Quran. His Eminence reached the metonymical meaning of the hand and said that to open one’s hand and be generous are one of the metonymical meanings, and used the verses and narratives from the messenger of Allah “May Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him and his family” and the pure Imams “PBUT” that urges generosity. From these meanings one must not differentiate between his kin, clan, or others and must always have enough to share with those who ask him, detailing that the narrative speaks of the hand in images such as the hand who ask, the one who spends, and the one who holds, and best of which is the hand who spends.
H.E. illustrated that one of the features of a generous person is believing that Allah will always compensate, the generous is the one that Allah will do him good, pointing out another metonymical meaning of the hand which is miserliness, illustrating that the miserly if died, his money will be inherited to his successor and could be used for good or for sins, indicating the description of narratives of miserly as being worse than the unjust, and in some cases, the comparison is just not right.
H.E. also pointed out that the narratives speak of forbidding the miserly from entering heaving, and in another narrative on the messenger of Allah “SAW” he described miserliness as an illness of the worst type, and in another narrative miserliness is very hard on Islam, illustrating that close is worse than miserly, as later holds on to his money, yet the first holds on to his money yet can’t stand people in prosperity.
