Inspiring quotes from the Meccan Revelations (... more)
[ The symbolism of the number forty ]
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Nor is it zakat for anything less than five uqiyahs, and an uqiyah is forty dirhams, and forty in an uqiyah is the equivalent of forty mornings. Whoever is sincere in it, springs of wisdom will appear from his heart on his tongue. If it appears from the servant in five circumstances, as is the case in zakat, five uqiyahs. A condition in its outward appearance has an uqiyah, and it is apparent sincerity and a condition in Its inner state is like it, its state in its definition is like it, its beginning state is like it, and its total condition is like it. These are five states multiplied by forty, so the outside is two hundred, which is the limit of the quorum. Five dirhams out of every forty dirhams are one dirham, which is related to every forty of monotheism appropriate to that type, and the amounts of meanings and souls are amounts, according to his saying. They did not value God as He deserved.
