After all, whatever the social functions and implications of his or her act may be, the person is performing a
supererogatory act, for which he or she deserves praise, not blame.
VM has little room for the distinction between
supererogatory and obligatory, between counsel and precept.
It just will not do to treat this issue as uni-dimensional, devoid of
supererogatory elements.
Many people loosely resort to Haj by proxy in the case of
supererogatory Haj, even though they are well capable of performing it.
One way for intrapersonal permissivism to be true is if there are epistemic
supererogatory beliefs--beliefs that go beyond the call of epistemic duty.
By using the day and night of Ramadan in adhkar (remembrance of Allah), salah (prayer), nawafil (
supererogatory prayers), du'a (supplication), recitation of the Qur'an, seeking knowledge of the religion, charity, keeping family ties, among others, new personalities would emerge that would be pillars for the reconstruction of a new, desired society.
are "
supererogatory"--a term that serves precisely to
When cultural values are no longer taken in earnest but are regarded as a secondary luxury or a
supererogatory refinement then society is eroded by spiritual demoralisation.
If the idea of God could be accounted for naturalistically, supernatural explanations became
supererogatory and therefore dubious.
And he who broke the covenant made by a Muslim, there is a curse of Allah, of his angels, and of the whole people upon him, and neither an obligatory act nor a
supererogatory act would be accepted from him as recompense on the Day of Resurrection." Sahih Muslim, Book 7, Hadith 3167 - Sunnah.com 4 - "Whoever wrongs one with whom a covenant has been made, burdens him with more than he can bear or forcibly takes something from him, I will be his adversary on the Day of Judgment," as narrated by Sawfan Ibn Sulaim through a number of the Companions' children [30 narrators according to the version of Ibn Zangawiyah and al-Baihaqi] who directly narrated from their fathers.
The following divine saying (hadith qudsi), commonly referred to in Islamic sources as hadith al-nawafil ("the tradition concerning
supererogatory works," henceforth, the nawafil tradition), is one of the most quoted traditions in Islamic mystical literature:
Many imaging and cytology-based strategies have been employed to augment early detection; however, because of low sensitivity or
supererogatory cost, none has yet been highly efficient.
Vlasopolos echoes what Romanian feminist Mihaela Miroiu terms women's "
supererogatory duty" as mother's and wives.
encouraging people to engage in
supererogatory acts toward one another
