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Quran : God says : For the poor Refugees who have been driven out of their houses and properties, who seek pleasure from God and his blessings and help God and His Prophet.. .God says : For those poor men who are confined in the way of God and unable to move in the world. ..In these places, the poor have been praised.

Hadis: — The Prophet once asked his companions as to who is best. They said : He who is in solvent circumstances and pays his dues therefrom. He said : He is good but he is not like one about whom I am speaking. The companions asked : O Messenger of God, who is best in that case ? He said : The poor man who gives his hard earned money in charity.

The Prophet once said to Bilal : Meet with God as a poor man and not as a rich man. He said : God loves one having a big family and restraining himself from begging. The Prophet said : The poor among my followers will enter paradise 500 years before the rich. The Prophet said : The poor are the best among my followers and the weak among them will first roam in paradise before all.
The Prophet said : I have got two dear things. If anybody loves both, he loves me and if anybody hates both hates me — poverty and jihad. It is reported that Gabrial once came to the Prophet and asked him : O Muhammad. God tenders you salam and asks you : Do you like that I should convert this mountain into that of gold for you and that wherever you will go, the mountain also should go with you ? At this the Prophet remained silent for a while and then said — O Gabriel the world is a house for one who has got no house and it is a wealth for one who has got no wealth.
He who is not wise hoards for the world. Gabriel told him : O Muhammad, may God keep you steadfast on this firm truth, it is reported that Jesus Christ was once passing by a man who was asleep and he was covered with a cloth. He woke him up and

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said: O sleeping man rise up and remember God. He said: What do you direct me to do? I have abandoned the world for the worldly men. He said to him: O dear friend, then sleep. Once the Prophet Moses was passing by a man who was sleeping on the ground. Under his head there was a brick and his face and beard were on the ground and he was covered with a blanket? The Prophet prayed to God: O my Lord, why is this servant of yours suffering in the world ? God revealed to him : O Moses, don't you know that I keep this world far away from one whom I love most.
The companion Abu Rafe reported : Once a guest came to the Prophet but he had no food in his house. The Prophet sent me to a Jew of Khaiber for a loan of some quantity of wheat but the Jew refused it without something in mortgage. I returned to the Prophet and informed him. He said : By God, I am trustworthy to the dwellers of heaven and also trustworthy to the inmates of the world.