2006-10-15 02:40:42 · 16 answers · asked by . 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yeap my religion tells me I should pay Zakat to the poor... This is charity and Zadakat This is non mandatory charity every year..... IT IS MANDATORY YOU MUST PAY IT ELSE YOU DO NOT FOLLOW THE RELIGION. IF you are poor you do not have to pay. If you have a certain amount of money and can eat every day ... etc you must paid... it is decided by how much you have and being mid-level in income kinda (lets say you have about $5,000+ dollars worth or so)
2006-10-15 02:45:51 · update #1
I am muslim as you can CLEARLY TELL!
2006-10-15 02:47:51 · update #2
As a convert coming from a catholic background It was very hard for me to give a penny....My first year was tough, I thought "I worke so har for this money now I give it away?" as a convert well into many years I feel the joy of giving without expecting anything back.... THAT IS THE BEST MY FRIENDS! I also giving Zadakat Money without being presure to the poor or assistance is the best. Our prophet said (PBUH): "even a smile is a charity"
2006-10-15 02:51:52 · update #3
Well if you do not give then what are you guys doing? if we americans gave to the poor I am sure we would all be better off! Seems your wallets are as heart as your hearts!
2006-10-15 02:59:08 · update #4
From what dictionary are you pleople looking up charity LOL:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/charity
generous actions or donations to aid the poor, ill, or helpless: to devote one's life to charity.
2006-10-15 03:20:28 · update #5
Yes, I am a Muslim and I give Zakat every year.
2006-10-15 02:58:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. My religion (pagan; Wicca, if you will) requires I have compassion and help those who need it in the best way I can, but not specifically to give money to poor people. That is seldom the best you can do for them. Jobs, education, a chance to do for themselves is usually the best thing. I am in the process of starting a bookstore, and I will be an employer. It is part of my belief that I should hire those who need the work, who have families to support, and who have ambition to better themselves in an honorable way. I also give old clothes and other cast-offs to the local thrift shop rather than destroy them, and help with food and other assistance in times of need. But my "charity" is up close and personal; it is right in my own home town, or the next town down the valley, not across the world. I leave that to people with larger wallets who can do enough to be worth the administrative costs.
2006-10-15 09:47:25 · answer #2 · answered by auntb93again 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My religion believes in Tzedaka (Hebrew from Tzedek--righteousness)------ helping one's fellow man. Jews accept this is a duty, a moral obligation, and it has always been the charity that we must do. We do not just give it to fellow Jews, but to world wide needs. There is big drive on now to help in Darfur.
The words in Hebrew and Arabic are very similar.
2006-10-15 10:17:06 · answer #3 · answered by Shossi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I am a Pagan and we give generously to support many causes and charities. The gods require compassion.
2006-10-15 09:42:32 · answer #4 · answered by Isis 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am an agnostic so I have no 'religion' but I give my time to charity and money when it is possible for me to.
2006-10-15 09:43:15 · answer #5 · answered by genaddt 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i'm an atheist and i do just that cause helping people is what people do, religion has more to do with making money and power it seems which actually make the poverty in the first place.
2006-10-15 10:00:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Narrated Aisha: The Prophet engaged me when I was a girl of six (years). We went to Medina and stayed at the home of Bani-al-Harith bin Khazraj. Then I got ill and my hair fell down. Later on my hair grew (again) and my mother, Um Ruman, came to me while I was playing in a swing with some of my girl friends. She called me, and I went to her, not knowing what she wanted to do to me. She caught me by the hand and made me stand at the door of the house. I was breathless then, and when my breathing became Allright, she took some water and rubbed my face and head with it. Then she took me into the house. There in the house I saw some Ansari women who said, "Best wishes and Allah's Blessing and a good luck." Then she entrusted me to them and they prepared me (for the marriage). Unexpectedly Allah's Apostle came to me in the forenoon and my mother handed me over to him, and at that time I was a girl of nine years of age. Volume 5, Book 58, Number 234
2006-10-15 09:51:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I have so many mandatories in my religion. the only mandatory I don't have is to kill any one who disagree with me.
2006-10-15 09:58:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What zee zee said. It's not charity if it's mandatory.
2006-10-15 09:56:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No my friend, it requires that we help our neighbor, that we feed and clothe the homeless and assist the widow. Same as your religion :)
2006-10-15 09:42:50 · answer #10 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋