GIFTS

Anything given as a gift or charity should not be taken back.  �Umar had donated a horse in the Path of Allah (i.e., for jihAd).  He found that the horse was languishing in the hands of the recipient, who was very poor, and considered buying it back.  �Don�t buy it back. . . . for he who gets back the charity is like a dog which swallows its vomit,� Muhammad told him (3950).

author : ram swarup