The Book of Poverty and Abstinence is the thirty-fourth chapter of The Revival of the Religions Sciences. It falls in the section dealing with the virtues. Ghazali gives definitions of what real poverty and abstinence should be and how the poor should conduct themselves.
The author discusses the evidence to be found for these concepts in the Qur’an and Sunna, and reviews the interpretations of the earlier schools of law.
A person’s right to life, personal security, privacy, and ownership are the most basic of all the fundamental rights and liberties and are of concern to all legal systems and traditions.
Continuing from his earlier discussions of fundamental human rights from an Islamic perspective, Prof M. H. Kamali discusses in this volume a person’s right to education, work and welfare.
An academic journal by Zaytuna College, a Muslim liberal arts college in California, in which influential scholars, theologians, and writers collaborate to produce reliable essays that address key moral questions and debates on topics such as philosophy, ethics, theology, politics, social-sciences, and history.
This book is an abridgment of the first volume of Key to the Blissful Abode, a popular title by the renowned theologian and jurist Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya.
The example of the believers in their reciprocal love and mercy for each other is like a human body, when one of its organs suffers, the rest of the body remains awake and suffers from fever.
Islam and Politics is essential reading for those seeking a readable and reliable account of the basic teachings of Islam concerning politics and government.