Inspiring quotes from the Meccan Revelations (... more)
[ God’s spending hand and the Most Merciful’s taking hand ]
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So if it is in the hand of the one to whom charity is given, the Most Merciful takes it with his right hand. If the giver in the soul of this servant when he gives it is God the Giver, let his hand be higher than the hand of the one to whom charity is given, which is the beggar, and it is necessary, for the upper hand is the hand of God and it is the one who spends, and if this giver sees the hand of the Most Merciful taking it from him. When the beggar receives it, his hand remains, since the Giver is God, above the hand of the Most Merciful as it is, for the Most Merciful is an attribute of God and an attribute of His, but what he takes from it is the same, but what he receives from it is the piety of the giver in his giving and the most complete aspects of what we have mentioned, so the giver bears witness that God is the Giver and that the Most Merciful is the Taker. And mercy is the giver and it is charity, so if the Most Merciful takes it in his hand with his right hand, he