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REPORT • Thursday, 02 Mar 2023

Ways of Acquiring Sustenance

Fifteen legislated ways and means that help a person to acquire rizq (sustenance).
By Abu Iyaad


Table of Contents

1 — Seeking Forgiveness
2 — Repentance
3 — Piety (Taqwā)
4 — Reliance Upon Allāh (Tawakkul)
5 — Spending Upon a Seeker of Knowledge
6 — Establishing the Legislation of Allāh
7 — Performing Hajj and ʿUmrah
8 — Keeping Ties of Kinship
9 — Spending in the Path of Allāh
10 — Benevolence Towards the Weak
11 — Emigration in the Path of Allāh
12 — Supplication (Duʿā)
13 — Remembrance of Allāh (Dhikr)
14 — Earnestness in Seeking Provision
15 — Gratitude (Shukr)

6. Establishing the Legislation of Allāh

The evidence is the statement of Allāh, the Mighty and Exalted:

وَلَوْ أَنَّهُمْ أَقَامُوا ٱلتَّوْرَىٰةَ وَٱلْإِنجِيلَ وَمَآ أُنزِلَ إِلَيْهِم مِّن رَّبِّهِمْ لَأَكَلُوا مِن فَوْقِهِمْ وَمِن تَحْتِ أَرْجُلِهِم مِّنْهُمْ أُمَّةٌ مُّقْتَصِدَةٌ وَكَثِيرٌ مِّنْهُمْ سَآءَ مَا يَعْمَلُونَ

And if only they had acted according to the Torah, the Gospel and what has (now) been sent down to them from their Lord (the Qurʾān), they would surely have gotten provision from above them and from underneath their feet. There are from among them people who are on the right course but many of them do evil deeds. [1]

Abiding by and adhering to what Allāh has revealed of legislation is a means of provision from above (the heaven) and below (the Earth) and this applies to all without exception, both the rulers and the ruled, and in matters of belief, worship and methodology.

Footnotes
1. Al-Māʾidah (5:66)




© Abu Iyaad — Benefits in dīn and dunyā

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