04 Tax, Fasting and Pilgrimage
4. Tax, Fasting and Pilgrimage
5:2144 - Allah's Messsenger said: A Muslim pays no Sadaqa (tax) for his slaves or horses.
5:2187 - Maimuna bint Harith reported that she set free a slave-girl. But the Messenger of Allah said: Had you given her to your maternal uncles, you would have had a greater reward.
5:2207 - Allah's Messenger said: There is never a day wherein servants of God get up at morn, but are not visited by two angels. One of them says: O Allah, give him more who spends (tax for the sake of Allah), and the other says: O Allah, bring destruction to one who withholds (from Allah).
5:2207 - Allah's Messenger said: There would come a time for the people when man would be seen followed by forty women seeking refuge with him on account of the scarcity of males and abundance of females.
5:2238 - The Messenger of Allah said: No woman should observe fast when her spouse is present but with his permission. And she should not admit any of her relatives in his house, while he (her husband) is present. {When her husband is at home a woman cannot fast without his permission. This is so that they can perform their duties to their husbands unhindered. It should be noted that one of the reasons Muhammad said most women go to hell is because they do not fast in the holy month. If the husband controls her fasting he therefore also controls her destiny.}
5:2303 - When Mecca was conquered the Messenger of Allah set about distributing to some persons of Quraish (Jewish tribe) one hundred camels. Upon this they (the young people from the believers) said: The Messenger has bestowed camels upon the people of Quraish, and he ignored us, whereas our swords are still dripping blood (from battle with them). The Messenger of Allah said: I give gifts to persons who were quite recently in the state of unbelief, so that I may incline them to truth (Islam). So you should show patience till you meet Allah and His Messenger. They said: We would show patience.
5:2315 - Abdullah reported: The Messenger of Allah distributed spoils of war. Upon this a person said: This is a distribution in which the pleasure of Allah has not been sought. I came to the Apostle of Allah and informed him in an undertone. He (the Prophet) was deeply angry at this and his face became red till I wished that I had not made a mention of it to him.
5:2325 - The Messenger of Allah said: A group would separate itself when there would be dissension among the Muslims. Out of the two groups who would be nearer the truth would kill the other. {Conflict between Muslim groups can be justified using Muhammad’s words that those who have the truth will kill those who don’t.}
5:2328 - The Messenger of Allah said: There would arise at the end of the age a people who would be young in age and immature in thought, but they would talk as if their words are the best among the creatures. They would recite the Qur'an, but it would not go beyond their throats, and they would pass through the religion as an arrow goes through the prey. So when you meet them, kill them, for in their killing you would get a reward with Allah on the Day of judgement.
6:2361 - Allah's Messenger said: When there comes the month of Ramadan, the gates of mercy are opened, and the gates of Hell are locked and the devils are chained.
6:2412 - Allah's Messenger said: Take meal a little before dawn, for there is a blessing in taking meal at that time.
6:2417 - Allah's Messenger said: The people will continue to prosper as long as they hasten the breaking of the fast. {Muhammad was obviously keen on minimising the duration of the fast by recommending to eat just before the break of dawn and then hastening to break fast after sunset.}
6:2486 - The Prophet said: You are going to encounter the enemy in the morning and breaking of the fast would give you strength, so break the fast. As it was a point of stress, so we broke the fast.
6:2550 - Aisha did not observe fast out of regard for the Messenger of Allah. {Aisha did not observe fasting in order to look after the prophet so she would be a prime candidate for hell, in addition to not praying during her periods and her common sense being half that of a man. For women it’s obviously predestined damnation.}
6:2569 - Allah's Messenger said: In Paradise there is a gate which is called Rayyan through which only the observers of fast would enter on the Day on Resurrection. It would be proclaimed: Where are the observers of fast that they should be admitted into it? And when the last of them would enter, it would be closed and no one would enter it.
7:2803 - Ja'far b Muhammad reported: Allah’s messenger then went to the place of sacrifice, and sacrificed sixty-three camels with his own hand. Then he gave the remaining number to Hadrat who sacrificed them, and he shared him in his sacrifice. He then commanded that a piece of flesh from each animal sacrificed should be put in a pot, and when it was cooked, both of them (the Prophet and Hadrat) took some meat out of it and drank its soup.
7:3024 - In the year of Hudaibiya Allah's Messenger sacrificed a camel for seven persons and a cow for seven persons.
7:3030 - Allah's Messenger sacrificed a cow on behalf of Aisha on the Day of Nahr
7:3032 - According to the Sunnah of the Prophet a camel must be made to stand up festered and then sacrificed. It must not be sacrificed kneeling down.
7:3033 - Aisha reported that Allah's Messenger sent the sacrificial animals from Medina (to Mecca). I wove garlands for his sacrificial animals and then he hung them round their necks.
7:3105 - Allah's Apostle said: It is not lawful for a woman who believes in Allah and the hereafter to undertake a day's journey except in the company of a male relative.
7:3125 - Allah's Messenger had ordered a group of people to make announcement to the people on the Day of Nahr: “After this year no polytheist may perform the Pilgrimage.” {The Kabbah, which had been open to all in pre-Islamic times, was closed to all except Muslims after Muhammad conquered Mecca. See also Qur’an 9:28}
SB 4:497 - Allah's Apostle said, “When the month of Ramadan comes, the gates of Paradise are opened and the gates of the (Hell) Fire are closed, and the devils are chained.”