Do good, and cast it into the sea.
Arabic proverb
“Do good, and cast it into the sea.”
What does Arabic proverb mean?
An 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.