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حتى التعبديات المحضة في الشرع لها مقاصدها، ولهذا علل القرآن العبادات ذاتها، فالصلاة {تَنْهَى عَنِ الْفَحْشَاءِ وَالْمُنْكَرِ} والزكاة {تُطَهِّرُهُمْ وَتُزَكِّيهِمْ بِهَا} والصيام {لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ} والحج {لِيَشْهَدُوا مَنَافِعَ لَهُمْ وَيَذْكُرُوا اسْمَ اللَّهِ}
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Translation	Even acts of pure worship in the shar` (Allah’s law) have [deep] purposes, and for this reason the Quran mentions the reasons behind these acts, for example the salah “restrains from shameful and unjust deeds” [Quran 29:45] and the zakah “to cleanse them and purify them thereby” [Quran 9:103] and siyam [fasting] “to acquire fear and mindfulness of God” [Quran 2:183] and the haj [pilgrimage to Makkah] “so that they might experience much that shall be of benefit to them, and that they might extol the name of God” [Quran 22:28]
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Source	Fiqh al-Awlawiyyat by Yusuf al-Qaradhawi. Second impression 1996. Maktabah al-Wahbah, Cairo.

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