Kesb increases property. But it does not increase one’s rizq (sustenance). Rizq is muqaddar (predestined, foreordained). Because human beings are mushawwash-udh-dhihn by creation, they have been commanded to do kesb. Rizq is not dependent on payment, property, or working. However, it is necessary to work. For, the ef’âl-i-ilâhiyya become manifest under the causes. This is the ’âdat-i-ilâhiyya (the way whereby Allâhu ta’âlâ has decreed to create things, actions, doings, events, etc.). However, sometimes the fi’l does not take place althogh the cause tried has been obtained. And sometimes, on the other hand, it does take place without the causes.]

’Abdullah bin Mes’ûd ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ states: A person who does not know how to sell and buy, i.e. how to do trade, will eat food obtained by way of fâiz (interest, usury). Imâm Beghawî (Muhyissunna Husayn bin Mes’ûd) ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’, in his book entitled Mesâbîh, provides the following information on the authority of ’Abdullah ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’, the son of the great Sahâbî, Hanzala ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’, renowned with the epithet ‘ghasîl-ul-melâika’: Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ stated: “To obtain something worth one dirham of silver by way of fâiz (interest, usury) knowingly is more sinful than thirty acts of fornication.”