Showing posts with label charity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label charity. Show all posts

Thursday, 24 February 2022

AVERTING STINGINESS

 


AVERTING STINGINESS 


Wise people used to say:


"A generous man is free because he owns his money, while a stingy man does not deserve to be called free because his money owns him." 


Book: Disciplining The Soul

By al-Hāfiz Abū'l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzī 

Translated and Published by 

Dār as-Sunnah Publishers 

P. 38


[To read this text in Spanish language, click here]



Wednesday, 26 January 2022

SHOW BENEVOLENCE TO THE CREATION

 



SHOW BENEVOLENCE TO THE CREATION 



From the ways to achieve happiness is to show benevolence to the creation and to benefit them as much as possible with wealth, position, physical assistance and all forms of kindness. Indeed, the generous, kind person is the happiest of the people, the most cheerful of them and those with the happiest hearts.


Conversely, the stingy person, who lacks kindness, is the most miserable of the people, the one with the most depressing life and the one with the greatest sorrow and anxiety.




Book: The Keys To Happiness
By Imām Ibn Al-Qayyim
Translated by Hassan Somali
Hikmah Publications
P. 27



Tuesday, 30 November 2021

A DINĀR YOU SPENT ON YOUR FAMILY


 A DINĀR YOU SPENT ON YOUR FAMILY


One should only refrain from marriage if he fears that he might not be able to fulfill her rights. Bearing the burden of wife and children is like jihād in Allāh's path.


It occurs in the collection of Muslim that the Prophet (ﷺ) said: 


"A dinār you spent in Allāh's path, a dinār you spent to free a slave, a dinār you gave as charity to a poor person, and a dinār you spent on your family- the best of them is the one you spent on your family." *


* Muslim #995 on the authority of Abū Hurayrah (radiyAllāhu'anhu)


Book: The Refinement Of Character 

By Imām Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdīsī 

Translated and Published by 

Dār as-Sunnah Publishers 

P. 23


[To read this text in Spanish Language click here]


Sunday, 12 July 2015

A Man Saying, "Laa: Wa Abika, No: By Your Father"!


A Man Saying, "Laa: Wa Abika,

 No: By Your Father"!

Imaam Bukhaari rahimahullah

Chapter 335: A Man Saying, "Laa: Wa Abika, No: By Your Father"


778.  Abu Hurayra said: "A man came to the Messenger of Allah (صلي الله عليه وسلم) and said, 'Messenger of Allah, which sadaqa has the best reward?' He answered, 'Wa abika. By your father, you will learn of it. 'It is that you give sadaqa while you are healthy and avaricious, fearful of poverty and desirous of wealth. You should not delay it until you are at the point of death and then say, "This much is for so-and-so. This much is for so-and-so when it already belongs to so-and-so." ' "


Source: Al-Adab Al-Mufrad. A Code For Everyday Livings: THE EXAMPLE OF THE EARLY MUSLIMS. Imaam Bukhaari rahimahullah. {Book, Chapter: 335. Page: 153}.

Saturday, 2 May 2015

Ruling On Charity Events


Ruling On Charity Events

Sh. Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān Ḥafidhahullāh

Sh. Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān حفظه الله asked: We are a group of female students and we want to organise what is called a charity dish, and the way it is done is that every one brings a type of food and then it is sold to the students and its revenue is given to the needy? And the reason why the money is not donated directly is that some (female) students cannot afford to donate the money, rather they can only prepare food to sell it. So what is the ruling on this action?

Answer: “This question has already been asked, and the answer was that this is not appropriate, and the one who wants good then the door of good is open, and the one who wants to give charity he gives charity without this method. And the one who is not able is not required (to give charity).

‘Allāh puts no burden on any person beyond what He has given him. Allāh will grant after hardship, ease.’ • [al-Qur’ān 65:7]

And this food that she makes and gives at charity she should give it as charity without making it. She gives as charity the wheat or the rice to the needy and they make it themselves and benefit from it. 

As for these charity dishes and these gatherings for women and these exaggerations in this activity they are all actions that Allāh did not send down a proof for. And also in this there is difficulty to do good. So the one who wants to give charity the door of good is made easy, he donates and gives charity to the needy directly.”

لفضيلة شيخنا العلامة صالح فوزان الفوزان في اللقاء الأسبوعي شريط رقم (17) 1423 هــ
سؤال :ـ 

نحن مجموعة من الطالبات ونريد أن نقيم ما يسمى بالطبق الخيري وصورتُهُ : أنْ تُحضر كل واحدةٍ من الطعام نوعا ثم يباع على الطالبات وريعُهُ يُصْرَف على المحتاجين؟ وسببُ عدم التبرع بالمال مباشرة : أنَّ بعض الطالبات لا يستطعن التبرُّع بالمال ، وإنما يقدرنَ على صنع الطعام ليباع فما حكم هـذا العمل؟ 

الجواب:

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم :ـ

سبقَ السؤال عن هـذا وأجيب عنه بأن هـذا غير مناسب. والذي يريد الخير فبابُ الخير 
مفتوح ، والذي يريد أن يتصدق يتصدقُ بدون هـذه الطريقة . والذي لا يستطيع فهـذا غير مكلَّف ، وإذا كانت ـ كما ذكرت السائلة ـ لا تستطيع الصدقة فإنها غير مكلفة بها ( لا يكلف اللهُ نفساً إلا ما آتاها سيجعل الله بعد عُسْر يُسْرا) 

وهـذا الطعام الذي تصنعُهُ وتتصدًّق به لو تصدقت به بدون صُنْعٍ ، تصدقت بالطعام بالبُّر أو بالرُّز تصدقتْ به فدفعتُهُ ذوي الحاجة وهـم يصنعونَهُ وينتفِعون به أما مسألة هذه الأطباق وهذه التجمعات للنساء وهذه المبالغات في هذا العمل فهذه كلها تكلفات ما انزل الله بها من سلطان .

وهذا أيضا فيه صعوبة لفعل الخير . فالذي يريدُ أنْ يتصدق فبابُ الخير مُيسَّر يتبرعُ يتصدق به على المحتاجين مباشرة .) 

● [اللقاء الأسبوعي شريط رقم 17]
_________________