Dr. Lili Yulyadi Arnakim

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Cleansing one's assets is not yet known in the conventional financial planning. For the conventional concerns more with wealth creation, wealth accumulation, wealth protection, and wealth distribution. Wealth purification or cleansing assets is very fundamental concept in Islamic financial planning. In Islam, in fact, it has been acquired in various forms and occasion. Qur'an as primary source of Islamic way of life (shari'ah) states "Of their goods, take alms, that so thou mightiest purify and sanctify them; and pray on their behalf. Verily thy prayers are a source of security for them; and God is One Who Heareth and knoweth" (Qur'an 9:103).

First and foremost, the assets purification is through alms giving. In Arabic, it is called as Zakat or Sadaqa. Zakat is masdar -the third form of zakaya - which means clean or purify. It purifies our wealth from the evil of this world and protects our soul from miserliness, selfishness and greed. It also cleans poverty in the society. Zakat also means growth. Thus who pays zakat, his wealth will grow. As Allah says "The parable of those who spend their substances in the way of God is that of grain of corn: it groweth seven ears, and each ear hath a hundred grains. God giveth manifold increase to whom He pleaseth: and God careth for all and He knoweth all things" (Qur'an 2:261).

Toshiko Izutsu

The word " separation " (farq) primarily refers to the common-sense view of reality. Before we subjectively attain to the stage of f ana'  we naturally tend to separate the Absolute from the phenomenal world. The phenomenal world is the realm of relativity, a world where nothing is absolute, where all things are observed to be impermanent , transient , and constantly  changing. This is the kind of observation which plays an exceedingly important role in  Buddhism as the principle of universal impermanence. The world of multiplicity, be it remarked, is a realm where our senses and reason fulfil their normal functions.