Sunday, January 25, 2009

Charity for God's Sake...

Charity for God's sake has a hundred signs within the heart--
the good deed, a hundred tokens.
Though in charity riches are consumed,
a hundred lives come to the heart in return.
A sowing of pure seeds in God's earth, and then no income! Impossible.

-Mathnawi [IV, 1757-1759]

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