Real goodness No. 3 – The Prayer and the Poor-due (L-204)
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وَأَقامَ الصَّلاةَ وَآتَى
الزَّكاةَ 177c. |
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177c. Wa
‘aqaamas-Salaata wa ‘aataz-Zakaah. |
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177c. those who
perform the prayers, and pay the obligatory charity, |
It has been being mentioned with effect from last two lessons that real and true soul of the righteousness is not that an individual worships considering any direction sacred and turning his face unto a particular side. Moreover the real soul of the righteousness is to correct the beliefs, fair deals, to worship properly, to correct the manners and to do the works, which have been explained in Holy Qur’an, that is to say; the beliefs of the people should be those, for which, Holy Qur’an demands and the individual must behave with other people as the Law of Divine guides.
After the faiths and the financial sacrifice, Holy Qur’an has discussed concerning other part, i.e. worshiping properly. From the acts of worship, the greatest worship is physical and financial sacrifice. In the form of physical worship, it is offering the prayer and for the financial worship, it is to pay the poor-due. Many excellences of the prayer have been explained in Holy Qur’an itself on different places as well as it can also be found in many Sayings of the Messenger (ﷺ).
The Prayer has an important part in the Islamic society. The Prayer stops the human being from the evils and indecency, and keeps away from His disobedience. The Prayer is ascension of the Believer. It strengthens the spiritual, moral and social life of the individual.
In the financial worships, paying the poor-due is the most fundamental worship. It is obligation on every well-to-do person that he should pay 2.5% of his wealth once a year to the needy people in the path of God. This Zakah (the poor-due) prescribed by Holy Qur’an; is so much necessary and useful that if the Muslims pay it regularly; then none from the nation may starve to death. Circumstances as of suicide cannot arise due to poverty and unemployment. Nobody can wander from door to door for begging. Displacement, poverty, helplessness and bad situation will not remain in our society, the entire nation will become strong collectively, peace will increase and the doors will open for development.
Discussion about worshiping properly and paying the poor-due has come in Holy Qur’an nearly together at every place. If those verses are collected in which the matters and commands regarding prayer and Zakah are discussed then its collective numbers are about more than three hundred. It appears that how much important and great are these both obligations in Islam. Without worshiping properly and paying the poor-due regularly, it is difficult to think about any Islamic society, though the Muslims, who don’t perform this duty, about them, it is thought that they are adulterers and deniers, and out of the circle of Islam.
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