Thread by @aaolomi

since some have been trying to inject some weird pro-capitalism, prosperity gospel stuff into Islam-

a quick thread on what the Qur'an and hadith say about wealth and greed

The Day when there will not benefit anyone wealth or children (Qur'an 26:88)

Righteousness is not that you turn your faces toward the east or the west but true righteousness is in one who believes in Allah, the Last Day, the angels, the Book, and the prophets and gives wealth, in spite of love for it, to relatives, orphans, the needy, the traveler...

those who ask for help, and for freeing slaves; and who establishes prayer and gives zakah; fulfill their promise when they promise; and are patient in poverty and hardship and during battle. Those are the ones who have been true, and it is those who are the righteous. (2:177)

The example of those who spend their wealth in the way of Allah is like a seed of grain which grows seven spikes; in each spike is a hundred grains. And Allah multiplies His reward for whom He wills. And Allah is all-Encompassing and Knowing (2:261)

And let not those who greedily withhold of that which Allah has bestowed upon them of His Bounty ever think that it is better for them (3:180)

And do not consume one another’s wealth unjustly or send it in bribery to rulers in order that they might aid you to consume a portion of the wealth of the people in sin, while you know it is unlawful. (2:188)

O you who have believed, let not your wealth and your children divert you from remembrance of Allah. And whoever does that – then those are the losers. (63:9)

Allah will destroy usury of all blessing and will give increase for deeds of charity" (2:276)

Have you seen the one who denies the Recompense? For that is the one who drives away the orphan. And does not encourage the feeding of the poor. So woe to those who pray but who are heedless in their prayer. Those who make a show of their deeds and withhold small kindness (107)

The believers are only those who, when Allah is mentioned, their hearts become fearful, and when His verses are recited to them, it increases them in faith; and upon their Lord they rely -

The ones who establish prayer, and from what We have provided them, they spend. Those are the believers, truly. For them are degrees with their Lord and forgiveness and noble provision." (8:2-4)

And they were not commanded except to worship Allah, being sincere to Him in religion, inclining to truth, and to establish prayer and to give Zakah. And that is the correct religion. (98:5)

O you who have believed, indeed many of the scholars and the monks devour the wealth of people unjustly and avert them from the way of Allah. And those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in the way of Allah - give them tidings of a painful punishment (9:34)

Competition in material increase diverts you until you visit the graveyards. (102: 1-2)

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah: Allah's Messenger (saw) cursed the accepter of interest and its payer, and one who records it, and the two witnesses; and he said: They are all equal (Muslim)

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (saw) as saying: Verily Allah does not look to your faces and your wealth but He looks to your heart and to your deeds

Abdullah ibn Hanjalah related that the Prophet (saw) said: A dirham of Riba (interest) knowingly taken by a man is a sin worse than committing Zina (adultery) 36 times (Daraqutni)

Abu Hurayrah related: The Prophet (saw) said: "On the night of Ascension I came upon people whose stomachs were like houses with snakes visible from the outside. I asked Jibrai’l who they were. He replied that they were people who had taken interest." (Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal)

Abbas related that a man asked the Prophet (saw), tell me what I should do to be admitted to Paradise and he (the Prophet) answered: Worship Allah associating nothing with Him, observe Salat, pay Zakah and strengthen the ties of kinship. (Bukhari, Muslim)

It is narrated by Anas bin Malik that the Prophet (saw) said: Verily charity appeases the wrath of Allah and eases the sufferings of death. (Tirmidhi)

Abu Huraira narrated that the Prophet (saw) said: Every day two angels come down from Heaven and one of them says, 'O Allah! Compensate every person who spends in Your Cause,' and the other says, 'O Allah! Destroy every miser' (Bukhari)

Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Messenger (saw) said: "Anyone whom Allah has given wealth but he does not pay its Zakat, then, on the Day of Resurrection, his wealth will be presented to him in the shape of a male snake with two poisonous glands in its mouth

and it will encircle itself round his neck and bite him over his cheeks and say, "I am your wealth; I am your treasure (Bukhari)

Narrated `Aisha: Hind (bint `Utba) said to the Prophet (saw) "Abu Sufyan is a miserly man and I need to take some money of his wealth." The Prophet said, "Take reasonably what is sufficient for you and your children "(Tirmidhi)

Ka'b bin 'Iyad narrated that the Prophet (s.a.w) said:
"Indeed there is a fitnah for every Ummah, and the fitnah for my Ummah is wealth." (Tirmidhi)

wealth itself is not seen as a bad thing; in fact abundance could be a blessing, but exploitation, extraction, competition, inequality, usury, and hoarding--the very essence of capitalism, are all condemned and require a lot of mental gymnastics to explain away