Why has Allah (swt) created some people in need and others not? This is Allah’s rule of difference and tribulation. Still, there is a wisdom unseen to us; humans are mortal, and their conditions keep changing: the one who gives today may be given tomorrow. So, Allah (swt) asks from and for you at the same time to make you always feel that you are in the world of mortals. Otherwise, had all people been rich, they would have played the tyrant and done wrong, and no one would have felt need for others. So, Allah (swt) demands from you to give you? And do you guarantee that the rich will remain rich? And the strong will remain strong?

           {وَتِلْكَ الْأَيَّامُ نُدَاوِلُهَا بَيْنَ النَّاسِ}

(And these days [of varying conditions] We alternate among the people.) (Aal-Imran: 140)

There is a wisdom we are unfamiliar with because Allah (swt) has kept a secret of His creatures. The Almighty has created you along with the poor in this world. Thus, the Almighty is responsible for His creatures as long as He has created them all. Moreover, the Almighty gives someone and tells another one to give to someone else. The golden rule in this case is that you’re dealing with the Almighty.

“Al-Bayhaqi narrated that once Abdul Malek Bin Qareeb Al-Asmai’ said: ‘one day I was out of the Jame’ mosque of Al-Basra (city in Iraq) I ran into a primitive Bedouin riding a young camel in the lanes on the city. He was holding his sword and a bow. He greeted me when he had come closer to me and wondered, ‘from which tribe you are?’ ‘The Asmai’s,’ I replied. ‘So, you’re Al-Asmai’,’ he noted, and I said ‘yes.’ Then, the Bedouin asked me, ‘where are off from?’ ‘from a place where the sayings of the Compassionate is being recited.’ ‘Does the Compassionate have sayings recited by humans?’ the Bedouin wondered, and I replied, ‘yes.’ He, then, requested me to recite some before him; I asked him to get off his young camel, and so did he. After that, I started reciting verses from the Sura of (Adh-Dhaariyat). However, when I reached the verse: {And in the heaven is your provision and whatever you are promised. (22)} he asked me, ‘O’ Asmai’, is that what the compassionate says?’ ‘indeed,’ I replied, adding, ‘by the One who has sent (Prophet) Muhammad with the right, it’s what the Compassionate’s revealed to His prophet (Muhammad).’ The Bedouin then said ‘ok,’ slayed his camel, cut its meat and didn’t deskin it, and requested me to help him distribute the meat. So, the meat was distributed to passersby. The Bedouin broke his sword and bow and buried them in the sand then left towards the desert repeating the verse: {And in the heaven is your provision and whatever you are promised. (22)}. After the Bedouin was out of sight, I started blaming myself: ‘O’ Asmai’, You’ve been reciting the Quran for thirty years and never noticed what that Bedouin, who didn’t even know that the Compassionate has words, had noticed. However, I went to Hajj With Haroon Ar-Rasheed, the Caliph after some time. While I was walking round Kaaba, I heard a delicate voice calling, ‘O’ Asmai’, come over; O’ Asmai’, come over.’ Then I saw the Bedouin who was exhausted and pale; he came, greeted, and asked me, ‘recite what the Compassionate says. I started reciting the Sura of (Adh-Dhaariyat) till I reached the same verse: {And in the heaven is your provision and whatever you are promised. (22)}, then, the Bedouin started crying: ‘indeed, we’ve had what Lord promises; indeed, we’ve had what Lord promises. After that, he asked me, ‘O’ Asmai’, does the compassionate says other than that.’ ‘Yes,’ I said and recited: {Then by the Lord of the heaven and earth, indeed, it is truth – just as [sure as] it is that you are speaking. (23)} (Adh-Dhaariyat). The Bedouin, however, cried: ‘exalted is Allah; who has made Him in wrath so that He has made an oath? He was made to lay on his right side, repeated his saying three times, and passed away[1].”

Even the simple Bedouin has understood that the Almighty got in wrath of the rich who never spend on the poor.

[1] Hadith no. 1337, the thirteenth of the branches of faith, reliance on Allah, the branches of faith (Shua’b Al-Iman)