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"What is beyond your needs." Thus doth Allah make clear to you His Signs: in order that ye
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242 Hoarding is no use either to ourselves, or to any one else. We should use the wealth we need; any superfluities we
must spend in good works or in charity. (2.219)
2:254 - O ye who believe! spend out of (the bounties) We have provided for you before the day
comes when no bargaining (will avail) nor friendship nor intercession. Those who reject faith
they are the wrong-doers. 294295
294 Spend, i.e, give away in chartiy, or employ in good works, but do not hoard. Good works would in Islam include
everything that advances the good of one that is in need whether a neighbor or a stranger or that advances the good
of the community or even the good of the person himself to whom God has given the bounty. But it must be real good
and there should be no admixture of baser motives, such as vainglory, or false indulgence, or encouragement of
idleness, or playing off one person against another. The bounties include mental and spiritual gifts as well as wealth
and material gifts. (2.254)
2:261 - The parable of those who spend their substance in the way of Allah is that of a grain of
corn: it groweth seven ears and each ear hath a hundred grains. Allah giveth manifold
increase to whom He pleaseth; and Allah careth for all and He knoweth all things.
2:262 - Those who spend their substance in the cause of Allah and follow not up their gifts with
reminders of their generosity or with injury for them their reward is with their Lord; on them
shall be no fear nor shall they grieve.
2:264 - O ye who believe! cancel not your charity by reminders of your generosity or by injury like
those who spend their substance to be seen of men but believe neither in Allah nor in the last
day. They are in Parable like a hard barren rock on which is a little soil; on it falls heavy rain
which leaves it (just) a bare stone. They will be able to do nothing with aught they have
earned. And Allah guideth not those who reject faith. 310
310 False charity, "to be seen of men", is really no charity. It is worse, for it betokens a disbelief in God and the Hereafter.
"God seeth well whatever ye do" (ii. 265). It is compared to a hard barren rock on which by chance has fallen a little
soil. Good rain, which renders fertile soil more fruitful, washes away the little soil which this rock had, and exposes its
nakedness. What good can hypocrites derive even from the little wealth they may have amassed? (2.264)
2:265 - And the likeness of those who spend their substance seeking to please Allah and to
strengthen their souls is as a garden high and fertile: heavy rain falls on it but makes it yield a
double increase of harvest and if it receives not heavy rain light moisture sufficeth it. Allah
seeth well whatever ye do. 311
311 is like a field with good soil on a high situation. It catches good showers of rain, the moisture penetrates the soil, and
yet its elevated situation keeps it well-drained, and healthy favorable conditions increase its output enormously. But
supposing even that the rain is not abundant, it catches dew and makes the most of any little moisture it can get, and
that is sufficient for it. So a man of true charity is spiritually helathy; he is best suited to attract the bounties of God,
which he does not hoard selfishly but circulates freely. In lean times he still produces good works, and is content with
what he has. He looks to God's pleasure and the strengthening of his own soul. (2.265)
2:270 - And whatever ye spend in charity or devotion be sure Allah knows it all. But the wrongdoers
have no helpers.
2:274 - Those who (in charity) spend of their goods by night and by day in secret and in public
have their reward with their Lord: on them shall be no fear nor shall they grieve. 323
323 We recapitulate the beauty of charity (i.e. unselfish giving of one's self or one's goods) before we come to its opposite,
i.e. the selfish grasping greed of usury against those in need or distress. Charity instead of impoverishing you will
enrich you; you will have more happiness and less fear. Contrast it with what follows, - the degredation of the
grasping usurer. (2.274)
3:134 - Those who spend (freely) whether in prosperity or in adversity; who restrain anger and
pardon (all) men; for Allah loves those who do good. 453
453 Another definition of the righteous (vv. 134-35). So far from grasping material wealth, they give freely, of themselves
and their substance, not only when they are well-off and it is easy for them to do so, but also when they arc in
difficulties, for other people may be in difficulties at the same time. They do not get ruffled in adversity, or get angry
when other people behave badly, or their own good plans fail. On the contrary they redouble their efforts. For the
charity-or good deeds-is all the more necessary in adversity. And they do not throw the blame on others. Even where
such blame is due and correction is necessary, their own mind is free from a sense of grievance, for they forgive and
cover other men's faults. This as far as other people are concerned. But we may be ourselves at fault, and perhaps we
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