What does Al-ksb mean?

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Discover the meaning of the term Al-ksb (كسب) in Islamic vocabulary.

Definition Al-ksb

Al-ksb according to Kitab at-Ta'rifat (Al-Jurjani)

It is the act leading to attracting benefit or averting harm; God's act cannot be described as kasb, He being exalted above gaining benefit or averting harm.

Al-ksb according to Dustur al-'Ulama (Al-Ahmadnagari)

It is the act leading to attracting benefit or averting harm; God's act cannot be described as kasb, He being free of gaining benefit or averting harm. Kasb is also the employing of causes by choice; this is the sense of their saying: 'kasb is the servant's directing of his power'; if asked the difference between kasb and creation (khalq), we answer: the servant's directing of his power and will toward the act, and God's producing the act following that directing, is creation; the same possible object falls under both powers, but under two distinct aspects: the act is possible of God under the aspect of production, and possible of the servant under the aspect of kasb; it does not follow that two independent causes compete over the same individual effect, which is impossible. The theologians gave, for the difference between them, formulas such as: kasb occurs through an instrument and khalq without one; the kasib's possible occurs in what subsists by the kasib, as motion and rest subsist by the mover and the still; thus kasb occurs

Al-ksb according to Mu'jam al-Mustalahat al-Fiqhiyya

It is the striving in seeking sustenance and livelihood; it is defined as the act leading to attracting benefit or averting harm.

Al-ksb according to Al-Qamus al-Fiqhi

'To earn for his folk' kasban: seek sustenance and livelihood for them. 'To gather the thing': collect it. In the Quran: 'O you who believe, spend of the good things you have earned' (al-Baqara, 267), that is, gathered. 'To earn property kasban': profit from it; he is kasib, plural kusbat. 'To earn sin': bear it; in the Quran: 'Whoever earns a fault or sin, then casts it upon an innocent, has burdened himself with slander and manifest sin' (al-Nisa', 112). 'To earn for someone wealth or knowledge': bring it to him.

Al-ksb according to At-Tawqif (Al-Munawi)

What proceeds from act, word, work and effects, by the right use of power; mentioned by al-Harali. Ibn Kamal said (al-Ta'rifat, p. 193): the act leading to attracting benefit or averting harm; God's act cannot be called kasb, being exalted above gaining benefit or averting harm. Al-Raghib said (al-Mufradat, p. 430): kasb is what man selects of what carries benefit and gain; it is also used of what is thought beneficial then proves harmful; kasb covers what one acquires for oneself and for others, while iktisab is said only of what one acquires for oneself.

Al-ksb according to At-Ta'rifat al-Fiqhiyya (Al-Barkati)

It is the act leading to attracting benefit or averting harm.