{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arw/arw13.htm","path":"isl/arw/arw13.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arw/arw13.htm","text":"Arabian Wisdom, by John Wortabet, [1913]\nKoran. Do good unto others as God has done unto you.\nIs the reward of kindness anything but kindness?\nHe who does a kindly act shall be recompensed tenfold.\nYe can never be righteous unless ye give away from that which ye love.\nTraditions. The upper hand [which giveth] is better than the lower hand [which taketh].\nGod's creatures are the objects of His care, and He loveth best that man who is most helpful to them.\nProverbs. Do not be ashamed to give little, for it is less than that, if you give nothing.\nIf you give, give freely, and if you strike, strike boldly.\nHe who soweth kindness shall reap thanks.\nWhat a man does for God is never lost.\nBe merciful to him who is beneath you, and you will have mercy from Him who is above you.\nThe best kind of good is that which is done most speedily.\nInopportune kindness is injustice.\nNo true joy but in doing good and no true sorrow but in doing evil.\nCruelty to animals is forbidden by God.\nA peacemaker gets two-thirds of the blows.","title":"Arabian Wisdom: Benevolence","type":"page"}