[57:18] Al-Ḥadīd-الْحَدِيْد
"Surely, both the men and the women who give charity and those who lend a goodly loan to Allah, the (reward of charity) will be increased for them manifold, and there will be most honourable reward for them. "
[The Glorious Qur'an]
As blossoms and flowers are strewed upon earth by the hand of spring, as the kindness of summer produceth in perfection the bounties of harvests, so the smiles of pity shed blessings on the children of misfortune.
He who pitieth another recommendeth himself; but he who is without compassion deserveth it not.
The butcher relenteth not at the bleating of the lamb, neither is the heart of the cruel moved with distress.
But the tears of the compassionate are sweeter than dew-drops falling from roses on the bosom of spring.
Shut not thine ear therefore against the cries of the poor, neither harden thine heart against the calamities of the innocent.
When the fatherless call upon thee, when the widow's heart is sunk and she imploreth thine assistance with tears of sorrow: O pity her affliction and extend thine hand to those who have none to help them.
When thou seest the naked wanderer of the streets, shivering with cold and destitute of habitation, let bounty open thine heart, let the wings of charity shelter him from death, that thine own Soul may live.
Whilst the poor man groaneth on the bed of sickness, whilst the unfortunate languish in the horrors of a dungeon, or the hoary head of age lifts up a feeble eye to thee for pity: O how canst thou riot in superfluous enjoyments, regardless of their wants, unfeeling of their woes?
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