A famous scholar, Shaykh Muhammad Hadi al-Amini relates that his father once visited his hometown Tabriz and did not meet an old acquaintance of his, who was a poor and needy man.
Upon inquiring, he was told that the man he was asking about was now a wealthy man and no longer poor. Shaykh Amini's father decided to pay a visit to his friend.
While conversing with his friend he asked his friend the reason for the change in his economic position. The man replied that he had been very poor to the extent that he was forced to sell some properties that belonged to him, like furniture etc. By selling these things he had collected some money enough to start a business with.
On his way back to his house with the capital, he saw a poor lady crying. The man asked the lady the reason for crying, and she explained that she was a widow with orphans who were hungry. The man felt pity on her, and on seeing that she needed the money more than himself, he gave the whole amount of money to her. He returned home and spent the night depressed and worried for his family.
The next morning, surprisingly he was summoned to the house of a rich man. When he went to the rich man he was told by the rich man that he had six thousand bags of rice which he feared were on the verge of expiring. The rich man suggested to him to buy the rice at a low price on loan from him. The poor man did so and sold the rice bags quickly. He took some more and in this way was able to make much profit. Soon he became rich and well-to-do.
Indeed Noble Qur'an says that:
Who is it that will offer to Allah a goodly gift, so He will multiply it to him manifold?
and Allah straitens and amplifies, and you shall be returned to Him.
Al Baqarah (2): 245
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