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want except by way of a loan, and that no donation can be required of him once
he has discharged his due by giving his charity. It could also be argued that he is
nevertheless required to make a donation and that lending is impermissible, i.e. it
is not permissible to burden the poor with the acceptance of a loan. There is no
unanimity on this question.
Thirdly, to resort to lending is to descend to the final level of ordinary people.
Those who belong to this third group confine themselves to the bare fulfillment of
duty, neither more nor less. This is the lowest degree, the limit to, which all
ordinary people confine themselves because of their miserliness, their
attachment to money and their feebleness of their love of the Hereafter, as Allah,
the Almighty said:
“If He asked you for them, and presses you, you would be mean …” (Koran 47
verse 37)
What a difference between a worshiper whose property and person Allah has
bought, with Paradise as the price, and one He does not even ask to give all of it
he has discharged his due by giving his charity. It could also be argued that he is
nevertheless required to make a donation and that lending is impermissible, i.e. it
is not permissible to burden the poor with the acceptance of a loan. There is no
unanimity on this question.
Thirdly, to resort to lending is to descend to the final level of ordinary people.
Those who belong to this third group confine themselves to the bare fulfillment of
duty, neither more nor less. This is the lowest degree, the limit to, which all
ordinary people confine themselves because of their miserliness, their
attachment to money and their feebleness of their love of the Hereafter, as Allah,
the Almighty said:
“If He asked you for them, and presses you, you would be mean …” (Koran 47
verse 37)
What a difference between a worshiper whose property and person Allah has
bought, with Paradise as the price, and one He does not even ask to give all of it