Why stories of people who sacrifice?

When the people who sacrifice and the charitable, answer the call of the Qur’an which says:

“and spend out of which He has made you to be successors of …. (Sura Al-Hadid , 57:7)”,

and the call of the Holy Masum’in (a.s.) who said that:

“On the day of judgment the act of charity will provide a shade for the people who sacrifice”(1),

they are trying in their own fashion to find a solution to an age old problem of poverty. Luqman the wise was true in saying to his son that:

“He had tasted patience, but there was nothing worse than poverty ”.(2)

How many fathers return back to their families after a hard day of finding sustenance only to find that they have failed to fulfill the needs of their families? How many mothers feel so hurt and pained to see the poor condition of their children compared to other children? How many celebrations of Eid and other happy occasions pass with orphans who don’t have good food and new clothes? How many capable youths have had their dreams and hopes crashed because of not having enough funds for their education. How many parents have not been able to save their children from the pangs of death simply because they didn’t have funds for the medicine to cure them?

The people who are generous and charitable inspire hope in hard times. The people who secretly give charity, in such a

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