General
From Issue: 457 [Read full issue]
| Living the Quran |
Al-Furqan
(The Criterion)
Greatest Loss No person can suffer any loss greater than the loss of his humanity and sinking to the level of animals. But this is what inevitably happens when a person does not submit to Allah alone, and falls into submission to his whims and desires. Enslavement at the Hands of the Ruling Class Moreover they fall victim to all kinds of servitude to other people - such as the worst kind of enslavement to rulers and presidents who direct their affairs according to laws they make up themselves, with no control and no aim apart from protecting the interests of the legislators themselves - whether that is one ruler, or a ruling class or a ruling race. An examination of the human race as a whole will reveal that this phenomenon applies in the case of every man-made ruling that does not stem from Allah alone or act within the framework of the Shariah of Allah. Not only about Law-making Enslavement to people take other subtle forms also. We may quote as an example enslavement to fashion designers. How much power do these people wield over the masses! The fashion dictated by the designers in clothing, cars, architectures, decor and parties, etc. is a harsh kind of enslavement, which no ignorant man or woman can escape or think of going against. It is this pervasive enslavement that pressures us to stay in line with latest and coolest cell-phone or gadget. It is the same enslavement that forces us to live a shop-aholic mall culture to stay in tune with the latest designer fashions, hair style or like. And examples go on and on. If the people of ignorance were to devote to Allah even a part of their submission that they show towards the designers, they would become devoted worshippers. What is this, if it is not enslavement? Source: |
| Understanding the Prophet's Life |
Debtless The Messenger, following the injunctions of Revelation, did not pray on a believer's grave until all his earthly debts were settled, and he knew that even for one who had given up his life to God, debt remained a burden that God did not remit. He had to depart debtless, free from owing anything to any other person, taking with him no unforgiven offense, no unhealed wound, no undischarged trust, no unheard message. Source: |
| Blindspot! |
Joint Accounts Family expenses are the sole responsibility of the husband/father. Wife is not responsible to share in family expenses. But the joint account is a different matter. Joint account usually means that while the two persons who own the account are alive they own its balances on equal shares but when one of them dies the other becomes the owner of all. This is the way usually joint accounts are defined in most civil and commercial laws all over the world. Hence, if one of them dies, La Samaha Allah, the balance in this joint account is considered owned half/half and the half that belongs to the deceased must be distributed according to the inheritance rules, in which the other spouse will have a share. Of course, properties that are not in joint account will be distributed directly according to the inheritance rules. Source: |
