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[29 Mar 2010 | One Comment | ]
Good Deed: #146 Keep your promises

1000 Good Deeds Dilemma: You writing a big exam. You say if you pass you will fast for 3 days after the results come out. You pass the exam and celebrate for the next 3 days instead. Now what?
3:194 (Y. Ali) “Our Lord! Grant us what Thou didst promise unto us through Thine apostles, and save us from shame on the Day of Judgment: For Thou never breakest Thy promise.”
6:91 (Y. Ali) Fulfil the Covenant of Allah when ye have entered into it, and break not your oaths after ye …

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[23 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Good Deed: #145 Give Sadaqah for Allah’s pleasure

1000 Good Deeds Dilemma: You work for a company. They want to take you and your co workers to build houses in a poor community under a banner of a certain organisation. When you visit the website you notice they strongly promote a different religion. Do you go and build the house?
2:261 (Y. Ali) The parable of those who spend their substance in the way of Allah is that of a grain of corn: it groweth seven ears, and each ear Hath a hundred grains. Allah giveth manifold increase to whom …

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[18 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Good Deed: #144 Give sadaqah from halaal sources

1000 Good Deeds Dilemma: You go to your bank and you see you have $1000 dollars worth of interest money accumulated. You decide to donate it to muslim orphans as sadaqah. Can you do this?
2:276 (Y. Ali) Allah will deprive usury of all blessing, but will give increase for deeds of charity: For He loveth not creatures ungrateful and wicked.
Abu Hurairah (r.a.) narrated that Allah’s Messenger (s.a.w.s.) said, “If one gives in charity what equals one date-fruit from the honestly earned money and Allah accepts only the honestly earned money …

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[17 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Good Deed: #143 Give sadaqah to family first

1000 Good Deeds Dilemma: You mum passes away. While you going through her things, you find a notebook. In it are pages and pages of scratched out numbers. On the last page you see 10 fasts and 100 days of salaah outstanding? What do you do?
12:88 (Y. Ali) Then, when they came (back) into (Joseph’s) presence they said: “O exalted one! distress has seized us and our family: we have (now) brought but scanty capital: so pay us full measure, (we pray thee), and treat it as charity to us: …

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[16 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Good Deed: #142 Give Sadaqah secretly

1000 Good Deeds Dilemma: A family member needs a kidney transplant? You decide to anonymously donate your kidney to him as it is a perfect match? Is this allowed?
2:270-271 (Y. Ali) And whatever ye spend in charity or devotion, be sure Allah knows it all. But the wrong-doers have no helpers. If ye disclose (acts of) charity, even so it is well, but if ye conceal them, and make them reach those (really) in need, that is best for you: It will remove from you some of your (stains of) …

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[15 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Good Deed: #141 Give Sadaqah sincerely

<1000 Good Deeds Dilemma : There is a place that houses AIDS patients near your home? Are you allowed to support it?

2:264 (Y. Ali) O ye who believe! cancel not your charity by reminders of your generosity or by injury,- like those who spend their substance to be seen of men, but believe neither in Allah nor in the Last Day. They are in parable like a hard, barren rock, on which is a little soil: on it falls heavy rain, which leaves it (Just) a bare stone. They will be …

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[12 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Good Deed: #140 Give gifts

Dilemma: You perform a heart operation for a non muslim patient. As a thank you she gives you a basket of fruit, nuts and a bottle of champagne. What do you do with the bottle of bubbly?
2:262 (Y. Ali) Those who spend their substance in the cause of Allah, and follow not up their gifts with reminders of their generosity or with injury,-for them their reward is with their Lord: on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.
Abu Huraira, r.a., reported that the Prophet of Allah, upon him …