The Cow
2. Al-Baqarah
البقرة
Page #46
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إِن
تُبْدُوا
الصَّدَقَاتِ
فَنِعِمَّا
هِيَ
وَإِن
تُخْفُوهَا
وَتُؤْتُوهَا
الْفُقَرَاءَ
فَهُوَ
خَيْرٌ
لَّكُمْ
وَيُكَفِّرُ
عَنكُم
مِّن
سَيِّئَاتِكُمْ
وَاللَّهُ
بِمَا
تَعْمَلُونَ
خَبِيرٌ
ʾin tubdū ṣ-ṣadaqāti fa-niʿimmā hiya wa-ʾin tukhfūhā wa-tuʾtūhā l-fuqarāʾa fa-huwa khayrun lakum wa-yukaffiru ʿankum min sayyiʾātikum wa-llāhu bi-mā taʿmalūna khabīrun
If you disclose your charities, that is well, but if you hide them and give them to the poor, that is better for you, and it will atone for some of your misdeeds, and Allah is well aware of what you do.
— Ali Quli Qarai
If ye disclose (acts of) charity, even so it is well, but if ye conceal them, and make them reach those (really) in need, that is best for you: It will remove from you some of your (stains of) evil. And Allah is well acquainted with what ye do.
