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with regards to Allah's verse in the Qur?an: Charities are only for the poor... , said, 'The poor man is he who does not beg from people [despite his poverty], the destitute lives in even harsher conditions than him, and the wretched one lives in the most straitened circumstances of all.'

Imam Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq [as]

al-Kafi, v. 3, p. 501, no. 16

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