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The Islamic Trust, Part three
The early Islamic Trust extended to include: Trust for brides: This was confined only for lending the poor brides ornament, wedding clothes and gold to use on their wedding day to please them the same way the rich do. These ornaments were to be given back once the wedding party finished. A trust for boosting the ill In this, two male nurses were paid just to stand near the bed of patient in hopeless case where he could hear them, they would talk to each other about the health condition of the bedridden person to enhance his health condition; the first is to ask the other one: What did the doctor say about him (the patient)?
The other man says. This is a new method that modern world medication follows but in different way by strengthening the morale of the patients. A trust for to entertain the patient and the strangers In this case, two or more people of lovely voices are paid just to sing religious lyrics all the day and the night according to shifts; this was not only confined to the patients but also to the strangers to alleviate the blunt of the psychological atmosphere that a stranger felt. Another one was confined for helping the servants who broke dishes or bowels, this was invented to avoid any troubles that would be incurred on them for their negligence on the part of their masters. A servant could go to this Trust house to substitute the broken vessel with another one new. Islam doesn't condone the needy and the poor question, Islam entails and even has shaped the role that the governments, societies and the rich should play to solve this problem, So, in Islam, the concept of social liability is a must that should be carefully achieved. Islam doesn't confine the charitable Trust only to Muslims; all people, regardless of their religion are included, the Islamic history has witnessed many situations that lay credence to this approach; it is narrated that lady Safya, the prophet's wife, had a Trust that she confined it to her Jewish brother. Also, Umar ibn Alkhatab, upon seeing an old Jew roaming the streets begging people for money, took him to the Islamic treasury and earmarked for him a sum of money.
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