{
 "id": "concept/nawafil",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "nawafil",
 "label": {
  "ar": "النوافل",
  "en": "Supererogatory works (nawafil)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "النوافل في الحديث الثامن والثلاثون من الأربعين رتبة التقرب الثانية بعد الفرائض: «وما تقرب إلي عبدي بشيء أحب إلي مما افترضت عليه، ولا يزال عبدي يتقرب إلي بالنوافل حتى أحبه» — فهي الأعمال الزائدة على الواجب من صلاة وصوم وصدقة وذكر يستمر بها العبد بعد إقامة الفرض حتى تناله محبة الله، ورتبتها في الشرح تابعة للفرائض لا تقدم عليها: فمن أهمل الفرض واشتغل بالنفل فقد قدم المرجوح على الراجح (جامع العلوم والحكم ص 770).",
  "en": "Supererogatory works in the thirty-eighth hadith of the Forty are the second rank of drawing near after the obligations: 'My servant draws near to Me by nothing dearer to Me than what I have made obligatory on him, and My servant keeps drawing near to Me through the supererogatory until I love him' — works beyond the required of prayer, fasting, charity and remembrance, by which the servant perseveres after establishing the obligatory until God's love reaches him; their rank in the commentary is subordinate to the obligations and never precedes them — whoever neglects the obligatory while busying himself with the supererogatory has put the lesser before the greater (Jami' al-Ulum wal-Hikam p. 770)."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "ideas"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "spirituality-and-sufism"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "ethical",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "جامع العلوم والحكم، الحديث الثامن والثلاثون ص 770 (ط دار ابن كثير 1429هـ/2008م)",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-jami-ulum-hikam-batch-14"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High); the faraid/nawafil ordering verified against OCR of printed p. 770"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "النوافل هي الأعمال الزائدة على الواجب، من صلاة وصوم وصدقة وذكر. وهي في الحديث الثامن والثلاثين من الأربعين رتبة التقرب الثانية بعد الفرائض، كما في قوله: «ولا يزال عبدي يتقرب إلي بالنوافل حتى أحبه». {cite:ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam p.770}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ترتيبها بعد الفرائض",
     "markdown": "يستمر العبد على النوافل بعد إقامة الفرض حتى تناله محبة الله. وتأتي رتبتها في شرح [[person/ibn-rajab|ابن رجب]] تابعة للفرائض لا متقدمة عليها. فمن أهمل الفرض واشتغل بالنفل فقد قدّم المرجوح على الراجح. {cite:ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam p.770}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/nawafil",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Supererogatory acts (*nawafil*) are deeds beyond what is obligatory: prayer, fasting, charity, and remembrance. In the thirty-eighth hadith of the Forty, they are the second rank of drawing near to God after the obligations, as in the words: \"My servant does not cease to draw near to Me by supererogatory acts until I love him.\" {cite:ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam p.770}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Their rank after the obligations",
     "markdown": "The servant continues with supererogatory acts after establishing the obligation, until God's love reaches him. In [[person/ibn-rajab|Ibn Rajab's]] commentary their rank follows the obligations; it does not precede them. Whoever neglects the obligation and occupies himself with the supererogatory has preferred the lesser over the greater. {cite:ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam p.770}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/nawafil",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "passage/arbaun-38",
   "type": "based_on",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "concept/wilaya",
  "concept/hadith-qudsi",
  "concept/karamat-al-awliya",
  "person/abu-hurayra",
  "passage/arbaun-38",
  "concept/adab",
  "concept/birr",
  "concept/dhikr"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}