The Status of the Virtuous Tradition of Donation in Islamic Culture; Fathoming the Quran and the Way of the Imam

Donation is among the features of the economic and legal systems in Islam and enjoys salient position and importance. It epitomizes benevolent help that is bereft of hypocracy, annoyance, humiliation and fraught with good will, pious intentions. It is a soft loan that can help decrease the gap between social strata which the individual carries with them to the after world as saved deeds. Should this nice tradition be advertized and expands, it will bring with it positive and ever-lasting effects for this world as well as the other world. In other words, donations immortalizes the person›s good deeds and makes the deed report of the person eternal, thus, making it possible for him/her to reap it benefits. The main purpose of this article is clarifying the act of donation in the view of Quran and Islamic tradition. The method of research is descriptive and documented analysis has been used; that is to say, all the sources used and the studies made were tagged on slips of paper which were in turn categorized into reseach findings via a qualitative approach. In this article, initially the concept of donation, its various kinds as well as its conditions, the truth behind and in it, and then its status and significance in the viewpoint of the Quran and Islamic tradition have been explicated. Afterwards, examples of donation in the Quran have been highlighted and in the end cultural samples of donation in the lives of the 14 Infallibles have been inserted.