"Kind speech and forgiveness are better than charity followed by injury. And Allah is Free of need and Forbearing."
— Quran 2:263
"Believe in Allah and His Messenger and spend out of that in which He has made you successors. For those who have believed among you and spent, there will be a great reward."
— Quran 57:7
"The best of charity is when a Muslim gains knowledge, then he teaches it to his Muslim brother."
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Ibn Majah)
"Whoever relieves a believer's distress of the distressful aspects of this world, Allah will rescue him from a difficulty of the difficulties of the Hereafter."
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Muslim)
"إِن تُبْدُوا الصَّدَقَاتِ فَنِعِمَّا هِيَ وَإِن تُخْفُوهَا وَتُؤْتُوهَا الْفُقَرَاءَ فَهُوَ خَيْرٌ لَّكُمْ"
— Quran 2:271
"O son of Adam, spend and I shall spend on you."
— Hadith Qudsi (Bukhari & Muslim)
"Protect yourself from Hellfire even if it is with half a date given in charity."
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Bukhari)
"Whoever would love to be delivered from the Hellfire and entered into Paradise, then let him die with faith in Allah and the Last Day, and let him treat the people the way he wishes to be treated."
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Muslim)
"Richness is not having many possessions. Rather, true richness is the richness of the soul."
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Bukhari & Muslim)
"There is no envy except in two cases: a person whom Allah has given wealth and he spends it in the right way, and a person whom Allah has given wisdom and he judges by it and teaches it to others."
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Bukhari)
"He is not a believer whose stomach is filled while the neighbor to his side goes hungry."
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Bayhaqi)
"We feed you only for the sake of Allah. We wish not from you reward or gratitude."
— Quran 76:9
"The generous person is near to Allah, near to Paradise, near to people, and far from Hellfire."
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Tirmidhi)
"And cooperate in righteousness and piety, but do not cooperate in sin and aggression."
— Quran 5:2
"Give charity without delay, for it stands in the way of calamity."
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Tirmidhi)
"وَلَا يَأْتَلِ أُولُو الْفَضْلِ مِنكُمْ وَالسَّعَةِ أَن يُؤْتُوا أُولِي الْقُرْبَىٰ وَالْمَسَاكِينَ وَالْمُهَاجِرِينَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَلْيَعْفُوا وَلْيَصْفَحُوا"
— Quran 24:22
"Allah is in the aid of His servant as long as His servant is in the aid of his brother."
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Muslim)
"A charity is due for every joint in each person on every day the sun comes up: to act justly between two people is a charity."
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Bukhari & Muslim)
"The heart that gives, gathers."
— Rumi
"Every day two angels descend and one of them says: O Allah, give compensation to the one who spends. The other says: O Allah, give destruction to the one who withholds."
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Bukhari & Muslim)