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Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth · 24 Aug 2020 › Segment 17 of 40

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Does giving charity protect me from bad things happening?

zakah zakaat zakah al-mal zakat al-mal obligatory charity hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith sadaqa sadqa sadaqat sadqah voluntary charity muftis ulama ulema ulamaa rahmah rahma rahmat

Is giving sadaqah a protection against harm?

QuestionLive chat · questioner not identifiedAnswered 24 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu LaythSegment 17 of 40 in the recording2020-08-24-S17

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Yes: he says giving brings good back, beginning with family, and recalls receiving much more after giving when money was tight.

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A question asks Mufti Abu Layth's view on giving sadaqah as protection against something bad. He agrees, saying that the better you are as a person the more good comes to you, and that whoever has mercy on those on earth receives mercy from above. He says the Arabic word sadaqah, unlike 'charity' in English, is positive, linked to truthfulness and friendship, and that it begins at home with family in need. He recalls giving at times when he feared he could not afford to, and says that, though he cannot demonstrate cause and effect, what came back unexpectedly was many times more.

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What is your view on giving sadaqah as protection against something bad?

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it'd be nice if it's every month but it doesn't have to be a soul huge but they could give a certain amount certain amount here but they are they do have an art of giving to them that is in my understanding and if you pay taxes it would suffice for zakat sore throat is there a fever loss of taste and smell no no no i've had my coronavirus in the beginning right so right what's going on what's going on people people people what's the

1:00:09

i was gonna cover a few things actually i can't see anyway i can't see it cool must have scribbled something i can't mufti your view on giving sadaqah's protection against something bad sure sure why not why not i mean look always think of it like this the better you are as a person you will in that sense

1:00:46

betterness will come to you okay if you give allah will give you you know so you know have compassion on people and mercy on the earth and the one above will have mercy on you so i feel that of course and i have at times i personally experienced this and i think charity begins at home you know in that sense although charity is used in english as a almost as a dirty word sometimes you know oh my god charity case or give charity but

1:01:25

you know it's not like the the the beauty about the arabic word sadaka is it's not a negative word it's not a it comes it's linked with the word sid truthfulness it's linked with the word you know friendly a friend sadaka friendship you know it's it's a very positive word and sadaka begins at home it begins with the with the family i would say if you if your family members or you feel that they are in need begin with them help them financially and then pan out you know like you can spread out other

1:02:05

things people maybe you see things like this uh help people and i've seen at times that you know i might be like oh something's happening and i'm thinking oh my god and i've given in a state of you know like in a hadith it says that you know is like kind of like like kind of this kind of greed or this kind of uh it's not greed is a bad word but like this kind of you'll fear sorry

1:02:41

uh that you you're fearing poverty in the sense that you could have like let's say i've got all these finances to cover and and now i've got you know let's say an opportunity to to give some money and i'm thinking oh but i don't know because right now i've got all of this and i found that sometimes when you give in those situations and it's kind of testing of your character it's testing you i have seen and it's you see i can't demonstrate cause and effect here but i can just say that you feel it that what comes to you

1:03:20

suddenly and you know unexpectedly is so much so many times more um honestly i would definitely say that so uh yeah there's a whole art to this and so i would definitely um support that right uh rojan mahmood what are your thoughts on nowadays muslim scholars completely lacking secular education yeah but even yeah of course and then sometimes they don't they have the secular education if i uh have a clip here example

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Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2020-08-24-S17, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/17/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2020, August 24). Does giving charity protect me from bad things happening? [Video, segment 2020-08-24-S17, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/17/
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  title = {{Does giving charity protect me from bad things happening?}},
  year = {2020},
  month = {8},
  date = {2020-08-24},
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  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/17/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2020-08-24-S17, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
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