Assalamualaykum Friend,

We hope you are doing well in both eeman and health.

One of the beautiful things about our deen is the fact that a person may continue to receive rewards for their good deeds after they die. This is what we call sadaqah jaariyah. They are those deeds that still bring us rewards even after our death.

For many of us, sadaqah jaariyah is the thing we do for our relatives who have passed away. When someone dies in the family, suddenly there is a well dug in their name or books donated to the local masjid. We do these things for the dead because we realize that these are the only things left we can use to help them in the grave.

Even though sadaqah jaariyah has popularly become something that many Muslims only consciously do for some who have died, we should know that it is essential to give sadaqah jaariyah for our own selves while we are still alive.