YOU and YOUR CONDITION
As an individual, what are your duties you owe to
yourself, the rights your body and mind have upon you.
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You have been created as a single being, in a
state of nature, pure and free from sin.
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You have been blessed with the gifts of body and
mind, with talents and resources. You will be raised up as a single being to
account for the use of these talents and resources – resources such as time and
health and wealth.
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You are unique and have an identity or
personality of your own. While your roles and obligations may be different from
those of others, your main purpose is the same as that of everyone else: to
live life fully and to make the best use of the resources and talents which God
has given you.
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You may have more resources than others and there
are many who have hardly enough to live on. The more you have the more you have
to account for. God does not place a burden greater than it can bear, the Qur’an assure us:
‘And now indeed you have come to Us in a lonely
state, even as We created you in the first instance; and you have left behind you
all that We have bestowed on you (in your lifetime)’ (6: 94)
‘Leave Me alone (to deal with him whom I have
created alone and to whom I have granted resources vast… and to whose life I
gave so wide a scope and yet, he greedily desires that I give him yet more’ (74: 11-15)
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You are not created by God in vain, without aim
or purpose. God has placed a trust on the human being. This trust requires you
to respect and fulfill the needs of your own body, mind and soul; as well as
the needs and the rights of other creation – human being, animals and the
environments as a whole. As an individual, you are involves to ensure living in
total harmony with God’s laws. How do you go about fulfilling the trust which
God has placed on you? What are your duties?
Contains:
Categories of knowledge;
Sources of knowledge; ‘Ilm; Knowledge, worship and
ethics; Fundamental Knowledge and Professional Knowledge; The Quran; The Sunnah; The Hadith
Sources of the Shari’ah; The purposes of the Shari’ah;
Specific guidance and basic principles
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The
LAWFUL AND THE PROHIBITED
Categories of Halaal; Haraam and the principles
governing it; Doubtful areas; More basic principles; The search for knowledge;
Professional Knowledge; Intellectual Pursuits.
Eating and drinking;
Exercise, work and activity; Proper sleep and rest; Cleanliness and personal
hygiene
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MORAL
AND SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
Salaat;
Fasting; Other forms of Tazkiyyah (Purification and
Personal Development; Personal qualities and habits.