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CHARITY
Donation is a gift which is presented to the God by muslim. Charity and donations have been existing for a long time. Our fathers and grandfathers did big donations sacrifices before harvest or special events. This ceremony was also held during khayits and attendance of cemeteries or sacred places.
So that the God and the nature favored with big harvest, people slaughtered camels, bulls, rams or other house animals. They prepared soups and plov, baked bread. It is clear that first of all these dishes were given to the poor and orphans. One more type of donations was that when someone was ill or had a bad dream then he sacrificed one of his animals and cooked a soup. This soup was eaten by passing people mainly elderly as well as children who asked the recovery for the host.
Charity and donations have especially been organized during Qurbon khayit, Ramadan khayit. Charity was given to the scientists and wise men, widows and clergymen. In old times there were maddakhs (narrators of the lives of the Saint), who wandering in the towns and villa, markets and cemeteries praised the God and the prophet. They called officials, peasants and craftsmen for justice and conscience. For this purpose maddakhs used instructions and poems of famous poets and thinkers of the past.
Charity is the product of humaneness and mercy. There is hand of help with charity to the man found himself in difficulty. The poor can eat his fill from this charity, while the one who has made charity strengthens the feeling of mercy; he fulfills his obligation in front of the God, nature and human society. The main rule of charity can be formulated as the following: let the well-to-do extend e helping hand to the indigent, the rich to the poor, the prosperous to the needy.
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