Shia Strength: Muslim Unite Shia and Sunni Fw: [bethak] Face Facts

--- On Sat, 1/17/15, Abdullah Sadiq <sadiq.abdullah55@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Abdullah Sadiq <sadiq.abdullah55@gmail.com>
> Subject: [bethak] Face Facts
> To: bethak@googlegroups.com
> Date: Saturday, January 17, 2015, 10:41 AM
>
> Salaam.
>
> In the name of Allah, the
> Beneficent, the Merciful.
>
> All Glory, All Praise and All
> Thanks Belong to Allah
> Alone (Nahjul Balaagha)
>
> Let us face the following glaring
> facts, and facts are
> stubborn and haunting when they are based on the divine
> guidance from the
> Qur'an and Ahaadith, -- and judged by a human
> intellect (Nahjul
> Balaagha, Sermon No.156). and then let us understand
> the facts before
> death strikes to secure our souls from damnation after
> death:
>
> 1.     The purpose for Zakat is for the
> rich to help the
> poor. The rich and the poor, as two segments of mankind
> existed in the past and
> still exist today and will continue to exist.
>
>
>
> 2.     If a person has the Zakatable
> items of crops and
> cattle as wealth of the past, Zakat becomes due and when he
> sells them and
> keeps the proceeds of sale, however large, in cash or in
> bank accounts, Zakat
> cannot become exempt, because the proceeds of sale do not
> cease to be part of
> wealth.
>
>
>
> 3.     The great majority of the rich in
> this age produce
> wealth or have wealth, some fabulous, but not always in the
> form of the said
> Zakatable items of crops and cattle. As wealthy persons they
> are still liable
> to paying Zakat,
>
>
>
> 4.     Consequently, if the great
> majority of the rich in the
> community pay no Zakat in their life time and the poor also
> receive no Zakat
> (poor rates) in their life time, this is wrong and the
> purpose for Zakat is
> defeated,
>
>
>
> 5.     Among the more than 50 verses
> which enjoin Zakat, it
> is explicit that (a) wajib Zakat is apart and distinct from
> voluntary Sadqat
> and (b) paying Zakat is a quality life of a Mu'min and
> he keeps paying
> Zakat as normal acts of life.
>
>
>
> 6.     It should baffle or intrigue any
> healthy mind how is
> it that the rich in the community pay no Zakat in their
> entire life despite the
> warning in ahaadith that those paying or advising no Zakat
> have their Salaat
> unaccepted and worse, they die in the state of
> Kuf'r.
>
>
>
> In the absence of the
> monetary system in the past, Khums also was paid like Zakat,

> in kind, that is
> in the form of the barter-able commodities which were
> in demand for mass
> consumption or in gold coins. It is mystifying that Khums is
> made payable now with
> money and not Zakat.
>
>
>
> The Quranic verse 2:177 shows
> distinctly that Zakat and Sadaqat are two different things
> under two separate
> respective "niyyat" of wajib and
> voluntary; and Sadaqat
> (charity) cannot be a substitute for Zakat (poor-rate) when
> the latter is a
> debt due and sinning if not paid.. There is a severe rebuke
> in the verses 7:45
> and 14:3 for any attempt to confuse in the matter of
> "divine bayyinat"
> (Clear Proofs or Signs from Allah swt.in the Qur'an)
> See also 2:174 and
> 175 for the real impact of warning from Allah
> swt)
>
>
>
> The text of the verses has
> not been shown to make this post brief. Those very much
> concerned, as they
> should, about the issue of Zakat should read the English
> translation of the verses.
> They are scaring,.
>
>
>
> I seek apology in advance for
> the intention not to answer any post having questions whose
> answers are already
> in the earlier Treatise on Zakat.
>
>
>
> With dua,
>
>
>
> Sadiq
>