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 .