Do you reckon the giving of water to pilgrims and the attendance of the Sacred Mosque that is do you reckon those who do such things to be the same as he who believes in God and the Last Day and struggles in the way of God? They are not equal in merit in God’s sight; and God guides not the evildoing the disbelieving folk this was revealed to refute those who claimed this such as al-‘Abbās and others.
- 9:1919
۞ أَجَعَلْتُمْ سِقَايَةَ الْحَاجِّ وَعِمَارَةَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ كَمَنْ آمَنَ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ وَجَاهَدَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ ۚ لَا يَسْتَوُونَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ ۗ وَاللَّهُ لَا يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الظَّالِمِينَ
Do you think that giving a drink of water to the pilgrims and going on a visit to the Sacred Mosque, is the same as believing in God and the Last Day, and striving in the cause of God? In the eyes of God it is not the same; and God does not show the unrighteous the way.
- common.revelation-Medinan
- common.hizb : 76