✦⋆· said, "The nourishment of the body is food whilst the nourishment of the soul is feeding others."

● "That which you yourself eat gets consumed whereas that which you feed others diffuses [i.e. the benediction in that sustenance]."

✦⋆· said, "Verily Allah loves the feeding of food to others, and the spilling of blood [for His sake]."

✦⋆· narrated, "Verily the Commander of the Faithful resembled the Prophet (saw) the most in the way that he ate. He used to eat bread, vinegar and (olive) oil, and feed others bread and meat."

● "One of the things which gives one obligatory entrance into Paradise and forgiveness is feeding a starving person." Then he went on to recite the verse of Allah in the Qur’an: "or feeding [the needy] on a day of starvation."