Muharram 20, 1448 AH

The Sadqa peti finally arrived.

Here is the deal.

When you live in a locality where people are reasonably well off, finding someone to give sadqa  t,o becomes a bit of a challenge. Some people keep sadqa peti at home. These mild steel boxes are arranged by local madarsas, they clear out the collected money after every couple of months.

Mostly these boxes are kept in shops like grocery store, medical store etcetra so the buyer can put some sadqa, mostly the change they get after paying the dues. I generally put something whenever I go to the medical store: I mean, people are sick, they’d want to give sadqa to please Allah and get better faster, right? Also, the grocery store right next to my home has one. Whenever I make a same-day trip to Pune, I put my family on standby. I message after every step of the journey, like reaching airport, ready to take off, landing, etc, until I come back home. Someone goes and puts a designated sum in the sadqa peti. As I write this, I’m thinking I should have taken a picture of the box.

Some family is also request one for home. My sister has it. Once, when my brother was starting the travel late at night, I phoned my sister to put some sadqa; the grocery store next to my house was shut by then.

Anywho, so sometimes giving sadqa becomes a problem. I wake up with intention of giving sadqa, login for work, and forget about it. It was high time that our house also gets one. So we can give sadqa when something good happens, something bad happens Allah forbid, or just when we feel a bit pious.

I have a record of all the times I have wanted to give sadqa but couldn’t. Now, I just need to calculate the sum and put it in the box. Allah hamare sadqat ko qubool farmaye. Ameen.

 

NOTE: This is part of “write one post every day for a year” challenge.

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