Category: Tazkiyah

• Meaning of Asceticism
• States of Asceticism
• Virtue of Asceticism as to Essentials of Life:

food, clothing, accomodation, it’s furniture, marriage, water, and influence

• Continuation of manners of poverty (asceticism)
• Manners of accepting a gift
• Prohibition of begging and manners of asking
• Evidence from Sunnah regarding prohibition of asking (while having sufficient means)
• Discussion on the concept of dignity, insults, and free speech
• Why Muslims get angry when the Prophet (PBUH) is insulted

• How a poor person should behave
• Having dignity in a poor person
• How to treat the wealthy
• Hadiths of the best charity at different circumstances
• Discussion on volunteering

• What to seek: poverty or wealth
• Keeping money away from your heart
• Concepts of Vanishment:
  • Existential
  • Perceptual

• Connection between Tazkiyah and Siyam
• Benefits of Siyam
  • Attainment of the pleasure of Allah and obedience
  • Elevating the soul
  • Curbing bodily desires
  • Patience in Universal Decree and Religious Decree

• Approach to poverty and wealth
• Examples from the Quran and Sunnah
• Propagating a culture of success for he Ummah
• Seeking wealth and how to use it
• How to be ascetic without being poor

• Definition of Poverty
• Aspects of man’s poverty:
  • Asceticism
  • Satisfaction
  • Contentment
  • Keenness
  • Necessity

• Introduction to Zuhd (Asceticism)
• Introduction to Sufism
• Manners of critiquing a group
• Reservations to Sufism