This passage, indeed, is as good a summary as any other, but there is one, and in this same chapter, still more explicit, illustrating the catholicity of the prophet’s mind and his discerning judgment. When Mohamed, says Deutsch[25], told his adherents at Medina no longer to turn in prayer towards Jerusalem but towards the Ka´bah at Mekka, to which their fathers had turned, and he was blamed for this innovation he replied:--“That is not righteousness: whether ye turn your faces towards east or west, God’s is the east as well as the west. But verily righteousness is his who believes in God, in the day of judgment, in the angels, in the book and the prophets; who bestows his wealth for God’s sake, upon kindred, and orphans, and the poor, and the homeless, and all those who ask; and also upon delivering the captives; he who is steadfast in prayer, giveth alms, who stands firmly by his covenants, when he has once entered into them; and who is patient in adversity, in hardship and in times of trial. These are the righteous, and these are the God-fearing.” What a noble idea of life and religion do we find here. It is not merely the recitation of prayers which constitutes righteousness but in solemnly acting the religion we profess; in tender regard for the poor and the orphan, the forlorn and the suffering; in relieving the miseries of the captives, in holding by the promises made, in enduring with calm fortitude the trials and reverses of fortune. Here, in this passage, we have the key to Islam, nay, I would go further and say a key to all religions. It is only the clouded vision which sees difference between one religion and the other; to one who has the eyes to see and the heart to feel, all religions appear as but a reflection of one and the same light. Where do you seek shelter? House of God or house of idols? Oh, the house-wrecker there, which one is your house? More holes on the roof will not give you more suns And you, the diverged-minded, say house of God or house of idols?[26]