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1 What your class asks
This lesson asks you to explain what spending, saving, earning, investing and donating mean, and to name the main things to consider in basic decisions about each. The museum offers records on two of the five, saving and donating, as jurists describe them; earning, spending and investing, and your own decisions, are for your class to bring. What the records describe is the history of a view, not financial or religious guidance. 1
Curriculum expectations, with their official codes
- F1.3 explain the concepts of spending, saving, earning, investing, and donating, and identify key factors to consider when making basic decisions related to each
2 The lesson
What would you weigh before you earn, save or give?
For one of the three ideas, list two things a person might consider before deciding. Say which of them the record names and which you added yourself.
Go deeper
The Kuwaiti encyclopaedia of jurisprudence records that saving (idkhar) is putting a thing aside for the time of need, and that the jurists keep to this sense 2. It records one case: if a person has stored staple food beyond his need, and another then comes to be in dire need of it, he must give it to him 3. On giving, it says that sadaqa transfers the thing itself and admits no taking back, while a loaned object must return to its owner 4.
Think about it
The record says saving is putting a thing aside for a time of need, and that food stored beyond a person's need goes to someone in dire need. Why might a town need both people who save and a rule about sharing what is saved, and not only one of them?
Into the museum
- Saving (idkhar): what saving meant to the jurists, for a person and for the state.
- Sadaqa: what the word covers and how the jurists tell it apart from a gift, a present and a loan.
3 Carry it further
Where this lesson leads in the museum.
4 Check yourself
Nothing here is marked or sent anywhere. It is for you.
In your own words: what does Idkhar (saving and storing wealth: the state's reserves, individuals' savings, zakat and hoarding) have to do with this lesson?
Compare with the card
Putting something aside. The record explains that saving, idkhar, is putting a thing aside for the time of need, and that the jurists keep to this sense. What would you put money aside for?
In your own words: what does Sadaqa (voluntary charity) have to do with this lesson?
Compare with the card
Giving for God's sake. The Kuwaiti encyclopaedia of jurisprudence, as the record gives it, defines sadaqa as what is given seeking nearness to God rather than human favour, covering both zakat and voluntary alms. It adds that sadaqa aids the weak, relieves the distressed, gives thanks for God's blessings, and shows the giver's faith. What could a gift of your own help someone with?
I can now
Notes
- 1. Ontario Ministry of Education, The Ontario Curriculum: Mathematics
- 2. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3), p.1995
- 3. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3), p.2000
- 4. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3), p.10296