Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 194
194 manner or in such quantities as to render them idle or to encourage in them the habit of begging or living on charity, or to lead them into dissipation, and thus to make the giving a means of temptation rather than of assistance to them. Again, the Holy Quran says, 'In a Muslim’s wealth those who can express their needs and those who cannot speak and ex- press them (i. e. , animals) have a right. ' 108 A Muslim must, therefore, spend a portion of his wealth for the care of weak and sick animals, whether domestic, vagrant or wild. Similarly, Islam has laid down detailed instruc- tions concerning all the moral qualities, for instance, patience, gratitude, beneficence, righteousness, trust, loyalty, confidence, moderation, providing for the needs of others, care of widows and orphans, promoting goodwill among men, fear, hope, contentment, selfless- ness, brotherhood, meekness, endurance, modesty, fulfilment of promises, benignity, dignity, hospitality, visiting the sick, honesty, probity, sorrow; and the moral evils, backbiting, slander, falsehood, mischief, eaves- dropping, espionage, reading other people’s letters, cheating, proclaiming one’s beneficence, doing good with a desire that it may be heard and seen by men, hypocrisy, idle talk, swearing, flattery, theft, murder, oppression, rebellion, torture, using with false measures, interference, cowardice, etc. , etc. , the observance or 108 Al-Dh a riy a t, 51:20.