DEUT326 It is a negative commandment to have no mercy on idol-worshipers as Scripture says, nor shall you show mercy to them [this verse]. If someone sees an idol-worshiper drowning, he is not to save him. In his illness, he is not to cure him. If he is afraid of him, or there is the consideration of [consequent] enmity, let him cure him for a fee, but not for nothing. It is, however, forbidden to end the man's life with one's own hands or to push him into a pit, and so on, if the other makes no hostile attack against him. One is not to give him any free gift, nor is one to speak his prayers, and all the more certainly not in praise of his actions.