Comparing Ongoing Charity in Life and After Death
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Question:
This is a questioner for the program. Which is better, O Shaykh, as ongoing charity: while a person is alive or after his death?
Answer:
Both are good: charity while a person is alive, and likewise the charity that continues for him after his death, whether through an endowment he made or a donation from his brothers and relatives; all of it is good. However, for the living person, giving charity while he is alive is better than delaying it until death arrives. And his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): “The best charity is…”. Yes.
This is a questioner for the program. Which is better, O Shaykh, as ongoing charity: while a person is alive or after his death?
Answer:
Both are good: charity while a person is alive, and likewise the charity that continues for him after his death, whether through an endowment he made or a donation from his brothers and relatives; all of it is good. However, for the living person, giving charity while he is alive is better than delaying it until death arrives. And his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): “The best charity is…”
That you give charity while you are healthy and stingy, fearing poverty and hoping for wealth, and you do not delay it until it reaches the throat, and then you say, “So much for so-and-so, and so much for so-and-so, and so much for so-and-so.”
أن تتصدق وأنت صحيح شحيح، تخاف الفقر، وتأمل الغنى، ولا تؤخر حتى إذا بلغت الحلقوم قلت كان لفلان ولفلان كذا وفلان كذا
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/258 — archive.org (5:34)
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