Daily Ramadan Digest: 14 Simple Ways To Make People Around You Happy And To Give Out Charity

As Ramadan enters day two today, Sunday, May 28, 2017, it is important Muslims who are fasting and are self-sufficient put a smile on the poor and needy.

Charity or Sadaqa (Arabic) is a voluntary donation in form of money and materials. It could also in terms of intangible things like to your neighbors or removing a dangerous object from the road in order to prevent people from stepping on it.

Written below are 14 types of charity every fasting Muslim should be involved in doing in the blessed month of Ramadan and beyond.

1) Keep a Qur'an in any masjid and get the reward for whoever reads even a single letter of it a letter is multiplied into 10 times, imagine the reward.

2) Keep a bowl or glass of water on your window for the birds.

3) Give cloth to the needy and poor ones.

4) Keep a box in your room and put a coin  inside whenever you seem to have sinned, open the box after a month and give the cash to the needy people.

5) Write the prayer of entering the house and leaving the house on two papers, stick it on the entrance of house. You will be rewarded for whoever will read it.

6) Sponsor an orphan from your money.

7) When you are going to family gatherings, take carton of juice, snacks, etc with you and distribute it.

8) If there is a construction going on near your house, get a box of water and juice, refrigerate it, and give it to the labourers chilled.

9) If you have change at the petrol station from the worker, let him keep, even if he was a non muslim, be a good face for your religion.

10) Buy a 'Musallah' and keep it in the masjid. You will be rewarded on whoever prays on it.

11) If there is water left in your glass, put it in the flower pot or plants.

12) Cheer any Muslim brother/sister, especially those who are sad or facing hardships.

13) Smile to whom you pass by, greet to the one next to you, and every good word is sadaqah.

14) Do not sleep until you have forgiven whoever have hurted you.

In conclusion, every Muslim should assess himself or herself and see how far he or she has  gone in terms of giving out Sadaqa.