Book Title | Sacrifice The Making Of A Muslim |
Book Author | Khurram Murad |
Total Pages | 27 |
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Language | English |
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Sacrifice – The Making of a Muslim KHURRAM MURAD
SACRIFICE – THE MAKING OF A MUSLIM
Sacrifice is the theme to which I have been asked to address myself today.
What does the word mean? In a wider sense, ‘sacrifice’ means giving up things which are valued or desired.
Those things may be tangible, countable like time, wealth or life, or intangible, immeasurable like feelings, attitudes, opinions or aspirations.
They are given up for the sake of something that is more worthy or more important or more urgent.
It is important to bear in mind, though, that primarily sacrifice means slaughter of animal or person as offering to God, and, hence, surrender to God of some possession.
It may be difficult to find in the Quranic vocabulary an exactly equivalent word for sacrifice, which also has as wide a literary usage.
Nearest in meaning perhaps is nusuk: ‘Say, my Prayer and my nusuk (sacrifice), my living and dying – all belong to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds’ (al-An’am 6:162).
‘Giving’, however, is a fundamentally important motif in the Qur’an, stressed again and again. Iman (the faith), says the Qur’an in numerous places, must lead to spending ‘of what We have provided them’.
Along with Salat, ‘giving’ suffices to support, encompass and symbolize a life based on Iman. Provision, given by Allah, and to be given away by man, includes everything that man has, whether it be concrete or intangible.
In one place in the Qur an, ‘giving’, along with taqwa (refraining from doing wrong) and tasdiq (accepting the truth), is all that is required to characterize a good life.
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