Page 56 - Some Secrets of the Qur'an

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One of the most important acts of worship that cleanses
material and spiritual dirt, and enables man to discipline his
souls and thus to attain a state of high morality that God
would be pleased with, is to spend in God's way for
benevolent causes. God has told the Prophet, peace be upon
him, to take alms out of believers' property and to cleanse
and purify them thereby.
Take alms from their wealth to purify and cleanse
them... (Surat at-Tawba: 103)
However, the act of spending that purifies and cleanses
people is the one that is made in the way specified in the
Qur'an. People believe themselves to have exceedingly
fulfilled their duty when they give some small change to
beggars, when they give away some of their old clothes to the
poor or when they feed a hungry person. No doubt these are
the acts that would be rewarded in God's sight if they were
performed with the intention of earning the good pleasure of