I am not that religious or superstitious, but that topic above really is a bugger for me. You see, there is a saying, “If you are stingy with God, He will be so with you!” and that is a real true thing I must emphasise to others.

Did I say I am not that religious? So to speak, I’m penny wise pound foolish sometimes, but as such, I normally get my just dessert from Him Almighty ….as instant as the cash that comes out of the cash machine. Let me relate to one silly incident. I was at Friday Prayers and during congregation, I was kinda tight up for cash, and I did not put in anything into the box.Well during the week after,it was hard, I had my run of bad luck and things like so. And fantasticly, after I repaid what my normal tithes during the next congregation, I get things back on track, and with better business results.

How’s that?

Zakat or Tithes in the times of the Arabs were fixed to about 2.5% of everything. Even non-muslims pay a TAX to the administration of the same amount, and that is how things originate : The Sales Tax or Income Tax.

So think of it this way, pay 2.5% of whatever you get to the charitable causes. If they are giving a fund raiser, and they are selling something you can’t afford, don’t buy, but contribute a small token like $5 (or the smallest banknote denomination you have with you) cos the ‘taxman’ is already there. Consider that as a bribe to the guy upstairs so you have a good health,business and things do well, and that you remember that He is watching you.

Allah SWT said that a donation or tithe is a cleanser of bad deeds and dirty money which we may not realise and a donation or good deed , how small it is,even to the size of an atom,is just as effective as a huge one, and that a deed is like a seed,growing into 7 branches and each branch carry at least 7 fruits of our labour.

So, that effectively,shows He promised us not just Paradise, but 49 times returns of whatever we invest,however small it is, and that Time is more costly than of monetary.

Now, you know one small secret I have for my Top Monthly Leaderboard for PayPerPost and other programs. Getting oneself blessed. And being charitable does not restrict oneself from just a cause or religion,faith or community, it’s the whole community.

So at times, you donate your time to charity, and that time you invested will give you such pleasure in life, and maybe Insyallah, Longevity.

Take care.