Many years ago, when Al Haram Al Sharif was a Jewish religious centre, people gave their zakat there. Here is the story of one person who did this while Hazrat Isa ( ع ) was watching. Read it in the Blessed Injeel (Mark 12:41-42)
The crowd were giving their gifts for God’s Great House. There was a box for money there. People threw their coins into it. Jesus sat near the box and he watched them. Many rich people put a lot of money into the box.
But then a woman came there. Her husband had died and she was very poor. She put two small coins that had only a little value into the box.
Hazrat Isa ( ع ) asked his disciples to come to him. ‘Let me tell you this,’ he said to them. ‘This poor woman has put a better gift into the box than all the other people have put in there.
‘All those rich people have plenty of money. They only put a small part of that into the box. But this woman has almost nothing. She put in all the money that she had. That was all the money that she needed to live.’
What do you think about this story?
- Is there something you like in the story?
- Or something in it that doesn’t seem right?
- Does this story remind you of the way people sometimes behave?
- Maybe it starts you thinking about God.
- What does this story seem to suggest you do? (I think you know that God will bless you read the teaching of Hazrat Isa ( ع ) and obey and copy him.)