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I mostly wonder why a person would leave their home hungry and end up feeding people who are not their family. You will meet people who give even their immediate family little to nothing, and children are being sent away from school because their parents have not paid their fees. Yet these same parents are out there doing charity for others, even for strangers.
I have witnessed situations where a man leaves his children and wife without clothing but is out their clothing others which is mostly for the praise of his action. A wealthy man in the family will forget his close relatives but will shower strangers with gifts.
Charity should begin from the root; you should not leave people at home hungry and go outside to do charity. It is a betrayal of a man's responsibility to his immediate and close family to abandon his responsibility and prioritise the well-being of strangers over the well-being of his family. To me, I believe it to be the highest level of hypocrisy.
It is a moral responsibility for us as humans to provide for the needs of the children brought into this world, and also for the people closest to us. This is why it is said that charity should begin at home.
However, since this is usually seen as an obligation and a standard thing to be done, it usually might not come with much praises of gratification or a validation of being a good man; it is often seen as the responsibility of the man to do all of that, while being charitable to strangers brings gratification to the giver, giving him the tag of a philanthropist.
Because some people make their wealth later in life, they tend to be charitable in order to cover their insecurities in the face of the public by giving to others and showering them with gifts as if to say to them that they have arrived.
I believe that a sane and normal person will not leave home hungry and go out to strangers to be charitable, this is just like a case of two students of which both have a portion of land to cultivate, while the other student is working on their farm, the other student leaves his responsibility and focuses on the work on a different field which was allocated to someone else, forging or rather ignoring their original field of cultivation.
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