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H Helping refugees bestows depth of faith and
maturity
Helping refugees purges the human soul of parsimony and self-
ishness. Therefore, as in the time of our Prophet (saas), those who assist
refugees and place material means at their disposal today, by God's
leave enjoy a strengthening of faith and maturity of moral values.
Because by using all the means at their disposal for God's sake, those
who help refugees show that they attach no value to any material things
in the life of this world. By making all kinds of sacrifice for the com-
fort and ease of their brothers in faith, they free themselves of all selfish
feelings in their lower selves.
Therefore, helping refugees is a means of deepening in and
achieving purity and perfection of faith. God reveals this superior virtue
as follows in the Qur'an:
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