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One of my biggest issues with the topic of charity is that it only comes up in the context of a fundraiser.

And so you've heard the verses about Sadaqa, the about Sadaka, all these different things being used and these concepts being deployed in order to raise money for noble causes, but you can feel spiritually disconnected from that action of charity.

And I remember sitting at a fundraiser with Imam Seraj,

and Imam Seraj said something so beautiful about this particular hadith.

The Prophet's a lot of the Prophet's a lot of

al-Hani was said that when a person wakes up in the morning every day two angels are

sent to that person.

One angel says, Allah-hmm A-Ti-Munfikhan Khalafah, the other one says,

Allah-Mahatli, Mum Sikan, Telafah. Oh, Allah makit mumsikan telopha.

O Allah give to the one who gives,

and oh Allah withhold from the one who withholds.

Okay?

So Imam Seraj said very beautifully, he said that there is a book, a record book right now.

The angels are recording those amounts.

It's not just the people putting them into the Excel sheets or documenting the numbers themselves.

And he said, when your name is there, do you want there to be a zero next to your name,

or do you want there to be something else?

Right?

So this idea of never allowing there to be a zero next to your name when it comes to

Sallaka. Now this hadith about the two angels descending and saying,

Allahhama Aiti,umci can't Sala,

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