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Bayah The Pledge to Allah Almighty by Shaykh Yusuf da Costa

BAYAH THE PLEDGE TO ALLAH ALMIGHTY

It is not righteousness that you turn your faces towards the east or the west, but it is righteousness to believe in Allah, the Last Day, the Angels, the Book, and the Messengers; and spend of your substance out of love for Him, for your kin, for the orphans, for the needy, for the wayfarer, for those who ask, and for the ransom of slaves;

and to be steadfast in prayer, to give zakah, to fulfill the contracts you had made, to be firm and patient in pain and adversity, and throughout all periods of panic. Such are those who fear Allah.

 The fact that this refers to an obligatory sadaqah (according to Qurtubi, for example) has been quietly ignored.Even zakah itself is being seriously neglected, despite the exceptional work done by organizations such as SANZAF and others, and these organizations are unable to do what is religiously incumbent because of the neglig eric c by Muslims of this obligation.

 This negligence is encouraged by watered down teachings on zakah and the silence on malul bir