The Miser who Reminds Others of his Favours

 Al-bakheel is the one upon whom Allah has bestowed abundant wealth but he is miserly and fails to spend from it to provide for himself, his children, to honour his guests or even connect his ties of kinship. Miserliness is a cirtulent disease.

Al-Manan is the one who reminds others of the favour he did to them with the intention of humiliating them and evlogizing himself. When miserliness combines with a reminder of favours previously done, then it begets darkness, one above another.

The Prophet salla alayhi wa sallam said:

Three groups of people will not perceive the fragrance of Paradise even though its fragrance can be percived from a distancec of five hundred years: someone undutiful to his parents, consumer of intoxicants and the miserly who reminds others of his favours. ´´211

This is a warning against undutifulness to parents and offending them. Allah commands us to treat them with kindness. He also cautioned against the mother of all evil - intoxicant, and from being miserly and reminding others of facours done to them.

It is reported in a hadith that the gragrance of Paradise can be perceived from a distance of seventy years´ journey and another hadith says from a distance of give hundred years; how may we reconcile between both distance?

answer: The reconciliatio is that the perception of the fragrance of Paradise will differ with the difference in individual eemaan and righteous deeds. Whoever perceives it from a father distance is better than the one who percives it from a closer distance. The fragrance of Paradise is not perceived bu the invidual´s natural physical ability, rather, it will be perceived by the ability that will be geanted by Allah. Allah may grant whomever He wills to perceived it from the distance of seventy years and in another instance, He might grant him to perceive it from the distance of five hundrede years´ journey. ´´212

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