This verse is a complementary to the verse of JAHÄD, and this is because every fight requires as much veterans and expert and brave warriors, as it needs equipments and weapon, which is provided by wealth and money. What can a veteran and a brave soldier do in the field without having adequate weapon and arms? So, if the war is based on justice, and is for the cause of God, all the wealthies have to spend for it, in addition to their personal effects and endeavours, and so says the verse:

      ``Spend in the way of Allah, and cast not yourselves, by your own hands into perdition and destruction.''

CHARITY MAY SAVE THE COMMUNITY FROM DESTRUCTION

      Though this verse is revealed among those of JAHÄD, yet it implies a common and social fact which is the CHARITY, and that it may save the community from being destructed and ruined. When charity and alms giving is forgotten in a nation; and wealth is collected by the few who hug it, and on the other hand, a majority of people - poor and needy stands in front of them, sooner or later a great explosion may happen in such a community, the flames of which will burn out the rich and their riches too! Therefore charity and alms-tax is for the own-good of the wealthy, before it might be useful to the poor and needy, and of surety adjustment and conformity in riches is guardian of wealth.

      A quotation of HAZRAT IMAM ALI (AS) is: ``Protect your wealth by alms-tax. (ZAKÄT)''