Way of Piety

In the name of Allah, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful.
It is not Al-Birr (piety, righteousness, and every act of obedience to Allah) 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 (prayer according to Islamic way) and gives the Zakat (charity), and who fulfill their covenant when they make it, and who are patient in extreme poverty and ailment and at the time of fighting (during battles). Such are the people of the truth and they are Al -Muttaqun (the pious).
Al Qur’an (2:177)