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REPORT • Thursday, 02 Mar 2023

Ways of Acquiring Sustenance

Fifteen legislated ways and means that help a person to acquire rizq (sustenance).
By Abu Iyaad


Table of Contents

1 — Seeking Forgiveness
2 — Repentance
3 — Piety (Taqwā)
4 — Reliance Upon Allāh (Tawakkul)
5 — Spending Upon a Seeker of Knowledge
6 — Establishing the Legislation of Allāh
7 — Performing Hajj and ʿUmrah
8 — Keeping Ties of Kinship
9 — Spending in the Path of Allāh
10 — Benevolence Towards the Weak
11 — Emigration in the Path of Allāh
12 — Supplication (Duʿā)
13 — Remembrance of Allāh (Dhikr)
14 — Earnestness in Seeking Provision
15 — Gratitude (Shukr)

1. Seeking Forgiveness

The evidence is His, the Most High's saying, citing the call of Nūḥ (alayhis salām) to his people:

فَقُلْتُ ٱسْتَغْفِرُوا رَبَّكُمْ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ غَفَّارًا يُرْسِلِ ٱلسَّمَآءَ عَلَيْكُم مِّدْرَارًا وَيُمْدِدْكُم بِأَمْوَٰلٍ وَبَنِينَ وَيَجْعَل لَّكُمْ جَنَّٰتٍ وَيَجْعَل لَّكُمْ أَنْهَٰرًا

I said (to them): 'Ask forgiveness from your Lord. Verily, He is Oft-Forgiving. He will send rain to you in abundance. And give you increase in wealth and children and bestow on you gardens and bestow on you rivers.' [1]

From the fruits of seeking forgiveness are the sending down of rain (which is a means through which sustenance is created and provided) and increase in wealth and children have been connected with the seeking of forgiveness.

Footnotes
1. Nūḥ (71:10-12).




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