Charity

"When My servants ask thee concerning Me, I am indeed close (to them): I listen to the Prayer of every suppliant when he calleth on Me: Let them also, with a will, listen to My call, and believe in Me: that they may walk in the right way. "
[Surah Al Baqarah 2:186]

These verses 186 and 188 are not foreign to the subject of Ramadan, but emphasise its spiritual aspect. Here we are told of prayer and the nearness of ALLAH (Subhana Wa Ta'la), and in 188 we are asked not to "eat up" other people's substance.

"And do not eat up your property among yourselves for vanities, nor use it as bait for the judges, with intent that ye may eat up wrongfully and knowingly a little of (other) people's property. "
[Surah Al Baqarah 2:188]

Besides the three primal physical needs of man, which are apt to make him greedy, there is a fourth greed in society, the greed of wealth and property. The purpose of fasts is not completed until this fourth greed is also restrained. Ordinarily, honest men are content if they refrain from robbery, theft or embezzlement. Two more subtle forms of the greed are mentioned here. One is where one uses one's own property for corrupting others-judges or those in authority-so as to obtain some material gain even under the cover and protection of the law. The words translated "other people's property" may also mean "public property". A still more subtle form is where we use our own property or property under our own control-"among yourselves" in the Text-for vain or frivolous uses. Under the Islamic standard this is also greed. Property carries with its own responsibilities. If we fail to understand or fulfill them, we have not learnt the full lesson of self-denial by fasts.

ALLAHUAKBAR!

Abu Al-Aswad said, that while they were sitting with Abu Dharr (RadiAllahu Anhu), he said:

"Every morning, each joint of the son of Adam is obligated to give charity. So every‪#‎PRAYER‬ he prays is a Charity. And ‪#‎FASTING‬ is CHARITY. and the ‪#‎HAJJ‬ is Charity, and the ‪#‎TASBIH‬ is Charity, and the ‪#‎TAKBEER‬ is Charity, and the ‪#‎TAHMID‬is Charity. "

Sunan Abu Dawud, Volume No.2 Book of Voluntary Prayers, Hadith No. 1286