Have we cherised tho who are in need?

“‘Man’, said the Prophet, ‘says: My wealth!  My wealth!’  Have you not any wealth except that which you give as alms and thus preserve, wear and tatter, eat and use up?”

Islam has been taught us to cherish those who are in need.

Charity itself according to dictionary.reference.com is

generous actions or donations to aid the poor, ill, or helpless: to devote one's life to charity.

In Islam this is called as Zakat and is one of Islamic five pilars. Muslims believe that by give charity to those who are in need, it will keep their wealth. in Arabic, zakat literally means “purification”, because zakat is considered to purify one’s heart of greed.  Love of wealth is natural and it takes firm belief in God for a person to part with some of his wealth.  Zakat must be paid on different categories of property — gold, silver, money; livestock; agricultural produce; and business commodities — and is payable each year after one year’s possession.  It requires an annual contribution of 2.5 percent of an individual’s wealth and assets.

I recommend you to visit this site http://www.islamreligion.com/articles/46/

from there, we know how important to practice the charity in our real life.

so, why don't don't we try to cherish those? by giving charity to those means that we also cheris ourselves.

 

happy reading and trying :)

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