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- The Prophetic Era
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Summary
Sha'rawi holds that provision comes by gain, which is increase and earning, and by averting harm, which is warding off heavy costs and affliction 1.
The example of the sick child
He gives the image of a child who is ill. If the father can afford a simple remedy, God heals the child. If the father is struck by a long illness and costly treatment, then averting that burden is itself provision, because something greater has been turned away 2.
Blessing
He says provision by averting harm may carry more blessing than provision by gain, and that the believer thanks God for what is turned away 2.
Not yet checked
The division into gain and averting is Sha'rawi's own reasoning and has not been checked against the tafsir or fiqh books. 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
- Sha'rawi's Khawatir around the Holy Quran, volume one (scan copy) , p.1151
- Sha'rawi's Khawatir around the Holy Quran, volume one (scan copy) , p.1152
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islam.museum contributors. “Provision by averting harm (rizq al-salb)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/concept/rizq-al-salb/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.