Signs and Righteousness

 "Surely, in the creation of the heavens and the earth, in the alteration of the night and the day, in the sailing of the ships through the oceans for the profit of mankind, in the rain which Allah sends down from the skies, with which He revives the earth after its death and spreads in it all kinds of animals, in the change of the winds and the clouds between the sky and the earth that are made subservient, there are signs for rational people."                                              Surah Al Baqarah 2: 164 

Righteousness is not whether you turn your face to the East or the West,  but righteousness is to believe in Allah, the last day, the angels, the books, and the prophets, to spend wealth inspite of love for it, on relatives orphans, helpless, needy travellers, those who ask for it and on the redemption of captives; to establish Salah, to pay Zakat, to fulfill promises, when made, to be steadfast in poverty, hardship and at the time of war.  Those are the ones who are truthful and those are the ones who are pious."                                                                                                                                 Al Quran, Surah Al Baqarah 2: 177