Hassan Shibly

Prophet Muhammad looked at Angel Gabriel and Gabriel did this, stay humble.

He said, I'd rather be a humble servant of God.

I eat one day and I go hungry one day that I can give thanks and give gratitude and have empathy to those that are needy.

Once he was actually walking around at night and he ran into his companions and they were all asking what's going on.

And they all had stones tied to their stomachs to ease off the pain of the hunger.

He used to pray, O Allah, make the provision of my family just sufficient for the day.

He was not one that loved to keep wealth.

At once, even his wife, he used to sleep on a straw mat.

She folded it.

so that he would get more comfort.

And he woke up and he said, did you do something different?

She said, yes, I folded the mat.

He said, no, don't do that because I found it more difficult for me to wake up in the middle of night to worship God because it was too comfortable.

He wasn't looking for the kingdom of this life.

And in fact, that's what's powerful.

And he started preaching his message.

And remember, what was his message?

So the Arabs were a society that were governed by classist wealth.

It was the powerful and the wealthy against the weak and the hungry.

And he started saying, listen, God doesn't look at your wealth.