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Faqri fakhri
"My poverty is my pride"
Peaking whilst in the Middle Ages, the religion of Islam has a tenuous relationship with the idea of voluntary poverty.[3] While Sufism has encouraged the renunciation of material wealth, Sunni and Shi'ite scholars have traditionally held that self-denial is inconsistent with the Quran's admonition against those who would forbid the good that God has put in this world for his people to enjoy.[4][5][6]
Some scholars have suggested that Islam began with the message of "sharing with the poor and...the necessity of sacrificing worldly possessions", but following the Hijra flight from Mecca, morphed into a political character extolling conquest.[7]
As scholars began to venerate those who abandoned material wealth in order to pursue full-time worship of God, the idealization of poverty grew to such a point that it began to colour Islamic ideas about the nature of poverty.[3]
- ^ Shafaat, Ahmad. Al-Ummah, The meaning of Pride in Poverty, 1984
- ^ Schimmel, Annemarie. "Deciphering the Signs of God", p. 192
- ^ a b Sabra, Adam Abdelhamid. "Poverty and Charity in Medieval Islam"
- ^ "quran.com"., Al-A‘raf, 7 : 32
- ^ Quran 7:32
- ^ Renard, John. "101 Questions and Answers on Islam", p. 74
- ^ Lammens, Henri. "Islam: Beliefs and Institutions", 1968. p. 115