Ibn Daud - A Handbook of Spiritual Medicine

CHAPTER 18
البُخْل [Bukhl] Miserliness
Miserliness is when one refuses to give what is required by Sacred
Law (the necessary rights due to Allāh and to His creation) or
denies the merits of giving in general. This is usually as a result of a
love for the wealth of this world (hubb al-māl for its own sake), and
the dunyā, which weakens the bond of love with Allāh .
The Messenger of Allāh exhorted:
o “Save yourself from miserliness, for it has destroyed nations
before you” [%a#ī# Muslim 2578:56]
o “There are two habits which are never present in a believer:
miserliness and bad manners”
[At-Tirmidhī 1962]
MISERLINESS
179