The Cow
2. Al-Baqarah
البقرة
al-Baqarah (The Cow)
ٱلْبَقَرَة
2:273
لِلْفُقَرَاءِ
الَّذِينَ
أُحْصِرُوا
فِي
سَبِيلِ
اللَّهِ
لَا
يَسْتَطِيعُونَ
ضَرْبًا
فِي
الْأَرْضِ
يَحْسَبُهُمُ
الْجَاهِلُ
أَغْنِيَاءَ
مِنَ
التَّعَفُّفِ
تَعْرِفُهُم
بِسِيمَاهُمْ
لَا
يَسْأَلُونَ
النَّاسَ
إِلْحَافًا
وَمَا
تُنفِقُوا
مِنْ
خَيْرٍ
فَإِنَّ
اللَّهَ
بِهِ
عَلِيمٌ
li-l-fuqarāʾi lladhīna ʾuḥṣirū fī sabīli llāhi lā yastaṭīʿūna ḍarban fī l-ʾarḍi yaḥsabuhumu l-jāhilu ʾaghniyāʾa mina t-taʿaffufi taʿrifuhum bi-sīmāhum lā yasʾalūna n-nāsa ʾilḥāfan wa-mā tunfiqū min khayrin fa-ʾinna llāha bihī ʿalīmun-i
(If the recipients of charity are) the poor whose poverty, because of their striving for the cause of God, has become an obstacle for them, and who do not have the ability to travel in the land, they seem rich compared to the ignorant, because of their modest behavior. You would know them by their faces. They would never earnestly ask people for help. God knows well whatever wealth you spend for the cause of God.
