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TO WHOM DO BELIEVERS SHOW COMPASSION AND MERCY?

their earnings with them, care for them and provide them
with shelter. To make them feel at home and to ease their
trouble, they anticipate their potential needs before they
express them and try to meet them.
However, what is most important is that believers
make all these sacrifices voluntarily, without feeling any
distress. If necessary, they offer their own food, clothing
and even their homes to the refugees even if they them-
selves are in need and this never causes them any uneasi-
ness. Indeed, the fellow feeling they show to those who
migrate soothes their conscience. It pleases them greatly
to display such morality as pleases Allah. The morality of
such believers is described in the following verse:

Those who were already settled in the abode, and in
faith, before they came, love those who have mi-
grated to them and do not find in their hearts any
need for what they have been given and prefer them
to themselves even if they themselves are needy.
It is the people who are safe-guarded from the
avarice of their own selves who are successful.
(Surat al-Hashr: 9)
Allah informs us that these people "are successful",
because of their sublime morality. Glad tidings are given
in another verse to those who display such attitudes as
are most favoured by Allah towards the emigrants only to
gain Allah's approval:
…Those who have given refuge and help (to those
who have migrated), they are the true believers.
They will have forgiveness and generous provision.
(Surat al-Anfal: 74)