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Because they are unable to earn enough to maintain themselves and have become contented with the little they have and
abstain from begging, it is necessary for the well-to-do to help them.
Fiqh-us-Sunnah
Fiqh 3.92
Kin (dhawi al-Qurba), recipients of sadaqah
The kin are considered the most deserving people for the sadaqah gift because of the common blood relationship. When a
man is in need and some of his relatives are rich, naturally he looks to them for help because they are of one family. Also, it is
natural for a man to feel more sympathy and pain with his hard-pressed and needy relatives than with strangers. He is
humiliated by their degradation and elevated by their honor. Therefore, any well-to-do person who cuts off his kin from
assistance and lives in luxury while his relatives are in a state of misery is devoid of natural feeling or lacks belief and is far
away from goodness or piety. On the other hand, for one who maintains close links with his kin, his sustenance is assured
and his relationship is of beneficence to his kin.
ISL Quran Subjects
Needy
1. (Also see) Beggar, Indigent, Poor
2. Alms for
2.177, 2.273, 9.60, 30.38
3. Kindness to
2.83, 4.36
4. Kindness in speech to
17.28
5. Rights of, giving
17.26
6. Share of spoils of war for
8.41
7. Spending for
2.215
NEAR:
7:206 - Those who are near to thy Lord disdain not to do Him worship: They celebrate His praises
and bow down before Him. 11761177
1176 The higher you are in spiritual attainment, the more is your desire and your opportunity to serve and worship your Lord
and Cherisher and the Lord and Cherisher of all the worlds: and the greater is your pride in that service and that
worship. (7.206)
1177 At this stage a Sajda or prostration is indicated, as a sign of our humble acceptance of the privilege of serving and
worshipping Allah,-a fitting close to Sura in which we are led, through a contemplation of the stories of the
Messengers of Allah, to the meaning of revelation and its relation to our moral and spiritual progress. (7.206)
NEIGHBOURS:
4:36 - Serve Allah and join not any partners with Him: and do good to parents kinsfolk orphans
those in need neighbors who are near neighbors who are strangers the companion by your
side the way-farer (ye meet) and what your right hands possess: for Allah loveth not the
arrogant the vainglorious; 550551552553554
550 The essence of Islam is to serve Allah and do good to your fellow-creatures. This is wider and more comprehensive
than "Love God and love your neighbour". For it includes duties to animals as our fellow-creatures, and emphasises
practical service rather than sentiment. (4.36)
551 Neighbours who are near: that is, in local situation as well as intimate relationships, just as neighbours who are
strangers includes those whom we do not know or who live away from us. (4.36)
552 The Companion by your side may be your intimate friends and associates, just as the way-farer you meet may be a
casual acquaintance on your travels. This last is much wider than the "stranger within your gate." (4.36)
553 What your right hands possess: For the meaning of the phrase see n. 537 above. (4.36)
554 Real deeds of service and kindness proceed, not from showing off or from a superior sort of condescension (cf.
"White Man's Burden"), but from a frank recognition of our own humility and the real claims, before Allah, of all our
fellow-creatures. For in our mutual needs we are equal before Allah, or perhaps the best of us (as the world sees us)
may be worse than the worst of us (from the same point of view). (4.36)
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