CARING ABOUT THE ORPHANS AND THE POOR IN ISLAM

Abstract

UDK 28-488.7
          28-24

In this article the author presents the Islamic concept of caring about the orphans and the poor through wider elucidation of a number of the Qur’anic ayats and relevant hadith, on bases of which he concludes that the faith in the Akhirah (Eshaton), all the rituals, as well as their value and sincerity are interwoven with the care about the orphans and the poor. After the faith in God, devotion and obedience only to Him and following His Massinger in all the matters of faith, morality, law and culture, greatest duties of a man are: duties towards ones parents, his children, grandparents, brothers and sisters and then come the duties towards orphans (yateem) and the poor (miskeen) and towards all that are in need. Dozens of the Qur’anic ayats and a large number of the hadith relate about the duties of a Muslim towards the orphans as important undoubted and unquestionable duties. The article stresses the Islamic concept of property based upon the Islamic sources underlining the significance of the required attitude towards economically endangered categories of the society.