It is not Al-Birr (piety, righteousness, and each and every act of obedience to Allah, etc.) that you turn your faces towards east and (or) west (in prayers); but Al-Birr is (the quality of) the one who believes in Allah, the Last Day, the Angels, the Book, the Prophets and gives his wealth, in spite of love for it, to the kinsfolk, to the orphans, and to Al-Masakin (the poor), and to the wayfarer, and to those who ask, and to set slaves free, performs As-Salat (Iqamat-as-Salat), and gives the Zakat, and who fulfill their covenant when they make it, and who are As-Sabirin (the patient ones, etc.) in extreme poverty and ailment (disease) and at the time of fighting (during the battles). Such are the people of the truth and they are Al-Muttaqun (pious - see V. 2:2).
Sio wema kuwa mnaelekeza nyuso zenu upande wa mashariki na magharibi. Bali wema ni wa anaye muamini Mwenyezi Mungu na Siku ya Mwisho na Malaika na Kitabu na Manabii, na anawapa mali, kwa kupenda kwake, jamaa na mayatima na masikini na wasafiri, na waombao, na katika ugombozi, na akawa anashika Sala, na akatoa Zaka, na wanao timiza ahadi yao wanapo ahidi, na wanao vumilia katika shida na dhara na wakati wa vita; hao ndio walio sadikisha, na hao ndio wajilindao.