What is Sedekah ?

   Another common thing and really encouraged in Islam is giving money or necessity items to the needy. In Malay we refer it as “sedekah”or donation in English. We don’t have to trouble ourselves by giving a big large of amount of money but it should be sincerely from bottom of your heart. There is pointless, for us to donate by it is by force.


   For example, a person named as Mila is persuading this man to donate for the charity organization and due to get ‘pahala’ this man without any hesitation give RM5 to her. Mila immediately refuse to receive this RM5 from this man unless this man willing to donate RM10 as a minimum of donation. In this case, there are couple of misconception of ‘sedekah’ occur. 1st, Mila should not put any condition in receiving the donation and she should accept any amount of money although it is a small amount of money.2nd, due to the condition that being imposed by Mila, the man feels that he has been forced to donate. Therefore, the sincerity is gone.


   The POWER of ‘sedekah’

   There are a lot of benefits of sedekah but people don’t realize it. Allah says we would not be poor if we keep donating. In fact, we would be getting richer!
Don’t be surprise of the fact. In my previous celoteh I have been talking about “pengantara rezeki”. The effectiveness of ‘pengantara rezeki’ is proven in this situation. If you keep donating to anyone with sincerity you would find that there would be unexpected ‘rezeki’ comes to you.


For instance,

• Suddenly you get promotion and increment in salary.
• You would receive additional money.
• Your life would not be as difficult as before and everything would be perfect and what you have expected it to be.
• You would be receiving whatever that you have wished before this.
• You would always be loved by Allah creatures no matter where you go.
• You would be respected by your friends and peers.

The greater that you’ve donated, the greater the rewards you would received. Have you ever heard this gold quote

“THE MORE YOU GIVE, THE MORE YOU GET”

Written by Errwin