The closest a person’s family to him is himself, for God says in his closeness to his servant that he is closer to him than his jugular vein, as if he is saying that he is closer to him than his own self, so it is more worthy of what he gives in charity than others, just as God is more worthy of the loan because he is closer to him than himself, and for every person who gives charity to him, he has a suitable charity. He is among the creatures, then his limbs, then the closest to him after that, which is the family, then the child, then the servant, then the relative and the neighbor, just as he gives alms to his student and seeks benefit from it, and if the one who knows his Lord is fulfilled until he is all light and the truth is, his hearing and sight and all his faculties are all truth. So whoever is the people of God is worthy of this. The person whose characteristic is without a doubt, just as the people of the Qur’an are the people of God and His elite, likewise those who a