DEEPER ASPECTS
Rather unusual for the HadIs, charity in its deeper aspect is also mentioned in some ahAdIs (2197-2204). People who cannot pay in money can pay in piety and good acts. �Administering of justice between two men is also a Sadaqa. And assisting a man to ride upon his beast, or helping him load his luggage upon it, is a Sadaqa; and a good word is a Sadaqa; and every step that you take towards prayer is a Sadaqa, and removing of harmful things from the pathway is a Sadaqa� (2204).
There are some other passages of equal beauty and insight. Among those whom God affords protection is one �who gives charity and conceals it so that the right hand does not know what the left hand has given� (2248). In the same vein, Muhammad tells us that �if anyone gives as Sadaqa the equivalent of one date . . . the Lord would accept it with His Right Hand� (2211).
And in another hadIs: �In every declaration of the glorification of Allah1 [i.e., saying SubhAn Allah], there is a Sadaqa . . . and in man�s sexual intercourse [with his wife-the omission is supplied by the translator], there is a Sadaqa� (2198).
author : ram swarup