Zakat - Obligatory Charity: Purifying Wealth
... Those with wealth have the obligation to be generous and charitable, those without have the obligation to be patient, to work to improve their situation, and to be free of envy. God emphasises that it is not a person's wealth but his piety, character and manners that Zakat - Obligatory Charity: Puri ...
... Those with wealth have the obligation to be generous and charitable, those without have the obligation to be patient, to work to improve their situation, and to be free of envy. God emphasises that it is not a person's wealth but his piety, character and manners that Zakat - Obligatory Charity: Puri ...
The Meaning of Wealth
... counts special locks for our doors, and jails for the people who break them. GNP includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and missiles and nuclear warheads. And if GNP includes all this, there is much that it does not comprehend. ...
... counts special locks for our doors, and jails for the people who break them. GNP includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and missiles and nuclear warheads. And if GNP includes all this, there is much that it does not comprehend. ...
answering questions about televangelists
... matter of personal judgment and must be dealt with on a case-by-case basis; there are those who even find public television’s periodic and low-key requests for funds to be objectionable! On the other hand, when a televangelist actually does misuse funds for personal gain, it is indefensible. Our re ...
... matter of personal judgment and must be dealt with on a case-by-case basis; there are those who even find public television’s periodic and low-key requests for funds to be objectionable! On the other hand, when a televangelist actually does misuse funds for personal gain, it is indefensible. Our re ...
Obligatory Charity: Purifying Wealth DOC
... the disclosure of contributions may encourage others to be generous. Islam is a religion that encourages generosity and Zakat is just one way of encouraging this in our everyday lives. One of the most important principles of Islam is that all things belong to God, wealth therefore is only for our be ...
... the disclosure of contributions may encourage others to be generous. Islam is a religion that encourages generosity and Zakat is just one way of encouraging this in our everyday lives. One of the most important principles of Islam is that all things belong to God, wealth therefore is only for our be ...
Promoting Good Wealth
... wealth creation can at the same time cause massive and lasting human suffering and poverty. Even the recent Financial Meltdown of 2008 and the subsequent Great Recession was at its heart a massive fraud designed to redistribute wealth from the great majority to a small elite, leaving tens of millio ...
... wealth creation can at the same time cause massive and lasting human suffering and poverty. Even the recent Financial Meltdown of 2008 and the subsequent Great Recession was at its heart a massive fraud designed to redistribute wealth from the great majority to a small elite, leaving tens of millio ...
Charity in Islam is a comprehensive concept. It encompasses a wide
... The categories of people eligible for receiving Zakat money are clearly indicated in the Quran. On the top of the list are the poor and the needy. The tradition of the Prophet, may God’s peace and blessing be upon him, explicated the kinds of wealth and the percentage of money that should be paid. Z ...
... The categories of people eligible for receiving Zakat money are clearly indicated in the Quran. On the top of the list are the poor and the needy. The tradition of the Prophet, may God’s peace and blessing be upon him, explicated the kinds of wealth and the percentage of money that should be paid. Z ...
Christian charity and the welfare state
... The couple would have been entitled to keep their property if they had not voluntarily contracted to exchange it for full membership in the society of believers. By conniving to receive the benefits of membership without honestly paying for them, they had attempted to defraud the community. Peter c ...
... The couple would have been entitled to keep their property if they had not voluntarily contracted to exchange it for full membership in the society of believers. By conniving to receive the benefits of membership without honestly paying for them, they had attempted to defraud the community. Peter c ...
Section 3, Part 3 – The 7th and 10th Commandmts
... Q.What do Revelation and reason teach us about the right to private property? A. All families and individuals need certain material possessions to survive. They have a right to own these things as private property. However, the right to private property is not absolute; it is subordinate to the just ...
... Q.What do Revelation and reason teach us about the right to private property? A. All families and individuals need certain material possessions to survive. They have a right to own these things as private property. However, the right to private property is not absolute; it is subordinate to the just ...
Christian views on poverty and wealth
There have been a variety of Christian views on poverty and wealth. American theologian John B. Cobb has argued that the ""economism that rules the West and through it much of the East"" is directly opposed to traditional Christian doctrine. Cobb invokes the teaching of Jesus that ""man cannot serve both God and Mammon (wealth)"". He asserts that it is obvious that ""Western society is organized in the service of wealth"" and thus wealth has triumphed over God in the West. Scottish theologian Jack Mahoney has characterized the saying of Jesus in Mark 10:23–27 as having ""imprinted themselves so deeply on the Christian community through the centuries that those who are well off, or even comfortably off, often feel uneasy and troubled in conscience.""At one end of the spectrum is a view which casts wealth and materialism as an evil to be avoided and even combatted. At the other end is a view which casts prosperity and well-being as a blessing from God. Some Christians argue that a proper understanding of Christian teachings on wealth and poverty needs to take a larger view where the accumulation of wealth is not the central focus of one's life but rather a resource to foster the ""good life"". Professor David W. Miller has constructed a three-part rubric which presents three prevalent attitudes among Protestants towards wealth. According to this rubric, Protestants have variously viewed wealth as: (1) an offense to the Christian faith (2) an obstacle to faith and (3) the outcome of faith.