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.
Islam is not and can never be, by definition, in crisis or need of revisionist change, Islam, Kitab wa Sunna, is immutable in all places until the end of time. It is itself critique and balance-principle against which all human ventures must be measured and themselves revised and changed.
Isnad or chain of transmission – is a unique distinction of the Muslim Ummah, it is the means by which Muslims have verified the authenticity of religious texts (especially hadith literature) from the first generations of Islam.
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.
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.
In this book Imam Ibn Taymiyyah explains the obligations of the ruler and the ummah's responsibilities towards the Ruler. The shaykh explains the principles by which to select the best Ruler according to Shari'ah.