 The vizier on reading the note recollected the circumstance, and, moved with the joy of doing a generous action, he ordered seven hundred dirhems to be given to the writer, and inscribed these words on the paper: The similitude of those who lay out their...  Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary - Page 408by Ibn Khallikān - 1843Full view - About this book
 | Epiphanius Wilson - 1900 - 482 pages
...who lay out their substance for advancing the religion of God, is as a grain of corn which produceth seven ears, and in every ear a hundred grains ; for God giveth twofold unto whom he pleaseth : God is bounteous and wise. They who lay out their substance for the... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1917 - 278 pages
...circumstance, and, moved with the joy of doing a generous action, he ordered seven hundred dirhems to be given to the writer, and inscribed these words...and in every ear a hundred grains; for God giveth many fold to whom He pleaseth. He then prayed God's blessing on him, and clothed him in a robe of honour,... | |
 | 2003 - 214 pages
...who lay out their substance for advancing the religion of God, is as a grain of corn which produceth seven ears, and in every ear a hundred grains ; for God giveth twofold unto whom he pleaseth : God is bounteous and wise. They who lay out their substance for the... | |
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