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I always love to be able to address the dimensions of charity outside of a fundraiser

where we actually get to speak about the scope and we get to speak about the deep theological meetings behind this command to serve Allah Subhano Ita.

Now I'm going to start off by saying this one question that I get asked and I can't really tell if you guys are nodding your heads or not when I say this but one question I get

asked sometimes is when I give charity how do I give charity for the sake of Allah meaning

you know what if I'm just being a good person what if it's just me doing something out of the goodness of my heart?

Is that not for the sake of Allah? What does it exactly mean? And many people don't really know

how to answer that question. It's a very, very profound question. If we do things out of our values of empathy and

selflessness, is that not rewardable in the sight of Allah Subhano It's a la? Is it only

rewardable before I give charity? I say to myself or I say to the other person

that this is for the sake of Allah Subhano It's Allah and Subhana we find that

everything is contained within this powerful verse. Inna man nutwaum kum jazah and wala shukura.

Allah, sophanaa says that those people, when they give,

they feed out of their love of Allah Subhanao Ita, the one who was poor, the one who is an orphan, and the one who is a prisoner.

And as they feed them, in a man U.Traimuk lewajhilah, we only feed you for the sake of

Allah, not desiring any sort of gratitude and not desiring any sort of compensation,

not now or in the future. This one Aya or even the first fragment of the Aya answers

three essential questions of charity. Why you give charity? How you give charity and

who you give that charity too.

Within just a few words, Allah Subhano et al-Teta encapsulates all of these powerful meanings

that truly, if we pay attention to would completely reinvent the manner in which we serve even if we are already in the service of mankind.

And I want to start off with that question.

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