Only legal taxes should be imposed including the obligation of thealmstax (zakat), and encouraging people to give voluntarily.
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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 foralms.
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Almswere 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.
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Widows are sometimes recorded in receipt of companyalms(pp. 91, 351) and they played an important part in transferring their husbands' bequests to the craft (pp. 351, 415).
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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.
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The ceremony thus became a component of a solemn feast in the church, including orchestral music, fireworks andalmsto the poor, all paid for by the girl's family.
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Priests, reeves and hundred-men would see to it that thealms-giving and fasting was carried out, and would take an oath to that effect on the relics.
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The bestowing ofalmsand the kind visits of ministers and missionaries to those in the second and third categories are viewed as having limited benefit in relieving distress.
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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 thealmsof my son.
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From the convent chronicle we understand that at least until the first half of the seventeenth century families regularly offeredalmsfor the convent church, and many other gifts.
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Are we doing anything to deprive the poor ofalms?
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By apparently givingalmswe are being big-hearted, but we are also doing a good bit of business, thank you very much.
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The first was to enable the poor to better their lot, and the second was to absolve the rich from the obligation ofalmsgiving.
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Charity largely used to mean the giving ofalmsto the poor.
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They had to live onalmsfrom the time of their deportation.
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