Author: Osman Nuri Topbas
Translator: Erdinc Atasever
Publisher: Ekram Publication
ISBN : 9789944832656
Language : English
-Binding: Paperback
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Pages: 584
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The borders of the small Muslim city-state founded in Medina, comprised approximately of four-hundred families, reached Iraq and Palestine, only in a matter of ten years. The Companions were at war with Byzantine and Persia at the time of the bereavement of the Noble Messenger, though their standards of living had little changed as compared to ten years before. They continued persisting in their lives of abstinence. Excess consumption, greed, luxury and pomp were things unknown to the Companions, imbued with a constant awareness that awaiting the flesh, tomorrow, was but the grave. With the excitement and zest of faith, they instead used them as means for guiding humankind to its salvation. They molded their lives in the cast of seeking the pleasure of Allah. Without a doubt one of the most prominent reasons for the clear and rapid spread of Islam, like a glaring flash of morning light, among the oppressed and the exploited, was the fact that the Companions showed a perfect Muslim character wherever they stepped foot.
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Although Islam as a faith can be distinguished through the degree to which it is practiced, unfortunately in our day, this practice has lacked the spirit of Islam. The rituals are mechanically performed as if only a kind of social custom, while the spirit of Islam has been almost totally lost. This book aims to illuminate the spiritual radiance of Islamic worship and to clothe it in stories of the lives of the Prophets and their Companions and also in the lives of exemplary Sufis. In particular, many references to the poetry of Rumi, Yunus Emre and other Sufis aim to unite the passion of our spiritual practice with its ritual form. The chapters on paying charity and poor-due possess great beauty. The deep analysis they afford of the economic philosophy integral in Islam, abundantly demonstrates their inherent value in our grossly material world.