Allah says in Quran....
Spend your wealth for the cause of Allah, and make not your hands contribute to your destruction; and do good. Lo! Allah loves those who are beneficent. (al-baqarah: 195)
What does this mean....
According to Huzaifah Radhiallaho anho, the command "Do not contribute to your own destruction," means giving up Sadaqah for fear of becoming poor.
Ibne Abbas Radhiallaho anho has said, "To get killed in the path of Allah, is not ruining oneself: in fact, ruination lies in withholding the expenditure on sadaqah". Dhahhaak Bin Jubair Rahmathullah alaihe has said that the Ansaar
used to spend in the path of Allah and also give things in Sadaqah. Once, in a year of famine, they changed their minds and stopped this noble practise.
On that occasion this Ayat was revealed. Aslam Rahmathullah alaihe has said that he was once of those who participated in the battle of Constantinople. A large force of the enemy advanced to oppose them. A man from their side rushed alone into the enemy lines. Upon this, some of the Muslims started shouting that the men had blindly invited his ruination and they recited this particular Ayat in support of their contention.
Abu Ayyub Ansaari Radhiallaho anho, who was also in the field, got up and said that the action of that man was not self-ruination at all; he said that the Ayat of the Qur’an being quoted by some people referred to the Ansaar.
He explained that Ansaar quietly took a decision among themselves that the time had come for them to engage themselves in improving their lands and farms, etc; in the belief that, by the grace of Allah Ta’ala, Islam by then had become predominant and many people besides the Ansaar had joined the ranks of its supporters and helpers and, so the Ansaar could turn to their fields, plantations, etc, which were in ruin due to neglect and lack of care. At that juncture, the Ayat in question was revealed in order to admonish them that it would be self-ruination if the Ansaar gave up Jehaad for the sake of improving their properties. (Durre Manthur).
excerpts from fazail e sadaqat... http://www.islamicbulletin.org/free_downloads/resources/fazail_sadaqat.pdf.
pls ponder and think about this one fact that ... we all have one chance... aftet death none can return to undo what we have been doing... so change course now....
