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Inspiration & Guidance Sadaqah is the generic, all embracing term for charity and includes: alms giving, doing good deeds, being excellent, implementing reconciliation and justice, generosity, having goodness of heart, doing good to others, smiling, being courteous, exercising restraint, giving a helping hand, removing an obstacle from the path of anyone, being respectful, and, giving of our selves and our wealth - no matter how little according to our means. Indeed, the value of each ones giving and reward is measured according to each ones means. Sadaqah has specific financial elements. Financial sadaqah includes Zakah and Fitra (compulsory on Muslims) and charities such as Waqf and Lillah which are voluntary forms of giving. We invite researchers and writers to submit detailed discussion papers on the subject of Sadaqah. Read the description of sadaqah below, as presented by the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Sadaqa literally means truthfulness. The Qur’an refers to sadaqah broadly as to giving from ones possessions as an active expression of faith. The Prophet (s), on the other hand, referred to many acts of voluntary sadaqah, for example, smiling or kindness, as acts act of sadaqah. He also referred to sadaqah as zakah. “Inform them that Allah (swt) has prescribed on them sadaqah…” (Hadith quoted in al-Qardawi: 1999 343) Not all sadaqah is compulsory but prescribed sadaqah is zakah. Hence one also finds the zakah-al-fitr which is a compulsory levy which Muslims must pay before the I’d salaah for the benefit of the poor and indigent. From the Holy Qur'ān: "And establish regular Prayer (Salaat) And give regular Zakah And loan to Allah a Beautiful Loan" Sura Muzammil 73:20
"Not equal are those Believers who sit (at home)
And receive no hurt,
And those who strive
In the cause of Allah with their wealth and their persons.
Allah hath granted
A grade higher to those
Who strive and fight with their wealth and persons
Than to those who sit (at home).
Unto all (believers)
Hath Allah promised good:
But those who strive in the path of Allah
Hath He distinguished
Above those who sit (at home)
By a special reward:
Ranks specially bestowed
By Him and More Forgiveness and Mercy.
For Allah is Oft Forgiving, Most Merciful."
Sura Nisãa 4:95
From the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him): 1. Every good act is sadaqah (charity). 2. Doing justice between two people is sadaqah; and assisting a man upon his beast, and lifting his baggage, is sadaqah; and pure, comforting words are sadaqah; and answering a questioner with mildness, is sadaqah; and removing that which is an inconvenience to wayfarers, such as thorns and stones, is sadaqah. 3. Your smiling in your brother's face, is sadaqah; and exhorting mankind to virtuous deeds, is sadaqah; and prohibiting the forbidden, is sadaqah; and your showing men the road, in the land in which they lose it, is sadaqah; and your assisting the blind, is sadaqah. 4.
'A'isha (RA) said that Rasulullah (saw) said : "The deeds most loved by Allah
swt (are those) done regularly, even if they are small". ( Bukhari, Muslim ) Other inspiration: "It is not when you give of your wealth that you truly give. It is only when you give of yourself that is when you truly give." Khalil Gibran in The Prophet
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