All praise and thanks are for Allaah alone, and may blessings and peace be

“How excellent is honest wealth for a righteous person.” 

[Saheeh, reported by Ahmad].

  He 

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 supplicated for his servant Anas ibn Maalik and 

ended his supplication by saying: 

“O Allaah grant him increase in wealth and 

children and bless him in that.” 

[Al-Bukhaaree (Eng. trans. 8/258/no.389)]

 

 

 

As for zuhd of the Sufis then it is abandonment of lawful earning and 

beneficial work and to sit in seclusion in a private retreat waiting for whatever 

is brought to them by the people. It is to beg, ask for charity and to frequent 

the rulers and the traders in order to swindle them and praise and flatter 

them to attain crumbs from their tables. It is to falsely manifest poverty in 

their dress, so they wear old and worn out clothes in order to show that they 

withhold themselves from the life of this world and that they are pious and 

righteous persons loved by Allaah. Some of them may be sincere in their 

endurance of self-imposed hardship, surviving for many days without eating, 

or eating only dry bread with salt when they are able to eat good and fine 

foods. But this is contrary to his 

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 Sunnah, and he said: