Sadaqa in Islam is not money alone: every good deed is charity. The Prophet taught his companions that a smile at your brother is charity, a kind word is charity, and clearing harm from the path is charity — so the poor and the rich can both give it.
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Charity (sadaqa)
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Sadaqa in Islam is a gift by which its giver draws near to God — mostly the giving of wealth to the poor and the needy; scholars differ on its relation to zakat, sadaqa being the wider term for some, covering both obligation and the voluntary. The hadiths of the Forty widen its meaning: when the poor companions thought charity was only money, the Prophet ﷺ counted for them charities of the body and tongue — a smile, a kind word, tasbih, enjoining good and removing harm. The fiqh books treat sadaqa of wealth and its kinds, and its effect in blessing and repelling harm in the hadith. Sadaqa remains the pillar of Muslim charitable life today.
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