1.

The Reality of Poverty and its Different States

2.

The Excellence of Absolute Poverty

3.

Poverty’s Excellence over Wealth

4.

The Reality of Abstinence

5.

The Excellence of Abstinence

6.

The Degrees of Abstinence

7.

The Signs of Abstinence

Appendix: Persons Cited in the Text

Index to Qur’anic Quotations

Bibliography

General Index