Sadaqah
Charity in Islam / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Sadaka" redirects here. For the cicada genus, see Sadaka (cicada). For charity in Judaism, see Ṣedaqah.
Ṣadaqah (Arabic: صدقة [ˈsˤɑdæqɑ],* "charity", "benevolence",[1] plural ṣadaqāt صدقات [sˤɑdæˈqɑːt]) in the modern Islamic context has come to signify "voluntary charity".[2] According to the Quran, the word means a voluntary offering, whose amount is at the will of the benefactor.[3] It is similar to zakat, or compulsory giving, one of the five pillars of Islam.
It is also a cognate of the Jewish concept tzedakah, a Hebrew word that refers to acts of voluntary giving.[4]