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Billionaires Pledge Half Of Wealth To Charity

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Aug.5,2010

Forty U.S. billionaires pledged Wednesday to give at least half of their wealth to charity — either during their lifetimes or after death.

Listen/read this NPR story.

Of course in Islam, you can only give 1/3 of your wealth after you die, but you can give more if you are still alive.

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IslamicHolisticLiving says:

August 7, 2010 at 12:01 pm

A colleague of mine wanted to convince me to join her multilevel marketing. “This can bring me wealth”, said she. To assure that she’s not greedy, “I will use that wealth to help the poor and the needy”, she added. I smiled at her and thought quietly, “but Muslims don’t wait until becoming wealthy to help”.

Shortly after our conversation, she met me at work and announced to me that after a period of looking into different religions she had found her religion — Christianity.

May Allah guide her! Ameen.