alms-giving

Along the way families ride bamboo rafts, bike through rain forest, frolic in waterfalls, plant trees with local villagers, light rice-paper lanterns, participate in a daily alms-giving ritual, spend the night with a family in a mountain village and, yes, ride elephants.

Adventures, With Children Jane Margolies 2011

If they repent and observe the Prayers and give the obligatory alms-giving you shall let them go.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

If they repent and observe the Prayers and give the obligatory alms-giving you shall let them go.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

If they repent and observe the Prayers and give the obligatory alms-giving you shall let them go.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

But in this case, it is perhaps an especially important point to stress, since the exhibition is an exploration of the Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca that is the fifth of the pillars of Islam—the others being the declaration of faith, ritual prayer, alms-giving and fasting during Ramadan.

The British Museum's Pilgrimage Andrew McKie 2012

If they repent and observe the Prayers and give the obligatory alms-giving you shall let them go.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

Zakat, or alms-giving, is already deeply rooted as one of the five pillars of Islam.

Promoting a culture of volunteerism in Saudi Arabia 2010

It was directly after that alms-giving, when we rode out to her pavilion among the trees, and I had just, remarked that what was needed for India was a Poor Law and a few parish workuses, that she suddenly turned in her saddle, and burst out:

Fiancée 2010

Zakat, or alms-giving, is already deeply rooted as one of the five pillars of Islam.

Craig and Marc Kielburger: Promoting a culture of volunteerism in Saudi Arabia 2010

"Zakat" is the Third Pillar of Islam, and can be roughly compared to the Christian concept both of alms-giving and of "tithing."

Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [80] -- Parsing Obama's Cairo Speech 2009