Exempel på alms

• I also heard the district waqf director caution villagers against giving alms to the local preacher for transmission to the local waqf office.

• Only legal taxes should be imposed including the obligation of the alms tax (zakat), and encouraging people to give voluntarily.

• A significant proportion of them were young, male beggars who were feared capable of working sorcery as a rite of revenge against householders who rejected their pleas for alms.

• From the crisis of the late 1580s until the 1620s alms took up 30 to 70 per cent of direct expenditure on the poor in many years.

• Alms were collected at church services, and the bread purchased thereby was certainly disbursed at the church door, a very public display of charity, hierarchy and dependence.

• Widows are sometimes recorded in receipt of company alms (pp. 91, 351) and they played an important part in transferring their husbands' bequests to the craft (pp. 351, 415).

• Here we have fasting, alms-giving, prayers, and a special three-day programme of litanies, with priests walking barefoot to church - all in support of a military emergency.

• The ceremony thus became a component of a solemn feast in the church, including orchestral music, fireworks and alms to the poor, all paid for by the girl's family.

• Priests, reeves and hundred-men would see to it that the alms-giving and fasting was carried out, and would take an oath to that effect on the relics.

• The bestowing of alms and the kind visits of ministers and missionaries to those in the second and third categories are viewed as having limited benefit in relieving distress.

• I am 80 years old and am stranded here, like the broken keel of a ship with empty sails, and am forced to live off the alms of my son.

• From the convent chronicle we understand that at least until the first half of the seventeenth century families regularly offered alms for the convent church, and many other gifts.

• Are we doing anything to deprive the poor of alms?

• By apparently giving alms we are being big-hearted, but we are also doing a good bit of business, thank you very much.

• The first was to enable the poor to better their lot, and the second was to absolve the rich from the obligation of alms giving.