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The Prophet once said to Jabair-b-Awam : O Jabair, know that the key to the provisions of men is placed before the Throne.
God gives to every man in proportion to his expenditure. He gives him more of provisions whose expense is much. He gives him less of provision whose expense is less. Once a man complained of his wants to Hazrat Hasan who said : I have got no such wealth as can remove your wants. If I give much in charity, it seems little to me. He said : I will accept whatever you give me.
He ordered his officer to count the money he has got. That amounted to three lac dirhams and five hundred gold coins. He gifted away all the sums he had at that time to him.

Hazrat Ibn Abbas was governor of Basra. One day some learned men of Basra said to him : One of our neighbors prays all night and fasts all days long. He has got a daughter to be given in marriages but for want of money, he cannot give her in marriage.
Then Hazrat Ibn Abbas got up and gifted six' bags full of coins to him and said : I will not give him so much money as can divert him from his prayer and fasting.

Abdul Hamid-b-Sa'ad was once the governor of Egypt. There was drought one ye"ar in his regime for which prices of food stuffs went high. He began to meet the demands of the people, so much so that he fell into debt for two lac Dirhams. he mortgaged the ornaments of his family members to the merchants for the debt and the ornaments valued at fifty corres of dirhams. When he could not release the ornaments, he wrote to the merchants : Sell those ornaments and what remains after satisfaction of your debts should be given to such persons who did not get from me anything.

190 The Book of Destructive evils Vol-III

When Ma'an-b-Zaid was the ruler of two Iraqs, a poet came to see him but could not have an interview with him. One day the ruler entered a garden having a canal and he sat at the end of this garden by the side of the canal. The poet saw him and wrote on a plank a couplet and floated it in the canal — O generosity of Ma'an free me from my wants, Who else will speak for me to Ma'an except you.

Ma'an lifted the plank and read the couplet. He ordered the poet to be brought to him and gave him ten thousand dirhams.
On the second day he read the couplet and called the poet and gave him one lac dirhams. The poet did not like to receive it but he had to accept it. On the third day the poet was searched for but could not be found. Then Ma'an said : It is my duty to give him charity till there remains a dirham and a dinars in my treasury.