Skip to Content

Measure of generosity

by
Measure of generosity
Enlight

Sufi parable from Ghazali They said that a certain woman asked al-Lays, may the Lord have mercy on him, some honey, and he rewarded her with a whole wineskin.

They told him:

“She would have been satisfied without it.”

He replied:

“She asked according to her needs, and I gave to her according to our gifts.”

For al-Lays, not a day passed without him giving alms to three hundred and sixty beggars.

Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru

Master in the Palace