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Religious Misconceptions of Ages Proved in One Basket - Compressed
Religious Misconceptions of Ages Proved in One Basket - Compressed
The conceptual beliefs of the Sheiks is “AsliSauda” ot "True Business". This means to do good
for the people and good will happen for you. When Guru Nanak started his journey to do
business, he spent all that he had in feeding the homeless and returned empty handed. So,
when everybody asked what he had done with the money he said he did the “aslisauda” that
is he did good for the people. Later on in his life he preached that learning to every religion to
do the “aslisauda”. Do good for the people and good will happen for you and there is no
religion better than doing good deeds for the people. During his time he preached this
ideology to every place and went everywhere to spread this very ideology “doing good deeds
for the people ''. We Muslim do the same in the name of Jakat to better the lives of others at
a particular period of the year. But there is no particular period mentioned in the Quran to
give Jakat as you can do good for the people throughout the year but one just needs to make
sure the amount is not less than the mentioned 2.5% of the property. However, if one wishes
to give away more there is no binding to it. Unfortunately, we are hung up on that number
and that particular time which makes our effort fixated at a particular time frame. If we can
contribute throughout the year to do good for the people, the burden of Jakat will be
lessened and we all can perform the task of “aslisauda”. Till the death of Guru Nanak he
belonged to no particular religion but carried his own religious beliefs but when he died his
body was nowhere to be found as most started to believe that he might be the second
coming of Jesus or Isha as Allah had taken him back to the heavens. But, the contribution to
do good for the people or Jakat for the good of the people is the “aslisauda”. We Muslims just
put a number on it so it seemed like a deal with the god.