Do good, and cast it into the sea.
Arabic proverb
Arabic proverb

“Do good, and cast it into the sea.”

The explanation

What does Arabic proverb mean?

A classical Arabic proverb about doing good and letting go of it — the sea being the place where nothing comes back to you. It is the proverb form of something the Sunnah makes explicit: the charity given so quietly that the left hand does not know what the right hand gave.

Written from Written from Al-Mukhtasar fi at-Tafsir and Tafsir Ibn Kathir.

Where it sits