We Are Rizqophobic

We worry about rizq. We worry about our rizq — rizq is sustenance, what Allah will provide us. We worry about our wealth. We're always thinking about tomorrow. We are rizqophobic. We have a problem of paranoia of rizq.

Khuliqa al-insānu halūʿā^**. We're always in a state of despair when it comes to wealth. We're always thinking about how will we make it in the future — worried, and terrified, and paranoid.

Well, listen to this. The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) says, in a hadith narrated by Muslim: kataba Allāhu maqādīra al-khalāʾiqi qabla an yakhluqa al-samāwāti wa-l-arḍa bi-khamsīna alfa sanah. The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) says, in the hadith narrated by Muslim: Allah wrote down the sustenance of the creation 50,000 years before He created the heavens and the earth.

Everything that you will get is already written down — not 50,000 years before this day, but 50,000 years before the heavens and the earth were created. It's a done deal. What you will get is already written down. Are you still going to be very concerned about it?

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) says: khuliqati al-malāʾikatu min nūr, wa khuliqa al-jānnu min mārijin min nār. The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) says: the angels were created from light, and the jinn were created from fire. So these are two other creations beside the human being which we know about: the angels, who were created from light, and the jinn, who were created from fire.

Iblīs was from the jinn; but because he was so righteous, he was included with the angels, and elevated to a very high level among the angels, even though he was from the jinn. Ādam was created from dirt.