Book is full of injunctions on this subject, and hardly a leaf is turned which does not bring to mind the grand object of the service of humanity as the goal of man’s life, the subject is specially dealt with in the 36th and 37th sections of the second chapter. The reward of charity is first spoken of:

“The parable of those who spend their wealth in the way of Allāh is as the parable of a grain growing seven ears, in every ear a hundred grains; and Allāh multiplies (further) for whom He pleases” (2:261).

A charitable deed must be done as a duty which man owes to man, so that it conveys no idea of the superiority of the giver or the inferiority of the receiver:

“Those who spend their wealth in the way of Allāh, then follow not up what they have spent with reproach or injury, their reward is with their Lord … A kind word with forgiveness is better than charity followed by injury … O you who believe, make not your charity worthless by reproach and injury” (2:262-264).

Love of God should be the motive in all charitable deeds, so that the very doing of them fosters the feeling that all mankind is but a single family:

“And they give food out of love for Him, to the poor and the orphan and the captive” (76:8).

“And gives away wealth out of love for Him to the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and to those who ask and to set slaves free” (2:177).

“And the parable of those who spend their wealth to seek Allāh’s pleasure and for the strengthening of their souls, is as the parable of a garden on elevated ground” (2:265).

Only good things and well-earned wealth should be given in charity:

“O you who believe! spend of the good things that you earned and of that which We bring forth for you out of the earth, and aim not at the bad to spend thereof ” (2:267).

Charitable deeds may be done openly or secretly:

“If you manifest charity, how excellent it is! And if you hide it and give it to the poor, it is good for you” (2:271).