Message of the Holy Quran — Page 497
~ 497 ~ descrip- tion of ¬ , It is not righteousness that you turn your faces to the East or the West, but truly righteous is he who be- lieves in Allah and the Last Day and the angels and the Book and the Prophets, and spends his money out of love for Him, on the kin- dred and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and those who ask for char- ity, and for ransoming the captives; and observes Prayer and pays the Zakat; and those who fulfil their promise when they have made one, and the patient in poverty and afflictions and the steadfast in time of war; it is these who have proved truthful and it is these who are truly God-fearing. 2:178 duty of ¬ , Their flesh reaches not Al- lah, nor does their blood, but it is your righteousness that reaches Him. 22:38 And those who are right- eous are not at all accounta- ble for them, but their duty is to admonish them that they may fear Allah. 6:70 example of ¬ , O mankind, We have cre- ated you from a male and a female; and We have made you tribes and sub-tribes that you may know one an-