What did the Prophet Muhammad (saw) encourage his followers to do when faced with poverty?
 Narrated Abu Mas`ud Al-Ansari:                     Whenever Allah's Apostle (p.b.u.h) ordered us to give in charity, we used to go to the market and work as porters and get a Mudd (a special measure of grain) and then give it in charity. (Those were the days of poverty) and today some of us have one hundred thousand.