Does a Muslim have to pay “voluntary alms” (sadaqah) in addition to obligatory alms (Zakat)?
In addition to the payment of poor rate, Zakat, the giving of one’s substance voluntarily, and that, too during one’s lifetime has expressly been recommended in the Qur’an and the question as to i) What to give ii) How to give, and iii) Whom to give Have also been very clearly detailed by Allah. Dealing firstly with (i) the Holy Prophet (PBUH) was told that if he was asked what man should give in alms, he was in reply, to say: “Whatever ye spend that is good.” (II: 215) But a person’s ability to spare, after making due allowance for a comfortable living, depends upon how he/she lives: and in this connection he/she has been told: “O children of Adam! Wear your beautiful apparel at every time and place of prayer: eat and drink: but waste not by excess, for God loveth not the wasters” (VII: 31) He/she is neither to be too close fisted nor too open handed: “Make not thy hand tied (like a niggard’s) to thy neck, nor stretch it forth to its utmost reach, so that thou become blameworthy and d
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