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secret and in public, have their reward with their Lord.” (Surah
2:274)
This testifies that spending wealth, publicly or privately, on charity
will be rewarded by God. A Muslim responding to this Surah would
donate more charity and think more about poverty and the troubles of
this world.
Charity is seen as fundamental if a person wishes to enter Heaven.
The Hadith says:
“He is not a believer who eats while his neighbour remains hungry by
his side.”
This means that people who are wealthy, but don’t donate charity are
not considered Muslims. A Muslim would respond to this by constantly
making sure that they are giving as much as they feel is necessary to
charity.
Islam attempts to involve charity in everyday life and normal actions.
The Qur’an states:
“If the debtor is in a difficulty, grant him time to repay. But if ye
remit it by way of charity, that is best for you if ye only knew.”
(Surah 2:280)
This states that the reward for this would be even greater than when
normally helping those who are less fortunate. A Muslim would respond
to this by allowing people who owe money to them to not have to pay it
back and never charging interest. Interest is forbidden in Islam
because of the selfishness of charging someone for being given or
borrowed money as charity.
Christian Aid is founded on Christian teachings, and one of the Ten
Commandments, that you must ‘help your neighbour’. Christian Aid bases
their help on many teachings and believes that the best aid is to
allow people help themselves, without constant aid. Christian Aid
helps the neediest countries in various methods, ranging from sending
immediate disaster-relief (Emergency Aid) to sustaining long-term
development work. Development work involves sanitation, improving
health, and the standards of literacy. Christian Aid is helping Less
Developed Countries all over the world as a branch of their
development work and provides disaster-relief in emergencies, such as
the Asian Tsunami Disaster. Christian Aid was first established in
1944 in Britain and Ireland as the BCERC (British Churches Ecumenical
Refugee Council) helping all the people left homeless from the Second
World War ‘pick up their feet’. It became Christian Aid in September
1945, as a department of the British Council of Churches to provide
aid for poverty stricken people in less developed countries.
Christian Aid is funded through many different ways:
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This pie chart represents a usual financial year for Christian Aid and
how the money for Christian Aid comes in. It shows that around one
fifth of all the money is from public donations, although the
notorious Christian Aid week is mostly supported by the public too.