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Pleasant Words from the Gospel

Not storing up possessions:

GOSPEL: Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth,
where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and
steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven [for the
hereafter], where moth and rust do not destroy, and where
thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is,
there your heart will be also. (Matthew, 6:19-21)

QURAN: Who has amassed wealth and hoarded it! He
thinks his wealth will make him live for ever. No indeed!
He will be flung into the Shatterer. (Surat al-Humaza, 2-4)

Not making helping the poor
a matter of show:

GOSPEL: So when you give to the needy, do not announce
it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do... to be honored by
men. (Matthew, 6:2)

QURAN: You who believe! Do not nullify your charity by
demands for gratitude or insulting words, like him who
spends his wealth, showing off to people and not believing in
Allah and the Last Day. His likeness is that of a smooth rock
coated with soil, which, when heavy rain falls on it, is left
stripped bare. They have no power over anything they have

earned. Allah does not guide disbelieving people. (Surat al-
Baqara, 264)

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