Let Us Be Muslims. Sayyid Abul A'la Mawdudi

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СКАЧАТЬ Blessings of the Fasting

       Life of Worship

       Rituals Lead to a Life of Worship

       How Does Fasting Develop Us?

      Exclusively Private Worship — Sure Sign of Faith — Month-long Training — Practising Obedience — Communal Fasting

       Where Are the Results?

       18. True Spirit of the Fasting

       Spirit and Form

       The Outward Replaces the Real

       Wrong View of Worship

       Fasting as a Way to Piety

       Conditions of True Fasting

      Abstention From Falsehood — Faith and Selfscrutiny — Shield Against Sins — Hunger for Goodness

       PART V: ZAKAH

       19. Fundamental Importance of Zakah

       Meaning of Zakah

       Zakah, a Test

       Early Practice

       Categorical Imperative

       The Sign of Faith

       Foundation of the Ummah

       Conditions for God’s Help

       Warning to Muslims

       Fate of Zakah Defaulters

       20. Meaning of Zakah

       Becoming God’s Friends

      Wisdom and Understanding — Moral Strength — Obedience and Dutifulness — Sacrificing Wealth

       Requirements for Admittance to God’s Friendship

      Large-heartedness — Magnanimity — Selflessness — Purity of Heart — Giving in Adversity — Giving in Affluence — Giving for Allah Alone — Stressing Benevolence — Amassing Wealth — Making Excuses — Spending Reluctantly and Resentfully — Considering Spending a Fine — Niggardliness

       The Real Test

       21. Zakah, a Social Institution

       Allah’s Unique Beneficence

       Man’s Selfishness

       What Selfishness Leads To

       Individual and Collective Welfare

       What is the Solution?

       22. General Principles of Spending

       Remembrance of God

       Spending in the Way of Allah

       Essential Prerequisite to Guidance

       Spend Only to Please Allah

       Do Not Stress Your Benevolence

       Give Only Good Things

       Give Unobtrusively and Secretly

       Guard Against Misuse

       Do Not Harass Debtors

       Take Due Care of Family

       Give to the Deserving

       23. Specific Injunctions of Zakah

       Produce of the Earth

       On Wealth and Financial Assets

       Jewellery

       Who Are Entitled to Receive Zakah

      Fuqarā’: the poor — Masākīn: the destitute and needy — ‘Amilīna ‘alayhā: who administer Zakah — Mu’allafatu ’l-qulūb: who need to be reconciled — Fī’r-riqāb: freeing from bondage — Al-gharimīn: overburdened debtors — Fī-sabīli ’llāh: in the way of Allah — Ibnu ’s-sabīl: travelers

       Other Important Principles

       Need For Collective System

       PART VI: HAJJ

       24. Origin and Significance of Hajj

       Life and Mission of the Prophet Ibrāhīm

       Ibrāhīm’s Times

       Commitment to the Truth

       Tribulations and Calamities

       Migration

       Raising a New Generation

       The Greatest of Trials

       The Universal Islamic Movement

      Lūṭ in Sodom — Isḥāq in Palestine — Construction of the Ka’ba

       Prayers of Ibrāhīm

       25. Restoration of True Hajj

       Idol Worship Among Ibrāhīm’s Descendants

       How Corrupted Hajj Became

      A Yearly Carnival — Perverse Rites — Sacrilege of Sacred Months — Self-imposed Restrictions

       Restoration of Hajj

      Fulfilment of Ibrāhīm’s Prayer — Revival of Ibrāhīm’s Ways — End of Idolatry — Prohibition of Indecent Acts — Bragging and Showing Off — End of Ostentatious Generosity — Spattering of Blood and Flesh Banned — Prohibition of Perverse Rites — Changing the Months of Hajj Forbidden — Hajj Provisions Made Obligatory — Permission to Work During Hajj — End of Other Customs — Fixing Boundaries — Ensuring Peace and Security

       Importance of Hajj

       26. Renewal of Self

       The Journey

       Virtue and Piety

       Iḥrām and its Conditions

       Talbiyyah: the Cry of Response СКАЧАТЬ