5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

two places in the Qur’ân. The thirty-fourth âyat of Tawba sûra
declares about such people: “Give the news of very bitter
torment to those who save their property and money, but
do not give their zakât to the poor among the Muslims!”
The following âyat informs us of this torment as follows:
“Property and money for which zakât is not given will be
heated in Hell-fire and will be pressed on the foreheads,
flanks and backs of their owners as if being stamped with a
seal.”
O thou, the arrogant rich! Let the transient property and
money of this world not fool thee! Before thee they belonged to
others. And after thee they will belong to others again. Think of
the severe torment of Hell! That property from which you have
not reserved and given zakât and that wheat for which you have
not given ’ushr are in actual fact poisons. The real owner of the
property is Allâhu ta’âlâ. The rich are like His representatives
and officials and the poor are, as it were, His household and
relatives. Allah’s representatives have to give His debt to the
poor. A person who does the tiniest favour will get its reward. A
hadîth-i-sherîf states, “Allahu ta’âlâ will certainly reward the
good-doers.” The ninth âyat of Hashr Sûra gives glad tidings,
“He who gives his zakât will certainly be saved.” The
hundred and eightieth âyat of ’Imrân sûra declares, “Those
who do not give zakât of the property which has been
bestowed upon them by Allâhu ta’âlâ think that they are
doing well and that they will remain rich. On the contrary,
they are harming themselves. Their property will be a
means of torment in Hell; in a serpent’s guise, it will coil
around their necks and bite them from head to foot.” It is
written so in the tafsîrs of Albasît and Wasît. Those rich people
who believe in the Hereafter and torment in Hell should give
zakât of their property and the ’ushr of their crops and fruit and
thus escape the torment. A hadîth-i-sherîf declares, “Protect
your property against harm by paying zakât.” The author of
Tafsîr-i-mughnî (rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’aleyh) says, “Three things
are conveyed together with other three things in the Qur’ân. If
the former of each pair is not done the latter is not acceptable:
unless one obeys the Prophet (sall Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa
sallam), one will not have obeyed Allâhu ta’âlâ; unless one
thanks one’s parents one will not have thanked Allahu ta’âlâ;
unless one gives zakât of one’s property, one’s namâz will not
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