Ibn Khaldun showed that wealth is something that should not depsised. Rather, early Muslims accumulated a huge amount of wealth and that helped propel them to greateness.
Ibn Khaldun said:
The group feeling of the Arabs was consolidated in Islam through the prophethood of Muhammad… They then advanced advanced against the Persians and Byzantines and … confiscated their worldy possessions. They amassed enormous fortunes. It went so far that one horseman obtained … about 30,000 gold pieces.
Ibn Khaldun further added:
Al-Masudi said: “In the days of Uthman, the men around Muhammad acquired estates and money. On the day Uthman was killed, 150,000 dinars and 1,000,000 dirhams were in the hands of his treasurer. The value of his estate in Wadi l-Qura and Hunayn and other places were 200,00 dinars. He also left many camels and horses. The eights part of the estate of az-Zubayr after his death amounted to 50,000 dinars. He also left 1000 horses and 1000 female servants. Talhah’s income from the Iraq was 1000 dinars a day, and his income from the region ofash-Sharah was more than that. The stable of Abd-ar-Rahman b. Awf contained 1000 horses. He also had 1000camels and 10,000 sheep… Az-Zubayr built himself a residence in al-Basrah and other residences in Egypt and al-Kufah and Alexandria…
It is obvious therefore that the pious great Muslims were wealthy. Wealth therefore is not something Muslims should despise. In fact, if the companions were to be examples, wealth is something to be aimed for. Ibn Khaldun went on to say:
Such were the gains people made. Their religion did not blame them for amassing so much, because, as booty, it was lawful.
(source: The Muqaddimah, translated by Franz Rosenthal (2005), p. 162-163)
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too bad if muslims refuse to earn wealth. But being in the top of the world, we always forgot about the ground. Wealth is the greatest test for a muslim.
“The Quran, which is our source of values, can be abused too. By quoting this and that verses, you decide whether you want to use to encourage people to think, or to brainwash people into kissing your hands.”
sekadar memutarkan tape abg wan.
siapa yang buat silibus brainwash dulu ek?
Datuk Kamal Amir was at London, i guess you should meet him to exchange the ideas.
As you can see, I have met him.
Thanks for the tip-off.
A Good one
I’ve read your notes for that meeting,
quite suprising that he did not totally oppose the National Front or UMNO as what i presumed from his writing pieces..haha.
my condolence to his daughter though
Btw, did you willing to offer any support to our Himpunan Rakyat 100,000/ yellow-wave? Officially as Malaysia Think Thank or personally as Malaysian..
Perhaps any official statements from Malaysian-London based to the BERSIH committee.
or publish the media statement, possibly after the Ibnu Khaldun seminar (coincidence date- 10 november)..
looking forward to see your appearance in yellow suit on that day..hehe
Personally, i want to be a part of the history..
As my grandsons speak about the gathering in future time, they wont forget that i’m one of the person that together stand side-by-side with rakyat…remember the hartal video?
the syllabus was not a brainwash until the people abandon their reasoning. brain washout…