Charity
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It may happen that a servant (of God) gives a loaf of bread in charity but it turns out to be great as Mount Uhud to God.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1102; Page No. 156 link
It would be much better for one to give a penny in health (in the way of God) than to emancipate a salve at the point of death.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1107; Page No. 157 link
If a relative is in need, giving alms(to others) will not be fair.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 982; Page No. 139 link
It is better for a man to give a Dirham in charity in his lifetime than to give a hundred Dirhams at the verge of death.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 1078; Page No. 153 link
For everything there is a key, and the key to Paradise is to love the poor and the needy.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 633; Page No. 92 link
For the realization of three things I (earnestly) swear: charity causes no reduction in one's wealth, patience against injustice causes God, the Great and Powerful, to enhance one's dignity and begging makes God to open to the beggar the doors of poverty. And keep in mind what I tell you. There are four groups of people in the world. First, those gifted with knowledge and wealth, who fear their Lord in dispensing them, who give a hand to their kinds and who know that God has a share in their possessions. This group has the highest status. The second group is those gifted with knowledge but not wealth, who are truthful of intention in saying, `if we possessed wealth, we would practice what the wealthy do'. This group will gain the results of their own intentions and are equal in reward with the first one. The third group are those gifted with wealth but not knowledge, who make use of their wealth ignorantly, fear not their Lord in dispensing their wealth, give no hand to their kinsmen and observe no share for God in their possessions. This group has the lowest status. The fourth group is those on whom God has bestowed neither wealth nor knowledge, who keep on saying, `If we possessed wealth, we would practice much the same as the wealthy'. This group too will pick the fruits of their own intentions and are equal in vice with their leaders.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 637; Page No. 92&93 link
For the realization of three things I (easily) swear: charity will not cause a reduction in one's wealth (give charity, therefore), no one connives at the oppressions he has gone through, unless God expands his dignity (forgive, therefore, and God will further your dignity), and nobody stretches the hand of need toward others unless God opens the door of poverty on him.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 638; Page No. 93 link
Give something to those who beg you, though coming to you on horse back (though rich), and pay workers their wage before sweat is dried on their skin.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 678; Page No. 98&99 link
Giving a morsel of food to a Muslim brother for God's sake is more favorite to me than giving a Dirham in charity, and giving a Dirham to a Muslim is more favorite to me than giving ten Dirhams in charity, and giving him ten Dirhams is more favorite to me than making a slave free.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 684; Page No. 99 link
Giving alms to kinds is alms-giving as well as strengthening ties of kinship.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 685; Page No. 99 link
Giving charity early in morning takes away all evils.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 686; Page No. 100 link
Give alms, for a time may come to pass when man manages to give something on charity, but the one who is supposed to get it will say, "I would have accepted it if you had brought it yesterday. Today, I am no more in need of it." and thus he will find nobody to accept it.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 672; Page No. 98 link
Give alms, for it surely releases you from the Fire.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 673; Page No. 98 link
Give alms, though a date it might be, for it drops one's hunger and puts out (the fire of) sin just as water makes fire extinguished.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 674; Page No. 98 link
Give something to a beggar, even if it is half a date (petty).
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 677; Page No. 98 link
Charity blocks seventy doors to evil.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 373; Page No. 58 link
Charity puts sins out just as water extinguishes fire.
Nahj al Fasahah; Tradition No. 374; Page No. 58 link
Everyone will only have recourse to the shade provided by charity they had given until their affairs are judged [by Allah].
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 16068; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 175 link
Verily charity extinguishes the wrath of the Lord.
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 16114; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 175 link
Charity prevents seventy different types of adversities, the simplest of them being elephantiasis and leprosy.
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 15982; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 176 link
Give charity, and cure your sick ones through the giving of charity, for verily charity repels accidents and illnesses, and is a source of increase in your life spans and your good deeds.
Kanz al-`Ummal, 16113; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 176 link
The best form of charity is to give away when one is healthy and covetous, when one has high hopes of one's livelihood and fears poverty. Do not wait until you are breathing your last to bequeath to others, saying: 'this is for x and this is for y, and this belonged to z.
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 16251; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 178 link
The best of people is he who gives away his hard-earned money [in charity].
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 16084; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 178 link
The best form of charity is that which is secretly given to the poor by one who himself has little to offer.
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 16250; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 179 link
The best form of charity is for the Muslim to gain knowledge and then teach it to his fellow Muslim brother.
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 16357; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 179 link
The best form of charity is to shade someone under one's tent for the sake of Allah.
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 16362; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 179 link
"A worshipper prayed to Allah for eighty years. Then he fell in love with a woman and fulfilled his desires with her. When the angel of death approached him, he became mute. A beggar happened to pass by. That person pointed out the beggar to take the piece of bread lying in his pocket. The Almighty Allah had destroyed his worship of eighty years due to the adultery committed by him but He forgave him for offering that piece of bread."
Sawab al-A`amal, Page 184/185 link
"My father used to say that the first deed to be rewarded on the Day of Judgment is offering water as Sadaqah."
Sawab al-A`amal, Page 185 link
Imam Ja'far Sadiq (a.s.) narrates from his predecessors that the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) said, "Sadaqah keeps one away from unpleasant death."
Sawab al-A`amal, Page 186 link
Imam Ja'far Sadiq (a.s.) narrates from his predecessors that the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) said, "The ground of Qiyamat is fire except the shade of a believer. Indeed his Sadaqah shades him."
Sawab al-A`amal, Page 186 link
Imam Musa Kazim (a.s.) was asked,"Is it better for a rich person to give Sadaqah or to buy a slave and free him?" Imam (a.s.) replied, "I prefer Sadaqah."
Sawab al-A`amal, Page 186 link
"Good deeds and Sadaqah keep poverty away, increases life. A person who does good deeds and gives Sadaqah is safe from seventy types of unpleasant deaths."
Sawab al-A`amal, Page 186 link
Imam Muhammad Baqir (a.s.) narrates that Amirul Momineen (a.s.) said that once he gave a dinar as Sadaqah. The Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) told him,"O Ali! Don't you know, that before a believer gives Sadaqah seventy Satans are released and they plead him not to do so. This Sadaqah passes through the hands of Allah before reaching the hands of the beggar." Then he recited the verse: 'Don't you know that only Allah accepts the repentance of the servants and takes Sadaqah. Surely Allah is the Greatest Forgiver and Most Merciful."
Sawab al-A`amal, Page 186/187 link
"Instead of going for Hajj I would prefer freeing a slave." Then he went on increasing the number of slaves to be freed one by one comparing them with a single Hajj till he reached ten. Further he increased the number of slaves to be freed in multiples of ten comparing them with a single Hajj till he reached seventy. Then he said, "I like to feed a Muslim family, clothe them and safeguard their honor instead of going for a Hajj." Then he went on increasing the number of Hajj by one comparing them with care of a family till he reached ten. Further he increased the number of Hajj in multiples of ten comparing them with care of a family till he reached seventy.
Sawab al-A`amal, Page 187 link
"If eighty people do a good deed together each person will get the reward equal to that of all the people without decrease in the reward of any one of them."
Sawab al-A`amal, Page 187 link
"The Sadaqah given at the time of prosperity is the best Sadaqah."
Sawab al-A`amal, Page 187 link
The narrator asked Imam Muhammad Baqir (a.s.) or Imam Ja'far Sadiq (a.s.),"Which Sadaqah is the best?" Imam (a.s.) replied, "Sadaqah given from a little wealth. Didn't you hear Allah's saying: 'and prefer (them) before themselves though poverty may afflict them'?[Surah Hashr 59:9]. Do you realize its excellence now?"
Sawab al-A`amal, Page 187/188 link
"Giving Sadaqah with hand keeps away unpleasant death. It keeps away seventy types of calamities and opens Satanic mouths all stopping the person from giving Sadaqah."
Sawab al-A`amal, Page 188 link
Imam Ja'far Sadiq (a.s.) narrates from his predecessors that the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) was asked, "Which Sadaqah is better?" The Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) replied, "Giving Sadaqah to an inimical relative."
Sawab al-A`amal, Page 188 link
"The Almighty Allah keeps seventy calamities away from one who gives Sadaqah in the month of Ramadan."
Sawab al-A`amal, Page 188 link
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