Ideas for Recurring Charity

IDEAS FOR RECURRING CHARITY

(AS-SADAKAT AL-JARIYAH)

DESCRIPTION: There are thousands of doors for earning ‘Recurring Good Deeds’. Upon death, angels will close your account. Yet, there are lots of ways through which good deeds will be kept on written in your account, even after your death. So invest in recurring charity before your death that will remain a source of continuing good deeds for you. They ‘could’ lead you to Heaven or prevent you from hell, apart from being advantageous for others! (However, the thing to remember is that we should not forget the set of obligations Our Creator demands from us!)

As quoted by Abu-Hurairah (ra), Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) stated: “After one’s death, there are only three things which keep on benefitting a person:

i)- Sadaqa-e-Jariya:

This means something which is related to some noble or worthy investment that can benefit others. For example a hospital, a rest-house, the establishment of a suitable school, college or university, building of a mosque, a fruit tree or a tree with shadow etc.

ii)- The knowledge that benefits people:

Education based on Holy Qur’an is the foremost knowledge in this category. Beneficial Scientific knowledge is also significant here, not to forget any scientific invention which continues to benefit people generation after generation. With regards to knowledge, spreading & conveying Islamic knowledge are also best.

iii)- Righteous Children:

The reward for the good acts of righteous children also reaches their parents when they have passed out whether they have intended it or not.

AND NOW, SOME IDEAS ABOUT RECURRING CHARITIES:

1- Buy a wheelchair and send it to a humble hospital or to handicapped people who can't afford to buy any; each time they use it, you will gain good deeds (Hasanat).

2- Give a copy of Qur’an or CD containing Surah’s (chapters from Qur’an) to someone and each time they read from it, you will gain good deeds (Hasanat).

3- Share or give constructive reading material to others (Scientific, Islamic or any other fruitful material which can be a source of benefit for others).

4- Go to the universities, institutes or schools. Ask about the poor students who love to learn but can't afford buying the textbooks. Buy it for them, or pay the cost of the tuition fees. Each time they read the books you gave them or each time they use the knowledge you helped them to get, you will gain good deeds (Hasanat). (OR) Help in educating a poor child in your neighborhood.

5- Forward supplications and prayers by e-mail (preferably after verifying the content if you can). Teach someone to recite a dua. Buy books of Duas (authentic publication) and give them to people. Each time they read them or recall them you will gain good deeds (Hasanat).

6- Give out scientific (that is beneficial) or Islamic CDs to other people. Each time they open them you will gain good deeds (Hasanat).

7- Contribute something in the mosque. When you know that there is a mosque under construction, go and buy anything to participate in building it, or anything even a trash bin or a mat or fix a Dua wallpaper. As long as this mosque is still there with your humble share, you will gain good deeds (Hasanat).

8- Buy a water-cooler and put it in a public area.

9- Plant a tree. Each time any person or an animal sits under its shade or eats from the tree, you will gain hasanaat.

10- Teach.

11- Raise good children so that they pray for you after you pass away.

12- Be good to people so that they remember you after your death and pray for you. The people involve not just your relatives, colleagues and friends, but the ordinary people also with whom you interact on a regular basis!