{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arw/arw14.htm","path":"isl/arw/arw14.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arw/arw14.htm","text":"Arabian Wisdom, by John Wortabet, [1913]\nGenerosity is to do a kindness before it is asked, and to pity and give a man who asks.\nA generous man is nigh unto God, nigh unto men, nigh unto paradise, far from hell.\nOverlook the faults of a generous man, for God helps him when he falls and gives him when he is needy.\nA man who doeth good does not fall, and if he fall he will find a support.\nBe not ashamed to give little\u2014to refuse is less.","title":"Arabian Wisdom: Generosity","type":"page"}