The all-embracing virtue of “POVERTY” (faqr) is conformity to the demands of the Divine Nature: namely effacement, patience, gratitude, generosity; and also, and even above all, resignation to the Will of God and trust in His Mercy. (GTUFS: RootsHC, Outline of the Islamic Message)
Poverty / Generosity / Veracity: The epithets applied to the Prophet mark the spiritual virtues, the chief of which are: “POVERTY” (faqr, which is a quality of the ‘abd),* next “generosity” (karam, a quality of the Rasul)^ and finally “veracity” or “sincerity” (sidq, ikhlas, a quality of the Nabi al-ummi).+ Poverty is spiritual concentration, or rather its negative and static aspect, non-expansion, and consequently humility in the sense of the cessation of the fire of the passions (in the words of Tirmidhi); as for generosity, it is akin to nobility (sharaf); it is the abolishing of egoism and this implies love of one’s neighbour in the sense that the passional distinction between “I” and “other” is transcended; finally, veracity is the contemplative quality of the intelligence and, on the plane of reason, is logic or impartiality, in a word, love of truth.
(* In the sense that the ‘abd has nothing that belongs to him as his own. ^ The Rasul is indeed a “mercy” (Rahmah); he is disinterestedness itself, the incarnation of charity.
+ Veracity is inseparable from virginity of spirit in the sense that the spirit must be free from all artifice, from all prejudice and from any passional interference.) (GTUFS: UIslam, The Prophet)