kindness to creation, and at other times pairs prayer with patience.

All three—prayer, zakat, and patience—are indispensable. The believers’ welfare, both in bettering themselves and in reforming others, cannot be secured without them. This is especially so as trials and tribulations intensify, for the need for these qualities then becomes greater. Generosity and patience are needed by all human beings; neither their religious nor their worldly affairs can flourish without them.

That is why they all praise one another for courage and generosity. Indeed, these are the principal qualities for which poets praise their subjects in verse. Likewise, they reproach one another for miserliness and cowardice.

Judgments upon which all rational people agree can only be true, such as their agreement on praising truthfulness and justice and condemning lying and injustice.

The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said when the Bedouins asked him