quality

Charity

Beliefs & concepts

The named theological virtue of self-giving love in Christian speech. Not kindness as everyday warmth alone, and not love as the bare mood.

Islam

  • Charity is used in Islam.

    The Qur’an commands zakāt and praises ṣadaqa as given wealth for the needy. Islamic charity as practiced giving in that revelation, not mercy as divine compassion alone and not a generic kindness mood.

    from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

    used in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Qur’an · M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation)

    M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an (Oxford).