It is not righteousness that you turn your faces towards the East and the West, but righteousness is this that one should believe in Allah and the last day and the angels and the Book and the prophets, and give away wealth out of love for Him to the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and the beggars and for (the emancipation of) the captives, and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate; and the performers of their promise when they make a promise, and the patient in distress and affliction and in time of conflicts-- these are they who are true (to themselves) and these are they who guard (against evil).
正しく仕えるということは，あなたがたの顔を東または西に向けることではない。つまり正しく仕えるとは，アッラーと最後の（審判の）日，天使たち，諸啓典と預言者たちを信じ，かれを愛するためにその財産を，近親，孤児，貧者，旅路にある者や物乞いや奴隷の解放のために費やし，礼拝の務めを守り，定めの喜捨を行い，約束した時はその約束を果たし，また困苦と逆境と非常時に際しては，よく耐え忍ぶ者。これらこそ真実な者であり，またこれらこそ主を畏れる者である。