Children are presented in these verses as an adornment of worldly life, whose abundance can become a lure leading to ruin. By extension, the expression ibn as-sabil, literally son of the road, refers to the traveler, who must be given from one’s wealth and has a share of zakat. The verses also report the claim of some People of the Book to be the children of Allah, and the Qur’an’s reply.
Verses gathered from a topical index of the Quran, in Mushaf order; every verse is quoted in full.
Zakāh expenditures are only for the poor and for the needy and for those employed for it and for bringing hearts together [for Islām] and for freeing captives [or slaves] and for those in debt and for the cause of Allāh and for the [stranded] traveler - an obligation [imposed] by Allāh. And Allāh is Knowing and Wise.
