15 TIPS FOR SADAQAH (charity)

1. Buy a chair, kettle or mat and keep it in a masjid, whoever pray with it, In sha Allah you will be rewarded for it.

2. Keep a bowl or glass of water on your window for the birds, that charity... Make it a habit... You will be rewarded In sha Allah.

3. Old pair of socks, pyjamas, put them in a packet, give it to any laborer or needy on your way, its sadaqah.

4. Keep a box in your room and put a penny or rupee (money) Whenever you seem to have sinned, open the box after a month and give the cash for charity, make it a habit...

5. Write the dua of entering the house and leaving the house on two papers, sticks it on the entrance of house, In sha Allah you will be rewarded for whoever will read it.

6. Sponsor an orphan from your pocket money.

7. Take carton of juice or biscuits with you and distribute at gathering. In sha Allah you will be rewarded.

8. If there's a construction going on around your house, get a box of water or juice and give it to the labourer chilled, you will be rewarded In sha Allah.

9. If you get the change at the petrol pump by the worker, ask him whether he is a muslim and let the change be with him, even if he was a non-muslim, be a good face for your Religion.

10. Keep a Qur'an in any masjid, and get the reward for whoever reads even a single letter of it, a letter is multiplied into 10 times, imagine the reward In sha Allah.

11. If there's water left in your glass, put it in the flower pot.. There's reward In Sha Allah.

12. Cheer any muslim, especially those who are sad... There's Reward In Sha Allah.

13. Smile to whom you pass by, great to the one next to you and a good word is Sadaqah.

14. Do not sleep untill you have forgiven to whoever have hurted you.

15. Share this message to  People as much as you can, it is Sadaqah. "Because, you Enlighten them about good and what they don't know - for any form of good if you do it for the sake of Allah it will be rewarded".

NOTE: It is very important to make a niyaah (intention) - 'like the Sadaqah would be for someone who passed away or a patient or for yourself. For every single Sadaqah you do'.

Ref: [From Dr. Muhammad al-Arifi. A prominent scholar, Saudi Arabia].


- Muslimah