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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Beauty of Charity Charity Increases Sustenance And Protects Wealth Cause and effect, are from the wisdom of Allah (S.w.T.). He has connected the cause and effect of things. For example, the person who uses good methods in planting his crops, will get a good harvest. Just the same way a person who eats and drinks healthily will have good health. Allah (S.w.T.) too has linked spiritual and metaphysical causes to spiritual results.

Allah states that the one who is beneficial to his relatives will have an increase in his life span. Also Allah states that giving charity removes evil. We human beings wonder how the cause and effect is connected, and what is the wisdom behind the incidences in life? Some cause and effects are easy to explain and the wisdom behind them is clear. On the other hand some of these phenomena’s are hard to explain. However Islam stresses that giving charity increases sustenance.

Here are a few traditions that stress on this fact. The Holy Prophet (S) says: “ Attract sustenance by giving charity ”. [^1] Abu Abdillah (a.s.) says: “ Allah gives help to person equal in quantity to the charity a person gives ”.[^2] Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a.s.) says that: “Everything has a key, and the key to sustenance is charity ”. [^3] Here below are some real life events that will illustrate these facts.

Effects Of Charity One famous scholar, Sheikh Muhammad Hadi Al Amini relates that his father while acquiring knowledge in Najaf, Iraq, went to his hometown Tabriz. While he was in his hometown, he used to visit his relatives and friends. Sheikh Amini’s father didn’t see an old acquaintance of his who was a poor and needy man. When he didn’t see this friend, he asked about him and was told by people, that the man he was asking about was a rich man and no longer poor.

Sheikh Amini’s father decided to pay a visit to his friend. While conversing with his friend he asked his friend the reason for the change in his economic position. The man replied that he had been very poor to the extent that he was forced to sell some properties that belonged to him, like furniture etc. By selling these things he had collected some money enough to start a business with. As he was on his way back to his house with the capital, he saw a poor lady crying.

The man asked the lady the reason for crying, and she explained that she was a widow with orphans who were hungry.