Share a Message : About Self-Sufficiency

Awf ibn Malik reported: We were with the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, while there were seven, or eight, or nine of us and he said, “Will you not give your pledge of allegiance to the Messenger of Allah?” We had recently given our pledge, so we said, “We have given you our pledge of allegiance,” but he said it again three times, so we offered our hands and pledged allegiance to him again. Someone said, “O Messenger of Allah, we have already given you our pledge, so what are we pledging to now?” The Prophet said, “That you worship Allah and do not associate any partners with Him; that you pray for five prayers; that you listen and obey,” and then he said something very softly, “And that you do not ask people for anything.” Indeed, some of those people obeyed this to the extent that if his whip were to fall from his mount, he would not ask anyone to hand it to him. [Sunan Abu Dawud, Book of Alms, Number 1642, Sahih]