Building the earth and work as worship

Sha'rawi holds that Islam covers every activity in life that fulfils the human vice-regency on earth and its building, and that the pillars are a foundation that is not enough by itself ¹.

He says prayer, fasting, zakat and the pilgrimage are the pillars on which Islam is built, and that one cannot make Islam nothing but these pillars, just as a foundation alone is not a house ¹.

He notes that prayer takes an hour a day, zakat a day a year, fasting a month, and the pilgrimage one time in a life. He asks what a person does with the rest of his time, and answers that bread needs knowledge, movement and energy, so work becomes worship ^{1 2}.

He rebukes those who say they are created only to worship and do not work. A person should not take the fruit of another's work without effort, and doing a task well is part of good worship ².

The view he rejects is not attributed to a named author and has not been checked. No academic or non-Sunni view has been checked.