CHARITY AND DISCRIMINATION

There is a hadIs which seems to teach that charity should be indiscriminate.  A man gives charity, with praise to Allah, first to an adulteress, then to a rich man, then to a thief.  Came the angel to him and said: �Your charity has been accepted.� For his charity might become the means whereby the adulteress �might restrain herself from fornication, the rich man might perhaps learn a lesson and spend from what Allah has given him, and the thief might thereby refrain from committing theft.� One may suppose that the man�s acts of charity had these wonderful results because they were accompanied by �praise to Allah� (2230).

author : ram swarup