Journal Article

Spending in Islam

Ashour, Sereen, Saadeh, Yousef, Hardan, Abdullah Salah, Al-aishat, Mohammad Adnan Hilal Hassan

2020

Overview

Islam urges its followers to spend on parents, offspring, and lineage. This paper concerns spending in the way of the religion of Islam for its protection (preserving its authenticity), advocacy (Da'wah), and to support its adherents against those manifesting enmity towards it. Thus, spending has the goal of instilling among Muslims the practice of giving for the sake of their faith, and to educate them about the principles of this type of spending. Da'wah to Islam has been associated with calls to spend in the way of Allah to seek His satisfaction and pleasure. Even before the creation of an Islamic state, or in the case when this state becomes weak and unable to perform its duties of protecting its followers and their beliefs, Muslims (as entities and individuals) are urged to spend in the cause of Allah to protect their Muslim brothers and their beliefs, and to propagate the message of Islam. The research concludes that spending in Islam seeks to achieve two goals: The first one educating Muslims religiously, where spending in Islam is for the sake of Allah, and seeking His pleasure. The second is teaching Muslims their material obligations and the need to fulfil them.

• Publisher: جامعة العلوم التطبيقية الخاصة - عمادة البحث العلمي والدراسات العليا
• Subject: الإسلام / الإنفاق في الإسلام / الإنفاق في سبيل الله / الدعوة الإسلامية