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Peaking whilst in the Middle Ages, the religion of Islam has a tenuous relationship with the idea of voluntary poverty.〔Sabra, Adam Abdelhamid. "Poverty and Charity in Medieval Islam"〕 While Sufism has encouraged the renunciation of material wealth, Sunni and Shi'ite scholars have traditionally held that self-denial is inconsistent with the Quran's admonition against those who would forbid the good that God has put in this world for his people to enjoy.〔Quran 7:32〕〔Renard, John. "101 Questions and Answers on Islam", p. 74〕 Some scholars have suggested that Islam began with the message of "sharing with the poor and...the necessity of sacrificing worldy possessions", but following the Hijra flight from Mecca, morphed into a political character extolling conquest.〔Lammens, Henri. "Islam: Beliefs and Institutions", 1968. p. 115〕 As scholars began to venerate those who abandoned material wealth in order to pursue full-time worship of God, the idealization of poverty grew to such a point that it began to colour Islamic ideas about the nature of poverty.〔 ==Early Muslims== Muhammad's wife Aisha was noted to have adopted voluntary poverty, Some traditions relate her actions to a hadith which claims Muhammad ordered her "A'isha, if you want to be joined with me, take of this world as little as a rider's provisions, beware of associating with the rich, and do not deem a garment worn out until you have patched it".〔Hussain, Freda. "Muslim Women", 1984. p. 30〕〔Ibn Sa'd, ''Nisa, p. 53 & 78 & 81〕 Likewise, his wife Zaynab bint Jahsh was said to have viewed wealth as ''fitna'', a temptation, and gave away all her possessions and took Umar's 12,000Dirham annual monies given to her, and distributed it among the poor.〔 The first two successors to Muhammad, Abu Bakr and Umar, were noted for their voluntary poverty.Abu bakr was a rich merchant but after he become the companion of Muhammed he became poor because of Quraish tribe's opposition.At the time of Abu Bakr's daughter Ayisha marriage Ayisha have only threadbare clothing which she mended herself Umar was noted for wearing a frequently patched cloak, rather than a new one.〔Clark, Malcolm. "Islam for Dummies". p. 218〕 When 'Umar arranged for to be sent 1,000 dinars, the latter is said to have wept because he had heard Muhammad say that the poor would enter Jannah 500 years before the rest of the Muslims.〔 There is a story that claims that a Muslim saw in a dream Malik Bin Deenar and Muhammad Ibn Wasi' being led into Jannah, and noticed that Malik was more honoured and allowed to enter first. When he enquired, noting that he believed Ibn Wasi' was the more noble, he was told that it was true, "but Mohammed ibn Wasi possessed two shirts, and Malik only one. That is the reason why Malik is preferred".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Islam and poverty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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