Rabat - HM King Mohammed VI, Commander of the Faithful, accompanied by HRH Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan, HRH Prince Moulay Rachid and HH Prince Moulay Ismail, chaired, Friday at Rabat Royal Palace, the first religious lecture of the holy month of Ramadan.
This first lecture was given by endowments and Islamic affairs minister Ahmed Toufiq on the theme "the rights of the spirit and its economic dimensions", drawing on Surate Ashams, verses 7-10 "And the soul and He who proportioned it, and inspired it its wickedness and its righteousness, he has succeeded who purifies it, and he has failed who instills it".
Toufiq recalled at the beginning of his speech that noteworthy scholars of the Islamic Ummah have studied all that is related to the rights of the soul in the Holy Quran and the Sunnah and distinguished between the absolute rights and the compound rights, noting that the latter are also the rights of Allah, His Prophet, the individual and the community.
The individual has first rights to himself then come the compound rights that naturally impact the community and especially its economic aspects, he said.
Toufiq then made it clear that the theme of this talk will be addressed based on four evidences and one conviction.
As for evidences, the speaker first cited the causal relationship between human behavior and economic choices. Second, he noted that human behavior manifests itself through politics, which is basically the management of human weakness. The third evidence, he went on to say, is to consent that human behavior depends on the desires of the soul of the individual which push him to consume, while the fourth conviction is related to the market as a meeting point between economy, politics and the soul.
He noted, as it is stated in the Quran, that the conviction is the fact of shaping the soul so that it can guide the behavior of men to ultimately build a lifestyle in which economy is just one dimension among others.
In this respect, the soul is defined as an acting force from which stems a certain behavior, said Toufiq, adding that Allah has sworn to shape the soul and make it pure and loving by nature.
The purification of the soul is the right of the soul from which several other rights derive and is therefore the foundation for building a healthy personality in terms of religion, he said.
Toufiq noted in this sense that the Holy Quran has warned against parsimony because it constitutes an injustice towards the soul and an attack on one of its fundamental rights, noting that piety, which involves the purification of the soul, is both the origin and the result of an economic choice imbued with the virtues of altruism and generosity.
At the end of the lecture, HM the King was greeted mainly by special envoy of Nigeria Ahmed Aboubakar Rifai, President of the forum for peace promotion in Muslim societies Sheikh Abdallah Ben Biyah, and director of world's centre for renewal and orientation in London Shaikhouna Ben Abdellah Ben Beyah.
Afterwards, Toufiq handed HM the King a copy of a calligraphy manuscript of the Moroccan style, which dates from the 19th century. The original version of this manuscript is kept in the library of the Ben Youssef mosque in Marrakech.
This first lecture was given by endowments and Islamic affairs minister Ahmed Toufiq on the theme "the rights of the spirit and its economic dimensions", drawing on Surate Ashams, verses 7-10 "And the soul and He who proportioned it, and inspired it its wickedness and its righteousness, he has succeeded who purifies it, and he has failed who instills it".
Toufiq recalled at the beginning of his speech that noteworthy scholars of the Islamic Ummah have studied all that is related to the rights of the soul in the Holy Quran and the Sunnah and distinguished between the absolute rights and the compound rights, noting that the latter are also the rights of Allah, His Prophet, the individual and the community.
The individual has first rights to himself then come the compound rights that naturally impact the community and especially its economic aspects, he said.
Toufiq then made it clear that the theme of this talk will be addressed based on four evidences and one conviction.
As for evidences, the speaker first cited the causal relationship between human behavior and economic choices. Second, he noted that human behavior manifests itself through politics, which is basically the management of human weakness. The third evidence, he went on to say, is to consent that human behavior depends on the desires of the soul of the individual which push him to consume, while the fourth conviction is related to the market as a meeting point between economy, politics and the soul.
He noted, as it is stated in the Quran, that the conviction is the fact of shaping the soul so that it can guide the behavior of men to ultimately build a lifestyle in which economy is just one dimension among others.
In this respect, the soul is defined as an acting force from which stems a certain behavior, said Toufiq, adding that Allah has sworn to shape the soul and make it pure and loving by nature.
The purification of the soul is the right of the soul from which several other rights derive and is therefore the foundation for building a healthy personality in terms of religion, he said.
Toufiq noted in this sense that the Holy Quran has warned against parsimony because it constitutes an injustice towards the soul and an attack on one of its fundamental rights, noting that piety, which involves the purification of the soul, is both the origin and the result of an economic choice imbued with the virtues of altruism and generosity.
At the end of the lecture, HM the King was greeted mainly by special envoy of Nigeria Ahmed Aboubakar Rifai, President of the forum for peace promotion in Muslim societies Sheikh Abdallah Ben Biyah, and director of world's centre for renewal and orientation in London Shaikhouna Ben Abdellah Ben Beyah.
Afterwards, Toufiq handed HM the King a copy of a calligraphy manuscript of the Moroccan style, which dates from the 19th century. The original version of this manuscript is kept in the library of the Ben Youssef mosque in Marrakech.
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