How to Purify Your Wealth

How to Purify Your Wealth teachings. This does not serve the purpose for which Islam wants you to spend money on others. When someone gives a share of his wealth to others, this is apparently to meet others’ needs. But according to Islam the true purpose is to reform the giver. In this way the giver purifies his heart and his soul. Certain moral evils are linked with wealth, for instance, stinginess, greed, a feeling of superiority, and so on. But when it is at God’s behest that the wealthy person gives to others, then he removes these evils from within him. To reserve money for himself is to nourish these evils, whereas to give to others from his money is like cleansing himself of these evils. When a person gives his wealth to others without any hope of return, that suppresses his feelings of stringiness. His love of wealth is diminished. He learns the lesson that wealth is for need, not for the owner’s glory. The giving of wealth should at the same time be good for the taker as well as for the giver.