Why Many Muslims Are Blocking Their Rizq | Hisham Abu Yusuf

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Original Video - https://www.youtube.com/live/S7w7JsmWwuo?si=koWzzcSHJQwPG2Ce Most people think holding onto every dollar makes them wealthy. It doesn't. It makes them poor — financially and spiritually. The truth is, the habit of gripping your money tightly — never giving, never being generous, always waiting until you "have more" — is one of the biggest reasons people stay stuck financially. It feels like you're being smart. It feels like discipline. But it is quietly working against everything you are trying to build. This habit has a name. It's called stinginess. And it shows up in small ways that most people never notice. Not giving in charity because "times are tight." Never treating the people around you. Avoiding any spending that doesn't feel absolutely necessary. Always calculating, always holding back, always afraid that giving means losing. But here's what the people who actually build wealth understand: money is not meant to be hoarded. It is meant to move. The richest, most financially free people in the world are not the ones who kept everything — they are the ones who learned to give, invest, and circulate their money without fear. And it kept coming back to them, multiplied. Allah has already told us this. Sadaqah does not decrease your wealth. It increases it. Generosity is not just a spiritual act — it is one of the most powerful financial habits a person can build. Every time you give sincerely, you are doing something that fear and stinginess could never do for you. You are opening the door for more to come in. If you have been working hard, making dua, doing everything right — but still feeling financially stuck — the answer might not be a higher salary or a new side hustle. It might be the mindset you are carrying about money itself. A closed hand cannot receive. A fearful heart cannot attract abundance. Real rizq, real barakah, real financial freedom — it all starts the moment you stop treating generosity as a risk and start treating it as the strategy it truly is. Stop waiting unti