Virtue does not consist in whether you face towards the East or the West; virtue means believing in God, the Last Day, the angels, the Book and the prophets; the virtuous are those who, despite their love for it, give away their wealth to their relatives and to orphans and the very poor, and to travellers and those who ask [for charity], and to set slaves free, and who attend to their prayers and pay the alms, and who keep their pledges when they make them, and show patience in hardship and adversity, and in times of distress. Such are the true believers; and such are the God-fearing.
نيكى [تنها] آن نيست كه روى خود را به جانب مشرق و مغرب كنيد، بلكه نيكى آن است كه انسان به خدا و روز واپسين و فرشتگان و كتاب [هاى آسمانى‌] و پيامبران ايمان آورد، و مال [خود] را با آن كه دوستش دارد به خويشاوندان [نيازمند] و يتيمان و درماندگان و به راه