Alms-giving in the way of God will help repay debts and leave blessings behind.....

“Alms-giving in the way of God will help repay debts and leave blessings behind.”

The Imam further said:

“Whenever you become destitute, do business with God through alms-giving.”
 

 Imam Baqer (AS) has said:

 “Surely alms-giving repels seventy afflictions of the world including a bad death.  Surely an alms-giver never dies a bad death.”

It is related that one day Jesus (AS) and his disciples were sitting together when a man passed by them.  Jesus (AS) said to his disciples:

“This man will die soon.  After the passage of some time, they noticed that the man passed by them while he was carrying a load of wood.  The disciples asked: O spirit of God! you said he would die soon where as he is still living.  Jesus said to that man: Put down your load of wood.  He did so and opened it.  They immediately saw that a big black snake with a stone in its mouth was among the wood.  Jesus said to that man: What have you done today?  He said: O spirit of Allah, I had two loaves of bread.  I met a beggar.  I gave one of them to him (wee it not for his charity, that black snake would bite and kill the man).
  

Imam Sadeq (AS) said:
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“Every person who gives alms, God will give a better recompense to his children after his death.”
  

On verse 36 of the Quranic Chapter Hajj “...and feed the poor man who is contented and beggar...”

Imam Sadeq (AS) has been quoted as saying:

“The poor man who is contented is one who asks for something and beggar is your friend.”

Imam Sadeq (AS) was in Mena where a poor man came to him.  The Imam ordered a bunch of grapes to be given to him.  The poor man said:  I do not need it.  I need money.  The Imam said: My God increase your sustenance?  That man went on his way empty-handed.  Then another poor man came along and the Imam gave him three single grapes.  The poor man took those three single grapes saying:
    
  “praise is due to the Lord of the worlds”  who gave my sustenance.  The Imam who saw this scene said to him:  Wait.  The Imam said to his servant: how many Dirhams are on you?  He said: About twenty Dirhams.  The Imam said: Give all Dirhams to him.  The poor man took all Dirhams and said: praise is due to Allah the Lord of the worlds.  O God! This bounty comes from you.  You are One and have no partner.  The 

Imam further said: Wait.
  Then he took off the shirt he was wearing and said: Put it on.  That man put on the shirt and said; Praise is due to Allah, that gave a shirt and made me happy.  O servant of God! May God reward you.  With these words he said good bye and went away.
  

The narrator says: we were saying to ourselves: Had he not said good bye, the Imam would have kept on giving away, for every time the poor man said praise is due to Allah, the Imam would give him something.