The Prophet said ‘even meeting your brother with a cheerful face is charity.’ Although this word can be translated as voluntary charity it has a wider meaning. For most purposes this involves the payment each year of two and a half percent of one’s capital.Ī pious person may also give as much as he or she pleases as sadaqa, and does so preferably in secret. Our possessions are purified by setting aside a proportion for those in need, and, like the pruning of plants, this cutting back balances and encourages new growth.Įach Muslim calculates his or her own zakat individually. The word zakat means both purification and growth.
One of the most important principles of Islam is that all things belong to God, and that wealth is therefore held by human beings in trust. Zakat keeps the money flowing within a society, Cairo. God forgave his sins for this action.’ The Prophet was asked: ‘Messenger of God, are we rewarded for kindness towards animals?’ He said, ‘There is a reward for kindness to every living thing.’ From the hadith collections of Bukhari, Muslim, Tirmidhi and Bayhaqi.
The man saw that the dog was feeling the same thirst as he had felt so he went down into the well again and filled his shoe with water and gave the dog a drink. Then he saw a dog with its tongue hanging out, trying to lick up mud to quench its thirst. Reaching a well he descended into it, drank his fill and came up. ‘A man walking along a path felt very thirsty. ‘God does not judge according to your bodies and appearances but He scans your hearts and looks into your deeds.’ ‘Powerful is not he who knocks the other down, indeed powerful is he who controls himself in a fit of anger.’ ‘The truthful and trusty businessman is associated with the prophets the saints, and the martyrs.’ ‘He who eats his fill while his neighbor goes without food is not a believer.’ ‘None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.’ ‘God has no mercy on one who has no mercy for others.’
Belief in the sunna is part of the Islamic faith. A hadith is a reliably transmitted report of what the Prophet said, did, or approved. Yes, the sunna, the practice and example of the Prophet, is the second authority for Muslims.
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