 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحلين والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا وحبيبنا سيدنا وحبيبنا وشافيعنا وقائدنا وقرك عيننا سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجهك وعظيم سلطانك اللهم افتح علينا فتوحة عارفين اللهم علمنا ما ينفعنا وانفعنا بما علمتنا يا ارحم الرحمن لذلك لقد بدأنا نتحدث عن جديد جديد جديد ونحن نتحدث عن الأولى من 10 اوطرات التي ستدخلنا أكثر إلى الله سبحانه وتعالى و... هذه الأشياء سيجدنا أكثر مستعدة لما يتحدث عن هذا الدنيا في هذا اليوم فقط ما سنفكره هو أن يكون الله سبحانه وتعالى هذه الأشياء سيجدنا أكثر مستعدة إلى الله سبحانه وتعالى و... في هذا الدنيا هناك so many less fortunate people who do not have sufficient means to live with all their needs available so these people suffer and their lives are full of misery but by donating to these people we're helping them to alleviate the immense struggle they are facing in this dunya so the outer action that we are going to talk about today is the zika or the sadaqa so what is the zika the zika is the third pillar of Islam and it's a form of worship that involves wealth it is obligatory to pay charity to pay zika in Islam and it is obligatory upon Muslims to pay a portion of their earnings once in a lunar year and this amount of money this portion is paid to certain people with certain conditions that can be checked of course in the fiqh of the ka today I'm going to talk a little bit about this fiqh or just to mention a little bit about it but we will talk about the ka in general so as I mentioned earlier this series is not talking about fiqh it's not a fiqh class it's beyond the fiqh of the worship but I will touch on a little bit of what the word zika means what is the value of misab and who to pay the zika to so to start with let's ask ourselves what is the word zika mean the word zika is a divide from an Arabic word zika so what does zika mean zika means cleanliness purification increase growth righteousness and praise الله سبحانه وتعالى says in سورة البقرة آية 261 مثل الذين ينفقون أموالهم في سبيل الله كمثل حبة أمبتت سبعة سنابل في كل سنبلتهم مئة حبة والله يضاعف لما يشاء والله واسع عليب مثل الذين ينفقون their wealth for the sake of Allah is like a seed of grain so this seed of grain grows seven spikes and in each spike is a hundred grains so imagine so one grain now imagine how much it is and Allah multiplies his reward for whom he wills والله واسع عليب الله is old encompassing and he is all knowing so we said that zika is obligatory upon Muslims to pay a portion of their earnings so how much do they pay zika is a must if the wealth of the Muslim reaches the nisab so this is this is when we pay the zika so when we want to know how much to pay we have to ask do we have the nisab or not so what is the nisab what is the value of the nisab the value of the nisab is determined through today's value of either gold or silver what does this mean so if we have money and we want to know do we have to pay zika on this money that we have or not so we say 87.48 grams which is equal to three ounces is the nisab by the gold standard so if you have three ounces the weight of three ounces in gold then you pay the nisab and this is 87.48 grams of gold some people would say we can get to know if we have the nisab or not by silver standard so if you own if you have 612.36 grams which is equal to 21 ounces of silver so we say 612.36 grams is nisab by the silver standard so now we know that if we have this amount this much of gold or this much of nisab then we have to pay the zika who should the zika be paid for Allah SWT has specified the groups of people we can't pay the zika for so he said in surat al-Tawbah ayah 60 Allah SWT says بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم إنما الصدقات للفقراء والمساكين والعملين عليها والمؤلفة يقولوبهم وفي الرقاب والغارمين وفي سبيل الله وبن السبيل فريضة من الله والمؤلفة so the zika expenditures the people who deserve the zika the people who we can give our zika to are as follows Allah is counting them Allah is listing these people he says they are the poor and the needy what's the difference between the poor and the needy the poor are the people who have no wealth nor income the needy are the people who have no assets and whose income does not cover their basic needs so now imagine with the situations that will live in with the inflation with the wars with everything so many people are needy so many people need help their income does not cover the basic needs they want to have so this is الفقراء والمساكين والعملين عليها those employed to collect the zika if those are in need we have too they are of the people whom Allah SWT specified as a group who can accept the zika والمؤلفة يقلوبهم and also for bringing hearts together for Islam so these are المؤلفة يقلوبهم وفير رقاب وفير رقاب are is so the zika is paid for freeing captives or slaves والغاريمين الغاريمين are those in debt وفي سبيل الله and for the cause of Allah SWT وابنى السبيل ابنى السبيل is the standard traveler who needs help how there is a traveler he has money even if he is wealthy he lost all his money then you can give him of the zika money so these are the groups of people whom Allah SWT has specified to take the zika فريضة من الله this is an obligation imposed by Allah SWT والله علي من حكيم الله is knowing and Allah is wise let's talk about the groups of people who spend for the sake of Allah there are levels there are stages the first level is those are the the strong ones so what do they do when they want to spend for the sake of Allah they spend all they have all they own for the sake of Allah SWT and they do not leave anything for themselves what are these called الأقوية the strong ones أبو بكر الصديق رضي الله when he brought his money to Sayyidina Muhammad he brought all his house and Sayyidina Muhammad asked him what did you leave for your family Sayyidina أبو بكر said I left them تركت لهم الله ورسوله I left them الله and his messenger so imagine the strength of the heart sayyidina أبو بكر صديق who gave everything for the sake of Allah and he did not care that after that he will be poor so he was of those who spent for the sake of Allah SWT without caring without caring about being poor so this is the first group of people who spent for the sake of Allah who pay for the sake of Allah the second group is the mediums the people in the middle so they they keep some for themselves and they spend so why do they keep it it's not all for themselves it's they keep some if someone comes for charities then they will have something to give so it's not only for themselves but to give also for the sake of Allah SWT the third group is the weak group they just spend what they have to spend they just give if they have to pay for example $100 they pay just $100 $100 they do not increase they do not decrease they pay the exact amount so of these three groups you see that the first group they spend they spend as much as they can and they show their love to Allah SWT by fulfilling his orders of spending and not keeping for themselves so this is the true love of Allah SWT when he gives an order then they hasten to fulfill the order in full so a person might not be able to be of this group but he has to do his best not to be also they are the group but to be in the middle so try to spend something everyday for the sake of Allah SWT and and spending by the way is not by money some people would say we are so poor so how can we spend there are so many ways of spending for the sake of Allah SWT the good word is a charity when you say something say try always to say the best you can choose good words to keep when you talk to them it's a charity to say good things زيارة المريض it's a charity to say good things زيارة المريض صدقة visiting the sick people is also a charity is also spending for the sake of Allah SWT قضاء حاجة الناس صدقة also taking care of people's affairs is also a صدقة so it's not only to spend with money some people spend also from their time they specify an hour of a week a few hours of the week just to help people just to do things good for people for the sake of Allah SWT so this is also a way of spending for the sake of Allah SWT when we pay زيكة we have to pay attention to 5 points the first one is to keep it secret and Allah once said يا رسول الله which of the صدقة is better is it to keep it secret or to show it to people so what did what was the answer سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم of course said انت بدو الصدقات فني عما هي وانتخفوها وتؤتوها الفقراء فهو خير لكم ويكفر عنكم من سيئاتكم so if you disclose your charitable expenditures they are good but if you conceal them and give them to the poor it's better for you الله سبحانه وتعالى will remove from you some of your misdeeds he will wipe some of your sins and Allah with what you do is fully acquainted Allah knows so which one is better is it صدقة السر or صدقة الجهر which one is better to give and to show people that you are paying or just to give people and not to show them go to your intention check your intention why is it that you are giving is it for the sake of الله سبحانه وتعالى or what if it's for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and it is just to encourage people to encourage people that you are giving so they will give they will be encouraged to give then do it outwardly and at the time of the companions used when they used to meet they would ask each other how many pages of Quran did you read how many raka'as did you pray what charity did you pay they are not just throwing off they want to compete with each others and that's why Allah سبحانه وتعالى says أفسي المتنافي سون with these good actions this is the way that people should compete so now you paid the Zika what else should you be aware of you should be you should not mention it to the poor every now and then to make the poor feel that you are better than him that you are a giver that he is a taker that you are expecting a thank you note from him that you want him to keep thanking you for the good thing you did for him you cannot do that just pay it and pay it for the sake of Allah and forget about it put it with the good deeds that you are accumulating to get the reward for the day of judgment so if the Zika purifies the heart and if the poor person took it from you then he is the reason for you to purify your heart you should be thanking him you should not be waiting for him to thank you the third thing is that you have to give it from the best of what you have and Allah سبحانه وتعالى mentions it in Surah Al-Baqara he said do not aim do not choose the defective do not take the defective thing and give it as a صدق if this same thing that you are giving is given to you you will not be taking it except with a closed eye and you won't be happy to take it it's defective it's not good so when you want to pay your Zika when you want to pay for Zika for example for your fruit then choose the best of your fruit and give it to people the Zika of the cattle choose the best of the cattle and give it to people then then give with a happy face and give it happily سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم says one dirham is better if you give it than more than 100,000 dirham how can one dirham or one dollar be more or be better than giving 100,000 dollar when you give the one dollar in while you are happy you are giving it then it's better than giving 100,000 dollar with while you are you are doing it hating that you are paying this amount so when you give you have to give happily and sometimes poor people give Zika to those people who are poorer than them or give charity to those who are poorer than them they might not have the Misab as we said but they like to help other people who are in need also they live the misfortune of this so they want to help those who are less fortunate than themselves you want to pay your Zika give it to someone who deserves it to to someone who is pious not to someone who goes to to drink wine with it so when you give for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى you feel happy do you know why because you made other peoples feel happy so you helped those less fortunate people and Allah سبحانه وتعالى helps those who help other people سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم says ملعبد مادام العبد في عوني أخي الله will help his servant as long as this servant is helping other servants other people so now what is the reward that we get from paying the Zika or from paying this تدقة there are different levels of rewards let's start with the person who paid the Zika so this person who paid the Zika he has a reward from Allah سبحانه وتعالى and this reward is a dunya reward so that his wealth will multiply we mentioned at the beginning when we just started that when you give one grain then Allah سبحانه وتعالى will multiply it for hundreds hundreds of rewards so your fortune will increase so this is on the level of the person who paid the Zika and that person will feel the joy will feel rejoiced because of the people and he knows that Allah سبحانه وتعالى is going to help him on the day of judgment so this is the first level now you will relieve some of the misery of the person who received the Zika and that person as soon as he gets this Zika money this help no wait his heart will make the dua for you so that person is in need and when he gets this Zika then he will feel happy and when someone feels happy then he will make dua he will thank Allah سبحانه وتعالى for what he has given him and he will make dua for the one who gave him and this is the dunya reward but Allah سبحانه وتعالى has prepared a special reward on the day of judgment Allah will say to you you showed generosity but I will show you the real generosity and this is the reward of Allah سبحانه وتعالى simple easy the reward is has not an eye has ever seen an ear has ever heard of and not an idea that a person or something that would come to the mind of a person whatever you will think of it will be something different it will be something better so this is Allah's way of rewarding His servants now what did Allah سبحانه وتعالى say in the Quran let's let's have a few few examples few ayas Allah سبحانه وتعالى has ordered us in the Quran to pay the zikaa and every time there is a mention of the zikaa it's preceded by prayers Allah says in Surah Al-Baqara و أقيموا الصلاة و أعطوا الزكاة و أركعوا مع الراكعين establish your prayer and give zikaa and bow with those who bow in worshiping and in the obedience to Allah سبحانه وتعالى when you perform your Salan when you pay your zikaa و أقيموا الصلاة و أعطوا الزكاة و ما تقدموا لأنفسكم من خير تجدوه عند الله إن الله بما تعملون بصير establish prayer and give zikaa and whatever good you put forward for yourselves you will find it with Allah سبحانه وتعالى Allah will highly reward you for everything that you do و من يعمل مثقال ذرة خيرا يرى و من يعمل مثقال ذرة شرا يرى whenever you do any spec of a good thing then you will find it you will be highly rewarded for it on the day of judgment and indeed Allah سبحانه وتعالى knows and sees everything that we do and He will reward us for everything so what's the other reward that Allah has mentioned إن الذين آمنوا و عملوا الصالحات وأقاموا الصلاة و آتوا الزكا لهم أجروهم عند ربهم ولا خوف عليهم ولا هم يحزنون indeed those who believe and do righteous deeds and establish prayer and give zikaa and have their reward with their Lord and there will be no fear concerning them nor there will grieve لا خوفون عليهم ولا هم يحزنون I tell you a story about giving charity الليسو بن ساعت is a merchant who trades in honey one day and was delivered to him it was full of big bars of barrels of honey and an old lady came to him and she was having a small container and she said can you fill this a container with honey and he said no no please don't ask so the lady left after that a lady ordered his helper he ordered him to follow the lady and to know where she lives and to take an old barrel of honey for her so his helper looked at him she came and she asked just a little bit you refused and now you are giving her a whole thing a whole big thing and a lady looked at him and he said oh boy she asked what she wanted but we give what we want to give so when you give try to give the best you can you know we mentioned it earlier so that Allah سبحانه وتعالى will tell you on the day of judgment you showed my people you showed my slaves your generosity I will show you the real generosity so if the if the one who gives would realize that he is giving or what he is giving is going to be listed with Allah سبحانه وتعالى then the person who gives will be happier than the person who clicks remember when Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم slaughtered a sheep and he distributed all except for one portion and when he came back to his home he said to his wife عائشة رضي الله عنها ما بقية منها يا عائشة what is left of the sheep that we slaughtered she said بقية الكتف what we have what is left is the shoulder and he said no عائشة all of it is is saved all of it will be we will be rewarded for except for the except for the shoulder all of it was given as a charity so all of it was saved for us we got the reward for all of it this was the question let's again talk about the benefits of صدقة so الصدقة is a door for heaven Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم said في الجلة ثمانية وابواب منها باب يسمى الريان لا يدخله إلا الصائمون so sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم said in heaven there are eight gates among which a gate is called الريان which only those who fast will enter so this is about when you fast what do you do you give charity do you know why because in Ramadan the reward is multiplied and that's why when Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم was asked أي صدقة أفضل قال صدقة في رمضان so they asked Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم which charity is best and he said charity in Ramadan the reward of all we do is multiplied in Ramadan so when we fast we want to do the best that we can because the reward is multiplied now also الصدقة what happens the charity shields the one who paid it on the day of judgment we all know the Hadith that Abu Huraira narrated that Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم said so he listed these seven groups of people and one of these groups he mentioned the rest of the Hadith which says and a man who gives charity so seen and he said and he said and he said and he said and he said and he said and he said so nobody cares and it is so pretty because it is charity so secretly that his left hand does not know what his right hand has given so nobody knows how much he gave 我人 that he paid in charity nobody knows how much he paid in charity as a shade on the day of judgment. Also, أناس رضي الله عنه ساد قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم إن الصدقة لا تطفيق غذبا رب وتدفع ميتة السوب. So I reported that يدن محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ساد صدقة or charity at so this charity appeases the Lord's anger and a bird's an evil death. One more thing if your loved ones are dead if your father is dead if your mother is dead slaughter something give it for for them with their name or pay pay money for them do something for them so this صدقة is the best that is gifted to your deceased loved ones the صدقة purifies the soul the صدقة brings happiness and joy the صدقة the charity the صدقة paying for the sake of الله is a way that الله سبحانه وتعالى will wipe out sins with if you want something from الله سبحانه وتعالى if you want to make dua for something to give some صدقة and then make your dua also if you have someone who is sick and you want to to to ask الله سبحانه وتعالى to heal him to give him good health again just just do some charity pay some money slaughter something do anything you can just give give صدقة for that person and say محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم says دا ومرضاكم بالصدقة pay صدقة for your sick ones and make dua so if you want something you just ask الله سبحانه وتعالى and pay while you are happy that you're paying for the sake of الله سبحانه وتعالى we have to pay attention to one more thing that when we pay we have to pay our zikaa and our صدقة our charities pure for the sake of الله سبحانه وتعالى why say إلا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم says إنما الأعمال بالنيات وإنما لكل مريء ما نوا فمن كانت هجرته إلى الله ورسوله فهجرته إلى الله ورسوله ومن كانت هجرته لدنيا يصيبها أو مرأة ينكحها فهجرته إلى ما هجر إلي سو عمر بن الخطاب رضي الله العزم ساد ذا سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ساد the value of an action depends on the intention behind it so a man will be rewarded only what for what he intended so if he for example migrated for the sake of Allah then his migration is for the sake of Allah and if he migrated just to gain a worldly advantage or to marry a woman then he will get what he migrated for so when you when you pay when you pay your charity your Zaka'a your make it for the sake of Allah purely because say the Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم had warned us if someone does a good deed and his intention was that people would talk about him if he is generous then people would say oh this person is generous if he fights for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى he wants people to say oh he is brave then he will get what he wanted but he will lose his reward in the day after so when you do your charity just make it pure for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and nothing else and do you know another way of doing أصدقه it is to to pass the knowledge that you have learned and this is the best صدقه that you do is by sharing what you learned so you learn خيركم من تعلم القرآن وعلمه the best of you is the one who learned the Quran and then he delivered it to people he gave it to people he taught it to people so this is a way of صدقه this is a way of صدقه so the صدقه of the كلام is that the صدقه of speech is that a person would pass the knowledge that he has learned so it will be a continuous صدقه for him أبهرير رضي الله عنه ساد سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ساد إذا مات ابن آدم قطع عمله إلا من ثلاث صدقة جارية أو علم ينتفع به أولد صالح يدعو له so when a man dies his deeds come to an end except for three things a continuous charity knowledgeable knowledge by which people derive benefit and pay a son who prays for him so صدقة جارية what is a صدقه جارية what is a continuous charity continuous charity is like helping or giving some money for people who are building a mosque everyone who pays in that mosque you get some of that reward so you helped spreading Islam you help people pray in the house of Allah you help people read Quran in the house of Allah this is continuous charity if you help in building a school if you help in teaching people to memorize Quran if you help in building a school for teaching Quran so all of this is considered as continuous charity if you spread knowledge this is also a صدقة that you will be rewarded for even after you die because people are benefiting from something that you did during your life you raised your child to be pious to pray for you this is a good thing that you have done so just to spread the knowledge you learned something give it so paying صدقه now paying charity is an outer action that starts from deeply from the heart how do you feel when you pay your صدقه you should feel very happy that you are doing something that Allah has ordered you to do and you know that you will be highly rewarded for this action in دنيا and in أخرة in دنيا that Allah will increase your wealth and will multiply it and will replace what you paid multiple times and in أخرة by getting the reward for that so this is a little bit of talking a little bit covering the topic of صدقه the car charity how do we what do we understand of it it's not only money it's not only giving money there are so many ways of giving charity with this we come to an end of our session for today and insha'Allah we'll meet next week and until we meet I send my Salam and your Salam to Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته