“It’s better to remain silent and let everything think you’re a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt” You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about. I doubt you’ve even visited Saudi let alone lived there for you to be commenting on “ze Saudi gOvErNmEnT”

I think you may have misunderstood. My point was that Islam gives us the tools to perceive the world better than without those tools. The intent is for those who adhere to Islam to be better people than they otherwise would be without it. So a person who regularly gives in charity, directly from his own hands, directly to the poor, by going to where the poor are and helping them directly, maybe even speaking to them and listening to them, is clearly more useful in developing good character than not doing it at all.

An interesting video. What do you think? I think things like zakaat, fasting ramadhaan, waking up at 4:30am to go to the masjid to pray (like waking up early to tend the fields) all help to re-align us to empathise with those who don’t have. The companion of the prophet Muhammad, Umar, once when he was the Khaleefah (the leader of the Muslims) stumbled across a woman who was struggling to feed her children, so he came at night, with a bag of flour and cooked for her and her children because he felt shame that people were going hungry under his responsibility. Maintaining that connection to the poor. https://youtube.com/shorts/JTY6ai7khng