He said, 'He says she shall be a cow not broken, not subdued for labour, that is, to plough the earth, churning its soil for sowing (tuthir al-ard: the clause describes the word dhalul, and constitutes part of the negation); or to water the tillage, that is, the land prepared for sowing; one safe, from faults and the effects of toil; with no blemish, of a colour other than her own, on her'. They said, 'Now you have brought the truth', that is, [now] you have explained it clearly; they thus sought it out and found it with a boy very dutiful towards his mother, and they eventually purchased it for the equivalent of its weight in gold; and so they sacrificed her, even though they very nearly did not, on account of its excessive cost. In a hadith [it is stated that], 'Had they sacrificed any cow, it would have sufficed them, but they made it difficult for themselves and so God made it difficult for them'.
- Tafsir al-Jalalayn on al-Baqarah 71.
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'there are rewards,' said the prophet, 'for all endowed with fresh and tender hearts' •
anyone who kills a sparrow for nothing, it will cry to god against him on the day of resurrection •
there would enter paradise a people whose hearts would be like the hearts of birds •
righteousness is that about which the heart and soul feels tranquil •
there is none among believers who plants a tree or sows a seed from which a bird or person or animal eats but that it is regarded as a charity of him
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