Ma`rifat Eqtesadi

Many Surahs and verses of the Quran address the issue of poverty and how to combat it. The Quran places important social responsibilities on the shoulders of Muslims. As the first and most important place where the verses of the Quran were revealed, Mecca faced poverty and deprivation before and after the Prophethood. In order to become familiar with the evolution of the sources and methods of combating poverty, it is necessary to study them based on the revelation order of the Surahs of the Holy Quran. This article seeks to introduce and compare the sources and methods used in Mecca. This study was conducted using library documents, content analysis and interpretation methods. The results show that due to the spread of poverty, slavery, and hunger in Mecca, God made honoring orphans, feeding the poor, helping relatives, and helping the needy obligatory in the initial surah of the Quran, but in the later surahs, zakat, giving for a better society (infaq), known rights, charity, and interest-free lending were made obligatory as the most important resources and methods of combating poverty. Paying attention to these findings can be useful for policymaking and combating poverty both in the absence and presence of an Islamic government.