It is not righteousness that you turn your faces towards the East and the West, but righteousness is this that one should believe in Allah and the last day and the angels and the Book and the prophets, and give away wealth out of love for Him to the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and the beggars and for (the emancipation of) the captives, and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate; and the performers of their promise when they make a promise, and the patient in distress and affliction and in time of conflicts-- these are they who are true (to themselves) and these are they who guard (against evil).

Certainly in Yusuf and his brothers there are signs for the inquirers.

And He made in it mountains above its surface, and He blessed therein and made therein its foods, in four periods: alike for the seekers.

And in their property was a portion due to him who begs and to him who is denied (good).

One demanding, demanded the chastisement which must befall

For him who begs and for him who is denied (good)

And as for him who asks, do not chide (him),