About the Surah

       It is not the (total) piety that you turn your faces towards the east and the west (in prayer) but piety (consists of following beliefs, actions and character). The pious person is he who believes in Allah, the Day of Judgement, the Angels, the Book, the Prophets, and gives his wealth, in spite of love for it, to the relatives, the orphans, the needy, the travellers and to those who ask and to set slaves free, and performs Salat and gives Zakat (i.e.  the poor-due), and who fulfils his promise when he makes it, and he is patient in extreme poverty and adversity and at the time of fighting (in the battles). Such are those who are true believers and such are those who are pious persons.