HazratJabir reported: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “The believer is friendly and befriended, for there is no goodness in one who is neither friendly nor befriended. The best of people are those who are most beneficial to people.”
(Tabarani)
Social service is an excellent worship. A person is best when he becomes a means for serving mankind. It is not necessary that giving money is the only means of serving mankind.Charity is also to give comfort to the distressed person, to give courage to the troubled person and to conduct with love and kindness.
Charity encompasses everything as a hadith says that showing path to someone is charity, smiling is charity and to help someone unburden his burden is charity. Doing good as charity can be through our tongue, physique, money, or any resource. Sometimes a person gives a lot of charity, but his behaviourruins them all. If a person gives a distressed person the gift of comforting words, he has then given him the best gift he can ever get. In some cases, words of appreciation can also serve as a means of charity.
Another hadith says, when a new Muslim gave his pledge of allegiance to the Prophet ﷺ, he used to take three oaths from him: 1) Praying Salah, 2) Giving Zakah, and 3) Being a well-wisher of every single Muslim. So, we should demonstrate well wishing to all Muslims with utmost sincerity. Here the Prophet ﷺ has emphasised its importance by mentioning it along with the importance given to Salah and Zakah.