Charitable Works  

                                                                                     Compiled by: Engineer Afsaneh Cooper   

         Generosity modelled by Imam Reza (a.s.) - link

  1. Any good deed will be considered a charity1.

  2. Righteousness and good deeds are eternal savings2.

  3. There are many good deeds, but there will be few to get the opportunity to make a success of it3.

  4. Don't be hypocritical in good deeds, and don't avoid performing them because of modesty and coyness (humility) 4.

  5. The example of kindness and favour is like an iron collar that, will not be broken off, except with compensation or gratification5.

  6. There will be no blessedness in squandering, and in blessed deeds there will be no wasting6.

  7. God will bless the person who performs a good act, God will bless beneficent people7.

  8. Don't submit anything but good work, and don't say anything but fine speech8.

  9. Be quick in good deeds before being involved in other work9.

  10. Righteousness and good morals increase blessings and prolong one's life10.

  11. A noble-minded and honourable man considers his magnanimous deeds as repayment of a debt11.

  12. Calling a charitable act insignificant, has no blessing in it12.

  13. The person who guides others to blessed deeds is the same as the one who has succeeded in doing the blessed deed13.

  14. Make haste in doing blessed deeds and help each other in the performance of them14.

  15. Completion of blessed works depends only on three things: hastening it, hiding it, and making it seems simple to do15.

  16. Your only goal should not be pleasure and to suppress anger, but your success is in the restoration of a right or reducing the effect of unacceptable actions16.

  17. Good deeds and their valuable effects are the booties of the farsighted people17.

  18. Affection and love will make a free man a slave! 18

  19. Take the advice of others as an advantage, and be interested in good deeds19.

  20. Everything has a fruit and result, the expedience with which a good is performed is the good deed itself20.

  21. The most dignified people on the resurrection day are those who have taken great strides for the benevolence of the people's charitable deeds21.

  22. Benevolent people are the first people to enter paradise22.

  23. All creatures belong to God. The one who does a favour to these creatures, would benefit from it and will be the dearest among all those near God23.

  24. The good reputation that God has granted to a person is better than fortune and possession that is left as an inheritance to others24.

  25. Charitable acts will save and protect man from bad deaths25.

  26. Among the best and outstanding virtues is to take action in good deeds, removal of the trouble of the involved, and helping those who are in need of it26.

  27. Heaven (Paradise) has a door known as ((Maaroof)) (good deeds) which is famous in that only the benevolents enter in it27.

  28. Whenever you decide to perform any good act, perform it immediately, because you never know what will happen to you thereafter28.

  29. Better than any charitable act is the doer of it29.

  30. The more quickly one performs charitable acts, the more he will be loved to God30.

  31. If anyone of you sets the foundation of a good tradition among the people, the credit of him and whoever takes part, will belong to founder and will benefit him ever after until the resurrection day31.

  32. Doing good to other is the best of charitable acts in that the doer will soon receive the reward of it32.

  33. Holding the receiver of a good act under obligation, will absolutly corrupt human being33.

  34. Take initiative in charitable acts and don't consider them insignificant, for, its little is great, and its few is many34.

  35. Anytime your religious brother asks something of you, fulfil his request promptly, before he doesn't need it anymore35.

  36. The person who does a favour to a pious believer, then displeases him or puts him under obligation, God will spoil his act36.

  37. The following people will not find their way to paradise:
    (1) the one who disowned by his parents.
    (2) the Permanently wine drunk man.
    (3) the one who puts others under obligation because of his good acts37.

  38. The one who does a service to his religious brother and then puts him under obligation, God will wipe out his act and the heavy sin him will be on his shoulder, and he won't get any benefit39.

  39. Good acts and charity will reduce poverty, prolong life, and protect human being from seventy kinds of bad deaths39.

  40. If anybody asks of you a charitable act, do it promptly40.

 

References  

  1. Imam Mohammad Bagher (A.S.)            ((Khesa1-e-Sadoogh, vol. 1, p. 66))

  2. Imam Reza (A. S.)            ((Behar, vol. 78, p. 355))

  3. The Honorable Prophet of Islam (P.B.U.H.)            ((Behar, vol. 96, p. 160))

  4. The Honorable Prophet of Islam (P.B.U.H.)            ((Tohafol-Oghool, p. 57))

  5. Imam Musa Kazem (A. S.)            ((Behar, vol. 78, P. 333))

  6. The Honorable Prophet of Islam (P.B.U.H.)            ((Behar, vol. 77, p. 165))

  7. Imam Hossein (A. S.)            ((Behar, vol. 78, p. 122))

  8. The Honorable Prophet of Islam (P.B.U.H.)            ((Behar, vol. 77, p. 168))

  9. The Reverent Amir (A. S.)            ((Khesa1-e-Sadoogh, vol. 2, p. 160))

  10. Imam Jafar Sadegh (A. S.)            ((Osool-e-Kafi, vol. 3, p. 157))

  11. The Reverent Amir (A. S.)            ((Fehrest-e-Ghorar. p. 346))

  12. Imam Reza (A. S.)            ((Behar, vol. 78, p. 354))

  13. The Honorable Prophet of Islam (P.B.U.H.)            ((Khesal-e-Sadoogh, vol. 1, p. 66))

  14. Imam Mohammad Bagher (A.S.)            ((Tohafol-Oghool, p. 308))

  15. Imam Jafar Sadegh (A. S.)            ((Mostadrak, vol. 12, p. 362))

  16. The Reverent Amir (A. S.)            ((Fehrest-e-Ghorar, p. 358))

  17. Imam Reza (A. S.)            ((Behar, vol. 78, P. 355))

  18. The Honorable Prophet of Islam (P.B.U.H.)            ((Ashshehab fel-Hekame-Val-Adab, p. 17))

  19. Imam Jafar Sadegh (A. S.)            ((Aalamoddin, p. 390))

  20. The Reverent Amir (A. S.)            ((Khesal-e-Sadoogh, vol. 2, p. 161))

  21. The Honorable Prophet of Islam (P.B.U.H.)            ((Osool-e-Kafi, vol. 3, p. 297))

  22. Imam Mohammad Bagher (A.S.)            ((Ama1i-e-Sadoogh, p. 254))

  23. The Honorable Prophet of Islam (P.B.U.H.)            ((Osoo1-e-Kafi, vol. 3, p. 239))

  24. The Reverent Amir (A. S.)            ((Nahjol-Balaghe, Khotbah 23))

  25. Imam Mohammad Bagher (A.S.)            ((Ama1i-e-Sadoogh, p. 254))\

  26. Imam Reza (A. S.)            ((Behar, vol. 78, p. 357))

  27. Imam Jafar Sadegh (A. S.)            ((Vasael, vol. 11, p. 529))

  28. Imam Mohammad Bagher (A.S.)            ((Osool-e-Kafi, vol. 3, p. 212))

  29. Imam Hadi (A. S.)            ((Behar, vol. 78, p. 370))

  30. Imam Mohammad Bagher (A.S.)            ((Osool-e-Kafi, vol. 3, p. 274))

  31. The Honorable Prophet of Islam (P.B.U.H.)            ((Ashshehab fel-Hekame-Val-Adab, p. 46))

  32. Imam Mohammad Bagher (A. S.)            ((Mostadrak, vol. 9, p. 112))

  33. Imam Jafar Sadegh (A. S.)            ((Vasael, vol. 6, p. 316))

  34. Amirol-moominin (A. S.)            ((Nahjol-Balaghe, Sent 414))

  35. Imam Reza (A. S.)            ((Behar, vol. 74, p. 413))

  36. The Honorable Prophet of Islam (P.B.U.H.)            ((Vasael, vol. 6, p. 317))

  37. Imam Jafar Sadegh (A. S.)            ((Ghorbol-Esnad, p. 83))

  38. The Honorable Prophet of Islam (P.B.U.H.)            ((Vasael, vol. 6, p. 316))

  39. Imam Mohammad Bagher (A. S.)            ((Makaremol-Akhlagh, p. 338))

  40. Imam Zeinolabedin (A. S.)            ((Tohafol-Oghool, p. 290))

  41. http://www.ghadeer.org/english/default.html