DAILY ISLAMIC REMINDER. Yawmul Jumuat, 3rd day of Rajab 1446AH, Friday. 3rd Jan. 2025). GIVE CHARITY/SADAQAH SECRETLY FOR ALLAH SAKE. BismilLah 

Sheikh Abu Hurairah (May ALLAH be pleased with him) said: There came a man to the Prophet (sallallaahu ’alayhi wa sallam) and said, "O Messenger of ALLAH, which charity is the most rewardable?'' He (sallallaahu ’alayhi wa sallam) said, "That you should give charity (in a state when you are) healthy and stingy and fear poverty, hoping to become rich (charity in such a state of health and mind is the best). And you must not defer (charity to such a length) that you are about to die and would be saying: 'This is for so-and-so, and this for so-and-so.' Lo! It has already come into (the possession of) so-and-so".[Al-Bukhari and Muslim].

Charity, in the real sense, is that which a person gives when he is healthy. If a person gives charity when he is facing death or is very sick, it does not have much value before ALLAH. Moreover, in that condition, he can not give more than one-third of his property in charity because then it becomes the property of his successors, which can not be spent even in the way of ALLAH. For this reason ALLAH has prescribed a limit in this respect, according to which if a person going through a mortal disease wants to give his property in charity or donate it for some charitable purpose, he cannot spend more than one-third of it on this account. This injunction is an inducement for people to hurry in doing good deeds, especially in the matter of alms and charity. 

Please remember that today is Friday. Prepare before leaving for work etc. Take your ghusul, remember to recite the Qur'an especially suuratul kahf, send more salutations to our beloved Messenger of ALLAH sallallahu alaihi wasallam etc. 

May ALLAH aid us to give more of whatever we have because what we give is our real savings after death. May ALLAH, accept it from us all. Aameen.