Concept of Worship (ritualism aspect charity life time)
BIS-MIL-LAH-HIR-RAH-MAN-NIR-RAH-HEEM
(In the name of the most beneficial and merciful)
Concept of Worship
Islam does not teach ritualism. It places great emphasis on intention and
action. To worship God is to love Him and to act upon His commands in every
aspect of life, to enjoin goodness and forbid wrong-doing and
oppression, to practice charity and justice and to serve Him by serving
man-kind. The Qur'an presents this sublime concept in the following manner:
"It is not righteousness that you turn your faces to the East or the West,
but righteous is he who believes in Allah and the Last Day and the Angels
and the Book and the Prophes; and gives his wealth for love of Him to
kins-folk and to orphans and the needy and the way-farer and to those who
ask, and sets slaves free; and observes proper worship and pays the Zakah.
And those who keep their treaty when they make one, and the patient in
tribulation and adversity and time of stress; such are those who are
sincere. Such are the God-fearing. Qur'an 2:177.
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