Tag Archives: Sadaqa

Whenever we think of charity or sadaqa, we always think of it in monetary terms. But as my parents reminded us a couple of days back, that there’s a different type of sadaqa which we can all do, even if we’re broke: Physical Sadaqa! Abu Musa Al-Ash’ari narrated that the …

Zakat literally means ‘growth’ or ‘increase’ and according to some ‘purity’. The tax has been named Zakat with respect to the first meaning of the word because its payment increases prosperity in this world and enhences religious merit (sawab) in the next and with respect to the second meaning because …