The balance (al-mizan)

الميزان

Sha'rawi holds that the cosmos runs by an exact balance in which humans have no hand, and that humans are bound to keep the balance in matters where they have choice, so as not to transgress. Corruption comes where human hands act without God's method 1 2.

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The Prophetic Era
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Summary

Sha'rawi reads the Rahman verse about the balance as a sign that higher things run by an exact measure, and that humans are bound to justice where they have choice 1 2.

What humans do not control

He says that the sun, moon, air and rain work in order because humans have no hand in them, and that corruption comes where humans act without God's method 1.

What humans control

He urges that people set a measure in every matter they choose, so they do not transgress, and he draws on the Ya Sin verse about the celestial order 2.

Not yet checked

This is Sha'rawi's reading of the Rahman and Ya Sin verses. The classical exegesis of "balance", the academic view and any non-Sunni view have not been checked.

People and things also explored

The ruling on one who abandons prayer· Ada' (performance of an obligation within its time)· Adhan (the call to prayer: its ruling, wording, conditions, recommended features and the muezzin)· Bone (adhm): purity, use and retaliation· The adornment of desires and the goods of this world· The people of the bench (ahl al-suffa)· The earth made a place of prayer and purity· Spending in the way of God (infaq)

Sources

  1. Sha'rawi's Khawatir around the Holy Quran, volume one (scan copy) , p.1064
  2. Sha'rawi's Khawatir around the Holy Quran, volume one (scan copy) , p.1065
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The ruling on one who abandons prayer

Al-Sallabi quotes Ali: whoever does not pray is an unbeliever. He then reports from al-Nawawi the dispute over one who neglects prayer while believing it obligatory: the majority (Malik, al-Shafi'i) hold him a sinner to be asked to repent, others hold him an unbeliever, a view ascribed to Ali; Abu Hanifa and the Kufans hold him not an unbeliever but to be disciplined.