139. Does God expect believers to tithe and give alms? (Zekat)
the Bible Yes
Yes the Quran
the Bible's Perspective
Malachi 3:8Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.
Matthew 6:3But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does,
Luke 6:30Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.
Luke 12:33Sell what you have and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
Matthew 19:21Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
Luke 11:41But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.
Acts 20:35In all things I gave you an example, that so labouring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
Ephesians 4:28Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labour, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.
the Quran's Perspective
Al-Baqara (The Cow) 2:177It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces to the East and the West; but righteous is he who believeth in Allah and the Last Day and the angels and the Scripture and the prophets; and giveth wealth, for love of Him, to kinsfolk and to orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and to those who ask, and to set slaves free; and observeth proper worship and payeth the poor-due. And those who keep their treaty when they make one, and the patient in tribulation and adversity and time of stress. Such are they who are sincere. Such are the Allah-fearing.
Al-Tawba (Repentance) 9:103-104Take alms of their wealth, wherewith thou mayst purify them and mayst make them grow, and pray for them. Lo! thy prayer is an assuagement for them. Allah is Hearer, Knower. Know they not that Allah is He Who accepteth repentance from His bondmen and taketh the alms, and that Allah is He Who is the Relenting, the Merciful.
Al-Mu'minoon (The Believers) 23:1Successful indeed are the believers
Al-Mu'minoon (The Believers) 23:4And who are payers of the poor-due;
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