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