Poverty revisited: presenting poverty the normative way

This paper delves into the issue of poverty from the islamic perspective. particularly, the author aims to present the concept of poverty in the “normative” [as it ought to be] way and enquires whether concerns regarding poverty, or the state of poverty, is for muslims a justified issue. in other words, are the absence of material supplies and wealth widely seen today in a negative light or is it the real or true poverty - as represented by the qur’ān (allah) and (sunnah) his messenger (pbuh) - really the poverty worth focusing on? without adequately understanding what poverty is there cannot be effective solutions and interventions. employing scriptural evidence vis-à-vis islamic legal reasoning, we argue that normative poverty, in accordance with the islamic tradition, is the real poverty and not material poverty