ANSWER:

No, this is not charity

QUESTION: If a small or large amount of money gets lost, my mother says, “Let it be counted as charity.” is this considered a valid form of charity, even though the intention was made after the money was lost??

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QUESTION: If one begins charity purely for Allah but later grows attached due to the honor it brings—so much that leaving it (if he is said to do so) feels hard mainly because of that praise—does this spoil the intention? Should he quit the deed or fix the intention? Is consciously correcting intention accepted in Islam, or only those that begin instinctively for Allah’s sake?