to give charity to non muslims? help poor christans/hindus who i ACTUALLY i know in real life with financial support or food etc…
or is helping a poor hindu in need a bad thing?
I see alot of people donate their old clothing /furniture to good will or salavation army, but i noticed that the stuff u drop off, gets tranfered to their store and they sell em instead of giving them to some needy. Which i think its wrong. I rather give my clothes i dont wear to someone who is in need, rather then having salavation army selling them in stores. What do you think about this?
ok good..... i know eid is coming up and stuff.. soo i am thinking about gathering like can food and clothing and dropping them off at various shelters and stuff. So if any torontonians want to help out let me know.
Its not prohibited to give charity to Non-Muslims. However, we should give preference to Muslims and their related causes, e.g. mosques, relief efforts etc.
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to give charity to non muslims? help poor christans/hindus who i ACTUALLY i know in real life with financial support or food etc...
or is helping a poor hindu in need a bad thing?
I see alot of people donate their old clothing /furniture to good will or salavation army, but i noticed that the stuff u drop off, gets tranfered to their store and they sell em instead of giving them to some needy. Which i think its wrong. I rather give my clothes i dont wear to someone who is in need, rather then having salavation army selling them in stores. What do you think about this?
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*Originally posted by ramyssysIX: *
Its not prohibited to give charity to Non-Muslims. However, we should give preference to Muslims and their related causes, e.g. mosques, relief efforts etc.
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sorry never heard that before.. help those who r near u n u can help them immediately regardless of what religion they belong to.
We are building a mosque...Give your donations to us so it becomes Sadqa-e-Jariyah...
I will make a formal appeal to the people here on GupShup, however if you are interested, please PM me and I will give you the account number and everything, InshAllah...
Suroor, for six years we have been using a one-bedroom apartment for a mosque…Most of the people here are students and when Jumaah rolls around MashAllah, there is hardly a place to stand comfortably…Alhumdilillah recently we have collected a little money to buy a Church and convert it to a Mosque, however we only have 2 weeks to collect all the money before the owners decide to sell…
In this one-bedroom apartment we have Iftaar, dinner, gatherings and there is no place for women and it gets very cramped…
The lease has expired and we are using this apartment illegaly as it is not meant to be used as a place of congregation…The owners know about this but have been kind enough to allow us to use it as a mosque…
There is no place for Wudu, the kitchen is nothing more than a small cubicle…We can’t do anything there and MashAllah we are a growing community of Muslims as there have been a few reverts and not all the people can fit into the apartment…
Raising a house of Allah :swt: is not a small matter…It is Sadqa-e-Jariyaah…May be you have enough mosques in your area but we wouldn’t have a place of worship if the owner decides to change his mind…
The Church is $250,000 and we have t about now collected $125,000 and we need to come up with the rest of the money in less than 2 weeks…
We believe we can achieve more by having our own place of worship in this area…This is the Bible belt I am living in and there are almost 12 churches within a 25 mile radius and not a single mosque…It would be a momentous achievement in this area to raise the word of Allah :swt: and give Dawaah from here…
And if we have a bigger place perhaps we can benefit more of those who are needy than staying in a one-bedroom apartment…
Raising a roof for the believers to worship Allah :swt: is one of the greatest deeds and even greater than feeding the hungry…Allah :swt: has taken the task of feeding those as He :swt: deems fit, however to build a mosque is the responsibility of the Muslims…
well said lajjo plus it is sunnah too to build a mosque first as a center
one thing, i want to add when u say Allah :swt: has taken the task of feeding , remember HE makes “asbaab” for that too and building a mosque is also in HIS hands .. It will be built if intentions are right however it’s upto people how much they can contribute
^^ Anwaar, the money we have collected is a result of almost 6 -7 years of collecting funds of scraping and scrounging together every single penny we get...
InshAllah, the brothers here have been praying for their own mosque for a long time and every piece of help helps, and we shall see this through...InshAllah...
I think money is better spent on the betterment of people rather than buid structures for worship.. to me there is no point having a fancy worship place if even one family in it's vicinity goes to bed hungry or needs medical care.
haha lajjo.. another one of ur made-up sawaab thingies. Buliding a mosque is of more sawaab than feeding the hungry and helping the needy.. wow!
if u believe in allah, I don't think u need a mosque to pray to him.. a pak( clean ) ground is more than enough( atleast this is what I know).
And furqan: U can donate money to anyone regardless of what their religion. And yes.. please help the poor and needy b4 donating money to mr.lajawab's cause.
You can give charity to non-Muslims as Sadqa. Zakaat however can only be spent on Muslims.
PS. Don’t give any money to the non-Muslim charities, they are usually run by bible basher Christian missionaries who go to third world countries and ghareeb logoun ki haalat ka faeda uthaatey huway they try and convert them.
Based on what you know you shouldn’t pass judgement on someone doing a cause for Allah :swt:…Who knows what good is being done and you block it and have to pay for it…Everything regarding Islam has to come through the source of the Quran or Sunnah and you should know the importance of a Masjid…
Going by your logic, when the Holy Prophet :saw: opened the Masjid-e-Nabawi he did a big mistake…Do you know who Ahl-e-Suffa were? They were the orphans, destitute of Madina who were so poor they couldn’t even cover their private parts properly…And it was the Masjid of the Holy Prophet :saw: which provided them food and shelter…
And MashAllah, I am glad to see you think this way…I am sure you must have argued a lot when the kuffar were spending millions and millions of dollars to restore the dead, lifless statues of Bamiyan and the children of Afghanistan were starving to death…
And you must have argued too when the Babri Masjid was being demolished…
And you must have argued when the American government shut off almost all Islamic charities that provided food and shelter for the people of Palestine, Afghanistan, Chechnya and so forth…Maybe you should start sending some help to your ‘brothers’ and ‘sisters’ who are dying of starvation there? How can we pool our resources where we don;t even have a place to get together and discuss matters?
Of course you don’t care if the Muslims of my community don’t have a place to congregate, pray 5 times a day, hold Jummah prayers, do daawah, house the poor students who can’t pay rent, do aitekaaf, hold Tajweed classes, hold lectures, have dinner after roza, invite scholars, have a place for women to join in prayers, have our own library…I am sure it’s no big deal for you if your ‘brothers’ and ‘sisters’ do this in 3 feet of snow……You are so caring…:k:
When famine strikes a country, does the mother of a child feed her own starving infant first or be more worried about the child next door? Think about it…
MashAllah, this is a momentous achievement for the Muslims of my community…For the first time in history the Muslims will have a place of their own, our first foothold in my community, and you believe we should spend our money on causes when we can hardly afford a place of our own? What could be more altruistic than opening a base from where we can contribute more than just be a band of roving nobodies?
Anyways, I am not going to type the whole thing about the importance of Masajids and what they mean for Muslims, but it is there that we pray and gather and it is the duty of every Muslim to first establish a Masjid, a stronghold from which to house the needy…Do you keep homeless people in your house and feed them?
As for the Sawaab thingy, I am not going to teach you the difference between Sadqa and Sadqa-e-Jariyaah…Believe what you may…
…You are so caring…:k: