Hide the zakat or give it openly?
Your yearly zakat is due. Two ways: give it quietly into the needy hand so none see and the intention stays pure, or give it openly so others copy you and the poor know they are not forgotten? The decision: secrecy keeping sincerity, or openness spreading the habit?
The positions
the secrecy party
the secret charity is farthest from show and nearest acceptance
The evidence
they preferred their right hand not know what the left spent
Sources: practice/zakat
the open party
the open giver is followed; one public alms births a hundred
The evidence
they declared their giving to stir their neighbours to zakat
Sources: practice/zakatconcept/five-pillars
You decide
Which road would you have taken? Write your reason.
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