- Islam and Economy

Islam and Economy
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There are lots of unfair appeals supported by enemies of Islam and those who fear it, they want to make the Qur'an only a book for worship and to separate religion from life, whereas the Noble Qur'an is a book for life.
Economy is the artery of this life, the basic for developing the society and the sign for the progress of its individuals, how could we separate it from religion? It guides and organizes all these matters. The Islamic view upon economic and social life is an integral view that can't be separated from its view for human life as a whole under the sovereignty of Sharia (Quran and prophet's Sunna).
The principles of Islamic economy is that it never deprive natural instinct of possessing among Muslims, but it refines and guides it for the protection of man himself as well as his society. Islam doesn't enchain the creative power of individuals for developing life, but it encourages them to produce, innovate, construct and progress on condition that all this is legal, without wastefulness and they should thank Allah for it.
Islam doesn't equalize people according to their possessions, but equalizes them in their rights and human dignity, it gives the weak rights from the strong to make them strong, it gives the poor a share from the wealth of the rich to support them, so weakness and poverty that are the enemies of economic progress are no longer existed in Muslim society, this also removes envy and hatred which are the enemies of social peace. Besides it encourages the poor to work hard and not to beg, so Islam urges all the work force in society, men and women to work and not to beg people, it also fights unemployment and laziness, it makes the whole society one integrated structure supporting each other for production

Fawzy Mohammed Abu Zeid

- Muslims and money:

Muslims and money:
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Muslims think that money which is the foundation of economy is in fact Allah's possession and we are only substitutes in it, although we earn it by our knowledge and labor to pave the way for our energy, we know that Allah will question us where we got it from and where we spent it, He watches us and He can pass it to other people if He wills. Sharia determined the relationship between Muslims and money, so they won't become oppressive if they are rich or try to get it illegally if they are poor, they keep to their ethics whenever they have much or less money, if it comes to them, they thank Allah and got His rewards, and if it goes away, they are patient and also deserve Allah's rewards.
Every Muslim knows that this life as a whole is integrated with death, resurrection and questioning that follow it and all the deeds of getting or spending money are related to this. A Muslim works in this life as if he is going to live forever; he also works for the hereafter as if he is going to die tomorrow. In both, a Muslim's constitution is the same Qur'an, his teacher is only one prophet, his morals are indivisible. There is not a Muslim for the mosque, another one for the shop, another one for the factory or another one for the house.
A Muslim is always the same everywhere and at all times, his deeds are for satisfying Allah and following the way of the prophet

Fawzy Mohammed Abu Zeid

- Du'aa (supplication) of facilitating giving birth

Du'aa (supplication) of facilitating giving birth
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Ibn-Assonny narrated after Fatimah that when she was about to give birth, the messenger of Allah asked Om-Salamah and Zainab Bent-Jahsh to go to her and read: {Ayat Al-Korsey (Surat Al-Bakarah verse 255), the following 54th verse of Al- A'raf: (Your Lord is the one GOD, who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then assumed all authority. The night overtakes the day, as it pursues it persistently, and the sun, the moon, and the stars are committed to serve by His command. Absolutely, He controls all creation and all commands. Most Exalted is GOD, Lord of the universe.), and charm her by Al-Mo'awezatayn (Surat Al-Falak and Surat Annas).}

Fawzy Mohammed Abu Zeid

- Love good for your brother as for yourself

Secondly:
Love good for your brother as for yourself
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Then he mentioned a higher degree in belief, man should love good for his brother as for himself, the prophet (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said to those who have healthy hearts and pure souls:
"No one of you will be a believer unless he loves for his brother what he loves for himself." 1
He urged all Muslims to work for this high degree in order to become perfect believers. If we apply and follow this Hadeeth in our life, will there be any problems? No, never by Allah, because I question myself and my brother questions himself and everyone love good for his brother as for himself, so there will be no problems, same as it was in the ideal life in Medina originated by the messenger of Allah (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him).
We'll mention only one example for that, you know that Ansar welcomed their emigrant brothers and shared their houses, wealth and other things with them. When Islam prevailed and profits came, the messenger of Allah gathered Ansar and said to them:
"What do you say? Do I give these profits to the emigrants because they are poor so that they leave you what they took from you or divide them amongst you both and they keep what you gave them?"
Look at these people, who gave preference over themselves, they said:
"O messenger of Allah, give all the profits to emigrants and we won't take anything from them because we did it for Allah."
Then this verse was revealed:
"Those who, before them, had homes (in Al-Medina) and had adopted the Faith, love those who emigrate to them, and have no jealousy in their breasts for that which they have been given, and give them (emigrants) preference over themselves, even though they were in need of that. Whosoever is saved from his own covetousness, such are they who will be the successful." (59-9)
Allah didn't say: "They had homes only but had homes and faith." So we should ask for home with faith, when the companions of the prophet (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) saw this verse and these blessed Ahadeeth, they followed this way in their behaviors and their lives. One of them wouldn't be satisfied unless he saw the good in his brother. Sending away the bad and loving the good for his brother in his own heart is more than for himself. It's not a matter of poverty and difficulty, but it is the wideness of breasts and the purity of hearts which only comes by clear faith and pure love for Allah and his prophet (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him).
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1- After Anas in Saheeh Imam Muslim.

- . What are the miracles of Prophet Mohammed

Some people accuse the prophet of having no miracles. What are the miracles of Prophet Mohammed?
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Prophet Mohammed, (May the blessing and peace of God be upon him), had many miracles. The biographers collected about three thousands of them concerning all fields of humanity. These miracles are found in the books and encyclopedias, which deal with the prophet biography.
The greatest and the most important eternal miracle is the holy Qur'an, which keeps up with all modern scientific discoveries in all fields man needs, healthy, social and political fields.

Fawzy Mohammed Abu Zeid

- The second procedure Extracting rancor from chests

The second procedure

Extracting rancor from chests

Allah says:

"We shall remove from their breasts any sense of injury (rancor)" (15-47)

To be brothers for Allah, we must be sincere and honest with one another, everyone of us should use the lancet of the book of Allah and open his breast and heart and fill it with the secret of brotherhood for Allah, love for Allah and cordiality for Allah so that this brotherhood can be effective in this life. One couldn't put brotherhood for Allah, love for Allah and cordiality for Allah in his heart while it is still full of hatred, enmity, rancor, envy, dislike, and similar diseases that divert from achieving brotherhood among believers. So Allah revealed the way of Qur'an in one small verse and said: 

"We shall remove from their breasts any sense of injury (rancor)" (15-47)

Under rancor lay self-preference, selfishness, envy, jealousy and all the personal descriptions that should be replaced by social values like altruism, cordiality, beneficence and mercy. If those descriptions that lead to selfishness are removed from the heart and replaced by divine descriptions and values of Qur'an that lead to brotherhood and collectivism, then immediately Allah says:

"(So they will be like) brothers facing each other on thrones." (15-47)

Then the first condition of brotherhood is that there should be nothing in breasts, no envy, no jealousy, no hatred. They once asked our master Abi-Tharr about one brother in Allah who left the right way of Allah: "Don't you hate him?" He said: "I hate his bad behavior, if he left it, he is my brother." But now a brother wants disasters to come to his brother, he is even pleased if disasters come to his brother and gets angry if good things come to him. This is not the description of believers, he sometimes glees at others' misfortune although the beloved prophet said:

"Don't glee at your brother's misfortune or Allah will have mercy upon him and afflict you." 

Our master the messenger of Allah clarified this verse in his trusted Hadeeth narrated in Saheeh Al-Bokhary and Muslim, he said:

"Don't be jealous at one another, don't tanajasho (cause someone to buy something more than its real price by pretending it is worth), don't hate one another, don't stand back to back, don't buy something while someone is still negotiating about it, be equal brothers servants of Allah, a Muslim is a Muslim's brother, he neither oppress him nor let him down nor envy him, piety is here (and he referred to his breast), it's too much evil for a Muslim to despise his Muslim brother, all the Muslim is banned to any Muslim, his blood (life), his wealth and his honor." 

This means that brotherhood only comes after removing these abstract diseases. Unfortunately these diseases are now in the hearts of Islamic nation, whereas our master the messenger of Allah treated the society of Medina from these abstract and psychological diseases. A Muslim there not only loved for his brother what he loved for himself but he loved good for his brother more than himself.

Brotherhood means:

- We all are one man.

- We have a single aim that is to satisfy The One (Allah).

- We have one book that was revealed to our generous prophet.

- We have only one prophet, he is the best chosen prophet by Allah to all people from the beginning of this life to the Day of Judgment.

- Our deeds that get us nearer to Allah are the same.

- The rewards Allah promised to grant all people either in this life or in the Day of Judgment is dependent on believers' good conditions and their righteousness.

This leads to the third procedure by which Allah removes high prices and plague and causes us to live in blessings and prosperity from the land and the heavens.

To be followed

Fawzy Mohammed Abu Zeid

- Muslims and money

Muslims and money:

Muslims think that money which is the foundation of economy is in fact Allah's possession and we are only substitutes in it, although we earn it by our knowledge and labor to pave the way for our energy, we know that Allah will question us where we got it from and where we spent it, He watches us and He can pass it to other people if He wills. Sharia determined the relationship between Muslims and money, so they won't become oppressive if they are rich or try to get it illegally if they are poor, they keep to their ethics whenever they have much or less money, if it comes to them, they thank Allah and got His rewards, and if it goes away, they are patient and also deserve Allah's rewards.

Every Muslim knows that this life as a whole is integrated with death, resurrection and questioning that follow it and all the deeds of getting or spending money are related to this. A Muslim works in this life as if he is going to live forever; he also works for the hereafter as if he is going to die tomorrow. In both, a Muslim's constitution is the same Qur'an, his teacher is only one prophet, his morals are indivisible. There is not a Muslim for the mosque, another one for the shop, another one for the factory or another one for the house.

A Muslim is always the same everywhere and at all times, his deeds are for satisfying Allah and following the way of the prophet.

Fawzy Mohammed Abu Zeid

- Greatness of Islam

Greatness of Islam:

What a great religion that asks its followers : 

-Not to perform pilgrimage unless they have extra money not needed by themselves or their families.

- Not to borrow money for performing pilgrimage.

- Not to perform pilgrimage and leave their adult sons without marriage, they should marry their grown-up sons first or find job opportunities for those who are unemployed by preparing them projects, for instance.

If you want to perform pilgrimage, you should leave your family all their needs that suffice them until you come back. But we see now some of our brothers borrow to perform Omra, if pilgrimage which is an obligatory duty mustn't be performed in debt, should I borrow to perform Omra? What's Omra? I can perform Omra and pilgrimage while I'm here, how? I can perform Omra and pilgrimage twice a day, the prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:

"Whoever performs dawn prayer in Jama'a (congregation) and sits remembering Allah until sunrise, then prays two prostrations, he has the reward of a pilgrimage and an Omra completed, completed." 

Whoever insists on that after this Hadeeth, it's his own desire, not for Allah's sake. Our religion asks believers to start by themselves as said by our righteous ancestors:

"Start by yourself, earn your and your family's living, then worship Allah"

This is for optional worship (Nawafel).

Fawzy Mohammed Abu Zeid

- Islam and Economy

Islam and Economy

There are lots of unfair appeals supported by enemies of Islam and those who fear it, they want to make the Qur'an only a book for worship and to separate religion from life, whereas the Noble Qur'an is a book for life.

Economy is the artery of this life, the basic for developing the society and the sign for the progress of its individuals, how could we separate it from religion? It guides and organizes all these matters. The Islamic view upon economic and social life is an integral view that can't be separated from its view for human life as a whole under the sovereignty of Sharia (Quran and prophet's Sunna).

The principles of Islamic economy is that it never deprive natural instinct of possessing among Muslims, but it refines and guides it for the protection of man himself as well as his society. Islam doesn't enchain the creative power of individuals for developing life, but it encourages them to produce, innovate, construct and progress on condition that all this is legal, without wastefulness and they should thank Allah for it.

Islam doesn't equalize people according to their possessions, but equalizes them in their rights and human dignity, it gives the weak rights from the strong to make them strong, it gives the poor a share from the wealth of the rich to support them, so weakness and poverty that are the enemies of economic progress are no longer existed in Muslim society, this also removes envy and hatred which are the enemies of social peace. Besides it encourages the poor to work hard and not to beg, so Islam urges all the work force in society, men and women to work and not to beg people, it also fights unemployment and laziness, it makes the whole society one integrated structure supporting each other for production.

Fawzy Mohammed Abu Zeid