The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ Among good morals is turning toward the poor and turning away from the rich. ]

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Among the good morals is to turn toward the poor and turn away from the rich by offering them prestige or money. If one whose characteristic is poverty and humiliation is seen by descending from these two ranks, it is obligatory for the people of God to turn to them, for if they come to them while they are prepared for their position of prestige and money, imagine that The people of God turn to them because of their prestige and their wealth, so they increase their desire to remain what they are. For this reason, God forbids his people to accept them except with the quality of asceticism in them. If someone who is poor, humiliated, broken, and rich in his wealth, who has prestige in this world, shows acceptance and turn to the poor more than showing it to him. He is rich and has prestige, because what is meant by the etiquette with which God Almighty disciplined His Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace. However, the person with this characteristic needs the balance of tr


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