An Index To Quran by Harun Yahya (Alphabetical Book Marks)
An Index To Quran by Harun Yahya (Alphabetical Book Marks)
An Index To Quran by Harun Yahya (Alphabetical Book Marks)
TO
THE QUR’AN
HARUN YAHYA
All translations from the Qur'an are from
October 2003
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Gursel Mh. Darulaceze Cd. No: 9
Funya Sk. Eksioglu Is Merkezi B Blok D: 5
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Contents
0ABOUT THE AUTHOR .................................................................................. 25
1TO THE READER........................................................................................... 28
2A .................................................................................................................... 30
2AARON (SEE HARUN (AS)) ..................................................................... 30
2ABASEMENT ............................................................................................ 30
2ABEL (HÂBIL) AND CAIN (QÂBIL) .......................................................... 32
3ABLUTION................................................................................................ 32
3ABODE ..................................................................................................... 33
3ABRAHAM (SEE IBRAHIM (AS)) ............................................................. 33
3ABROGATE............................................................................................... 33
3ABU LAHAB ............................................................................................. 33
3ACT - ACTION ......................................................................................... 33
3AD (SEE HUD (AS) AND ‘AD) ................................................................. 56
3ADEM (AS) (ADAM) ................................................................................ 56
3ADMONITION .......................................................................................... 59
3ADOPTION (OF A CHILD) ....................................................................... 61
4ADORNMENT........................................................................................... 61
4ADVICE .................................................................................................... 63
4AFFECTION .............................................................................................. 63
4AFFLUENT................................................................................................ 64
4AGREEMENT ............................................................................................ 64
4AHL AL-KITAB (SEE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK) ......................................... 65
4AHMAD .................................................................................................... 65
4AKHIRAH (SEE THE HEREAFTER) .......................................................... 65
4ALAQ ........................................................................................................ 65
4AL-‘UZZA .................................................................................................. 66
5ALL THE WORLDS - ALL BEINGS ............................................................ 66
5ALLEGIANCE ............................................................................................ 72
5ALMS (ZAKAH) ........................................................................................ 72
5ALTAR ...................................................................................................... 77
5AL-YASA‘ (AS) ......................................................................................... 77
5ANCESTORS ............................................................................................. 77
5ANGEL OF DEATH (AZRAEL) .................................................................. 83
5ANGELS .................................................................................................... 83
5ANGER ..................................................................................................... 93
5ANIMALS.................................................................................................. 96
6ANSAR (SUPPORTERS) .......................................................................... 100
6ANT ........................................................................................................ 100
6APE ......................................................................................................... 101
6APPETITE ............................................................................................... 101
6ARABIC .................................................................................................. 101
6A’RAF (SEE THE HEIGHTS) ................................................................... 103
6ARAFAT ................................................................................................. 103
6ARGUMENT ........................................................................................... 103
6ARIM ...................................................................................................... 107
6ARK (OF THE COVENANT) ................................................................... 108
7ARK (OF NUH (AS)) .............................................................................. 108
7ARMY ..................................................................................................... 108
7ARROGANCE .......................................................................................... 109
7ARROWS ................................................................................................ 116
7ASHAB AL-AYKA (SEE COMPANIONS OF THE THICKET) ................... 116
7ASHAB AL-FIL (SEE COMPANIONS OF THE ELEPHANT) ..................... 116
7ASHAB AL-KAHF (SEE COMPANIONS OF THE CAVE) ......................... 116
7ASHAB AL-MAIMANA (SEE COMPANIONS OF THE RIGHT) ............... 116
7ASHAB AL-MASH'AMA (SEE COMPANIONS OF THE LEFT) ................ 117
7ASHAB AL-'UKHDUD (SEE COMPANIONS OF THE PIT) ...................... 117
8ASHAB AL-YEMEEN (SEE COMPANIONS OF THE RIGHT) ................... 117
8ASKING LORD (DU´A) .......................................................................... 117
8ASSOCIATING PARTNERS WITH ALLAH (SHIRK) ............................... 117
8ASTRAY .................................................................................................. 128
8ATTRACTIVE ......................................................................................... 129
8AUTHORITY ........................................................................................... 130
8AVARICE ................................................................................................ 130
8AWE ....................................................................................................... 131
8AYYUB (AS) (JOB) ................................................................................. 131
8AZAR ...................................................................................................... 132
9AZRAEL (SEE ANGEL OF DEATH) ......................................................... 132
3B .................................................................................................................. 133
9BABYLON ............................................................................................... 133
9BACK ...................................................................................................... 133
9BACKBITING .......................................................................................... 134
9BADR (WAR OF BADR) ......................................................................... 135
9BAKKA ................................................................................................... 137
9BALANCE ............................................................................................... 137
9BARRENNESS ......................................................................................... 137
9BARRIER ................................................................................................. 138
9BATTLE .................................................................................................. 138
1BATTLE OF THE TRENCH ..................................................................... 139
1BATTLE OF UHUD ................................................................................. 141
1BEAST..................................................................................................... 142
1BEAST OF THE EARTH (DABBATUL ARDH) ........................................ 142
1BED......................................................................................................... 143
1BEE ......................................................................................................... 143
1BELIEVERS (MU'MINUN) ....................................................................... 143
1BELLY ..................................................................................................... 160
1BETRAYAL .............................................................................................. 160
1BIRD ....................................................................................................... 162
1BLAME .................................................................................................... 164
1BLAST ..................................................................................................... 165
1BLISS ...................................................................................................... 177
1BOASTFULNESS ..................................................................................... 178
1BOAT ...................................................................................................... 178
1BOILING WATER .................................................................................... 179
1BONE ...................................................................................................... 179
1BOOK OF ACTIONS ............................................................................... 181
1BOOKS .................................................................................................... 182
1BOOTY.................................................................................................... 183
1BOW ....................................................................................................... 185
1BRACELET .............................................................................................. 186
1BRAIN ..................................................................................................... 187
1BRASS ..................................................................................................... 187
1BREAD .................................................................................................... 187
1BREAKING AN OATH ............................................................................ 188
1BREAST-BONE ........................................................................................ 188
1BRINGING OUT ...................................................................................... 188
1BROCADE ............................................................................................... 189
1BROTHER - BROTHERHOOD ................................................................. 189
1BUILDING............................................................................................... 199
1BURDEN ................................................................................................. 200
4C .................................................................................................................. 202
1CALAMITIES .......................................................................................... 202
1CALENDAR............................................................................................. 205
1CALF (ADOPTED AS IDOL) ................................................................... 206
1CALLING ON (DU´A) ............................................................................ 207
1CALLING WITH DEROGATORY NICKNAMES ....................................... 212
1CAMEL ................................................................................................... 212
1CAPTIVE................................................................................................. 213
1CARAVAN .............................................................................................. 214
1CARPET .................................................................................................. 214
1CARRION................................................................................................ 215
1CARVING OUT ....................................................................................... 215
1CASTLE .................................................................................................. 216
1CATTLE .................................................................................................. 216
1CAVE ...................................................................................................... 217
1CERTAIN, THE ....................................................................................... 218
1CERTAINTY ............................................................................................ 218
1CHARACTER .......................................................................................... 220
1CHARITY (SADAQA) ............................................................................. 221
1CHASTITY .............................................................................................. 223
1CHILDREN .............................................................................................. 225
1CHILDREN OF ADEM ............................................................................. 238
1CHILDREN OF ISRAEL (SEE TRIBE OF ISRAEL) .................................... 239
1CHRISTIANS........................................................................................... 239
1CHURCH ................................................................................................. 242
1 (TO) CIRCLE ......................................................................................... 242
1CISTERN ................................................................................................. 242
1CITY ....................................................................................................... 242
1CLAY ...................................................................................................... 248
1CLOAK.................................................................................................... 250
1CLOTHING ............................................................................................. 251
1CLOTHING OF WOMEN......................................................................... 252
1CLOUD ................................................................................................... 253
1COAT OF MAIL ...................................................................................... 255
1COIN....................................................................................................... 256
1COLLAPSE .............................................................................................. 256
1COLOUR ................................................................................................. 256
1COLUMNS .............................................................................................. 257
1COMMAND ............................................................................................ 258
1COMMUNITY ......................................................................................... 264
1COMPANION .......................................................................................... 266
1COMPANIONS OF THE CAVE (ASHAB AL-KAHF) ................................ 274
1COMPANIONS OF THE ELEPHANT (ASHAB AL-FIL) ............................ 275
1COMPANIONS OF THE LEFT (ASHAB AL-MASH'AMA) ....................... 275
1COMPANIONS OF THE PIT (ASHAB AL-'UKHDUD) ............................. 275
1COMPANIONS OF THE RASS ................................................................ 276
1COMPANIONS OF THE RIGHT (ASHAB AL-MAIMANA) (ASHAB AL-
YEMEEN) ................................................................................................ 276
1COMPANIONS OF THE THICKET (ASHAB AL-AYKA) .......................... 276
1COMPASSION......................................................................................... 277
1COMPETE ............................................................................................... 277
1COMPULSION ........................................................................................ 278
1CONJECTURE ......................................................................................... 278
1CONSTELLATION .................................................................................. 279
1CONSTRAINT ......................................................................................... 280
1CONSULTATION .................................................................................... 280
1CONSUMING .......................................................................................... 281
1CONTRACT ............................................................................................ 282
1COOLNESS ............................................................................................. 286
1CORAL .................................................................................................... 286
1CORPSE .................................................................................................. 286
1CORRECTNESS ....................................................................................... 287
1CORRUPTION......................................................................................... 290
1COUCH ................................................................................................... 295
1COUNSEL ............................................................................................... 296
1COVENANT ............................................................................................ 296
1COVER ON HEART ................................................................................ 298
1COVERING ............................................................................................. 299
1COW ....................................................................................................... 300
1COWARDICE .......................................................................................... 301
2CRADLE .................................................................................................. 303
2CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE .............................................................. 303
2CREATURE ............................................................................................. 306
2CRIME .................................................................................................... 308
2CROPS .................................................................................................... 309
2CROW ..................................................................................................... 311
2CRUSHING BLOW .................................................................................. 311
2CUCUMBER ............................................................................................ 311
2CULTIVATION ....................................................................................... 311
2CUP ........................................................................................................ 313
2CURSE .................................................................................................... 313
2CUSHION................................................................................................ 317
2CUSTODIAN ........................................................................................... 318
5D.................................................................................................................. 319
2DABBATUL ARDH (SEE BEAST OF THE EARTH) ................................. 319
2DATE PALM ........................................................................................... 319
2DAUGHTER ............................................................................................ 321
2DAVID (SEE DAWUD (AS)) ................................................................... 323
2DAWN .................................................................................................... 323
2DAWUD (AS) (DAVID) .......................................................................... 324
2DAY OF HUNAYN .................................................................................. 327
2DAY OF JUDGEMENT ............................................................................ 327
2DAY OF RISING (THE HOUR)................................................................ 327
2DEAD...................................................................................................... 339
2DEAF ...................................................................................................... 344
2DEATH ................................................................................................... 345
2DEEN (SEE RELIGION) ........................................................................... 350
2DEBASEMENT ........................................................................................ 350
2DEBT - LOAN ......................................................................................... 351
2DECEIT ................................................................................................... 353
2DECIDING THINGS BY MEANS OF DIVINING ARROWS ...................... 354
2DEFEAT .................................................................................................. 354
2DELIGHT ................................................................................................ 355
2DELUDER ............................................................................................... 357
2DELUSION .............................................................................................. 357
2DEMAND FOR GRATITUDE .................................................................. 360
2DEMON .................................................................................................. 360
2DEPRAVITY ............................................................................................ 360
2DESCENDANT ........................................................................................ 361
2DESERT .................................................................................................. 363
2DESERT ARABS ...................................................................................... 363
2DESPAIR ................................................................................................. 365
2DESTINATION ....................................................................................... 365
2DESTINY (SEE PRE-ORDAINED DECREE) ............................................. 369
2DESTITUTION - DESTITUTE ................................................................. 369
2DEVIANCE .............................................................................................. 369
2DEVIATORS ........................................................................................... 371
2DEVOUTNESS ........................................................................................ 376
2DHIKR (SEE REMINDER) ....................................................................... 377
2DHU’L-KIFL (AS).................................................................................... 377
2DHU’L-QARNAYN .................................................................................. 377
2DIABOLIS (IBLIS) ................................................................................... 378
2 (CAUSING TO) DIE ............................................................................... 379
2DIFFERENCE .......................................................................................... 381
2DIRECTION, THE (QIBLAH) .................................................................. 384
2DISASTER ............................................................................................... 385
2DISBELIEVERS (KUFFAR) ...................................................................... 386
2DISCIPLES .............................................................................................. 399
2DISCORD (FITNAH)............................................................................... 400
2DISCRIMINATION (FURQAN) ............................................................... 401
2DISH ....................................................................................................... 401
2DISSOLUTE ............................................................................................ 401
2DISTANT PLACE .................................................................................... 402
2DIVER ..................................................................................................... 402
2DIVERSION ............................................................................................ 402
2DIVINING ARROWS ............................................................................... 403
2DIVORCE ................................................................................................ 404
2DIVULGEMENT ...................................................................................... 407
2DOG........................................................................................................ 410
2DOUBT ................................................................................................... 411
2DOWNCAST ........................................................................................... 413
2DOWRY (MAHR) .................................................................................... 413
2DREAM ................................................................................................... 415
2DREAM OF WHEAT AND ITS INTERPRETATION................................. 416
2DRINKS .................................................................................................. 416
2DROP ...................................................................................................... 418
2DRUNKENNESS ...................................................................................... 419
2DU´A (SEE CALLING ON; SEE ASKING LORD) .................................... 420
2DUMB ..................................................................................................... 420
2DUNE...................................................................................................... 421
2DUNYA (SEE THE WORLD) ................................................................... 421
2DUST ...................................................................................................... 421
2DUTY ...................................................................................................... 423
2DWELLINGS ........................................................................................... 425
2DYING .................................................................................................... 425
6E .................................................................................................................. 429
2EAR......................................................................................................... 429
2EARTH, THE ........................................................................................... 431
2EARTH (SOIL) ........................................................................................ 446
2EAST – WEST ......................................................................................... 447
2EATING .................................................................................................. 449
2EDEN ...................................................................................................... 452
2EGYPT .................................................................................................... 453
2EMBRYO ................................................................................................. 454
2EMINENCE ............................................................................................. 454
2ENEMY – ENMITY .................................................................................. 454
2ENJOYMENT OF THIS WORLD .............................................................. 462
2ENVY ...................................................................................................... 465
2EQUATING ONE’S WIFE WITH ONE’S MOTHER (ZIHAR) .................... 466
2ESTEEM .................................................................................................. 466
2EVENING GLOW .................................................................................... 467
2EVERLASTING ........................................................................................ 467
3EVIL ........................................................................................................ 468
3EVIL CONSEQUENCE ............................................................................. 470
3EVIL OMEN ............................................................................................ 471
3EVILDOING - EVILDOERS ...................................................................... 471
3EXCESS ................................................................................................... 476
3EXCESSIVENESS ..................................................................................... 477
3EXPEDITION TO TABUK ........................................................................ 478
3EXPELLING ............................................................................................. 479
3EXPIATION ............................................................................................. 480
3EXPIATION FOR BREAKING OATHS ..................................................... 481
3EXTRAVAGANCE ................................................................................... 481
3EXULTATION ......................................................................................... 481
3EYE ......................................................................................................... 482
7F .................................................................................................................. 490
3FACTION ................................................................................................ 490
3FAINTING .............................................................................................. 491
3FAITHFUL .............................................................................................. 491
3FALSE GODS .......................................................................................... 492
3FALSE HOPES ......................................................................................... 493
3FALSE PROPHETS .................................................................................. 493
3FALSEHOOD........................................................................................... 494
3FAMILY................................................................................................... 496
3FASTING ................................................................................................ 503
3FAT ......................................................................................................... 505
3FATIGUE ................................................................................................ 505
3 (ALLAH'S) FAVOUR.............................................................................. 505
3FEAR ....................................................................................................... 511
3FEAR OF ALLAH .................................................................................... 512
3FEAR OF DEATH .................................................................................... 522
3FEMALE .................................................................................................. 523
3FIERCE WIND ......................................................................................... 526
3FIG .......................................................................................................... 527
3FIGHTING .............................................................................................. 527
3FILTH ..................................................................................................... 534
3FINERY ................................................................................................... 534
3FINGER ................................................................................................... 535
3FIRE ........................................................................................................ 535
3FIREWOOD ............................................................................................. 553
3FISH ........................................................................................................ 554
3FITNAH (SEE DISCORD) ........................................................................ 554
3FITRAH (SEE ALLAH'S NATURAL PATTERN) ...................................... 554
3FLAW ...................................................................................................... 554
3FLESH ..................................................................................................... 554
3FLOOD, THE (SEE NUH (AS)) ............................................................... 555
3FLOODWATER ....................................................................................... 555
3FLY ......................................................................................................... 555
3FOOD ..................................................................................................... 556
3FOODSTUFFS ......................................................................................... 559
3FOOL ...................................................................................................... 559
3FOOTSTEP .............................................................................................. 560
3FORBIDDEN (HARAM) .......................................................................... 561
3FOREHEAD ............................................................................................. 568
3FORELOCK ............................................................................................. 568
3FORGIVENESS ........................................................................................ 568
3FORGOING ............................................................................................. 594
3FORM (OF A PERSON) ........................................................................... 595
3FORNICATION (ZINAH) ........................................................................ 595
3FORTRESS .............................................................................................. 598
3FORTUNE-TELLER ................................................................................. 598
3FOSTER MOTHER .................................................................................. 598
3FOUNTAIN ............................................................................................. 599
3FREE (MAN) ........................................................................................... 600
3FRIDAY (THE DAY OF JUMU‘A) ........................................................... 601
3FRIEND ................................................................................................... 601
3FROG ...................................................................................................... 607
3FROWN .................................................................................................. 607
3FRUIT ..................................................................................................... 607
3FUEL ....................................................................................................... 611
3FULL MEASURE AND FULL WEIGHT .................................................... 611
3FURQAN (SEE DISCRIMINATION) ........................................................ 612
3FURTHER MOSQUE, THE (MASJID AL-AQSA) ..................................... 612
8G .................................................................................................................. 613
3GABRIEL (JIBRIL) ................................................................................... 613
3GAMBLING ............................................................................................. 615
3GARDEN ................................................................................................. 615
3GARDEN, THE (I. E. PARADISE) ........................................................... 618
3GARMENT .............................................................................................. 635
3GATHERING ........................................................................................... 636
3AL-GAYB (SEE THE UNSEEN) ................................................................ 641
3GENERATION ......................................................................................... 641
3GENTLENESS .......................................................................................... 643
3GIFT ....................................................................................................... 644
3GINGER .................................................................................................. 645
3GIRL ....................................................................................................... 645
3GIVING ................................................................................................... 646
3GLASS ..................................................................................................... 647
3GOAT ..................................................................................................... 651
3GOBLET .................................................................................................. 652
3GOG AND MAGOG (SEE YAJUJ AND MAJUJ) ...................................... 652
3GOING BEYOND THE LIMITS ................................................................ 652
3GOING TO WASTE ................................................................................. 653
3GOLD...................................................................................................... 654
3GOLIATH (JALUT) ................................................................................. 656
3GOOD ..................................................................................................... 657
3GOOD-DOERS ........................................................................................ 659
3GOODS ................................................................................................... 663
3GOOD WORDS ....................................................................................... 664
3GOSPEL, THE (INJIL) ............................................................................. 665
3GOVERNOR ............................................................................................ 667
3GRAIN .................................................................................................... 667
3GRAPE .................................................................................................... 669
3GRAVE.................................................................................................... 670
4GREAT ABUNDANCE ............................................................................. 670
4GREAT EVENT / OCCURRENCE ............................................................ 671
4GREED .................................................................................................... 671
4GREEN .................................................................................................... 671
4GREETING - ‘PEACE’ .............................................................................. 672
4GUARANTOR ......................................................................................... 676
4GUARDIAN............................................................................................. 676
4GUARDING AGAINST EVIL (TAQWA) .................................................. 679
4GUARDS OF HELL .................................................................................. 684
4GUIDANCE ............................................................................................. 684
4GUT - BOWELS....................................................................................... 692
9H .................................................................................................................. 693
4HÂBIL AND QÂBIL (SEE ABEL AND CAIN) ........................................... 693
4HAJJ (SEE PILGRIMAGE) ....................................................................... 693
4HALAL (SEE LAWFUL) ........................................................................... 693
4HAMAN .................................................................................................. 693
4HANDIWORK ......................................................................................... 694
4HAPPINESS ............................................................................................. 694
4HARAM (SEE FORBIDDEN) ................................................................... 695
4HARDSHIP .............................................................................................. 695
4HARUN (AS) (AARON) .......................................................................... 696
4HARUT AND MARUT ............................................................................ 698
4HATRED ................................................................................................. 698
4HAYD (SEE MENSTRUATION) .............................................................. 699
4HEALING ................................................................................................ 700
4HEARING ................................................................................................ 700
4HEART .................................................................................................... 701
4HEAVEN ................................................................................................. 720
4HEREAFTER, THE (AKHIRAH) .............................................................. 737
4HEAVY RAIN .......................................................................................... 750
4HEED ...................................................................................................... 750
4HEEL ....................................................................................................... 756
4HEIGHTS, THE (A’RAF) ......................................................................... 757
4HELL (JAHANNAM) ............................................................................... 757
4HELP ....................................................................................................... 771
4HERB ...................................................................................................... 787
4HERITAGE (SEE LAWS OF HERITAGE) ................................................. 788
4AL-HIJR (SEE PEOPLE OF AL-HIJR) ....................................................... 788
4HIJRA (SEE MIGRATION) ...................................................................... 788
4HIKMAH (SEE WISDOM - WISE) ........................................................... 788
4HILL ........................................................................................................ 788
4HOLY ...................................................................................................... 788
4HOMOSEXUALITY .................................................................................. 788
4HONEY ................................................................................................... 790
4HOOF...................................................................................................... 790
4HOOPOE ................................................................................................. 791
4HORIZON ............................................................................................... 791
4HORSE .................................................................................................... 791
4HOSPITALITY ......................................................................................... 792
4HOSTILITY ............................................................................................. 793
4HOUR ..................................................................................................... 794
4HOUR, THE (SEE THE DAY OF RISING)................................................ 795
4HOUSE .................................................................................................... 795
4HUD (AS) AND ‘AD ............................................................................... 799
4HUDAYBIYYAH (SEE PEACE OF HUDAYBIYYAH) ................................. 803
4HUMBLE ................................................................................................. 803
4HUMILITY .............................................................................................. 805
4HUNGER ................................................................................................. 807
4HUNTING ............................................................................................... 809
4HUSBAND .............................................................................................. 810
4HYPOCRITES (MUNAFIQUN) ................................................................ 811
1I ................................................................................................................... 834
4IBLIS (SEE DIABOLIS) ............................................................................ 834
4IBRAHIM (AS) (ABRAHAM) .................................................................. 834
4IDDAH (SEE WAITING PERIOD (FOR WOMEN)).................................. 848
4IDOL ....................................................................................................... 848
4IDOLATERS (MUSHRIQUN) .................................................................. 850
4IDRIS (AS) .............................................................................................. 855
4"IF ALLAH WILLS" (INSHA'ALLAH) ...................................................... 856
4IGNORANCE ........................................................................................... 858
4IGNORANT ............................................................................................. 859
4IHRAM (STATE OF PILGRIMAGE)......................................................... 861
4IKHLAS (SEE SINCERITY) ...................................................................... 861
4ILL FORTUNE ......................................................................................... 861
4ILLITERATE ............................................................................................ 862
4ILLNESS .................................................................................................. 862
4ILYAS (AS) ............................................................................................. 864
4IMMORTAL ............................................................................................ 864
4IMPUDENCE ........................................................................................... 865
4IMPURITY............................................................................................... 866
4IMRAN.................................................................................................... 867
4INJIL (SEE THE GOSPEL) ....................................................................... 867
4INCONSISTENCY .................................................................................... 867
4INDECENCY............................................................................................ 867
4INFANT .................................................................................................. 868
4INHABITANT ......................................................................................... 868
4INHERIT - BEQUEATH ........................................................................... 870
4INK ......................................................................................................... 872
4INSHA'ALLAH (SEE "IF ALLAH WILLS") ............................................... 872
4INSIGHT ................................................................................................. 872
4INSOLENCE ............................................................................................ 874
4INSPIRATION ......................................................................................... 875
4INTELLECT - INTELLIGENCE ................................................................. 875
4INTENTION ............................................................................................ 882
4INTERCESSION ...................................................................................... 883
4INTERPRETATION ................................................................................. 885
4INTIMATE .............................................................................................. 886
4IRAM ...................................................................................................... 886
4IRON ....................................................................................................... 886
4IRRIGATION ........................................................................................... 888
4 ‘ISA (AS) (JESUS).................................................................................. 888
4ISHAQ (AS) ............................................................................................ 894
5ISLAM ..................................................................................................... 896
5ISMA‘IL (AS) .......................................................................................... 897
5ISRAEL .................................................................................................... 899
5ITIKAAF ................................................................................................. 899
5"IT IS AS ALLAH WILLS" ....................................................................... 900
5(MASHA'LLAH) ...................................................................................... 900
1J ................................................................................................................... 901
5JACOB (SEE YA'QUB (AS)) .................................................................... 901
5JAHANNAM (SEE HELL) ........................................................................ 901
5JALUT (SEE GOLIATH) .......................................................................... 901
5JANNAH (SEE THE GARDEN) ............................................................... 901
5JESUS (SEE 'ISA (AS)) ............................................................................ 901
5JEW ........................................................................................................ 901
5JEWELLERY ............................................................................................ 904
5JIBRIL (SEE GABRIEL) ............................................................................ 905
5JINN ....................................................................................................... 905
5JIZYA (SEE POLL TAX) ........................................................................... 909
5JOB (SEE AYYUB (AS)) .......................................................................... 909
5JOHN (SEE YAHYA (AS)) ....................................................................... 909
5JONAH (SEE YUNUS (AS)) .................................................................... 909
5JOSEPH (SEE YUSUF (AS)) .................................................................... 909
5JOURNEY ................................................................................................ 909
5JOY ......................................................................................................... 910
5JUDGE .................................................................................................... 911
5TO JUDGE .............................................................................................. 912
5JUDGEMENT .......................................................................................... 916
5AL-JUDI (SEE MOUNT AL-JUDI) ........................................................... 916
5JUMU‘A (SEE FRIDAY) .......................................................................... 916
5JUSTICE .................................................................................................. 916
1K .................................................................................................................. 923
5KAABA ................................................................................................... 923
5KEY ......................................................................................................... 924
5KHALIF (SEE SUCCESSION - SUCCESSOR) .......................................... 924
5KIBLA (SEE THE DIRECTION) ............................................................... 924
5 (TO) KILL - KILLING ............................................................................. 924
5KING - KINGSHIP ................................................................................... 934
5KINSHIP ................................................................................................. 936
5KNIFE ..................................................................................................... 936
5KNOWLEDGE ......................................................................................... 936
5KORAN (SEE THE QUR'AN) .................................................................. 953
5KUFFAR (SEE DISBELIEVERS) ............................................................... 953
1L .................................................................................................................. 954
5LABOUR ................................................................................................. 954
5LADDER ................................................................................................. 954
5LAILAT UL-QADR (SEE NIGHT OF POWER) ......................................... 954
5LAME ...................................................................................................... 954
5LAMP ...................................................................................................... 955
5LAND ...................................................................................................... 956
5LANGUAGE ............................................................................................ 960
5LASH ...................................................................................................... 961
5LAST DAY, THE (QIYAMAH) ................................................................. 961
5LAUGHTER ............................................................................................. 965
5LAW........................................................................................................ 967
5LAWH MAHFUZ (THE PRESERVED TABLET) ....................................... 967
5LAWFUL ................................................................................................. 968
5LAWFUL (HALAL) PROVISIONS ............................................................ 971
5LAWS OF HERITAGE.............................................................................. 972
5LEADER .................................................................................................. 974
5LEAF ....................................................................................................... 974
5LEFT ....................................................................................................... 975
5LEGION .................................................................................................. 976
5LENTIL ................................................................................................... 977
5LEPER ..................................................................................................... 977
5LESSON .................................................................................................. 978
5LIE .......................................................................................................... 978
5LIGHT ..................................................................................................... 982
5LIGHTNING ............................................................................................ 986
5LIKENESS................................................................................................ 987
5LINING ................................................................................................... 988
5LION ....................................................................................................... 988
5LIP .......................................................................................................... 988
5LITTLE BY LITTLE .................................................................................. 989
5LIVELIHOOD .......................................................................................... 989
5LIVESTOCK ............................................................................................ 989
5LOCUST .................................................................................................. 992
5LONGING ............................................................................................... 992
5LOSS ....................................................................................................... 992
5LOT (SEE LUT (AS)) .............................................................................. 998
5LOTE TREE ............................................................................................. 998
5LOUSE .................................................................................................... 998
5LOVE ...................................................................................................... 998
5LUQMAN (AS)...................................................................................... 1000
5LUT (AS) (LOT) ................................................................................... 1001
1M ............................................................................................................... 1005
5MADINA ............................................................................................... 1005
5MADNESS ............................................................................................. 1006
5MADYAN (SEE SHU‘AYB (AS) AND MADYAN) .................................. 1007
5MAGIC - MAGICIAN ............................................................................ 1007
5MAHR (SEE DOWRY) ........................................................................... 1012
5MAHRAM (UNMARRIAGEABLE) OF WOMEN .................................... 1012
5MAIDEN ............................................................................................... 1012
5MAINTAIN ........................................................................................... 1013
5MAJORITY ............................................................................................ 1013
5MAKING CLEAR ................................................................................... 1014
5MAKKA (THE SAFE HAVEN) ............................................................... 1015
5MAN - MEN .......................................................................................... 1016
5MARK ................................................................................................... 1020
5MARKET-PLACE ................................................................................... 1020
5MARRIAGE ........................................................................................... 1020
5MARTYRDOM ...................................................................................... 1026
5MARYAM (AS) (MARY) ....................................................................... 1027
5MASHA'LLAH (SEE "IT IS AS ALLAH WILLS").................................... 1031
5MASJID (SEE MOSQUE) ....................................................................... 1032
5MASJID AL-AQSA (SEE THE FURTHER MOSQUE) ............................. 1032
6MASTER ............................................................................................... 1032
6MATE ................................................................................................... 1032
6MATURITY ........................................................................................... 1033
6MEADOW ............................................................................................. 1034
6MEAL .................................................................................................... 1034
6MEANING ............................................................................................. 1035
6MEASURE ............................................................................................. 1037
6MEAT ................................................................................................... 1038
6MENSTRUATION (HAYD) ................................................................... 1038
6MERCY ................................................................................................. 1039
6(LORD’S) MESSAGE ............................................................................. 1042
6MESSENGER ......................................................................................... 1043
6METEOR ............................................................................................... 1054
6MICHAEL (MIKA’IL) ............................................................................ 1055
6MIDDLE ................................................................................................ 1055
6MIGHT.................................................................................................. 1055
6MIGRANTS (MUHAJIRUN) .................................................................. 1056
6MIGRATION (HIJRA) ........................................................................... 1056
6MIKA’IL (SEE MICHAEL) ..................................................................... 1059
6MILK ..................................................................................................... 1059
6MISERABLE .......................................................................................... 1059
6MISGUIDANCE ..................................................................................... 1060
6MISTAKE .............................................................................................. 1063
6MOCKERY ............................................................................................ 1065
6MOHAMMED (SEE MUHAMMAD (SAAS)) ......................................... 1069
6MONASTICISM .................................................................................... 1069
6MONASTERY ........................................................................................ 1069
6MONK .................................................................................................. 1070
6MOON .................................................................................................. 1070
6MORNING ............................................................................................ 1073
6MOSES (SEE MUSA (AS)) .................................................................... 1076
6MOSQUE (MASJID).............................................................................. 1076
6MOSQUITO .......................................................................................... 1078
6MOTHER OF THE BOOK, THE (SEE LAWH MAHFUZ)........................ 1078
6MOUNT AL-JUDI ................................................................................. 1078
6MOUNT, THE ....................................................................................... 1078
6MOUNT SINAI...................................................................................... 1080
6MOUNTAIN .......................................................................................... 1080
6MUHAJIRUN (SEE MIGRANTS) ........................................................... 1085
6MUHAMMAD (SAAS) (PROPHETHOOD OF) ...................................... 1085
6MUHKAM VERSES (SEE VERSES THAT ARE THE CORE OF THE BOOK)1088
6MULE .................................................................................................... 1088
6MU'MINUN (SEE BELIEVERS) .............................................................. 1088
6MUNAFIQUN (SEE HYPOCRITES) ....................................................... 1088
6MUSA (AS) (MOSES) ........................................................................... 1088
6MUSHRIQUN (SEE IDOLATERS).......................................................... 1122
6MUTASHABIH VERSES (SEE VERSES THAT ARE OPEN TO
INTERPRETATION) .............................................................................. 1122
6MYTH ................................................................................................... 1122
1N ................................................................................................................ 1123
6NAFS (SEE SELF) .................................................................................. 1123
6NAKEDNESS ......................................................................................... 1123
6NAME ................................................................................................... 1124
6NAMES OF ALLAH ............................................................................... 1129
6NASR .................................................................................................... 1134
6NATION ............................................................................................... 1134
6ALLAH'S NATURAL PATTERN (FITRAH) ........................................... 1137
6NATURAL PURE BELIEF....................................................................... 1137
6NEARNESS OF ALLAH TO PEOPLE ...................................................... 1139
6NEIGHBOUR ......................................................................................... 1140
6NEWS ................................................................................................... 1140
6NICHE ................................................................................................... 1151
6NICKNAME .......................................................................................... 1151
6NIGHT .................................................................................................. 1151
6NIGHT OF POWER (LAILAT UL-QADR) .............................................. 1161
6NIGHT-COMER .................................................................................... 1161
6NOAH (SEE NUH (AS)) ........................................................................ 1161
6NOON ................................................................................................... 1161
6NOT WASTING TIME........................................................................... 1162
6NUH (AS) (NOAH) ............................................................................... 1162
6NURSING .............................................................................................. 1169
1O ................................................................................................................ 1171
6OATH ................................................................................................... 1171
6OBDURATE .......................................................................................... 1173
6OBEDIENCE / DISOBEDIENCE TO THE MESSENGERS, AND THE
OBLIGATION OF THE MESSENGERS ................................................... 1174
6OBEDIENCE TO ALLAH ....................................................................... 1181
6OBSCENITY .......................................................................................... 1182
6OBSTRUCT ........................................................................................... 1182
6OFFSPRING .......................................................................................... 1187
6OIL ........................................................................................................ 1188
6OLD AGE .............................................................................................. 1188
6OLD WOMAN ....................................................................................... 1190
6OLIVE ................................................................................................... 1191
6ON FOOT ............................................................................................. 1191
6ONENESS OF ALLAH (TAWHID) ......................................................... 1192
6ONION .................................................................................................. 1197
6ORNAMENT ......................................................................................... 1197
6ORPHAN ............................................................................................... 1198
6OVERCOMING ..................................................................................... 1201
1P ................................................................................................................ 1202
6PAGES .................................................................................................. 1202
6PAIR ..................................................................................................... 1202
6PALACE ................................................................................................ 1203
6PALTRY ................................................................................................ 1204
6PARADISE (SEE THE GARDEN) ........................................................... 1205
6 (HIGHEST) PARADISE ........................................................................ 1205
6PARTNER ............................................................................................. 1205
6PATH OF ALLAH .................................................................................. 1208
6PATIENCE ............................................................................................ 1227
6PATTERN (SUNNAH)........................................................................... 1228
6PAYMENT ............................................................................................. 1229
6PEACE................................................................................................... 1230
6PEACE OF HUDAYBIYYAH ................................................................... 1230
6PEARL ................................................................................................... 1232
7PEN ....................................................................................................... 1233
7PEOPLE OF AL-HIJR ............................................................................. 1233
7PEOPLE OF THE BOOK ........................................................................ 1233
7(AHL AL-KITAB) .................................................................................. 1233
7PEOPLE OF TUBBA............................................................................... 1237
7PERSECUTION...................................................................................... 1238
7PHARAOH ............................................................................................ 1239
7PIG ........................................................................................................ 1250
7PILGRIMAGE (HAJJ) ............................................................................ 1251
7PIOUS VISIT (‘UMRA) ......................................................................... 1253
7PLANK .................................................................................................. 1254
7PLANT .................................................................................................. 1254
7PLEASURE OF ALLAH .......................................................................... 1255
7PLOT .................................................................................................... 1259
7POET .................................................................................................... 1261
7POLL TAX (JIZYA)................................................................................ 1262
7POMEGRANATE ................................................................................... 1262
7PONDER (TAFAKKUR) ........................................................................ 1262
7POOR .................................................................................................... 1263
7PORK .................................................................................................... 1268
7POVERTY.............................................................................................. 1268
7POWERLESSNESS ................................................................................. 1269
7PRAISE.................................................................................................. 1271
7PRAYER ................................................................................................ 1277
7PRAYER DURING THE BATTLE ........................................................... 1288
7PRAYER OF NIGHT .............................................................................. 1289
7PRECAUTION ....................................................................................... 1289
7PREGNANCY ........................................................................................ 1290
7PRE-ORDAINED DECREE E. DESTINY) ................................................ 1291
7PRESERVED TABLET, THE (SEE LAWH MAHFUZ) ............................. 1298
7PREVIOUSLY MARRIED ....................................................................... 1298
7PRIEST .................................................................................................. 1298
7PRISON - PRISONER ............................................................................ 1298
7PRIVATE ONES .................................................................................... 1299
7PRIVATE PARTS ................................................................................... 1300
7PROCLAIMING ALLAH'S GREATNESS................................................. 1300
7PROFITLESS ACTIONS ......................................................................... 1301
7PROFLIGATE ........................................................................................ 1303
7PROMISE .............................................................................................. 1305
7(FULFILLING) PROMISES ..................................................................... 1308
7PROOF .................................................................................................. 1308
7PROPERTY ............................................................................................ 1309
7PROPHETS ............................................................................................ 1310
7PROPORTION ....................................................................................... 1313
7PROSTRATION ..................................................................................... 1314
7PROTECTION ....................................................................................... 1320
7PROTECTOR......................................................................................... 1320
7PROVIDE .............................................................................................. 1326
7PROVISION .......................................................................................... 1332
7PSALMS (SEE ZABUR) .......................................................................... 1338
7PUBERTY .............................................................................................. 1338
7PUNISHMENT ...................................................................................... 1338
7PURITY ................................................................................................. 1373
7PUS ....................................................................................................... 1374
7PUTTING ONE'S TRUST IN ALLAH (TAWAKKUL) ............................. 1374
7PUTTING THINGS RIGHT.................................................................... 1378
1Q ................................................................................................................ 1381
7AL-QADR (SEE PRE-ORDAINED DECREE) .......................................... 1381
7QAALU BALAA (THEY SAID: YES) ...................................................... 1381
7QARUN ................................................................................................. 1381
7QIBLAH (SEE THE DIRECTION) .......................................................... 1382
7QIYAMAH (SEE THE LAST DAY) ......................................................... 1382
7QUAIL................................................................................................... 1382
7QUARREL ............................................................................................. 1383
7QUILT ................................................................................................... 1383
7QUR'AN, THE ....................................................................................... 1383
7QURAYSH ............................................................................................. 1389
1R ................................................................................................................ 1390
7RABBI ................................................................................................... 1390
7RACE .................................................................................................... 1390
7RAGE .................................................................................................... 1391
7RAIN ..................................................................................................... 1392
7RAMADAN ........................................................................................... 1395
7RAMPART ............................................................................................ 1395
7RANSOM .............................................................................................. 1395
7RASUL (SEE MESSENGER) ................................................................... 1397
7RECOMPENSATION ............................................................................. 1397
7RECONCILIATION ................................................................................ 1399
7RECORDING ANGELS .......................................................................... 1399
7REFLECT (TAFAKKUR) ........................................................................ 1400
7REGION ................................................................................................ 1402
7REGRET ................................................................................................ 1402
7REJOICE ............................................................................................... 1403
7RELATIVE ............................................................................................. 1404
7RELATIVITY OF TIME .......................................................................... 1409
7RELIGION (DEEN) ................................................................................ 1409
7REMEMBRANCE OF ALLAH ................................................................. 1418
7REMEMBRANCE OF MESSENGERS ...................................................... 1425
7REMINDER (DHIKR) ............................................................................ 1425
7REMORSE ............................................................................................. 1430
7REPAYMENT ........................................................................................ 1431
7REPENTANCE (TAWBAH) ................................................................... 1436
7RESTING PLACE ................................................................................... 1441
7RESURRECTION ................................................................................... 1441
7RETALIATION ...................................................................................... 1450
7RETREAT .............................................................................................. 1450
7RETRIBUTION ...................................................................................... 1451
7REVELATION ....................................................................................... 1452
7REVENGE ............................................................................................. 1459
7REVILED ............................................................................................... 1461
7REWARD .............................................................................................. 1461
7RIBA (SEE USURY) ............................................................................... 1470
8RICH ..................................................................................................... 1470
8RIDING ................................................................................................. 1472
8RIGHTEOUS (SALIHUN) ...................................................................... 1473
8RIVER ................................................................................................... 1476
8ROCK .................................................................................................... 1483
8ROLLING OF THE EYES........................................................................ 1484
8ROMANS .............................................................................................. 1485
8ROOF .................................................................................................... 1485
8ROUT.................................................................................................... 1485
8RUBY .................................................................................................... 1485
8RUG ...................................................................................................... 1486
8RUH (SEE SPIRIT) ................................................................................ 1486
8RULING ................................................................................................ 1486
2S ................................................................................................................ 1487
8SA’IBA .................................................................................................. 1487
8SABAEANS ........................................................................................... 1487
8SABBATH ............................................................................................. 1487
8(THE BAN OF THE SABBATH) ............................................................ 1487
8SABR (SEE STEADFASTNESS) ............................................................. 1488
8SACRED (FORBIDDEN) MONTHS ....................................................... 1488
8SACRED LANDMARK........................................................................... 1489
8SACRED MOSQUE, THE (MASJID AL-HARAM) .................................. 1490
8SACRED RITE ....................................................................................... 1492
8SACRIFICIAL ANIMAL ......................................................................... 1492
8SADAQA (SEE CHARITY) .................................................................... 1494
8SAFA AND MARWA ............................................................................. 1494
8SAFEGUARDER .................................................................................... 1494
8SAFETY ................................................................................................. 1494
8SALAM (SEE PEACE) ............................................................................ 1497
8SALAT (SEE PRAYER) .......................................................................... 1497
8SALIH (AS) AND THAMUD ................................................................. 1497
8SALIHUN (SEE RIGHTEOUS) ............................................................... 1503
8SALSABIL.............................................................................................. 1503
8SALT ..................................................................................................... 1503
8SAMARITAN ........................................................................................ 1503
8SANCTUARY ........................................................................................ 1505
8SANDAL ............................................................................................... 1505
8SATAN (SHAYTAN) ............................................................................. 1505
8SCALE ................................................................................................... 1516
8SCANT YIELD ....................................................................................... 1516
8SCHEME ............................................................................................... 1516
8SCORN.................................................................................................. 1518
8SCREEN ................................................................................................ 1519
8SCRIBE .................................................................................................. 1519
8SEA ....................................................................................................... 1519
8SECRET................................................................................................. 1524
8SECURITY ............................................................................................. 1526
8SEED ..................................................................................................... 1528
8SELF (NAFS) ......................................................................................... 1529
8SELFISH ................................................................................................ 1544
8SELF-SUFFICIENT................................................................................. 1545
8SERENITY ............................................................................................. 1545
8SEXUALLY PERVERTED ....................................................................... 1546
8SHADE - SHADOW ............................................................................... 1547
8SHARE .................................................................................................. 1549
8SHATTERER ......................................................................................... 1550
8SHAVE .................................................................................................. 1550
8SHAYTAN (SEE SATAN) ...................................................................... 1550
8SHEBA .................................................................................................. 1550
8SHEEP ................................................................................................... 1552
8SHEETS OF PAPER ............................................................................... 1553
8SHIP ...................................................................................................... 1553
8SHIRK (SEE ASSOCIATING PARTNERS WITH ALLAH) ...................... 1556
8SHIRT ................................................................................................... 1556
8SHOWING OFF ..................................................................................... 1557
8SHU‘AYB (AS) AND MADYAN ............................................................. 1557
8SHUKR (SEE THANKSGIVING) ............................................................ 1559
8SICKNESS ............................................................................................. 1559
8SIGHT ................................................................................................... 1562
8SIGN - MIRACLE .................................................................................. 1563
8SIJJIN ................................................................................................... 1563
8SILK ...................................................................................................... 1564
8SILVER .................................................................................................. 1564
8SIN ........................................................................................................ 1565
8SINAI (SEE MOUNT SINAI) ................................................................. 1566
8SINCERITY (IKHLAS) ........................................................................... 1566
8SISTER .................................................................................................. 1567
8SKILL .................................................................................................... 1569
8SKIN ..................................................................................................... 1570
8SLANDER.............................................................................................. 1570
8SLAUGHTER ......................................................................................... 1571
8SLAVE................................................................................................... 1573
8SLEEP.................................................................................................... 1576
8SLIPPING OF THE FOOT ...................................................................... 1577
8SLOPE ................................................................................................... 1577
8SMOKE ................................................................................................. 1577
8SNAKE .................................................................................................. 1578
8SNOUT ................................................................................................. 1579
8SOIL (SEE EARTH) ............................................................................... 1579
8SOLOMON (SEE SULAYMAN (AS)) ..................................................... 1579
8SONS .................................................................................................... 1579
8SOOTHSAYER....................................................................................... 1585
8SORCERY .............................................................................................. 1585
8SOUND INTELLECT ............................................................................. 1586
8SPARK .................................................................................................. 1586
8SPATHE ................................................................................................ 1586
8SPECIFIED TERM ................................................................................. 1586
8SPECK ................................................................................................... 1589
8SPENDING IN THE WAY OF ALLAH .................................................... 1590
8SPIDER ................................................................................................. 1596
8SPIRIT (RUH) ....................................................................................... 1596
9SPOUSE ................................................................................................ 1598
9SPRING ................................................................................................. 1599
9STAKE .................................................................................................. 1600
9STAMP ................................................................................................. 1600
9STANDING UP ..................................................................................... 1601
9STAR .................................................................................................... 1601
9STATE OF PILGRIMAGE (SEE IHRAM) ................................................ 1603
9STATUE ................................................................................................ 1603
9STEADFASTNESS ................................................................................. 1603
9STEEP ................................................................................................... 1610
9STONE .................................................................................................. 1611
9STORE .................................................................................................. 1612
9STRIVING IN THE WAY OF ALLAH ..................................................... 1612
9STUDYING ........................................................................................... 1616
9SUCCESS............................................................................................... 1616
9SUCCESSION - SUCCESSOR ................................................................. 1621
9SUCKLING ............................................................................................ 1624
9SULAYMAN (AS) (SOLOMON) ............................................................ 1624
9SUMMONING ....................................................................................... 1627
9SUN ...................................................................................................... 1629
9SUNNAH (SEE PATTERN).................................................................... 1633
9SUPPORTERS (SEE ANSAR) ................................................................. 1633
9SUWA ................................................................................................... 1633
9SWEAR ................................................................................................. 1633
2T ................................................................................................................ 1637
9TABLE................................................................................................... 1637
9TABLETS .............................................................................................. 1637
9TABUK (SEE EXPEDITION TO TABUK) ............................................... 1638
9TACTICS MADE AND PRECAUTIONS TAKEN DURING THE BATTLE1638
9TAFAKKUR (SEE PONDER; SEE REFLECT).......................................... 1639
9TAQWA (SEE FEAR OF ALLAH; HEED; GUARDING AGAINST EVIL) . 1639
9TALUT .................................................................................................. 1639
9TAWAKKUL (SEE PUTTING ONE'S TRUST IN ALLAH) ...................... 1640
9TAWBAH (SEE REPENTANCE) ............................................................ 1640
9TAWHID (SEE ONENESS OF ALLAH) .................................................. 1640
9TEAR .................................................................................................... 1640
9TEST - TRIAL ....................................................................................... 1641
9TEXT..................................................................................................... 1647
9THANKSGIVING .................................................................................. 1648
9THATCHER .......................................................................................... 1654
9THIEF - STEALING ............................................................................... 1654
9THING OF THE PAST ........................................................................... 1655
9THIRST ................................................................................................. 1655
9THOSE FIRMLY ROOTED IN KNOWLEDGE ........................................ 1656
9THOSE IN COMMAND ......................................................................... 1656
9THOSE WHO FLEE FROM BATTLE ...................................................... 1657
9THOSE WHO HAVE PERMISSION NOT TO FIGHT ............................. 1661
9THROAT ............................................................................................... 1662
9THRONE ............................................................................................... 1663
9THRONE, THE ...................................................................................... 1663
9THUNDER ............................................................................................ 1666
9TIGHT-FISTED ..................................................................................... 1666
9TIME BEFORE DAWN .......................................................................... 1668
9TIREDNESS........................................................................................... 1669
9TONGUE ............................................................................................... 1669
9TORAH ................................................................................................. 1672
9TOWN .................................................................................................. 1675
9TRACE .................................................................................................. 1677
9TRADE .................................................................................................. 1678
9TRANSACTION .................................................................................... 1680
9TRANSMISSION ................................................................................... 1680
9TRAVEL ................................................................................................ 1683
9TRAVELER............................................................................................ 1686
9TREACHERY ......................................................................................... 1688
9TREASURE - TREASURY ...................................................................... 1688
9TREATY ................................................................................................ 1690
9TREE ..................................................................................................... 1692
9TRIBE OF ISRAEL (CHILDREN OF ISRAEL) ......................................... 1695
9TRIBES .................................................................................................. 1701
9TRIBUTE ............................................................................................... 1702
9TROOP ................................................................................................. 1702
9TRUNK ................................................................................................. 1705
9TRUST .................................................................................................. 1705
9 (HONOURING) TRUSTS ..................................................................... 1706
9TUBBA (SEE PEOPLE OF TUBBA) ........................................................ 1707
9TUNNEL ............................................................................................... 1707
9TUWA ................................................................................................... 1707
9TYRANNY - TYRANT ........................................................................... 1707
2U ................................................................................................................ 1710
9UHUD (SEE BATTLE OF UHUD) .......................................................... 1710
9UMMI ................................................................................................... 1710
9UNCLE .................................................................................................. 1713
9UNCLEAN ............................................................................................. 1714
9UNDERSTANDING ............................................................................... 1714
9UNGRATEFULNESS .............................................................................. 1717
9UNITY................................................................................................... 1720
9UNSEEN, THE (AL-GAYB) .................................................................... 1720
9USURY (RIBA) ...................................................................................... 1726
9UZAYR (AS).......................................................................................... 1727
2V ................................................................................................................ 1728
9VAINGLORY ......................................................................................... 1728
9VALLEY ................................................................................................ 1728
9VEGETABLES ........................................................................................ 1729
9VEIL ...................................................................................................... 1729
9VEIN ..................................................................................................... 1730
9VERSES THAT ARE THE CORE OF THE BOOK (MUHKAM VERSES) . 1730
9VERSES THAT ARE OPEN TO INTERPRETATION (MUTASHABIH VERSES)
............................................................................................................. 1730
9VICTORIOUS ........................................................................................ 1730
9VICTORY .............................................................................................. 1731
9VIRGIN ................................................................................................. 1736
9VISION ................................................................................................. 1736
9VOICE ................................................................................................... 1737
9VOW ..................................................................................................... 1738
2W ............................................................................................................... 1739
1WADD .................................................................................................. 1739
1WAGE ................................................................................................... 1739
1WAITING PERIOD (FOR WOMEN) (IDDAH) ...................................... 1741
1WALK LIGHTLY ................................................................................... 1743
1WALL .................................................................................................... 1743
1WAR ..................................................................................................... 1745
1WAR OF BADR (SEE BADR) ................................................................ 1746
1WARNING - WARNER .......................................................................... 1746
1WASWAS (SEE WHISPERING OF SATAN) ........................................... 1751
1WAVE ................................................................................................... 1751
1WEAKNESS ........................................................................................... 1752
1WEALTH – WEALTHY .......................................................................... 1753
1WEANING............................................................................................. 1762
1WEARINESS .......................................................................................... 1763
1WEEP .................................................................................................... 1764
1WEIGHT ............................................................................................... 1764
1WELL .................................................................................................... 1765
1WET-NURSING ..................................................................................... 1766
1WHIMS AND DESIRES ......................................................................... 1766
1WHIP .................................................................................................... 1770
1WHISPERING OF SATAN ..................................................................... 1770
1WHISTLE .............................................................................................. 1771
1WHITE .................................................................................................. 1771
1WIFE ..................................................................................................... 1773
1WIND.................................................................................................... 1779
1WINE .................................................................................................... 1781
1WING .................................................................................................... 1782
1WISDOM - WISE................................................................................... 1783
1WITNESS .............................................................................................. 1795
1WOLF ................................................................................................... 1806
1WOMB .................................................................................................. 1806
1WOMEN................................................................................................ 1808
1WOOL ................................................................................................... 1833
1WORLD, THE (DUNYA) ....................................................................... 1834
1WORM .................................................................................................. 1848
1WORSHIP ............................................................................................. 1849
1WORTHLESS TALK .............................................................................. 1859
1WRETCHED .......................................................................................... 1859
1WRITER ................................................................................................ 1859
1 (TO) WRONG ...................................................................................... 1860
1WRONG - WRONGDOING - WRONGDOER ......................................... 1866
2Y ................................................................................................................ 1891
1YA‘QUB (AS) (JACOB) ......................................................................... 1891
1YA‘UQ................................................................................................... 1893
1YAGHUTH ............................................................................................ 1894
1YAHYA (AS) (JOHN) ............................................................................ 1894
1YAJUJ AND MAJUJ (GOG AND MAGOG) ........................................... 1895
1YATHRIB .............................................................................................. 1895
1YOUTH ................................................................................................. 1895
1YUNUS (AS) (JONAH) ......................................................................... 1895
1YUSUF (AS) (JOSEPH) ......................................................................... 1896
2Z ................................................................................................................ 1905
1ZABUR (PSALMS)................................................................................. 1905
1ZAKAH (SEE ALMS) ............................................................................. 1905
1ZAKARIYYA (AS) ................................................................................. 1905
1ZAQQUM .............................................................................................. 1906
1ZAYD .................................................................................................... 1907
1ZIHAR (SEE EQUATING ONE’S WIFE WITH ONE’S MOTHER) ........... 1907
1ZINAH (SEE FORNICATION) ............................................................... 1907
1ZULM (SEE WRONG - WRONGDOING - .............................................. 1907
1WRONGDOER) ..................................................................................... 1907
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Now writing under the pen-name of HARUN YAHYA, he was born in
Ankara in 1956. Having completed his primary and secondary
education in Ankara, he studied arts at Istanbul's Mimar Sinan
University and philosophy at Istanbul University. Since the 1980s, he
has published many books on political, scientific, and faith-related
issues. Harun Yahya is well-known as the author of important works
disclosing the imposture of evolutionists, their invalid claims, and the
dark liaisons between Darwinism and such bloody ideologies as
fascism and communism.
All of Harun Yahya's works share one single goal: to convey the
Qur'an's message, encourage readers to consider basic faith-related
issues such as Allah's Existence and Unity and the hereafter; and to
expose godless systems' feeble foundations and perverted
ideologies.
Greatly appreciated all around the world, these works have been
instrumental in many people recovering faith in Allah and gaining
deeper insights into their faith. His books' wisdom and sincerity,
together with a distinct style that's easy to understand, directly affect
anyone who reads them. Those who seriously consider these books,
can no longer advocate atheism or any other perverted ideology or
materialistic philosophy, since these books are characterized by
rapid effectiveness, definite results, and irrefutability. Even if they
continue to do so, it will be only a sentimental insistence, since these
books refute such ideologies from their very foundations. All
contemporary movements of denial are now ideologically defeated,
thanks to the books written by Harun Yahya.
One point should be kept in mind: The main reason for the
continuing cruelty, conflict, and other ordeals endured by the vast
majority of people is the ideological prevalence of disbelief. This can
be ended only with the ideological defeat of disbelief and by
conveying the wonders of creation and Qur'anic morality so that
people can live by it. Considering the state of the world today,
leading into a downward spiral of violence, corruption and conflict,
clearly this service must be provided speedily and effectively, or it
may be too late.
In this effort, the books of Harun Yahya assume a leading role. By
the will of Allah, these books will be a means through which people
in the twentyfirst century will attain the peace, justice, and happiness
promised in the Qur'an.
TO THE READER
A special chapter is assigned to the collapse of the theory of
evolution because this theory constitutes the basis of all anti-spiritual
philosophies. Since Darwinism rejects the fact of creation—and
therefore, Allah's Existence—over the last 140 years it has caused
many people to abandon their faith or fall into doubt. It is therefore
an imperative service, a very important duty to show everyone that
this theory is a deception. Since some readers may find the chance
to read only one of our book, we think it appropriate to devote a
chapter to summarize this subject.
This and all the other books by the author can be read individually,
or discussed in a group. Readers eager to profit from the books will
find discussion very useful, letting them relate their reflections and
experiences to one another.
We hope the reader will look through the reviews of his other books
at the back of this book. His rich source material on faith-related
issues is very useful, and a pleasure to read.
In these books, unlike some other books, you will not find the
author's personal views, explanations based on dubious sources,
styles that are unobservant of the respect and reverence due to
sacred subjects, nor hopeless, pessimistic arguments that create
doubts in the mind and deviations in the heart.
A
ABASEMENT
• And when you said, ‘Musa, we will not put up with just one kind of
food so ask your Lord to supply to us some of what the earth
produces–its green vegetables, cucumbers, grains, lentils and
onions,’ he said, ‘Do you want to replace what is better with what
is inferior? Go back to Egypt, then you will have what you are
asking for.’ Abasement and destitution were stamped upon them.
They brought down anger from Allah upon themselves. That was
because they rejected Allah’s Signs and killed the Prophets
without any right to do so. That was because they rebelled and
went beyond the limits. (2:61)
• As for those who adopted the Calf, anger from their Lord will
overtake them together with abasement in the life of this world.
That is how we repay the purveyors of falsehood. (7:152)
• Fight those of the people who were given the Book who do not
believe in Allah and the Last Day and who do not make forbidden
what Allah and His Messenger have made forbidden and do not
take as their religion the religion of Truth, until they pay the poll
tax with their own hands in a state of complete abasement. (9:29)
• If you do not help him, Allah did help him when those who
disbelieved drove him out and there were two of them in the Cave.
He said to his companion, ‘Do not be despondent, Allah is with
us.’ Then Allah sent down His serenity upon him and reinforced
him with troops you could not see. He made the word of those
who disbelieved undermost. It is the word of Allah which is
uppermost. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (9:40)
• And say: ‘Praise be to Allah Who has had no son and Who has
no partner in His Kingdom and Who needs no one to protect Him
from abasement.’ And proclaim His Greatness repeatedly!
(17:111)
• She (Queen of Sheba) said, ‘When kings enter a city, they lay
waste to it and make its mightiest inhabitants the most abased.
That is what they too will do.’ (27:34)
• They tried to outwit him but We made them the lowest. (37:98)
• You will see them as they are exposed to it, abject in their
abasement, glancing around them furtively. Those who believe
will say, ‘Truly the losers are those who lose themselves and their
families on the Day of Rising.’ The wrongdoers are in an
everlasting punishment. (42:45)
• Those who oppose Allah and His Messenger will be subdued and
overcome as those before them were also subdued and
overcome.We have sent down Clear Signs. The disbelievers will
have a humiliating punishment. (58:5)
• Those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, such people will be
among the most abased. (58:20)
• Whatever palm-trees you cut down, or left standing upright on
their roots, it was done by Allah’s permission in order to disgrace
the deviators. (59:5)
• Recite to them the true report of Adam’s two sons when they
offered a sacrifice and it was accepted from one of them but not
accepted from the other. The one said, ‘I shall kill you.’ The other
said, ‘Allah only accepts from people who guard against evil.
Even if you do raise your hand against me to kill me, I am not
going to raise my hand against you to kill you. Truly I fear Allah,
the Lord of all the worlds. I want you to take on both my
wrongdoing and your wrongdoing and so become one of the
Companions of the Fire. That is the repayment of the
wrongdoers.’ So his lower self persuaded him to kill his brother,
and he killed him and became one of the lost. (5:27-30)
ABLUTION
• You who believe! Do not approach the prayer when you are drunk,
so that you will know what you are saying, nor in a state of major
impurity–unless you are travelling–until you have washed
yourselves completely. If you are ill or on a journey, or any of you
have come from the lavatory or touched women, and you cannot
find any water, then take for yourselves clean earth, wiping your
faces and your hands. Allah is Ever-Pardoning, Ever-Forgiving.
(4:43)
• You who believe! When you get up to perform prayer, wash your
faces and your hands and your arms to the elbows, and wipe
over your heads, and (wash) your feet to the ankles. If you are in
a state of major impurity, then purify yourselves. But if you are ill
or on a journey, or have come from the lavatory, or have touched
women, and cannot find any water, then take for yourselves clean
earth, and wipe your faces and your hands therewith. Allah does
not want to make things difficult for you, but He does want to
purify you and to perfect His blessing upon you so that hopefully
you will be thankful. (5:6)
ABODE
• (The servants of the All-Merciful are) those who say, ‘Our Lord,
avert from us the punishment of Hell, its punishment is
inescapable pain. It is indeed an evil lodging and abode’. (25:65-
66)
ABROGATE
ABU LAHAB
• Ruin to the hands of Abu Lahab and ruin to him! His wealth has
not helped him nor anything he has earned. He will burn in a
Flaming Fire. And so will his wife, the firewood-carrier, with a rope
of twisted fibre round her neck. (111:1-5)
ACT - ACTION
• Give the good news to those who believe and do right actions
that they will have Gardens with rivers flowing under them. When
they are given fruit there as provision, they will say, ‘This is what
we were given before.’ But they were only given a simulation of it.
They will have there spouses of perfect purity and will remain
there timelessly, for ever. (2:25)
• Those with faith, those who are Jews, and the Christians and
Sabaeans, all who believe in Allah and the Last Day and act
rightly, will have their reward with their Lord. They will feel no fear
and will know no sorrow. (2:62)
• No indeed! Those who accumulate bad actions and are
surrounded by their mistakes, such people are the Companions
of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever; whereas those who
believe and do right actions, such people are the Companions of
the Garden, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (2:81-82)
• Say, ‘Do you argue with us about Allah when He is our Lord and
your Lord? We have our actions and you have your actions. We
act for Him alone.’ (2:139)
• When those who were followed disown those who followed them,
and they see the punishment, and the connection between them
is cut, those who followed will say, ‘If only we could have another
chance, we would disown them just as they have disowned us.’ In
that way Allah will show them their actions as a cause of anguish
and remorse for them. They will never emerge from the Fire.
(2:166-167)
• They will ask you about the Sacred Month and fighting in it. Say,
‘Fighting in it is a serious matter; but barring access to the Way of
Allah and rejecting Him and barring access to the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram) and expelling its people from it are far more
serious in the sight of Allah. Discord is worse than killing.’ They
will not stop fighting you until they make you revert from your
religion, if they are able. As for any of you who revert from their
religion and die disbeliever, their actions will come to nothing in
this world and the hereafter. They are the Companions of the Fire,
remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (2:217)
• If you make your charity public, that is good. But if you conceal it
and give it to the poor, that is better for you, and We will erase
some of your bad actions from you. Allah is aware of what you do.
(2:271)
• Those who believe and do right actions and perform prayer and
give the alms, will have their reward with their Lord. They will feel
no fear and will know no sorrow. (2:277)
• As for those who disbelieve, their wealth and children will not help
them against Allah in any way. They are fuel for the Fire, as was
the case with the people of Pharaoh and those before them. They
denied Our Signs so Allah seized them for their wrong actions.
Allah is fierce in retribution. (3:10-11)
• As for those who reject Allah’s Signs, and kill the Prophets
without any right to do so, and kill those who command justice,
give them news of a painful punishment. They are the ones
whose actions come to nothing in this world or the hereafter.
They will have no helpers. (3:21-22)
• Say, ‘If you love Allah, then follow me and Allah will love you and
forgive you for your wrong actions. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful.’ (3:31)
• As for those who believe and do right actions, We will pay them
their wages in full. Allah does not love wrongdoers. (3:57)
• All they said was, ‘Our Lord, forgive us our wrong actions and any
excesses we went to in what we did and make our feet firm and
help us against these disbelieving people.’ (3:147)
• Their Lord responds to them: ‘I will not let the deeds of any doer
among you go to waste, male or female–you are both the same in
that respect. Those who migrated and were driven from their
homes and suffered harm in My Way and fought and were killed, I
will erase their bad actions from them and admit them into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, as a reward from Allah.
The best of all rewards is with Allah.’ (3:195)
• If you avoid the serious wrong actions you have been forbidden,
We will erase your bad actions from you and admit you by a Gate
of Honour. (4:31)
• But as for those who believe and do right actions, We will admit
them into Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in
them timelessly, for ever and ever. In them they will have
spouses of perfect purity and We will admit them into cool,
refreshing shade. (4:57)
• But as for those who believe and do right actions, We will admit
them into Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in
them timelessly, for ever and ever. Allah’s promise is true. Whose
speech could be truer than Allah’s? (4:122)
• As for those who believe and do right actions, He will pay them
their wages in full and will give them increase from His favour. As
for those who show disdain and grow arrogant, He will punish
them with a painful punishment. They will not find any protector or
helper for themselves besides Allah. (4:173)
• Today all good things have been made lawful for you. And the
food of those given the Book is also lawful for you and your food
is lawful for them. So are chaste women from among the
believers and chaste women of those given the Book before you,
once you have given them their dowries in marriage, not in
fornication or taking them as lovers. But as for anyone who
rejects faith, his actions will come to nothing and in the hereafter
he will be among the losers. (5:5)
• The Jews and Christians say, ‘We are Allah’s children and His
loved ones.’ Say: ‘Why, then, does He punish you for your wrong
actions? No, you are merely human beings among those He has
created. He forgives whoever He wills and He punishes whoever
He wills. The kingdom of the heavens and the earth and
everything between them belongs to Allah. He is our final
destination.’ (5:18)
• Judge between them by what Allah has sent down and do not
follow their whims and desires. And beware of them lest they lure
you away from some of what Allah has sent down to you. If they
turn their backs, then know that Allah wants to afflict them with
some of their wrong actions. Many of mankind are deviators.
(5:49)
• Those who believe say, ‘Are these the people who swore by Allah,
with their most earnest oaths, that they were with you?’ Their
actions have come to nothing and they now are losers. (5:53)
• Those who believe and those who are Jews and the Sabaeans
and the Christians, all who believe in Allah and the Last Day and
act rightly will feel no fear and will know no sorrow. (5:69)
• Those who believe and do right actions are not to blame for
anything they have eaten provided they guard against evil and
have faith and do right actions, and then again guard against evil
and have faith, and then guard against evil and do good. Allah
loves good-doers. (5:93)
• Do not curse those they call upon besides Allah, in case that
makes them curse Allah in animosity, without knowledge. In this
way We make the actions of every nation seem attractive to them.
Then they will return to their Lord, and He will inform them about
what they did. (6:108)
• Is it not clear to those who have inherited the earth after these
people that, if We wanted to, We could strike them for their wrong
actions, sealing up their hearts so that they cannot hear? (7:100)
• As for those who denied Our Signs and the encounter of the
hereafter, their actions will come to nothing. Will they be repaid
except for what they did? (7:147)
• You who believe! If you have fear of Allah, He will give you
discrimination and erase your bad actions from you and forgive
you. Allah’s favour is indeed immense. (8:29)
• Such was the case with Pharaoh’s people and those before them.
They denied their Lord’s Signs so We destroyed them for their
wrong actions. We drowned Pharaoh’s people. All of them were
wrongdoers. (8:54)
• Like those before you who had greater strength than you and
more wealth and children. They enjoyed their portion; so enjoy
your portion as those before you enjoyed theirs. You have
plunged into defamation as they plunged into it. The actions of
such people come to nothing in this world or the hereafter. They
are the lost. (9:69)
• They will make excuses to you when you return to them. Say: ‘Do
not make excuses, we will not believe you. Allah has already
informed us about you. Allah will see your actions, as will His
Messenger. Then you will be returned to the Knower of the
Unseen and the Visible, and He will inform you regarding what
you did.’ (9:94)
• It was not for people of Madina, and the desert arabs around
them, to remain behind the Messenger of Allah nor to prefer
themselves to him. That is because no thirst or weariness or
hunger will afflict them in the Way of Allah, nor will they take a
single step to infuriate the disbelievers, nor secure any gain from
the enemy, without a right action being written down for them
because of it. Allah does not let the wage of the good-doers go to
waste. (9:120)
• Each and every one of you will return to Him. Allah’s promise is
true. He brings creation out of nothing and then regenerates it so
that he can repay with justice those who believed and did right
actions. Those who disbelieved will have a drink of scalding water
and a painful punishment because of their disbelief. (10:4)
• But as for those who believe and do right actions, their Lord will
guide them by their faith. Rivers will flow under them in Gardens
of Delight. (10:9)
• But as for those who have earned bad actions–a bad action will
be repaid with one the like of it. Debasement will darken them.
They will have no one to protect them from Allah. It is as if their
faces were covered by dark patches of the night. Those are the
Companions of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever.
(10:27)
• If they deny you, say, ‘I have my actions and you have your
actions. You are not responsible for what I do and I am not
responsible for what you do.’ (10:41)
• When they had thrown, Musa said, ‘What you have brought is
magic. Allah will certainly prove it false. Allah does not uphold the
actions of corrupters.’ (10:81)
• It is He Who created the heavens and the earth in six days when
His Throne was on the water, in order to test which of you has the
best actions. If you say, ‘You will be raised up after death,’ those
who disbelieve will say, ‘This is nothing but downright magic.’
(11:7)
• Except for those who are steadfast and do right actions. They will
receive forgiveness and a large reward. (11:11)
• As for those who desire the life of this world and its finery, We will
give them full payment in it for their actions. They will not be
deprived here of their due. (11:15)
• Your Lord will pay each one of them in full for his actions. He is
aware of what they do. (11:111)
• Perform prayer at each end of the day and in the first part of the
night. Good actions eradicate bad actions. This is a reminder for
people who pay heed. (11:114)
• Their Messengers said, ‘Is there any doubt about Allah, the
Bringer into Being of the heavens and the earth? He summons
you to forgive you for your wrong actions and to defer you until a
specified time.’ They said, ‘You are nothing but human beings like
ourselves who want to debar us from what our fathers
worshipped; so bring us a clear authority.’ (14:10)
• The metaphor of those who reject their Lord is that their actions
are like ashes scattered by strong winds on a stormy day. They
have no power at all over anything they have earned. That is
extreme misguidance. (14:18)
• Those who believed and did right actions will be admitted into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them
timelessly, for ever by the permission of their Lord. Their greeting
there is ‘Peace!’ (14:23)
• The evil actions they did assailed them. They were engulfed by
what they mocked. (16:34)
• Do those who plot evil actions feel secure that Allah will not cause
the earth to swallow them up or that a punishment will not come
upon them from where they least expect? (16:45)
• If Allah were to punish people for their wrong actions, not a single
creature would be left upon the earth, but He defers them till a
predetermined time. When their specified time arrives, they
cannot delay it for a single hour nor can they bring it forward.
(16:61)
• This Qur’an guides to the most upright Way and gives good news
to the believers who do right actions that they will have a large
reward. (17:9)
• But as for those who believe and do right actions, We will not let
the wage of good-doers go to waste. (18:30)
• Wealth and sons are the embellishment of the life of this world.
But, in your Lord’s sight, right actions which are lasting bring a
better reward and are a better basis for hope. (18:46)
• Those are the people who reject their Lord’s Signs and the
meeting with Him. Their actions will come to nothing and, on the
Day of Rising, We will not assign them any weight. (18:105)
• Those who believe and do right actions will have the Gardens of
Firdaws as hospitality. (18:107)
• Except for those who repent and believe and act rightly. They will
enter the Garden and they will not be wronged in any way. (19:60)
• Allah augments those who are guided by giving them greater
guidance. In your Lord’s sight, right actions which are lasting are
better both in reward and end result. (19:76)
• As for those who believe and do right actions, the All-Merciful will
bestow His love on them. (19:96)
• But as for those who come to Him as believers, having done right
actions, they will have the highest ranks. (20:75)
• But anyone who does right actions, being a believer, need fear no
wrong or any belittlement. (20:112)
• We responded to him and gave him Yahya, restoring for him his
wife’s fertility. They outdid one another in good actions, calling out
to Us in yearning and in awe, and humbling themselves to Us.
(21:90)
• Allah will admit those who believe and do right actions into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them. Allah does whatever He
wishes. (22:14)
• But Allah will admit those who believe and do right actions into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them where they will be
adorned with gold bracelets and pearls, and where their clothing
will be of silk. (22:23)
• As for those who believe and do right actions, they will have
forgiveness and generous provision. (22:50)
• Sovereignty on that Day will be Allah’s. He will judge between
them. Those who believe and do right actions will be in Gardens
of Delight. (22:56)
• But the actions of those who disbelieve are like a mirage in the
desert. A thirsty man thinks it is water but when he reaches it, he
finds it to be nothing at all, but he finds Allah there. He will pay
him his account in full. Allah is swift at reckoning. (24:39)
• Allah has promised those of you who believe and do right actions
that He will make them successors in the land as He made those
before them successors, and will firmly establish for them their
religion with which He is pleased and give them, in place of their
fear, security. ‘They worship Me, not associating anything with
Me.’ Any who disbelieve after that, such people are deviators.
(24:55)
• We will advance on the actions they have done and make them
scattered specks of dust. (25:23)
• Put your trust in the Living who does not die and glorify Him with
praise. He is well aware of the wrong actions of His servants.
(25:58)
• Except for those who repent and believe and act rightly: Allah will
transform the wrong actions of such people into good–Allah is
Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful–for certainly all who repent and act
rightly have turned sincerely towards Allah. (25:70-71)
• Do you not see how they ramble on in every style and say things
which they do not do, except those who believe and do right
actions and remember Allah repeatedly and defend themselves
after they have been wronged? Those who do wrong will soon
know the kind of reversal they will receive! (26:225-227)
• (The hoopoe said,) ‘I found both her and her people prostrating to
the sun instead of Allah. Satan has made their actions seem good
to them and debarred them from the Way so they are not guided.’
(27:24)
• Those who perform good actions will receive better than them
and will be safe that Day from terror. (27:89)
• Those who perform bad actions will be flung head first into the
Fire: ‘Are you being repaid for anything other than what you did?’
(27:90)
• When they hear worthless talk they turn away from it and say,
‘We have our actions and you have your actions. Peace be upon
you. We do not desire the company of the ignorant.’ (28:55)
• But as for those who repent and act rightly, they will hopefully be
successful. (28:67)
• But those who had been given knowledge said, ‘Woe to you!
Allah’s reward is better for those who believe and act rightly. But
only the steadfast will obtain it.’ (28:80)
• Anyone who does a good action will get something better. As for
anyone who does a bad action, those who have done bad actions
will only be repaid for what they did. (28:84)
• As for those who believe and do right actions, We will erase their
bad actions from them, and recompense them for the best of
what they did. (29:7)
• As for those who believe and do right actions, We will admit them
among the righteous. (29:9)
• And ‘Ad and Thamud–it must be clear to you from their dwelling
places! Satan made their actions seem good to them and so
debarred them from the Way, even though they were intelligent
people. (29:38)
• As for those who believe and do right actions, We will lodge them
in lofty chambers in the Garden, with rivers flowing under them,
remaining in them timelessly, for ever. How excellent is the
reward of those who act. (29:58)
• As for those who believed and did right actions, they will be made
joyful in a verdant meadow. (30:15)
• Those who disbelieved will find that their disbelief was against
themselves. Those who did right were making the way easy for
themselves; so that He can repay with His bounty those who
believed and did right actions. He certainly does not love the
disbelievers. (30:44-45)
• For those who believe and do right actions there are Gardens of
Delight. (31:8)
• If only you could see the evildoers hanging their heads in shame
before their Lord: ‘Our Lord, we have seen and we have heard,
so send us back again and we will act rightly. Truly we now have
certainty.’ (32:12)
• As for those who believe and do right actions, they will have the
Gardens of Safe Refuge as hospitality for what they used to do.
(32:19)
• Allah knows the obstructers among you and those who say to
their brothers, ‘Come to us,’ and who only come to fight a very
little, and are begrudging towards you. Then when fear comes,
you see them looking at you, their eyes rolling like people scared
to death. But when fear departs they flay you with sharp tongues,
grasping for wealth. Such people have no faith and Allah will
make their actions come to nothing. That is easy for Allah. (33:18-
19)
• But those of you who are obedient to Allah and His Messenger
and act rightly will be given their reward twice over; and We have
prepared generous provision for them. (33:31)
• He will put your actions right for you and forgive you your wrong
deeds. All who obey Allah and His Messenger have won a mighty
victory. (33:71)
• ‘Make full-length coats of mail, measuring the links with care. And
act rightly, all of you, for I see what you do.’ (34:11)
• It is not your wealth or your children that will bring you near to
Us–only in the case of people who believe and act rightly; such
people will have a double recompense for what they did. They will
be safe from all harm in the High Halls of Paradise. (34:37)
• And what of him the evil of whose actions appears fine to him so
that he sees them as good? Allah misguides whoever He wills
and guides whoever He wills. So do not let yourself waste away
out of regret for them. Allah knows what they do. (35:8)
• They will shout out in it, ‘Our Lord! Take us out! We will act rightly,
differently from the way we used to act!’ Did We not let you live
long enough for anyone who was going to pay heed to pay heed?
And did not the warner come to you? Taste it then! There is no
helper for the wrongdoers. (35:37)
• He (Dawud) said, ‘He has wronged you by asking for your ewe to
add to his ewes. Truly many partners are unjust to one another–
except those who believe and do right actions, and how few they
are!’ Dawud realised that We had put him to the test. He begged
forgiveness from his Lord and fell down prone, prostrating, and
repented. (38:24)
• Would We make those who believe and do right actions the same
as those who cause corruption on the earth? Would We make
those who guard against evil the same as the dissolute? (38:28)
• What confronts them will be the evil actions which they earned
and what they used to mock at will engulf them. (39:48)
• Say (from Me): ‘My servants, you who have transgressed against
yourselves, do not despair of the mercy of Allah. Truly Allah
forgives all wrong actions. He is the Ever-Forgiving, the Most
Merciful.’ (39:53)
• It has been revealed to you and those before you: ‘If you
associate others with Allah, your actions will come to nothing and
you will be among the losers.’ (39:65)
• They will say, ‘Our Lord, twice You caused us to die and twice
You gave us life. We admit our wrong actions. Is there no way
out?’ (40:11)
• Have they not travelled in the earth and seen the final fate of
those before them? They were greater than them in strength and
left far deeper traces on the earth, yet Allah seized them for their
wrong actions and they had no one to protect them from Allah.
(40:21)
• Whoever does an evil act will only be repaid with its equivalent.
But whoever acts rightly, male or female, being a believer, such a
person will enter the Garden, provided for in it without any
reckoning. (40:40)
• The blind and the seeing are not the same. Nor are those who
believe and do right actions the same as evildoers. What little
heed they pay! (40:58)
• Those who believe and do right actions will have a wage which
never fails. (41:8)
• You will see the wrongdoers afraid of what they have earned,
when it is about to land right on top of them, whereas those who
believe and do right actions will be in the lush Meadows of the
Gardens. They will have whatever they wish for with their Lord.
That is the great favour. (42:22)
• That is the good news which Allah gives to His servants who
believe and do right actions. Say: ‘I do not ask you for any wage
for this–except for you to love your near of kin. If anyone does a
good action, We will increase the good of it for him. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Ever-Thankful.’ (42:23)
• As for those who believed and did right actions, their Lord will
admit them into His mercy. That is the Clear Victory. (45:30)
• As for those who disbelieve and bar others from the Way of Allah,
Allah will make their actions go astray. (47:1)
• But as for those who believe and do right actions and believe in
what has been sent down to Muhammad–and it is the truth from
their Lord–He will erase their bad actions from them and better
their condition. (47:2)
• Therefore when you meet those who disbelieve strike their necks.
Then when you have decimated them,tie their bonds tightly and
set them free or ransom them, until the war is finally over. That is
how it is to be. If Allah willed, He could avenge Himself on them.
But it is so that He can test some of you by means of others. As
for those who fight in the Way of Allah, He will not let their actions
go astray. (47:4)
• But those who disbelieve will have utter ruin and He will make
their actions go astray. (47:8)
• That is because they hate what Allah has sent down, so He has
made their actions come to nothing. (47:9)
• Allah will admit those who believe and act rightly to Gardens with
rivers flowing under them. Those who disbelieve have their
enjoyment, eating as cattle eat, but the Fire will be their final
residence. (47:12)
• Is someone on a clear path from his Lord like those whose bad
actions have been made to seem good to them and who follow
their own desires? (47:14)
• That is because they followed what angers Allah and hated what
is pleasing to Him. So He made their actions come to nothing.
(47:28)
• Those who disbelieve and obstruct the Way of Allah and are
entrenched in hostility towards the Messenger after the guidance
has become clear to them, do not harm Allah in any way and He
makes their actions come to nothing. (47:32)
• You who believe! Obey Allah and obey the Messenger. Do not
make your actions of no worth. (47:33)
• The desert Arabs say, ‘We believe.’ Say: ‘You do not believe. Say
rather, "We have become Muslim," for faith has not yet entered
into your hearts. If you obey Allah and His Messenger, He will not
undervalue your actions in any way. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful.’ (49:14)
• And We will unite those who believed with their offspring, who
followed them in faith, and We will not undervalue their own
actions in any way. Every man is in pledge for what he earned.
(52:21)
• He will forgive you your wrong actions and admit you into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, and fine dwellings in
the Gardens of Eden. That is the Great Victory. (61:12)
• You who believe! Repent to Allah. It may be that your Lord will
erase your bad actions from you and admit you into Gardens with
rivers flowing under them on the Day when Allah will not disgrace
the Prophet and those who believed along with him. Their light
will stream out ahead of them and on their right. They will say,
‘Our Lord, perfect our light for us and forgive us! You have power
over all things.’ (66:8)
• Then they will acknowledge their wrong actions. Away with the
Companions of the Blaze! (67:11)
• (Nuh said to his people,) ‘He will forgive you your wrong actions
and defer you until a specified time. When Allah’s time comes it
cannot be deferred, if you only knew.’ (71:4)
• Except those who believe and do right actions: they will have a
wage which never fails. (84:25)
• But those who believe and do right actions will have Gardens with
rivers flowing under them. That is the Great Victory. (85:11)
• Except for those who believe and do right actions: they will have
a wage which never fails. (95:6)
• But those who believe and do right actions–they are the best of
creatures. (98:7)
• Except for those who believe and do right actions and urge each
other to the truth and urge each other to steadfastness. (103:3)
AD (SEE HUD (AS) AND ‘AD)
• He said, ‘Adam, tell them their names.’ When he had told them
their names, He said, ‘Did I not tell you that I know the Unseen of
the heavens and the earth, and I know what you make known and
what you hide?’ (2:33)
• We said, ‘Adam, live in the Garden, you and your wife, and eat
freely from it wherever you will. But do not approach this tree and
so become wrongdoers.’ (2:35)
• Then Adam received some words from his Lord and He turned
towards him. He is the Ever-Returning, the Most Merciful. (2:37)
• Allah chose Adam and Nuh and the family of Ibrahim and the
family of ‘Imran over all other beings–descendants one of the
other. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (3:33-34)
• Recite to them the true report of Adam’s two sons when they
offered a sacrifice and it was accepted from one of them but not
accepted from the other. The one said, ‘I shall kill you.’ The other
said, ‘Allah only accepts from people who guard against evil.’
(5:27)
• We created you and then formed you and then We said to the
angels, ‘Prostrate before Adam,’ and they prostrated–except for
Diabolis. He was not among those who prostrated. (7:11)
• (Allah said,) ‘Adam, live in the Garden, you and your wife, and eat
of it wherever you like. But do not go near this tree lest you
become wrongdoers.’ (7:19)
• When your Lord took out all their descendants from the loins of
the children of Adam and made them testify against themselves
‘Am I not your Lord?’ they said, ‘We testify that indeed You are!’
Lest you say on the Day of Rising, ‘We knew nothing of this.’
(7:172)
• It is He Who created you from a single self and made from him
his spouse so that he might find repose in her. Then when he
covered her she bore a light load and carried it around. Then
when it became heavy they called on Allah, their Lord, ‘If You
grant us a healthy child, we will be among the thankful!’ (7:189)
• Those are some of the Prophets Allah has blessed, from the
descendants of Adam and from those We carried with Nuh, and
from the descendants of Ibrahim and Isra’il and from those We
guided and chose. When the Signs of the All-Merciful were
recited to them they fell on their faces, weeping, in prostration.
(19:58)
• We made a contract with Adam before, but he forgot. We did not
find that he had a firm resolve. (20:115)
• We said, ‘Adam, this is an enemy for you and your wife, so do not
let him expel you from the Garden and thus make you miserable.’
(20:117)
• But Satan whispered to him, saying, ‘Adam, shall I show you the
way to the Tree of Everlasting Life and to a kingdom which will
never fade away?’ (20:120)
• So the two of them ate from it and their private parts were
disclosed to them and they started stitching together the leaves of
the Garden to cover themselves. Adam disobeyed his Lord and
became misled. (20:121)
ADMONITION
• When you divorce women and they are near the end of their
waiting period, do not prevent them from marrying their first
husbands if they have mutually agreed to it with correctness and
courtesy. This is an admonition for those of you who believe in
Allah and the Last Day. That is better and purer for you. Allah
knows and you do not know. (2:232)
• Men have charge of women because Allah has preferred the one
above the other and because they spend their wealth on them.
Right-acting women are obedient, guarding the unseen as Allah
has guarded. If there are women whose disobedience you fear,
you may admonish them, refuse to sleep with them, and then
beat them. But if they obey you, do not look for a way to punish
them. Allah is All-High, Most Great. (4:34)
• Mankind! Admonition has come to you from your Lord and also
healing for what is in the breasts and guidance and mercy for the
believers. (10:57)
• Call to the way of your Lord with wisdom and fair admonition, and
argue with them in the kindest way. Your Lord knows best who is
misguided from His way. And He knows best who are guided.
(16:125)
• We have sent down Clear Signs to you and the example of those
who passed away before you and an admonition for those who
guard against evil. (24:34)
• Then when they have reached the end of their waiting period
either retain them with correctness and courtesy or part from
them with correctness and courtesy. Call two upright men from
among yourselves as witnesses and they should carry out the
witnessing for Allah. This is admonishment for all who believe in
Allah and the Last Day. Whoever has fear of Allah–He will give
him a way out. (65:2)
• Allah has not allotted to any man two hearts within his breast, nor
has He made those of your wives you equate with your mothers
your actual mothers, nor has He made your adopted sons your
actual sons. These are just words coming out of your mouths. But
Allah speaks the truth and He guides to the Way. (33:4)
• When you said to him whom Allah has blessed and you yourself
have greatly favoured, ‘Keep your wife to yourself and have fear
of Allah,’ while concealing something in yourself which Allah
wished to bring to light, you were fearing people when Allah has
more right to your fear. Then when Zayd divorced her We married
her to you so that there should be no restriction for the believers
regarding the wives of their adopted sons when they have
divorced them. Allah’s command is always carried out. (33:37)
ADORNMENT
• And horses, mules and donkeys both to ride and for adornment.
And He creates other things you do not know. (16:8)
• Wealth and sons are the embellishment of the life of this world.
But, in your Lord’s sight, right actions which are lasting bring a
better reward and are a better basis for hope. (18:46)
• But Allah will admit those who believe and do right actions into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them where they will be
adorned with gold bracelets and pearls, and where their clothing
will be of silk. (22:23)
• Say to the believing women that they should lower their eyes and
guard their chastity and not display their adornments–except for
what normally shows–and draw their head-coverings across their
breasts. They should only display their adornments to their
husbands or their fathers or their husbands’ fathers, or their sons
or their husbands’ sons or their brothers or their brothers’ sons or
their sisters’ sons or their women or those they own as slaves or
their male attendants who have no sexual desire or children who
still have no awareness of women’s private parts. Nor should they
stamp their feet so that their hidden ornaments are known. Turn
to Allah every one of you, believers, so that hopefully you will
have success. (24:31)
• As for women who are past child-bearing age and no longer have
any hope of getting married, there is nothing wrong in their
removing their outer clothes, provided they do not flaunt their
adornments; but to refrain from doing so is better for them. Allah
is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (24:60)
• They will enter Gardens of Eden where they will be adorned with
gold bracelets and pearls, and where their clothing will be of silk.
(35:33)
• We have adorned the lowest heaven with lamps and made some
of them stones for the Satans for whom We have prepared the
punishment of the Blaze. (67:5)
ADVICE
• A man came running from the furthest part of the city, saying,
‘Musa, the Council are conspiring to kill you, so leave! I am
someone who brings you good advice.’ (28:20)
AFFECTION
• You will find that the people most hostile to those who believe are
the Jews and the idolaters. You will find the people most
affectionate to those who believe are those who say, ‘We are
Christians.’ That is because some of them are priests and monks
and because they are not arrogant. (5:82)
• Among His Signs is that He created spouses for you of your own
kind so that you might find tranquillity in them. And He has placed
affection and compassion between you. There are certainly Signs
in that for people who reflect. (30:21)
AFFLUENT
• But then when We seize the affluent among them with the
punishment, they will suddenly start praying fervently. (23:64)
• We never sent a warner into any city without the affluent people
in it saying, ‘We reject what you have been sent with.’ (34:34)
• Similarly We never sent any warner before you to any city without
the affluent among them saying, ‘We found our fathers following a
religion and we are simply following in their footsteps.’ (43:23)
AGREEMENT
• Mothers should nurse their children for two full years–those who
wish to complete the full term of nursing. It is the duty of the
fathers to feed and clothe them with correctness and courtesy–no
self is charged with more than it can bear. No mother should be
put under pressure in respect of her child nor any father in
respect of his child. The same duty is incumbent on the heir. If the
couple both wish weaning to take place after mutual agreement
and consultation, there is nothing wrong in their doing that. If you
wish to find wet-nurses for your children, there is nothing wrong in
your doing that provided you hand over to them what you have
agreed to give with correctness and courtesy. Have fear of Allah
and know that Allah sees what you do. (2:233)
• And also (forbidden for you are) married women, except for those
you have taken in war as slaves. This is what Allah has
prescribed for you. Apart from that He has made all other women
lawful for you provided you seek them with your wealth in
marriage and not in fornication. When you consummate your
marriage with them give them their prescribed dowry. There is
nothing wrong in any further agreement you might come to after
the dowry has been given. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (4:24)
AHMAD
ALAQ
• Mankind! If you are in any doubt about the Rising, know that We
created you from dust then from a drop of sperm then from an
alaq then from a lump of flesh, formed yet unformed, so We may
make things clear to you. We make whatever We want stay in the
womb until a specified time and then We bring you out as children
so that you can reach your full maturity. Some of you die and
some of you revert to the lowest form of life so that, after having
knowledge, they then know nothing at all. And you see the earth
dead and barren; then when We send down water onto it it
quivers and swells and sprouts with luxuriant plants of every kind.
(22:5)
• Then (We) formed the drop into an alaq and formed alaq into a
lump and formed the lump into bones and clothed the bones in
flesh; and then brought him into being as another creature.
Blessed be Allah, the Best of Creators! (23:14)
• Recite: In the Name of your Lord Who created, created man from
alaq. (96:1-2)
AL-‘UZZA
• Have you really considered al-Lat and al-‘Uzza and Manat, the
third (idol), the other one? (53:19-20)
• Allah chose Adam and Nuh and the family of Ibrahim and the
family of ‘Imran over all other beings. (3:33)
• And when the angels said, ‘Maryam, Allah has chosen you and
purified you. He has chosen you over all other women.’ (3:42)
• Allah said, ‘I will send it down to you but if anyone among you
disbelieves after that, I will punish him with a punishment the like
of which I will not inflict on anyone else in all the worlds!’ (5:115)
• So the last remnant of the people who did wrong was cut off.
Praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds! (6:45)
• Say: ‘My prayer and my rites, my living and my dying, are for
Allah alone, the Lord of all the worlds.’ (6:162)
• Your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six
days and then settled Himself firmly on the Throne. He covers the
day with the night, each pursuing the other urgently; and the sun
and moon and stars are subservient to His command. Both
creation and command belong to Him. Blessed be Allah, the Lord
of all the worlds. (7:54)
• They said, ‘We believe in the Lord of all the worlds.’ (7:121)
• This Qur’an could never have been devised by any besides Allah.
Rather it is confirmation of what came before it and an elucidation
of the Book which contains no doubt from the Lord of all the
worlds. (10:37)
• You do not ask them for any wage for it. It is only a reminder to all
beings. (12:104)
• We delivered both him and Lut to the land which We had blessed
for all beings. (21:71)
• (He said to Musa,) ‘Go to Pharaoh and say, "We are the
Messenger of the Lord of all the worlds."’ (26:16)
• They said, ‘We believe in the Lord of all the worlds.’ (26:47)
• (Ibrahim said,) ‘They are all my enemies–except for the Lord of all
the worlds.’ (26:77)
• (The misled will say,) ‘By Allah, we were plainly misguided when
We equated you with the Lord of all the worlds.’ (26:97-98)
• (The Prophet said,) ‘I do not ask you for any wage for it. My wage
is the responsibility of no one but the Lord of all the worlds.’
(26:109, 26:127, 26:164, 26:180)
• Truly it is revelation sent down by the Lord of all the worlds.
(26:192)
• She (Queen of Sheba) was told: ‘Enter the courtyard,’ but when
she saw it she supposed it to be a pool and bared her legs. He
said, ‘It is a courtyard paved with glass.’ She said, ‘My Lord, I
have wronged myself but I have submitted with Sulayman to the
Lord of all the worlds.’ (27:44)
• But when he reached it a voice called out to him from the right
hand side of the valley in the part which was full of blessing, from
out of the bush: ‘Musa, I am Allah, the Lord of all the worlds.’
(28:30)
• We rescued him and the occupants of the Ark and made that into
a Sign for all the worlds. (29:15)
• The revelation of the Book, without any doubt of it, is from the
Lord of the worlds. (32:2)
• (Ibrahim said to his father and his people,) ‘So what are your
thoughts about the Lord of all the worlds?’ (37:87)
• You will see the angels circling round the Throne, glorifying their
Lord with praise. It will be decided between them with truth. And it
will be said: ‘Praise be to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds.’ (39:75)
• It is Allah Who made the earth a stable home for you and the sky
a dome, and formed you, giving you the best of forms, and
provided you with good and wholesome things. That is Allah, your
Lord. Blessed be Allah, the Lord of all the worlds. (40:64)
• Say: ‘Do you reject Him Who created the earth in two days, and
make others equal to Him? That is the Lord of all the worlds.’
(41:9)
• We sent Musa with Our Signs to Pharaoh and his nobles. He said,
‘I am the Messenger of the Lord of the worlds.’ (43:46)
• All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the heavens and the Lord
of the earth, Lord of all the worlds. (45:36)
• Revelation sent down from the Lord of all the worlds. (56:80)
ALLEGIANCE
ALMS (ZAKAH)
• Perform prayer and give the alms and bow with those who bow.
(2:43)
• Those who believe and do right actions and perform prayer and
give the alms, will have their reward with their Lord. They will feel
no fear and will know no sorrow. (2:277)
• Do you not see those who were told: ‘Hold back from fighting but
perform prayer and give the alms’? Then when fighting is
prescribed for them, a group of them fear people as Allah should
be feared, or even more than that. They say, ‘Our Lord, why have
you prescribed fighting for us? If only You would give us just a
little more time!’ Say, ‘The enjoyment of this world is very brief.
The hereafter is better for those who guard against evil. You will
not be wronged by so much as the smallest speck.’ (4:77)
• But those of them who are firmly rooted in knowledge, and the
believers, believe in what has been sent down to you and what
was sent down before you: those who perform prayer and give
the alms, and believe in Allah and the Last Day–We will pay such
people an immense wage. (4:162)
• Your friend is only Allah and His Messenger and those who
believe: those who perform prayer and give the alms, and bow.
(5:55)
• (Musa said,) ‘Prescribe good for us in this world and the hereafter.
We have truly turned to You.’ He said, ‘As for My punishment, I
strike with it anyone I will. My mercy extends to all things but I will
prescribe it for those who guard against evil and give the alms,
and those who believe in Our Signs.’ (7:156)
• Then, when the sacred months are over, kill the idolaters
wherever you find them, and seize them and besiege them and
lie in wait for them on every road. If they repent and perform
prayer and give the alms, let them go on their way. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (9:5)
• But if they repent and perform prayer and give the alms, they are
your brothers in the religion. We make the Signs clear for people
who have knowledge. (9:11)
• Among them there are some who find fault with you concerning
the alms. If they are given some of it, they are pleased but if they
are not given any, they are angry. (9:58)
• The alms are for: the poor, the destitute, those who collect it,
reconciling people’s hearts, freeing slaves, those in debt,
spending in the Way of Allah, and travellers. It is a legal obligation
from Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (9:60)
• The men and women of the believers are friends of one another.
They command what is right and forbid what is wrong, and
perform prayer and give the alms, and obey Allah and His
Messenger. They are the people on whom Allah will have mercy.
Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (9:71)
• Strive for Allah with the striving due to Him. He has selected you
and not placed any constraint upon you in the religion–the religion
of your forefather Ibrahim. He named you Muslims before and
also in this, so that the Messenger could be witness against you
and you could be witnesses against all mankind. So perform
prayer and give the alms and hold fast to Allah. He is your
Protector–the Best Protector, the Best Helper. (22:78)
• ... there are men who proclaim His glory morning and evening,
not distracted by trade or commerce from the remembrance of
Allah and the performance of prayer and the giving of the alms;
fearing a day when all hearts and eyes will be in turmoil. (24:36-
37)
• Perform prayer and give the alms and obey the Messenger so
that hopefully mercy will be shown to you. (24:56)
• (Believers are) those who perform prayer and give the alms and
are certain about the hereafter. (27:3)
• What you give with usurious intent, aiming to get back a greater
amount from people’s wealth, does not become greater with Allah.
But anything you give as alms, seeking the Face of Allah–all who
do that will get back twice as much. (30:39)
• (Believers are) those who perform prayer and give the alms and
are certain of the hereafter. (31:4)
• Your Lord knows that you stay up nearly two-thirds of the night–or
half of it, or a third of it–and a group of those with you. Allah
determines the night and day. He knows you will not keep count
of it, so He has turned towards you. Recite as much of the Qur’an
as is easy for you. He knows that some of you are ill and that
others are travelling in the land seeking Allah’s bounty, and that
others are fighting in the Way of Allah. So recite as much of it as
is easy for you. And perform prayer and give the alms and lend a
generous loan to Allah. Whatever good you send ahead for
yourselves you will find it with Allah as something better and as a
greater reward. And seek forgiveness from Allah. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (73:20)
• They were only ordered to worship Allah, making their religion
sincerely His as people of pure natural belief, and to perform
prayer and give the alms–that is the religion of the correct. (98:5)
ALTAR
• Forbidden for you are carrion, blood and pork, and what has been
consecrated to other than Allah, and animals which have been
strangled, and animals which have been killed by a blow, and
animals which have fallen to their death, and animals which have
been gored, and animals which wild beasts have eaten–except
those you are able to slaughter properly–and animals which have
been sacrificed on altars, and deciding things by means of
divining arrows–that is deviance. Today those who disbelieve
have despaired of overcoming your religion. So do not be afraid
of them but be afraid of Me. Today I have perfected your religion
for you and completed My blessing upon you and I am pleased
with Islam as a religion for you. But if anyone is forced by hunger,
not intending any wrongdoing, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. (5:3)
• You who believe! Wine and gambling, stone altars and divining
arrows are filth from the handiwork of Satan. Avoid them
completely so that hopefully you will be successful. (5:90)
AL-YASA‘ (AS)
ANCESTORS
• When they are told, ‘Come to what Allah has sent down and to
the Messenger,’ they say, ‘What we found our fathers doing is
enough for us.’ What! Even if their fathers did not know anything
and were not guided! (5:104)
• They do not measure Allah with His true measure when they say,
‘Allah would not send down anything to a mere human being.’
Say: ‘Who, then, sent down the Book which Musa brought as a
Light and Guidance for the people?’ You put it down on sheets of
paper to display it while concealing much. You were taught things
you did not know, neither you nor your forefathers. Say: ‘Allah!’
Then leave them engrossed in playing their games. (6:91)
• Those who associate others with Allah will say, ‘If Allah had willed
we would not have associated anything with Him, nor would our
fathers; nor would we have made anything forbidden.’ In the
same way the people before them also lied until they felt Our
violent force. Say: ‘Do you have some knowledge you can
produce for us? You are following nothing but conjecture. You are
only guessing.’ (6:148)
• Whenever they commit an indecent act, they say, ‘We found our
fathers doing it and Allah commanded us to do it too.’ Say: ‘Allah
does not command indecency. Do you say things about Allah you
do not know?’ (7:28)
• They said (to Musa), ‘Have you come to us to turn us from what
we found our fathers doing, and to gain greatness in the land?
We do not believe you.’ (10:78)
• (Yusuf's father said,) ‘Accordingly your Lord will pick you out and
teach you the true meaning of events and perfectly fulfil His
blessing on you as well as on the family of Ya‘qub as He fulfilled it
perfectly before upon your forebears, Ibrahim and Ishaq. Most
certainly your Lord is Knowing, Wise.’ (12:6)
• (Yusuf said,) ‘I hold fast to the creed of my forebears Ibrahim and
Ishaq and Ya‘qub. We don’t associate anything with Allah. And
that is how Allah has favoured us and all mankind, but most do
not give thanks.’ (12:38)
• (Yusuf said,) ‘What you serve apart from Him are only names
which you and your forefathers have made up. There is no
mandate for them from Allah. Allah alone is qualified to judge. His
order is to worship none but Him. That is in truth the straight and
upright religion, but most of mankind simply do not know.’ (12:40)
• The idolaters say, ‘If Allah had willed we would not have
worshipped anything apart from Him, neither we nor our fathers,
nor would we have forbidden anything without His say.’ Those
before them said the same. Are the Messengers responsible for
anything but clear transmission? (16:35)
• Strive for Allah with the striving due to Him. He has selected you
and not placed any constraint upon you in the religion–the religion
of your forefather Ibrahim. He named you Muslims before and
also in this, so that the Messenger could be witness against you
and you could be witnesses against all mankind. So perform
prayer and give the alms and hold fast to Allah. He is your
Protector–the Best Protector, the Best Helper. (22:78)
• The ruling circle of those of his people who disbelieved said, ‘This
is nothing but a human being like yourselves who simply wants to
gain ascendancy over you. If Allah had wanted He would have
sent angels down. We never heard of anything like this among
our ancestors, the earlier peoples.’ (23:24)
• Do they not ponder these words? Has anything come to them that
did not come to their ancestors, the previous peoples? (23:68)
• (They say,) ‘We and our forefathers were promised this before.
This is nothing but the myths of previous peoples!’ (23:83)
• They will say, ‘Glory be to You! It would not have been fitting for
us to have taken any protectors apart from You. But You let them
and their fathers enjoy themselves so that they forgot the
Reminder. They were people devoid of good.’ (25:18)
• He (Musa) said, ‘Your Lord and the Lord of your forefathers, the
previous peoples.’ (26:26)
• They said, ‘No, but this is what we found our fathers doing.’ He
said, ‘Have you really thought about what you worship, you and
your fathers who came before?’ (26:74-76)
• Those who disbelieve say, ‘When we and our fathers are turned
to dust will we then be brought forth again? We have been
promised this before, we and our fathers. This is nothing but
myths and legends of previous peoples.’ (27:67-68)
• But when Musa brought them Our Clear Signs they said, ‘This is
nothing but trumped-up magic. We never heard anything like this
among our earlier forefathers.’ (28:36)
• When they are told: ‘Follow what Allah has sent down,’ they say,
‘No, we will follow what we found our fathers doing.’ What! Even if
Satan is calling them to the punishment of the Blazing Fire?
(31:21)
• (They say,) ‘When we are dead and turned to dust and bones will
we then be raised up again alive? And our earlier ancestors as
well?’ (37:16-17)
• (Ilyas said to his people,) ‘Allah is your Lord and Lord of your
forefathers, the previous peoples.’ (37:126)
• No, in fact they say, ‘We found our fathers following a religion and
we are simply guided in their footsteps.’ (43:22)
• Similarly We never sent any warner before you to any city without
the affluent among them saying, ‘We found our fathers following a
religion and we are simply following in their footsteps.’ (43:23)
• Say: ‘What if I have come with better guidance than what you
found your fathers following?’ They say, ‘We reject what you have
been sent with.’ (43:24)
• I let those people and their forefathers enjoy themselves until the
truth came to them and a Messenger to make it clear. (43:29)
• (They say,) ‘Bring us our fathers if you are telling the truth.’ (44:36)
• When Our Clear Signs are recited to them their only argument is
to say, ‘Bring us our fathers if you are telling the truth.’ (45:25)
• They are nothing but names which you yourselves have given,
you and your forefathers. Allah has sent down no authority for
them. They are following nothing but conjecture and what their
own selves desire. And that when guidance has reached them
from their Lord! (53:23)
• And (before that the Companions of the Left were) saying, ‘When
we are dead and turned to dust and bones, shall we then be
raised again or our forefathers, the earlier peoples?’ (56:47-48)
ANGEL OF DEATH (AZRAEL)
• Say: ‘The Angel of Death, who has been given charge of you, will
take you back and then you will be sent back to your Lord.’ (32:11)
ANGELS
• (Say,) ‘Anyone who is the enemy of Allah and of His angels, and
of His Messengers and of Gabriel and Michael, should know that
Allah is the enemy of the disbelievers.’ (2:98)
• But as for those who disbelieve and die while they are
disbelievers, the curse of Allah is upon them and that of the
angels and all mankind. (2:161)
• It is not devoutness to turn your faces to the East or to the West.
Rather, those with true devoutness are those who believe in Allah
and the Last Day, the Angels, the Book and the Prophets, and
who, despite their love for it, give away their wealth to their
relatives and to orphans and the very poor, and to travellers and
beggars and to set slaves free, and who perform prayer and give
the alms; those who honour their contracts when they make them,
and are steadfast in poverty and illness and in battle. Those are
the people who are true. They are the people who guard against
evil. (2:177)
• What are they waiting for but for Allah to come to them in the
shadows of the clouds, together with the angels, in which case
the matter will have been settled? All matters return to Allah.
(2:210)
• Their Prophet said to them, ‘The sign of his kingship is that the
Ark will come to you, containing serenity from your Lord and
certain relics left by the families of Musa and Harun. It will be
borne by angels. There is a sign for you in that if you are
believers.’ (2:248)
• The Messenger believes in what has been sent down to him from
his Lord, and so do the believers. Each one believes in Allah and
His angels and His Books and His Messengers. We do not
differentiate between any of His Messengers. They say, ‘We hear
and we obey. Forgive us, our Lord! You are our journey’s end.’
(2:285)
• Allah bears witness that there is no god but Him, as do the angels
and the people of knowledge, upholding justice. There is no god
but Him, the Almighty, the All-Wise. (3:18)
• And when the angels said, ‘Maryam, Allah has chosen you and
purified you. He has chosen you over all other women.’ (3:42)
• When the angels said, ‘Maryam, your Lord gives you good news
of a Word from Him. His name is the Messiah, ‘Isa, son of
Maryam, of high esteem in this world and the hereafter, and one
of those brought near.’ (3:45)
• And when you said to the believers, ‘Is it not enough for you that
your Lord reinforced you with three thousand angels, sent down?’
(3:124)
• Yes indeed! But if you are steadfast and guard against evil and
they come upon you suddenly, your Lord will reinforce you with
five thousand angels, clearly identified. (3:125)
• The angels ask those they take while they are wronging
themselves, ‘What were your circumstances?’ They reply, ‘We
were oppressed on earth.’ They say, ‘Was Allah’s earth not wide
enough for you to have migrated elsewhere in it?’ The shelter of
such people will be Hell. What an evil destination! (4:97)
• You who believe! Believe in Allah and His Messenger and in the
Book He sent down to His Messenger, and the Books He sent
down before. Anyone who rejects Allah and His angels and His
Books and His Messengers and the Last Day has gone very far
astray. (4:136)
• But Allah bears witness to what He has sent down to you. He has
sent it down with His knowledge. The angels bear witness as well.
And Allah suffices as a Witness. (4:166)
• And if We had made him an angel We would still have made him
a man, and further confused for them the very thing they are
confused about! (6:9)
• Say: ‘I do not say to you that I possess the treasuries of Allah, nor
do I know the Unseen, nor do I say to you that I am an angel. I
only follow what has been revealed to me.’ Say: ‘Are the blind the
same as those who can see? So will you not reflect?’ (6:50)
• What are they waiting for but for the angels to come to them or for
your Lord Himself to come, or for one of your Lord’s Signs to
come? On the day that one of your Lord’s Signs does come, no
faith which a self professes will be of any use to it if it did not
believe before and earn good in its faith. Say: ‘Wait, then; We too
are waiting.’ (6:158)
• We created you and then formed you and then We said to the
angels, ‘Prostrate before Adam,’ and they prostrated–except for
Diabolis. He was not among those who prostrated. (7:11)
• Then Satan whispered to them, disclosing to them their private
parts that had been concealed from them. He said, ‘Your Lord
has only forbidden you this tree lest you become angels or
among those who live for ever.’ (7:20)
• If only you could see when the angels take back those who
disbelieved at their death, beating their faces and their backs:
‘Taste the punishment of the Burning!’ (8:50)
• Perhaps you are leaving aside part of what has been revealed to
you and your breast is constricted by this because they say, ‘Why
has treasure not been sent down to him or an angel not
accompanied him?’ You are only a warner and Allah is Guardian
over all things. (11:12)
• But when she heard of their malicious talk, she sent for them and
made a sumptuous meal and then she gave a knife to each of
them. She said, ‘Go out to them.’ When they saw him (Yusuf),
they were amazed by him and cut their hands. They said, ‘Allah
preserve us! This is no man. What can this be but a noble angel
here!’ (12:31)
• Gardens of Eden which they will enter, and all of their parents,
wives and children who were righteous. Angels will enter in to
welcome them from every gate. (13:23)
• (They say,) ‘Why do you not bring angels to us if you are telling
the truth?’ (15:7)
• The angels only descend with the truth and then they would be
granted no reprieve. (15:8)
• Then the angels prostrated all together, every one of them. (15:30)
• As for those the angels take in death while they are wronging
themselves, they will offer their submission: ‘We did not do any
evil.’ Oh yes you did! Allah knows what you were doing. (16:28)
• (Those who guard against evil are) those the angels take in a
virtuous state. They say, ‘Peace be upon you! Enter the Garden
for what you did.’(16:32)
• What are they waiting for but the angels to come to them or your
Lord's command to come? That is like what those before them did.
Allah did not wrong them; rather they wronged themselves.
(16:33)
• They say, ‘We will not believe you until you make a spring gush
out from the earth for us; or have a garden of dates and grapes
which you make rivers come pouring through; or make the sky, as
you claim, fall down on us in lumps; or bring Allah and the angels
here as a guarantee.’ (17:90-92)
• Say: ‘If there had been angels on the earth going about in peace,
We would have sent down to them an angel from heaven as
Messenger.’ (17:95)
• The greatest terror will not upset them and the angels will
welcome them: ‘This is your Day, the one that you were
promised.’ (21:103)
• The ruling circle of those of his people who disbelieved said, ‘This
is nothing but a human being like yourselves who simply wants to
gain ascendancy over you. If Allah had wanted He would have
sent angels down. We never heard of anything like this among
our ancestors, the earlier peoples.’ (23:24)
• They say, ‘What is the matter with this Messenger, that he eats
food and walks in the market-place? Why has an angel not been
sent down to him so that it can be a warner along with him?’ (25:7)
• Those who do not expect to meet Us say, ‘Why have angels not
been sent down to us? Why do we not see our Lord?’ They have
become arrogant about themselves and are excessively insolent.
(25:21)
• On the Day they see the angels, there will be no good news that
Day for the evildoers. They will say, ‘There is an absolute ban.’
(25:22)
• The Day when Heaven is split apart in clouds, and the angels are
sent down rank upon rank. (25:25)
• Say: ‘The Angel of Death, who has been given charge of you, will
take you back and then you will be sent back to your Lord.’ (32:11)
• Allah and His angels call down blessings on the Prophet. You
who believe! Call down blessings on him and ask for complete
peace and safety for him. (33:56)
• On the Day We gather them all together and then say to the
angels, ‘Was it you whom these people were worshipping?’
(34:40)
• You will see the angels circling round the Throne, glorifying their
Lord with praise. It will be decided between them with truth. And it
will be said: ‘Praise be to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds.’ (39:75)
• The angels descend on those who say, ‘Our Lord is Allah,’ and
then go straight: ‘Do not fear and do not grieve but rejoice in the
Garden you have been promised.’ (41:30)
• The heavens are all but rent asunder from above when the
angels glorify their Lord with praise and ask forgiveness for those
who are on the earth. Allah is the Ever-Forgiving, the Most
Merciful. (42:5)
• They have designated the angels as female, those who are in the
presence of the All-Merciful! Were they present to witness their
creation? Their testimony will be recorded and they will be asked
about it! (43:19)
• (Pharaoh said,) ‘Why have gold bracelets not been put upon his
arms and why is there not a train of angels accompanying him?’
(43:53)
• If We wished We could appoint angels in exchange for you to
succeed you on the earth. (43:60)
• How will it be when the angels take them in death, beating their
faces and their backs? (47:27)
• Those who do not believe in the hereafter give the angels female
names. (53:27)
• If the two of you would only turn to Allah, for your hearts clearly
deviated... But if you support one another against him, Allah is his
Protector and so are Gabriel and every right-acting man of the
believers and, furthermore, the angels too will come to his
support. (66:4)
• The angels will be gathered round its edge. On that Day, eight will
bear the Throne of their Lord above their heads. (69:17)
• The angels and the Spirit ascend to Him in a day whose length is
fifty thousand years. (70:4)
• On the Day when the Spirit and the angels stand in ranks, no one
will speak, except for him who is authorised by the All-Merciful
and says what is right. (78:38)
• And your Lord arrives with the angels rank upon rank. (89:22)
ANGER
• And when you said, ‘Musa, we will not put up with just one kind of
food so ask your Lord to supply to us some of what the earth
produces–its green vegetables, cucumbers, grains, lentils and
onions,’ he said, ‘Do you want to replace what is better with what
is inferior? Go back to Egypt, then you will have what you are
asking for.’ Abasement and destitution were stamped upon them.
They brought down anger from Allah upon themselves. That was
because they rejected Allah’s Signs and killed the Prophets
without any right to do so. That was because they rebelled and
went beyond the limits. (2:61)
• What an evil thing they have sold themselves for in rejecting what
Allah has sent down, outraged that Allah should send down His
favour on whichever of His servants He wills. They have brought
down anger upon anger on themselves. The disbelievers will
have a humiliating punishment. (2:90)
• Say: ‘Shall I tell you of a reward with Allah far worse than that:
that of those whom Allah has cursed and with whom He is angry–
turning some of them into monkeys and into pigs–and who
worshipped false gods? Such people are in a worse situation and
further from the right way.’ (5:60)
• As for those who adopted the Calf, anger from their Lord will
overtake them together with abasement in the life of this world.
That is how we repay the purveyors of falsehood. (7:152)
• Among them there are some who find fault with you concerning
the alms. If they are given some of it, they are pleased but if they
are not given any, they are angry. (9:58)
• Eat of the good things We have provided for you but do not go to
excess in it or My anger will be unleashed on you. Anyone who
has My anger unleashed on him has plunged to his ruin. (20:81)
• And the punishment is removed from her if she testifies four times
by Allah that he (her husband) is lying and a fifth time that Allah’s
anger will be upon her if he is telling the truth. (24:8-9)
• The argument of those who argue about Allah, once He has been
acknowledged, has no basis whatsoever with their Lord. There is
anger upon them and they will have a harsh punishment. (42:16)
• (Believers are) those who avoid major wrong actions and
indecencies and who, when they are angered, then forgive.
(42:37)
• That is because they followed what angers Allah and hated what
is pleasing to Him. So He made their actions come to nothing.
(47:28)
• Do you not see those who have turned to people with whom Allah
is angry? They belong neither to you nor to them. And they swear
to falsehood and do so knowingly. (58:14)
• You who believe! Do not make friends of people with whom Allah
is angry, who have despaired of the hereafter as the disbelievers
have despaired of the inhabitants of the graves. (60:13)
ANIMALS
• Perform the pilgrimage and the pious visit for Allah. If you are
forcibly prevented, make whatever sacrifice is feasible. But do not
shave your heads until the sacrificial animal has reached the
place of sacrifice. If any of you are ill or have a head injury, the
expiation is fasting or charity or sacrifice when you are safe and
well again. And if you are secure, then he who takes advantage
of a pious visit before the pilgrimage should make whatever
sacrifice is feasible. For any one who cannot, there is three days’
fast on pilgrimage and seven on your return–that is ten in all. That
is for anyone whose family does not live near the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram). Have fear of Allah and know that Allah is fierce
in retribution. (2:196)
• You who believe! Do not profane the sacred rites of Allah or the
sacred months, or the sacrificial animals, or the ritual garlands, or
those heading for the Sacred House, desiring profit and good
pleasure from their Lord. When your pilgrimage is over, then you
may hunt. Do not let hatred for a people who debar you from the
Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) incite you into going beyond
the limits. Help each other to goodness and heedfulness. Do not
help each other to wrongdoing and enmity. Have fear of Allah.
Allah is severe in retribution. (5:2)
• Forbidden for you are carrion, blood and pork, and what has been
consecrated to other than Allah, and animals which have been
strangled, and animals which have been killed by a blow, and
animals which have fallen to their death, and animals which have
been gored, and animals which wild beasts have eaten–except
those you are able to slaughter properly–and animals which have
been sacrificed on altars, and deciding things by means of
divining arrows–that is deviance. Today those who disbelieve
have despaired of overcoming your religion. So do not be afraid
of them but be afraid of Me. Today I have perfected your religion
for you and completed My blessing upon you and I am pleased
with Islam as a religion for you. But if anyone is forced by hunger,
not intending any wrongdoing, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. (5:3)
• They will ask you what is lawful for them. Say: ‘All good things are
lawful for you, and also what is caught for you by hunting animals
which you have trained as Allah has taught you. Eat what they
catch for you, mentioning Allah’s name over it.’ And have fear of
Allah. Allah is swift at reckoning. (5:4)
• You who believe! Allah will test you with game animals which
come within the reach of your hands and spears, so that Allah will
know those who fear Him in the Unseen. Anyone who oversteps
the limits after this will have a painful punishment. (5:94)
• You who believe! Do not kill game while you are in the state of
pilgrimage. If one of you kills any deliberately, the reprisal for it is
a livestock animal equivalent to what he killed, as judged by two
just men among you, a sacrifice to reach the Kaaba, or expiation
by feeding the poor, or fasting commensurate with that, so that he
may taste the evil consequences of what he did. Allah has
pardoned all that took place in the past; but if anyone does it
again Allah will take revenge on him. Allah is Almighty, Exactor of
Revenge. (5:95)
• They say, ‘These animals and crops are sacrosanct. No one may
eat them except those we wish’,–as they allege–and animals on
whose backs it is forbidden to ride, and animals over which they
do not mention Allah’s name, inventing falsehood against Him.
He will repay them for the things they have invented. (6:138)
• And also animals for riding and for haulage and animals for
slaughtering and for wool. Eat what Allah has provided for you
and do not follow in the footsteps of Satan. He is an outright
enemy to you. (6:142)
• It is He Who sends down water from the sky. From it you drink
and from it come the shrubs among which you graze your herds.
(16:10)
• You can make use of the sacrificial animals until a specified time,
and then their place of sacrifice is by the Ancient House. (22:33)
ANSAR (SUPPORTERS)
• Those who were already settled in the abode, and in faith, before
they came, love those who have migrated to them and do not find
in their hearts any need for what they have been given and prefer
them to themselves even if they themselves are needy. It is the
people who are safe-guarded from the avarice of their own selves
who are successful. (59:9)
ANT
• Then, when they reached the Valley of the Ants, an ant said,
‘Ants! Enter your dwellings so that Sulayman and his troops do
not crush you unwittingly.’ (27:18)
APE
• You are well aware of those of you who broke the Sabbath. We
said to them, ‘Be apes, despised, cast out.’ (2:65)
• Say: ‘Shall I tell you of a reward with Allah far worse than that:
that of those whom Allah has cursed and with whom He is angry–
turning some of them into monkeys and into pigs–and who
worshipped false gods? Such people are in a worse situation and
further from the right way.’ (5:60)
• When they were insolent about what they had been forbidden to
do, We said to them, ‘Be apes, despised, cast out!’ (7:166)
APPETITE
• Allah desires to turn towards you, but those who pursue their
lower appetites desire to make you deviate completely. (4:27)
• But as for him who feared the Station of his Lord and forbade the
lower self its appetites, the Garden will be his refuge. (79:40-41)
ARABIC
• We know that they say, ‘It is only a human being who is teaching
him.’ The language of him they allude to is a foreign one whereas
this is in clear and lucid Arabic. (16:103)
• But before it there was the Book of Musa as a model and a mercy.
And this is a corroborating Book in the Arabic tongue so that you
may warn those who do wrong, and as good news for the good-
doers. (46:12)
A’RAF (SEE THE HEIGHTS)
ARAFAT
ARGUMENT
• Say, ‘Do you argue with us about Allah when He is our Lord and
your Lord? We have our actions and you have your actions. We
act for Him alone.’ (2:139)
• What about the one who argued with Ibrahim about his Lord, on
the basis that Allah had given him sovereignty? Ibrahim said, ‘My
Lord is He Who gives life and causes to die.’ He said, ‘I too give
life and cause to die.’ Ibrahim said, ‘Allah makes the sun come
from the East. Make it come from the West.’ And the one who
was a disbeliever was dumbfounded. Allah does not guide
wrongdoing people. (2:258)
• This is news from the Unseen which We reveal to you. You were
not with them when they cast their reeds to see which of them
would be the guardian of Maryam. You were not with them when
they quarrelled. (3:44)
• If anyone argues with you about him after the knowledge that has
come to you, say, ‘Come then! Let us summon our sons and your
sons, our women and your women, ourselves and yourselves.
Then let us make earnest supplication and call down the curse of
Allah upon the liars.’ (3:61)
• (A group of the People of the Book say,) ‘Do not trust anyone
except for those who follow your religion.’ Say, ‘Allah’s guidance
is true guidance. But you think it is impossible for anyone to be
given the same as you were given, or to argue with you before
your Lord.’ Say, ‘All favour is in Allah’s Hand and He gives it to
whoever He wills. Allah is All-Encompassing, All-Knowing.’ (3:73)
• No, by your Lord, they are not believers until they make you their
judge in the disputes that break out between them, and then find
no resistance within themselves to what you decide and submit
themselves completely. (4:65)
• Here you are arguing on their behalf in this world, but who will
argue with Allah on their behalf on the Day of Rising? Who will
act as guardian for them then? (4:109)
• And (on account of) their saying, ‘We killed the Messiah, ‘Isa son
of Maryam, Messenger of Allah.’ They did not kill him and they
did not crucify him but it was made to seem so to them. Those
who argue about him are in doubt about it. They have no real
knowledge of it, just conjecture. But they certainly did not kill him.
(4:157)
• His people argued with him. He (Ibrahim) said, ‘Are you arguing
with me about Allah when He has guided me? I have no fear of
any partner you ascribe to Him unless my Lord should will such a
thing to happen. My Lord encompasses all things in His
knowledge so will you not pay heed?’ (6:80)
• They said, ‘Nuh, you have argued with us and argued much so
bring us what you have promised us if you are telling the truth.’
(11:32)
• When the feeling of fear left Ibrahim, and the good news reached
him, he disputed with Us about the people of Lut. (11:74)
• On that Day every self will come to argue for itself and every self
will be paid in full for what it did. They will not be wronged.
(16:111)
• Call to the way of your Lord with wisdom and fair admonition, and
argue with them in the kindest way. Your Lord knows best who is
misguided from His way. And He knows best who are guided.
(16:125)
• Here are two rival groups who disputed concerning their Lord.
Those who disbelieve will have garments of fire cut out for them,
and boiling water poured over their heads. (22:19)
• If they do argue with you, say: ‘Allah knows best what you are
doing.’ (22:68)
• Arguing in it with one another, they will say, ‘By Allah, we were
plainly misguided.’ (26:96-97)
• Only argue with the People of the Book in the kindest way–except
in the case of those of them who do wrong–saying, ‘We believe in
what has been sent down to us and what was sent down to you.
Our God and your God are one and we submit to Him.’ (29:46)
• Do you not see that Allah has subjected to you everything in the
heavens and earth and has showered His blessings upon you,
both outwardly and inwardly? Yet there are people who argue
about Allah without knowledge or guidance or any illuminating
Book. (31:20)
• What are they waiting for but one Great Blast to seize them while
they are quibbling? (36:49)
• Then on the Day of Rising you will argue in the presence of your
Lord. (39:31)
• Those who argue about the Signs of Allah without any authority
coming to them do something hateful in the sight of Allah and in
the sight of the people who believe. That is how Allah seals up
the heart of every arrogant oppressor. (40:35)
• Certainly those who argue about the Signs of Allah without any
authority having come to them have nothing in their breasts
except for pride which they will never be able to vindicate.
Therefore seek refuge with Allah. He is the All-Hearing, the All-
Seeing. (40:56)
• Do you not see those who argue about Allah’s Signs? How have
they been turned around? (40:69)
• The argument of those who argue about Allah, once He has been
acknowledged, has no basis whatsoever with their Lord. There is
anger upon them and they will have a harsh punishment. (42:16)
• Those who argue about Our Signs should know that they have no
way of escape. (42:35)
ARIM
• Their Prophet said to them, ‘The sign of his kingship is that the
Ark will come to you, containing serenity from your Lord and
certain relics left by the families of Musa and Harun. It will be
borne by angels. There is a sign for you in that if you are
believers.’ (2:248)
• But they denied him (Nuh) so We rescued him and those with him
in the Ark. And We drowned the people who denied Our Signs.
They were a blind people. (7:64)
• But they denied him (Nuh) so We rescued him, and all those with
him, in the Ark and We made them the successors and We
drowned the people who denied Our Signs. See the final fate of
those who were warned! (10:73)
• (It was revealed to Nuh:) ‘Build the Ark under Our supervision and
as We reveal and do not address Me concerning the wrongdoers.
They shall be drowned.’ (11:37)
• He (Nuh) began to build the Ark and every time some nobles of
his people passed him by, they ridiculed him. He said, ‘Though
you ridicule us now, we will certainly ridicule you as you do us.’
(11:38)
• We rescued him (Nuh) and the occupants of the Ark and made
that into a Sign for all the worlds. (29:15)
ARMY
• Those of you who turned their backs on the day the two armies
clashed–it was Satan who made them slip for what they had done.
But Allah has pardoned them. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, All-
Forbearing. (3:155)
• What assailed you on the day the two armies met was by Allah’s
permission, so that He would know the believers, (3:166)
• We did not send down to his people any army from heaven after
him nor would We send one down. (36:28)
• They have taken gods besides Allah so that perhaps they may be
helped. They cannot help them even though they are an army
mobilised in their support. (36:74-75)
• (He said,) ‘Leave the sea divided as it is. They are an army who
will be drowned.’ (44:24)
• So We seized him and his armies and hurled them into the sea,
and he was to blame. (51:40)
ARROGANCE
• What they call on apart from Him are female idols. What they call
on is an arrogant Satan. (4:117)
• You will find that the people most hostile to those who believe are
the Jews and the idolaters. You will find the people most
affectionate to those who believe are those who say, ‘We are
Christians.’ That is because some of them are priests and monks
and because they are not arrogant. (5:82)
• But as for those who reject Our Signs and are arrogant regarding
them, they are the Companions of the Fire, remaining in it
timelessly, for ever. (7:36)
• As for those who deny Our Signs and are arrogant regarding
them, the Gates of Heaven will not be opened for them, and they
will not enter the Garden until a camel goes through a needle’s
eye. That is how We repay the evildoers. (7:40)
• The ruling circle of those of his people who were arrogant said to
those who were oppressed–those among them who believed–‘Do
you know that Salih has been sent from his Lord?’ They said, ‘We
believe in what he has been sent with.’ (7:75)
• Those who were arrogant said, ‘We reject Him in whom you
believe.’ (7:76)
• The ruling circle of those of his people who were arrogant said,
‘We will drive you out of our city, Shu‘ayb, you and those who
believe along with you, unless you return to our religion.’ He said,
‘What, even though we detest it?’ (7:88)
• I will divert from My Signs all those who are arrogant in the earth
without any right. If they see every Sign, they will not believe in it.
If they see the way of right guidance, they will not take it as a way.
But if they see the way of error, they will take that as a way. That
is because they denied Our Signs and paid no attention to them.
(7:146)
• Then after them We sent Musa and Harun with Our Signs to
Pharaoh and his ruling circle, but they were arrogant and were a
people of evildoers. (10:75)
• They will all parade before Allah and the weak will say to those
who were arrogant, ‘We followed you, so can you help us at all
against the punishment of Allah?’ They will say, ‘If Allah had
guided us, we would have guided you. It makes no difference
whether we cannot stand it or bear it patiently. We have no way
of escape.’ (14:21)
• Your God is One God. As for those who do not believe in the
hereafter, their hearts are in denial and they are puffed up with
pride. (16:22)
• (The evildoers will be told,) ‘Enter the gates of Hell, remaining in it
timelessly, for ever. How evil is the abode of the arrogant!’ (16:29)
• Do not strut arrogantly about the earth. You will certainly never
split the earth apart nor will you ever rival the mountains in height.
(17:37)
• Then We sent Musa and his brother Harun with Our Signs and
clear authority to Pharaoh and his ruling circle. But they were
proud and were a haughty people. (23:45-46)
• (The affluent will be told,) ‘My Signs were recited to you and you
turned round on your heels, arrogant towards it, talking arrant
nonsense all night long.’ (23:66-67)
• Those who do not expect to meet Us say, ‘Why have angels not
been sent down to us? Why do we not see our Lord?’ They have
become arrogant about themselves and are excessively insolent.
(25:21)
• He and his troops were arrogant in the land without any right.
They thought that they would not return to Us. (28:39)
• And Qarun and Pharaoh and Haman–Musa came with the Clear
Signs to them, but they were arrogant on the earth. They could
not outstrip Us. (29:39)
• Do not avert your face from people out of haughtiness and do not
strut about arrogantly on the earth. Allah does not love anyone
who is vain or boastful. (31:18)
• The people who truly do believe in Our Signs are those who fall to
the ground prostrating when they are reminded of them, and
glorify their Lord with praise, and are not arrogant. (32:15)
• Those who disbelieve say, ‘We will never believe in this Qur'an,
nor in what came before it.’ If only you could see when the
wrongdoers, standing in the presence of their Lord, cast
accusations back and forth at one another! Those deemed weak
will say to those deemed great, ‘Were it not for you, we would
have been believers!’ (34:31)
• They swore by Allah with their most earnest oaths that if a warner
came to them they would be better guided than any other
community. But then when a warner did come to them, it only
increased their aversion, shown by their arrogance in the land
and evil plotting. But evil plotting envelops only those who do it.
Do they expect anything but the pattern of previous peoples? You
will not find any changing in the pattern of Allah. You will not find
any alteration in the pattern of Allah. (35:42-43)
• When they were told, ‘There is no god but Allah,’ they were
arrogant. (37:35)
• ‘No, the fact is that My Signs came to you but you denied them
and were arrogant and were one of the disbelievers.’ (39:59)
• On the Day of Rising you will see those who lied against Allah
with their faces blackened. Do not the arrogant have a dwelling
place in Hell? (39:60)
• They will be told, ‘Enter the gates of Hell and stay there timelessly,
for ever. How evil is the abode of the arrogant!’ (39:72)
• Musa said, ‘I seek refuge in my Lord and your Lord from every
proud man who does not believe in the Day of Reckoning.’ (40:27)
• Those who argue about the Signs of Allah without any authority
coming to them do something hateful in the sight of Allah and in
the sight of the people who believe. That is how Allah seals up
the heart of every arrogant oppressor. (40:35)
• When they are squabbling with one another in the Fire, the weak
will say to those deemed great, ‘We were your followers, so why
do you not relieve us of a portion of the Fire?’ (40:47)
• Those deemed great will say, ‘All of us are in it. Allah has clearly
judged between His servants.’ (40:48)
• Your Lord says, ‘Call on Me and I will answer you. Those who
who are too proud to worship Me will enter Hell abject.’ (40:60)
• (Disbelievers will be told,) ‘Enter the gates of Hell, remaining in it
timelessly, for ever. How evil is the abode of the arrogant!’ (40:76)
• ‘Ad were arrogant in the land, without any right, saying, ‘Who has
greater strength than us?’ Did they not see that Allah, Who
created them, had greater strength than them? But they
renounced Our Signs. (41:15)
• If they grow arrogant, those who are with your Lord glorify Him
night and day and never grow tired. (41:38)
• And (Musa said:) ‘Do not exalt yourselves above Allah. I come to
you with clear authority.’ (44:19)
• Woe to every wicked liar who hears the Signs of Allah recited to
him and then persists in his arrogance just as if he had never
heard them. Give him the news of a painful punishment. (45:7-8)
• Say: ‘What do you think? If it is from Allah and you reject it, when
a witness from the tribe of Israel testifies to its similarity and
believes while you are arrogant...! Allah certainly does not guide
wrongdoing people.’ (46:10)
• On the Day when those who disbelieved are exposed to the Fire:
‘You dissipated the good things you had in your worldly life and
enjoyed yourself in it. So today you are being repaid with the
punishment of humiliation for being arrogant in the earth without
any right and for being deviators.’ (46:20)
• When they are told, ‘Come, and the Messenger of Allah will ask
forgiveness for you,’ they turn their heads and you see them turn
away in haughty arrogance. (63:5)
• (Nuh said,) ‘Indeed, every time I called them to Your forgiveness,
they put their fingers in their ears, wrapped themselves up in their
clothes and were overweeningly arrogant.’ (71:7)
• Then he (who was obdurate about Our Signs) drew back and was
proud. (74:23)
ARROWS
• Forbidden for you are carrion, blood and pork, and what has been
consecrated to other than Allah, and animals which have been
strangled, and animals which have been killed by a blow, and
animals which have fallen to their death, and animals which have
been gored, and animals which wild beasts have eaten–except
those you are able to slaughter properly–and animals which have
been sacrificed on altars, and deciding things by means of
divining arrows–that is deviance. Today those who disbelieve
have despaired of overcoming your religion. So do not be afraid
of them but be afraid of Me. Today I have perfected your religion
for you and completed My blessing upon you and I am pleased
with Islam as a religion for you. But if anyone is forced by hunger,
not intending any wrongdoing, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. (5:3)
• You who believe! Wine and gambling, stone altars and divining
arrows are filth from the handiwork of Satan. Avoid them
completely so that hopefully you will be successful. (5:90)
• And when you said, ‘Musa, we will not put up with just one kind of
food so ask your Lord to supply to us some of what the earth
produces–its green vegetables, cucumbers, grains, lentils and
onions,’ he said, ‘Do you want to replace what is better with what
is inferior? Go back to Egypt, then you will have what you are
asking for.’ Abasement and destitution were stamped upon them.
They brought down anger from Allah upon themselves. That was
because they rejected Allah’s Signs and killed the Prophets
without any right to do so. That was because they rebelled and
went beyond the limits. (2:61)
• Allah does not forgive anything being associated with Him but He
forgives whoever He wills for anything other than that. Anyone
who associates something with Allah has committed a terrible
crime. (4:48)
• Allah does not forgive anything being associated with Him but He
forgives whoever He wills for anything other than that. Anyone
who associates something with Allah has gone very far astray.
(4:116)
• Those who say that the Messiah, son of Maryam, is Allah are
disbelievers. The Messiah said, ‘Tribe of Israel! Worship Allah,
my Lord and your Lord. If anyone associates anything with Allah,
Allah has forbidden him the Garden and his refuge will be the
Fire.’ The wrongdoers will have no helpers. (5:72)
• Say: ‘Allah rescues you from it, and from every plight. Then you
associate others with Him.’ (6:64)
• (Ibrahim said,) ‘Why should I fear what you have associated with
Him when you yourselves apparently have no fear of associating
partners with Allah for which He has sent down no authority to
you? Which of the two parties is more entitled to feel safe, if you
have any knowledge?’ (6:81)
• Yet they make the jinn co-partners with Allah when He created
them! And they attribute sons and daughters to Him without any
knowledge. Glory be to Him! He is far above what they describe!
(6:100)
• If Allah had willed, they would not have associated anything with
Him. We did not appoint you over them as their keeper and you
are not set over them as their guardian. (6:107)
• In the same way their idols have made killing their children
appear good to many of the idolaters, in order to destroy them
and confuse them in their religion. If Allah had willed, they would
not have done it; so abandon them and what they fabricate.
(6:137)
• Those who associate others with Allah will say, ‘If Allah had willed
we would not have associated anything with Him, nor would our
fathers; nor would we have made anything forbidden.’ In the
same way the people before them also lied until they felt Our
violent force. Say: ‘Do you have some knowledge you can
produce for us? You are following nothing but conjecture. You are
only guessing.’ (6:148)
• Say: ‘Come and I will recite to you what your Lord has made
forbidden for you’: that you do not associate anything with Him;
that you are good to your parents; that you do not kill your
children because of poverty–We will provide for you and them;
that you do not approach indecency–outward or inward; that you
do not kill any person Allah has made inviolate–except with the
right to do so. That is what He instructs you to do so that
hopefully you will use your intellect. (6:151)
• Say: ‘My prayer and my rites, my living and my dying, are for
Allah alone, the Lord of all the worlds, Who has no partner. I am
commanded to be like that and I am the first of the Muslims.’
(6:162-163)
• Say: ‘My Lord has forbidden indecency, both open and hidden,
and wrong action, and unrightful tyranny, and associating
anything with Allah for which He has sent down no authority, and
saying things about Allah you do not know.’ (7:33)
• Do they have legs they can walk with? Do they have hands they
can grasp with? Do they have eyes they can see with? Do they
have ears they can hear with? Say: ‘Call on your partner-gods
and try all your wiles against me and grant me no reprieve.’
(7:195)
• They have taken their rabbis and monks as lords besides Allah,
and also the Messiah, son of Maryam. Yet they were commanded
to worship only one God. There is no god but Him! Glory be to
Him above anything they associate with Him! (9:31)
• They worship, instead of Allah, what can neither harm them nor
help them, saying, ‘These are our intercessors with Allah.’ Say:
‘Would you inform Allah of something about which He does not
know either in the heavens or on the earth?’ May He be glorified
and exalted above what they associate with Him! (10:18)
• Recite to them the story of Nuh when he said to his people, ‘My
people, if my standing here and reminding you of Allah’s Signs
has become too much for you to bear, know that I have put my
trust in Allah. So decide, you and your gods, on what you want to
do and be open about it. Do with me whatever you decide and do
not keep me waiting.’ (10:71)
• Those to whom We gave the Book rejoice at what has been sent
down to you but some of the parties refuse to acknowledge part
of it. Say: ‘I have only been ordered to worship Allah and not to
associate anything with Him. I summon to Him and to Him I will
return.’ (13:36)
• When the affair is decided Satan will say, ‘Allah made you a
promise, a promise of truth, and I made you a promise but broke
my promise. I had no authority over you, except that I called you
and you responded to me. Do not, therefore, blame me but blame
yourselves. I cannot come to your aid nor you to mine. I reject the
way you associated me with Allah before.’ The wrongdoers will
have a painful punishment. (14:22)
• Then on the Day of Rising He will disgrace them, and say, ‘Where
are My partner gods for whose sake you became so hostile?’
Those given knowledge will say, ‘Today there is disgrace and evil
for the disbelievers.’ (16:27)
• He (Satan) only has authority over those who take him as a friend
and associate others with Allah. (16:100)
• Say: ‘Allah knows best how long they stayed. The Unseen of the
heavens and the earth belongs to Him. How perfectly He sees,
how well He hears! They have no protector apart from Him. Nor
does He share His rule with anyone.’ (18:26)
• ‘He is, however, Allah, my Lord, and I will not associate anyone
with my Lord.’ (18:38)
• And We located the position of the House for Ibrahim: ‘Do not
associate anything with Me and purify My House for those who
circle it, and those who stand and bow and prostrate.’ (22:26)
• Allah has promised those of you who believe and do right actions
that He will make them successors in the land as He made those
before them successors, and will firmly establish for them their
religion with which He is pleased and give them, in place of their
fear, security. ‘They worship Me, not associating anything with
Me.’ Any who disbelieve after that, such people are deviators.
(24:55)
• He Who guides you in the darkness of land and sea and sends
out the winds bringing advance news of His mercy. Is there
another god besides Allah? May Allah be exalted above what
they associate with Him! (27:63)
• On the Day when He summons them He will say, ‘Where are they,
those you claimed were My associates?’ (28:62)
• On the Day when He summons them He will say, ‘Where are they,
those you claimed to be My associates?’ (28:74)
• None of their partner-gods will intercede for them. They will reject
their partner-gods. (30:13)
• Allah is He Who created you, then provides for you, then will
cause you to die and then bring you back to life. Can any of your
partner-gods do any of that? Glory be to Him and may He be
exalted above anything they associate with Him! (30:40)
• When Luqman said to his son, counselling him, ‘My son, do not
associate anything with Allah. Associating others with Him is a
terrible wrong.’ (31:13)
• If you call on them they will not hear your call, and were they to
hear, they would not respond to you. On the Day of Rising they
will reject your making associates of them. No one can inform you
like One who is All-aware. (35:14)
• Say: ‘Have you thought about your partner gods, those you call
upon besides Allah? Show me what they have created of the
earth; or do they have a partnership in the heavens?’ Have We
given them a Book whose Clear Signs they follow? No indeed!
The wrongdoers promise each other nothing but delusion. (35:40)
• It has been revealed to you and those before you: ‘If you
associate others with Allah, your actions will come to nothing and
you will be among the losers.’ (39:65)
• Then they will be asked, ‘Where are those besides Allah you
associated with Him?’ (40:73)
• When they saw Our violent force, they said, ‘We believe in Allah
alone and reject what we associated with Him.’ (40:84)
• Or do they have partners who have laid down a religion for them
for which Allah has not given any authority? Were it not for the
prior Word of Decision, the judgement between them would
already have been made. The wrongdoers will have a painful
punishment. (42:21)
• Say: ‘Have you thought about those you call upon apart from
Allah? Show me what they have created on the earth. Or do they
have a partnership in the heavens? Produce a Book for me
before this one or a shred of knowledge if you are telling the
truth.’ (46:4)
• Do not set up another god together with Allah. Truly I bring you a
clear warning from Him. (51:51)
• Say: ‘I call only upon my Lord and do not associate anyone else
with Him.’ (72:20)
ASTRAY
• Allah does not forgive anything being associated with Him but He
forgives whoever He wills for anything other than that. Anyone
who associates something with Allah has gone very far astray.
(4:116)
• You who believe! Believe in Allah and His Messenger and in the
Book He sent down to His Messenger, and the Books He sent
down before. Anyone who rejects Allah and His angels and His
Books and His Messengers and the Last Day has gone very far
astray. (4:136)
• Those who disbelieve and bar access to the Way of Allah have
gone very far astray. (4:167)
• The call of truth is made to Him alone. Those they call upon apart
from Him do not respond to them at all. It is like someone
stretching out his cupped hands towards water to convey it to his
mouth: it will never get there. The call of the disbelievers only
goes astray. (13:14)
• Say: ‘As for those who are astray, let the All-Merciful prolong their
term until they see what they were promised, whether it be the
punishment or the Hour. Then they will know who is in the worse
position and has the weaker troops.’ (19:75)
• If they do not respond to you then know that they are merely
following their whims and desires. And who could be further
astray than someone who follows his whims and desires without
any guidance from Allah? Allah does not guide the people of the
wrongdoers. (28:50)
• Say: ‘Who provides for you from the heavens and earth?’ Say:
‘Allah. It is certain that one or the other of us, either we or you, is
following guidance or else clearly astray.’ (34:24)
• His inseparable comrade will say, ‘Our Lord, I did not make him
overstep the limits. He was, in any case, far astray.’ (50:27)
ATTRACTIVE
• Say: ‘Bad things and good things are not the same, even though
the abundance of the bad things may seem attractive to you.’
Have fear of Allah, people of intelligence, so that hopefully you
will be successful. (5:100)
• Do not curse those they call upon besides Allah, in case that
makes them curse Allah in animosity, without knowledge. In this
way We make the actions of every nation seem attractive to them.
Then they will return to their Lord, and He will inform them about
what they did. (6:108)
AUTHORITY
• The People of the Book will ask you to bring down a Book from
heaven to them. They asked Musa for even more than that. They
said, ‘Let us see Allah with our own eyes.’ So the lightning-bolt
struck them down for their wrongdoing. Then they adopted the
Calf after the Clear Signs had come to them, but We pardoned
them for that and gave Musa clear authority. (4:153)
• Say: ‘My Lord has forbidden indecency, both open and hidden,
and wrong action, and unrightful tyranny, and associating
anything with Allah for which He has sent down no authority, and
saying things about Allah you do not know.’ (7:33)
AVARICE
• Those who were already settled in the abode, and in faith, before
they came, love those who have migrated to them and do not find
in their hearts any need for what they have been given and prefer
them to themselves even if they themselves are needy. It is the
people who are safe-guarded from the avarice of their own selves
who are successful. (59:9)
• So have fear of Allah, as much as you are able to, and listen and
obey and spend for your own benefit. It is the people who are
safe-guarded from the avarice of their own selves who are
successful. (64:16)
AWE
• All who obey Allah and His Messenger and have awe of Allah and
fear of Him, they are the ones who are victorious. (24:52)
• And Ayyub when he called out to his Lord, ‘Great harm has
afflicted me and You are the Most Merciful of the merciful.’ (21:83)
• Remember when Ibrahim said to his father, Azar, ‘Do you take
idols as gods? I see that you and your people are clearly
misguided.’ (6:74)
BABYLON
BACK
• Those who deny the meeting with Allah have lost, so that, when
the Hour comes upon them suddenly, they will say, ‘Alas for what
we neglected there!’ They will bear their burdens on their backs.
How evil is what they bear! (6:31)
• They say, ‘These animals and crops are sacrosanct. No one may
eat them except those we wish’,– as they allege–and animals on
whose backs it is forbidden to ride, and animals over which they
do not mention Allah’s name, inventing falsehood against Him.
He will repay them for the things they have invented. (6:138)
• It is He Who created all the species and gave you ships and
livestock for you to ride, so that you might sit firmly on their backs
and remember your Lord’s blessing while you are seated on them,
saying, ‘Glory be to Him Who has subjected this to us. We could
never have done it by ourselves.’ (43:12-13)
BACKBITING
• There was a sign for you in the two parties which met face to face,
one party fighting in the Way of Allah and the other disbelievers.
You saw them as twice their number with your own eyes. Allah
reinforces with His help whoever He wills. There is instruction in
that for people of insight. (3:13)
• Remember when you left your family early in the day to instal the
believers in their battle stations. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
And remember when two of your clans were on the point of losing
heart and Allah was their Protector. Let the believers put their
trust in Allah. Allah helped you at Badr when you were weak so
have fear of Allah, so that hopefully you will be thankful. And
when you said to the believers, ‘Is it not enough for you that your
Lord reinforced you with three thousand angels, sent down?’ Yes
indeed! But if you are steadfast and guard against evil and they
come upon you suddenly, your Lord will reinforce you with five
thousand angels, clearly identified. Allah only did this for it to be
good news for you and so that your hearts might be set at rest by
it (help comes from no one but Allah, the Almighty, the All-Wise)
and so that He might cut off a group of those who disbelieve or
crush them and they might be turned back in defeat. (3:121-127)
• So they returned with blessings and bounty from Allah and no evil
touched them. They pursued the pleasure of Allah. Allah’s favour
is indeed immense. (3:174)
• When Allah promised you that one of the two parties would be
yours and you would have liked it to have been the unarmed one,
whereas Allah desired to verify the Truth by His words and to cut
off the last remnant of the disbelievers. This was so that He might
verify the Truth and nullify the false, even though the evildoers
hate that. Remember when you called on your Lord for help and
He responded to you: ‘I will reinforce you with a thousand angels
riding rank after rank.’ Allah only did this to give you good news
and that so your hearts would be at rest. Victory comes from no
one but Allah. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. And when He overcame
you with sleep, making you feel secure, and sent you down water
from heaven to purify you and remove the taint of Satan from you,
and to fortify your hearts and make your feet firm. And when your
Lord revealed to the angels, ‘I am with you so make those who
believe firm. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who
disbelieve, so strike their necks and strike all their finger joints!’
(8:7-12)
• When you were on the nearer slope, and they were on the further
slope and the caravan was lower down than you. If you had made
an appointment with them you would have broken the
appointment. However, it happened so that Allah could settle a
matter whose result was preordained: so that those who died
would die with clear proof, and those who lived would live with
clear proof. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. Remember when
Allah showed them to you in your dream as only a few. If He had
shown you them as many, you would have lost heart and
quarrelled about the matter; but Allah saved you. He knows what
your hearts contain. Remember when Allah made you see them
as few when you met them, and also made you seem few in their
eyes. This was so that Allah could settle a matter whose result
was preordained. All matters return to Allah. (8:42-44)
BALANCE
• We will set up the Just Balance on the Day of Rising and no self
will be wronged in any way. Even if it is no more than the weight
of a grain of mustard-seed, We will produce it. We are sufficient
as a Reckoner. (21:47)
BARRENNESS
• His (Ibrahim's) wife came up with a shriek and struck her face and
said, ‘What, and me a barren old woman!’ (51:29)
BARRIER
• A barrier will be set up between them and the thing that they
desire, just as was done with their kind before. They too were in a
state of crippling doubt. (34:54)
• He has let loose the two seas, converging together, with a barrier
between them they do not break through. (55:19-20)
BATTLE
• Remember when you left your family early in the day to instal the
believers in their battle stations. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
(3:121)
• So do not obey the disbelievers but use this (the Qur’an) to battle
against them with all your might. (25:52)
• When they came at you from above you and below you, when
your eyes rolled and your hearts rose to your throats, and you
thought unworthy thoughts about Allah, at that point the believers
were tested and severely shaken. (33:10-11)
• When the hypocrites and people with sickness in their hearts said,
‘What Allah and His Messenger promised us was mere delusion.’
(33:12)
• Yet they had previously made a contract with Allah that they
would never turn their backs. Contracts made with Allah will be
asked about. (33:15)
• Say: ‘Flight will not benefit you if you try to run away from death
or being killed. Then you will only enjoy a short respite.’ (33:16)
• Say: ‘Who is going to shield you from Allah if He desires evil for
you or desires mercy for you?’ They will find no one to protect or
help them besides Allah. (33:17)
• Allah knows the obstructers among you and those who say to
their brothers, ‘Come to us,’ and who only come to fight a very
little, and are begrudging towards you. Then when fear comes,
you see them looking at you, their eyes rolling like people scared
to death. But when fear departs they flay you with sharp tongues,
grasping for wealth. Such people have no faith and Allah will
make their actions come to nothing. That is easy for Allah. (33:18-
19)
• They think that the Confederates have not departed and if the
Confederates did appear then they would wish they were out in
the desert with the Arabs, asking for news of you. If they were
with you they would only fight a very little. (33:20)
• When the believers saw the Confederates they said: ‘This is what
Allah and His Messenger promised us. Allah and His Messenger
told us the truth.’ It only increased them in faith and in submission.
(33:22)
• Among the believers there are men who have been true to the
contract they made with Allah. Some of them have fulfilled their
pact by death and some are still waiting to do so, not having
changed in any way at all. (33:23)
• So that Allah might recompense the truthful for their truth and
punish the hypocrites, if He wills, or turn towards them. Allah is
Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:24)
• Allah sent back those who disbelieved in their rage without their
achieving any good at all. Allah made it unnecessary for the
believers to fight. Allah is Most Strong, Almighty. (33:25)
BATTLE OF UHUD
• Remember when you left your family early in the day to instal the
believers in their battle stations. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
And remember when two of your clans were on the point of losing
heart and Allah was their Protector. Let the believers put their
trust in Allah. (3:121-122)
• Those of you who turned their backs on the day the two armies
clashed–it was Satan who made them slip for what they had done.
But Allah has pardoned them. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, All-
Forbearing. (3:155)
• If you are killed in the Way of Allah or if you die, forgiveness and
mercy from Allah are better than anything you can acquire. (3:157)
• Why is it that when a calamity happens to you, when you have
already inflicted twice as much, you say, ‘How could this possibly
happen?’ Say, ‘It has come from your own selves.’ Allah has
power over all things. (3:165)
• What assailed you on the day the two armies met was by Allah’s
permission, so that He would know the believers, and so that He
would know the hypocrites. They were told, ‘Come and fight in the
Way of Allah or at least help defend us.’ They said, ‘If we knew
how to fight, we would certainly follow you.’ They were closer to
disbelief that day than to faith, saying with their mouths what was
not in their hearts. And Allah knows best what they are hiding.
They are those who said of their brothers, when they themselves
had stayed behind, ‘If they had only obeyed us, they would not
have been killed.’ Say, ‘Then ward off death from yourselves if
you are telling the truth.’ (3:166-168)
BEAST
• When the Word is justly carried out against them, We will produce
a Beast from the earth which will speak to them. Truly mankind
had no certainty about Our Signs. (27:82)
BED
• Their sides eschew their beds as they call on their Lord in fear
and ardent hope. And they give of what We have provided for
them. (32:16)
BEE
BELIEVERS (MU'MINUN)
• (Believers are) those who are aware that they will meet their Lord
and that they will return to Him. (2:46)
• Say, ‘Anyone who is the enemy of Gabriel should know that it was
he who brought it down upon your heart, by Allah’s authority,
confirming what came before, and as guidance and good news
for the believers.’ (2:97)
• Or did you suppose that you would enter the Garden without
facing the same as those who came before you? Poverty and
illness afflicted them and they were shaken o the point that the
Messenger and those who believed with him said, ‘When is
Allah’s help coming?’ Be assured that Allah’s help is very near.
(2:214)
• The Messenger believes in what has been sent down to him from
his Lord, and so do the believers. Each one believes in Allah and
His angels and His Books and His Messengers. We do not
differentiate between any of His Messengers. They say, ‘We hear
and we obey. Forgive us, our Lord! You are our journey’s end.’
(2:285)
• The believers should not take disbelievers as friends rather than
believers. Anyone who does that has nothing to do with Allah at
all–unless it is because you are afraid of them. Allah advises you
to be afraid of Him. Allah is the final destination. (3:28)
• The people with the strongest claim to Ibrahim are those who
followed him and this Prophet and those who believe. Allah is the
Protector of the believers. (3:68)
• Remember when you left your family early in the day to instal the
believers in their battle stations. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
(3:121)
• And remember when two of your clans were on the point of losing
heart and Allah was their Protector. Let the believers put their
trust in Allah. (3:122)
• What assailed you on the day the two armies met was by Allah’s
permission, so that He would know the believers. (3:166)
• That was only Satan who intimidated his adherents. But do not
fear them–fear Me if you are believers. (3:175)
• Allah will only leave the believers in the position you now are in
so that He can sift out the rotten from the good. Allah has not
given you access to the Unseen. But Allah chooses those of His
Messengers whom He wills. So believe in Allah and His
Messengers. If you believe and guard against evil you will have
an immense reward. (3:179)
• If any of you do not have the means to marry free women who
are believers, you may marry slavegirls who are believers. Allah
knows best about your faith; you are all the same in that respect.
Marry them with their owners’ permission and give them their
dowries correctly and courteously as married women, not in
fornication or taking them as lovers. When they are married, if
they commit fornication they should receive half the punishment
of free women. This is for those of you who are afraid of
committing fornication. But being patient is better for you. Allah is
Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:25)
• You who believe! When you go out to fight in the Way of Allah
verify things carefully. Do not say, ‘You are not a believer’, to
someone who greets you as a Muslim, simply out of desire for the
goods of this world. With Allah there is booty in abundance. That
is the way you were before but Allah has been kind to you. So
verify things carefully. Allah is aware of what you do. (4:94)
• Those who anticipate the worst for you say, ‘Were we not with
you?’ whenever you gain a victory from Allah, but if the
disbelievers have a success they say, ‘Did we not have the upper
hand over you and yet in spite of that keep the believers away
from you?’ Allah will judge between you on the Day of Rising.
Allah will not give the disbelievers any way against the believers.
(4:141)
• The hypocrites are in the lowest level of the Fire. You will not find
any one to help them, except those who repent and put things
right and hold fast to Allah and dedicate their religion to Allah
alone; they are with the believers. Allah will give the believers an
immense reward. (4:145-146)
• But those of them who are firmly rooted in knowledge, and the
believers, believe in what has been sent down to you and what
was sent down before you: those who perform prayer and give
the alms, and believe in Allah and the Last Day–We will pay such
people an immense wage. (4:162)
• Today all good things have been made lawful for you. And the
food of those given the Book is also lawful for you and your food
is lawful for them. So are chaste women from among the
believers and chaste women of those given the Book before you,
once you have given them their dowries in marriage, not in
fornication or taking them as lovers. But as for anyone who
rejects faith, his actions will come to nothing and in the hereafter
he will be among the losers. (5:5)
• You who believe! If any of you renounce your religion, Allah will
bring forward a people whom He loves and who love Him, humble
to the believers, fierce to the disbelievers, who strive in the Way
of Allah and do not fear the blame of any censurer. That is the
unbounded favour of Allah which He gives to whoever He wills.
Allah is Boundless, All-Knowing. (5:54)
• Your friend is only Allah and His Messenger and those who
believe: those who perform prayer and give the alms, and bow.
(5:55)
• You will find that the people most hostile to those who believe are
the Jews and the idolaters. You will find the people most
affectionate to those who believe are those who say, ‘We are
Christians.’ That is because some of them are priests and monks
and because they are not arrogant. (5:82)
• They will ask you about booty. Say: ‘Booty belongs to Allah and
the Messenger. So have fear of Allah and put things right
between you. Obey Allah and His Messenger if you are
believers.’ (8:1)
• The believers are those whose hearts tremble when Allah is
mentioned, whose faith is increased when His Signs are recited
to them, and who put their trust in their Lord; those who perform
prayer and give of what We have provided for them. (8:2-3)
• They are in truth the believers. They have high ranks with their
Lord and forgiveness and generous provision. (8:4)
• Just as your Lord brought you out from your house with truth,
even though a group of the believers disliked it. (8:5)
• You did not kill them; it was Allah Who killed them; and you did
not throw, when you threw; it was Allah Who threw: so He might
test the believers with this excellent trial from Him. Allah is All-
Hearing, All-Knowing. (8:17)
• Prophet! Allah is enough for you, and for the believers who follow
you. (8:64)
• Those who believe and have migrated and strived in the Way of
Allah and those who have given refuge and help, they are the
true believers. They will have forgiveness and generous provision.
(8:74)
• Then Allah sent down His serenity on His Messenger and on the
believers, and sent down troops you could not see, and punished
those who disbelieved. That is how the disbelievers are repaid.
(9:26)
• Among them are some who insult the Prophet, saying he is only
an ear. Say, ‘An ear of good for you, believing in Allah and
believing in the believers, and a mercy for those among you who
believe.’ As for those who insult the Messenger of Allah, they will
have a painful punishment. (9:61)
• The men and women of the believers are friends of one another.
They command what is right and forbid what is wrong, and
perform prayer and give the alms, and obey Allah and His
Messenger. They are the people on whom Allah will have mercy.
Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (9:71)
• Allah has promised the men and women of the believers Gardens
with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly, for
ever, and fine dwellings in the Gardens of Eden. And Allah’s good
pleasure is even greater. That is the great victory. (9:72)
• As for the people who find fault with those believers who give
charity spontaneously, and with those who can find nothing to
give but their own effort, and deride them, Allah derides them.
They will have a painful punishment. (9:79)
• But the Messenger and those who believe along with him have
strived with their wealth and with themselves. They are the
people who will have the good things. They are the ones who are
successful. (9:88)
• Say: ‘Act, for Allah will see your actions, and so will His
Messenger and the believers. You will be returned to the Knower
of the Unseen and the Visible and He will inform you regarding
what you did.’ (9:105)
• As for those who have set up a mosque, causing harm and out of
disbelief, to create division between the believers, and in
readiness for those who previously made war on Allah and His
Messenger, they will swear, ‘We only desired the best.’ But Allah
bears witness that they are truly liars. (9:107)
• Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their wealth
in return for the Garden. They fight in the Way of Allah and they
kill and are killed. It is a promise binding on Him in the Torah, the
Gospel and the Qur’an and who is truer to his contract than Allah?
Rejoice then in the bargain you have made. That is the great
victory. (9:111)
• Those who repent, those who worship, those who praise, those
who fast, those who bow, those who prostrate, those who
command the right, those who forbid the wrong, those who
preserve the limits of Allah: give good news to the believers.
(9:112)
• If your Lord had willed, all the people on the earth would have
believed. Do you think you can force people to be believers?
(10:99)
• (Shu‘ayb said,) ‘What endures with Allah is better for you if you
are believers. I am not set over you as your keeper.’ (11:86)
• This Qur’an guides to the most upright Way and gives good news
to the believers who do right actions that they will have a large
reward. (17:9)
• But as for anyone who desires the hereafter, and strives for it with
the striving it deserves, being a believer, the striving of such
people will be gratefully acknowledged. (17:19)
• (He said to Musa,) ‘As for the boy, his parents were believers and
we feared that he would darken their days with excessive
insolence and disbelief.’ (18:80)
• But anyone who does right actions, being a believer, need fear no
wrong or any belittlement. (20:112)
• Why, when you heard it, did you not, as men and women of the
believers, instinctively think good thoughts and say, ‘This is
obviously a lie’? (24:12)
• Those who accuse chaste believing women, unaware (of the evil),
are cursed both in this world and the hereafter, and they will have
a terrible punishment. (24:23)
• Say to the believers that they should lower their eyes and guard
their chastity. That is purer for them. Allah is aware of what they
do. (24:30)
• Say to the believing women that they should lower their eyes and
guard their chastity and not display their adornments–except for
what normally shows–and draw their head-coverings across their
breasts. They should only display their adornments to their
husbands or their fathers or their husbands’ fathers, or their sons
or their husbands’ sons or their brothers or their brothers’ sons or
their sisters’ sons or their women or those they own as slaves or
their male attendants who have no sexual desire or children who
still have no awareness of women’s private parts. Nor should they
stamp their feet so that their hidden ornaments are known. Turn
to Allah every one of you, believers, so that hopefully you will
have success. (24:31)
• The reply of the believers when they are summoned to Allah and
His Messenger so that he can judge between them, is to say, ‘We
hear and we obey.’ They are ones who are successful. (24:51)
• The believers are those who believe in Allah and His Messenger
and who, when they are with him on a matter of common concern,
do not leave until they have asked him for permission. Those
people who ask you for permission are the ones who truly believe
in Allah and His Messenger. If they ask your permission to attend
to their own affairs, give permission to any of them you please;
and ask Allah’s forgiveness for them. Allah is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (24:62)
• Warn your near relatives and take the believers who follow you
under your wing. (26:214-215)
• Musa’s mother felt a great emptiness in her heart and she almost
gave him away; only We fortified her heart so that she would be
one of the believers. (28:10)
• The Romans have been defeated in the land nearby, but after
their defeat they will themselves be victorious in a few years’ time.
The affair is Allah’s from beginning to end. On that day, the
believers will rejoice in Allah’s help. He grants victory to whoever
He wills. He is the Almighty, the Most Merciful. (30:2-5)
• The Prophet is closer to the believers than their own selves, and
his wives are their mothers. But blood-relations have closer ties to
one another in the Book of Allah than other believers and the
emigrants, except that you should act in a proper manner towards
your close associates. That is inscribed in the Book. (33:6)
• When the believers saw the Confederates they said: ‘This is what
Allah and His Messenger promised us. Allah and His Messenger
told us the truth.’ It only increased them in faith and in submission.
(33:22)
• Among the believers there are men who have been true to the
contract they made with Allah. Some of them have fulfilled their
pact by death and some are still waiting to do so, not having
changed in any way at all. (33:23)
• Allah sent back those who disbelieved in their rage without their
achieving any good at all. Allah made it unnecessary for the
believers to fight. Allah is Most Strong, Almighty. (33:25)
• Men and women who are Muslims, men and women who are
believers, men and women who are obedient, men and women
who are truthful, men and women who are steadfast, men and
women who are humble, men and women who give charity, men
and women who fast, men and women who guard their chastity,
men and women who remember Allah much: Allah has prepared
forgiveness for them and an immense reward. (33:35)
• When you said to him whom Allah has blessed and you yourself
have greatly favoured, ‘Keep your wife to yourself and have fear
of Allah,’ while concealing something in yourself which Allah
wished to bring to light, you were fearing people when Allah has
more right to your fear. Then when Zayd divorced her We married
her to you so that there should be no restriction for the believers
regarding the wives of their adopted sons when they have
divorced them. Allah’s command is always carried out. (33:37)
• Give good news to the believers that they will receive immense
favour from Allah. (33:47)
• You who believe! When you marry believing women and then
divorce them before you have touched them, there is no waiting
period for you to calculate for them, so give them a gift and let
them go with kindness. (33:49)
• And those who abuse men and women who are believers, when
they have not merited it, bear the weight of slander and clear
wrongdoing. (33:58)
• Prophet! Tell your wives and daughters and the women of the
believers to draw their outer garments closely round themselves.
This makes it more likely that they will be recognised and not be
harmed. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:59)
• This was so that Allah might punish the men and women of the
hypocrites, and the men and women of the idolaters, and turn
towards the men and women of the believers. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:73)
• A man among Pharaoh’s people who believed, but kept his faith
concealed, said, ‘Are you going to kill a man for saying "My Lord
is Allah" when he has brought you Clear Signs from your Lord? If
he is telling a lie, be it on his own head. But if he is telling the
truth, then some of what he is promising you will certainly happen
to you. Allah does not guide any unbridled inveterate liar.’ (40:28)
• Whoever does an evil act will only be repaid with its equivalent.
But whoever acts rightly, male or female, being a believer, such a
person will enter the Garden, provided for in it without any
reckoning. (40:40)
• In the heavens and earth there are certainly Signs for the
believers. (45:3)
• Know then that there is no god except Allah and ask forgiveness
for your wrongdoing, and for the men and women who believe.
Allah knows both your activity and your repose. (47:19)
• It is He Who sent down serenity into the hearts of the believers
thereby increasing their faith with more faith–the legions of the
heavens and the earth belong to Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-
Wise–so that He may admit the men and women of the believers
into Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them
timelessly, for ever, and erase their bad actions from them; and in
Allah’s sight that is a mighty victory. (48:4-5)
• Allah has promised you much booty which you will take, and has
hastened this for you and held people’s hands back from you, so
that it might be a Sign to the believers, and so that He might
guide you to a straight path. (48:20)
• They are those who disbelieved and debarred you from the
Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) and prevented the sacrifice
from reaching its proper place, and had it not been for some men
and women who are believers, whom you did not know and might
trample underfoot, and so unknowingly incur blame on their
account–so that Allah might admit into His mercy those He wills–
and had those among them who disbelieve been clearly
distinguishable, We would have punished them with a painful
punishment. (48:25)
• The believers are only those who have believed in Allah and His
Messenger and then have had no doubt and have strived with
their wealth and themselves in the Way of Allah. They are the
ones who are true to their word. (49:15)
• And remind them, for truly the believers benefit from being
reminded. (51:55)
• On the Day you see the men and women of the believers, with
their light streaming out in front of them, and to their right: ‘Good
news for you today of Gardens with rivers flowing under them,
remaining in them timelessly, for ever. That is the Great Victory.’
(57:12)
• And (He will give you) other things you love: support from Allah
and imminent victory. Give good news to the believers! (61:13)
• They say, ‘If we return to Madina, the mightier will drive out the
inferior.’ But all might belongs to Allah and to His Messenger and
the believers. But the hypocrites do not know this. (63:8)
• Allah–there is no god but Him. So let the believers put their trust
in Allah. (64:13)
• If the two of you would only turn to Allah, for your hearts clearly
deviated... But if you support one another against him, Allah is his
Protector and so are Gabriel and every right-acting man of the
believers and, furthermore, the angels too will come to his
support. (66:4)
• It may be that if he does divorce you, his Lord will give him in
exchange better wives than you: Muslim women, believing
women, obedient women, penitent women, women who worship,
women who fast much–previously married women as well as
virgins. (66:5)
• (Nuh said,) ‘My Lord! Forgive me and my parents and all who
enter my house as believers, and all the men and women of the
believers. But do not increase the wrongdoers except in ruin!’
(71:28)
• Those who persecute men and women of the believers, and then
do not repent, will have the punishment of Hell, will have the
punishment of the Burning. (85:10)
BELLY
• Those who conceal what Allah has sent down of the Book and
sell it cheap, take nothing into their bellies but the Fire. On the
Day of Rising Allah will not speak to them or purify them. They will
have a painful punishment. (2:174)
• Had it not been that he was a man who glorified Allah, he would
have remained inside its belly until the Day they are raised again.
(37:143-144)
BETRAYAL
• On the night of the fast it is lawful for you to have sexual relations
with your wives. They are clothing for you and you for them. Allah
knows that you have been betraying yourselves and He has
turned towards you and excused you. Now you may have sexual
intercourse with them and seek what Allah has written for you.
Eat and drink until you can clearly discern the white thread from
the black thread of the dawn, then fulfil the fast until the night
appears. But do not have sexual intercourse with them while you
are in retreat in the mosques. These are Allah’s limits, so do not
go near them. In this way does Allah make His Signs clear to
people so that hopefully they will guard against evil. (2:187)
• You who believe! Do not betray Allah and His Messenger, and do
not knowingly betray your trusts. (8:27)
• (Yusuf said,) ‘In this way he may know at last that I did not
dishonour him behind his back and that Allah most surely does
not guide the deviousness of the dishonourable.’ (12:52)
• Allah has made an example for those who disbelieve: the wife of
Nuh and the wife of Lut. They were married to two of Our
servants who were righteous but they betrayed them and were
not helped at all against Allah. They were told, ‘Enter the Fire
along with all who enter it.’ (66:10)
• BEWITCHED
• We know how they listen when they listen to you, and when they
confer together secretly, and when the wrongdoers say, ‘You are
only following a man who is bewitched!’ (17:47)
• We gave Musa nine Clear Signs. Ask the tribe of Israel about
when he came to them and Pharaoh said to him, ‘Musa, I think
you are bewitched.’ (17:101)
• (They say,) ‘Why has treasure not been showered down on him?
Why does he not have a garden to give him food?’ The
wrongdoers say, ‘You are merely following a man who is
bewitched.’ (25:8)
BIRD
• When Ibrahim said, ‘My Lord, show me how You bring the dead
to life.’ He asked, ‘Do you not then believe?’ He replied, ‘Indeed I
do! But so that my heart may be at peace.’ He said, ‘Take four
birds and train them to yourself. Then put a part of them on each
mountain and call to them; they will come rushing to you. Know
that Allah is Almighty, All-Wise.’ (2:260)
• He (‘Isa) will teach him the Book and Wisdom, and the Torah and
the Gospel, as a Messenger to the tribe of Israel, saying: ‘I have
brought you a Sign from your Lord. I will create the shape of a
bird out of clay for you and then breathe into it and it will be a bird
by Allah’s permission. I will heal the blind and the leper, and bring
the dead to life, by Allah’s permission. I will tell you what you eat
and what you store up in your homes. There is a Sign for you in
that if you are believers. (3:48-49)
• Two servants entered prison along with him (Yusuf). One said, ‘I
dreamt that I was pressing grapes.’ The other said, ‘I dreamt I
carried bread upon my head and birds were eating it. Tell us the
true meaning of these dreams. We see that you’re one of the
righteous.’ (12:36)
• (Yusuf said,) ‘My fellow-captives, one of you will serve his lord
with wine, the other of you will be crucified and birds will eat his
head. The thing you asked about is foreordained.’ (12:41)
• Do you not see that everyone in the heavens and earth glorifies
Allah, as do the birds with their outspread wings? Each one
knows its prayer and glorification. Allah knows what they do.
(24:41)
• And also the birds, flocking together, all of them turned to Him.
(38:19)
• Have they not looked at the birds above them, with wings
outspread and folded back? Nothing holds them up but the All-
Merciful. He sees all things. (67:19)
BLAME
• You who believe! If any of you renounce your religion, Allah will
bring forward a people whom He loves and who love Him, humble
to the believers, fierce to the disbelievers, who strive in the Way
of Allah and do not fear the blame of any censurer. That is the
unbounded favour of Allah which He gives to whoever He wills.
Allah is Boundless, All-Knowing. (5:54)
• She said, ‘You see! It’s him you blamed me for. I tried seducing
him but he refused. If he (Yusuf) does not do what I order him, he
will be put in prison and brought low.’ (12:32)
• He said, ‘No blame at all will fall on you. Today you have
forgiveness from Allah. He is the Most Merciful of the merciful.’
(12:92)
• When the affair is decided Satan will say, ‘Allah made you a
promise, a promise of truth, and I made you a promise but broke
my promise. I had no authority over you, except that I called you
and you responded to me. Do not, therefore, blame me but blame
yourselves. I cannot come to your aid nor you to mine. I reject the
way you associated me with Allah before.’ The wrongdoers will
have a painful punishment. (14:22)
• Do not keep your hand chained to your neck but do not extend it
either to its full extent so that you sit there blamed and destitute.
(17:29)
• That is part of the wisdom your Lord has revealed to you. Do not
set up another god together with Allah and so be thrown into Hell,
blamed and driven out. (17:39)
• So We seized him and his armies and hurled them into the sea,
and he (Pharaoh) was to blame. (51:40)
• So turn away from them, for you are not to blame. (51:54)
• (The believers are) those who guard their private parts except
from their wives and any slaves they own, in which case they
incur no blame. (70:29-30)
BLAST
• The Great Blast seized hold of those who did wrong and morning
found them lying flattened in their homes. (11:67)
• They carved out houses from the mountains, feeling safe, but the
Great Blast seized hold of them in the morning. (15:82-83)
• It was but one Great Blast and they were extinct. (36:29)
• What are they waiting for but one Great Blast to seize them while
they are quibbling? (36:49)
• It will be but one Great Blast, and they will all be summoned to
Our presence. (36:53)
• There will be but one Great Blast and then their eyes will open.
(37:19)
• These people too are only awaiting a single Blast and it will not
be repeated. (38:15)
• The Day they hear the Blast in truth, that is the Day of
Emergence. (50:42)
• But they spurned their Lord’s command, so the Blast seized them
as they looked. (51:44)
• Leave them then until they meet their Day when they will be
struck down by the Blast. (52:45)
• We sent a single Blast against them and they were just like a
thatcher’s reeds. (54:31)
• Thamud were destroyed by the Deafening Blast. (69:5)
• On the Day the first blast shudders, and the second blast follows
it, hearts that Day will be pounding and eyes will be cast down.
(79:6-9)
• There will be but one Great Blast, and at once they will be on the
surface, wide awake! (79:13-14)
• BLAZE
• Some of them believe in him, and some bar access to him. Hell
will suffice as a Searing Blaze! (4:55)
• But those who disbelieve and deny Our Signs, are the
Companions of the Blazing Fire. (5:10)
• But as for those who strive against My Signs and try to thwart
them, they will be the Companions of the Blazing Fire. (22:51)
• But instead, they deny the Hour; and We have prepared a
Searing Blaze for those who deny the Hour. (25:11)
• They said, ‘Build a pyre for him and fling him into the blaze!’
(37:97)
• We have adorned the lowest heaven with lamps and made some
of them stones for the Satans for whom We have prepared the
punishment of the Blaze. (67:5)
• They will say, ‘If only we had really listened and used our intellect,
we would not have been Companions of the Blaze.’ (67:10)
• Then they will acknowledge their wrong actions. Away with the
Companions of the Blaze! (67:11)
• Wherever you come from, turn your face to the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram). Wherever you are, turn your faces towards it
so that people will have no argument against you–except for
those among them who do wrong and then you should not fear
them but rather fear Me–and so that I can complete My blessing
to you so that hopefully you will be guided. (2:150)
• Ask the tribe of Israel how many Clear Signs We gave to them. If
anyone alters Allah’s blessing after it has come to him, Allah is
fierce in retribution. (2:211)
• When you divorce women and they are near the end of their
waiting period, then either retain them with correctness and
courtesy or release them with correctness and courtesy. Do not
retain them by force, thus overstepping the limits. Anyone who
does that has wronged himself. Do not make a mockery of Allah’s
Signs. Remember Allah’s blessing to you and the Book and
Wisdom He has sent down to you to admonish you. Have fear of
Allah and know that Allah has knowledge of all things. (2:231)
• Hold fast to the rope of Allah all together, and do not separate.
Remember Allah’s blessing to you when you were enemies and
He joined your hearts together so that you became brothers by
His blessing. You were on the very brink of a pit of the Fire and
He rescued you from it. In this way Allah makes His Signs clear to
you, so that hopefully you will be guided. (3:103)
• So they returned with blessings and bounty from Allah and no evil
touched them. They pursued the pleasure of Allah. Allah’s favour
is indeed immense. (3:174)
• Whoever obeys Allah and the Messenger will be with those whom
Allah has blessed: the Prophets, the steadfast affirmers of truth,
the martyrs and the righteous. What excellent company such
people are! (4:69)
• Among you there are people who hang back and if you encounter
a setback then they say, ‘Allah has blessed me in that I was not
there with them.’ (4:72)
• Forbidden for you are carrion, blood and pork, and what has been
consecrated to other than Allah, and animals which have been
strangled, and animals which have been killed by a blow, and
animals which have fallen to their death, and animals which have
been gored, and animals which wild beasts have eaten–except
those you are able to slaughter properly–and animals which have
been sacrificed on altars, and deciding things by means of
divining arrows–that is deviance. Today those who disbelieve
have despaired of overcoming your religion. So do not be afraid
of them but be afraid of Me. Today I have perfected your religion
for you and completed My blessing upon you and I am pleased
with Islam as a religion for you. But if anyone is forced by hunger,
not intending any wrongdoing, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. (5:3)
• You who believe! When you get up to perform prayer, wash your
faces and your hands and your arms to the elbows, and wipe
over your heads, and (wash) your feet to the ankles. If you are in
a state of major impurity, then purify yourselves. But if you are ill
or on a journey, or have come from the lavatory, or have touched
women, and cannot find any water, then take for yourselves clean
earth, and wipe your faces and your hands therewith. Allah does
not want to make things difficult for you, but He does want to
purify you and to perfect His blessing upon you so that hopefully
you will be thankful. (5:6)
• Two men among those who were afraid, but whom Allah had
blessed, said, ‘Enter the gate against them! Once you have
entered it, you will be victorious. Put your trust in Allah if you are
believers.’ (5:23)
• (Hud said,) ‘Or are you astonished that a reminder should come
to you from your Lord by way of a man among you in order to
warn you? Remember when He appointed you successors to the
people of Nuh, and increased you greatly in stature. Remember
Allah’s blessings, so that hopefully you will be successful.’ (7:69)
• But if We let him taste blessings after hardship has afflicted him,
he says, ‘My troubles have gone away,’ and he is overjoyed,
boastful. (11:10)
• It was said, ‘Nuh, descend with peace from Us and with blessings
on you and on the nations which will issue from those who are
with you. But there are nations to whom we will give enjoyment
and then a painful punishment from Us will afflict them.’ (11:48)
• (Ya‘qub said,) ‘Accordingly your Lord will pick you out and teach
you the true meaning of events and perfectly fulfil His blessing on
you as well as on the family of Ya‘qub as He fulfilled it perfectly
before upon your forebears, Ibrahim and Ishaq. Most certainly
your Lord is Knowing, Wise.’ (12:6)
• Remember when Musa said to his people, ‘Remember Allah’s
blessing to you when He rescued you from the people of Pharaoh.
They were inflicting an evil punishment on you, slaughtering your
sons and letting your women live. In that there was a terrible trial
from your Lord.’ (14:6)
• Do you not see those who have exchanged Allah’s blessing for
disbelief, and moved their people to the abode of ruin. (14:28)
• He has given you everything you have asked Him for. If you tried
to number Allah’s blessings, you could never count them. Man is
indeed wrongdoing, ungrateful. (14:34)
• Any blessing you have is from Allah. Then when harm touches
you, it is to Him you cry for help. (16:53)
• Allah has given you wives from among yourselves, and given you
children and grandchildren from your wives, and provided good
things for you. So why do they believe in falsehood and reject the
blessings of Allah? (16:72)
• Allah has made shaded places for you in what He has created
and He has made shelters for you in the mountains and He has
made shirts for you to protect you from the heat and shirts to
protect you from each other’s violence. In that way He perfects
His blessing on you so that hopefully you will become Muslims.
(16:81)
• So eat from what Allah has provided for you, lawful and good,
and be thankful for the blessing of Allah if it is Him you worship.
(16:114)
• He was thankful for His blessings. Allah chose him and guided
him to a straight path. (16:121)
• When We bless man, he turns away and draws aside. When evil
touches him, he despairs. (17:83)
• Those are some of the Prophets Allah has blessed, from the
descendants of Adam and from those We carried with Nuh, and
from the descendants of Ibrahim and Isra’il and from those We
guided and chose. When the Signs of the All-Merciful were
recited to them they fell on their faces, weeping, in prostration.
(19:58)
• We delivered both him and Lut to the land which We had blessed
for all beings. (21:71)
• Do you not see that Allah has subjected to you everything in the
heavens and earth and has showered His blessings upon you,
both outwardly and inwardly? Yet there are people who argue
about Allah without knowledge or guidance or any illuminating
Book. (31:20)
• Do you not see that ships sail on the sea by Allah’s blessing so
that He can show you something of His Signs? There are
certainly Signs in that for everyone who is steadfast and thankful.
(31:31)
• When you said to him whom Allah has blessed and you yourself
have greatly favoured, ‘Keep your wife to yourself and have fear
of Allah,’ while concealing something in yourself which Allah
wished to bring to light, you were fearing people when Allah has
more right to your fear. Then when Zayd divorced her We married
her to you so that there should be no restriction for the believers
regarding the wives of their adopted sons when they have
divorced them. Allah’s command is always carried out. (33:37)
• When harm touches man he calls upon his Lord, repenting to Him.
Then when He grants him a blessing from Him, he forgets what
he was calling for before and ascribes rivals to Allah, so as to
misguide others from His Way. Say: ‘Enjoy your disbelief for a
little while. You are among the Companions of the Fire.’ (39:8)
• It is He Who created all the species and gave you ships and
livestock for you to ride, so that you might sit firmly on their backs
and remember your Lord’s blessing while you are seated on them,
saying, ‘Glory be to Him Who has subjected this to us. We could
never have done it by ourselves.’ (43:12-13)
• Remind them then! For, by the blessing of your Lord, you are
neither a soothsayer nor a madman. (52:29)
• So which of your Lord’s blessings do you both then deny? (55: 13,
16, 18, 21, 23, 25, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 45, 47, 49, 51,
53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 67,69, 71, 73, 75, 77)
• Had a blessing from his Lord not overtaken him, he would have
been thrown up on the naked shore, for he was at fault. (68:49)
BLISS
• But if We let him taste blessings after hardship has afflicted him,
he says, ‘My troubles have gone away,’ and he is overjoyed,
boastful. (11:10)
• Do not avert your face from people out of haughtiness and do not
strut about arrogantly on the earth. Allah does not love anyone
who is vain or boastful. (31:18)
• That is so that you will not be grieved about the things that pass
you by or exult about the things that come to you. Allah does not
love any vain or boastful man. (57:23)
BOAT
• (He said to Musa,) ‘As for the boat, it belonged to some poor
people who worked on the sea. I wanted to damage it because a
king was coming behind them, commandeering every boat.’
(18:79)
BOILING WATER
• Here are two rival groups who disputed concerning their Lord.
Those who disbelieve will have garments of fire cut out for them,
and boiling water poured over their heads, which will melt the
contents of their bellies as well as their skin. (22:19-20)
• This! So let them taste it–boiling water and scalding pus and
other such torments. (38:57-58)
• Those who deny the Book and that with which We sent Our
Messengers will certainly come to know when they have shackles
and chains around their necks and are dragged along the ground
into the boiling water and then are thrown into the Fire! (40:70-72)
BONE
• Or the one who passed by a town which had fallen into ruin? He
asked, ‘How can Allah restore this to life when it has died?’ Allah
caused him to die a hundred years then brought him back to life.
Then He asked, ‘How long have you been here?’ He replied, ‘I
have been here a day or part of a day.’ He said, ‘Not so! You
have been here a hundred years. Look at your food and drink–it
has not gone bad–and look at your donkey so We can make you
a Sign for all mankind. Look at the bones–how We raise them up
and clothe them in flesh.’ When it had become clear to him, he
said, ‘Now I know that Allah has power over all things.’ (2:259)
• They say, ‘What! When we are bones and crumbled dust, will we
then be raised up as a new creation!’ (17:49)
• That is their repayment for rejecting Our Signs and saying, ‘What,
when we are bones and crumbled dust, will we then be raised up
as a new creation?’ (17:98)
• And (Zakariyya) said, ‘My Lord, my bones have lost their strength
and my head is crowned with white, but in calling on You, My
Lord, I have never been disappointed.’ (19:4)
• Then (We) formed the drop into a clot and formed the clot into a
lump and formed the lump into bones and clothed the bones in
flesh; and then brought him into being as another creature.
Blessed be Allah, the Best of Creators! (23:14)
• Does he promise you that when you have died and become dust
and bones you will be brought forth again? (23:35)
• They say, ‘When we are dead and turned to dust and bones, shall
we then be raised again?’ (23:82)
• One of them will say, ‘I used to have a friend who would say to
me, "Are you one of those who say that it is true: that when we
have died and are turned to dust and bones, we will face a
Reckoning?"’ (37:51-53)
• And (they were) saying, ‘When we are dead and turned to dust
and bones, shall we then be raised again?’ (56:47)
BOOK OF ACTIONS
• We have fastened the destiny of every man about his neck and
on the Day of Rising We will bring out a Book for him which he
will find spread open in front of him. (17:13)
• And the earth will shine with the Pure Light of its Lord; the Book
will be put in place; the Prophets and witnesses will be brought; it
will be decided between them with the truth; and they will not be
wronged. (39:69)
BOOKS
• (Those who guard against evil are) those who believe in what has
been sent down to you and what was sent down before you, and
are certain about the hereafter. (2:4)
• Woe to those who write the Book with their own hands and then
say ‘This is from Allah’ to sell it for a paltry price. Woe to them for
what their hands have written! Woe to them for what they earn!
(2:79)
• Say, ‘We believe in Allah and what has been sent down to us and
what was sent down to Ibrahim and Isma‘il and Ishaq and Ya‘qub
and the Tribes, and what Musa and ‘Isa were given, and what all
the Prophets were given by their Lord. We do not differentiate
between any of them. We are Muslims submitted to Him.’ (2:136)
• The Messenger believes in what has been sent down to him from
his Lord, and so do the believers. Each one believes in Allah and
His angels and His Books and His Messengers. We do not
differentiate between any of His Messengers. They say, ‘We hear
and we obey. Forgive us, our Lord! You are our journey’s end.’
(2:285)
• Say, ‘We believe in Allah and what has been sent down to us and
what was sent down to Ibrahim, Isma‘il and Ishaq and Ya‘qub and
the Tribes, and what Musa and ‘Isa and all the Prophets were
given by their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them.
We are Muslims submitted to Him.’ (3:84)
• You who believe! Believe in Allah and His Messenger and in the
Book He sent down to His Messenger, and the Books He sent
down before. Anyone who rejects Allah and His angels and His
Books and His Messengers and the Last Day has gone very far
astray. (4:136)
• Those to whom We gave the Book rejoice at what has been sent
down to you but some of the parties refuse to acknowledge part
of it. Say: ‘I have only been ordered to worship Allah and not to
associate anything with Him. I summon to Him and to Him I will
return.’ (13:36)
• Only argue with the People of the Book in the kindest way–except
in the case of those of them who do wrong–saying, ‘We believe in
what has been sent down to us and what was sent down to you.
Our God and your God are one and we submit to Him.’ (29:46)
• If they deny you, those before them also denied the truth. Their
Messengers came to them with Clear Signs, and psalms and the
Illuminating Book. (35:25)
• We sent Nuh and Ibrahim and placed Prophethood and the Book
among their descendants. Some of them are guided but many of
them are deviators. (57:26)
BOOTY
• You who believe! When you go out to fight in the Way of Allah
verify things carefully. Do not say, ‘You are not a believer’, to
someone who greets you as a Muslim, simply out of desire for the
goods of this world. With Allah there is booty in abundance. That
is the way you were before but Allah has been kind to you. So
verify things carefully. Allah is aware of what you do. (4:94)
• They will ask you about booty. Say: ‘Booty belongs to Allah and
the Messenger. So have fear of Allah and put things right
between you. Obey Allah and His Messenger if you are
believers.’ (8:1)
• Know that when you take any booty a fifth of it belongs to Allah,
and to the Messenger, and to close relatives, orphans, the very
poor and travellers, if you believe in Allah and in what We sent
down to Our servant on the Day of Discrimination, the day the two
groups met–Allah has power over all things. (8:41)
• So make full use of any booty you have taken which is lawful and
good; and have fear of Allah. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. (8:69)
• Prophet! We have made lawful for you: your wives to whom you
have given dowries and any slavegirls you own from the booty
Allah has allotted you and the daughters of your paternal uncles
and the daughters of your paternal aunts and the daughters of
your maternal uncles and the daughters of your maternal aunts
who have migrated with you and any believing woman who gives
herself to the Prophet if the Prophet desires to marry her:
exclusively for you as opposed to the rest of the believers–We
know very well what We have prescribed for them regarding their
wives and any slavegirls they possess–in order that there be no
restriction on you. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:50)
• When you go out to get the booty, those who remained behind
will say, ‘Allow us to follow you,’ desiring to alter Allah’s words.
Say: ‘You may not follow us. That is what Allah said before.’ They
will say, ‘It is only because you envy us.’ No indeed! How little
they have understood! (48:15)
• And (He rewarded believers) with much booty which they will take.
Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (48:19)
• Allah has promised you much booty which you will take, and has
hastened this for you and held people’s hands back from you, so
that it might be a Sign to the believers, and so that He might
guide you to a straight path. (48:20)
• And other booty you do not yet have the power to take–Allah has
already encompassed it. Allah has power over all things. (48:21)
• (Booty is also) for the poor of the emigrants who were driven from
their homes and wealth desiring the favour and the pleasure of
Allah and supporting Allah and His Messenger. Such people are
the truly sincere. (59:8)
BOW
• Perform prayer and give the alms and bow with those who bow.
(2:43)
• (The angels said,) ‘Maryam, obey your Lord and prostrate and
bow with those who bow.’ (3:43)
• Your friend is only Allah and His Messenger and those who
believe: those who perform prayer and give the alms, and bow.
(5:55)
• And We located the position of the House for Ibrahim: ‘Do not
associate anything with Me and purify My House for those who
circle it, and those who stand and bow and prostrate.’ (22:26)
• You who believe! Bow and prostrate and worship your Lord, and
do good, so that hopefully you will be successful. (22:77)
BRACELET
• They will have Gardens of Eden with rivers flowing under them.
They will be adorned in them with bracelets made of gold and
wear green garments made of the finest silk and rich brocade,
reclining there on couches under canopies. What an excellent
reward! What a wonderful repose! (18:31)
• But Allah will admit those who believe and do right actions into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them where they will be
adorned with gold bracelets and pearls, and where their clothing
will be of silk. (22:23)
• They will enter Gardens of Eden where they will be adorned with
gold bracelets and pearls, and where their clothing will be of silk.
(35:33)
• (Pharaoh said,) ‘Why have gold bracelets not been put upon his
arms and why is there not a train of angels accompanying him?’
(43:53)
• They will wear green garments of fine silk and rich brocade. They
will be adorned with silver bracelets. And their Lord will give them
a pure draught to drink. (76:21)
BRAIN
BRASS
• Say: ‘It is the truth from your Lord; so let whoever wishes believe
and whoever wishes disbelieve.’ We have prepared for the
wrongdoers a Fire whose billowing walls of smoke will hem them
in. If they call for help, they will be helped with water like seething
molten brass, frying their faces. What a noxious drink! What an
evil repose! (18:29)
BREAD
BREAKING AN OATH
• Be true to Allah’s contract when you have agreed to it, and do not
break your oaths once they are confirmed and you have made
Allah your guarantee. Allah knows what you do. (16:91)
• Do not be like a woman who spoils the thread she has spun by
unravelling it after it is strong, by making your oaths a means of
deceiving one another, merely because one community is bigger
than another. Allah is only testing you by this. He will make clear
to you on the Day of Rising the things about which you differed.
(16:92)
BREAST-BONE
BRINGING OUT
• The hypocrites are afraid that a sura may be sent down about
them, informing them of what is in their hearts. Say: ‘Go on
mocking! Allah will expose everything you are afraid of.’ (9:64)
• (The hoopoe said,) ‘I found both her and her people prostrating to
the sun instead of Allah. Satan has made their actions seem good
to them and debarred them from the Way so they are not guided
and do not prostrate to Allah, Who brings out what is hidden in
the heavens and the earth, and knows what you conceal and
what you divulge.’ (27:24-25)
• The evil deeds they did will appear before them and the things
they mocked at will engulf them. (45:33)
• He darkened its night and brought forth its morning light. (79:29)
BROCADE
• They will have Gardens of Eden with rivers flowing under them.
They will be adorned in them with bracelets made of gold and
wear green garments made of the finest silk and rich brocade,
reclining there on couches under canopies. What an excellent
reward! What a wonderful repose! (18:31)
• (In the Gardens, believers will be) wearing fine silk and rich
brocade, face to face with one another. (44:53)
• They will wear green garments of fine silk and rich brocade. They
will be adorned with silver bracelets. And their Lord will give them
a pure draught to drink. (76:21)
BROTHER - BROTHERHOOD
• ... They will ask you about the property of orphans. Say,
‘Managing it in their best interests is best.’ If you mix your
property with theirs, they are your brothers. Allah knows a
squanderer from a good manager. If Allah had wanted, He could
have been hard on you. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (2:220)
• Hold fast to the rope of Allah all together, and do not separate.
Remember Allah’s blessing to you when you were enemies and
He joined your hearts together so that you became brothers by
His blessing. You were on the very brink of a pit of the Fire and
He rescued you from it. In this way Allah makes His Signs clear to
you, so that hopefully you will be guided. (3:103)
• You who believe! Do not be like those who disbelieve and say of
their brothers, when they are going on journeys or military
expeditions, ‘If they had only been with us, they would not have
died or been killed,’ so that Allah can make that anguish for them
in their hearts. It is Allah Who gives life and causes to die. Allah
sees what you do. (3:156)
• They are those who said of their brothers, when they themselves
had stayed behind, ‘If they had only obeyed us, they would not
have been killed.’ Say, ‘Then ward off death from yourselves if
you are telling the truth.’ (3:168)
• You receive half of what your wives leave if they are childless. If
they have children you receive a quarter of what they leave after
any bequest they make or any debts. They receive a quarter of
what you leave if you are childless. If you have children they
receive an eighth of what you leave after any bequest you make
or any debts. If a man or woman has no direct heirs, but has a
brother or sister, each of them receives a sixth. If there are more
than that they share in a third after any bequest you make or any
debts, making sure that no one’s rights are prejudiced. This is an
instruction from Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Forbearing. (4:12)
• Forbidden for you are: your mothers and your daughters and your
sisters, your maternal aunts and your paternal aunts, your
brothers’ daughters and your sisters’ daughters, your foster
mothers who have suckled you, your foster sisters by suckling,
your wives’ mothers, your stepdaughters who are under your
protection: the daughters of your wives whom you have had
sexual relations with (though if you have not had sexual relations
with them there is nothing blameworthy for you in it then), the
wives of your sons whom you have fathered, and marrying two
sisters at the same time–except for what may have already taken
place. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:23)
• They request from you a ruling. Say: ‘Allah gives you a ruling
about people who die without direct heirs: If a man dies childless
but has a sister she receives half of what he leaves, and he is her
heir if she dies childless. If there are two sisters they receive two-
thirds of what he leaves. If there are brothers and sisters the
males receive the share of two females. Allah makes things clear
to you so you will not go astray. Allah has knowledge of all
things.’ (4:176)
• So his lower self persuaded him to kill his brother, and he killed
him and became one of the lost. (5:30)
• Then Allah sent a crow which scratched at the earth to show him
how to conceal his brother’s corpse. He said, ‘Woe is me! Can I
not even be like this crow and conceal my brother’s corpse?’ And
he became one of those who suffer bitter remorse. (5:31)
• And to Thamud We sent their brother Salih, who said, ‘My people,
worship Allah! You have no other god than Him. A Clear Sign has
come to you from your Lord. This is the She-Camel of Allah as a
Sign for you. Leave her alone to eat on Allah’s earth and do not
harm her in any way or a painful punishment will afflict you.’ (7:73)
• They said, ‘Detain him and his brother and send out marshals to
the cities.’ (7:111)
• We set aside thirty nights for Musa and then completed them with
ten, so the appointed time of his Lord was forty nights in all. Musa
said to his brother Harun, ‘Take my place among my people.
Keep order and do not follow the way of the corrupters.’ (7:142)
• But as for their brothers, the visitors lead them further into error.
And they do not stop at that! (7:202)
• But if they repent and perform prayer and give the alms, they are
your brothers in the religion. We make the Signs clear for people
who have knowledge. (9:11)
• You who believe, do not befriend your fathers and brothers if they
prefer disbelief to faith. Those among you who do befriend them
are wrongdoers. (9:23)
• Say: ‘If your fathers or your sons or your brothers or your wives or
your tribe, or any wealth you have acquired, or any business you
fear may slump, or any house which pleases you, are dearer to
you than Allah and His Messenger and striving in His Way, then
wait until Allah brings about His command. Allah does not guide
people who are deviators.’ (9:24)
• He (Yusuf’s father) said, ‘My son, don’t tell your brothers your
dream lest they devise some scheme to injure you, Satan is a
clear-cut enemy to man.’ (12:5)
• In Yusuf and his brothers there are Signs for every one of those
who wants to ask. (12:7)
• When they (the brothers of Yusuf) declared, ‘Why! Yusuf and his
brother are dearer to our father than we are although we
constitute a powerful group. Our father is clearly making a
mistake.’ (12:8)
• The brothers of Yusuf came into his presence and he knew them
but they did not know him. (12:58)
• Then when they got back to their father’s house, they said,
‘Father! Our measure has been denied. Please send our brother
with us so we may obtain our measure. We will take care of him.’
(12:63)
• Then when he had supplied them with their needs, he put the
goblet in his brother’s bag. A herald called out, ‘Caravan! You are
thieves!’ (12:70)
• He started with their bags before his brother’s and then produced
it from his brother’s bag. In that way We devised a cunning
scheme for Yusuf. He could not have held his brother according
to the statutes of the King–only because Allah had willed it so.
We raise the rank of anyone We will. Over everyone with
knowledge is a Knower. (12:76)
• They said, ‘If he steals now, his brother stole before.’ But Yusuf
kept it to himself and still did not disclose it to them, saying, ‘The
plight that you are in is worse than that. Allah knows best the
matter you describe.’ (12:77)
• (Yusuf’s father said,) ‘My sons! Seek news of Yusuf and his
brother. Do not despair of solace from Allah. No one despairs of
solace from Allah except for people who are disbelievers.’ (12:87)
• He (Yusuf) said, ‘Are you aware of what you did to Yusuf and his
brother in ignorance?’ (12:89)
• They said, ‘Are you Yusuf?’ He said, ‘I am indeed Yusuf, and this
here is my brother. Allah has acted graciously to us. As for those
who fear Allah and are steadfast, Allah does not allow to go to
waste the wage of any people who do good.’ (12:90)
• He raised his parents up onto the throne. The others fell prostrate
in front of him. He said, ‘My father, truly this is now the
interpretation of the dream I had. My Lord has made it all come
true; and He was kind to me by letting me out of prison and
brought you from the desert when Satan had caused dissent
between me and my brothers. My Lord is kind to anyone He wills.
He is indeed All-Knowing and All-Wise. (12:100)
• Then We sent Musa and his brother Harun with Our Signs and
clear authority. (23:45)
• Say to the believing women that they should lower their eyes and
guard their chastity and not display their adornments–except for
what normally shows–and draw their head-coverings across their
breasts. They should only display their adornments to their
husbands or their fathers or their husbands’ fathers, or their sons
or their husbands’ sons or their brothers or their brothers’ sons or
their sisters’ sons or their women or those they own as slaves or
their male attendants who have no sexual desire or children who
still have no awareness of women’s private parts. Nor should they
stamp their feet so that their hidden ornaments are known. Turn
to Allah every one of you, believers, so that hopefully you will
have success. (24:31)
• We gave Musa the Book and appointed his brother Harun with
him as a helper. (25:35)
• They said, ‘Detain him and his brother and send out marshals to
the cities.’ (26:36)
• When their brother Nuh said to them, ‘Will you not guard against
evil?’ (26:106)
• When their brother Hud said to them, ‘Will you not guard against
evil?’ (26:124)
• When their brother Salih said to them, ‘Will you not guard against
evil?’ (26:142)
• When their brother Lut said to them, ‘Will you not guard against
evil?’ (26:161)
• He said, ‘We will reinforce you with your brother and by Our Signs
will give you both authority, so that they will not be able to lay a
hand on you. You and those who follow you will be the victors.’
(28:35)
• Allah knows the obstructers among you and those who say to
their brothers, ‘Come to us,’ and who only come to fight a very
little. (33:18)
• (One of the two litigants said to Dawud,) ‘This brother of mine has
ninety-nine ewes and I have only one. He said, "Let me have
charge of it," and got the better of me with his words.’ (38:23)
• And ‘Ad and Pharaoh and the brothers of Lut (also denied the
truth). (50:13)
• You will not find people who believe in Allah and the Last Day
having love for anyone who opposes Allah and His Messenger,
though they be their fathers, their sons, their brothers or their clan.
Allah has inscribed faith upon such people’s hearts and will
reinforce them with a Spirit from Him and admit them into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them
timelessly, for ever. Allah is pleased with them and they are
pleased with Him. Such people are the party of Allah. Truly it is
the party of Allah who are successful. (58:22)
• Those who have come after them say, ‘Our Lord, forgive us and
our brothers who preceded us in faith and do not put any rancour
in our hearts towards those who believe. Our Lord, You are All-
Gentle, Most Merciful.’ (59:10)
• Did you not see the hypocrites saying to their brothers, those
among the People of the Book who disbelieve, ‘If you are driven
out we will leave with you, we will never obey anyone to your
detriment. And if you are fought against we will help you’? Allah
bears witness that they are truly liars. (59:11)
• (On) the Day a man will flee from his brother. (80:34)
BUILDING
• Those before them also plotted, and Allah came at their building
from the foundations and the roof caved in on top of them. The
punishment came at them from where they did not expect. (16:26)
• They said, ‘Build a pyre for him and fling him into the blaze!’
(37:97)
• And (We subjected) the Satans, every builder and diver (to
Sulayman). (38:37)
• But those who have fear of their Lord will have high-ceilinged
Halls, and more such Halls built one above the other, and rivers
flowing under them. That is Allah’s promise. Allah does not break
His promise. (39:20)
• As for heaven–We built it with great power and gave it its vast
expanse. (51:47)
• Allah loves those who fight in His Way in ranks like well-built walls.
(61:4)
BURDEN
• So on the Day of Rising they will carry the full weight of their own
burdens and some of the burdens of those they misguided
without knowledge. What an evil load they bear! (16:25)
• Those who turn away from it will bear a heavy burden on the Day
of Rising. (20:100)
• No burden-bearer can bear another’s burden. If someone
weighed down calls for help to bear his load, none of it will be
borne for him, even by his next of kin. You can only warn those
who fear their Lord in the Unseen and perform prayer. Whoever is
purified, is purified for himself alone. Allah is your final destination.
(35:18)
• If you are ungrateful, Allah is rich beyond need of any of you and
He is not pleased with ingratitude in His servants. But if you are
grateful, He is pleased with you for that. No burden-bearer can
bear another’s burden. Then you will return to your Lord and He
will inform you of what you did. He knows what the heart contains.
(39:7)
CALAMITIES
• And when you said, ‘Musa, we will not believe in you until we see
Allah with our own eyes.’ So the thunder-bolt struck you dead
while you were looking. (2:55)
• What are they waiting for but for Allah to come to them in the
shadows of the clouds, together with the angels, in which case
the matter will have been settled? All matters return to Allah.
(2:210)
• The People of the Book will ask you to bring down a Book from
heaven to them. They asked Musa for even more than that. They
said, ‘Let us see Allah with our own eyes.’ So the lightning-bolt
struck them down for their wrongdoing. Then they adopted the
Calf after the Clear Signs had come to them, but We pardoned
them for that and gave Musa clear authority. (4:153)
• But they denied him (Nuh) so We rescued him and those with him
in the Ark. And We drowned the people who denied Our Signs.
They were a blind people. (7:64)
• So We rescued him and those with him by mercy from Us, and
We cut off the last remnant of those who denied Our Signs and
were not believers. (7:72)
• We rained down a rain upon them. See the final fate of the
evildoers! (7:84)
• Let them (those who were left behind) laugh little and weep much,
in repayment for what they have earned. (9:82)
• Do they not see that they are tried once or twice in every year?
But still they do not turn back. They do not pay heed. (9:126)
• But they denied him (Nuh) so We rescued him, and all those with
him, in the Ark and We made them the successors and We
drowned the people who denied Our Signs. See the final fate of
those who were warned! (10:73)
• No one believed in Musa except for a few of his people out of fear
that Pharaoh, and the elders, would persecute them. Pharaoh
was high and mighty in the land. He was one of the profligate.
(10:83)
• The Great Blast seized hold of those who did wrong and morning
found them lying flattened in their homes. (11:67)
• So the Great Blast seized hold of them at the break of day. (15:73)
• But the Great Blast seized hold of them in the morning, (15:83)
• How many cities We have destroyed which lived in insolent
ingratitude! There are their houses, never again inhabited after
them, except a little. It was We who were their Heir. Your Lord
would never destroy any cities without first sending to the chief of
them a Messenger to recite Our Signs to them. We would never
destroy any cities unless their inhabitants were wrongdoers.
(28:58-59)
• They (the inhabitants of the city) said (to Our Messengers), ‘We
see an evil omen in you. If you do not stop we will stone you and
you will suffer a painful punishment at our hands.’ ( 36:18)
• Those before them also denied the truth but these people do not
have even a tenth of what We gave to them. They denied My
Messengers. And how complete was My denial! ( 34:45)
• And they say, ‘When will this promise come about if you are
telling the truth?’(36:48)
• The assembly will be routed and will turn their backs in flight. In
fact the Hour is their promised appointment and the Hour is more
disastrous and bitter! (54:45-46)
CALENDAR
• There have been twelve months with Allah in the Book of Allah,
from the day He first created the heavens and earth. Four of them
are forbidden. That is the True Religion. So do not wrong one
another during them. However, fight the idolaters totally just as
they fight you totally, and know that Allah is with those who guard
against evil. (9:36)
• And when We allotted to Musa forty nights. Then you adopted the
Calf when he had gone and you were wrongdoers. (2:51)
• And when Musa said to his people, ‘My people, You wronged
yourselves by adopting the Calf so turn towards your Maker and
kill yourselves. That is the best thing for you in your Maker’s
sight.’ And He turned towards you. He is the Ever-Returning, the
Most Merciful. (2:54)
• Musa brought you the Clear Signs; then, after he left, you
adopted the Calf and were wrongdoers. (2:92)
• The People of the Book will ask you to bring down a Book from
heaven to them. They asked Musa for even more than that. They
said, ‘Let us see Allah with our own eyes.’ So the lightning-bolt
struck them down for their wrongdoing. Then they adopted the
Calf after the Clear Signs had come to them, but We pardoned
them for that and gave Musa clear authority. (4:153)
• As for those who adopted the Calf, anger from their Lord will
overtake them together with abasement in the life of this world.
That is how we repay the purveyors of falsehood. (7:152)
• Then he (Samaritan) produced a calf for them, a physical form
which made a lowing sound. So they said, ‘This is your god–and
Musa’s god as well, but he forgot.’ (20:88)
• Could they not see that it did not reply to them and that it
possessed no power to either harm or benefit them? (20:89)
• Harun had earlier said to them, ‘My people! It is just a trial for you.
Your Lord is the All-Merciful, so follow me and obey my
command!’ (20:90)
• They said, ‘We will not stop devoting ourselves to it until Musa
returns to us.’ (20:91)
CALLING ON (DU´A)
• And when Ibrahim built the foundations of the House with Isma‘il:
‘Our Lord, accept this from us! You are the All-Hearing, the All-
Knowing.’ (2:127)
• Then and there Zakariyya called on his Lord and said, ‘O Lord,
grant me by Your favour an upright child. You are the Hearer of
Prayer.’ (3:38)
• Do not chase away those who call on their Lord morning and
evening, seeking His Face. Their reckoning is in no way your
responsibility and your reckoning is in no way their responsibility.
Indeed if you did chase them away, you would be among the
wrongdoers. (6:52)
• Say: ‘Who rescues you from the darkness of the land and sea?
You call on Him humbly and secretly: "If you rescue us from this,
we will truly be among the thankful."’ (6:63)
• Say: ‘Are we to call on something besides Allah which can neither
help nor harm us, and to turn on our heels after Allah has guided
us, like someone the Satans have lured away in the earth, leaving
him confused and stupefied, despite the fact that he has
companions calling him to guidance, saying, "Come with us!"?’
Say: ‘Allah's guidance, that is true guidance. We are commanded
to submit as Muslims to the Lord of all the worlds.’ (6:71)
• Do not curse those they call upon besides Allah, in case that
makes them curse Allah in animosity, without knowledge. In this
way We make the actions of every nation seem attractive to them.
Then they will return to their Lord, and He will inform them about
what they did. (6:108)
• Say: ‘My Lord has commanded justice. Stand and face Him in
every mosque and call on Him, making your religion sincerely His.
As He originated you, so you will return.’ (7:29)
• Call on your Lord humbly and secretly. He does not love those
who overstep the limits. (7:55)
• Do not corrupt the earth after it has been put right. Call on Him
fearfully and eagerly. Allah’s mercy is close to the good-doers.
(7:56)
• It is He Who created you from a single self and made from him
his spouse so that he might find repose in her. Then when he
covered her she bore a light load and carried it around. Then
when it became heavy they called on Allah, their Lord, ‘If You
grant us a healthy child, we will be among the thankful!’ (7:189)
• Their call there is: ‘Glory be to You, O Allah!’ Their greeting there
is: ‘Peace!’ The end of their call is: ‘Praise be to Allah, the Lord of
all the worlds!’ (10:10)
• When harm touches man, he calls on Us, lying on his side or
sitting down or standing up. Then when We remove the harm
from him he carries on as if he had never called on Us when the
harm first touched him. In that way We make what they have
done appear good to the profligate. (10:12)
• The call of truth is made to Him alone. Those they call upon apart
from Him do not respond to them at all. It is like someone
stretching out his cupped hands towards water to convey it to his
mouth: it will never get there. The call of the disbelievers only
goes astray. (13:14)
• And (Zakariyya) said, ‘My Lord, my bones have lost their strength
and my head is crowned with white, but in calling on You, My
Lord, I have never been disappointed.’ (19:4)
• (Ibrahim said,) ‘I will separate myself from you and all you call
upon besides Allah and I will call upon my Lord. It may well be
that, in calling on my Lord, I will not be disappointed.’ (19:48)
• We responded to him and gave him Yahya, restoring for him his
wife’s fertility. They outdid one another in good actions, calling out
to Us in yearning and in awe, and humbling themselves to Us.
(21:90)
• Say: ‘What has My Lord to do with you if you do not call on Him?
But you have denied the truth, so punishment is bound to come.’
(25:77)
• So do not call on any other god along with Allah or you will be
among those who will be punished. (26:213)
• Ibrahim said, ‘Do they hear you when you call or do they help you
or do you harm?’ (26:72-73)
• When the waves hang over them like canopies, they call on Allah,
making their religion sincerely His. But then when He delivers
them safely to the land, some of them are ambivalent. None but a
treacherous, thankless man denies Our Signs. (31:32)
• Their sides eschew their beds as they call on their Lord in fear
and ardent hope. And they give of what We have provided for
them. (32:16)
• When harm touches man he calls upon his Lord, repenting to Him.
Then when He grants him a blessing from Him, he forgets what
he was calling for before and ascribes rivals to Allah, so as to
misguide others from His Way. Say: ‘Enjoy your disbelief for a
little while. You are among the Companions of the Fire.’ (39:8)
• So call upon Allah, making your religion sincerely His, even
though the disbelievers detest it. (40:14)
• Pharaoh said, ‘Let me kill Musa and let him call upon his Lord! I
am afraid that he may change your religion and bring about
corruption in the land.’ (40:26)
• Those in the Fire will say to the custodians of Hell, ‘Call on your
Lord to make the punishment less for us for just one day.’ (40:49)
• They will ask, ‘Did your Messengers not bring you the Clear
Signs?’ They will answer, ‘Yes.’ They will say, ‘Then you call!’
But the calling of the disbelievers only goes astray. (40:50)
• Your Lord says, ‘Call on Me and I will answer you. Those who
who are too proud to worship Me will enter Hell abject.’ (40:60)
• Say: ‘I call only upon my Lord and do not associate anyone else
with Him.’ (72:20)
CALLING WITH DEROGATORY NICKNAMES
• You who believe! People should not ridicule others who may be
better than themselves; nor should any women ridicule other
women who may be better than themselves. And do not find fault
with one another or insult each other with derogatory nicknames.
How evil it is to have a name for evil conduct after coming to faith!
Those people who do not turn from it are wrongdoers. (49:11)
CAMEL
• And a pair of camels and a pair of cattle–Say: ‘Is it the two males
He has made forbidden, or the two females, or what the wombs of
the two females contain? Were you then witnesses when Allah
gave you this instruction?’ Who could do greater wrong than
someone who invents lies against Allah thus leading people
astray without any knowledge? Allah does not guide the people of
the wrongdoers. (6:144)
• As for those who deny Our Signs and are arrogant regarding
them, the Gates of Heaven will not be opened for them, and they
will not enter the Garden until a camel goes through a needle’s
eye. That is how We repay the evildoers. (7:40)
• And to Thamud We sent their brother Salih, who said, ‘My people,
worship Allah! You have no other god than Him. A Clear Sign has
come to you from your Lord. This is the She-Camel of Allah as a
Sign for you. Leave her alone to eat on Allah’s earth and do not
harm her in any way or a painful punishment will afflict you.’ (7:73)
• Nothing has prevented Us sending you Signs except the fact that
the previous peoples denied them. We gave Thamud the she-
camel as a visible Sign, and then they mistreated her. We do not
send Signs except to frighten people. (17:59)
• Salih said, ‘Here is a she-camel. She has a time for drinking and
you have a time for drinking–on specified days.’ (26:155)
• Then you, you misguided, you deniers will eat from the tree of
Zaqqum, filling your stomachs with it and drink scalding water on
top of it, slurping like thirst-crazed camels. (56:51-55)
CAPTIVE
• Then you are the people who are killing one another and
expelling a group among you from their homes, ganging up
against them in wrongdoing and enmity. Yet if they are brought to
you as captives, you ransom them, when it was forbidden for you
to expel them in the first place! Do you, then, believe in one part
of the Book and reject the other? What repayment will there be
for any of you who do that except disgrace in this world? And on
the Day of Rising, they will be returned to the harshest of
punishments. Allah is not unaware of what you do. (2:85)
• They (the believers) give food, despite their love for it, to the poor
and orphans and captives. (76:8)
CARAVAN
• One of them said, ‘Do not take Yusuf’s life but throw him to the
bottom of the well, so that some (caravan of) travellers may
discover him, if this is something that you have to do.’ (12:10)
• Then when he had supplied them with their needs, he put the
goblet in his brother’s bag. A herald called out, ‘Caravan! You are
thieves!’ (12:70)
• And when the caravan went on its way, their father said, ‘I can
smell Yusuf’s scent! You probably think I have become senile.’
(12:94)
CARPET
• Allah has made your houses places of rest for you and made
houses for you out of cattle hides which are light for you to carry
both when you are travelling and when you are staying in one
place. And from their wool and fur and hair you obtain clothing
and carpets and household utensils for a time. (16:80)
• And the earth–We spread it like a carpet and how well We
smoothed it out! (51:48)
• Allah has spread the earth out as a carpet for you. (71:19)
CARRION
• He has only forbidden you carrion, blood and pork and what has
been consecrated to other than Allah. But anyone who is forced
to eat it–without desiring it or going to excess in it–commits no
crime. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (2:173)
• Forbidden for you are carrion, blood and pork, and what has been
consecrated to other than Allah, and animals which have been
strangled, and animals which have been killed by a blow, and
animals which have fallen to their death, and animals which have
been gored, and animals which wild beasts have eaten–except
those you are able to slaughter properly–and animals which have
been sacrificed on altars, and deciding things by means of
divining arrows–that is deviance. Today those who disbelieve
have despaired of overcoming your religion. So do not be afraid
of them but be afraid of Me. Today I have perfected your religion
for you and completed My blessing upon you and I am pleased
with Islam as a religion for you. But if anyone is forced by hunger,
not intending any wrongdoing, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. (5:3)
• Say: ‘I do not find, in what has been revealed to me, any food it is
forbidden to eat except for carrion, flowing blood, and pork–for
that is unclean–or some deviance consecrated to other than Allah.
But if anyone is forced to eat it, without desiring to or going to
excess in it, your Lord is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.’ (6:145)
CARVING OUT
CASTLE
CATTLE
• (Satan said,) ‘I will lead them astray and fill them with false hopes.
I will command them and they will cut off cattle’s ears. I will
command them and they will change Allah’s creation.’ Anyone
who takes Satan as his protector in place of Allah has clearly lost
everything. (4:119)
• And a pair of camels and a pair of cattle–Say: ‘Is it the two males
He has made forbidden, or the two females, or what the wombs of
the two females contain? Were you then witnesses when Allah
gave you this instruction?’ Who could do greater wrong than
someone who invents lies against Allah thus leading people
astray without any knowledge? Allah does not guide the people of
the wrongdoers. (6:144)
• We created many of the jinn and mankind for Hell. They have
hearts they do not understand with. They have eyes they do not
see with. They have ears they do not hear with. Such people are
like cattle. No, they are even further astray! They are the unaware.
(7:179)
• Allah has made your houses places of rest for you and made
houses for you out of cattle hides which are light for you to carry
both when you are travelling and when you are staying in one
place. And from their wool and fur and hair you obtain clothing
and carpets and household utensils for a time. (16:80)
• Eat and pasture your cattle. Certainly there are Signs in that for
people of sound intellect. (20:54)
• Allah will admit those who believe to Gardens with rivers flowing
under them. Those who disbelieve have their enjoyment, eating
as cattle eat, but the Fire will be their final residence. (47:12)
CAVE
• If you do not help him, Allah did help him when those who
disbelieved drove him out and there were two of them in the Cave.
He said to his companion, ‘Do not be despondent, Allah is with
us.’ Then Allah sent down His serenity upon him and reinforced
him with troops you could not see. He made the word of those
who disbelieved undermost. It is the word of Allah which is
uppermost. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (9:40)
• If they could find a bolt-hole, cave or burrow, they would turn and
scurry away into it. (9:57)
• When the young men took refuge in the cave and said, ‘Our Lord,
give us mercy directly from You and open the way for us to right
guidance in our situation.’ (18:10)
• You would have seen the sun, when it rose, inclining away from
their cave towards the right, and, when it set, leaving them behind
on the left, while they were lying in an open part of it. That was
one of Allah’s Signs. Whoever Allah guides is truly guided. But if
He misguides someone, you will find no protector for them to
guide them rightly. (18:17)
• They stayed in their Cave for three hundred years and added
nine. (18:25)
CERTAIN, THE
• And worship your Lord until what is Certain comes to you. (15:99)
• (The evildoers will say,) ‘We plunged with those who plunged and
denied the Day of Judgment until the Certain came to us.’ (74:45-
47)
CERTAINTY
• (The Qur’an contains guidance for) those who believe in what has
been sent down to you and what was sent down before you, and
are certain about the hereafter. (2:4)
• Those who do not know say, ‘If only Allah would speak to us, or
some sign come to us!’ just like those before them who said the
same as they say. Their hearts are much the same. We have
made the Signs clear for people who have certainty. (2:118)
• Do they then seek the judgement of the Time of Ignorance? Who
could be better at giving judgement than Allah for people with
certainty? (5:50)
• (Believers are) those who perform prayer and give the alms and
are certain about the hereafter. (27:3)
• When the Word is justly carried out against them, We will produce
a Beast from the earth which will speak to them. Truly mankind
had no certainty about Our Signs. (27:82)
• (Good-doers are) those who perform prayer and give the alms
and are certain of the hereafter. (31:4)
• If only you could see the evildoers hanging their heads in shame
before their Lord: ‘Our Lord, we have seen and we have heard,
so send us back again and we will act rightly. Truly we now have
certainty.’ (32:12)
• (He is) the Lord of the heavens and the earth and everything in
between them, if you are people with certainty. (44:7)
• And in your creation and all the creatures He has spread about
there are Signs for people with certainty. (45:4)
• This is clear insight for mankind and guidance and mercy for
people with certainty. (45:20)
• There are certainly Signs in the earth for people with certainty.
(51:20)
• Or did they create the heavens and the earth? No, in truth they
have no certainty. (52:36)
CHARACTER
• Perform the pilgrimage and the pious visit for Allah. If you are
forcibly prevented, make whatever sacrifice is feasible. But do not
shave your heads until the sacrificial animal has reached the
place of sacrifice. If any of you are ill or have a head injury, the
expiation is fasting or charity or sacrifice when you are safe and
well again. And if you are secure, then he who takes advantage
of a pious visit before the pilgrimage should make whatever
sacrifice is feasible. For any one who cannot, there is three days’
fast on pilgrimage and seven on your return–that is ten in all. That
is for anyone whose family does not live near the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram). Have fear of Allah and know that Allah is fierce
in retribution. (2:196)
• If you make your charity public, that is good. But if you conceal it
and give it to the poor, that is better for you, and We will erase
some of your bad actions from you. Allah is aware of what you do.
(2:271)
• We prescribed for them in it: a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a
nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth, and
retaliation for wounds. But if anyone forgoes that as a charity, it
will act as expiation for him. Those who do not judge by what
Allah has sent down, such people are wrongdoers. (5:45)
• As for the people who find fault with those believers who give
charity spontaneously, and with those who can find nothing to
give but their own effort, and deride them, Allah derides them.
They will have a painful punishment. (9:79)
• Take charity from their wealth to purify and cleanse them and
pray for them. Your prayers bring relief to them. Allah is All-
Hearing, All-Knowing. (9:103)
• Men and women who are Muslims, men and women who are
believers, men and women who are obedient, men and women
who are truthful, men and women who are steadfast, men and
women who are humble, men and women who give charity, men
and women who fast, men and women who guard their chastity,
men and women who remember Allah much: Allah has prepared
forgiveness for them and an immense reward. (33:35)
• The men and women who give charity and make a good loan to
Allah will have it increased for them and they will have a
generous reward. (57:18)
• Give from what We have provided for you before death comes to
one of you and he says, ‘My Lord, if only you would give me a
little more time so that I can give charity and be one of the
righteous!’ (63:10)
CHASTITY
• If any of you do not have the means to marry free women who
are believers, you may marry slavegirls who are believers. Allah
knows best about your faith; you are all the same in that respect.
Marry them with their owners’ permission and give them their
dowries correctly and courteously as married women, not in
fornication or taking them as lovers. When they are married, if
they commit fornication they should receive half the punishment
of free women. This is for those of you who are afraid of
committing fornication. But being patient is better for you. Allah is
Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:25)
• Today all good things have been made lawful for you. And the
food of those given the Book is also lawful for you and your food
is lawful for them. So are chaste women from among the
believers and chaste women of those given the Book before you,
once you have given them their dowries in marriage, not in
fornication or taking them as lovers. But as for anyone who
rejects faith, his actions will come to nothing and in the hereafter
he will be among the losers. (5:5)
• She (Maryam) said, ‘How can I have a boy when no man has
touched me and I am not an unchaste woman?’ (19:20)
• Say to the believers that they should lower their eyes and guard
their chastity. That is purer for them. Allah is aware of what they
do. (24:30)
• Say to the believing women that they should lower their eyes and
guard their chastity and not display their adornments–except for
what normally shows–and draw their head-coverings across their
breasts. They should only display their adornments to their
husbands or their fathers or their husbands’ fathers, or their sons
or their husbands’ sons or their brothers or their brothers’ sons or
their sisters’ sons or other women or those they own as slaves or
their male attendants who have no sexual desire or children who
still have no awareness of women’s private parts. Nor should they
stamp their feet so that their hidden ornaments are known. Turn
to Allah every one of you, believers, so that hopefully you will
have success. (24:31)
• Men and women who are Muslims, men and women who are
believers, men and women who are obedient, men and women
who are truthful, men and women who are steadfast, men and
women who are humble, men and women who give charity, men
and women who fast, men and women who guard their chastity,
men and women who remember Allah much: Allah has prepared
forgiveness for them and an immense reward. (33:35)
CHILDREN
• Mothers should nurse their children for two full years–those who
wish to complete the full term of nursing. It is the duty of the
fathers to feed and clothe them with correctness and courtesy–no
self is charged with more than it can bear. No mother should be
put under pressure in respect of her child nor any father in
respect of his child. The same duty is incumbent on the heir. If the
couple both wish weaning to take place after mutual agreement
and consultation, there is nothing wrong in their doing that. If you
wish to find wet-nurses for your children, there is nothing wrong in
your doing that provided you hand over to them what you have
agreed to give with correctness and courtesy. Have fear of Allah
and know that Allah sees what you do. (2:233)
• What do you think about the council of the tribe of Israel after
Musa’s time when they said to one of their Prophets, ‘Give us a
king and we will fight in the Way of Allah!’? He said, ‘Is it not
possible that if fighting were prescribed for you, you would not
fight?’ They said, ‘How could we not fight in the way of Allah when
we have been driven from our homes and children?’ But then
when fighting was prescribed for them, they turned their backs–
except for a few of them. Allah knows the wrongdoers. (2:246)
• Would any of you like to have a garden of dates and grapes, with
rivers flowing underneath and containing all kinds of fruits, then to
be stricken with old age and have children who are weak, and
then for a fierce whirlwind containing fire to come and strike it so
that it goes up in flames? In this way Allah makes His Signs clear
to you, so that hopefully you will reflect. (2:266)
• As for those who disbelieve, their wealth and children will not help
them against Allah in any way. They are fuel for the Fire. (3:10)
• When she gave birth, she said, ‘My Lord! I have given birth to a
girl’–and Allah knew very well what she had given birth to, male
and female are not the same–‘and I have named her Maryam and
placed her and her children in Your safekeeping from the
accursed Satan.’ (3:36)
• Then and there Zakariyya called on his Lord and said, ‘O Lord,
grant me by Your favour an upright child. You are the Hearer of
Prayer.’ (3:38)
• She (Maryam) said, ‘My Lord! How can I have a son when no
man has ever touched me?’ He said, ‘It will be so.’ Allah creates
whatever He wills. When He decides on something, He just says
to it, ‘Be!’ and it is. (3:47)
• As for those who disbelieve, their wealth and children will not help
them against Allah in any way. They are the Companions of the
Fire. remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (3:116)
• People should show concern in the same way that they would
fear for small children if they were to die leaving them behind.
They should have fear of Allah and say words that are
appropriate. (4:9)
• You receive half of what your wives leave if they are childless. If
they have children you receive a quarter of what they leave after
any bequest they make or any debts. They receive a quarter of
what you leave if you are childless. If you have children they
receive an eighth of what you leave after any bequest you make
or any debts. If a man or woman has no direct heirs, but has a
brother or sister, each of them receives a sixth. If there are more
than that they share in a third after any bequest you make or any
debts, making sure that no one’s rights are prejudiced. This is an
instruction from Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Forbearing. (4:12)
• What reason could you have for not fighting in the Way of Allah–
for those men, women and children who are oppressed and say,
‘Our Lord, take us out of this city whose inhabitants are
wrongdoers! Give us a protector from You! Give us a helper from
You!’? (4:75)
• Except for those men, women and children who really are
oppressed and do not have any other possibility and are not
guided to any way. (4:98)
• They request from you a ruling. Say: ‘Allah gives you a ruling
about people who die without direct heirs: If a man dies childless
but has a sister she receives half of what he leaves, and he is her
heir if she dies childless. If there are two sisters they receive two-
thirds of what he leaves. If there are brothers and sisters the
males receive the share of two females. Allah makes things clear
to you so you will not go astray. Allah has knowledge of all
things.’ (4:176)
• The Jews and Christians say, ‘We are Allah’s children and His
loved ones.’ Say: ‘Why, then, does He punish you for your wrong
actions? No, you are merely human beings among those He has
created. He forgives whoever He wills and He punishes whoever
He wills. The kingdom of the heavens and the earth and
everything between them belongs to Allah. He is our final
destination.’ (5:18)
• In the same way their idols have made killing their children
appear good to many of the idolaters, in order to destroy them
and confuse them in their religion. If Allah had willed, they would
not have done it; so abandon them and what they fabricate.
(6:137)
• Those who kill their children foolishly without any knowledge and
make what Allah has provided for them forbidden, inventing lies
against Allah, such people are lost. They are misguided. They are
not guided. (6:140)
• Say: ‘Come and I will recite to you what your Lord has made
forbidden for you’: that you do not associate anything with Him;
that you are good to your parents; that you do not kill your
children because of poverty–We will provide for you and them;
that you do not approach indecency–outward or inward; that you
do not kill any person Allah has made inviolate–except with the
right to do so. That is what He instructs you to do so that
hopefully you will use your intellect. (6:151)
• The ruling circle of Pharaoh’s people said, ‘Are you going to leave
Musa and his people to cause corruption in the earth and
abandon you and your gods?’ He said, ‘We will kill their sons and
let their women live. We have absolute power over them!’ (7:127)
• It is He Who created you from a single self and made from him
his spouse so that he might find repose in her. Then when he
covered her she bore a light load and carried it around. Then
when it became heavy they called on Allah, their Lord, ‘If You
grant us a healthy child, we will be among the thankful!’ (7:189)
• Know that your wealth and children are a trial and that there is an
immense reward with Allah. (8:28)
• Do not let their wealth and children impress you. Allah merely
wants to punish them by them during their life in this world and for
them to expire while they are disbelievers. (9:55)
• Like those before you who had greater strength than you and
more wealth and children. They enjoyed their portion; so enjoy
your portion as those before you enjoyed theirs. You have
plunged into defamation as they plunged into it. The actions of
such people come to nothing in this world or the hereafter. They
are the lost. (9:69)
• Do not let their wealth and their children impress you. Allah
merely wants to punish them by them in this world, and for them
to expire while they are disbelievers. (9:85)
• Some travellers came that way and then dispatched their water-
drawer who let his bucket down. He said, ‘Good news for me, I’ve
found a boy!’ They then hid him away among their goods. Allah
knew very well what they were doing. (12:19)
• He (Ya‘qub) said, ‘My sons! You must not enter through a single
gate. Go in through different gates. But I cannot save you from
Allah at all, for judgement comes from no one but Allah. In Him I
put my trust, and let all those who put their trust, put it in Him
alone.’ (12:67)
• Gardens of Eden which they will enter, and all of their parents,
wives and children who were righteous. Angels will enter in to
welcome them from every gate. (13:23)
• When Ibrahim said, ‘My Lord! Make this land a place of safety
and keep me and my sons from worshipping idols.’ (14:35)
• They (the guests of Ibrahim) said, ‘Do not be afraid. We bring you
the good news of a boy of great knowledge.’ (15:53)
• Allah has given you wives from among yourselves, and given you
children and grandchildren from your wives, and provided good
things for you. So why do they believe in falsehood and reject the
blessings of Allah? (16:72)
• Then once again We gave you the upper hand over them and
supplied you with more wealth and children and made you the
most numerous group. (17:6)
• Do not kill your children out of fear of being poor. We will provide
for them and you. Killing them is a terrible mistake. (17:31)
• (Allah said to Satan,) ‘Stir up any of them you can with your voice
and rally against them your cavalry and your infantry and share
with them in their children and their wealth and make them
promises!’ The promise of Satan is nothing but delusion. (17:64)
• And say: ‘Praise be to Allah Who has had no son and Who has
no partner in His Kingdom and Who needs no one to protect Him
from abasement.’ And proclaim His Greatness repeatedly!
(17:111)
• And (the Book is) to warn those who say ‘Allah has a son.’ (18:4)
• Wealth and sons are the embellishment of the life of this world.
But, in your Lord’s sight, right actions which are lasting bring a
better reward and are a better basis for hope. (18:46)
• (His Lord said,) ‘Zakariyya! We give you the good news of a boy
named Yahya, a name we have given to no one else before.’
(19:7)
• She (Maryam) said, ‘How can I have a boy when no man has
touched me and I am not an unchaste woman?’ (19:20)
• She pointed towards him. They said, ‘How can a baby in the
cradle speak?’ (19:29)
• Have you seen him who rejects Our Signs and says, ‘I will
certainly be given wealth and children there.’? (19:77)
• The heavens are all but rent apart and the earth split open and
the mountains brought crashing down, at their ascription of a son
to the All-Merciful! (19:90-91)
• They say, ‘The All-Merciful has a son.’ Glory be to Him! No, they
(the angels) are honoured servants! (21:26)
• Mankind! If you are in any doubt about the Rising, know that We
created you from dust then from a drop of sperm then from a clot
of blood then from a lump of flesh, formed yet unformed, so We
may make things clear to you. We make whatever We want stay
in the womb until a specified time and then We bring you out as
children so that you can reach your full maturity. Some of you die
and some of you revert to the lowest form of life so that, after
having knowledge, they then know nothing at all. And you see the
earth dead and barren; then when We send down water onto it it
quivers and swells and sprouts with luxuriant plants of every kind.
(22:5)
• Say to the believing women that they should lower their eyes and
guard their chastity and not display their adornments–except for
what normally shows–and draw their head-coverings across their
breasts. They should only display their adornments to their
husbands or their fathers or their husbands’ fathers, or their sons
or their husbands’ sons or their brothers or their brothers’ sons or
their sisters’ sons or their women or those they own as slaves or
their male attendants who have no sexual desire or children who
still have no awareness of women’s private parts. Nor should they
stamp their feet so that their hidden ornaments are known. Turn
to Allah every one of you, believers, so that hopefully you will
have success. (24:31)
• Once your children have reached puberty, they should ask your
permission to enter as those before them also asked permission.
In this way Allah makes His Signs clear to you. Allah is All-
Knowing, All-Wise. (24:59)
• As for women who are past child-bearing age and no longer have
any hope of getting married, there is nothing wrong in their
removing their outer clothes, provided they do not flaunt their
adornments; but to refrain from doing so is better for them. Allah
is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (24:60)
• (Believers are) those who say, ‘Our Lord, give us joy in our wives
and children and make us a good example for those who guard
against evil’. (25:74)
• Have fear of Him Who has supplied you with what you know,
supplied you with livestock and children. (26:132-133)
• Mankind! Have fear of your Lord and fear a day when no father
will be able to atone for his son, or son for his father, in any way.
Allah’s promise is true. So do not let the life of this world delude
you and do not let the Deluder delude you concerning Allah.
(31:33)
• Allah has not allotted to any man two hearts within his breast, nor
has He made those of your wives you equate with your mothers
your actual mothers, nor has He made your adopted sons your
actual sons. These are just words coming out of your mouths. But
Allah speaks the truth and He guides to the Way. (33:4)
• They also said, ‘We have more wealth and children. We are not
going to be punished.’ (34:35)
• It is not your wealth or your children that will bring you near to
Us–only in the case of people who believe and act rightly; such
people will have a double recompense for what they did. They will
be safe from all harm in the High Halls of Paradise. (34:37)
• Our Lord, admit them to the Gardens of Eden You have promised
them, and all of their parents, wives and children who acted
rightly. Truly You are the Almighty, the All-Wise. (40:8)
• When he brought them the truth from Us they said, ‘Slaughter the
sons of those who believe with him but let their women live.’ The
stratagems of the disbelievers are nothing but errors. (40:25)
• Say: ‘If the All-Merciful had a son, I would be the first to worship
him.’ (43:81)
• He (Ibrahim) felt afraid of them but they said, ‘Do not be afraid!’
and gave him the good news of a son imbued with knowledge.
(51:28)
• Know that the life of this world is merely a game and a diversion
and ostentation and a cause of boasting among yourselves and
trying to outdo one another in wealth and children: like the plant-
growth after rain which delights the cultivators, but then it withers
and you see it turning yellow, and then it becomes broken stubble.
In the hereafter there is terrible punishment but also forgiveness
from Allah and His good pleasure. The life of this world is nothing
but the enjoyment of delusion. (57:20)
• Neither their wealth nor their children will help them at all against
Allah. Such people are the Companions of the Fire, remaining in
it timelessly, for ever. (58:17)
• You will not find people who believe in Allah and the Last Day
having love for anyone who opposes Allah and His Messenger,
though they be their fathers, their sons, their brothers or their clan.
Allah has inscribed faith upon such people’s hearts and will
reinforce them with a Spirit from Him and admit them into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them
timelessly, for ever. Allah is pleased with them and they are
pleased with Him. Such people are the party of Allah. Truly it is
the party of Allah who are successful. (58:22)
• Neither your blood relations nor your children will be of any use to
you. On the Day of Rising He will differentiate between you. Allah
sees what you do. (60:3)
• You who believe! Do not let your wealth or children divert you
from the remembrance of Allah. Whoever does that is lost. (63:9)
• You who believe! Some of your wives and children are an enemy
to you, so be wary of them. But if you pardon and exonerate and
forgive, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (64:14)
• Your wealth and children are a trial. But with Allah there is an
immense reward. (64:15)
• Nuh said, ‘My Lord, they have disobeyed me and followed those
whose wealth and children have only increased them in loss.’
(71:21)
• When the Deafening Blast comes, the Day a man will flee from
his brother and his mother and his father, and his wife and his
children. (80:33-36)
CHILDREN OF ADEM
• When your Lord took out all their descendants from the loins of
the children of Adam and made them testify against themselves
‘Am I not your Lord?’ they said, ‘We testify that indeed You are!’
Lest you say on the Day of Rising, ‘We knew nothing of this.’
(7:172)
• We have honoured the sons of Adam and conveyed them on land
and sea and provided them with good things and favoured them
greatly over many We have created. (17:70)
CHRISTIANS
• Those with faith, those who are Jews, and the Christians and
Sabaeans, all who believe in Allah and the Last Day and act
rightly, will have their reward with their Lord. They will feel no fear
and will know no sorrow. (2:62)
• They say, ‘No one will enter the Garden except for Jews and
Christians.’ Such is their vain hope. Say, ‘Produce your evidence
if you are telling the truth.’ (2:111)
• The Jews say, ‘The Christians have nothing to stand on,’ and the
Christians say, ‘The Jews have nothing to stand on,’ yet they both
recite the Book. Those who do not know say the same as they
say. Allah will judge between them on the Day of Rising regarding
the things about which they differ. (2:113)
• They say, ‘Allah has a son.’ Glory be to Him! No, everything in the
heavens and earth belongs to Him. Everything is obedient to Him.
(2:116)
• The Jews and the Christians will never be pleased with you until
you follow their religion. Say, ‘Allah’s guidance is the true
guidance.’ If you were to follow their whims and desires, after the
knowledge that has come to you, you would find no protector or
helper against Allah. (2:120)
• They say, ‘Be Jews or Christians and you will be guided.’ Say,
‘Rather adopt the religion of Ibrahim, a man of natural pure belief.
He was not one of the idolaters.’ (2:135)
• Or do they say that Ibrahim and Isma‘il and Ishaq and Ya‘qub and
the Tribes were Jews or Christians? Say, ‘Do you know better or
does Allah?’ Who could do greater wrong than someone who
hides the evidence he has been given by Allah? Allah is not
unaware of what you do. (2:140)
• When Allah said, ‘‘Isa, I will take you back and raise you up to Me
and purify you of those who disbelieve. And I will place the people
who follow you above those who disbelieve until the Day of Rising.
Then you will all return to Me, and I will judge between you
regarding the things about which you differed.’ (3:55)
• The Jews and Christians say, ‘We are Allah’s children and His
loved ones.’ Say: ‘Why, then, does He punish you for your wrong
actions? No, you are merely human beings among those He has
created. He forgives whoever He wills and He punishes whoever
He wills. The kingdom of the heavens and the earth and
everything between them belongs to Allah. He is our final
destination.’ (5:18)
• The people of the Gospel should judge by what Allah sent down
in it. Those who do not judge by what Allah has sent down, such
people are deviators. (5:47)
• You who believe! Do not take the Jews and Christians as your
friends; they are the friends of one another. Any of you who takes
them as friends is one of them. Allah does not guide wrongdoing
people. (5:51)
• Those who believe and those who are Jews and the Sabaeans
and the Christians, all who believe in Allah and the Last Day and
act rightly will feel no fear and will know no sorrow. (5:69)
• Those who say that the Messiah, son of Maryam, is Allah are
disbelievers. The Messiah said, ‘Tribe of Israel! Worship Allah,
my Lord and your Lord. If anyone associates anything with Allah,
Allah has forbidden him the Garden and his refuge will be the
Fire.’ The wrongdoers will have no helpers. (5:72)
• You will find that the people most hostile to those who believe are
the Jews and the idolaters. You will find the people most
affectionate to those who believe are those who say, ‘We are
Christians.’ That is because some of them are priests and monks
and because they are not arrogant. (5:82)
• The Jews say, ‘Uzayr is the son of Allah,’ and the Christians say,
‘The Messiah is the son of Allah.’ That is what they say with their
mouths, copying the words of those who disbelieved before. May
Allah destroy them! How perverted they are! (9:30)
• They have taken their rabbis and monks as lords besides Allah,
and also the Messiah, son of Maryam. Yet they were commanded
to worship only one God. There is no god but Him! Glory be to
Him above anything they associate with Him! (9:31)
• As for those who believe and those who are Jews and the
Sabaeans and the Christians, Magians and idolaters, Allah will
distinguish between them on the Day of Rising. Allah is witness of
all things. (22:17)
CHURCH
• ... if Allah had not driven some people back by means of others,
monasteries, churches, synagogues and mosques, where Allah’s
name is mentioned much, would have been pulled down and
destroyed. Allah will certainly help those who help Him–Allah is
All-Strong, Almighty. (22:40)
(TO) CIRCLE
• And We located the position of the House for Ibrahim: ‘Do not
associate anything with Me and purify My House for those who
circle it, and those who stand and bow and prostrate.’ (22:26)
• (We said to Ibrahim,) ‘Then they should end their state of self-
neglect and fulfil their vows and circle the Ancient House.’ (22:29)
CISTERN
CITY
• What reason could you have for not fighting in the Way of Allah–
for those men, women and children who are oppressed and say,
‘Our Lord, take us out of this city whose inhabitants are
wrongdoers! Give us a protector from You! Give us a helper from
You!’? (4:75)
• This is a Book We have sent down and blessed, confirming what
came before it, so that you can warn the Mother of Cities (Makka)
and the people around it. Those who believe in the hereafter
believe in it and safeguard their prayer. (6:92)
• That was because their Lord would never have destroyed the
cities unjustly while their people were unaware. (6:131)
• The ruling circle of those of his people who were arrogant said,
‘We will drive you out of our city, Shu‘ayb, you and those who
believe along with you, unless you return to our religion.’ He said,
‘What, even though we detest it?’ (7:88)
• If only the people of the cities had believed and guarded against
evil, We would have opened up to them blessings from heaven
and earth. But they denied the truth so We seized them for what
they earned. (7:96)
• Do the people of the cities feel secure against Our violent force
coming down on them in the night while they are asleep? (7:97)
• Or do the people of the cities feel secure against Our violent force
coming down on them in the day while they are playing games?
(7:98)
• They said, ‘Detain him and his brother and send out marshals to
the cities,’ (7:111)
• Pharaoh said, ‘Have you believed in him before I authorised you
to do so? This is just some plot you have concocted in the city to
drive its people from it.’ (7:123)
• Has the news of those who came before them not reached them,
the people of Nuh and ‘Ad and Thamud, and the people of
Ibrahim and the inhabitants of Madyan and the overturned cities?
Their Messengers brought them the Clear Signs. Allah did not
wrong them; rather they wronged themselves. (9:70)
• How is it that there has never been a city that believed, whose
faith then brought it benefit, except the people of Yunus? When
they believed We removed from them the punishment of disgrace
in the life of this world and We let them have enjoyment for a time.
(10:98)
• Such is the iron grip of your Lord when He seizes the cities which
do wrong. His grip is painful, violent. (11:102)
• Some city women said, ‘The governor’s wife solicited her slave.
He’s fired her heart with love. We see that she’s the one to
blame.’ (12:30)
• We sent none before you but men inspired with revelation from
among the people of the cities. Have they not travelled in the land
and seen the final fate of those before them? The abode of the
hereafter is better for those who guard against evil. So will you
not use your intellect? (12:109)
• We did not destroy any city without it having a set time. (15:4)
• Those cities: We destroyed them when they did wrong and fixed
a promised time for their destruction. (18:59)
• There is a ban on any city We have destroyed; they will not return.
(21:95)
• They themselves have come across the city which was rained on
by an evil rain. Did they not then see it? But they do not expect to
rise again. (25:40)
• They said, ‘Detain him and his brother and send out marshals to
the cities.’ (26:36)
• She (the Queen of Sheba) said, ‘When kings enter a city, they lay
waste to it and make its mightiest inhabitants the most abased.
That is what they too will do.’ (27:34)
• Morning found him in the city, fearful and on his guard. Then
suddenly the man who had sought his help the day before,
shouted for help from him again. Musa said to him, ‘You are
clearly a misguided man.’ (28:18)
• Your Lord would never destroy any cities without first sending to
the chief of them a Messenger to recite Our Signs to them. We
would never destroy any cities unless their inhabitants were
wrongdoers. (28:59)
• When Our messengers came with the good news to Ibrahim, they
said, ‘We are going to destroy the people of this city. Truly its
inhabitants are wrongdoers.’ (29:31)
• We never sent a warner into any city without the affluent people
in it saying, ‘We reject what you have been sent with.’ (34:34)
• Make an example for them of the inhabitants of the city when the
Messengers came to it. (36:13)
• They say, ‘Why was this Qur’an not sent down to one of the great
men of the two cities?’ (43:31)
• We destroyed the cities round about you and have variegated the
Signs so that hopefully they will turn back. (46:27)
• Pharaoh and those before him and the Overturned Cities made a
great mistake. (69:9)
• The only response of his people was to say: ‘Drive the family of
Lut out of your city! They are people who keep themselves pure!’
(27:56)
• A man came running from the furthest part of the city, saying,
‘Musa, the Council are conspiring to kill you, so leave! I am
someone who brings you good advice.’ (28:20)
• A man came running from the far side of the city, saying, ‘My
people! Follow the Messengers!’ (36:20)
CLAY
• He will teach him (Isa) the Book and Wisdom, and the Torah and
the Gospel, as a Messenger to the tribe of Israel, saying: ‘I have
brought you a Sign from your Lord. I will create the shape of a
bird out of clay for you and then breathe into it and it will be a bird
by Allah’s permission. I will heal the blind and the leper, and bring
the dead to life, by Allah’s permission. I will tell you what you eat
and what you store up in your homes. There is a Sign for you in
that if you are believers. (3:48-49)
• It is He Who created you from clay and then decreed a fixed term,
and another fixed term is specified with Him. Yet you still have
doubts! (6:2)
• Do you not see what your Lord did with the Companions of the
Elephant? Did He not bring all their schemes to nothing,
unleashing upon them flock after flock of birds, bombarding them
with stones of hard-baked clay? (105:1-4)
CLOAK
• It is He Who made the night a cloak for you and sleep a rest, and
He made the day a time for rising. (25:47)
• They made their oaths into a cloak and barred the Way of Allah,
so they will have a humiliating punishment. (58:16)
• They have made their oaths into a cloak and barred the Way of
Allah. What they have done is truly evil. (63:2)
CLOTHING
• On the night of the fast it is lawful for you to have sexual relations
with your wives. They are clothing for you and you for them. Allah
knows that you have been betraying yourselves and He has
turned towards you and excused you. Now you may have sexual
intercourse with them and seek what Allah has written for you.
Eat and drink until you can clearly discern the white thread from
the black thread of the dawn, then fulfil the fast until the night
appears. But do not have sexual intercourse with them while you
are in retreat in the mosques. These are Allah’s limits, so do not
go near them. In this way does Allah make His Signs clear to
people so that hopefully they will guard against evil. (2:187)
• Say: ‘Who has forbidden the fine clothing Allah has produced for
His servants and the good kinds of provision?’ Say: ‘On the Day
of Rising such things will be exclusively for those who believed
during their life in this world.’ In this way We make the Signs clear
for people who know. (7:32)
• Allah has made your houses places of rest for you and made
houses for you out of cattle hides which are light for you to carry
both when you are travelling and when you are staying in one
place. And from their wool and fur and hair you obtain clothing
and carpets and household utensils for a time. (16:80)
• Allah has made shaded places for you in what He has created
and He has made shelters for you in the mountains and He has
made shirts for you to protect you from the heat and shirts to
protect you from each other’s violence. In that way He perfects
His blessing on you so that hopefully you will become Muslims.
(16:81)
• But Allah will admit those who believe and do right actions into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them where they will be
adorned with gold bracelets and pearls, and where their clothing
will be of silk. (22:23)
• As for women who are past child-bearing age and no longer have
any hope of getting married, there is nothing wrong in their
removing their outer clothes, provided they do not flaunt their
adornments; but to refrain from doing so is better for them. Allah
is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (24:60)
• They will enter Gardens of Eden where they will be adorned with
gold bracelets and pearls, and where their clothing will be of silk.
(35:33)
• The people who guard against evil will be in a safe place amid
gardens and fountains, wearing fine silk and rich brocade, face to
face with one another. (44:51-53)
CLOTHING OF WOMEN
• Say to the believing women that they should lower their eyes and
guard their chastity and not display their adornments–except for
what normally shows–and draw their head-coverings across their
breasts. They should only display their adornments to their
husbands or their fathers or their husbands’ fathers, or their sons
or their husbands’ sons or their brothers or their brothers’ sons or
their sisters’ sons or their women or those they own as slaves or
their male attendants who have no sexual desire or children who
still have no awareness of women’s private parts. Nor should they
stamp their feet so that their hidden ornaments are known. Turn
to Allah every one of you, believers, so that hopefully you will
have success. (24:31)
• As for women who are past child-bearing age and no longer have
any hope of getting married, there is nothing wrong in their
removing their outer clothes, provided they do not flaunt their
adornments; but to refrain from doing so is better for them. Allah
is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (24:60)
• Prophet! Tell your wives and daughters and the women of the
believers to draw their outer garments closely round themselves.
This makes it more likely that they will be recognised and not be
harmed. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:59)
CLOUD
• And We shaded you with clouds and sent down manna and
quails to you: ‘Eat of the good things We have provided for you.’
They did not wrong Us; rather it was themselves they were
wronging. (2:57)
• What are they waiting for but for Allah to come to them in the
shadows of the clouds, together with the angels, in which case
the matter will have been settled? All matters return to Allah.
(2:210)
• Do you not see that Allah propels the clouds then makes them
coalesce then heaps them up, and then you see the rain come
pouring out of the middle of them? And He sends down
mountains from the sky with hail inside them, striking with it
anyone He wills and averting it from anyone He wills. The
brightness of His lightning almost blinds the sight. (24:43)
• The Day when Heaven is split apart in clouds, and the angels are
sent down rank upon rank. (25:25)
• You will see the mountains you reckoned to be solid going past
like clouds–the handiwork of Allah Who gives to everything its
solidity. He is aware of what you do. (27:88)
• It is Allah Who sends the winds which raise the clouds which We
then drive to a dead land and by them bring the earth to life after
it was dead. That is how the Resurrection will be. (35:9)
• If they saw a lump of heaven falling down, they would just say,
‘Banked-up clouds!’ (52:44)
• Is it you who sent it (the water) down from the clouds or are We
the Sender? (56:69)
COAT OF MAIL
COLLAPSE
COLOUR
• And also the things of varying colours He has created for you in
the earth. There is certainly a Sign in that for people who pay
heed. (16:13)
• (Your Lord revealed to the bees:) ‘Then eat from every kind of
fruit and travel the paths of your Lord, which have been made
easy for you to follow.’ From inside them comes a drink of varying
colours, containing healing for mankind. There is certainly a Sign
in that for people who reflect. (16:69)
• Among His Signs is the creation of the heavens and earth and the
variety of your languages and colours. There are certainly Signs
in that for every being. (30:22)
• Do you not see that Allah sends down water from the sky and by
it We bring forth fruits of varying colours? And in the mountains
there are streaks of white and red, of varying shades, and rocks
of deep jet black. (35:27)
• Do you not see that Allah sends down water from the sky and
threads it through the earth to emerge as springs and then by it
brings forth crops of varying colours, which then wither and you
see them turning yellow and then He makes them into broken
stubble? There is a reminder in that for people of intelligence.
(39:21)
• On the Day the sky is like molten brass and the mountains like
tufts of coloured wool. (70:8-9)
• It is the Day when mankind will be like scattered moths and the
mountains like tufts of coloured wool. (101:4-5)
COLUMNS
• Many of the People of the Book would love it if they could turn
you back to disbelief after you have become believers, showing
their innate envy now that the truth is clear to them. But you
should pardon and overlook until Allah gives His command. Truly
Allah has power over all things. (2:109)
• You who have been given the Book! Believe in what We have
sent down confirming what is with you, before We obliterate faces,
turning them inside out, or We curse you as We cursed the
Companions of the Sabbath. Allah’s command is always carried
out. (4:47)
• Your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six
days and then settled Himself firmly on the Throne. He covers the
day with the night, each pursuing the other urgently; and the sun
and moon and stars are subservient to His command. Both
creation and command belong to Him. Blessed be Allah, the Lord
of all the worlds. (7:54)
• Then when Our command came We rescued Salih and those who
believed along with him by a mercy from Us from the disgrace of
that day. Your Lord is the All-Strong, the Almighty. (11:66)
• ‘Ibrahim, turn away from this! Your Lord’s command has come. A
punishment is coming to them which cannot be repelled.’ (11:76)
• We sent Musa with Our Signs and clear authority to Pharaoh and
his ruling circle. They followed Pharaoh’s command but
Pharaoh’s command was not rightly guided. (11:96-97)
• He has made night and day subservient to you, and the sun and
moon and stars, all subject to His command. There are certainly
Signs in that for people who use their intellect. (16:12)
• What are they waiting for but the angels to come to them or your
Lord's command to come? That is like what those before them did.
Allah did not wrong them; rather they wronged themselves.
(16:33)
• You were not on the western side when We gave Musa the
command. You were not a witness. (28:44)
• Among His Signs is that He sends the winds bearing good news,
to give you a taste of His mercy, and to make the ships run by His
command, and to enable you to seek His bounty so that hopefully
you will be thankful. (30:46)
• But they spurned their Lord’s command, so the Blast seized them
as they looked. (51:44)
• Our command is only one word, like the blinking of an eye. (54:50)
• They will call out to them, ‘Were we not with you?’ They will reply,
‘Indeed you were. But you made trouble for yourselves and hung
back and doubted and false hopes deluded you until Allah’s
command arrived. The Deluder deluded you about Allah.’ (57:14)
• It is Allah Who created the seven heavens and of the earth the
same number, the Command descending down through all of
them, so that you might know that Allah has power over all things
and that Allah encompasses all things in His knowledge. (65:12)
• It is the Day when a self will have no power to help any other self
in any way. The command that Day will be Allah’s alone. (82:19)
COMMUNITY
• That was a community which has long since passed away. It has
what it earned. You have what you have earned. You will not be
questioned about what they did. (2:134, 2:141)
• And We have sent down the Book to you with truth, confirming
and conserving the previous Books. So judge between them by
what Allah has sent down and do not follow their whims and
desires deviating from the Truth that has come to you. We have
appointed a law and a practice for every one of you. Had Allah
willed, He would have made you a single community, but He
wanted to test you regarding what has come to you. So compete
with each other in doing good. Every one of you will return to
Allah and He will inform you regarding the things about which you
differed. (5:48)
• Mankind was only one community but then they differed, and had
it not been for a prior Word from your Lord, they would already
have been judged in respect of the differences between them.
(10:19)
• If your Lord had wanted to, He would have made mankind into
one community but they persist in their differences, (11:118)
• Do not be like a woman who spoils the thread she has spun by
unravelling it after it is strong, by making your oaths a means of
deceiving one another, merely because one community is bigger
than another. Allah is only testing you by this. He will make clear
to you on the Day of Rising the things about which you differed.
(16:92)
• We have sent you with the truth bringing good news and giving
warning. There is no community to which a warner has not come.
(35:24)
• They swore by Allah with their most earnest oaths that if a warner
came to them they would be better guided than any other
community. But then when a warner did come to them, it only
increased their aversion. (35:42)
COMPANION
• But those who disbelieve and deny Our Signs are the
Companions of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (2:39)
• They will ask you about the Sacred Month and fighting in it. Say,
‘Fighting in it is a serious matter; but barring access to the Way of
Allah and rejecting Him and barring access to the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram) and expelling its people from it are far more
serious in the sight of Allah. Discord is worse than killing.’ They
will not stop fighting you until they make you revert from your
religion, if they are able. As for any of you who revert from their
religion and die disbeliever, their actions will come to nothing in
this world and the hereafter. They are the Companions of the Fire,
remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (2:217)
• Those who practise usury will not rise from the grave except as
someone driven mad by Satan's touch. That is because they say,
‘Trade is the same as usury.’ But Allah has permitted trade and
He has forbidden usury. Whoever is given a warning by his Lord
and then desists, can keep what he received in the past and his
affair is Allah’s concern. But all who return to it will be the
Companions of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever.
(2:275)
• As for those who disbelieve, their wealth and children will not help
them against Allah in any way. They are the Companions of the
Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (3:116)
• You who have been given the Book! Believe in what We have
sent down confirming what is with you, before We obliterate faces,
turning them inside out, or We curse you as We cursed the
Companions of the Sabbath. Allah’s command is always carried
out. (4:47)
• But those who disbelieve and deny Our Signs, are the
Companions of the Blazing Fire. (5:10)
• (One of Adam's two sons said to the other,) ‘I want you to take on
both my wrongdoing and your wrongdoing and so become one of
the Companions of the Fire. That is the repayment of the
wrongdoers.’ (5:29)
• As for those who disbelieve and deny Our Signs, they are the
Companions of the Blazing Fire. (5:86)
• But as for those who reject Our Signs and are arrogant regarding
them, they are the Companions of the Fire, remaining in it
timelessly, for ever. (7:36)
• When they turn their eyes towards the Companions of the Fire,
they will say, ‘Our Lord, do not place us with the people of the
wrongdoers!’ (7:47)
• If you do not help him, Allah did help him when those who
disbelieved drove him out and there were two of them in the Cave.
He said to his companion, ‘Do not be despondent, Allah is with
us.’ Then Allah sent down His serenity upon him and reinforced
him with troops you could not see. He made the word of those
who disbelieved undermost. It is the word of Allah which is
uppermost. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (9:40)
• It is not right for the Prophet and those who believe to ask
forgiveness for the idolaters–even if they are close relatives–after
it has become clear to them that they are the Companions of the
Blazing Fire. (9:113)
• Those who do good will have the best and more! Neither dust nor
debasement will darken their faces. They are the Companions of
the Garden, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (10:26)
• But as for those who have earned bad actions–a bad action will
be repaid with one the like of it. Debasement will darken them.
They will have no one to protect them from Allah. It is as if their
faces were covered by dark patches of the night. Those are the
Companions of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever.
(10:27)
• (Yusuf said,) ‘My companions of the prison, are many lords better,
or Allah, the only One, the Conqueror?’ (12:39)
• (Yusuf said,) ‘My companions of the prison, one of you will serve
his lord with wine, the other of you will be crucified and birds will
eat his head. The thing you asked about is foreordained.’ (12:41)
• His companion, with whom he was debating, said to him, ‘Do you
then disbelieve in Him Who created you from dust, then from a
drop of sperm, and then formed you as a man?’ (18:37)
• Musa said, ‘If I ask you about anything after this, then you should
no longer keep me company. I will have given you excuse
enough.’ (18:76)
• But as for those who strive against My Signs and try to thwart
them, they will be the Companions of the Blazing Fire. (22:51)
• And when the two hosts came into sight of one another Musa’s
companions said, ‘We will surely be overtaken!’ (26:61)
• And Thamud and the people of Lut and the Companions of the
Thicket. Those too were Confederates. (38:13)
• When harm touches man he calls upon his Lord, repenting to Him.
Then when He grants him a blessing from Him, he forgets what
he was calling for before and ascribes rivals to Allah, so as to
misguide others from His Way. Say: ‘Enjoy your disbelief for a
little while. You are among the Companions of the Fire.’ (39:8)
• Those are people whose best deeds will be accepted and whose
wrong deeds will be overlooked. They are among the
Companions of the Garden, in fulfilment of the true promise made
to them. (46:16)
• Before them the people of Nuh also denied the truth and the
Companions of Rass and Thamud. (50:12)
• Neither their wealth nor their children will help them at all against
Allah. Such people are the Companions of the Fire, remaining in
it timelessly, for ever. (58:17)
• But as for those who disbelieve and deny Our Signs they are the
Companions of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. What
an evil destination! (64:10)
• They will say, ‘If only we had really listened and used our intellect,
we would not have been Companions of the Blaze.’ (67:10)
• Then they will acknowledge their wrong actions. Away with the
Companions of the Blaze! (67:11)
• Those who reject Our signs, they are the Companions of the Left.
(90:19)
• Do you not see what your Lord did with the Companions of the
Elephant? (105:1)
COMPANIONS OF THE CAVE (ASHAB AL-KAHF)
• Do you not see what your Lord did with the Companions of the
Elephant? Did He not bring all their schemes to nothing,
unleashing upon them flock after flock of birds? (105:1-3)
• The same goes for ‘Ad and Thamud and the Companions of the
Rass and many generations in between. (25:38)
• Before them the people of Nuh also denied the truth and the
Companions of the Rass and Thamud, (50:12)
• And Thamud and the people of Lut and the Companions of the
Thicket. Those too were Confederates. (38:13)
• Or (do those who plot evil actions feel secure) that He will not
seize them little by little? For your Lord is All-Compassionate,
Most Merciful. (16:47)
• Do you not see that Allah has made everything on the earth
subservient to you and the ships running upon the sea by His
command? He holds back the heaven, preventing it from falling to
the earth–except by His permission. Allah is All-Compassionate
to mankind, Most Merciful. (22:65)
• Among His Signs is that He created spouses for you of your own
kind so that you might find tranquillity in them. And He has placed
affection and compassion between you. There are certainly Signs
in that for people who reflect. (30:21)
• (The steep ascent is) then to be one of those who believe and
urge each other to steadfastness and urge each other to
compassion. (90:17)
COMPETE
• They believe in Allah and the Last Day, and enjoin the right and
forbid the wrong, and compete in doing good. They are among
the righteous. (3:114)
• And We have sent down the Book to you with truth, confirming
and conserving the previous Books. So judge between them by
what Allah has sent down and do not follow their whims and
desires deviating from the Truth that has come to you. We have
appointed a law and a practice for every one of you. Had Allah
willed, He would have made you a single community, but He
wanted to test you regarding what has come to you. So compete
with each other in doing good. Every one of you will return to
Allah and He will inform you regarding the things about which you
differed. (5:48)
COMPULSION
CONJECTURE
• Those who associate others with Allah will say, ‘If Allah had willed
we would not have associated anything with Him, nor would our
fathers; nor would we have made anything forbidden.’ In the
same way the people before them also lied until they felt Our
violent force. Say: ‘Do you have some knowledge you can
produce for us? You are following nothing but conjecture. You are
only guessing.’ (6:148)
• Most of them follow nothing but conjecture. Conjecture is of no
use whatsoever against the truth. Allah most certainly knows
what they are doing. (10:36)
• They say, ‘If the All-Merciful had so willed, we would not have
worshipped them.’ They have no knowledge of that. They are
only conjecturing. (43:20)
• They say, ‘There is nothing but our existence in this world. We die
and we live and nothing destroys us except for time.’ They have
no knowledge of that. They are only conjecturing. (45:24)
• They are nothing but names which you yourselves have given,
you and your forefathers. Allah has sent down no authority for
them. They are following nothing but conjecture and what their
own selves desire. And that when guidance has reached them
from their Lord! (53:23)
CONSTELLATION
CONSTRAINT
• Strive for Allah with the striving due to Him. He has selected you
and not placed any constraint upon you in the religion–the religion
of your forefather Ibrahim. He named you Muslims before and
also in this, so that the Messenger could be witness against you
and you could be witnesses against all mankind. So perform
prayer and give the alms and hold fast to Allah. He is your
Protector–the Best Protector, the Best Helper. (22:78)
CONSULTATION
• Mothers should nurse their children for two full years–those who
wish to complete the full term of nursing. It is the duty of the
fathers to feed and clothe them with correctness and courtesy–no
self is charged with more than it can bear. No mother should be
put under pressure in respect of her child nor any father in
respect of his child. The same duty is incumbent on the heir. If the
couple both wish weaning to take place after mutual agreement
and consultation, there is nothing wrong in their doing that. If you
wish to find wet-nurses for your children, there is nothing wrong in
your doing that provided you hand over to them what you have
agreed to give with correctness and courtesy. Have fear of Allah
and know that Allah sees what you do. (2:233)
• It is a mercy from Allah that you were gentle with them. If you had
been rough or hard of heart, they would have scattered from
around you. So pardon them and ask forgiveness for them, and
consult with them about the matter. Then when you have reached
a firm decision, put your trust in Allah. Allah loves those who put
their trust in Him. (3:159)
• (Believers are) those who respond to their Lord and perform
prayer, and manage their affairs by mutual consultation and give
of what We have provided for them. (42:38)
CONSUMING
• They are people who listen to lies and consume ill-gotten gains. If
they come to you, you can either judge between them or turn
away from them. If you turn away from them, they cannot harm
you in any way. But if you do judge, judge between them justly.
Allah loves the just. (5:42)
CONTRACT
• Those who break Allah’s contract after it has been agreed, and
sever what Allah has commanded to be joined, and cause
corruption on the earth, it is they who are the lost. (2:27)
• They say, ‘The Fire will only touch us for a number of days.’ Say,
‘Have you made a contract with Allah–then Allah will not break
His contract–or are you rather saying about Allah what you do not
know?’ (2:80)
• If you divorce them before you have touched them but have
already allotted them a dowry, they should have half the amount
which you allotted, unless they forgo it or the one in charge of the
marriage contract forgoes it. To forgo it is closer to heedfulness.
Do not forget to show generosity to one another. Allah sees what
you do. (2:237)
• No, the truth is, if people honour their contracts and have fear of
Him, Allah loves those who guard against evil. (3:76)
• Those who sell Allah’s contract and their own oaths for a paltry
price, such people will have no portion in the hereafter and on the
Day of Rising Allah will not speak to them or look at them or purify
them. They will have a painful punishment. (3:77)
• How could you take it when you have been intimate with one
another and they have made a binding contract with you? (4:21)
• You who believe! Fulfil your contracts. All livestock animals are
lawful for you, except those that are recited to you now; but it is
still not lawful to hunt while you are in the state of pilgrimage.
Allah makes whatever judgements He wills. (5:1)
• And that you do not go near the property of orphans before they
reach maturity–except in a good way; that you give full measure
and full weight with justice–We impose on no self any more than
it can bear; that you are equitable when you speak–even if a near
relative is concerned; and that you fulfil Allah’s contract. That is
what He instructs you to do, so that hopefully you will pay heed.
(6:152)
• Whenever the plague came down on them they said, ‘Musa, pray
to your Lord for us by the contract He has with you. If you remove
the plague from us, we will definitely believe in you and send the
tribe of Israel away with you.’ (7:134)
• Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their wealth
in return for the Garden. They fight in the Way of Allah and they
kill and are killed. It is a promise binding on Him in the Torah, the
Gospel and the Qur’an and who is truer to his contract than Allah?
Rejoice then in the bargain you have made. That is the great
victory. (9:111)
• But as for those who break Allah’s contract after it has been
agreed and sever what Allah has commanded to be joined, and
cause corruption in the earth, the curse will be upon them. They
will have the Evil Abode. (13:25)
• Be true to Allah’s contract when you have agreed to it, and do not
break your oaths once they are confirmed and you have made
Allah your guarantee. Allah knows what you do. (16:91)
• Do not sell Allah’s contract for a paltry price. What is with Allah is
better for you if you only knew. (16:95)
• (Believers are) those who honour their trusts and their contracts.
(23:8)
• Yet they had previously made a contract with Allah that they
would never turn their backs. Contracts made with Allah will be
asked about. (33:15)
• Among the believers there are men who have been true to the
contract they made with Allah. Some of them have fulfilled their
pact by death and some are still waiting to do so, not having
changed in any way at all. (33:23)
• Did I not make a contract with you, tribe of Adam, not to worship
Satan, who truly is an outright enemy to you? (36:60)
COOLNESS
• But as for those who believe and do right actions, We will admit
them into Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in
them timelessly, for ever and ever. In them they will have
spouses of perfect purity and We will admit them into cool,
refreshing shade. (4:57)
• (His Lord said to Ayyub,) ‘Stamp your foot! Here is a cool bath
and water to drink.’ (38:42)
CORAL
CORPSE
• Then Allah sent a crow which scratched at the earth to show him
how to conceal his brother’s corpse. He said, ‘Woe is me! Can I
not even be like this crow and conceal my brother’s corpse?’ And
he became one of those who suffer bitter remorse. (5:31)
CORRECTNESS
• When you divorce women and they are near the end of their
waiting period, then either retain them with correctness and
courtesy or release them with correctness and courtesy. Do not
retain them by force, thus overstepping the limits. Anyone who
does that has wronged himself. Do not make a mockery of Allah’s
Signs. Remember Allah’s blessing to you and the Book and
Wisdom He has sent down to you to admonish you. Have fear of
Allah and know that Allah has knowledge of all things. (2:231)
• When you divorce women and they are near the end of their
waiting period, do not prevent them from marrying their first
husbands if they have mutually agreed to it with correctness and
courtesy. This is an admonition for those of you who believe in
Allah and the Last Day. That is better and purer for you. Allah
knows and you do not know. (2:232)
• Mothers should nurse their children for two full years–those who
wish to complete the full term of nursing. It is the duty of the
fathers to feed and clothe them with correctness and courtesy–no
self is charged with more than it can bear. No mother should be
put under pressure in respect of her child nor any father in
respect of his child. The same duty is incumbent on the heir. If the
couple both wish weaning to take place after mutual agreement
and consultation, there is nothing wrong in their doing that. If you
wish to find wet-nurses for your children, there is nothing wrong in
your doing that provided you hand over to them what you have
agreed to give with correctness and courtesy. Have fear of Allah
and know that Allah sees what you do. (2:233)
• Those of you who die leaving wives behind: they should wait by
themselves for four months and ten nights. When their waiting
period comes to an end, you are not to blame for anything they
do with themselves with correctness and courtesy. Allah is aware
of what you do. (2:234)
• You who believe! It is not lawful for you to inherit women by force.
Nor may you treat them harshly so that you can make off with
part of what you have given them, unless they commit an act of
flagrant indecency. Live together with them correctly and
courteously. If you dislike them, it may well be that you dislike
something in which Allah has placed a lot of good. (4:19)
• If any of you do not have the means to marry free women who
are believers, you may marry slavegirls who are believers. Allah
knows best about your faith; you are all the same in that respect.
Marry them with their owners’ permission and give them their
dowries correctly and courteously as married women, not in
fornication or taking them as lovers. When they are married, if
they commit fornication they should receive half the punishment
of free women. This is for those of you who are afraid of
committing fornication. But being patient is better for you. Allah is
Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:25)
• The Prophet is closer to the believers than their own selves, and
his wives are their mothers. But blood-relations have closer ties to
one another in the Book of Allah than other believers and the
emigrants, except that you should act in a proper manner towards
your close associates. That is inscribed in the Book. (33:6)
• Then when they have reached the end of their waiting period
either retain them with correctness and courtesy or part from
them with correctness and courtesy. Call two upright men from
among yourselves as witnesses and they should carry out the
witnessing for Allah. This is admonishment for all who believe in
Allah and the Last Day. Whoever has fear of Allah–He will give
him a way out. (65:2)
• Let them live where you live, according to your means. Do not put
pressure on them, so as to harass them. If they are pregnant,
maintain them until they give birth. If they are suckling for you,
give them their wages and consult together with correctness and
courtesy. But if you make things difficult for one another, another
woman should do the suckling for you. (65:6)
CORRUPTION
• hen they are told, ‘Do not cause corruption on the earth,’ they say,
‘We are only putting things right.’ No indeed! They are the
corrupters, but they are not aware of it. (2:11-12)
• Those who break Allah’s contract after it has been agreed, and
sever what Allah has commanded to be joined, and cause
corruption on the earth, it is they who are the lost. (2:27)
• And when Musa was looking for water for his people, We said,
‘Strike the rock with your staff.’ Then twelve fountains gushed out
from it and all the people knew their drinking place. ‘Eat and drink
of Allah's provision and do not go about the earth corrupting it.’
(2:60)
• The reprisal against those who wage war on Allah and His
Messenger, and go about the earth corrupting it, is that they
should be killed or crucified, or have their alternate hands and
feet cut off, or be banished from the land. That will be their
degradation in this world and in the hereafter they will have a
terrible punishment. (5:33)
• The Jews say, ‘Allah’s hand is chained.’ Their hands are chained
and they are cursed for what they say! No! Both His hands are
open wide and He gives however He wills. What has been sent
down to you from your Lord increases many of them in insolence
and disbelief. We have incited enmity and hatred between them
until the Day of Rising. Each time they kindle the fire of war, Allah
extinguishes it. They rush about the earth corrupting it. Allah does
not love corrupters. (5:64)
• Do not corrupt the earth after it has been put right. Call on Him
fearfully and eagerly. Allah’s mercy is close to the good-doers.
(7:56)
• And then, after them, We sent Musa with Our Signs to Pharaoh
and his ruling circle but they wrongfully rejected them. See the
final fate of the corrupters! (7:103)
• The ruling circle of Pharaoh’s people said, ‘Are you going to leave
Musa and his people to cause corruption in the earth and
abandon you and your gods?’ He said, ‘We will kill their sons and
let their women live. We have absolute power over them!’ (7:127)
• We set aside thirty nights for Musa and then completed them with
ten, so the appointed time of his Lord was forty nights in all. Musa
said to his brother Harun, ‘Take my place among my people.
Keep order and do not follow the way of the corrupters.’ (7:142)
• Those who disbelieve are the friends and protectors of one
another. If you do not act in this way there will be turmoil in the
land and great corruption. (8:73)
• Among them there are some who believe in it and some who do
not. Your Lord best knows the corrupters. (10:40)
• When they had thrown, Musa said, ‘What you have brought is
magic. Allah will certainly prove it false. Allah does not uphold the
actions of corrupters.’ (10:81)
• (Shu‘ayb said,) ‘My people! Give full measure and full weight with
justice; do not diminish people's goods; and do not go about the
earth, corrupting it.’ (11:85)
• Would that there had been more people with a vestige of good
among the generations of those who came before you, who
forbade corruption in the earth, other than the few among them
whom We saved. Those who did wrong gladly pursued the life of
luxury that they were given and were evildoers. (11:116)
• They said, ‘By Allah, you know we did not come to corrupt the
land and that we are not thieves.’ (12:73)
• But as for those who break Allah’s contract after it has been
agreed and sever what Allah has commanded to be joined, and
cause corruption in the earth, the curse will be upon them. They
will have the Evil Abode. (13:25)
• We decreed in the Book for the tribe of Israel: ‘You will twice
cause corruption on the earth and you will rise to a great height.’
(17:4)
• (His people said to Qarun,) ‘Seek the abode of the hereafter with
what Allah has given you, without forgetting your portion of this
world. And do good as Allah has been good to you. And do not
seek to cause corruption in the earth. Allah does not love
corrupters.’ (28:77)
• Would We make those who believe and do right actions the same
as those who cause corruption on the earth? Would We make
those who guard against evil the same as the dissolute? (38:28)
• Pharaoh said, ‘Let me kill Musa and let him call upon his Lord! I
am afraid that he may change your religion and bring about
corruption in the land.’ (40:26)
• Is it not likely that, if you did turn away, you would cause
corruption in the earth and sever your ties of kinship? (47:22)
• Do you not see what your Lord did with ‘Ad–Iram of the Columns
whose like was not created in any land–and Thamud who carved
out rocks in the valley-side, and Pharaoh of the Stakes, all of
whom were tyrants in their lands and caused much corruption in
them? (89:6-12)
COUCH
• They will have Gardens of Eden with rivers flowing under them.
They will be adorned in them with bracelets made of gold and
wear green garments made of the finest silk and rich brocade,
reclining there on couches under canopies. What an excellent
reward! What a wonderful repose! (18:31)
• (Nuh said,) ‘My counsel will not benefit you, for all my desire to
counsel you, if Allah desires to lead you into error. He is your
Lord and you will return to Him.’ (11:34)
COVENANT
• Allah made a covenant with those given the Book: ‘You must
make it clear to people and not conceal it.’ But they toss it in
disdain behind their backs and sell it for a paltry price. What an
evil sale they make! (3:187)
COVER ON HEART
• They say, ‘Our hearts are covered up against what you call us to
and there is a heaviness in our ears. There is a screen between
us and you. So act–we are certainly acting.’ (41:5)
COVERING
• When night covered him he (Ibrahim) saw a star and said, ‘This is
my Lord!’ Then when it set he said, ‘I do not love what sets.’ (6:76)
• It is He Who created you from a single self and made from him
his spouse so that he might find repose in her. Then when he
covered her she bore a light load and carried it around. Then
when it became heavy they called on Allah, their Lord, ‘If You
grant us a healthy child, we will be among the thankful!’ (7:189)
• They say, ‘Our hearts are covered up against what you call us to
and there is a heaviness in our ears. There is a screen between
us and you. So act–we are certainly acting.’ (41:5)
• (On the Day of Threat, they will be told,) ‘You were heedless of
this so We have stripped you of your covering and today your
sight is sharp.’ (50:22)
• And (I swear by) the self and what proportioned it and inspired it
with depravity or sense of duty, he who purifies it has succeeded,
he who covers it up has failed. (91:7-10)
COW
• The King declared, ‘I dreamt of seven fat cows which seven thin
ones ate and seven green ears of wheat and seven others which
were dry. O counsellors! Explain my dream to me if you are those
who can interpret visions!’ They said, ‘A jumbled mass of mixed-
up dreams! We do not know the meaning of such things.’ The one
of them who had been saved then said, remembering after a
period, ‘I will tell you what it signifies, so send me out.’ ‘O truthful
Yusuf, tell us of seven fat cows which seven thin ones ate and
seven green ears of wheat and seven others which were dry so
that I can return to them and let them know.’ (12:43-46)
COWARDICE
• You who believe! Do not be like those who disbelieve and say of
their brothers, when they are going on journeys or military
expeditions, ‘If they had only been with us, they would not have
died or been killed,’ so that Allah can make that anguish for them
in their hearts. It is Allah Who gives life and causes to die. Allah
sees what you do. (3:156)
• Among you there are people who hang back and if you encounter
a setback then they say, ‘Allah has blessed me in that I was not
there with them.’ (4:72)
• But if you meet with favour from Allah they say–as if there were
no friendship between you and them–‘Oh! If only I had been with
them so that I too might have won a great victory.’ (4:73)
• Those who believe in Allah and the Last Day do not ask you to
excuse them from striving with their wealth and themselves. Allah
knows the people who guard against evil. (9:44)
• They swear by Allah that they are of your number, but they are
not of your number. Rather, they are people who are scared.
(9:56)
• If they could find a bolt-hole, cave or burrow, they would turn and
scurry away into it. (9:57)
CRADLE
• (The angels said to Maryam,) ‘He (‘Isa) will speak to people in the
cradle, and also when fully grown, and will be one of the
righteous.’ (3:46)
• She pointed towards him. They said, ‘How can a baby in the
cradle speak?’ (19:29)
• It is He Who made the earth a cradle for you and made pathways
for you in it so that hopefully you would be guided. (43:10)
• Your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six
days and then settled Himself firmly on the Throne. He covers the
day with the night, each pursuing the other urgently; and the sun
and moon and stars are subservient to His command. Both
creation and command belong to Him. Blessed be Allah, the Lord
of all the worlds. (7:54)
• Your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six
days and then established Himself firmly on the Throne. He
directs the whole affair. No one can intercede except with His
permission. That is Allah your Lord, so worship Him. Will you not
pay heed? (10:3)
• It is He Who created the heavens and the earth in six days when
His Throne was on the water, in order to test which of you has the
best actions. If you say, ‘You will be raised up after death,’ those
who disbelieve will say, ‘This is nothing but downright magic.’
(11:7)
• Do you not see that Allah has created the heavens and the earth
with truth? If He wished He could eliminate you and bring about a
new creation. (14:19)
• We did not create the heavens and earth and everything between
them, except with truth. The Hour is certainly coming, so turn
away graciously. (15:85)
• Do those who disbelieve not see that the heavens and the earth
were sewn together and then We unstitched them and that We
made from water every living thing? So will they not believe?
(21:30)
• Allah created the heavens and the earth with truth. There is
certainly a Sign in that for the believers. (29:44)
• Have they not reflected within themselves? Allah did not create
the heavens and the earth and everything between them except
with truth and for a fixed term. Yet many people reject the
meeting with their Lord. (30:8)
• He created the heavens and the earth with truth. He wraps the
night around the day and wraps the day around the night, and
has made the sun and moon subservient, each one running for a
specified term. Is He not indeed the Almighty, the Endlessly
Forgiving? (39:5)
• We did not create them except with truth but most of them do not
know it. (44:39)
• It is He Who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then
established Himself firmly on the Throne. He knows what goes
into the earth and what comes out of it, what comes down from
heaven and what goes up into it. He is with you wherever you
are–Allah sees what you do. (57:4)
• It is Allah Who created the seven heavens and of the earth the
same number, the Command descending down through all of
them, so that you might know that Allah has power over all things
and that Allah encompasses all things in His knowledge. (65:12)
CREATURE
• (Hud said,) ‘I have put my trust in Allah, my Lord and your Lord.
There is no creature He does not hold by the forelock. My Lord is
on a Straight Path.’ (11:56)
• He (Satan) said, ‘Do you see this creature you have honoured
over me? If You reprieve me till the Day of Rising, I will be the
master of his descendants except for a very few.’ (17:62)
• Then (He) formed the drop into a clot and formed the clot into a
lump and formed the lump into bones and clothed the bones in
flesh; and then brought him into being as another creature.
Blessed be Allah, the Best of Creators! (23:14)
• (Shu‘ayb said,) ‘Have fear of Him Who created you and the
earlier creatures.’ (26:184)
• How many creatures do not carry their provision with them! Allah
provides for them and He will for you. He is the All-Hearing, the
All-Knowing. (29:60)
• If Allah were to take mankind to task for what they have earned,
He would not leave a single creature crawling on it, but He is
deferring them until a specified time. Then, when their time
comes, Allah sees His servants! (35:45)
• Among His Signs is the creation of the heavens and earth and all
the creatures He has spread about in them. And He has the
power to gather them together whenever He wills. (42:29)
• The People of the Book who disbelieve and the idolaters will be in
the Fire of Hell, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. They are the
worst of creatures. (98:6)
• But those who believe and do right actions–they are the best of
creatures. (98:7)
CRIME
• He has only forbidden you carrion, blood and pork and what has
been consecrated to other than Allah. But anyone who is forced
to eat it–without desiring it or going to excess in it–commits no
crime. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (2:173)
• Then if anyone alters it after hearing it, the crime is on the part of
those who alter it. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (2:181)
• Give orphans their property, and do not substitute bad things for
good. Do not assimilate their property into your own. Doing that is
a serious crime. (4:2)
• If you desire to exchange one wife for another and have given
your original wife a large amount, do not take any of it. Would you
take it by means of slander and outright crime? (4:20)
• Allah does not forgive anything being associated with Him but He
forgives whoever He wills for anything other than that. Anyone
who associates something with Allah has committed a terrible
crime. (4:48)
• Or do they say, ‘He has invented it’? Say: ‘If I have invented it the
crime will be laid at my door, but I am innocent of the crimes
which you commit.’ (11:35)
• when the baby girl buried alive is asked for what crime she was
killed, (81:8-9)
CROPS
• The metaphor of what they spend in their life in this world is that
of a wind with an icy bite to it which strikes the crops of a people
who have wronged themselves and destroys them. Allah did not
wrong them; rather it was themselves they were wronging. (3:117)
• And by it He makes crops grow for you and olives and dates and
grapes and fruit of every kind. There is certainly a Sign in that for
people who reflect. (16:11)
• But if We send a wind, and they see it (the crop) turning yellow,
still they persist after that in disbelieving. (30:51)
• Do they not see how We drive water to barren land and bring
forth crops by it which their livestock and they themselves both
eat? So will they not see? (32:27)
• Do you not see that Allah sends down water from the sky and
threads it through the earth to emerge as springs and then by it
brings forth crops of varying colours, which then wither and you
see them turning yellow and then He makes them into broken
stubble? There is a reminder in that for people of intelligence.
(39:21)
• How many gardens and fountains they (Pharaoh and his troops)
left behind, and ripe crops and noble residences. (44:25-26)
• If We wished We could have made it broken stubble. You would
then be left devoid of crops, distraught. (56:65)
CROW
• Then Allah sent a crow which scratched at the earth to show him
how to conceal his brother’s corpse. He said, ‘Woe is me! Can I
not even be like this crow and conceal my brother’s corpse?’ And
he became one of those who suffer bitter remorse. (5:31)
CRUSHING BLOW
CUCUMBER
• And when you said, ‘Musa, we will not put up with just one kind of
food so ask your Lord to supply to us some of what the earth
produces–its green vegetables, cucumbers, grains, lentils and
onions,’ he said, ‘Do you want to replace what is better with what
is inferior? Go back to Egypt, then you will have what you are
asking for.’ Abasement and destitution were stamped upon them.
They brought down anger from Allah upon themselves. That was
because they rejected Allah’s Signs and killed the Prophets
without any right to do so. That was because they rebelled and
went beyond the limits. (2:61)
CULTIVATION
• In the earth there are diverse regions side by side and gardens of
grapes and cultivated fields, and palm-trees sharing one root and
others with individual roots, all watered with the same water. And
We make some things better to eat than others. There are Signs
in that for people who use their intellect. (13:4)
• (Ibrahim said,) ‘Our Lord! I have settled some of my offspring by
Your Sacred House in an uncultivated valley. Our Lord! Let them
perform prayer! Make the hearts of mankind incline towards them
and provide them with fruits, so that hopefully they will be
thankful.’ (14:37)
• Are you going to be left secure amid what is here, amid gardens
and clear springs, and cultivated fields and palms with supple
spathes? (26:146-148)
• Have they not travelled in the earth and seen the final fate of
those before them? They had greater strength than them and
cultivated the land and inhabited it in far greater numbers than
they do. Their Messengers also came to them with the Clear
Signs. Allah would never have wronged them; but they wronged
themselves. (30:9)
• Know that the life of this world is merely a game and a diversion
and ostentation and a cause of boasting among yourselves and
trying to outdo one another in wealth and children: like the plant-
growth after rain which delights the cultivators, but then it withers
and you see it turning yellow, and then it becomes broken stubble.
In the hereafter there is terrible punishment but also forgiveness
from Allah and His good pleasure. The life of this world is nothing
but the enjoyment of delusion. (57:20)
CUP
• They will pass round there a drinking cup to one another with no
foolish talk and no wrong action in it. (52:23)
• The truly good will drink from a cup mixed with the coolness of
camphor. (76:5)
• They will be given there a cup to drink mixed with the warmth of
ginger. (76:17)
• For those who guard against evil there is triumph: Gardens and
grape vines, and nubile maidens of similar age, and an
overflowing cup. (78:31-34)
CURSE
• Those who hide the Clear Signs and Guidance We have sent
down, after We have made it clear to people in the Book, Allah
curses them, and the cursers curse them. (2:159)
• But as for those who disbelieve and die while they are
disbelievers, the curse of Allah is upon them and that of the
angels and all mankind. (2:161)
• If anyone argues with you about him after the knowledge that has
come to you, say, ‘Come then! Let us summon our sons and your
sons, our women and your women, ourselves and yourselves.
Then let us make earnest supplication and call down the curse of
Allah upon the liars.’ (3:61)
• Some of the Jews distort the true meaning of words, saying, ‘We
hear and disobey,’ and ‘Listen without listening,’ and ‘Listen to
us!’ twisting them with their tongues, disparaging the religion. If
they had said, ‘We hear and we obey,’ and ‘Listen,’ and, ‘Look at
us!’ that would have been better for them and more upright. But
Allah has cursed them for their disbelief. Very few of them believe.
(4:46)
• You who have been given the Book! Believe in what We have
sent down confirming what is with you (Torah and Gospel), before
We obliterate faces, turning them inside out, or We curse you as
We cursed the Companions of the Sabbath. Allah’s command is
always carried out. (4:47)
• Those are the ones Allah has cursed. And if someone is cursed
by Allah you will not find any one to help him. (4:52)
• What they call on apart from Him are female idols. What they call
on is an arrogant Satan whom Allah has cursed. He said, ‘I will
take a certain fixed proportion of Your servants.’ (4:117-118)
• Say: ‘Shall I tell you of a reward with Allah far worse than that:
that of those whom Allah has cursed and with whom He is angry–
turning some of them into monkeys and into pigs–and who
worshipped false gods? Such people are in a worse situation and
further from the right way.’ (5:60)
• The Jews say, ‘Allah’s hand is chained.’ Their hands are chained
and they are cursed for what they say! No! Both His hands are
open wide and He gives however He wills. What has been sent
down to you from your Lord increases many of them in insolence
and disbelief. We have incited enmity and hatred between them
until the Day of Rising. Each time they kindle the fire of war, Allah
extinguishes it. They rush about the earth corrupting it. Allah does
not love corrupters. (5:64)
• He will say, ‘Enter the Fire together with the nations of jinn and
men who have passed away before you.’ Each time a nation
enters, it will curse its sister nation, until, when they are all
gathered together in it, the last of them will say to the first, ‘Our
Lord, those are the ones who misguided us, so give them a
double punishment in the Fire.’ He will say, ‘Each will receive
double. But you do not know it.’ (7:38)
• Allah has promised the men and women of the hypocrites and
disbelievers the Fire of Hell, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. It
will suffice them. Allah has cursed them. They will have
everlasting punishment. (9:68)
• Who could do greater wrong than those who invent lies against
Allah? Such people will be arrayed before their Lord and the
witnesses will say, ‘Those are the ones who lied against their
Lord.’ Yes indeed! Allah’s curse is on the wrongdoers. (11:18)
• But as for those who break Allah’s contract after it has been
agreed and sever what Allah has commanded to be joined, and
cause corruption in the earth, the curse will be upon them. They
will have the Evil Abode. (13:25)
• (Allah said to Satan,) ‘The curse will be on you till the Day of
Reckoning.’ (15:35)
• Those who accuse chaste believing women, unaware (of the evil),
are cursed both in this world and the hereafter, and they will have
a terrible punishment. (24:23)
• As for those who abuse Allah and His Messenger, Allah’s curse is
on them in this world and the hereafter. He has prepared a
humiliating punishment for them. (33:57)
• And they (the disbelievers) will say, ‘Our Lord, we obeyed our
masters and great men and they misguided us from the Way. Our
Lord, give them double the punishment and curse them many
times over!’ (33:67-68)
• (Allah said to Satan,) ‘My curse is upon you until the Day of
Reckoning.’ (38:78)
• (On) the Day when the excuses of the wrongdoers will not help
them. The curse will be on them and they will have the most evil
Home. (40:52)
• Such are the people Allah has cursed, making them deaf and
blinding their eyes. (47:23)
CUSHION
CUSTODIAN
• And those who have fear of their Lord will be driven to the Garden
in companies and when they arrive there, finding its gates open,
its custodians will say to them, ‘Peace be upon you! You have
done well so enter it timelessly, for ever.’ (39:73)
• Those in the Fire will say to the custodians of Hell, ‘Call on your
Lord to make the punishment less for us for just one day.’ (40:49)
• It all but bursts with rage. Each time a group is flung into it its
custodians will question them: ‘Did no warner come to you?’ (67:8)
D
DATE PALM
• Would any of you like to have a garden of dates and grapes, with
rivers flowing underneath and containing all kinds of fruits, then to
be stricken with old age and have children who are weak, and
then for a fierce whirlwind containing fire to come and strike it so
that it goes up in flames? In this way Allah makes His Signs clear
to you, so that hopefully you will reflect. (2:266)
• It is He Who sends down water from the sky from which We bring
forth growth of every kind, and from that We bring forth the green
shoots and from them We bring forth close-packed seeds, and
from the spathes of the date palm date clusters hanging down,
and gardens of grapes and olives and pomegranates, both similar
and dissimilar. Look at their fruits as they bear fruit and ripen.
There are Signs in that for people who believe. (6:99)
• In the earth there are diverse regions side by side and gardens of
grapes and cultivated fields, and palm-trees sharing one root and
others with individual roots, all watered with the same water. And
We make some things better to eat than others. There are Signs
in that for people who use their intellect. (13:4)
• And by it He makes crops grow for you and olives and dates and
grapes and fruit of every kind. There is certainly a Sign in that for
people who reflect. (16:11)
• And from the fruit of the date-palm and the grape-vine you derive
both intoxicants and wholesome provision. There is certainly a
Sign in that for people who use their intellect. (16:67)
• They say, ‘We will not believe you until you make a spring gush
out from the earth for us; or have a garden of dates and grapes
which you make rivers come pouring through.’ (17:90-91)
• Are you going to be left secure amid what is here, amid gardens
and clear springs, and cultivated fields and palms with supple
spathes? (26:146-148)
• And We have decreed set phases for the moon, until it ends up
looking like an old palm spathe. (36:39)
• And We sent down blessed water from the sky and made
gardens grow by it and grain for harvesting and soaring date-
palms with layered spathes, as provision for Our servants; by it
We brought a dead land to life. That is how the Emergence will
take place. (50:9-11)
• In it are fruits and date-palms with covered spathes. (55:11)
• Allah subjected them to it for seven whole nights and eight whole
days without a break. You could see the people flattened in their
homes just like the hollow stumps of uprooted palms. (69:7)
DAUGHTER
• Forbidden for you are: your mothers and your daughters and your
sisters, your maternal aunts and your paternal aunts, your
brothers’ daughters and your sisters’ daughters, your foster
mothers who have suckled you, your foster sisters by suckling,
your wives’ mothers, your stepdaughters who are under your
protection: the daughters of your wives whom you have had
sexual relations with (though if you have not had sexual relations
with them there is nothing blameworthy for you in it then), the
wives of your sons whom you have fathered, and marrying two
sisters at the same time–except for what may have already taken
place. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:23)
• Yet they make the jinn co-partners with Allah when He created
them! And they attribute sons and daughters to Him without any
knowledge. Glory be to Him! He is far above what they describe!
(6:100)
• He said (to Musa), ‘I would like to marry you to one of these two
daughters of mine on condition that you work for me for eight full
years. If you complete ten, that is up to you. I do not want to be
hard on you. You will find me, Allah willing, to be one of the
righteous.’ (28:27)
• Prophet! We have made lawful for you: your wives to whom you
have given dowries and any slavegirls you own from the booty
Allah has allotted you and the daughters of your paternal uncles
and the daughters of your paternal aunts and the daughters of
your maternal uncles and the daughters of your maternal aunts
who have migrated with you and any believing woman who gives
herself to the Prophet if the Prophet desires to marry her:
exclusively for you as opposed to the rest of the believers–We
know very well what We have prescribed for them regarding their
wives and any slavegirls they possess–in order that there be no
restriction on you. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:50)
• Prophet! Tell your wives and daughters and the women of the
believers to draw their outer garments closely round themselves.
This makes it more likely that they will be recognised and not be
harmed. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:59)
DAWN
• On the night of the fast it is lawful for you to have sexual relations
with your wives. They are clothing for you and you for them. Allah
knows that you have been betraying yourselves and He has
turned towards you and excused you. Now you may have sexual
intercourse with them and seek what Allah has written for you.
Eat and drink until you can clearly discern the white thread from
the black thread of the dawn, then fulfil the fast until the night
appears. But do not have sexual intercourse with them while you
are in retreat in the mosques. These are Allah’s limits, so do not
go near them. In this way does Allah make His Signs clear to
people so that hopefully they will guard against evil. (2:187)
• (His servants are) the steadfast, the truthful, the obedient, the
givers, and those who seek forgiveness before dawn. (3:17)
• Perform prayer from the time the sun declines until the darkening
of the night, and also the recitation at dawn. The dawn recitation
is certainly witnessed. (17:78)
• You who believe! Those you own as slaves and those of you who
have not yet reached puberty should ask your permission to enter
at three times: before the Dawn Prayer, when you have
undressed at noon, and after the Prayer of Night–three times of
nakedness for you. There is nothing wrong for you or them at
other times in moving around among yourselves from one to
another. In this way Allah makes the Signs clear to you. Allah is
All-Knowing, All-Wise. (24:58)
• And they (the people who guard against evil) would seek
forgiveness before the dawn. (51:18)
• When Talut marched out with the army, he said, ‘Allah will test
you with a river. Anyone who drinks from it is not with me. But
anyone who does not taste it is with me–except for him who
merely scoops up a little in his hand.’ But they drank from it–
except for a few of them. Then when he and those who believed
with him had crossed it, they said, ‘We do not have the strength
to face Goliath and his troops today.’ But those who were sure
that they were going to meet Allah said, ‘How many a small force
has triumphed over a much greater one by Allah’s permission!
Allah is with the steadfast.’ (2:249)
• When they came out against Goliath and his troops, they said,
‘Our Lord, pour down steadfastness upon us, and make our feet
firm, and help us against this disbelieving people.’ (2:250)
• And with Allah's permission they routed them. Dawud killed
Goliath and Allah gave him kingship and wisdom and taught him
whatever He willed. If it were not for Allah’s driving some people
back by means of others, the earth would have been corrupted.
But Allah shows favour to all the worlds. (2:251)
• And Dawud and Sulayman when they gave judgement about the
field, when the people’s sheep strayed into it at night. We were
Witness to their judgement. (21:78)
• Has the story of the litigants reached you? How they climbed up
to the Upper Room and came in on Dawud who was alarmed by
them. They said, ‘Do not be afraid. We are two litigants, one of
whom has acted unjustly towards the other, so judge between us
with truth and do not be unjust and guide us to the Right Path.
This brother of mine has ninety-nine ewes and I have only one.
He said, "Let me have charge of it," and got the better of me with
his words.’ He said, ‘He has wronged you by asking for your ewe
to add to his ewes. Truly many partners are unjust to one
another–except those who believe and do right actions, and how
few they are!’ Dawud realised that We had put him to the test. He
begged forgiveness from his Lord and fell down prone, prostrating,
and repented. So We forgave him for that and he has nearness to
Us and a good Homecoming. (We said), ‘Dawud! We have made
you a successor on the earth, so judge between people with truth
and do not follow your own desires, letting them misguide you
from the Way of Allah. Those who are misguided from the Way of
Allah will receive a harsh punishment because they forgot the
Day of Reckoning.’ (38:21-26)
DAY OF HUNAYN
DAY OF JUDGEMENT
• Praise be to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds, the All-Merciful, the
Most Merciful, the King of the Day of Judgement. You alone we
worship. (1:1-3)
• What will convey to you what the Day of Judgement is? (82:17)
• Again! What will convey to you what the Day of Judgement is?
(82:18)
• Then you are the people who are killing one another and
expelling a group among you from their homes, ganging up
against them in wrongdoing and enmity. Yet if they are brought to
you as captives, you ransom them, when it was forbidden for you
to expel them in the first place! Do you, then, believe in one part
of the Book and reject the other? What repayment will there be
for any of you who do that except disgrace in this world? And on
the Day of Rising, they will be returned to the harshest of
punishments. Allah is not unaware of what you do. (2:85)
• The Jews say, ‘The Christians have nothing to stand on,’ and the
Christians say, ‘The Jews have nothing to stand on,’ yet they both
recite the Book. Those who do not know say the same as they
say. Allah will judge between them on the Day of Rising regarding
the things about which they differ. (2:113)
• Those who conceal what Allah has sent down of the Book and
sell it cheap, take nothing into their bellies but the Fire. On the
Day of Rising Allah will not speak to them or purify them. They will
have a painful punishment. (2:174)
• When Allah said, ‘‘Isa, I will take you back and raise you up to Me
and purify you of those who disbelieve. And I will place the people
who follow you above those who disbelieve until the Day of Rising.
Then you will all return to Me, and I will judge between you
regarding the things about which you differed.’ (3:55)
• Those who sell Allah’s contract and their own oaths for a paltry
price, such people will have no portion in the hereafter and on the
Day of Rising Allah will not speak to them or look at them or purify
them. They will have a painful punishment. (3:77)
• It is not for any prophet to be false to his trust. Those who are
false will arrive on the Day of Rising with what they have
misappropriated. Then every self will be paid in full for what it
earned. They will not be wronged. (3:161)
• Those who are tight-fisted with the bounty Allah has given them
should not suppose that that is better for them. No indeed, it is
worse for them! What they were tight-fisted with will be hung
around their necks on the Day of Rising. Allah is the inheritor of
the heavens and the earth and Allah is aware of what you do.
(3:180)
• Every self will taste death. You will be paid your wages in full on
the Day of Rising. Anyone who is distanced from the Fire and
admitted to the Garden has triumphed. The life of this world is just
the enjoyment of delusion. (3:185)
• Allah, there is no god but Him. He will gather you to the Day of
Rising about which there is no doubt. And whose speech could
be truer than Allah’s? (4:87)
• Here you are arguing on their behalf in this world, but who will
argue with Allah on their behalf on the Day of Rising? Who will
act as guardian for them then? (4:109)
• Those who anticipate the worst for you say, ‘Were we not with
you?’ whenever you gain a victory from Allah, but if the
disbelievers have a success they say, ‘Did we not have the upper
hand over you and yet in spite of that keep the believers away
from you?’ Allah will judge between you on the Day of Rising.
Allah will not give the disbelievers any way against the believers.
(4:141)
• There is not one of the People of the Book who will not believe in
him before he dies; and on the Day of Rising he (‘Isa) will be a
witness against them. (4:159)
• Those who deny the meeting with Allah have lost, so that, when
the Hour comes upon them suddenly, they will say, ‘Alas for what
we neglected there!’ They will bear their burdens on their backs.
How evil is what they bear! (6:31)
• Say: ‘Who has forbidden the fine clothing Allah has produced for
His servants and the good kinds of provision?’ Say: ‘On the Day
of Rising such things will be exclusively for those who believed
during their life in this world.’ In this way We make the Signs clear
for people who know. (7:32)
• Then your Lord announced that He would send against them until
the Day of Rising people who would inflict an evil punishment on
them. Your Lord is Swift in Retribution. And He is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (7:167)
• When your Lord took out all their descendants from the loins of
the children of Adam and made them testify against themselves
‘Am I not your Lord?’ they said, ‘We testify that indeed You are!’
Lest you say on the Day of Rising, ‘We knew nothing of this.’
(7:172)
• They will ask you about the Hour: When is it due? Say:
‘Knowledge of it rests with my Lord alone. He alone will reveal it
at its proper time. It hangs heavy in the heavens and the earth. It
will not come upon you except suddenly.’ They will ask you as if
you had full knowledge of it. Say: ‘Knowledge of it rests with Allah
alone. But most people do not know that.’ (7:187)
• What will those who invent lies against Allah think on the Day of
Rising? Allah shows favour to mankind but most of them are not
thankful. (10:60)
• We did not create the heavens and earth and everything between
them, except with truth. The Hour is certainly coming, so turn
away graciously. (15:85)
• So on the Day of Rising they will carry the full weight of their own
burdens and some of the burdens of those they misguided
without knowledge. What an evil load they bear! (16:25)
• Then on the Day of Rising He will disgrace them, and say, ‘Where
are My partner gods for whose sake you became so hostile?’
Those given knowledge will say, ‘Today there is disgrace and evil
for the disbelievers.’ (16:27)
• The Unseen of the heavens and earth belongs to Allah. The
matter of the Hour is only the blink of an eye away, or even
nearer. Allah has power over all things. (16:77)
• The Sabbath was only enjoined on those who differed about it.
Your Lord will judge between them on the Day of Rising regarding
the things about which they differed. (16:124)
• We have fastened the destiny of every man about his neck and
on the Day of Rising We will bring out a Book for him which he
will find spread open in front of him. (17:13)
• He (Diabolis) said, ‘Do you see this creature you have honoured
over me? If You reprieve me till the Day of Rising, I will be the
master of his descendants except for a very few.’ (17:62)
• (He said,) ‘I do not think the Hour will ever come. But if I should
be sent back to my Lord, I will definitely get something better in
return.’ (18:36)
• Those are the people who reject their Lord’s Signs and the
meeting with Him. Their actions will come to nothing and, on the
Day of Rising, We will not assign them any weight. (18:105)
• Say: ‘As for those who are astray, let the All-Merciful prolong their
term until they see what they were promised, whether it be the
punishment or the Hour. Then they will know who is in the worse
position and has the weaker troops.’ (19:75)
• Each of them will come to Him on the Day of Rising all alone.
(19:95)
• The Hour is coming but I have concealed it so that every self can
be repaid for its efforts. (20:15)
• Those who turn away from it will bear a heavy burden on the Day
of Rising, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. What an evil load
they will bear on the Day of Rising! (20:100-101)
• (He said,) ‘But if anyone turns away from My reminder, his life will
be a dark and narrow one and on the Day of Rising We will
gather him blind.’ (20:124)
• We will set up the Just Balance on the Day of Rising and no self
will be wronged in any way. Even if it is no more than the weight
of a grain of mustard-seed, We will produce it. We are sufficient
as a Reckoner. (21:47)
• ... for the heedful: those who fear their Lord in the Unseen and
are apprehensive about the Hour. (21:48-49)
• And the Hour is coming without any doubt and Allah will raise up
all those in the graves. (22:7)
• As for those who believe and those who are Jews and the
Sabaeans and the Christians, Magians and idolaters, Allah will
distinguish between them on the Day of Rising. Allah is witness of
all things. (22:17)
• Say: ‘What do you think? If Allah made it permanent night for you
till the Day of Rising, what god is there other than Allah to bring
you light? Do you not then hear?’ (28:71)
• Say: ‘What do you think? If Allah made it permanent day for you
till the Day of Rising, what god is there other than Allah to bring
you night to rest in? Do you not then see?’ (28:72)
• They will bear their own burdens and other burdens together with
their own. On the Day of Rising they will be questioned about
what they invented. (29:13)
• On the Day the Hour arrives, that Day they will be split up. (30:14)
• On the Day the Last Hour arrives, the evildoers will swear they
have not even tarried for an hour. That is the extent to which they
are deceived. (30:55)
• Truly Allah has knowledge of the Hour and sends down abundant
rain and knows what is in the womb. And no self knows what it
will earn tomorrow and no self knows in what land it will die. Allah
is All-Knowing, All-Aware. (31:34)
• People will ask you about the Last Hour. Say: ‘Only Allah has
knowledge of it. What will make you understand? It may be that
the Last Hour is very near.’ (33:63)
• Those who disbelieve say, ‘The Hour will never come.’ Say: ‘Yes,
by my Lord, it certainly will come!’ He is the Knower of the
Unseen, Whom not even the weight of the smallest particle
eludes, either in the heavens or in the earth; nor is there anything
smaller or larger than that which is not in a Clear Book. (34:3)
• If you call on them they will not hear your call, and were they to
hear, they would not respond to you. On the Day of Rising they
will reject your making associates of them. No one can inform you
like One Who is All-aware. (35:14)
• Is someone who tries to shield himself with his face from the
worst of the torment on the Day of Rising ...? The wrongdoers will
be told, ‘Taste what you have earned.’ (39:24)
• Then on the Day of Rising you will argue in the presence of your
Lord. (39:31)
• If those who did wrong owned everything on earth, and the same
again with it, they would offer it as a ransom to save themselves
from the evil of the punishment on the Day of Rising. What
confronts them from Allah will be something they did not reckon
with. (39:47)
• On the Day of Rising you will see those who lied against Allah
with their faces blackened. Do not the arrogant have a dwelling
place in Hell? (39:60)
• They do not measure Allah with His true measure. The whole
earth will be a mere handful for Him on the Day of Rising the
heavens folded up in His right hand. Glory be to Him! He is
exalted above the partners they ascribe! (39:67)
• The Fire, morning and night, to which they are exposed; and on
the Day the Hour takes place: ‘Admit Pharaoh’s people to the
harshest punishment!’ (40:46)
• It is Allah Who has sent down the Book with truth and with the
Just Balance. What will make you realise? Perhaps the Hour is
close. (42:17)
• Those who do not believe in it try to hasten it. But those who
believe in it are afraid of it. They know it is the truth. Those who
doubt the Hour are greatly misguided. (42:18)
• You will see them as they are exposed to it, abject in their
abasement, glancing around them furtively. Those who believe
will say, ‘Truly the losers are those who lose themselves and their
families on the Day of Rising.’ The wrongdoers are in an
everlasting punishment. (42:45)
• He (‘Isa) is a Sign of the Hour. Have no doubt about it. But follow
me. This is a straight path. (43:61)
• What are they waiting for, but the Hour to come upon them
suddenly when they are not expecting it? (43:66)
• Blessed be Him to Whom belongs the sovereignty of the heavens
and the earth and everything in between them. The knowledge of
the Hour is with Him. You will be returned to Him. (43:85)
• Say: ‘Allah gives you life, then causes you to die, and then will
gather you together for the Day of Rising about which there is no
doubt. But most people do not know it.’ (45:26)
• Who could be further astray than those who call on other things
besides Allah, which will not respond to them until the Day of
Rising and which are unaware of their prayers? (46:5)
• What are they awaiting but for the Hour to come upon them
suddenly? Its Signs have already come. What good will their
Reminder be to them when it does arrive? (47:18)
• The Hour has drawn near and the moon has split. (54:1)
• Do you not see that Allah knows what is in the heavens and on
the earth? Three men cannot confer together secretly without Him
being the fourth of them, or five without Him being the sixth of
them, or fewer than that or more without Him being with them
wherever they are. Then He will inform them on the Day of Rising
of what they did. Allah has knowledge of all things. (58:7)
• Neither your blood relations nor your children will be of any use to
you. On the Day of Rising He will differentiate between you. Allah
sees what you do. (60:3)
• Yet man still wants to deny what is ahead of him, asking, ‘So
when is the Day of Rising?’ (75:5-6)
• They ask you about the Hour: ‘When will it come?’ (79:42)
DEAD
• How can you reject Allah, when you were dead and then He gave
you life, then He will make you die and then give you life again,
then you will be returned to Him? (2:28)
• We said, ‘Hit him with part of it!’ In that way Allah gives life to the
dead and He shows you His Signs so that hopefully you will
understand. (2:73)
• Do not say that those who are killed in the Way of Allah are dead.
On the contrary, they are alive but you are not aware of it. (2:154)
• When Ibrahim said, ‘My Lord, show me how You bring the dead
to life.’ He asked, ‘Do you not then believe?’ He replied, ‘Indeed I
do! But so that my heart may be at peace.’ He said, ‘Take four
birds and train them to yourself. Then put a part of them on each
mountain and call to them; they will come rushing to you. Know
that Allah is Almighty, All-Wise.’ (2:260)
• (Say, ‘O Allah!) You merge the night into the day. You merge the
day into the night. You bring out the living from the dead. You
bring out the dead from the living. You provide for whoever You
will without any reckoning.’ (3:27)
• He will teach him (‘Isa) the Book and Wisdom, and the Torah and
the Gospel, as a Messenger to the tribe of Israel, saying: ‘I have
brought you a Sign from your Lord. I will create the shape of a
bird out of clay for you and then breathe into it and it will be a bird
by Allah’s permission. I will heal the blind and the leper, and bring
the dead to life, by Allah’s permission. I will tell you what you eat
and what you store up in your homes. There is a Sign for you in
that if you are believers.’ (3:48-49)
• Do not suppose that those killed in the Way of Allah are dead. No
indeed! They are alive and well provided for in the very presence
of their Lord. (3:169)
• Only those who can hear respond. As for the dead, Allah will
raise them up, then to Him they will be returned. (6:36)
• Allah is He Who splits the seed and kernel. He brings forth the
living from the dead, and produces the dead out of the living. That
is Allah, so how are you perverted? (6:95)
• Say: ‘Who provides for you out of heaven and earth? Who
controls hearing and sight? Who brings forth the living from the
dead and the dead from the living? Who directs the whole affair?’
They will say, ‘Allah.’ Say, ‘So will you not guard against evil?’
(10:31)
• They are dead, not alive, and they are not aware of when they will
be raised. (16:21)
• Allah sends down water from the sky and by it brings the dead
earth back to life. There is certainly a Sign in that for people who
hear. (16:65)
• Mankind! If you are in any doubt about the Rising, know that We
created you from dust then from a drop of sperm then from a clot
of blood then from a lump of flesh, formed yet unformed, so We
may make things clear to you. We make whatever We want stay
in the womb until a specified time and then We bring you out as
children so that you can reach your full maturity. Some of you die
and some of you revert to the lowest form of life so that, after
having knowledge, they then know nothing at all. And you see the
earth dead and barren; then when We send down water onto it it
quivers and swells and sprouts with luxuriant plants of every kind.
(22:5)
• That is because Allah is the Real and gives life to the dead and
has power over all things. (22:6)
• You will not make dead men hear and you will not make deaf men
hear the call when they turn their backs in flight. (27:80)
• If you ask them, ‘Who sends down water from the sky, bringing
the earth back to life again after it was dead?’ they will say,
‘Allah.’ Say: ‘Praise be to Allah.’ But most of them do not use their
intellect. (29:63)
• He brings forth the living from the dead and brings forth the dead
from the living and brings the earth to life after it was dead. In the
same way you too will be brought forth. (30:19)
• You will not make dead men hear; you will not make deaf men
hear the call, when they turn their backs in flight. (30:52)
• It is Allah Who sends the winds which raise the clouds which We
then drive to a dead land and by them bring the earth to life after
it was dead. That is how the Resurrection will be. (35:9)
• The living and dead are not the same. Allah makes anyone He
wills hear but you cannot make those in the grave hear. (35:22)
• We bring the dead to life and We record what they send ahead
and what they leave behind. We have listed everything in a clear
register. (36:12)
• A Sign for them is the dead land which We bring to life and from
which We bring forth grain of which they eat. (36:33)
• Among His Signs is that you see the earth laid bare and then
when We send down water on it, it quivers and swells. He Who
gives it life is He Who gives life to the dead. Certainly He has
power over all things. (41:39)
• Do they not see that Allah–He Who created the heavens and the
earth and was not wearied by creating them–has the power to
bring the dead to life? Yes indeed! He has power over all things.
(46:33)
• You who believe! Avoid most suspicion. Indeed some suspicion is
a crime. And do not spy and do not backbite one another. Would
any of you like to eat his brother’s dead flesh? No, you would
hate it. And have fear of Allah. Allah is Ever-Returning, Most
Merciful. (49:12)
• And We sent down blessed water from the sky and made
gardens grow by it and grain for harvesting and soaring date-
palms with layered spathes, as provision for Our servants; by it
We brought a dead land to life. That is how the Emergence will
take place. (50:9-11)
• Know that Allah brings the earth to life after it was dead. We have
made the Signs clear to you so that hopefully you will use your
intellect. (57:17)
• Is He Who does this not able to bring the dead to life? (75:40)
• Did We not make the earth a receptacle for the living and the
dead? (77:25-26)
DEAF
• They thought there would be no testing. They were blind and deaf.
Then Allah turned towards them. Then many of them went blind
and deaf again. Allah sees what they do. (5:71)
• Those who deny Our Signs are deaf and dumb in utter darkness.
Allah misguides whoever He wills, and puts whoever He wills on a
straight path. (6:39)
• The worst of beasts in Allah’s sight are the deaf and dumb who
have no intellect. (8:22)
• The likeness of the two groups is that of the blind and deaf and
the seeing and hearing. Are they the same as one another? So
will you not pay heed? (11:24)
• Say: ‘I can only warn you through the Revelation.’ But the deaf
cannot hear the call when they are warned. (21:45)
• (Believers are) those who, when they are reminded of the Signs
of their Lord, do not turn their backs, deaf and blind to them;
(25:73)
• You will not make dead men hear and you will not make deaf men
hear the call when they turn their backs in flight. (27:80)
• You will not make dead men hear; you will not make deaf men
hear the call, when they turn their backs in flight. (30:52)
• Such are the people Allah has cursed, making them deaf and
blinding their eyes. (47:23)
DEATH
• Say, ‘If the abode of the hereafter with Allah is for you alone, to
the exclusion of all others, then long for death if you are telling the
truth.’ But they will never ever long for it because of what they
have done. Allah knows the wrongdoers. (2:94-95)
• Or were you present when death came to Ya‘qub and he said to
his sons, ‘What will you worship when I have gone?’ They said,
‘We will worship your God, the God of your forefathers, Ibrahim,
Isma‘il and Ishaq–one God. We are Muslims submitted to Him.’
(2:133)
• What do you think about those who left their homes in thousands
in fear of death? Allah said to them, ‘Die!’ and then brought them
back to life. Allah shows great favour to mankind, but most people
are not grateful. (2:243)
• You were longing for death before you met it. Now you have seen
it with your own eyes. (3:143)
• They are those who said of their brothers, when they themselves
had stayed behind, ‘If they had only obeyed us, they would not
have been killed.’ Say, ‘Then ward off death from yourselves if
you are telling the truth.’ (3:168)
• Every self will taste death. You will be paid your wages in full on
the Day of Rising. Anyone who is distanced from the Fire and
admitted to the Garden has triumphed. The life of this world is just
the enjoyment of delusion. (3:185)
• Those who migrate in the Way of Allah will find many places of
refuge on the earth and ample sustenance. If anyone leaves his
home, migrating to Allah and His Messenger, and death catches
up with him, it is Allah Who will reward him. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:100)
• You who believe! When one of you is near to death and makes a
will, two just men from among you should act as witnesses; or, if
you are travelling when the misfortune of death occurs, two men
who are strangers to you. You should detain them after prayer
and, if you are doubtful, they should swear by Allah: ‘We will not
sell it for any price, even to a near relative, and we will not
conceal the testimony of Allah. If we did we would indeed be
wrongdoers.’ (5:106)
• Just as your Lord brought you out from your house with truth,
even though a group of the believers disliked it, arguing with you
about the Truth after it had been made clear as though they were
being driven to their death with open eyes. (8:5-6)
• It is He Who created the heavens and the earth in six days when
His Throne was on the water, in order to test which of you has the
best actions. If you say, ‘You will be raised up after death,’ those
who disbelieve will say, ‘This is nothing but downright magic.’
(11:7)
• Every self will taste death. We test you with both good and evil as
a trial. And you will be returned to Us. (21:35)
• But they have adopted gods apart from Him which do not create
anything but are themselves created. They have no power to
harm or help themselves. They have no power over death or life
or resurrection. (25:3)
• (Ibrahim said, ‘It is) He Who will cause my death, then give me
life.’ (26:81)
• Every self will taste death. Then you will be returned to Us. (29:57)
• Say: ‘The Angel of Death, who has been given charge of you, will
take you back and then you will be sent back to your Lord.’ (32:11)
• Say: ‘Flight will not benefit you if you try to run away from death
or being killed. Then you will only enjoy a short respite.’ (33:16)
• Allah knows the obstructers among you and those who say to
their brothers, ‘Come to us,’ and who only come to fight a very
little, and are begrudging towards you. Then when fear comes,
you see them looking at you, their eyes rolling like people scared
to death. But when fear departs they flay you with sharp tongues,
grasping for wealth. Such people have no faith and Allah will
make their actions come to nothing. That is easy for Allah. (33:18-
19)
• (Say,) ‘Are we not going to die, except for our first death? Are we
not going to be punished?’ (37:58-59)
• Allah takes back people’s selves when their death arrives and
those who have not yet died, while they are asleep. He keeps
hold of those whose death has been decreed and sends the
others back for a specified term. There are certainly Signs in that
for people who reflect. (39:42)
• (These people say,) ‘There is nothing more than our first death.
We will not be raised up a second time.’ (44:35)
• They will not taste any death there–except for the first one. He
will safeguard them from the punishment of the Blazing Fire.
(44:56)
• Those who believe say, ‘If only a sura could be sent down.’ But
when a straightforward sura is sent down and fighting is
mentioned in it, you see those with sickness in their hearts
looking at you with the look of someone about to faint from fear of
death. More fitting for them would be obedience and honourable
words. Once the matter is resolved upon, being true to Allah
would be better for them. (47:20-21)
• The throes of death come revealing the truth. That is what you
were trying to evade! (50:19)
• Say: ‘Death, from which you are fleeing, will certainly catch up
with you. Then you will be returned to the Knower of the Unseen
and the Visible and He will inform you about what you did.’ (62:8)
• Give from what We have provided for you before death comes to
one of you and he says, ‘My Lord, if only you would give me a
little more time so that I can give charity and be one of the
righteous!’ (63:10)
• (He who is given his Book in his left hand will say,) ‘If only death
had really been the end!’ (69:27)
DEBASEMENT
• Those who do good will have the best and more! Neither dust nor
debasement will darken their faces. They are the Companions of
the Garden, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (10:26)
• But as for those who have earned bad actions–a bad action will
be repaid with one the like of it. Debasement will darken them.
They will have no one to protect them from Allah. It is as if their
faces were covered by dark patches of the night. Those are the
Companions of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever.
(10:27)
• The Day they will emerge swiftly from their graves as if rushing to
rally to the flag, eyes downcast, darkened by debasement, that
will be the Day which they were promised. (70:43-44)
DEBT - LOAN
• You who believe! When you take on a debt for a specified period,
write it down. A writer should write it down between you justly. No
writer should refuse to write; as Allah has taught him, so he
should write. The one incurring the debt should dictate and
should have fear of Allah his Lord and not reduce it in any way. If
the person incurring the debt is incompetent or weak or unable to
dictate, then his guardian should dictate for him justly. Two men
among you should act as witnesses. But if there are not two men,
then a man and two women with whom you are satisfied as
witnesses; then if one of them forgets, the other can remind her.
Witnesses should not refuse when they are called upon. Do not
think it too trivial to write down, whether small or large, with the
date that it falls due. Doing that is more just in Allah’s sight and
more helpful when bearing witness and more likely to eliminate
any doubt–unless it is an immediate transaction hand to hand,
taken and given without delay. There is nothing wrong in your not
writing that down. Call witnesses when you trade. Neither writer
nor witness should be put under pressure. If you do that, it is
deviancy on your part. Have fear of Allah and Allah will give you
knowledge. Allah has knowledge of all things. (2:282)
• You receive half of what your wives leave if they are childless. If
they have children you receive a quarter of what they leave after
any bequest they make or any debts. They receive a quarter of
what you leave if you are childless. If you have children they
receive an eighth of what you leave after any bequest you make
or any debts. If a man or woman has no direct heirs, but has a
brother or sister, each of them receives a sixth. If there are more
than that they share in a third after any bequest you make or any
debts, making sure that no one’s rights are prejudiced. This is an
instruction from Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Forbearing. (4:12)
• Or do you ask them for a wage so they are weighed down with
debt? (52:40)
• Who will make a good loan to Allah so that He may multiply it for
him? He will have a generous reward. (57:11)
• Or do you ask them for a wage so they are weighed down with
debt? (68:46)
• Your Lord knows that you stay up nearly two-thirds of the night–or
half of it, or a third of it–and a group of those with you. Allah
determines the night and day. He knows you will not keep count
of it, so He has turned towards you. Recite as much of the Qur’an
as is easy for you. He knows that some of you are ill and that
others are travelling in the land seeking Allah’s bounty, and that
others are fighting in the Way of Allah. So recite as much of it as
is easy for you. And perform prayer and give the alms and lend a
generous loan to Allah. Whatever good you send ahead for
yourselves you will find it with Allah as something better and as a
greater reward. And seek forgiveness from Allah. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (73:20)
DECEIT
• They think they deceive Allah and those who believe. They
deceive no one but themselves but they are not aware of it. (2:9)
• On the Day the Last Hour arrives, the evildoers will swear they
have not even tarried for an hour. That is the extent to which they
are deceived. (30:55)
• Forbidden for you are carrion, blood and pork, and what has been
consecrated to other than Allah, and animals which have been
strangled, and animals which have been killed by a blow, and
animals which have fallen to their death, and animals which have
been gored, and animals which wild beasts have eaten–except
those you are able to slaughter properly–and animals which have
been sacrificed on altars, and deciding things by means of
divining arrows–that is deviance. Today those who disbelieve
have despaired of overcoming your religion. So do not be afraid
of them but be afraid of Me. Today I have perfected your religion
for you and completed My blessing upon you and I am pleased
with Islam as a religion for you. But if anyone is forced by hunger,
not intending any wrongdoing, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. (5:3)
DEFEAT
• Allah only did this for it to be good news for you and so that your
hearts might be set at rest by it (help comes from no one but
Allah, the Almighty, the All-Wise) and so that He might cut off a
group of those who disbelieve or crush them and they might be
turned back in defeat. (3:126-127)
• They were defeated then and there, transformed into humbled
men. (7:119)
• The Romans have been defeated in the land nearby, but after
their defeat they will themselves be victorious (30:2-3)
DELIGHT
• If only the People of the Book had believed and guarded against
evil, We would have erased their evil deeds from them and
admitted them into Gardens of Delight. (5:65)
• Their Lord gives them the good news of His mercy and good
pleasure and Gardens where they will enjoy everlasting delight.
(9:21)
• But as for those who believe and do right actions, their Lord will
guide them by their faith. Rivers will flow under them in Gardens
of Delight. (10:9)
• (A voice called out to Maryam,) ‘Eat and drink and delight your
eyes. If you should see anyone at all, just say, "I have made a
vow of abstinence to the All-Merciful and today I will not speak to
any human being."’ (19:26)
• (Allah said to Musa,) ‘When your sister went and said, "Shall I
direct you to someone who will take care of him?" that was how
We returned you to your mother so that she might delight her
eyes and not be grieved. You killed a man and We rescued you
from trouble and tested you with many trials. You stayed some
years among the people of Madyan. Then you arrived at the pre-
ordained time, Musa!’ (20:40)
• (Believers will be told,) ‘Enter the Garden, you and your wives,
delighting in your joy.’ (43:70)
• Platters and cups of gold will be passed around among them and
they will have there all that their hearts desire and their eyes find
delight in. You will remain in it timelessly, for ever. (43:71)
• The people who guard against evil will have Gardens of Delight
with their Lord. (68:34)
• Mankind! Have fear of your Lord and fear a day when no father
will be able to atone for his son, or son for his father, in any way.
Allah’s promise is true. So do not let the life of this world delude
you and do not let the Deluder delude you concerning Allah.
(31:33)
• Mankind! Allah’s promise is true. Do not let the life of this world
delude you and do not let the Deluder delude you about Allah.
(35:5)
DELUSION
• That is because they say, ‘The Fire will only touch us for a
number of days.’ Their inventions have deluded them in their
religion. (3:24)
• Every self will taste death. You will be paid your wages in full on
the Day of Rising. Anyone who is distanced from the Fire and
admitted to the Garden has triumphed. The life of this world is just
the enjoyment of delusion. (3:185)
• Abandon those who have turned their religion into a game and a
diversion and who have been deluded by the life of this world.
Remind by it lest a person is delivered up to destruction for what
he has earned with no protector or intercessor besides Allah.
Were he to offer every kind of compensation, it would not be
accepted from him. Such people are delivered up to destruction
for what they have earned. They will have scalding water to drink
and a painful punishment because they disbelieved. (6:70)
• In this way We have appointed as enemies to every Prophet
Satans from both mankind and from the jinn, who inspire each
other with delusions by means of specious words–if your Lord
had willed, they would not have done it, so abandon them and all
they fabricate. (6:112)
• Company of jinn and men! Did not Messengers come to you from
among yourselves relating My Signs to you and warning you of
the encounter of this Day of yours? They will say, ‘We testify
against ourselves.’ The life of this world deluded them and they
will testify against themselves that they were disbelievers. (6:130)
• And when the hypocrites and those with sickness in their hearts
said, ‘These people have been deluded by their religion.’ But
those who put their trust in Allah will find Allah to be Almighty, All-
Wise. (8:49)
• (Allah said to Satan,) ‘Stir up any of them you can with your voice
and rally against them your cavalry and your infantry and share
with them in their children and their wealth and make them
promises! The promise of Satan is nothing but delusion.’ (17:64)
• Mankind! Have fear of your Lord and fear a day when no father
will be able to atone for his son, or son for his father, in any way.
Allah’s promise is true. So do not let the life of this world delude
you and do not let the Deluder delude you concerning Allah.
(31:33)
• When the hypocrites and people with sickness in their hearts said,
‘What Allah and His Messenger promised us was mere delusion.’
(33:12)
• Mankind! Allah’s promise is true. Do not let the life of this world
delude you and do not let the Deluder delude you about Allah.
(35:5)
• Say: ‘Have you thought about your partner gods, those you call
upon besides Allah? Show me what they have created of the
earth; or do they have a partnership in the heavens?’ Have We
given them a Book whose Clear Signs they follow? No indeed!
The wrongdoers promise each other nothing but delusion. (35:40)
• Know that the life of this world is merely a game and a diversion
and ostentation and a cause of boasting among yourselves and
trying to outdo one another in wealth and children: like the plant-
growth after rain which delights the cultivators, but then it withers
and you see it turning yellow, and then it becomes broken stubble.
In the hereafter there is terrible punishment but also forgiveness
from Allah and His good pleasure. The life of this world is nothing
but the enjoyment of delusion. (57:20)
• man! What has deluded you in respect of your Noble Lord? (82:6)
DEMAND FOR GRATITUDE
• Those who spend their wealth in the Way of Allah, and then do
not follow what they have spent by demands for gratitude or
insulting words will have their reward with their Lord. They will
feel no fear and will know no sorrow. (2:262)
DEMON
• A demon of the jinn said, ‘I will bring it to you before you get up
from your seat. I am strong and trustworthy enough to do it.’
(27:39)
DEPRAVITY
• And when Lut he said to his people: ‘Do you approach depravity
with open eyes? (27:54)
• And (I swear by) the self and what proportioned it and inspired it
with depravity or sense of duty, he who purifies it has succeeded,
he who covers it up has failed. (91:7-10)
DESCENDANT
• Allah chose Adam and Nuh and the family of Ibrahim and the
family of ‘Imran over all other beings–descendants one of the
other. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (3:33-34)
• When your Lord took out all their descendants from the loins of
the children of Adam and made them testify against themselves
‘Am I not your Lord?’ they said, ‘We testify that indeed You are!’
Lest you say on the Day of Rising, ‘We knew nothing of this.’
(7:172)
• (Ibrahim said,) ‘My Lord! Make me and my descendants people
who perform prayer. My Lord! Accept my prayer. ’ (14:40)
• He (Diabolis) said, ‘Do you see this creature you have honoured
over me? If You reprieve me till the Day of Rising, I will be the
master of his descendants except for a very few.’ (17:62)
• Those are some of the Prophets Allah has blessed, from the
descendants of Adam and from those We carried with Nuh, and
from the descendants of Ibrahim and Isra’il and from those We
guided and chose. When the Signs of the All-Merciful were
recited to them they fell on their faces, weeping, in prostration.
(19:58)
• We gave him Ishaq and Ya‘qub and placed Prophethood and the
Book among his progeny. We gave him his reward in this world
and in the hereafter he will be among the righteous. (29:27)
• We rescued him (Nuh) and his family from the terrible plight and
made his descendants the survivors; (37:76-77)
• We sent Nuh and Ibrahim and placed Prophethood and the Book
among their descendants. Some of them are guided but many of
them are deviators. (57:26)
DESERT
• He (Yusuf) raised his parents up onto the throne. The others fell
prostrate in front of him. He said, ‘My father, truly this is now the
interpretation of the dream I had. My Lord has made it all come
true; and He was kind to me by letting me out of prison and
brought you from the desert when Satan had caused dissent
between me and my brothers. My Lord is kind to anyone He wills.
He is indeed All-Knowing and All-Wise.’ (12:100)
• But the actions of those who disbelieve are like a mirage in the
desert. A thirsty man thinks it is water but when he reaches it, he
finds it to be nothing at all, but he finds Allah there. He will pay
him his account in full. Allah is swift at reckoning. (24:39)
• They think that the Confederates have not departed and if the
Confederates did appear then they would wish they were out in
the desert with the Arabs, asking for news of you. If they were
with you they would only fight a very little. (33:20)
DESERT ARABS
• The desert arabs came with their excuses asking for permission
to stay, and those who lied to Allah and His Messenger stayed
behind. A painful punishment will afflict those among them who
disbelieve. (9:90)
• Among the desert arabs there are some who regard what they
give as an imposition and are waiting for your fortunes to change.
The evil turn of fortune will be theirs! Allah is All-Hearing, All-
Knowing. (9:98)
• And among the desert arabs there are some who believe in Allah
and the Last Day and regard what they give as something which
will bring them nearer to Allah and to the prayers of the
Messenger. It does indeed bring them near. Allah will admit them
into His mercy. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (9:99)
• Some of the desert Arabs around you are hypocrites and some of
the people of Madina are obdurate in their hypocrisy. You do not
know them but We know them. We will punish them twice over
and then they will be returned to a terrible punishment. (9:101)
• It was not for people of Madina, and the desert arabs around
them, to remain behind the Messenger of Allah nor to prefer
themselves to him. That is because no thirst or weariness or
hunger will afflict them in the Way of Allah, nor will they take a
single step to infuriate the disbelievers, nor secure any gain from
the enemy, without a right action being written down for them
because of it. Allah does not let the wage of the good-doers go to
waste. (9:120)
• They think that the Confederates have not departed and if the
Confederates did appear then they would wish they were out in
the desert with the Arabs, asking for news of you. If they were
with you they would only fight a very little. (33:20)
• Those (desert) Arabs who remained behind will say to you, ‘Our
wealth and families kept us occupied, so ask forgiveness for us.’
They say with their tongues what is not in their hearts. Say: ‘Who
can control Allah for you in any way whether He wants harm for
you or wants benefit for you?’ Allah is aware of what you do.
(48:11)
• The desert Arabs say, ‘We believe.’ Say: ‘You do not believe. Say
rather, "We have become Muslim," for faith has not yet entered
into your hearts. If you obey Allah and His Messenger, He will not
undervalue your actions in any way. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful.’ (49:14)
DESPAIR
• (Ya‘qub said,) ‘My sons! Seek news of Yusuf and his brother. Do
not despair of solace from Allah. No one despairs of solace from
Allah except for people who are disbelievers.’ (12:87)
• They (messengers) said (to Ibrahim), ‘We bring you good news of
the truth, so do not be among those who despair.’ (15:55)
• When We bless man, he turns away and draws aside. When evil
touches him, he despairs. (17:83)
• Say (from Me): ‘My servants, you who have transgressed against
yourselves, do not despair of the mercy of Allah. Truly Allah
forgives all wrong actions. He is the Ever-Forgiving, the Most
Merciful.’ (39:53)
DESTINATION
• And when Ibrahim said, ‘My Lord, make this a place of safety and
provide its inhabitants with fruits–all of them who believe in Allah
and the Last Day,’ He said, ‘I will let anyone who becomes a
disbeliever enjoy himself a little but then I will drive him to the
punishment of the Fire. What an evil destination!’ (2:126)
• The angels ask those they take while they are wronging
themselves, ‘What were your circumstances?’ They reply, ‘We
were oppressed on earth.’ They say, ‘Was Allah’s earth not wide
enough for you to have migrated elsewhere in it?’ The shelter of
such people will be Hell. What an evil destination! (4:97)
• The Jews and Christians say, ‘We are Allah’s children and His
loved ones.’ Say: ‘Why, then, does He punish you for your wrong
actions? No, you are merely human beings among those He has
created. He forgives whoever He wills and He punishes whoever
He wills. The kingdom of the heavens and the earth and
everything between them belongs to Allah. He is our final
destination.’ (5:18)
• The kingdom of the heavens and earth belongs to Allah and Allah
is the final destination. (24:42)
• Do not imagine that those who disbelieve are able to escape
Allah on earth. Their shelter will be the Fire. What an evil
destination! (24:57)
• Say: ‘Is that better, or the Garden of Eternal Life which has been
promised to those who guard against evil? That is their
recompense and destination.’ (25:15)
• He created the heavens and the earth with truth and formed you,
giving you the best of forms. And He is your final destination.
(64:3)
• But as for those who disbelieve and deny Our Signs they are the
Companions of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. What
an evil destination! (64:10)
• Those who reject their Lord will have the punishment of Hell.
What an evil destination! (67:6)
DESTINY (SEE PRE-ORDAINED DECREE)
DESTITUTION - DESTITUTE
• And when you said, ‘Musa, we will not put up with just one kind of
food so ask your Lord to supply to us some of what the earth
produces–its green vegetables, cucumbers, grains, lentils and
onions,’ he said, ‘Do you want to replace what is better with what
is inferior? Go back to Egypt, then you will have what you are
asking for.’ Abasement and destitution were stamped upon them.
They brought down anger from Allah upon themselves. That was
because they rejected Allah’s Signs and killed the Prophets
without any right to do so. That was because they rebelled and
went beyond the limits. (2:61)
• The alms are for: the poor, the destitute, those who collect it,
reconciling people’s hearts, freeing slaves, those in debt,
spending in the Way of Allah, and travellers. It is a legal obligation
from Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (9:60)
• They (owners of the garden) left early, intent on carrying out their
scheme. But when they saw it (the garden), they said, ‘We must
have lost our way. No, the truth is we are destitute!’ (68:25-27)
DEVIANCE
• You who believe! When you take on a debt for a specified period,
write it down. A writer should write it down between you justly. No
writer should refuse to write; as Allah has taught him, so he
should write. The one incurring the debt should dictate and
should have fear of Allah his Lord and not reduce it in any way. If
the person incurring the debt is incompetent or weak or unable to
dictate, then his guardian should dictate for him justly. Two men
among you should act as witnesses. But if there are not two men,
then a man and two women with whom you are satisfied as
witnesses; then if one of them forgets, the other can remind her.
Witnesses should not refuse when they are called upon. Do not
think it too trivial to write down, whether small or large, with the
date that it falls due. Doing that is more just in Allah’s sight and
more helpful when bearing witness and more likely to eliminate
any doubt–unless it is an immediate transaction hand to hand,
taken and given without delay. There is nothing wrong in your not
writing that down. Call witnesses when you trade. Neither writer
nor witness should be put under pressure. If you do that, it is
deviancy on your part. Have fear of Allah and Allah will give you
knowledge. Allah has knowledge of all things. (2:282)
• Forbidden for you are carrion, blood and pork, and what has been
consecrated to other than Allah, and animals which have been
strangled, and animals which have been killed by a blow, and
animals which have fallen to their death, and animals which have
been gored, and animals which wild beasts have eaten–except
those you are able to slaughter properly–and animals which have
been sacrificed on altars, and deciding things by means of
divining arrows–that is deviance. Today those who disbelieve
have despaired of overcoming your religion. So do not be afraid
of them but be afraid of Me. Today I have perfected your religion
for you and completed My blessing upon you and I am pleased
with Islam as a religion for you. But if anyone is forced by hunger,
not intending any wrongdoing, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. (5:3)
• Do not eat anything over which the name of Allah has not been
mentioned. To do so is sheer deviance. The Satans inspire their
friends to dispute with you. If you obeyed them you would then be
idolaters. (6:121)
• Say: ‘I do not find, in what has been revealed to me, any food it is
forbidden to eat except for carrion, flowing blood, and pork–for
that is unclean–or some deviance consecrated to other than Allah.
But if anyone is forced to eat it, without desiring to or going to
excess in it, your Lord is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.’ (6:145)
• (Our Messengers said to Lut,) ‘We will bring down on the
inhabitants of this city a devastating punishment from heaven
because of their deviance.’ (29:34)
DEVIATORS
• But those who did wrong substituted words other than those they
had been given. So We sent down a plague from heaven on
those who did wrong because they were deviators. (2:59)
• We have sent down Clear Signs to you and no one rejects them
except the deviators. (2:99)
• You are the best nation ever to be produced before mankind. You
enjoin the right, forbid the wrong and believe in Allah. If the
People of the Book were to believe, it would be better for them.
Some of them are believers but most of them are deviators.
(3:110)
• The people of the Gospel should judge by what Allah sent down
in it. Those who do not judge by what Allah has sent down, such
people are deviators. (5:47)
• Judge between them by what Allah has sent down and do not
follow their whims and desires. And beware of them lest they lure
you away from some of what Allah has sent down to you. If they
turn their backs, then know that Allah wants to afflict them with
some of their wrong actions. Many of mankind are deviators.
(5:49)
• Say: ‘People of the Book! Do you resent us for any other reason
than that we believe in Allah and what was sent down to us, and
what was sent down before, and because most of you are
deviators?’ (5:59)
• If they had believed in Allah and the Prophet and what has been
sent down to him, they would not have taken them as friends. But
most of them are deviators. (5:81)
• That makes it more likely that they will give their evidence
properly or be afraid that their oaths will be refuted by subsequent
oaths. Have fear of Allah and listen carefully. Allah does not guide
deviant people. (5:108)
• The punishment will fall on those who deny Our Signs because
they were deviators. (6:49)
• Ask them about the town which was by the sea when they broke
the Sabbath–when their fish came to them near the surface on
their Sabbath day but did not come on the days which they did
not keep the Sabbath. In this way We put them to the test
because they were deviators. (7:163)
• Then when they forgot what they had been reminded of, We
rescued those who had forbidden the evil and seized those who
did wrong with a harsh punishment because they were deviators.
(7:165)
• How indeed! For if they get the upper hand over you, they will
respect neither kinship nor treaty. They please you with their
mouths but their hearts belie their words. Most of them are
deviators. (9:8)
• Say: ‘If your fathers or your sons or your brothers or your wives or
your tribe, or any wealth you have acquired, or any business you
fear may slump, or any house which pleases you, are dearer to
you than Allah and His Messenger and striving in His Way, then
wait until Allah brings about His command. Allah does not guide
people who are deviators.’ (9:24)
• The men and women of the hypocrites are as bad as one another.
They command what is wrong and forbid what is right and keep
their fists tightly closed. They have forgotten Allah, so He has
forgotten them. The hypocrites are deviators. (9:67)
• You can ask forgiveness for them, or not ask forgiveness for them.
Even if you asked forgiveness for them seventy times, Allah still
would not forgive them. That is because they have rejected Allah
and His Messenger. Allah does not guide deviant people. (9:80)
• Never pray over any of them who die or stand at their graves.
They rejected Allah and His Messenger and died as deviators.
(9:84)
• They will swear to you to make you pleased with them, but even if
you are pleased with them, Allah is certainly not pleased with
deviant people. (9:96)
• In that way the Word of your Lord is realised against those who
are deviators, in that they do not believe. (10:33)
• We gave right judgement and knowledge to Lut and rescued him
from the city which committed disgusting acts. They were evil
people who were deviators. (21:74)
• But those who make accusations against chaste women and then
do not produce four witnesses: flog them with eighty lashes and
never again accept them as witnesses. Such people are deviators.
(24:4)
• Allah has promised those of you who believe and do right actions
that He will make them successors in the land as He made those
before them successors, and will firmly establish for them their
religion with which He is pleased and give them, in place of their
fear, security. ‘They worship Me, not associating anything with
Me.’ Any who disbelieve after that, such people are deviators.
(24:55)
• (A voice called out to Musa,) ‘Put your hand inside your shirt front.
It will emerge pure white, yet quite unharmed–one of nine Signs
to Pharaoh and his people. They are a people of deviators.’
(27:12)
• (A voice called out to Musa,) ‘Put your hand inside your shirt front.
It will emerge pure white yet quite unharmed. And hug your arms
to your sides to still your fear. These are two proofs from your
Lord for Pharaoh and his ruling circle. They are a deviant people.’
(28:32)
• But as for those who are deviators, their refuge is the Fire. Every
time that they want to get out, they are put straight back into it
again and they are told, ‘Taste the punishment of the Fire, which
you denied.’ (32:20)
• Has the time not arrived for the hearts of those who believe to
yield to the remembrance of Allah and to the truth He has sent
down, so they are not like those who were given the Book before
for whom the time seemed over long so that their hearts became
hard? Many of them are deviators. (57:16)
• We sent Nuh and Ibrahim and placed Prophethood and the Book
among their descendants. Some of them are guided but many of
them are deviators. (57:26)
• (Say: ‘It has been revealed to me that a band of the jinn listened
and said,) "Some of us are Muslims and some are deviators.
Those who have become Muslim are those who sought right
guidance; the deviators will be firewood for Hellfire."’ (72:14-15)
DEVOUTNESS
• They will ask you about the crescent moons. Say, ‘They are set
times for mankind and for the pilgrimage.’ It is not devoutness for
you to enter houses by the back. Rather devoutness is
possessed by those who guard against evil. So come to houses
by their doors and have fear of Allah, so that hopefully you will be
successful. (2:189)
DHU’L-KIFL (AS)
DHU’L-QARNAYN
• They will ask you about Dhu’l-Qarnayn. Say: ‘I will tell you
something about him.’ We gave him power and authority on the
earth and granted him a way to everything. So he followed a way
until he reached the setting of the sun and found it setting in a
muddy spring and found a people by it. We said, ‘Dhu’l-Qarnayn!
You can either punish them or else you can treat them with
gentleness.’ He said, ‘As for those who do wrong, we will punish
them and then they will be returned to their Lord and He will
punish them with a dreadful punishment. But as for him who
believes and acts rightly, he will receive the best of rewards and
we will issue a command, making things easy for him.’ Then he
followed a way until he reached the rising of the sun and found it
rising on a people to whom We had not given any shelter from it.
Our knowledge encompasses all that happened to him. Then he
followed a path until he arrived between the two mountains where
he found a people scarcely able to understand speech. They said,
‘Dhu’l-Qarnayn! Yajuj and Majuj are causing corruption in the land.
Can we, therefore, pay tribute to you in return for your
constructing a barrier between us and them?’ He said, ‘The
power my Lord has granted me is better than that. Just give me a
strong helping hand and I will build a solid barrier between you
and them. Bring me ingots of iron!’ Then, when he had made it
level between the two high mountain-sides, he said, ‘Blow!’ and
when he had made it a red hot fire, he said, ‘Bring me molten
brass to pour over it.’ They were, therefore, unable to climb over it
nor were they able to make a breach in it. He said, ‘This is a
mercy from my Lord. But when my Lord’s promise comes about,
He will crush it flat. The promise of my Lord is surely true.’ (18:83-
98)
DIABOLIS (IBLIS)
• We created you and then formed you and then We said to the
angels, ‘Prostrate before Adam,’ and they prostrated–except for
Diabolis. He was not among those who prostrated. (7:11)
• They will be bundled into it head first, they and the misled, and
every one of Diabolis’s regiments. (26:94-95)
• How can you reject Allah, when you were dead and then He gave
you life, then He will make you die and then give you life again,
then you will be returned to Him? (2:28)
• What about the one who argued with Ibrahim about his Lord, on
the basis that Allah had given him sovereignty? Ibrahim said, ‘My
Lord is He Who gives life and causes to die.’ He said, ‘I too give
life and cause to die.’ Ibrahim said, ‘Allah makes the sun come
from the East. Make it come from the West.’ And the one who
was a disbeliever was dumbfounded. Allah does not guide
wrongdoing people. (2:258)
• You who believe! Do not be like those who disbelieve and say of
their brothers, when they are going on journeys or military
expeditions, ‘If they had only been with us, they would not have
died or been killed,’ so that Allah can make that anguish for them
in their hearts. It is Allah Who gives life and causes to die. Allah
sees what you do. (3:156)
• If you are killed in the Way of Allah or if you die, forgiveness and
mercy from Allah are better than anything you can acquire. (3:157)
• If you die or you are killed, it is to Allah that you will be gathered.
(3:158)
• He gives life and causes to die and you will be returned to Him.
(10:56)
• It is We Who give life and cause to die and We are the Inheritor.
(15:23)
• Those who migrate in the Way of Allah and then are killed or die,
Allah will provide for them handsomely. Truly Allah is the best
Provider. (22:58)
• It is He Who gave you life and then will cause you to die and then
will give you life again. Man is truly ungrateful. (22:66)
• It is He Who gives life and causes to die and His is the alternation
of the night and day. So will you not use your intellect? (23:80)
• Allah is He Who created you, then provides for you, then will
cause you to die and then bring you back to life. Can any of your
partner-gods do any of that? Glory be to Him and may He be
exalted above anything they associate with Him! (30:40)
• They will say, ‘Our Lord, twice You caused us to die and twice
You gave us life. We admit our wrong actions. Is there no way
out?’ (40:11)
• Say: ‘Allah gives you life, then causes you to die, and then will
gather you together for the Day of Rising about which there is no
doubt. But most people do not know it.’ (45:26)
• It is We Who give life and cause to die and We are their final
destination. (50:43)
DIFFERENCE
• The Jews say, ‘The Christians have nothing to stand on,’ and the
Christians say, ‘The Jews have nothing to stand on,’ yet they both
recite the Book. Those who do not know say the same as they
say. Allah will judge between them on the Day of Rising regarding
the things about which they differ. (2:113)
• That is because Allah has sent down the Book with truth and
those who differ from the Book are entrenched in hostility. (2:176)
• When Allah said, ‘‘Isa, I will take you back and raise you up to Me
and purify you of those who disbelieve. And I will place the people
who follow you above those who disbelieve until the Day of Rising.
Then you will all return to Me, and I will judge between you
regarding the things about which you differed.’ (3:55)
• Do not be like those who split up and differed after the Clear
Signs came to them. They will have a terrible punishment. (3:105)
• And We have sent down the Book to you with truth, confirming
and conserving the previous Books. So judge between them by
what Allah has sent down and do not follow their whims and
desires deviating from the Truth that has come to you. We have
appointed a law and a practice for every one of you. Had Allah
willed, He would have made you a single community, but He
wanted to test you regarding what has come to you. So compete
with each other in doing good. Every one of you will return to
Allah and He will inform you regarding the things about which you
differed. (5:48)
• Say: ‘Am I to desire other than Allah as Lord when He is the Lord
of all things?’ What each self earns is for itself alone. No burden-
bearer can bear another’s burden. Then you will return to your
Lord, and He will inform you regarding the things about which you
differed. (6:164)
• Mankind was only one community but then they differed, and had
it not been for a prior Word from your Lord, they would already
have been judged in respect of the differences between them.
(10:19)
• We settled the tribe of Israel in a noble place and gave them good
things as provision. They did not differ until knowledge came to
them. Your Lord will decide between them on the Day of Rising
regarding the things about which they differed. (10:93)
• We gave Musa the Book and people differed concerning it and
had it not been for a prior Word from your Lord, it would already
have been decided between them. They are indeed in grave
doubt about it. (11:110, 41:45)
• If your Lord had wanted to, He would have made mankind into
one community but they persist in their differences. (11:118)
• We have only sent down the Book to you so that you can make
clear to them the things about which they differ, and as a
guidance and a mercy to people who believe. (16:64)
• Do not be like a woman who spoils the thread she has spun by
unravelling it after it is strong, by making your oaths a means of
deceiving one another, merely because one community is bigger
than another. Allah is only testing you by this. He will make clear
to you on the Day of Rising the things about which you differed.
(16:92)
• The Sabbath was only enjoined on those who differed about it.
Your Lord will judge between them on the Day of Rising regarding
the things about which they differed. (16:124)
• And when ‘Isa came with the Clear Signs, he said, ‘I have come
to you with Wisdom and to clarify for you some of the things
about which you have differed. Therefore have fear of Allah and
obey me.’ (43:63)
• About what are they asking one another? About the momentous
news: the thing about which they differ. (78:1-3)
• The fools among the people will ask, ‘What has made them turn
round from the direction they used to face?’ Say, ‘Both East and
West belong to Allah. He guides whoever He wills to a straight
path.’ (2:142)
• We have seen you looking up into heaven, turning this way and
that, so We will turn you towards a direction which will please you.
Turn your face, therefore, towards the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-
Haram). Wherever you all are, turn your faces towards it. Those
given the Book know it is the truth from their Lord. Allah is not
unaware of what they do. (2:144)
• If you were to bring every Sign to those given the Book, they still
would not follow your direction. You do not follow their direction.
They do not follow each other’s direction. If you followed their
whims and desires, after the knowledge that has come to you,
you would then be one of the wrongdoers. (2:145)
• Wherever you come from, turn your face to the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram). Wherever you are, turn your faces towards it
so that people will have no argument against you–except for
those among them who do wrong and then you should not fear
them but rather fear Me–and so that I can complete My blessing
to you so that hopefully you will be guided. (2:150)
DISASTER
• Those who, when disaster strikes them, say, ‘We belong to Allah
and to Him we will return.’ (2:156)
• You who believe! When one of you is near to death and makes a
will, two just men from among you should act as witnesses; or, if
you are travelling when the misfortune of death occurs, two men
who are strangers to you. You should detain them after prayer
and, if you are doubtful, they should swear by Allah: ‘We will not
sell it for any price, even to a near relative, and we will not
conceal the testimony of Allah. If we did we would indeed be
wrongdoers.’ (5:106)
• Any disaster that strikes you is through what your own hands
have earned and He pardons much. (42:30)
DISBELIEVERS (KUFFAR)
• If you do not do that–and you will not do it–then fear the Fire
whose fuel is people and stones, made ready for the disbelievers.
(2:24)
• We said to the angels, ‘Prostrate to Adam!’ and they prostrated,
with the exception of Diabolis. He refused and was arrogant and
was one of the disbelievers. (2:34)
• What an evil thing they have sold themselves for in rejecting what
Allah has sent down, outraged that Allah should send down His
favour on whichever of His servants He wills. They have brought
down anger upon anger on themselves. The disbelievers will
have a humiliating punishment. (2:90)
• Anyone who is the enemy of Allah and of His angels, and of His
Messengers and of Gabriel and Michael, should know that Allah
is the enemy of the disbelievers.’ (2:98)
• You who believe! Do not say, ‘Listen to us,’ say, ‘Look at us,’ and
listen well. The disbelievers will have a painful punishment.
(2:104)
• Those of the People of the Book who disbelieve and the idolaters
do not like anything good to be sent down to you from your Lord.
But Allah selects for His mercy whomever He wills. Allah’s favour
is truly vast. (2:105)
• But as for those who disbelieve and die while they are
disbelievers, the curse of Allah is upon them and that of the
angels and all mankind. (2:161)
• Kill them wherever you come across them and expel them from
where they expelled you. Corruption is worse than killing. Do not
fight them in the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) until they fight
you there. But if they do fight you, then kill them. That is how the
disbelievers should be repaid. (2:191)
• They will ask you about the Sacred Month and fighting in it. Say,
‘Fighting in it is a serious matter; but barring access to the Way of
Allah and rejecting Him and barring access to the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram) and expelling its people from it are far more
serious in the sight of Allah. Discord is worse than killing.’ They
will not stop fighting you until they make you revert from your
religion, if they are able. As for any of you who revert from their
religion and die disbeliever, their actions will come to nothing in
this world and the hereafter. They are the Companions of the Fire,
remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (2:217)
• When they came out against Goliath and his troops, they said,
‘Our Lord, pour down steadfastness upon us, and make our feet
firm, and help us against this disbelieving people.’ (2:250)
• You who believe! Give away some of what We have provided for
you before a Day arrives on which there is no trading, no close
friendship and no intercession. It is the disbelievers who are the
wrongdoers. (2:254)
• Allah does not impose on any self any more than it can stand. For
it is what it has earned; against it, what it has brought upon itself.
‘Our Lord, do not take us to task if we forget or make a mistake!
Our Lord, do not place on us a load like the one You placed on
those before us! Our Lord, do not place on us a load we have not
the strength to bear! And pardon us; and forgive us; and have
mercy on us. You are our Master, so help us against the people
of the disbelievers.’ (2:286)
• There was a sign for you in the two parties which met face to face,
one party fighting in the Way of Allah and the other disbelievers.
You saw them as twice their number with your own eyes. Allah
reinforces with His help whoever He wills. There is instruction in
that for people of insight. (3:13)
• The believers should not take disbelievers as friends rather than
believers. Anyone who does that has nothing to do with Allah at
all–unless it is because you are afraid of them. Allah advises you
to be afraid of Him. Allah is the final destination. (3:28)
• Say, ‘Obey Allah and the Messenger.’ Then if they turn away,
Allah does not love the disbelievers. (3:32)
• As for those who disbelieve and die while they are disbelievers,
the whole earth filled with gold would not be accepted from any of
them if they were to offer it as a ransom. They will have a painful
punishment. They will have no helpers. (3:91)
• Have fear of the Fire which has been prepared for the
disbelievers. (3:131)
• All they said was, ‘Our Lord, forgive us our wrong actions and any
excesses we went to in what we did and make our feet firm and
help us against these disbelieving people.’ (3:147)
• When you are travelling in the land, there is nothing wrong in your
shortening your prayer if you fear that those who disbelieve may
harass you. The disbelievers are your clear-cut enemies. (4:101)
• When you are with them and leading them in prayer, a group of
them should stand with you, keeping hold of their weapons. When
they prostrate, the others should guard your backs. Then the
other group who have not yet prayed should come and pray with
you. They too should be careful and keep hold of their weapons.
Those who disbelieve would like you to be negligent of your arms
and equipment so that they can swoop down on you once and for
all. There is nothing wrong, if you are bothered by rain or you are
ill, in laying your weapons down; but take every precaution. Allah
has prepared a humiliating punishment for the disbelievers.
(4:102)
• Do those who take the disbelievers as protectors, rather than the
believers, hope to find power and strength with them? Power and
strength belong entirely to Allah. (4:139)
• It has been sent down to you in the Book that when you hear
Allah’s Signs being rejected and mocked at by people, you must
not sit with them till they start talking of other things. If you do you
are just the same as them. Allah will gather all the hypocrites and
disbelievers into Hell. (4:140)
• Those who anticipate the worst for you say, ‘Were we not with
you?’ whenever you gain a victory from Allah, but if the
disbelievers have a success they say, ‘Did we not have the upper
hand over you and yet in spite of that keep the believers away
from you?’ Allah will judge between you on the Day of Rising.
Allah will not give the disbelievers any way against the believers.
(4:141)
• We sent down the Torah containing guidance and light, and the
Prophets who had submitted themselves gave judgement by it for
the Jews–as did their scholars and their rabbis–by what they had
been allowed to preserve of Allah’s Book to which they were
witnesses. Do not be afraid of people, be afraid of Me. And do not
sell My Signs for a paltry price. Those who do not judge by what
Allah has sent down, such people are disbelievers. (5:44)
• You who believe! If any of you renounce your religion, Allah will
bring forward a people whom He loves and who love Him, humble
to the believers, fierce to the disbelievers, who strive in the Way
of Allah and do not fear the blame of any censurer. That is the
unbounded favour of Allah which He gives to whoever He wills.
Allah is Boundless, All-Knowing. (5:54)
• You who believe! Do not take as friends any of those who who
make a mockery and a game out of your religion among the ones
who were given the Book before you or the disbelievers. Have
fear of Allah if you are believers. (5:57)
• Messenger! Transmit what has been sent down to you from your
Lord. If you do not do it you will not have transmitted His
Message. Allah will protect you from people. Allah does not guide
the people of the disbelievers. (5:67)
• Say: ‘People of the Book! You have nothing to stand on until you
implement the Torah and the Gospel and what has been sent
down to you from your Lord.’ What has been sent down to you
from your Lord increases many of them in insolence and disbelief.
So do not waste your grief on the people of the disbelievers. (5:68)
• Allah has promised the men and women of the hypocrites and
disbelievers the Fire of Hell, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. It
will suffice them. Allah has cursed them. They will have
everlasting punishment. (9:68)
• It was not for people of Madina, and the desert arabs around
them, to remain behind the Messenger of Allah nor to prefer
themselves to him. That is because no thirst or weariness or
hunger will afflict them in the Way of Allah, nor will they take a
single step to infuriate the disbelievers, nor secure any gain from
the enemy, without a right action being written down for them
because of it. Allah does not let the wage of the good-doers go to
waste. (9:120)
• (People of Musa said, ‘Our Lord,) rescue us, by Your mercy, from
this disbelieving people!’ (10:86)
• It sailed with them through mountainous waves, and Nuh called
out to his son, who had kept himself apart, ‘My son! Come on
board with us. Do not stay with the disbelievers!’ (11:42)
• (Yusuf's father said,) ‘My sons! Seek news of Yusuf and his
brother. Do not despair of solace from Allah. No one despairs of
solace from Allah except for people who are disbelievers.’ (12:87)
• Then on the Day of Rising He will disgrace them, and say, ‘Where
are My partner gods for whose sake you became so hostile?’
Those given knowledge will say, ‘Today there is disgrace and evil
for the disbelievers.’ (16:27)
• (We decreed for the tribe of Israel,) ‘It may well be that your Lord
will have mercy on you. But if you revert to what you did, We also
will revert. We have made Hell a prison for the disbelievers.’ (17:8)
• Do you not see that We send the Satans against those who
disbelieve to goad them on? (19:83)
• Yet they worship instead of Allah what can neither help nor harm
them. The disbeliever is ever, against his Lord, an assistant (to
Satan). (25:55)
• You did not expect to be given the Book. It is nothing but a mercy
from your Lord. So do not lend support to the disbelievers. (28:86)
• Those who disbelieved will find that their disbelief was against
themselves. Those who did right were making the way easy for
themselves; so that He can repay with His bounty those who
believed and did right actions. He certainly does not love the
disbelievers. (30:44-45)
• Prophet! Have fear of Allah and do not obey the disbelievers and
hypocrites. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (33:1)
• We did not teach him poetry nor would it be right for him. It is
simply a reminder and a clear Qur’an so that you may warn those
who are truly alive and so that the Word may be carried out
against the disbelievers. (36:69-70)
• Who could do greater wrong than those who lie about Allah and
deny the truth when it comes to them? Do the disbelievers not
have a dwelling place in Hell? (39:32)
• ‘No, the fact is that My Signs came to you but you denied them
and were arrogant and were one of the disbelievers.’ (39:59)
• Those who disbelieve will be driven to Hell in companies and
when they arrive there and its gates are opened its custodians
will say to them, ‘Did Messengers from yourselves not come to
you, reciting your Lord’s Signs to you and warning you of the
meeting on this Day of yours?’ They will say, ‘Indeed they did, but
the decree of punishment is justly carried out against the
disbelievers.’ (39:71)
• They will ask, ‘Did your Messengers not bring you the Clear
Signs?’ They will answer, ‘Yes.’ They will say, ‘Then you call!’ But
the calling of the disbelievers only goes astray. (40:50)
• But when they saw Our violent force their faith was of no use to
them. That is the pattern Allah has always followed with His
servants. Then and there the disbelievers were lost. (40:85)
• If those who disbelieve should fight you, they would turn their
backs and then find no one to protect or help them. (48:22)
• They will emerge from their graves with downcast eyes, like
swarming locusts, necks outstretched, eyes transfixed, rushing
headlong to the Summoner. The disbelievers will say, ‘This is a
pitiless day!’ (54:7-8)
• Anyone who cannot find the means must fast for two consecutive
months before the two of them may touch one another again. And
anyone who is unable to do that must feed sixty poor people.
That is to affirm your faith in Allah and His Messenger. These are
Allah’s limits. The disbelievers will have a painful punishment.
(58:4)
• Those who oppose Allah and His Messenger will be subdued and
overcome as those before them were also subdued and
overcome. We have sent down Clear Signs. The disbelievers will
have a humiliating punishment. (58:5)
• You who believe! Do not make friends of people with whom Allah
is angry, who have despaired of the hereafter as the disbelievers
have despaired of the inhabitants of the graves. (60:13)
• They desire to extinguish Allah’s Light with their mouths but Allah
will perfect His Light, though the disbelievers hate it. (61:8)
• Say: ‘What do you think? If Allah destroys me and those with me,
or if He has mercy on us, who can shelter the disbelievers from a
painful punishment?’ (67:28)
• Nuh said, ‘My Lord! Do not leave a single one of the disbelievers
on earth! If You leave any they will misguide Your servants and
spawn nothing but more dissolute disbelievers.’ (71:26-27)
• That Day will be a difficult day, not easy for the disbelievers.
(74:9-10)
• Have the disbelievers been rewarded for what they did? (83:36)
DISCIPLES
• And when the Disciples said, ‘‘Isa son of Maryam! Can your Lord
send down a table to us out of heaven?’ He said, ‘Have fear of
Allah if you are believers!’ (5:112)
• They said, ‘We want to eat from it and for our hearts to be at
peace and to know that you have told us the truth and to be
among those who witness it.’ (5:113)
• Kill them wherever you come across them and expel them from
where they expelled you. Corruption is worse than killing. Do not
fight them in the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) until they fight
you there. But if they do fight you, then kill them. That is how the
disbelievers should be repaid. (2:191)
• Fight them until there is no more discord and the religion belongs
to Allah alone. If they cease, there should be no enmity towards
any but wrongdoers. (2:193)
• They will ask you about the Sacred Month and fighting in it. Say,
‘Fighting in it is a serious matter; but barring access to the Way of
Allah and rejecting Him and barring access to the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram) and expelling its people from it are far more
serious in the sight of Allah. Discord is worse than killing.’ They
will not stop fighting you until they make you revert from your
religion, if they are able. As for any of you who revert from their
religion and die disbeliever, their actions will come to nothing in
this world and the hereafter. They are the Companions of the Fire,
remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (2:217)
• You will find others who desire to be safe from you and safe from
their own people. Each time they are returned to dissension they
are overwhelmed by it. If they do not keep away from you or
submit to you or refrain from fighting, seize them and kill them
wherever you find them. Over such people We have given you
clear authority. (Qur’an, 4:91)
• They thought there would be no testing. They were blind and deaf.
Then Allah turned towards them. Then many of them went blind
and deaf again. Allah sees what they do. (Qur’an, 5:71)
• ... And He sent down the Torah and the Gospel, previously, as
guidance for mankind, and He has sent down the Furqan
(Discrimination). Those who reject Allah’s Signs will have a
terrible punishment. Allah is Almighty, Exactor of Revenge. (3:3-4)
• You who believe! If you have fear of Allah, He will give you
discrimination and erase your bad actions from you and forgive
you. Allah’s favour is indeed immense. (8:29)
DISH
DISSOLUTE
• Would We make those who believe and do right actions the same
as those who cause corruption on the earth? Would We make
those who guard against evil the same as the dissolute? (38:28)
• Nuh said, ‘My Lord! Do not leave a single one of the disbelievers
on earth! If You leave any they will misguide Your servants and
spawn nothing but more dissolute disbelievers.’ (71:26-27)
DISTANT PLACE
• They will say, ‘We believe in it,’ but how can they reach out for it
from a distant place when beforehand they had rejected it,
shooting forth about the Unseen from a distant place? (34:52-53)
DIVER
• And some of the Satans dived for him (Sulayman) and did other
things apart from that. And We were watching over them. (21:82)
DIVERSION
• The life of this world is nothing but a game and a diversion. The
hereafter is better for those who guard against evil. So will you
not use your intellect? (6:32)
• Abandon those who have turned their religion into a game and a
diversion and who have been deluded by the life of this world.
Remind by it lest a person is delivered up to destruction for what
he has earned with no protector or intercessor besides Allah.
Were he to offer every kind of compensation, it would not be
accepted from him. Such people are delivered up to destruction
for what they have earned. They will have scalding water to drink
and a painful punishment because they disbelieved. (6:70)
• The Companions of the Fire will call out to the Companions of the
Garden, ‘Throw down some water to us or some of what Allah
has given you as provision.’ They will say, ‘Allah has forbidden
them to the disbelievers: those who took their religion as a
diversion and a game, and were deluded by the life of this world.’
Today We will forget them just as they forgot the encounter of this
Day and denied Our Signs. (7:50-51)
• The life of this world is nothing but a game and a diversion. The
abode of the hereafter–that is truly Life if they only knew. (29:64)
• Know that the life of this world is merely a game and a diversion
and ostentation and a cause of boasting among yourselves and
trying to outdo one another in wealth and children: like the plant-
growth after rain which delights the cultivators, but then it withers
and you see it turning yellow, and then it becomes broken stubble.
In the hereafter there is terrible punishment but also forgiveness
from Allah and His good pleasure. The life of this world is nothing
but the enjoyment of delusion. (57:20)
DIVINING ARROWS
• Forbidden for you are carrion, blood and pork, and what has been
consecrated to other than Allah, and animals which have been
strangled, and animals which have been killed by a blow, and
animals which have fallen to their death, and animals which have
been gored, and animals which wild beasts have eaten–except
those you are able to slaughter properly–and animals which have
been sacrificed on altars, and deciding things by means of
divining arrows–that is deviance. Today those who disbelieve
have despaired of overcoming your religion. So do not be afraid
of them but be afraid of Me. Today I have perfected your religion
for you and completed My blessing upon you and I am pleased
with Islam as a religion for you. But if anyone is forced by hunger,
not intending any wrongdoing, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. (5:3)
• You who believe! Wine and gambling, stone altars and divining
arrows are filth from the handiwork of Satan. Avoid them
completely so that hopefully you will be successful. (5:90)
DIVORCE
• But if a man divorces his wife a third time, she is not lawful for
him after that until she has married another husband. Then if he
divorces her, there is nothing wrong in the original couple getting
back together provided they think they will remain within Allah’s
limits. These are Allah’s limits which he has made clear to people
who know. (2:230)
• When you divorce women and they are near the end of their
waiting period, then either retain them with correctness and
courtesy or release them with correctness and courtesy. Do not
retain them by force, thus overstepping the limits. Anyone who
does that has wronged himself. Do not make a mockery of Allah’s
Signs. Remember Allah’s blessing to you and the Book and
Wisdom He has sent down to you to admonish you. Have fear of
Allah and know that Allah has knowledge of all things. (2:231)
• When you divorce women and they are near the end of their
waiting period, do not prevent them from marrying their first
husbands if they have mutually agreed to it with correctness and
courtesy. This is an admonition for those of you who believe in
Allah and the Last Day. That is better and purer for you. Allah
knows and you do not know. (2:232)
• If you divorce them before you have touched them but have
already allotted them a dowry, they should have half the amount
which you allotted, unless they forgo it or the one in charge of the
marriage contract forgoes it. To forgo it is closer to heedfulness.
Do not forget to show generosity to one another. Allah sees what
you do. (2:237)
• If you desire to exchange one wife for another and have given
your original wife a large amount, do not take any of it. Would you
take it by means of slander and outright crime? (4:20)
• How could you take it when you have been intimate with one
another and they have made a binding contract with you? (4:21)
• Prophet, tell your wives: ‘If you desire the life of this world and its
finery, come and I will give you all you need and release you with
kindness. But if you desire Allah and His Messenger and the
abode of the hereafter, Allah has prepared an immense reward
for those among you who are good-doers.’ (33:28-29)
• When you said to him whom Allah has blessed and you yourself
have greatly favoured, ‘Keep your wife to yourself and have fear
of Allah,’ while concealing something in yourself which Allah
wished to bring to light, you were fearing people when Allah has
more right to your fear. Then when Zayd divorced her We married
her to you so that there should be no restriction for the believers
regarding the wives of their adopted sons when they have
divorced them. Allah’s command is always carried out. (33:37)
• You who believe! When you marry believing women and then
divorce them before you have touched them, there is no waiting
period for you to calculate for them, so give them a gift and let
them go with kindness. (33:49)
• After that no other women are lawful for you nor may you
exchange them for other wives, even though their beauty might
be pleasing to you, with the exception of any you own as slaves.
Allah is watchful over all things. (33:52)
• Those of you who divorce your wives by equating them with your
mothers, they are not your mothers. Your mothers are only those
who gave birth to you. What you are saying is wrong and a
slanderous lie. But Allah is Ever-Pardoning, Ever-Forgiving. (58:2)
• Then when they have reached the end of their waiting period
either retain them with correctness and courtesy or part from
them with correctness and courtesy. Call two upright men from
among yourselves as witnesses and they should carry out the
witnessing for Allah. This is admonishment for all who believe in
Allah and the Last Day. Whoever has fear of Allah–He will give
him a way out. (65:2)
• In the case of those of your wives who are past the age of
menstruation, if you have any doubt, their waiting period should
be three months, and that also applies to those who have not yet
menstruated. The time for women who are pregnant is when they
give birth. Whoever has fear of Allah–He will make matters easy
for him. (65:4)
• Let them live where you live, according to your means. Do not put
pressure on them, so as to harass them. If they are pregnant,
maintain them until they give birth. If they are suckling for you,
give them their wages and consult together with correctness and
courtesy. But if you make things difficult for one another, another
woman should do the suckling for you. (65:6)
• It may be that if he does divorce you, his Lord will give him in
exchange better wives than you: Muslim women, believing
women, obedient women, penitent women, women who worship,
women who fast much–previously married women as well as
virgins. (66:5)
DIVULGEMENT
• He said, ‘Adam, tell them their names.’ When he had told them
their names, He said, ‘Did I not tell you that I know the Unseen of
the heavens and the earth, and I know what you make known and
what you hide?’ (2:33)
• Do they not know that Allah knows what they keep secret and
what they make public? (2:77)
• (Ibrahim said,) ‘Our Lord! You know what we keep hidden and
what we divulge. Nothing is hidden from Allah either on the earth
or in heaven.’ (14:38)
• Allah knows what you keep secret and what you make public.
(16:19)
• There is no doubt that Allah knows what they keep secret and
what they make public. He does not love people puffed up with
pride. (16:23)
• Though you speak out loud, He knows your secrets and what is
even more concealed. (20:7)
• Say to the believing women that they should lower their eyes and
guard their chastity and not display their adornments–except for
what normally shows–and draw their head-coverings across their
breasts. They should only display their adornments to their
husbands or their fathers or their husbands’ fathers, or their sons
or their husbands’ sons or their brothers or their brothers’ sons or
their sisters’ sons or their women or those they own as slaves or
their male attendants who have no sexual desire or children who
still have no awareness of women’s private parts. Nor should they
stamp their feet so that their hidden ornaments are known. Turn
to Allah every one of you, believers, so that hopefully you will
have success. (24:31)
• (The hoopoe said,) ‘I found both her (Queen of Sheba) and her
people prostrating to the sun instead of Allah. Satan has made
their actions seem good to them and debarred them from the
Way so they are not guided and do not prostrate to Allah, Who
brings out what is hidden in the heavens and the earth, and
knows what you conceal and what you divulge.’ (27:24-25)
• Certainly your Lord knows what their hearts keep hidden and
what they divulge. (27:74)
• Your Lord knows what their hearts conceal and what they divulge.
(28:69)
• When you said to him whom Allah has blessed and you yourself
have greatly favoured, ‘Keep your wife to yourself and have fear
of Allah,’ while concealing something in yourself which Allah
wished to bring to light, you were fearing people when Allah has
more right to your fear. Then when Zayd divorced her We married
her to you so that there should be no restriction for the believers
regarding the wives of their adopted sons when they have
divorced them. Allah’s command is always carried out. (33:37)
• So do not let their words distress you. We know what they keep
secret and what they divulge. (36:76)
• Whether you keep your words secret or say them out loud He
knows what the heart contains. (67:13)
DOG
DOUBT
• It is He Who created you from clay and then decreed a fixed term,
and another fixed term is specified with Him. Yet you still have
doubts! (6:2)
• Only those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day ask you
to excuse them. Their hearts are full of doubt and in their doubt
they waver to and fro. (9:45)
• If you are in any doubt about what We have sent down to you,
then ask those who were reciting the Book before you. The truth
has come to you from your Lord, so on no account be one of the
doubters. (10:94)
• You never recited any Book before it nor did you write one down
with your right hand. If you had, the purveyors of falsehood would
have voiced their doubts. (29:48)
• If you could only see when they are terrified, and there is no way
out, and they are seized from a nearby place. They will say, ‘We
believe in it,’ but how can they reach out for it from a distant place
when beforehand they had rejected it, shooting forth about the
Unseen from a distant place? A barrier will be set up between
them and the thing that they desire, just as was done with their
kind before. They too were in a state of crippling doubt. (34:51-54)
• (The man who believed said to his people,) ‘Yusuf brought you
the Clear Signs before, but you never stopped doubting what he
brought to you to the extent that when he died, you said, "Allah
will never send another Messenger after him." That is how Allah
misguides those who are unbridled and full of doubt.’ (40:34)
• He (‘Isa) is a Sign of the Hour. Have no doubt about it. But follow
me. This is a straight path. (43:61)
• (The wicked will be told,) ‘This is the very thing you used to
doubt.’ (44:50)
• The believers are only those who have believed in Allah and His
Messenger and then have had no doubt and have strived with
their wealth and themselves in the Way of Allah. They are the
ones who are true to their word. (49:15)
• They (hypocrites) will call out to them, ‘Were we not with you?’
They will reply, ‘Indeed you were. But you made trouble for
yourselves and hung back and doubted and false hopes deluded
you until Allah’s command arrived. The Deluder deluded you
about Allah.’ (57:14)
DOWNCAST
• They will emerge from their graves with downcast eyes, like
swarming locusts. (54:7)
DOWRY (MAHR)
• And also (forbidden for you are) married women, except for those
you have taken in war as slaves. This is what Allah has
prescribed for you. Apart from that He has made all other women
lawful for you provided you seek them with your wealth in
marriage and not in fornication. When you consummate your
marriage with them give them their prescribed dowry. There is
nothing wrong in any further agreement you might come to after
the dowry has been given. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (4:24)
• If any of you do not have the means to marry free women who
are believers, you may marry slavegirls who are believers. Allah
knows best about your faith; you are all the same in that respect.
Marry them with their owners’ permission and give them their
dowries correctly and courteously as married women, not in
fornication or taking them as lovers. When they are married, if
they commit fornication they should receive half the punishment
of free women. This is for those of you who are afraid of
committing fornication. But being patient is better for you. Allah is
Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:25)
• Today all good things have been made lawful for you. And the
food of those given the Book is also lawful for you and your food
is lawful for them. So are chaste women from among the
believers and chaste women of those given the Book before you,
once you have given them their dowries in marriage, not in
fornication or taking them as lovers. But as for anyone who
rejects faith, his actions will come to nothing and in the hereafter
he will be among the losers. (5:5)
• Prophet! We have made lawful for you: your wives to whom you
have given dowries and any slavegirls you own from the booty
Allah has allotted you and the daughters of your paternal uncles
and the daughters of your paternal aunts and the daughters of
your maternal uncles and the daughters of your maternal aunts
who have migrated with you and any believing woman who gives
herself to the Prophet if the Prophet desires to marry her:
exclusively for you as opposed to the rest of the believers–We
know very well what We have prescribed for them regarding their
wives and any slavegirls they possess–in order that there be no
restriction on you. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:50)
DREAM
• When Yusuf told his father, ‘Father! I saw eleven bright stars, and
the sun and moon as well. I saw them all prostrate in front of me.’
He (his father) said, ‘My son, don’t tell your brothers your dream
lest they devise some scheme to injure you, Satan is a clear-cut
enemy to man.’ (12:4-5)
• Two servants entered prison along with him. One said, ‘I dreamt
that I was pressing grapes.’ The other said, ‘I dreamt I carried
bread upon my head and birds were eating it. Tell us the true
meaning of these dreams. We see that you’re one of the
righteous.’ (12:36)
• The King declared, ‘I dreamt of seven fat cows which seven thin
ones ate and seven green ears of wheat and seven others which
were dry. O counsellors! Explain my dream to me if you are those
who can interpret visions!’ (12:43)
• The one of them who had been saved then said, remembering
after a period, ‘I will tell you what it signifies, so send me out.’
(12:45)
• He (Yusuf) raised his parents up onto the throne. The others fell
prostrate in front of him. He said, ‘My father, truly this is now the
interpretation of the dream I had. My Lord has made it all come
true; and He was kind to me by letting me out of prison and
brought you from the desert when Satan had caused dissent
between me and my brothers. My Lord is kind to anyone He wills.
He is indeed All-Knowing and All-Wise.’ (12:100)
• The King declared, ‘I dreamt of seven fat cows which seven thin
ones ate and seven green ears of wheat and seven others which
were dry. O counsellors! Explain my dream to me if you are those
who can interpret visions!’ They said, ‘A jumbled mass of mixed-
up dreams! We do not know the meaning of such things.’ The one
of them who had been saved then said, remembering after a
period, ‘I will tell you what it signifies, so send me out.’ ‘O truthful
Yusuf, tell us of seven fat cows which seven thin ones ate and
seven green ears of wheat and seven others which were dry so
that I can return to them and let them know.’ He said, ‘Sow for
seven years in the normal way and leave that which you harvest
in the ear except for a small amount from which you eat. Then
after that seven hard years will arrive in which you can eat from
what you set aside for them, except for a little which you store.
Then after that another year will come in which the people will be
helped by rain in plenty and when they once more will press.’
(12:43-49)
DRINKS
• They will ask you about alcoholic drinks and gambling. Say,
‘There is great wrong in both of them and also certain benefits for
mankind. But the wrong in them is greater than the benefit.’ They
will ask you what they should give away. Say, ‘Whatever is
surplus to your needs.’ In this way Allah makes the Signs clear to
you, so that hopefully you will reflect. (2:219)
• You who believe! Wine and gambling, stone altars and divining
arrows are filth from the handiwork of Satan. Avoid them
completely so that hopefully you will be successful. (5:90)
• Abandon those who have turned their religion into a game and a
diversion and who have been deluded by the life of this world.
Remind by it lest a person is delivered up to destruction for what
he has earned with no protector or intercessor besides Allah.
Were he to offer every kind of compensation, it would not be
accepted from him. Such people are delivered up to destruction
for what they have earned. They will have scalding water to drink
and a painful punishment because they disbelieved. (6:70)
• Each and every one of you will return to Him. Allah’s promise is
true. He brings creation out of nothing and then regenerates it so
that he can repay with justice those who believed and did right
actions. Those who disbelieved will have a drink of scalding water
and a painful punishment because of their disbelief. (10:4)
• And from the fruit of the date-palm and the grape-vine you derive
both intoxicants and wholesome provision. There is certainly a
Sign in that for people who use their intellect. (16:67)
• Say: ‘It is the truth from your Lord; so let whoever wishes believe
and whoever wishes disbelieve.’ We have prepared for the
wrongdoers a Fire whose billowing walls of smoke will hem them
in. If they call for help, they will be helped with water like seething
molten brass, frying their faces. What a noxious drink! What an
evil repose! (18:29)
• Then they will have a boiling brew to drink on top of it. (37:67)
DROP
• His companion, with whom he was debating, said to him, ‘Do you
then disbelieve in Him Who created you from dust, then from a
drop of sperm, and then formed you as a man?’ (18:37)
• Mankind! If you are in any doubt about the Rising, know that We
created you from dust then from a drop of sperm then from a clot
of blood then from a lump of flesh, formed yet unformed, so We
may make things clear to you. We make whatever We want stay
in the womb until a specified time and then We bring you out as
children so that you can reach your full maturity. Some of you die
and some of you revert to the lowest form of life so that, after
having knowledge, they then know nothing at all. And you see the
earth dead and barren; then when We send down water onto it it
quivers and swells and sprouts with luxuriant plants of every kind.
(22:5)
• We created man from the purest kind of clay; then made him a
drop in a secure receptacle; then formed the drop into a clot and
formed the clot into a lump and formed the lump into bones and
clothed the bones in flesh; and then brought him into being as
another creature. Blessed be Allah, the Best of Creators! (23:12-
14)
• Allah created you from dust and then from a drop of sperm and
then made you into pairs. No female becomes pregnant or gives
birth except with His knowledge. And no living thing lives long or
has its life cut short without that being in a Book. That is easy for
Allah. (35:11)
• Does not man see that We created him from a drop yet there he
is, an open antagonist! (36:77)
DRUNKENNESS
• You who believe! Do not approach the prayer when you are drunk,
so that you will know what you are saying, nor in a state of major
impurity–unless you are travelling–until you have washed
yourselves completely. If you are ill or on a journey, or any of you
have come from the lavatory or touched women, and you cannot
find any water, then take for yourselves clean earth, wiping your
faces and your hands. Allah is Ever-Pardoning, Ever-Forgiving.
(4:43)
• On the day they see it, every nursing woman will be oblivious of
the baby at her breast, and every pregnant woman will abort the
contents of her womb, and you will think people drunk when they
are not drunk; it is just that the punishment of Allah is so severe.
(22:2)
DUMB
• Those who deny Our Signs are deaf and dumb in utter darkness.
Allah misguides whoever He wills, and puts whoever He wills on a
straight path. (6:39)
• The worst of beasts in Allah’s sight are the deaf and dumb who
have no intellect. (8:22)
• Allah makes another metaphor: two men, one of them deaf and
dumb, unable to do anything, a burden on his master, no matter
where he directs him he brings no good, is he the same as
someone who commands justice and is on a straight path? (16:76)
• On the Day the earth and mountains shake and the mountains
become like shifting dunes. (73:14)
DUST
• They say, ‘What! When we are bones and crumbled dust, will we
then be raised up as a new creation!’ (17:49)
• That is their repayment for rejecting Our Signs and saying, ‘What,
when we are bones and crumbled dust, will we then be raised up
as a new creation?’ (17:98)
• His companion, with whom he was debating, said to him, ‘Do you
then disbelieve in Him Who created you from dust, then from a
drop of sperm, and then formed you as a man?’ (18:37)
• Mankind! If you are in any doubt about the Rising, know that We
created you from dust then from a drop of sperm then from a clot
of blood then from a lump of flesh, formed yet unformed, so We
may make things clear to you. We make whatever We want stay
in the womb until a specified time and then We bring you out as
children so that you can reach your full maturity. Some of you die
and some of you revert to the lowest form of life so that, after
having knowledge, they then know nothing at all. And you see the
earth dead and barren; then when We send down water onto it it
quivers and swells and sprouts with luxuriant plants of every kind.
(22:5)
• (The ruling circle of his people said,) ‘Does he promise you that
when you have died and become dust and bones you will be
brought forth again?’ (23:35)
• They say, ‘When we are dead and turned to dust and bones, shall
we then be raised again?’ (23:82)
• We will advance on the actions they have done and make them
scattered specks of dust. (25:23)
• Those who disbelieve say, ‘When we and our fathers are turned
to dust will we then be brought forth again?’ (27:67)
• Among His Signs is that He created you from dust and here you
are now, widespread human beings! (30:20)
• Allah created you from dust and then from a drop of sperm and
then made you into pairs. No female becomes pregnant or gives
birth except with His knowledge. And no living thing lives long or
has its life cut short without that being in a Book. That is easy for
Allah. (35:11)
• (They say,) ‘When we are dead and turned to dust and bones will
we then be raised up again alive?’ (37:16)
• One of them will say, ‘I used to have a friend who would say to
me, "Are you one of those who say that it is true: that when we
have died and are turned to dust and bones, we will face a
Reckoning?"’ (37:51-53)
• When the earth is convulsed and the mountains are crushed and
become scattered dust in the air. (56:4-6)
DUTY
• Mothers should nurse their children for two full years–those who
wish to complete the full term of nursing. It is the duty of the
fathers to feed and clothe them with correctness and courtesy–no
self is charged with more than it can bear. No mother should be
put under pressure in respect of her child nor any father in
respect of his child. The same duty is incumbent on the heir. If the
couple both wish weaning to take place after mutual agreement
and consultation, there is nothing wrong in their doing that. If you
wish to find wet-nurses for your children, there is nothing wrong in
your doing that provided you hand over to them what you have
agreed to give with correctness and courtesy. Have fear of Allah
and know that Allah sees what you do. (2:233)
• There is nothing wrong in your divorcing women before you have
touched them or allotted a dowry to them. But give them a gift–he
who is wealthy according to his means and he who is less well off
according to his means–a gift to be given with correctness and
courtesy: a duty for all good-doers. (2:236)
• In it are Clear Signs–the place where Ibrahim stood (to pray). All
who enter it are safe. Pilgrimage to the House is a duty owed to
Allah by all mankind–those who can find a way to do it. But if
anyone disbelieves, Allah is Rich Beyond Need of any being.
(3:97)
• Those who believe and have migrated and strived with their
wealth and themselves in the Way of Allah, and those who have
given refuge and help, they are the friends and protectors of one
another. But as for those who believe but have not migrated, you
are not in any way responsible for their protection until they
migrate. But if they ask you for help in respect of the religion, it is
your duty to help them, except against people you have a treaty
with. Allah sees what you do. (8:72)
• Mankind! We created you from a male and female, and made you
into peoples and tribes so that you might come to know each
other. The noblest among you in Allah’s sight is the one of you
who best performs his duty. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware.
(49:13)
DWELLINGS
• Allah has promised the men and women of the believers Gardens
with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly, for
ever, and fine dwellings in the Gardens of Eden. And Allah’s good
pleasure is even greater. That is the great victory. (9:72)
• Then, when they reached the Valley of the Ants, an ant said,
‘Ants! Enter your dwellings so that Sulayman and his troops do
not crush you unwittingly.’ (27:18)
DYING
• What do you think about those who left their homes in thousands
in fear of death? Allah said to them, ‘Die!’ and then brought them
back to life. Allah shows great favour to mankind, but most people
are not grateful. (2:243)
• Or the one who passed by a town which had fallen into ruin? He
asked, ‘How can Allah restore this to life when it has died?’ Allah
caused him to die a hundred years then brought him back to life.
Then He asked, ‘How long have you been here?’ He replied, ‘I
have been here a day or part of a day.’ He said, ‘Not so! You
have been here a hundred years. Look at your food and drink–it
has not gone bad–and look at your donkey so We can make you
a Sign for all mankind. Look at the bones–how We raise them up
and clothe them in flesh.’ When it had become clear to him, he
said, ‘Now I know that Allah has power over all things.’ (2:259)
• You who believe! Have fear of Allah the way He should be feared
and do not die except as Muslims. (3:102)
• There you are, loving them when they do not love you, even
though you believe in all the Books. When they meet you, they
say, ‘We believe.’ But when they leave they bite their fingers out
of rage against you. Say, ‘Die in your rage.’ Allah knows what
your hearts contain. (3:119)
• You who believe! Do not be like those who disbelieve and say of
their brothers, when they are going on journeys or military
expeditions, ‘If they had only been with us, they would not have
died or been killed,’ so that Allah can make that anguish for them
in their hearts. It is Allah Who gives life and causes to die. Allah
sees what you do. (3:156)
• If you are killed in the Way of Allah or if you die, forgiveness and
mercy from Allah are better than anything you can acquire. (3:157)
• If you die or you are killed, it is to Allah that you will be gathered.
(3:158)
• There is not one of the People of the Book who will not believe in
him before he dies; and on the Day of Rising he will be a witness
against them. (4:159)
• Say: ‘My prayer and my rites, my living and my dying, are for
Allah alone, the Lord of all the worlds.’ (6:162)
• Mankind! If you are in any doubt about the Rising, know that We
created you from dust then from a drop of sperm then from a clot
of blood then from a lump of flesh, formed yet unformed, so We
may make things clear to you. We make whatever We want stay
in the womb until a specified time and then We bring you out as
children so that you can reach your full maturity. Some of you die
and some of you revert to the lowest form of life so that, after
having knowledge, they then know nothing at all. And you see the
earth dead and barren; then when We send down water onto it it
quivers and swells and sprouts with luxuriant plants of every kind.
(22:5)
• (The ruling circle said,) ‘What is there but our life in this world?
We die and we live and we will not be raised again.’ (23:37)
• Put your trust in the Living Who does not die and glorify Him with
praise. He is well aware of the wrong actions of His servants:
(25:58)
• Whereas for those who disbelieve there will be the Fire of Hell.
They will not be killed off so that they die and its punishment will
not be lightened for them. That is how We repay every thankless
man. (35:36)
• Allah takes back people’s selves when their death arrives and
those who have not yet died, while they are asleep. He keeps
hold of those whose death has been decreed and sends the
others back for a specified term. There are certainly Signs in that
for people who reflect. (39:42)
• (The man who believed said,) ‘Yusuf brought you the Clear Signs
before, but you never stopped doubting what he brought to you to
the extent that when he died, you said, "Allah will never send
another Messenger after him." That is how Allah misguides those
who are unbridled and full of doubt.’ (40:34)
• And in the alternation of night and day and the provision Allah
sends down from the sky, bringing the earth to life by it after it has
died, and the varying direction of the winds, there are Signs for
people who use their intellect. (45:5)
• They say, ‘There is nothing but our existence in this world. We die
and we live and nothing destroys us except for time.’ They have
no knowledge of that. They are only conjecturing. (45:24)
• He who has fear will be reminded; but the most miserable will
shun it, those who will roast in the Greatest Fire and then neither
die nor live in it. (87:10-13)
E
EAR
• (Satan said,) ‘I will lead them astray and fill them with false hopes.
I will command them and they will cut off cattle’s ears. I will
command them and they will change Allah’s creation.’ Anyone
who takes Satan as his protector in place of Allah has clearly lost
everything. (4:119)
• We prescribed for them in it: a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a
nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth, and
retaliation for wounds. But if anyone forgoes that as a charity, it
will act as expiation for him. Those who do not judge by what
Allah has sent down, such people are wrongdoers. (5:45)
• We created many of the jinn and mankind for Hell. They have
hearts they do not understand with. They have eyes they do not
see with. They have ears they do not hear with. Such people are
like cattle. No, they are even further astray! They are the unaware.
(7:179)
• Do they have legs they can walk with? Do they have hands they
can grasp with? Do they have eyes they can see with? Do they
have ears they can hear with? Say: ‘Call on your partner-gods
and try all your wiles against me and grant me no reprieve. (7:195)
• Among them are some who insult the Prophet, saying he is only
an ear. Say, ‘An ear of good for you, believing in Allah and
believing in the believers, and a mercy for those among you who
believe.’ As for those who insult the Messenger of Allah, they will
have a painful punishment. (9:61)
• Have they not travelled about the earth and do they not have
hearts to understand with or ears to hear with? It is not their eyes
which are blind but the hearts in their breasts which are blind.
(22:46)
• They say, ‘Our hearts are covered up against what you call us to
and there is a heaviness in our ears. There is a screen between
us and you. So act–we are certainly acting.’ (41:5)
EARTH, THE
• When they are told, ‘Do not cause corruption on the earth,’ they
say, ‘We are only putting things right.’ (2:11)
• It is He Who made the earth a couch for you, and the sky a dome.
He sends down water from the sky and by it brings forth fruits for
your provision. Do not, then, knowingly make others equal to
Allah. (2:22)
• Those who break Allah’s contract after it has been agreed, and
sever what Allah has commanded to be joined, and cause
corruption on the earth, it is they who are the lost. (2:27)
• But Satan made them slip up by means of it, expelling them from
where they were. We said, ‘Go down from here as enemies to
each other! You will have residence on the earth and enjoyment
for a time.’ (2:36)
• And when Musa was looking for water for his people, We said,
‘Strike the rock with your staff.’ Then twelve fountains gushed out
from it and all the people knew their drinking place. ‘Eat and drink
of Allah's provision and do not go about the earth corrupting it.’
(2:60)
• In the creation of the heavens and earth, and the alternation of
the night and day, and the ships which sail the seas to people’s
benefit, and the water which Allah sends down from the sky–by
which He brings the earth to life when it was dead and scatters
about in it creatures of every kind–and the varying direction of the
winds, and the clouds subservient between heaven and earth,
there are Signs for people who use their intellect. (2:164)
• Mankind! Eat what is good and lawful on the earth. And do not
follow in the footsteps of Satan. He truly is an outright enemy to
you. (2:168)
• As for those who disbelieve and die while they are disbelievers,
the whole earth filled with gold would not be accepted from any of
them if they were to offer it as a ransom. They will have a painful
punishment. They will have no helpers. (3:91)
• The angels ask those they take while they are wronging
themselves, ‘What were your circumstances?’ They reply, ‘We
were oppressed on earth.’ They say, ‘Was Allah’s earth not wide
enough for you to have migrated elsewhere in it?’ The shelter of
such people will be Hell. What an evil destination! (4:97)
• Those who migrate in the Way of Allah will find many places of
refuge on the earth and ample sustenance. If anyone leaves his
home, migrating to Allah and His Messenger, and death catches
up with him, it is Allah Who will reward him. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:100)
• He said, ‘The land will be forbidden to them for forty years during
which they will wander aimlessly about the earth. Do not waste
grief on this deviant people.’ (5:26)
• The reprisal against those who wage war on Allah and His
Messenger, and go about the earth corrupting it, is that they
should be killed or crucified, or have their alternate hands and
feet cut off, or be banished from the land. That will be their
degradation in this world and in the hereafter they will have a
terrible punishment. (5:33)
• The Jews say, ‘Allah’s hand is chained.’ Their hands are chained
and they are cursed for what they say! No! Both His hands are
open wide and He gives however He wills. What has been sent
down to you from your Lord increases many of them in insolence
and disbelief. We have incited enmity and hatred between them
until the Day of Rising. Each time they kindle the fire of war, Allah
extinguishes it. They rush about the earth corrupting it. Allah does
not love corrupters. (5:64)
• Say: ‘Travel about the earth and see the final fate of the deniers.’
(6:11)
• He said, ‘Go down from here as enemies to each other! You will
have residence on the earth and enjoyment for a time.’ (7:24)
• Do not corrupt the earth after it has been put right. Call on Him
fearfully and eagerly. Allah’s mercy is close to the good-doers.
(7:56)
• Is it not clear to those who have inherited the earth after these
people that, if We wanted to, We could strike them for their wrong
actions, sealing up their hearts so that they cannot hear? (7:100)
• The ruling circle of Pharaoh’s people said, ‘Are you going to leave
Musa and his people to cause corruption in the earth and
abandon you and your gods?’ He said, ‘We will kill their sons and
let their women live. We have absolute power over them!’ (7:127)
• I will divert from My Signs all those who are arrogant in the earth
without any right. If they see every Sign, they will not believe in it.
If they see the way of right guidance, they will not take it as a way.
But if they see the way of error, they will take that as a way. That
is because they denied Our Signs and paid no attention to them.
(7:146)
• And We divided them into nations in the earth. Some of them are
righteous and some are other than that. We tried them with good
and evil so that hopefully they would return. (7:168)
• And (it is He Who) unified their hearts. Even if you had spent
everything on the earth, you could not have unified their hearts.
But Allah has unified them. He is Almighty, All-Wise. (8:63)
• They swear by Allah that they said nothing, but they definitely
spoke the word of disbelief and returned to disbelief after their
Islam. They planned something which they did not achieve and
they were vindictive for no other cause than that Allah and His
Messenger had enriched them from His bounty. If they were to
repent, it would be better for them. But if they turn away, Allah will
punish them with a painful punishment in this world and the
hereafter, and they will not find any protector or helper on the
earth. (9:74)
• And (He turned) also towards the three who were left behind, so
that when the earth became narrow for them, for all its great
breadth, and their own selves became constricted for them and
they realised that there was no refuge from Allah except in Him,
He turned to them so that they might turn to Him. Allah is the
Ever-Returning, the Most Merciful. (9:118)
• If your Lord had willed, all the people on the earth would have
believed. Do you think you can force people to be believers?
(10:99)
• There is no creature on the earth which is not dependent upon
Allah for its provision. He knows where it lives and where it dies.
They are all in a Clear Book. (11:6)
• (Shu‘ayb said,) ‘My people! Give full measure and full weight with
justice; do not diminish people's goods; and do not go about the
earth, corrupting it.’ (11:85)
• Would that there had been more people with a vestige of good
among the generations of those who came before you, who
forbade corruption in the earth, other than the few among them
whom We saved. Those who did wrong gladly pursued the life of
luxury that they were given and were evildoers. (11:116)
• In the earth there are diverse regions side by side and gardens of
grapes and cultivated fields, and palm-trees sharing one root and
others with individual roots, all watered with the same water. And
We make some things better to eat than others. There are Signs
in that for people who use their intellect. (13:4)
• Those who respond to their Lord will receive the best. But as for
those who do not respond to Him, even if they owned everything
on the earth and the same again with it, they would offer it as a
ransom. They will receive an evil Reckoning. Their shelter will be
Hell. What an evil resting-place! (13:18)
• But as for those who break Allah’s contract after it has been
agreed and sever what Allah has commanded to be joined, and
cause corruption in the earth, the curse will be upon them. They
will have the Evil Abode. (13:25)
• What then of Him Who is standing over every self seeing
everything it does? Yet still they associate others with Allah! Say:
‘Name them! Or would you inform Him of something in the earth
He does not know, or are they words which are simply guesswork
on your part?’ However, the plotting of those who disbelieve
seems good to them and they bar the way. Anyone misguided by
Allah has no guide. (13:33)
• Musa said, ‘If you were to be ungrateful, you and everyone on the
earth, Allah is Rich Beyond Need, Praiseworthy.’ (14:8)
• He (Satan) said, ‘My Lord, because You misled me, I will make
things on the earth seem good to them and I will mislead them all,
every one of them.’ (15:39)
• He hides away from people because of the evil of the good news
he has been given. Should he keep her ignominiously or bury her
in the earth? What an evil judgement they make! (16:59)
• Do not strut arrogantly about the earth. You will certainly never
split the earth apart nor will you ever rival the mountains in height.
(17:37)
• Say: ‘If there had been angels on the earth going about in peace,
We would have sent down to them an angel from heaven as
Messenger.’ (17:95)
• Make a metaphor for them of the life of this world. It is like water
which We send down from the sky and the plants of the earth
combine with it but then become dry chaff scattered by the winds.
Allah has absolute power over everything. (18:45)
• On the Day We make the mountains move and you see the earth
laid bare and We gather them together, not leaving out a single
one of them. (18:47)
• It is We Who will inherit the earth and all those on it. They will be
returned to Us. (19:40)
• Mankind! If you are in any doubt about the Rising, know that We
created you from dust then from a drop of sperm then from a clot
of blood then from a lump of flesh, formed yet unformed, so We
may make things clear to you. We make whatever We want stay
in the womb until a specified time and then We bring you out as
children so that you can reach your full maturity. Some of you die
and some of you revert to the lowest form of life so that, after
having knowledge, they then know nothing at all. And you see the
earth dead and barren; then when We send down water onto it it
quivers and swells and sprouts with luxuriant plants of every kind.
(22:5)
• Say: ‘To whom does the earth belong, and everyone in it, if you
have any knowledge?’ (23:84)
• He will say, ‘How many years did you tarry on the earth?’ (23:112)
• The servants of the All-Merciful are those who walk lightly on the
earth and, who, when the ignorant speak to them, say, ‘Peace’.
(25:63)
• Have they not looked at the earth and seen how We have made
every sort of beneficial species grow in it? (26:7)
• (Salih said to his people,) ‘Do not obey the orders of the profligate,
those who corrupt the earth and do not put things right.’ (26:151-
152)
• Say: ‘Travel about the earth and see the final fate of the
evildoers.’ (27:69)
• (His people said to Qarun,) ‘Seek the abode of the hereafter with
what Allah has given you, without forgetting your portion of this
world. And do good as Allah has been good to you. And do not
seek to cause corruption in the earth. Allah does not love
corrupters.’ (28:77)
• Say: ‘Travel about the earth and see how He brought creation out
of nothing. Then later Allah will bring about the next existence.
Allah has power over all things. ’ (29:20)
• And Qarun and Pharaoh and Haman–Musa came with the Clear
Signs to them, but they were arrogant on the earth. They could
not outstrip Us. (29:39)
• If you ask them, ‘Who sends down water from the sky, bringing
the earth back to life again after it was dead?’ they will say,
‘Allah.’ Say: ‘Praise be to Allah.’ But most of them do not use their
intellect. (29:63)
• Have they not travelled in the earth and seen the final fate of
those before them? They had greater strength than them and
cultivated the land and inhabited it in far greater numbers than
they do. Their Messengers also came to them with the Clear
Signs. Allah would never have wronged them; but they wronged
themselves. (30:9)
• Say: ‘Travel about the earth and see the final fate of those before.
Most of them were idolaters.’ (30:42)
• Do not avert your face from people out of haughtiness and do not
strut about arrogantly on the earth. Allah does not love anyone
who is vain or boastful. (31:18)
• If all the trees on earth were pens and all the sea, with seven
more seas besides, was ink Allah’s words still would not run dry.
Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (31:27)
• Have they not travelled in the land and seen the final fate of those
before them? They were far greater than them in strength. Allah
cannot be withstood in any way, either in the heavens or on earth.
He is All-Knowing, All-Powerful. (35:44)
• Would We make those who believe and do right actions the same
as those who cause corruption on the earth? Would We make
those who guard against evil the same as the dissolute? (38:28)
• If those who did wrong owned everything on earth, and the same
again with it, they would offer it as a ransom to save themselves
from the evil of the punishment on the Day of Rising. What
confronts them from Allah will be something they did not reckon
with. (39:47)
• Have they not travelled in the earth and seen the final fate of
those before them? They were greater than them in strength and
left far deeper traces on the earth, yet Allah seized them for their
wrong actions and they had no one to protect them from Allah.
(40:21)
• It is Allah Who made the earth a stable home for you and the sky
a dome, and formed you, giving you the best of forms, and
provided you with good and wholesome things. That is Allah, your
Lord. Blessed be Allah, the Lord of all the worlds. (40:64)
• Have they not travelled in the land and seen the final fate of those
before them? They were more numerous than them and greater
in strength and left more and deeper traces on earth, but what
they earned was of no use to them. (40:82)
• Among His Signs is that you see the earth laid bare and then
when We send down water on it, it quivers and swells. He Who
gives it life is He Who gives life to the dead. Certainly He has
power over all things. (41:39)
• Were Allah to expand the provision of His servants, they would
act as tyrants on the earth. But He sends down whatever He wills
in a measured way. He is aware of and He sees His servants.
(42:27)
• You will not be able to thwart Him on the earth and you have no
protector or helper besides Allah. (42:31)
• There are only grounds against those who wrong people and act
as tyrants in the earth without any right to do so. Such people will
have a painful punishment. (42:42)
• And in the alternation of night and day and the provision Allah
sends down from the sky, bringing the earth to life by it after it has
died, and the varying direction of the winds, there are Signs for
people who use their intellect. (45:5)
• On the Day when those who disbelieved are exposed to the Fire:
‘You dissipated the good things you had in your worldly life and
enjoyed yourself in it. So today you are being repaid with the
punishment of humiliation for being arrogant in the earth without
any right and for being deviators.’ (46:20)
• Have they not travelled about the earth and seen the final fate of
those before them? Allah destroyed them utterly. And those who
disbelieve will suffer the same fate. (47:10)
• Is it not likely that, if you did turn away, you would cause
corruption in the earth and sever your ties of kinship? (47:22)
• There are certainly Signs in the earth for people with certainty.
(51:20)
• Know that Allah brings the earth to life after it was dead. We have
made the Signs clear to you so that hopefully you will use your
intellect. (57:17)
• Then when the prayer is finished spread through the earth and
seek Allah’s bounty and remember Allah much so that hopefully
you will be successful. (62:10)
• Say: ‘It is He Who scattered you about the earth and you will be
gathered to Him.’ (67:24)
• So when the Trumpet is blown with a single blast, and the earth
and the mountains are lifted and crushed with a single blow,
(69:13-14)
• On the Day the sky is like molten brass and the mountains like
tufts of coloured wool. no good friend will ask about his friend
even though they can see each other. An evildoer will wish he
could ransom himself from the punishment of that Day, by means
of his sons, or his wife or his brother or his family who sheltered
him or everyone else on earth, if that only meant that he could
save himself. (70:8-14)
• Nuh said, ‘My Lord! Do not leave a single one of the disbelievers
on earth!’ (71:26)
• (Say: ‘It has been revealed to me that a band of the jinn listened
and said,) "We have no idea whether evil is intended for those on
the earth, or whether their Lord intends them to be rightly
guided."’ (72:10)
• (Say: ‘It has been revealed to me that a band of the jinn listened
and said,) "We realised we would never thwart Allah on earth and
would never thwart Him by flight."’ (72:12)
• On the Day the earth and mountains shake and the mountains
become like shifting dunes. (73:14)
EARTH (SOIL)
• You who believe! Do not approach the prayer when you are drunk,
so that you will know what you are saying, nor in a state of major
impurity–unless you are travelling–until you have washed
yourselves completely. If you are ill or on a journey, or any of you
have come from the lavatory or touched women, and you cannot
find any water, then take for yourselves clean earth, wiping your
faces and your hands. Allah is Ever-Pardoning, Ever-Forgiving.
(4:43)
• You who believe! When you get up to perform prayer, wash your
faces and your hands and your arms to the elbows, and wipe
over your heads, and (wash) your feet to the ankles. If you are in
a state of major impurity, then purify yourselves. But if you are ill
or on a journey, or have come from the lavatory, or have touched
women, and cannot find any water, then take for yourselves clean
earth, and wipe your faces and your hands therewith. Allah does
not want to make things difficult for you, but He does want to
purify you and to perfect His blessing upon you so that hopefully
you will be thankful. (5:6)
EAST – WEST
• Both East and West belong to Allah, so wherever you turn, the
Face of Allah is there. Allah is All-Encompassing, All-Knowing.
(2:115)
• The fools among the people will ask, ‘What has made them turn
round from the direction they used to face?’ Say, ‘Both East and
West belong to Allah. He guides whoever He wills to a straight
path.’ (2:142)
• What about the one who argued with Ibrahim about his Lord, on
the basis that Allah had given him sovereignty? Ibrahim said, ‘My
Lord is He Who gives life and causes to die.’ He said, ‘I too give
life and cause to die.’ Ibrahim said, ‘Allah makes the sun come
from the East. Make it come from the West.’ And the one who
was a disbeliever was dumbfounded. Allah does not guide
wrongdoing people. (2:258)
• Mention Maryam in the Book, how she withdrew from her people
to an eastern place. (19:16)
• Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The metaphor of
His Light is that of a niche in which is a lamp, the lamp inside a
glass, the glass like a brilliant star, lit from a blessed tree, an olive,
neither of the east nor of the west, its oil all but giving off light
even if no fire touches it. Light upon Light. Allah guides to His
Light whoever He wills and Allah makes metaphors for mankind
and Allah has knowledge of all things. (24:35)
• He said, ‘The Lord of the East and the West and everything
between them if you used your intellect.’ (26:28)
• Lord of the heavens and the earth and everything between them;
Lord of the Easts. (37:5)
• The Lord of the two Easts and the Lord of the two Wests. (55:17)
• No! I swear by the Lord of the Easts and Wests that We have the
power. (70:40)
• Lord of the East and West–there is no god but Him–so take Him
as your Guardian. (73:9)
EATING
• They (the Disciples) said, ‘We want to eat from it and for our
hearts to be at peace and to know that you have told us the truth
and to be among those who witness it.’ (5:113)
• Do not eat anything over which the name of Allah has not been
mentioned. To do so is sheer deviance. The Satans inspire their
friends to dispute with you. If you obeyed them you would then be
idolaters. (6:121)
• He (Yusuf's father) said, ‘It grieves me to let him go with you I fear
a wolf might come and eat him up while you are heedless, not
attending him.’ (12:13)
• Two servants entered prison along with him. One said, ‘I dreamt
that I was pressing grapes.’ The other said, ‘I dreamt I carried
bread upon my head and birds were eating it. Tell us the true
meaning of these dreams. We see that you’re one of the
righteous.’ (12:36)
• (Yusuf said,) ‘My fellow-captives, one of you will serve his lord
with wine, the other of you will be crucified and birds will eat his
head. The thing you asked about is foreordained.’ (12:41)
• They say, ‘What is the matter with this Messenger, that he eats
food and walks in the market-place? Why has an angel not been
sent down to him so that it can be a warner along with him? Why
has treasure not been showered down on him? Why does he not
have a garden to give him food?’ The wrongdoers say, ‘You are
merely following a man who is bewitched.’ (25:7-8)
• We never sent any Messengers before you who did not eat food
and walk in the market-place. But We have made some of you a
trial for others to see if you will be steadfast. Your Lord sees
everything. (25:20)
• Do they not see how We drive water to barren land and bring
forth crops by it which their livestock and they themselves both
eat? So will they not see? (32:27)
• They will eat from it and fill their bellies with it. (37:66)
• It is Allah Who has given you livestock, some for you to ride and
some to eat. (40:79)
• Allah will admit those who believe to Gardens with rivers flowing
under them. Those who disbelieve have their enjoyment, eating
as cattle eat, but the Fire will be their final residence. (47:12)
• Then you, you misguided, you deniers will eat from the tree of
Zaqqum. (56:51-52)
• Allah has promised the men and women of the believers Gardens
with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly, for
ever, and fine dwellings in the Gardens of Eden. And Allah’s good
pleasure is even greater. That is the great victory. (9:72)
• Gardens of Eden which they will enter, and all of their parents,
wives and children who were righteous. Angels will enter in to
welcome them from every gate. (13:23)
• Gardens of Eden which they enter, with rivers flowing under them,
where they have whatever they desire. That is how Allah repays
those who guard against evil. (16:31)
• They will have Gardens of Eden with rivers flowing under them.
They will be adorned in them with bracelets made of gold and
wear green garments made of the finest silk and rich brocade,
reclining there on couches under canopies. What an excellent
reward! What a wonderful repose! (18:31)
• They will enter Gardens of Eden where they will be adorned with
gold bracelets and pearls, and where their clothing will be of silk.
(35:33)
• (Angels ask forgiveness for the believers,) ‘Our Lord, admit them
to the Gardens of Eden You have promised them, and all of their
parents, wives and children who acted rightly. Truly You are the
Almighty, the All-Wise.’ (40:8)
• He will forgive you your wrong actions and admit you into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, and fine dwellings in the
Gardens of Eden. That is the Great Victory. (61:12)
EGYPT
• And when you said, ‘Musa, we will not put up with just one kind of
food so ask your Lord to supply to us some of what the earth
produces–its green vegetables, cucumbers, grains, lentils and
onions,’ he said, ‘Do you want to replace what is better with what
is inferior? Go back to Egypt, then you will have what you are
asking for.’ Abasement and destitution were stamped upon them.
They brought down anger from Allah upon themselves. That was
because they rejected Allah’s Signs and killed the Prophets
without any right to do so. That was because they rebelled and
went beyond the limits. (2:61)
• The Egyptian who had bought him told his wife, ‘Look after him
with honour and respect. It’s possible he will be of use to us or
perhaps we might adopt him as a son.’ And thus We established
Yusuf in the land to teach him the true meaning of events. Allah is
in control of His affair. However, most of mankind do not know.
(12:21)
EMINENCE
• So when they came into his presence, they said, ‘Your Eminence!
Hardship has hit us and our families. We bring scant merchandise,
but fill the measure for us generously. Allah always rewards a
generous giver.’ (12:88)
ENEMY – ENMITY
• But Satan made them slip up by means of it, expelling them from
where they were. We said, ‘Go down from here as enemies to
each other! You will have residence on the earth and enjoyment
for a time.’ (2:36)
• Then you are the people who are killing one another and
expelling a group among you from their homes, ganging up
against them in wrongdoing and enmity. Yet if they are brought to
you as captives, you ransom them, when it was forbidden for you
to expel them in the first place! Do you, then, believe in one part
of the Book and reject the other? What repayment will there be
for any of you who do that except disgrace in this world? And on
the Day of Rising, they will be returned to the harshest of
punishments. Allah is not unaware of what you do. (2:85)
• Say, ‘Anyone who is the enemy of Gabriel should know that it was
he who brought it down upon your heart, by Allah’s authority,
confirming what came before, and as guidance and good news
for the believers.’ (2:97)
• Anyone who is the enemy of Allah and of His angels, and of His
Messengers and of Gabriel and Michael, should know that Allah
is the enemy of the disbelievers. (2:98)
• Mankind! Eat what is good and lawful on the earth. And do not
follow in the footsteps of Satan. He truly is an outright enemy to
you. (2:168)
• Fight them until there is no more discord and the religion belongs
to Allah alone. If they cease, there should be no enmity towards
any but wrongdoers. (2:193)
• Hold fast to the rope of Allah all together, and do not separate.
Remember Allah’s blessing to you when you were enemies and
He joined your hearts together so that you became brothers by
His blessing. You were on the very brink of a pit of the Fire and
He rescued you from it. In this way Allah makes His Signs clear to
you, so that hopefully you will be guided. (3:103)
• When you are travelling in the land, there is nothing wrong in your
shortening your prayer if you fear that those who disbelieve may
harass you. The disbelievers are your clear-cut enemies. (4:101)
• Do not relax in pursuit of the enemy. If you feel pain, they too are
feeling it just as you are, but you hope for something from Allah
which they cannot hope for. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (4:104)
• You who believe! Do not profane the sacred rites of Allah or the
sacred months, or the sacrificial animals, or the ritual garlands, or
those heading for the Sacred House, desiring profit and good
pleasure from their Lord. When your pilgrimage is over, then you
may hunt. Do not let hatred for a people who debar you from the
Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) incite you into going beyond
the limits. Help each other to goodness and heedfulness. Do not
help each other to wrongdoing and enmity. Have fear of Allah.
Allah is severe in retribution. (5:2)
• The Jews say, ‘Allah’s hand is chained.’ Their hands are chained
and they are cursed for what they say! No! Both His hands are
open wide and He gives however He wills. What has been sent
down to you from your Lord increases many of them in insolence
and disbelief. We have incited enmity and hatred between them
until the Day of Rising. Each time they kindle the fire of war, Allah
extinguishes it. They rush about the earth corrupting it. Allah does
not love corrupters. (5:64)
• Satan wants to stir up enmity and hatred between you by means
of wine and gambling, and to debar you from remembrance of
Allah and from prayer. Will you not then give them up? (5:91)
• And also (He provides) animals for riding and for haulage and
animals for slaughtering and for wool. Eat what Allah has
provided for you and do not follow in the footsteps of Satan. He is
an outright enemy to you. (6:142)
• He said, ‘Go down from here as enemies to each other! You will
have residence on the earth and enjoyment for a time.’ (7:24)
• They said, ‘We suffered harm before you came to us and after
you came to us.’ He (Musa) said, ‘It may well be that your Lord is
going to destroy your enemy and make you the successors in the
land so that He can see how you behave.’ (7:129)
• If Allah returns you to a group of them, and they ask you for
permission to go out, say, ‘You will never go out with me, nor will
you ever fight an enemy with me. You were happy to stay behind
the first time, so stay behind with those who are left behind.’ (9:83)
• Ibrahim would not have asked forgiveness for his father but for a
promise he made to him, and when it became clear to him that he
was an enemy of Allah, he renounced him. Ibrahim was tender-
hearted and forbearing. (9:114)
• It was not for people of Madina, and the desert arabs around
them, to remain behind the Messenger of Allah nor to prefer
themselves to him. That is because no thirst or weariness or
hunger will afflict them in the Way of Allah, nor will they take a
single step to infuriate the disbelievers, nor secure any gain from
the enemy, without a right action being written down for them
because of it. Allah does not let the wage of the good-doers go to
waste. (9:120)
• We brought the tribe of Israel across the sea and Pharaoh and
his troops pursued them out of tyranny and enmity. Then, when
he was on the point of drowning, he said, ‘I believe that there is
no god but Him in whom the tribe of Israel believe. I am one of
the Muslims.’ (10:90)
• He (Yusuf's father) said, ‘My son, don’t tell your brothers your
dream lest they devise some scheme to injure you, Satan is a
clear-cut enemy to man.’ (12:5)
• Say to My servants that they should only say the best. Satan
wants to stir up trouble between them. Satan is an outright enemy
to man. (17:53)
• When We said to the angels, ‘Prostrate yourselves to Adam,’ they
prostrated with the exception of Diabolis. He was one of the jinn
and wantonly deviated from his Lord’s command. Do you take
him and his offspring as protectors apart from Me when they are
your enemy? How evil is the exchange the wrongdoers make!
(18:50)
• We said, ‘Adam, this is an enemy for you and your wife, so do not
let him expel you from the Garden and thus make you miserable.’
(20:117)
• He said, ‘Go down from it, all of you, as enemies to one another!
But when guidance comes to you from Me, all those who follow
My guidance will not go astray and will not be miserable.’ (20:123)
• (Ibrahim said,) ‘They are all my enemies–except for the Lord of all
the worlds.’ (26:77)
• But when he was about to grab the man who was their common
enemy, he said, ‘Musa! Do you want to kill me just as you killed a
person yesterday? You only want to be a tyrant in the land; you
do not want to be a reformer.’ (28:19)
• Did I not make a contract with you, tribe of Adam, not to worship
Satan, who truly is an outright enemy to you? (36:60)
• On the Day We crowd the enemies of Allah into the Fire and they
are driven in close-packed ranks. (41:19)
• A good action and a bad action are not the same. Repel the bad
with something better and, if there is enmity between you and
someone else, he will be like a bosom friend. (41:34)
• If they come upon you, they will be your enemies and stretch out
their hands and tongues against you with evil intent, and they
would dearly love you to become disbelievers. (60:2)
• It may well be that Allah will restore the love between you and
those of them who are now your enemies. Allah is All-Powerful.
Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (60:7)
• When you see them, their outward form appeals to you, and if
they speak you listen to what they say. But they are like propped-
up planks of wood. They imagine every cry to be against them.
They are the enemy, so beware of them. May Allah destroy them!
How they are perverted! (63:4)
• You who believe! Some of your wives and children are an enemy
to you, so be wary of them. But if you pardon and exonerate and
forgive, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (64:14)
• But Satan made them slip up by means of it, expelling them from
where they were. We said, ‘Go down from here as enemies to
each other! You will have residence on the earth and enjoyment
for a time.’ (2:36)
• Every self will taste death. You will be paid your wages in full on
the Day of Rising. Anyone who is distanced from the Fire and
admitted to the Garden has triumphed. The life of this world is just
the enjoyment of delusion. (3:185)
• Do you not see those who were told: ‘Hold back from fighting but
perform prayer and give the alms’? Then when fighting is
prescribed for them, a group of them fear people as Allah should
be feared, or even more than that. They say, ‘Our Lord, why have
you prescribed fighting for us? If only You would give us just a
little more time!’ Say, ‘The enjoyment of this world is very brief.
The hereafter is better for those who guard against evil. You will
not be wronged by so much as the smallest speck.’ (4:77)
• He said, ‘Go down from here as enemies to each other! You will
have residence on the earth and enjoyment for a time.’ (7:24)
• There is the enjoyment of this world. Then they will return to Us.
Then We will let them taste the terrible punishment because they
disbelieved. (10:70)
• ‘Ask your Lord for forgiveness and then repent to Him. He will let
you enjoy a good life until a specified time, and will give His
favour to all who merit it. But if you turn your backs, I fear for you
the punishment of a Mighty Day.’ (11:3)
• He sends down water from the sky and river-beds fill up and flow
according to their size, and the floodwater carries with it an
increasing layer of scum; a similar kind of scum comes from what
you heat up in the fire, when you desire to make jewellery or
other things. That is how Allah depicts the true and the false. As
for the scum, it is quickly swept away. But as for that which is of
use to people, it remains behind in the ground. That is a
metaphor which Allah has made. (13:17)
• They will say, ‘Glory be to You! It would not have been fitting for
us to have taken any protectors apart from You. But You let them
and their fathers enjoy themselves so that they forgot the
Reminder. They were people devoid of good.’ (25:18)
• Do you think, if We let them enjoy themselves for years and then
what they were promised comes to them, that what they enjoyed
will be of any use to them? (26:205-207)
• Anything you have been given is only the enjoyment of the life of
this world and its finery. What is with Allah is better and longer
lasting. So will you not use your intellect? (28:60)
• Say: ‘Flight will not benefit you if you try to run away from death
or being killed. Then you will only enjoy a short respite.’ (33:16)
• (The man who believed said,) ‘My people! The life of this world is
only fleeting enjoyment. It is the hereafter which is the abode of
permanence.’ (40:39)
• Whatever you have been given is only the enjoyment of the life of
this world. What is with Allah is better and longer lasting for those
who believe and trust in their Lord. (42:36)
• I let those people and their forefathers enjoy themselves until the
truth came to them and a Messenger to make it clear. (43:29)
• Allah will admit those who believe to Gardens with rivers flowing
under them. Those who disbelieve have their enjoyment, eating
as cattle eat, but the Fire will be their final residence. (47:12)
• Know that the life of this world is merely a game and a diversion
and ostentation and a cause of boasting among yourselves and
trying to outdo one another in wealth and children: like the plant-
growth after rain which delights the cultivators, but then it withers
and you see it turning yellow, and then it becomes broken stubble.
In the hereafter there is terrible punishment but also forgiveness
from Allah and His good pleasure. The life of this world is nothing
but the enjoyment of delusion. (57:20)
ENVY
• Many of the People of the Book would love it if they could turn
you back to disbelief after you have become believers, showing
their innate envy now that the truth is clear to them. But you
should pardon and overlook until Allah gives His command. Truly
Allah has power over all things. (2:109)
• Or do they in fact envy other people for the bounty Allah has
granted them? We gave the family of Ibrahim the Book and
Wisdom, and We gave them an immense kingdom. (4:54)
• When you go out to get the booty, those who remained behind
will say, ‘Allow us to follow you,’ desiring to alter Allah’s words.
Say: ‘You may not follow us. That is what Allah said before.’ They
will say, ‘It is only because you envy us.’ No indeed! How little
they have understood! (48:15)
• Allah has not allotted to any man two hearts within his breast, nor
has He made those of your wives you equate with your mothers
your actual mothers, nor has He made your adopted sons your
actual sons. These are just words coming out of your mouths. But
Allah speaks the truth and He guides to the Way. (33:4)
• Those of you who divorce your wives by equating them with your
mothers, they are not your mothers. Your mothers are only those
who gave birth to you. What you are saying is wrong and a
slanderous lie. But Allah is Ever-Pardoning, Ever-Forgiving. (58:2)
ESTEEM
• When the angels said, ‘Maryam, your Lord gives you good news
of a Word from Him. His name is the Messiah, ‘Isa, son of
Maryam, of high esteem in this world and the hereafter, and one
of those brought near.’ (3:45)
• They said, ‘Shu‘ayb, We do not understand much of what you say
and we see you are weak among us. Were it not for your clan, we
would have stoned you. We do not hold you in high esteem!’
(11:91)
EVENING GLOW
EVERLASTING
• They will want to get out of the Fire but they will not be able to.
They will have an everlasting punishment. (5:37)
• Their Lord gives them the good news of His mercy and good
pleasure and Gardens where they will enjoy everlasting delight,
remaining in them timelessly, for ever and ever. Truly there is an
immense reward with Allah. (9:21-22)
• Allah has promised the men and women of the hypocrites and
disbelievers the Fire of Hell, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. It
will suffice them. Allah has cursed them. They will have
everlasting punishment. (9:68)
• (Nuh said,) ‘You will soon know who will receive a punishment
which disgraces him and find unleashed against himself an
everlasting punishment.’ (11:39)
• But Satan whispered to him, saying, ‘Adam, shall I show you the
way to the Tree of Everlasting Life and to a kingdom which will
never fade away?’ (20:120)
• Say: ‘My people, do as you think best; that is what I am doing.
You will soon know who will receive a punishment which
disgraces him and will unleash against himself an everlasting
punishment.’ (39:39-40)
EVIL
• What they call on apart from Him are female idols. What they call
on is an arrogant Satan whom Allah has cursed. He said, ‘I will
take a certain fixed proportion of Your servants. I will lead them
astray and fill them with false hopes. I will command them and
they will cut off cattle’s ears. I will command them and they will
change Allah’s creation.’ Anyone who takes Satan as his
protector in place of Allah has clearly lost everything. (4:117-119)
• We created man and We know what his own self whispers to him.
We are nearer to him than his jugular vein. (50:16)
• Any good thing that happens to you comes from Allah. Any bad
thing that happens to you comes from yourself. We have sent you
to mankind as a Messenger. Allah suffices as a Witness. (4:79)
• Those who join forces for good will receive a reward for it. Those
who join forces for evil will be answerable for it. Allah oversees all
things. (4:85)
• You who believe! Do not profane the sacred rites of Allah or the
sacred months, or the sacrificial animals, or the ritual garlands, or
those heading for the Sacred House, desiring profit and good
pleasure from their Lord. When your pilgrimage is over, then you
may hunt. Do not let hatred for a people who debar you from the
Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) incite you into going beyond
the limits. Help each other to goodness and heedfulness. Do not
help each other to wrongdoing and enmity. Have fear of Allah.
Allah is severe in retribution. (5:2)
• But as for those who have earned bad actions–a bad action will
be repaid with one the like of it. Debasement will darken them.
They will have no one to protect them from Allah. It is as if their
faces were covered by dark patches of the night. Those are the
Companions of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever.
(10:27)
• Those who produce a good action will receive ten like it. But
those who produce a bad action will only be repaid with its
equivalent and they will not be wronged. (6:160)
EVIL CONSEQUENCE
• You who believe! Do not kill game while you are in the state of
pilgrimage. If one of you kills any deliberately, the reprisal for it is
a livestock animal equivalent to what he killed, as judged by two
just men among you, a sacrifice to reach the Kaaba, or expiation
by feeding the poor, or fasting commensurate with that, so that he
may taste the evil consequences of what he did. Allah has
pardoned all that took place in the past; but if anyone does it
again Allah will take revenge on him. Allah is Almighty, Exactor of
Revenge. (5:95)
• Has the news not reached you of those who disbelieved before
and tasted the evil consequences of what they did? They will
have a painful punishment. (64:5)
EVIL OMEN
• They (his people) said (to Salih), ‘We see you, and those with you,
as an evil omen.’ He said, ‘No, your evil omen is with Allah; you
are merely a people undergoing a trial.’ (27:47)
• They (the inhabitants of the city) said, ‘We see an evil omen in
you. If you do not stop we will stone you and you will suffer a
painful punishment at our hands.’ (36:18)
EVILDOING - EVILDOERS
• Why do their scholars and rabbis not prohibit them from evil
speech and acquiring ill-gotten gains? What an evil thing they
invent! (5:63)
• In that way We make the Signs plain so that you may clearly see
the path of the evildoers. (6:55)
• If they call you a liar, say: ‘Your Lord possesses boundless mercy,
but His violent force cannot be averted from the people of the
evildoers.’ (6:147)
• As for those who deny Our Signs and are arrogant regarding
them, the Gates of Heaven will not be opened for them, and they
will not enter the Garden until a camel goes through a needle’s
eye. That is how We repay the evildoers. (7:40)
• We rained down a rain upon them. See the final fate of the
evildoers! (7:84)
• So We sent down on them floods, locusts, lice, frogs and blood,
Signs, clear and distinct, but they proved arrogant and were an
evildoing people. (7:133)
• This was so that He might verify the Truth and nullify the false,
even though the evildoers hate that. (8:8)
• Then after them We sent Musa and Harun with Our Signs to
Pharaoh and his ruling circle, but they were arrogant and were a
people of evildoers. (10:75)
• Allah confirms the Truth by His words, even though the evildoers
hate it. (10:82)
• (Hud said,) ‘My people! Ask forgiveness of your Lord and then
repent to Him. He will send heaven down to you in abundant rain,
and increase you with strength upon strength. Do not turn away
as evildoers.’ (11:52)
• Would that there had been more people with a vestige of good
among the generations of those who came before you, who
forbade corruption in the earth, other than the few among them
whom We saved. Those who did wrong gladly pursued the life of
luxury that they were given and were evildoers. (11:116)
• Then when the Messengers despaired and thought themselves
denied, Our help came to them, and those We willed were saved.
Our violent force cannot be averted from people who are
evildoers. (12:110)
• That Day you will see the evildoers yoked together in chains,
(14:49)
• As for those the angels take in death while they are wronging
themselves, they will offer their submission: ‘We did not do any
evil.’ Oh yes you did! Allah knows what you were doing. (16:28)
• The Book will be set in place and you will see the evildoers fearful
of what is in it. They will say, ‘Alas for us! What is this Book which
does not pass over any action, small or great, without recording
it?’ They will find there everything they did and your Lord will not
wrong anyone at all. (18:49)
• The evildoers will see the Fire and realise they are going to fall
into it and find no way of escaping from it. (18:53)
• As for those who come to their Lord as evildoers, they will have
Hell where they will neither die nor stay alive. (20:74)
• (They will say,) ‘It was only the evildoers who misguided us.’
(26:99)
• Say: ‘Travel about the earth and see the final fate of the
evildoers.’ (27:69)
• On the Day the Last Hour arrives, the evildoers will swear they
have not even tarried for an hour. That is the extent to which they
are deceived. (30:55)
• If only you could see the evildoers hanging their heads in shame
before their Lord: ‘Our Lord, we have seen and we have heard,
so send us back again and we will act rightly. Truly we now have
certainty.’ (32:12)
• Who could do greater wrong than someone who is reminded of
the Signs of his Lord and then turns away from them? We will
take revenge on the evildoers. (32:22)
• Say: ‘You will not be asked about any evil we committed and we
will not be asked about what you did.’ (34:25)
• Are they better or the people of Tubba‘ and those before them
whom We destroyed? They were certainly evildoers. (44:37)
• (On the Day) no good friend will ask about his friend even though
they can see each other. An evildoer will wish he could ransom
himself from the punishment of that Day, by means of his sons, or
his wife or his brother or his family who sheltered him or everyone
else on earth, if that only meant that he could save himself.
(70:10-14)
• ‘Eat and enjoy yourselves for a little while. You are evildoers.’
(77:46)
• Those who did evil used to laugh at those who believed. (83:29)
EXCESS
• He has only forbidden you carrion, blood and pork and what has
been consecrated to other than Allah. But anyone who is forced
to eat it–without desiring it or going to excess in it–commits no
crime. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (2:173)
• All they said was, ‘Our Lord, forgive us our wrong actions and any
excesses we went to in what we did and make our feet firm and
help us against these disbelieving people.’ (3:147)
• Say: ‘I do not find, in what has been revealed to me, any food it is
forbidden to eat except for carrion, flowing blood, and pork–for
that is unclean–or some deviance consecrated to other than Allah.
But if anyone is forced to eat it, without desiring to or going to
excess in it, your Lord is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.’ (6:145)
• They allot to Allah what they themselves dislike and their tongues
frame the lie that they will receive the Best. There is no doubt at
all that they will receive the Fire and that they are people who go
to excess. (16:62)
• Do not kill any person Allah has made inviolate, except with the
right to do so. If someone is wrongly killed We have given
authority to his next of kin. But he should not be excessive in
taking life. He will be helped. (17:33)
• Eat of the good things We have provided for you but do not go to
excess in it or My anger will be unleashed on you. Anyone who
has My anger unleashed on him has plunged to his ruin. (20:81)
EXCESSIVENESS
• But Allah is mocking them, and drawing them on, as they wander
blindly in their excessive insolence. (2:15)
• He has only forbidden you carrion, blood and pork and what has
been consecrated to other than Allah. But anyone who is forced
to eat it–without desiring it or going to excess in it–commits no
crime. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (2:173)
• People of the Book! Do not go to excess in your religion. Say
nothing but the truth about Allah. The Messiah, ‘Isa son of
Maryam, was only the Messenger of Allah and His Word, which
He cast into Maryam, and a Spirit from Him. So believe in Allah
and His Messengers. Do not say, ‘Three.’ It is better that you stop.
Allah is only One God. He is too Glorious to have a son!
Everything in the heavens and in the earth belongs to Him. Allah
suffices as a Guardian. (4:171)
• If Allah were to hasten evil for people the way they try to hasten
good, their term would already have been completed for them.
We abandon those who do not expect to meet Us to wander
blindly in their excessive insolence. (10:11)
EXPEDITION TO TABUK
• You who believe! What is the matter with you that when you are
told, ‘Go out and fight in the way of Allah,’ you sink down heavily
to the earth? Are you happier with this world than the hereafter?
Yet the enjoyment of this world is very small compared to that of
the hereafter. (9:38)
• Those who were left behind were glad to stay behind the
Messenger of Allah. They did not want to strive with their wealth
and themselves in the Way of Allah. They said, ‘Do not go out to
fight in the heat.’ Say: ‘The Fire of Hell is much hotter, if they only
understood.’ (9:81)
• If Allah returns you to a group of them, and they ask you for
permission to go out, say, ‘You will never go out with me, nor will
you ever fight an enemy with me. You were happy to stay behind
the first time, so stay behind with those who are left behind.’ (9:83)
• The desert arabs came with their excuses asking for permission
to stay, and those who lied to Allah and His Messenger stayed
behind. A painful punishment will afflict those among them who
disbelieve. (9:90)
• Nothing is held against the weak and sick nor against those who
find nothing to spend, provided they are true to Allah and His
Messenger–there is no way open against good-doers, Allah is
Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful–nor is anything held against those
who, when they came to you for you to provide them with mounts
and you said, ‘I cannot find anything on which to mount you,’
turned away with their eyes overflowing with tears, overcome by
grief at having nothing to give. (9:91-92)
• There are only grounds against those who ask you for permission
to stay when they are rich. They were pleased to be among those
who were left behind. Allah has sealed up their hearts so they do
not know. (9:93)
EXPELLING
EXPIATION
• We prescribed for them in it: a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a
nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth, and
retaliation for wounds. But if anyone forgoes that as a charity, it
will act as expiation for him. Those who do not judge by what
Allah has sent down, such people are wrongdoers. (5:45)
• Allah does not take you to task for your inadvertent oaths, but He
will take you to task for oaths you make intentionally. The
expiation in that case is to feed ten poor people with the average
amount you feed your family, or clothe them, or free a slave.
Anyone without the means to do so should fast three days. That
is the expiation for breaking oaths when you have sworn them.
Keep your oaths. In this way Allah makes His Signs clear to you,
so that hopefully you will be thankful. (5:89)
• You who believe! Do not kill game while you are in the state of
pilgrimage. If one of you kills any deliberately, the reprisal for it is
a livestock animal equivalent to what he killed, as judged by two
just men among you, a sacrifice to reach the Kaaba, or expiation
by feeding the poor, or fasting commensurate with that, so that he
may taste the evil consequences of what he did. Allah has
pardoned all that took place in the past; but if anyone does it
again Allah will take revenge on him. Allah is Almighty, Exactor of
Revenge. (5:95)
• Allah does not take you to task for your inadvertent oaths, but He
will take you to task for oaths you make intentionally. The
expiation in that case is to feed ten poor people with the average
amount you feed your family, or clothe them, or free a slave.
Anyone without the means to do so should fast three days. That
is the expiation for breaking oaths when you have sworn them.
Keep your oaths. In this way Allah makes His Signs clear to you,
so that hopefully you will be thankful. (5:89)
EXTRAVAGANCE
• Give your relatives their due, and the very poor and travellers but
do not squander what you have. Squanderers are brothers to the
Satans, and Satan was ungrateful to his Lord. (17:26-27)
EXULTATION
• Those who exult in what they have done and love to be praised
for what they have not done should not suppose that they have
escaped the punishment. They will have a painful punishment.
(3:188)
• When they forgot what they had been reminded of, We opened
up for them the doors to everything, until, when they were
exulting in what they had been given, We suddenly seized them
and at once they were in despair. (6:44)
• But they disagreed and split up, dividing into sects, each party
exulting in what it had. (23:53)
• (Idolaters are) those who split up their religion, and form into
sects, each faction exulting in what they have. (30:32)
• But if they turn away, We have not sent you to be their guardian.
You are only responsible for transmission. When We let a man
taste mercy from Us he exults in it. But if something bad strikes
him for what he has done he is ungrateful. (42:48)
• That is so that you will not be grieved about the things that pass
you by or exult about the things that come to you. Allah does not
love any vain or boastful man. (57:23)
EYE
• Allah has sealed up their hearts and hearing and over their eyes
is a blindfold. They will have a terrible punishment. (2:7)
• And when you said, ‘Musa, we will not believe in you until we see
Allah with our own eyes.’ So the thunder-bolt struck you dead
while you were looking. (2:55)
• You who believe! Give away some of the good things you have
earned and some of what the earth produces for you. Do not
have recourse to bad things when you give, things you would only
take with your eyes tight shut! Know that Allah is Rich Beyond
Need, Praiseworthy. (2:267)
• There was a sign for you in the two parties which met face to face,
one party fighting in the Way of Allah and the other disbelievers.
You saw them as twice their number with your own eyes. Allah
reinforces with His help whoever He wills. There is instruction in
that for people of insight. (3:13)
• You were longing for death before you met it. Now you have seen
it with your own eyes. (3:143)
• The People of the Book will ask you to bring down a Book from
heaven to them. They asked Musa for even more than that. They
said, ‘Let us see Allah with our own eyes.’ So the lightning-bolt
struck them down for their wrongdoing. Then they adopted the
Calf after the Clear Signs had come to them, but We pardoned
them for that and gave Musa clear authority. (4:153)
• We prescribed for them in it: a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a
nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth, and
retaliation for wounds. But if anyone forgoes that as a charity, it
will act as expiation for him. Those who do not judge by what
Allah has sent down, such people are wrongdoers. (5:45)
• When they listen to what has been sent down to the Messenger,
you see their eyes overflowing with tears because of what they
recognise of the truth. They say, ‘Our Lord, we believe! So write
us down among the witnesses.’ (5:83)
• When they turn their eyes towards the Companions of the Fire,
they will say, ‘Our Lord, do not place us with the people of the
wrongdoers!’ (7:47)
• He (Musa) said (to the magicians), ‘You throw.’ And when they
threw, they cast a spell on the people's eyes and caused them to
feel great fear of them. They produced an extremely powerful
magic. (7:116)
• We created many of the jinn and mankind for Hell. They have
hearts they do not understand with. They have eyes they do not
see with. They have ears they do not hear with. Such people are
like cattle. No, they are even further astray! They are the unaware.
(7:179)
• Do they have legs they can walk with? Do they have hands they
can grasp with? Do they have eyes they can see with? Do they
have ears they can hear with? Say: ‘Call on your partner-gods
and try all your wiles against me and grant me no reprieve.’
(7:195)
• Remember when Allah made you see them as few when you met
them, and also made you seem few in their eyes. This was so
that Allah could settle a matter whose result was preordained. All
matters return to Allah. (8:44)
• Nor is anything held against those who, when they came to you
for you to provide them with mounts and you said, ‘I cannot find
anything on which to mount you,’ turned away with their eyes
overflowing with tears, overcome by grief at having nothing to
give. (9:92)
• (Nuh said to his people,) ‘I do not say to you that I possess the
treasuries of Allah; nor do I know the Unseen; nor do I say that I
am an angel; nor do I say to those who are vile in your eyes that
Allah will not give them any good. Allah knows best what is in
their hearts. If I did, I would certainly be one of the wrongdoers.’
(11:31)
• (Allah said to Musa,) ‘When your sister went and said, "Shall I
direct you to someone who will take care of him?" that was how
We returned you to your mother so that she might delight her
eyes and not be grieved. You killed a man and We rescued you
from trouble and tested you with many trials. You stayed some
years among the people of Madyan. Then you arrived at the pre-
ordained time, Musa!’ (20:40)
• They said, ‘Bring him before the people’s eyes so they can be
witnesses.’ (21:61)
• And (when) the True Promise is very close, the eyes of those who
disbelieved will be transfixed: ‘Alas for us! We were unmindful of
this! No, rather we were definitely wrongdoers.’ (21:97)
• Have they not travelled about the earth and do they not have
hearts to understand with or ears to hear with? It is not their eyes
which are blind but the hearts in their breasts which are blind.
(22:46)
• Say to the believers that they should lower their eyes and guard
their chastity. That is purer for them. Allah is aware of what they
do. (24:30)
• Say to the believing women that they should lower their eyes and
guard their chastity and not display their adornments–except for
what normally shows–and draw their head-coverings across their
breasts. They should only display their adornments to their
husbands or their fathers or their husbands’ fathers, or their sons
or their husbands’ sons or their brothers or their brothers’ sons or
their sisters’ sons or their women or those they own as slaves or
their male attendants who have no sexual desire or children who
still have no awareness of women’s private parts. Nor should they
stamp their feet so that their hidden ornaments are known. Turn
to Allah every one of you, believers, so that hopefully you will
have success. (24:31)
• ... there are men who proclaim His glory morning and evening,
not distracted by trade or commerce from the remembrance of
Allah and the performance of prayer and the giving of the alms;
fearing a day when all hearts and eyes will be in turmoil. (24:36-
37)
• And when Lut he said to his people: ‘Do you approach depravity
with open eyes? (27:54)
• She said to his sister, ‘Go after him.’ And she kept an eye on him
from afar and they were not aware. (28:11)
• When they came at you from above you and below you, when
your eyes rolled and your hearts rose to your throats, and you
thought unworthy thoughts about Allah. (33:10)
• Allah knows the obstructers among you and those who say to
their brothers, ‘Come to us,’ and who only come to fight a very
little, and are begrudging towards you. Then when fear comes,
you see them looking at you, their eyes rolling like people scared
to death. But when fear departs they flay you with sharp tongues,
grasping for wealth. Such people have no faith and Allah will
make their actions come to nothing. That is easy for Allah. (33:18-
19)
• There will be but one Great Blast and then their eyes will open.
(37:19)
• They (the profligate) will say, ‘How is it that we do not see some
men whom we used to count among the worst of people? Did we
turn them into figures of fun? Did our eyes disdain to look at
them?’ (38:62-63)
• Platters and cups of gold will be passed around among them and
they will have there all that their hearts desire and their eyes find
delight in. You will remain in it timelessly, for ever. (43:71)
• Have you seen him who takes his whims and desires to be his
god–whom Allah has misguided knowingly, sealing up his hearing
and his heart and placing a blindfold over his eyes? Who then will
guide him after Allah? So will you not pay heed? (45:23)
• Such are the people Allah has cursed, making them deaf and
blinding their eyes. (47:23)
• His eye did not waver nor did he look away. (53:17)
• They will emerge from their graves with downcast eyes, like
swarming locusts, necks outstretched, eyes transfixed, rushing
headlong to the Summoner. The disbelievers will say, ‘This is a
pitiless day!’ (54:7-8)
• They even wanted to seduce his guests! So We put out their eyes:
‘Taste My punishment and warnings!’ (54:37)
• Our command is only one word, like the blinking of an eye. (54:50)
• The Day they will emerge swiftly from their graves as if rushing to
rally to the flag, eyes downcast, darkened by debasement, that
will be the Day which they were promised. (70:43-44)
FACTION
• (Idolaters are) those who split up their religion, and form into
sects, each faction exulting in what they have. (30:32)
• And Thamud and the people of Lut and the Companions of the
Thicket.Those too were Confederates. (38:13)
• The people of Nuh denied the truth before them, and the
Confederates after them. Every nation planned to seize its
Messenger and used false arguments to rebut the truth. So I
seized them, and how was My retribution! (40:5)
• The man who believed said, ‘My people! I fear for you a day like
that of the Confederates. (40:30)
• Satan has gained mastery over them and made them forget the
remembrance of Allah. Such people are the party of Satan. No
indeed! It is the party of Satan who are the losers. (58:19)
• You will not find people who believe in Allah and the Last Day
having love for anyone who opposes Allah and His Messenger,
though they be their fathers, their sons, their brothers or their clan.
Allah has inscribed faith upon such people’s hearts and will
reinforce them with a Spirit from Him and admit them into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them
timelessly, for ever. Allah is pleased with them and they are
pleased with Him. Such people are the party of Allah. Truly it is
the party of Allah who are successful. (58:22)
• Those who were given the Book did not divide into sectsuntil after
the Clear Sign came to them. (98:4)
FAINTING
• Those who believe say, ‘If only a sura could be sent down.’ But
when a straightforward sura is sent down and fighting is
mentioned in it, you see those with sickness in their hearts
looking at you with the look of someone about to faint from fear of
death. More fitting for them would be obedience and honourable
words. Once the matter is resolved upon, being true to Allah
would be better for them. (47:20-21)
FAITHFUL
• Do you not see those who were given a portion of the Book
believing in idols and false gods and saying of those who
disbelieve, ‘These people are better guided on their path than the
believers’? (4:51)
• Say: ‘Shall I tell you of a reward with Allah far worse than that:
that of those whom Allah has cursed and with whom He is angry–
turning some of them into monkeys and into pigs–and who
worshipped false gods? Such people are in a worse situation and
further from the right way.’ (5:60)
• Those who shun the worship of false gods and turn towards Allah
will have good news. So give good news to My servants. (39:17)
FALSE HOPES
• They say, ‘No one will enter the Garden except for Jews and
Christians.’ Such is their vain hope. Say, ‘Produce your evidence
if you are telling the truth.’ (2:111)
• (Satan said,) ‘I will lead them astray and fill them with false hopes.
I will command them and they will cut off cattle’s ears. I will
command them and they will change Allah’s creation.’ Anyone
who takes Satan as his protector in place of Allah has clearly lost
everything. (4:119)
• He makes promises to them and fills them with false hopes. But
what Satan promises them is nothing but delusion. (4:120)
• Leave them to eat and enjoy themselves. Let false hope divert
them. They will soon know. (15:3)
• Those who have turned back in their tracks after the guidance
became clear to them, it was Satan who talked them into it and
filled them with false hopes. (47:25)
• They will call out to them, ‘Were we not with you?’ They will reply,
‘Indeed you were. But you made trouble for yourselves and hung
back and doubted and false hopes deluded you until Allah’s
command arrived. The Deluder deluded you about Allah.’ (57:14)
FALSE PROPHETS
• Do not mix up truth with falsehood and knowingly hide the truth.
(2:42)
• People of the Book! Why do you mix truth with falsehood and
knowingly conceal the truth? (3:71)
• They say, ‘These animals and crops are sacrosanct. No one may
eat them except those we wish’,–as they allege–and animals on
whose backs it is forbidden to ride, and animals over which they
do not mention Allah’s name, inventing falsehood against Him.
He will repay them for the things they have invented. (6:138)
• As for those who adopted the Calf, anger from their Lord will
overtake them together with abasement in the life of this world.
That is how we repay the purveyors of falsehood. (7:152)
• This was so that He might verify the Truth and nullify the false,
even though the evildoers hate that. (8:8)
• He sends down water from the sky and river-beds fill up and flow
according to their size, and the floodwater carries with it an
increasing layer of scum; a similar kind of scum comes from what
you heat up in the fire, when you desire to make jewellery or
other things. That is how Allah depicts the true and the false. As
for the scum, it is quickly swept away. But as for that which is of
use to people, it remains behind in the ground. That is a
metaphor which Allah has made. (13:17)
• Allah has given you wives from among yourselves, and given you
children and grandchildren from your wives, and provided good
things for you. So why do they believe in falsehood and reject the
blessings of Allah, and worship, instead of Allah, things that have
no control over their provision from the heavens or earth in any
way, and are themselves completely impotent? (16:72-73)
• That is because Allah is the Real and what you call on apart from
Him is false. Allah is the All-High, the Most Great. (22:62)
• You never recited any Book before it nor did you write one down
with your right hand. If you had, the purveyors of falsehood would
have voiced their doubts. (29:48)
• The people of Nuh denied the truth before them, and the
Confederates after them. Every nation planned to seize its
Messenger and used false arguments to rebut the truth. So I
seized them, and how was My retribution! (40:5)
• Those who disbelieve say of those who believe, ‘If there was any
good in it, they would not have beaten us to it.’ And since they
have not been guided by it, they are bound to say, ‘This is an
antiquated falsehood.’ (46:11)
• Do you not see those who have turned to people with whom Allah
is angry? They belong neither to you nor to them. And they swear
to falsehood and do so knowingly. (58:14)
FAMILY
• Perform the pilgrimage and the pious visit for Allah. If you are
forcibly prevented, make whatever sacrifice is feasible. But do not
shave your heads until the sacrificial animal has reached the
place of sacrifice. If any of you are ill or have a head injury, the
expiation is fasting or charity or sacrifice when you are safe and
well again. And if you are secure, then he who takes advantage
of a pious visit before the pilgrimage should make whatever
sacrifice is feasible. For any one who cannot, there is three days’
fast on pilgrimage and seven on your return–that is ten in all. That
is for anyone whose family does not live near the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram). Have fear of Allah and know that Allah is fierce
in retribution. (2:196)
• Their Prophet said to them, ‘The sign of his kingship is that the
Ark will come to you, containing serenity from your Lord and
certain relics left by the families of Musa and Harun. It will be
borne by angels. There is a sign for you in that if you are
believers.’ (2:248)
• Allah chose Adam and Nuh and the family of Ibrahim and the
family of ‘Imran over all other beings. (3:33)
• Remember when you left your family early in the day to instal the
believers in their battle stations. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
(3:121)
• Or do they in fact envy other people for the bounty Allah has
granted them? We gave the family of Ibrahim the Book and
Wisdom, and We gave them an immense kingdom. (4:54)
• Allah does not take you to task for your inadvertent oaths, but He
will take you to task for oaths you make intentionally. The
expiation in that case is to feed ten poor people with the average
amount you feed your family, or clothe them, or free a slave.
Anyone without the means to do so should fast three days. That
is the expiation for breaking oaths when you have sworn them.
Keep your oaths. In this way Allah makes His Signs clear to you,
so that hopefully you will be thankful. (5:89)
• So We rescued him and his family–except for his wife. She was
one of those who stayed behind. (7:83)
• Nuh called out to his Lord and said, ‘My Lord, my son is one of
my family and Your promise is surely the truth and You are the
Justest of Judges.’ (11:45)
• They said, ‘Lut, we are messengers from your Lord. They will not
be able to get at you. Set out with your family–except for your
wife–in the middle of the night and none of you should look back.
What strikes them will strike her as well. Their promised
appointment is the morning. Is the morning not close at hand?’
(11:81)
• (Yusuf's father said,) ‘Accordingly your Lord will pick you out and
teach you the true meaning of events and perfectly fulfil His
blessing on you as well as on the family of Ya‘qub as He fulfilled it
perfectly before upon your forebears, Ibrahim and Ishaq. Most
certainly your Lord is Knowing, Wise.’ (12:6)
• They raced to the door. She tore his (Yusuf's) shirt at the back.
They met her husband by the door. She said, ‘How should a man
whose intention was to harm your family be punished for what he
did except with prison or painful punishment?’ (12:25)
• He (Yusuf) told his serving men, ‘Put back their goods into their
saddlebags for them to find when they arrive back to their families
so that perhaps they will return again.’ (12:62)
• So when they came into his presence, they said, ‘Your Eminence!
Hardship has hit us and our families. We bring scant merchandise,
but fill the measure for us generously. Allah always rewards a
generous giver.’ (12:88)
• (Yusuf said,) ‘Go with this shirt of mine and cast it on my father’s
face and he will see again. Then come to me with all your
families.’ (12:93)
• They (the Messengers) said, ‘We have been sent to a people who
are evildoers–with the exception of the family of Lut, all of whom
We will save, except for his wife. We have decreed her to be one
of those who stay behind.’ (15:58-60)
• Then when the Trumpet is blown, that Day there will be no family
ties between them; they will not be able to question one another.
(23:101)
• (Lut said,) ‘My Lord, rescue me and my family from what they are
doing.’ (26:169)
• When Musa said to his people, ‘I can make out a fire. I will bring
you news from it or at least a burning brand so that hopefully you
will be able to warm yourselves.’ (27:7)
• The only response of his people was to say: ‘Drive the the family
of Lut out of your city! They are people who keep themselves
pure!’ (27:56)
• When Musa had fulfilled the appointed term and had set off with
his family, he noticed a fire from one side of the Mount. He said to
his family, ‘Stay here, I can see a fire. Hopefully I will bring you
back some news from it or a burning branch from the fire so that
you will be able to warm yourselves.’ (28:29)
• We gave him (Ayyub) back his family and the same again with
them as a mercy from Us and a reminder for people of intellect.
(38:43)
• Those Arabs who remained behind will say to you, ‘Our wealth
and families kept us occupied, so ask forgiveness for us.’ They
say with their tongues what is not in their hearts. Say: ‘Who can
control Allah for you in any way whether He wants harm for you
or wants benefit for you?’ Allah is aware of what you do. (48:11)
• No, you thought that the Messenger and the believers were not
going to return to their families, and that seemed pleasing to your
hearts and you thought evil thoughts and you were a blighted
people. (48:12)
• (On that Day) no good friend will ask about his friend even though
they can see each other. An evildoer will wish he could ransom
himself from the punishment of that Day, by means of his sons, or
his wife or his brother or his family who sheltered him. (70:10-13)
• He neither affirmed the truth nor did he perform prayer, but rather
denied the truth and turned away. And then went off to his family,
swaggering. (75:31-33)
• As for him who is given his Book in his right hand, he will be given
an easy reckoning and return to his family joyfully. (84:7-9)
• But as for him who is given his Book behind his back, he will cry
out for destruction but will be roasted in a Searing Blaze. He used
to be joyful in his family. (84:10-13)
FASTING
• On the night of the fast it is lawful for you to have sexual relations
with your wives. They are clothing for you and you for them. Allah
knows that you have been betraying yourselves and He has
turned towards you and excused you. Now you may have sexual
intercourse with them and seek what Allah has written for you.
Eat and drink until you can clearly discern the white thread from
the black thread of the dawn, then fulfil the fast until the night
appears. But do not have sexual intercourse with them while you
are in retreat in the mosques. These are Allah’s limits, so do not
go near them. In this way does Allah make His Signs clear to
people so that hopefully they will guard against evil. (2:187)
• Perform the pilgrimage and the pious visit for Allah. If you are
forcibly prevented, make whatever sacrifice is feasible. But do not
shave your heads until the sacrificial animal has reached the
place of sacrifice. If any of you are ill or have a head injury, the
expiation is fasting or charity or sacrifice when you are safe and
well again. And if you are secure, then he who takes advantage
of a pious visit before the pilgrimage should make whatever
sacrifice is feasible. For any one who cannot, there is three days’
fast on pilgrimage and seven on your return–that is ten in all. That
is for anyone whose family does not live near the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram). Have fear of Allah and know that Allah is fierce
in retribution. (2:196)
• A believer should never kill another believer unless it is by
mistake. Anyone who kills a believer by mistake should free a
believing slave and pay blood-money to his family unless they
forgo it as a charity. If he is from a people who are your enemies
and is a believer, you should free a believing slave. If he is from a
people you have a treaty with, blood money should be paid to his
family and you should free a believing slave. Anyone who cannot
find the means should fast two consecutive months. This is a
concession from Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (4:92)
• Allah does not take you to task for your inadvertent oaths, but He
will take you to task for oaths you make intentionally. The
expiation in that case is to feed ten poor people with the average
amount you feed your family, or clothe them, or free a slave.
Anyone without the means to do so should fast three days. That
is the expiation for breaking oaths when you have sworn them.
Keep your oaths. In this way Allah makes His Signs clear to you,
so that hopefully you will be thankful. (5:89)
• You who believe! Do not kill game while you are in the state of
pilgrimage. If one of you kills any deliberately, the reprisal for it is
a livestock animal equivalent to what he killed, as judged by two
just men among you, a sacrifice to reach the Kaaba, or expiation
by feeding the poor, or fasting commensurate with that, so that he
may taste the evil consequences of what he did. Allah has
pardoned all that took place in the past; but if anyone does it
again Allah will take revenge on him. Allah is Almighty, Exactor of
Revenge. (5:95)
• Men and women who are Muslims, men and women who are
believers, men and women who are obedient, men and women
who are truthful, men and women who are steadfast, men and
women who are humble, men and women who give charity, men
and women who fast, men and women who guard their chastity,
men and women who remember Allah much: Allah has prepared
forgiveness for them and an immense reward. (33:35)
• Anyone who cannot find the means must fast for two consecutive
months before the two of them may touch one another again. And
anyone who is unable to do that must feed sixty poor people.
That is to affirm your faith in Allah and His Messenger. These are
Allah’s limits. The disbelievers will have a painful punishment.
(58:4)
• It may be that if he does divorce you, his Lord will give him in
exchange better wives than you: Muslim women, believing
women, obedient women, penitent women, women who worship,
women who fast much–previously married women as well as
virgins. (66:5)
FAT
FATIGUE
• They will say, ‘Praise be to Allah Who has removed all sadness
from us. Truly our Lord is Ever-Forgiving, Ever-Thankful: He Who
has lodged us, out of His favour, in the Abode of Permanence
where no weariness or fatigue affects us.’ (35:34-35)
(ALLAH'S) FAVOUR
• Then after that you turned away, and were it not for Allah's favour
to you and His mercy, you would have been among the lost. (2:64)
• What an evil thing they have sold themselves for in rejecting what
Allah has sent down, outraged that Allah should send down His
favour on whichever of His servants He wills. They have brought
down anger upon anger on themselves. The disbelievers will
have a humiliating punishment. (2:90)
• Those of the People of the Book who disbelieve and the idolaters
do not like anything good to be sent down to you from your Lord.
But Allah selects for His mercy whomever He wills. Allah’s favour
is truly vast. (2:105)
• What do you think about those who left their homes in thousands
in fear of death? Allah said to them, ‘Die!’ and then brought them
back to life. Allah shows great favour to mankind, but most people
are not grateful. (2:243)
• Then and there Zakariyya called on his Lord and said, ‘O Lord,
grant me by Your favour an upright child. You are the Hearer of
Prayer.’ (3:38)
• Do not trust anyone except for those who follow your religion.’
Say, ‘Allah’s guidance is true guidance. But you think it is
impossible for anyone to be given the same as you were given, or
to argue with you before your Lord.’ Say, ‘All favour is in Allah’s
Hand and He gives it to whoever He wills. Allah is All-
Encompassing, All-Knowing. He picks out for His mercy whoever
He wills. Allah’s favour is indeed immense.’ (3:73-74)
• Do not suppose that those killed in the Way of Allah are dead. No
indeed! They are alive and well provided for in the very presence
of their Lord, delighting in the favour Allah has bestowed on them,
rejoicing over those they left behind who have not yet joined them,
feeling no fear and knowing no sorrow, rejoicing in blessings and
favour from Allah and that Allah does not let the wage of the
believers go to waste. (3:169-171)
• So they returned with blessings and bounty from Allah and no evil
touched them. They pursued the pleasure of Allah. Allah’s favour
is indeed immense. (3:174)
• But if you meet with favour from Allah they say–as if there were
no friendship between you and them–‘Oh! If only I had been with
them so that I too might have won a great victory.’ (4:73)
• Were it not for Allah’s favour to you and His mercy, a group of
them would almost have managed to mislead you. But they
mislead no one but themselves and do not harm you in any way.
Allah has sent down the Book and Wisdom to you and taught you
what you did not know before. Allah’s favour to you is indeed
immense. (4:113)
• As for those who believe and do right actions, He will pay them
their wages in full and will give them increase from His favour. As
for those who show disdain and grow arrogant, He will punish
them with a painful punishment. They will not find any protector or
helper for themselves besides Allah. (4:173)
• As for those who believe in Allah and hold fast to Him, He will
admit them into mercy and favour from Him and will guide them to
Him on a straight path. (4:175)
• You who believe! If any of you renounce your religion, Allah will
bring forward a people whom He loves and who love Him, humble
to the believers, fierce to the disbelievers, who strive in the Way
of Allah and do not fear the blame of any censurer. That is the
unbounded favour of Allah which He gives to whoever He wills.
Allah is Boundless, All-Knowing. (5:54)
• You who believe! If you have fear of Allah, He will give you
discrimination and erase your bad actions from you and forgive
you. Allah’s favour is indeed immense. (8:29)
• Say: ‘It is the favour of Allah and His mercy that should be the
cause of their rejoicing. That is better than anything they
accumulate.’ (10:58)
• What will those who invent lies against Allah think on the Day of
Rising? Allah shows favour to mankind but most of them are not
thankful. (10:60)
• If Allah afflicts you with harm, no one can remove it except Him. If
He desires good for you, no one can avert His favour. He
bestows it on whichever of His servants He wills. He is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (10:107)
• ‘Ask your Lord for forgiveness and then repent to Him. He will let
you enjoy a good life until a specified time, and will give His
favour to all who merit it. But if you turn your backs, I fear for you
the punishment of a Mighty Day.’ (11:3)
• Look how We favour some of them over others. But the hereafter
has higher ranks and greater favours. (17:21)
• Were it not for Allah's favour to you and His mercy... and that
Allah is Ever-Returning, All-Wise. (24:10)
• Were it not for Allah’s favour to you and His mercy, both in this
world and the hereafter, a terrible punishment would have
afflicted you for your plunging headlong into it. (24:14)
• (It is) so that Allah can reward them for the best of what they did
and give them more from His unbounded favour. Allah provides
for anyone He wills without reckoning. (24:38)
• Allah shows favour to mankind but most of them are not thankful.
(27:73)
• Give good news to the believers that they will receive immense
favour from Allah. (33:47)
• (Believers hope) that He will pay them their wages in full and give
them more from His unbounded favour. He is Ever-Forgiving,
Ever-Thankful. (35:30)
• Then We made Our chosen servants inherit the Book. But some
of them wrong themselves; some are ambivalent; and some
outdo each other in good by Allah’s permission. That is the great
favour. (35:32)
• They will say, ‘Praise be to Allah Who has removed all sadness
from us. Truly our Lord is Ever-Forgiving, Ever-Thankful: He Who
has lodged us, out of His favour, in the Abode of Permanence
where no weariness or fatigue affects us.’ (35:34-35)
• Allah is He Who appointed the night for you so that you might rest
in it, and the day for seeing. Allah pours out His favour on
mankind but most people do not show thanks. (40:61)
• You will see the wrongdoers afraid of what they have earned,
when it is about to land right on top of them, whereas those who
believe and do right actions will be in the lush Meadows of the
Gardens. They will have whatever they wish for with their Lord.
That is the great favour. (42:22)
• So that the People of the Book may know that they have no
power at all over any of Allah’s favour and that all favour is in the
Hand of Allah. He gives it to anyone He wills. Allah’s favour is
indeed immense. (57:29)
• It (booty) is for the poor of the emigrants who were driven from
their homes and wealth desiring the favour and the pleasure of
Allah and supporting Allah and His Messenger. Such people are
the truly sincere. (59:8)
FEAR
• He (Musa) said, ‘You throw.’ And when they threw, they cast a
spell on the people's eyes and caused them to feel great fear of
them. They produced an extremely powerful magic. (7:116)
• The Book will be set in place and you will see the evildoers fearful
of what is in it. They will say, ‘Alas for us! What is this Book which
does not pass over any action, small or great, without recording
it?’ They will find there everything they did and your Lord will not
wrong anyone at all. (18:49)
• (A voice called out to Musa,) ‘Put your hand inside your shirt front.
It will emerge pure white yet quite unharmed. And hug your arms
to your sides to still your fear. These are two proofs from your
Lord for Pharaoh and his ruling circle. They are a deviant people.’
(28:32)
• You are a greater cause of terror in their breasts than Allah! That
is because they (the hypocrites) are people who do not
understand. (59:13)
FEAR OF ALLAH
• Then your hearts became hardened after that, so they were like
rocks or even harder still. There are some rocks from which rivers
gush out, and others which split open and water pours out, and
others which crash down from fear of Allah. Allah is not unaware
of what you do. (2:74)
• Wherever you come from, turn your face to the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram). Wherever you are, turn your faces towards it
so that people will have no argument against you–except for
those among them who do wrong and then you should not fear
them but rather fear Me–and so that I can complete My blessing
to you so that hopefully you will be guided. (2:150)
• Perform the pilgrimage and the pious visit for Allah. If you are
forcibly prevented, make whatever sacrifice is feasible. But do not
shave your heads until the sacrificial animal has reached the
place of sacrifice. If any of you are ill or have a head injury, the
expiation is fasting or charity or sacrifice when you are safe and
well again. And if you are secure, then he who takes advantage
of a pious visit before the pilgrimage should make whatever
sacrifice is feasible. For any one who cannot, there is three days’
fast on pilgrimage and seven on your return–that is ten in all. That
is for anyone whose family does not live near the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram). Have fear of Allah and know that Allah is fierce
in retribution. (2:196)
• Your women are fertile fields for you, so come to your fertile fields
however you like. Send good ahead for yourselves and have fear
of Allah. Know that you are going to meet Him. And give good
news to the believers. (2:223)
• When you divorce women and they are near the end of their
waiting period, then either retain them with correctness and
courtesy or release them with correctness and courtesy. Do not
retain them by force, thus overstepping the limits. Anyone who
does that has wronged himself. Do not make a mockery of Allah’s
Signs. Remember Allah’s blessing to you and the Book and
Wisdom He has sent down to you to admonish you. Have fear of
Allah and know that Allah has knowledge of all things. (2:231)
• Mothers should nurse their children for two full years–those who
wish to complete the full term of nursing. It is the duty of the
fathers to feed and clothe them with correctness and courtesy–no
self is charged with more than it can bear. No mother should be
put under pressure in respect of her child nor any father in
respect of his child. The same duty is incumbent on the heir. If the
couple both wish weaning to take place after mutual agreement
and consultation, there is nothing wrong in their doing that. If you
wish to find wet-nurses for your children, there is nothing wrong in
your doing that provided you hand over to them what you have
agreed to give with correctness and courtesy. Have fear of Allah
and know that Allah sees what you do. (2:233)
• You who believe! Have fear of Allah the way He should be feared
and do not die except as Muslims. (3:102)
• That was only Satan who intimidated his adherents. But do not
fear them–fear Me if you are believers. (3:175)
• You who believe, be steadfast; be supreme in steadfastness; be
firm on the battlefield; and have fear of Allah; so that hopefully
you will be successful. (3:200)
• mankind! Have fear of your Lord Who created you from a single
self and created its mate from it and then disseminated many
men and women from the two of them. Have fear of Allah in
whose name you make demands on one another and also in
respect of your families. Allah watches over you continually. (4:1)
• Do you not see those who were told: ‘Hold back from fighting but
perform prayer and give the alms’? Then when fighting is
prescribed for them, a group of them fear people as Allah should
be feared, or even more than that. They say, ‘Our Lord, why have
you prescribed fighting for us? If only You would give us just a
little more time!’ Say, ‘The enjoyment of this world is very brief.
The hereafter is better for those who guard against evil. You will
not be wronged by so much as the smallest speck.’ (4:77)
• You who believe! Do not profane the sacred rites of Allah or the
sacred months, or the sacrificial animals, or the ritual garlands, or
those heading for the Sacred House, desiring profit and good
pleasure from their Lord. When your pilgrimage is over, then you
may hunt. Do not let hatred for a people who debar you from the
Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) incite you into going beyond
the limits. Help each other to goodness and heedfulness. Do not
help each other to wrongdoing and enmity. Have fear of Allah.
Allah is severe in retribution. (5:2)
• You who believe! Show integrity for the sake of Allah, bearing
witness with justice. Do not let hatred for a people incite you into
not being just. Be just. That is closer to heedfulness. Have fear of
Allah. Allah is aware of what you do. (5:8)
• You who believe! Have fear of Allah and seek the means of
drawing near to Him, and strive in His Way, so that hopefully you
will be successful. (5:35)
• We sent down the Torah containing guidance and light, and the
Prophets who had submitted themselves gave judgement by it for
the Jews–as did their scholars and their rabbis–by what they had
been allowed to preserve of Allah’s Book to which they were
witnesses. Do not be afraid of people, be afraid of Me. And do not
sell My Signs for a paltry price. Those who do not judge by what
Allah has sent down, such people are disbelievers. (5:44)
• You who believe! Do not take as friends any of those who who
make a mockery and a game out of your religion among the ones
who were given the Book before you or the disbelievers. Have
fear of Allah if you are believers. (5:57)
• Eat the lawful and good things Allah has provided for you, and
have fear of Allah, Him in Whom you believe. (5:88)
• You who believe! Allah will test you with game animals which
come within the reach of your hands and spears, so that Allah will
know those who fear Him in the Unseen. Anyone who oversteps
the limits after this will have a painful punishment. (5:94)
• Anything you catch in the sea is lawful for you, and all food from it,
for your enjoyment and that of travellers, but land game is
forbidden for you while you are in the state of pilgrimage. So have
fear of Allah, Him to Whom you will be gathered. (5:96)
• That makes it more likely that they will give their evidence
properly or be afraid that their oaths will be refuted by subsequent
oaths. Have fear of Allah and listen carefully. Allah does not guide
deviant people. (5:108)
• Warn by it (the Qur'an) those who fear they will be gathered to
their Lord, having no protector or intercessor apart from Him, so
that hopefully they will guard against evil. (6:51)
• (Say:) ‘And (we are commanded) to perform prayer and have fear
of Him. It is He to Whom you will be gathered.’ (6:72)
• You who believe! If you have fear of Allah, He will give you
discrimination and erase your bad actions from you and forgive
you. Allah’s favour is indeed immense. (8:29)
• So make full use of any booty you have taken which is lawful and
good; and have fear of Allah. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. (8:69)
• Will you not fight a people who have broken their oaths and
resolved to expel the Messenger, and who initiated hostilities
against you in the first place? Is it them you fear? Allah has more
right to your fear if you are believers. (9:13)
• But the wages of the hereafter are the best for people who
believe and fear their Lord. (12:57)
• They said, ‘Are you Yusuf?’ He said, ‘I am indeed Yusuf, and this
here is my brother. Allah has acted graciously to us. As for those
who fear Allah and are steadfast, Allah does not allow to go to
waste the wage of any people who do good.’ (12:90)
• When those who have fear of Allah are asked, ‘What has your
Lord sent down?’ their reply is, ‘Good!’ There is good in this world
for those who do good, and the abode of the hereafter is even
better. How wonderful is the abode of those who guard against
evil. (16:30)
• They fear their Lord above them and do everything they are
ordered to do. (16:50)
• Allah says, ‘Do not take two gods. He is only One God. So dread
Me alone.’ (16:51)
• Allah is with those who have fear of Him and with those who are
good-doers. (16:128)
• ... for the heedful: those who fear their Lord in the Unseen and
are apprehensive about the Hour. (21:48-49)
• (Believers are) those who are filled with the fear of their Lord.
(23:57)
• So set your face firmly towards the Religion, as a pure natural
believer, Allah’s natural pattern on which He made mankind.
There is no changing Allah’s creation. That is the true Religion–
but most people do not know it–turning towards Him. Have fear of
Him and perform prayer. Do not be among the idolaters. (30:30-
31)
• Mankind! Have fear of your Lord and fear a day when no father
will be able to atone for his son, or son for his father, in any way.
Allah’s promise is true. So do not let the life of this world delude
you and do not let the Deluder delude you concerning Allah.
(31:33)
• Their sides eschew their beds as they call on their Lord in fear
and ardent hope. And they give of what We have provided for
them. (32:16)
• You can only warn those who act on the Reminder and fear the
All-Merciful in the Unseen. Give them the good news of
forgiveness and a generous reward. (36:11)
• They will have awnings of Fire above them and awnings below
them. By that Allah strikes fear into His servants: ‘So have fear,
My servants, of Me!’ (39:16)
• But those who have fear of their Lord will have high-ceilinged
Halls, and more such Halls built one above the other, and rivers
flowing under them. That is Allah’s promise. Allah does not break
His promise. (39:20)
• And those who have fear of their Lord will be driven to the Garden
in companies and when they arrive there, finding its gates open,
its custodians will say to them, ‘Peace be upon you! You have
done well so enter it timelessly, for ever.’ (39:73)
• (The Garden is for) those who fear the All-Merciful in the Unseen
and come with a contrite heart. (50:33)
• So have fear of Allah, as much as you are able to, and listen and
obey and spend for your own benefit. It is the people who are
safe-guarded from the avarice of their own selves who are
successful. (64:16)
• Then when they have reached the end of their waiting period
either retain them with correctness and courtesy or part from
them with correctness and courtesy. Call two upright men from
among yourselves as witnesses and they should carry out the
witnessing for Allah. This is admonishment for all who believe in
Allah and the Last Day. Whoever has fear of Allah–He will give
him a way out. (65:2)
• In the case of those of your wives who are past the age of
menstruation, if you have any doubt, their waiting period should
be three months, and that also applies to those who have not yet
menstruated. The time for women who are pregnant is when they
give birth. Whoever has fear of Allah–He will make matters easy
for him. (65:4)
• But as for him who feared the Station of his Lord and forbade the
lower self its appetites, the Garden will be his refuge. (79:40-41)
FEAR OF DEATH
• What do you think about those who left their homes in thousands
in fear of death? Allah said to them, ‘Die!’ and then brought them
back to life. Allah shows great favour to mankind, but most people
are not grateful. (2:243)
• Allah knows the obstructers among you and those who say to
their brothers, ‘Come to us,’ and who only come to fight a very
little, and are begrudging towards you. Then when fear comes,
you see them looking at you, their eyes rolling like people scared
to death. But when fear departs they flay you with sharp tongues,
grasping for wealth. Such people have no faith and Allah will
make their actions come to nothing. That is easy for Allah. (33:18-
19)
• Those who believe say, ‘If only a sura could be sent down.’ But
when a straightforward sura is sent down and fighting is
mentioned in it, you see those with sickness in their hearts
looking at you with the look of someone about to faint from fear of
death. More fitting for them would be obedience and honourable
words. Once the matter is resolved upon, being true to Allah
would be better for them. (47:20-21)
FEMALE
• When she (the wife of 'Imran) gave birth, she said, ‘My Lord! I
have given birth to a girl’–and Allah knew very well what she had
given birth to, male and female are not the same–‘and I have
named her Maryam and placed her and her children in Your
safekeeping from the accursed Satan.’ (3:36)
• Their Lord responds to them: ‘I will not let the deeds of any doer
among you go to waste, male or female– you are both the same
in that respect. Those who migrated and were driven from their
homes and suffered harm in My Way and fought and were killed, I
will erase their bad actions from them and admit them into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, as a reward from Allah.
The best of all rewards is with Allah.’ (3:195)
• They request from you a ruling. Say: ‘Allah gives you a ruling
about people who die without direct heirs: If a man dies childless
but has a sister she receives half of what he leaves, and he is her
heir if she dies childless. If there are two sisters they receive two-
thirds of what he leaves. If there are brothers and sisters the
males receive the share of two females. Allah makes things clear
to you so you will not go astray. Allah has knowledge of all
things.’ (4:176)
• As for thieves, both male and female, cut off their hands in
reprisal for what they have done: an object lesson from Allah.
Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (5:38)
• And a pair of camels and a pair of cattle–Say: ‘Is it the two males
He has made forbidden, or the two females, or what the wombs of
the two females contain? Were you then witnesses when Allah
gave you this instruction?’ Who could do greater wrong than
someone who invents lies against Allah thus leading people
astray without any knowledge? Allah does not guide the people of
the wrongdoers. (6:144)
• And to Thamud We sent their brother Salih, who said, ‘My people,
worship Allah! You have no other god than Him. A Clear Sign has
come to you from your Lord. This is the She-Camel of Allah as a
Sign for you. Leave her alone to eat on Allah’s earth and do not
harm her in any way or a painful punishment will afflict you.’ (7:73)
• And they hamstrung the She-Camel, spurning their Lord’s
command, and said, ‘Salih! Bring us what you have promised us
if you are one of the Messengers.’ (7:77)
• His Lord replied to him (Yusuf) and turned away from him their
female guile and deviousness. He is the One Who Hears, the
One Who Knows. (12:34)
• Allah knows what every female bears and every shrinking of the
womb and every swelling. Everything has its measure with Him.
(13:8)
• Nothing has prevented Us sending you Signs except the fact that
the previous peoples denied them. We gave Thamud the she-
camel as a visible Sign, and then they mistreated her. We do not
send Signs except to frighten people. (17:59)
• Allah created you from dust and then from a drop of sperm and
then made you into pairs. No female becomes pregnant or gives
birth except with His knowledge. And no living thing lives long or
has its life cut short without that being in a Book. That is easy for
Allah. (35:11)
• Whoever does an evil act will only be repaid with its equivalent.
But whoever acts rightly, male or female, being a believer, such a
person will enter the Garden, provided for in it without any
reckoning. (40:40)
• They have designated the angels as female, those who are in the
presence of the All-Merciful! Were they present to witness their
creation? Their testimony will be recorded and they will be asked
about it! (43:19)
• Mankind! We created you from a male and female, and made you
into peoples and tribes so that you might come to know each
other. The noblest among you in Allah’s sight is the one of you
who best performs his duty. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware.
(49:13)
• Those who do not believe in the hereafter give the angels female
names. (53:27)
FIERCE WIND
• Would any of you like to have a garden of dates and grapes, with
rivers flowing underneath and containing all kinds of fruits, then to
be stricken with old age and have children who are weak, and
then for a fierce whirlwind containing fire to come and strike it so
that it goes up in flames? In this way Allah makes His Signs clear
to you, so that hopefully you will reflect. (2:266)
• Do you feel secure against Him causing the shore to swallow you
up or sending against you a sudden squall of stones? Then you
will find no one to be your guardian. (17:68)
FIG
FIGHTING
• Fight in the Way of Allah against those who fight you, but do not
go beyond the limits. Allah does not love those who go beyond
the limits. (2:190)
• Kill them wherever you come across them and expel them from
where they expelled you. Corruption is worse than killing. Do not
fight them in the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) until they fight
you there. But if they do fight you, then kill them. That is how the
disbelievers should be repaid. (2:191)
• Fight them until there is no more discord and the religion belongs
to Allah alone. If they cease, there should be no enmity towards
any but wrongdoers. (2:193)
• They will ask you about the Sacred Month and fighting in it. Say,
‘Fighting in it is a serious matter; but barring access to the Way of
Allah and rejecting Him and barring access to the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram) and expelling its people from it are far more
serious in the sight of Allah. Discord is worse than killing.’ They
will not stop fighting you until they make you revert from your
religion, if they are able. As for any of you who revert from their
religion and die disbelievers, their actions will come to nothing in
this world and the hereafter. They are the Companions of the Fire,
remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (2:217)
• What do you think about the council of the tribe of Israel after
Musa’s time when they said to one of their Prophets, ‘Give us a
king and we will fight in the Way of Allah!’? He said, ‘Is it not
possible that if fighting were prescribed for you, you would not
fight?’ They said, ‘How could we not fight in the way of Allah when
we have been driven from our homes and children?’ But then
when fighting was prescribed for them, they turned their backs–
except for a few of them. Allah knows the wrongdoers. (2:246)
• They will not harm you except with abusive words. If they fight
you, they will turn their backs on you. Then they will not be helped.
(3:111)
• And (it is) so that He would know the hypocrites. They were told,
‘Come and fight in the Way of Allah or at least help defend us.’
They said, ‘If we knew how to fight, we would certainly follow you.’
They were closer to disbelief that day than to faith, saying with
their mouths what was not in their hearts. And Allah knows best
what they are hiding. (3:167)
• So let those who sell the life of this world for the hereafter fight in
the Way of Allah. If someone fights in the Way of Allah, whether
he is killed or is victorious, We will pay him an immense reward.
(4:74)
• What reason could you have for not fighting in the Way of Allah–
for those men, women and children who are oppressed and say,
‘Our Lord, take us out of this city whose inhabitants are
wrongdoers! Give us a protector from You! Give us a helper from
You!’? (4:75)
• Do you not see those who were told: ‘Hold back from fighting but
perform prayer and give the alms’? Then when fighting is
prescribed for them, a group of them fear people as Allah should
be feared, or even more than that. They say, ‘Our Lord, why have
you prescribed fighting for us? If only You would give us just a
little more time!’ Say, ‘The enjoyment of this world is very brief.
The hereafter is better for those who guard against evil. You will
not be wronged by so much as the smallest speck.’ (4:77)
• They said, ‘We will never enter it, Musa, as long as they are there.
So you and your Lord go and fight. We will stay sitting here.’ (5:24)
• Will you not fight a people who have broken their oaths and
resolved to expel the Messenger, and who initiated hostilities
against you in the first place? Is it them you fear? Allah has more
right to your fear if you are believers. (9:13)
• Fight them! Allah will punish them at your hands, and disgrace
them and help you against them, and heal the hearts of those
who believe. (9:14)
• Fight those of the people who were given the Book who do not
believe in Allah and the Last Day and who do not make forbidden
what Allah and His Messenger have made forbidden and do not
take as their religion the religion of Truth, until they pay the poll
tax with their own hands in a state of complete abasement. (9:29)
• There have been twelve months with Allah in the Book of Allah,
from the day He first created the heavens and earth. Four of them
are forbidden. That is the True Religion. So do not wrong one
another during them. However, fight the idolaters totally just as
they fight you totally, and know that Allah is with those who guard
against evil. (9:36)
• You who believe! What is the matter with you that when you are
told, ‘Go out and fight in the way of Allah,’ you sink down heavily
to the earth? Are you happier with this world than the hereafter?
Yet the enjoyment of this world is very small compared to that of
the hereafter. (9:38)
• If Allah returns you to a group of them, and they ask you for
permission to go out, say, ‘You will never go out with me, nor will
you ever fight an enemy with me. You were happy to stay behind
the first time, so stay behind with those who are left behind.’ (9:83)
• Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their wealth
in return for the Garden. They fight in the Way of Allah and they
kill and are killed. It is a promise binding on Him in the Torah, the
Gospel and the Qur’an and who is truer to his contract than Allah?
Rejoice then in the bargain you have made. That is the great
victory. (9:111)
• You who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to
you and let them find you implacable. Know that Allah is with
those who guard against evil. (9:123)
• They think that the Confederates have not departed and if the
Confederates did appear then they would wish they were out in
the desert with the Arabs, asking for news of you. If they were
with you they would only fight a very little. (33:20)
• Allah sent back those who disbelieved in their rage without their
achieving any good at all. Allah made it unnecessary for the
believers to fight. Allah is Most Strong, Almighty. (33:25)
• Therefore when you meet those who disbelieve strike their necks.
Then when you have decimated them, tie their bonds tightly and
set them free or ransom them, until the war is finally over. That is
how it is to be. If Allah willed, He could avenge Himself on them.
But it is so that He can test some of you by means of others. As
for those who fight in the Way of Allah, He will not let their actions
go astray. (47:4)
• Those who believe say, ‘If only a sura could be sent down.’ But
when a straightforward sura is sent down and fighting is
mentioned in it, you see those with sickness in their hearts
looking at you with the look of someone about to faint from fear of
death. More fitting for them would be obedience and honourable
words. Once the matter is resolved upon, being true to Allah
would be better for them. (47:20-21)
• If those who disbelieve should fight you, they would turn their
backs and then find no one to protect or help them. (48:22)
• And how is it with you that you do not give in the Way of Allah,
when the inheritance of the heavens and the earth belongs to
Allah? Those of you who gave and fought before the Victory are
not the same as those who gave and fought afterwards. They are
higher in rank. But to each of them Allah has promised the Best.
Allah is aware of what you do. (57:10)
• Did you not see the hypocrites saying to their brothers, those
among the People of the Book who disbelieve, ‘If you are driven
out we will leave with you, we will never obey anyone to your
detriment. And if you are fought against we will help you’? Allah
bears witness that they are truly liars. (59:11)
• If they are driven out they will not leave with them. If they are
fought against they will not help them. And if they did help them
they would turn their backs, and then they would not be helped.
(59:12)
• They will not fight against you all together as a group except in
fortified towns or behind high walls. Their hostility towards each
other is intense. They are full of bravado in each other’s company.
You consider them united but their hearts are scattered wide.
That is because they are people who do not use their intellect.
(59:14)
• Allah does not forbid you from being good to those who have not
fought you in the religion or driven you from your homes, or from
being just towards them. Allah loves those who are just. (60:8)
• Allah merely forbids you from taking as friends those who have
fought you in the religion and driven you from your homes and
who supported your expulsion. Any who take them as friends are
wrongdoers. (60:9)
FILTH
• You who believe! Wine and gambling, stone altars and divining
arrows are filth from the handiwork of Satan. Avoid them
completely so that hopefully you will be successful. (5:90)
• They will swear to you by Allah when you return to them, so that
you leave them alone. Leave them alone, then! They are filth.
Their shelter will be Hell as repayment for what they did. (9:95)
• People who love to see filth being spread about concerning those
who believe will have a painful punishment both in this world and
the hereafter. Allah knows and you do not know. (24:19)
FINERY
• Musa said, ‘Our Lord, You have given Pharaoh and his ruling
circle finery and wealth in the life of this world, Our Lord, so that
they may be misguided from Your Way. Our Lord, obliterate their
wealth and harden their hearts so that they do not believe until
they see the painful punishment.’ (10:88)
• As for those who desire the life of this world and its finery, We will
give them full payment in it for their actions. They will not be
deprived here of their due. (11:15)
• Anything you have been given is only the enjoyment of the life of
this world and its finery. What is with Allah is better and longer
lasting. So will you not use your intellect? (28:60)
• He (Qarun) went out among his people in his finery. Those who
desired the life of this world said, ‘Oh! If only we had the same as
Qarun has been given! What immense good fortune he
possesses.’ (28:79)
• Prophet, tell your wives: ‘If you desire the life of this world and its
finery, come and I will give you all you need and release you with
kindness.’ (33:28)
FINGER
• There you are, loving them when they do not love you, even
though you believe in all the Books. When they meet you, they
say, ‘We believe.’ But when they leave they bite their fingers out
of rage against you. Say, ‘Die in your rage.’ Allah knows what
your hearts contain. (3:119)
FIRE
• Their likeness is that of people who light a fire, and then when it
has lit up all around them, Allah removes their light and leaves
them in darkness, unable to see. (2:17)
• If you do not do that–and you will not do it–then fear the Fire
whose fuel is people and stones, made ready for the disbelievers.
(2:24)
• But those who disbelieve and deny Our Signs are the
Companions of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (2:39)
• They say, ‘The Fire will only touch us for a number of days.’ Say,
‘Have you made a contract with Allah–then Allah will not break
His contract–or are you rather saying about Allah what you do not
know?’ (2:80)
• We have sent you with the Truth, bringing good news and giving
warning. Do not ask about the inhabitants of the Blazing Fire.
(2:119)
• And when Ibrahim said, ‘My Lord, make this a place of safety and
provide its inhabitants with fruits–all of them who believe in Allah
and the Last Day,’ He said, ‘I will let anyone who becomes a
disbeliever enjoy himself a little but then I will drive him to the
punishment of the Fire. What an evil destination!’ (2:126)
• Those who followed will say, ‘If only we could have another
chance, we would disown them just as they have disowned us.’ In
that way Allah will show them their actions as a cause of anguish
and remorse for them. They will never emerge from the Fire.
(2:167)
• Those who conceal what Allah has sent down of the Book and
sell it cheap, take nothing into their bellies but the Fire. On the
Day of Rising Allah will not speak to them or purify them. They will
have a painful punishment. (2:174)
• Those are the ones who have sold guidance for misguidance and
forgiveness for punishment. How steadfastly they will endure the
Fire! (2:175)
• And there are others who say, ‘Our Lord, give us good in this
world, and good in the hereafter, and safeguard us from the
punishment of the Fire.’ (2:201)
• They will ask you about the Sacred Month and fighting in it. Say,
‘Fighting in it is a serious matter; but barring access to the Way of
Allah and rejecting Him and barring access to the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram) and expelling its people from it are far more
serious in the sight of Allah. Discord is worse than killing.’ They
will not stop fighting you until they make you revert from your
religion, if they are able. As for any of you who revert from their
religion and die disbeliever, their actions will come to nothing in
this world and the hereafter. They are the Companions of the Fire,
remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (2:217)
• Would any of you like to have a garden of dates and grapes, with
rivers flowing underneath and containing all kinds of fruits, then to
be stricken with old age and have children who are weak, and
then for a fierce whirlwind containing fire to come and strike it so
that it goes up in flames? In this way Allah makes His Signs clear
to you, so that hopefully you will reflect. (2:266)
• Those who practise usury will not rise from the grave except as
someone driven mad by Satan's touch. That is because they say,
‘Trade is the same as usury.’ But Allah has permitted trade and
He has forbidden usury. Whoever is given a warning by his Lord
and then desists, can keep what he received in the past and his
affair is Allah’s concern. But all who return to it will be the
Companions of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever.
(2:275)
• As for those who disbelieve, their wealth and children will not help
them against Allah in any way. They are fuel for the Fire. (3:10)
• (Allah sees His servants:) those who say, ‘Our Lord, we believe,
so forgive us our wrong actions and safeguard us from the
punishment of the Fire.’ (3:16)
• That is because they say, ‘The Fire will only touch us for a
number of days.’ Their inventions have deluded them in their
religion. (3:24)
• Hold fast to the rope of Allah all together, and do not separate.
Remember Allah’s blessing to you when you were enemies and
He joined your hearts together so that you became brothers by
His blessing. You were on the very brink of a pit of the Fire and
He rescued you from it. In this way Allah makes His Signs clear to
you, so that hopefully you will be guided. (3:103)
• As for those who disbelieve, their wealth and children will not help
them against Allah in any way. They are the Companions of the
Fire. remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (3:116)
• Have fear of the Fire which has been prepared for the
disbelievers. (3:131)
• Every self will taste death. You will be paid your wages in full on
the Day of Rising. Anyone who is distanced from the Fire and
admitted to the Garden has triumphed. The life of this world is just
the enjoyment of delusion. (3:185)
• ... there are Signs for people with intelligence: those who
remember Allah, standing, sitting and lying on their sides, and
reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth: ‘Our Lord,
You have not created this for nothing. Glory be to You! So
safeguard us from the punishment of the Fire. Our Lord, those
You cast into the Fire, You have indeed disgraced. The
wrongdoers will have no helpers.’ (3:190-192)
• As for those who disobey Allah and His Messenger and overstep
His limits, We will admit them into a Fire, remaining in it timelessly,
for ever. They will have a humiliating punishment. (4:14)
• As for those who reject Our Signs, We will roast them in a Fire.
Every time their skins are burned off, We will replace them with
new skins so that they can taste the punishment. Allah is
Almighty, All-Wise. (4:56)
• The hypocrites are in the lowest level of the Fire. You will not find
any one to help them. (4:145)
• But those who disbelieve and deny Our Signs, are the
Companions of the Blazing Fire. (5:10)
• (One of the two sons of Adam said to the other,) ‘I want you to
take on both my wrongdoing and your wrongdoing and so
become one of the Companions of the Fire. That is the
repayment of the wrongdoers.’ (5:29)
• They will want to get out of the Fire but they will not be able to.
They will have an everlasting punishment. (5:37)
• The Jews say, ‘Allah’s hand is chained.’ Their hands are chained
and they are cursed for what they say! No! Both His hands are
open wide and He gives however He wills. What has been sent
down to you from your Lord increases many of them in insolence
and disbelief. We have incited enmity and hatred between them
until the Day of Rising. Each time they kindle the fire of war, Allah
extinguishes it. They rush about the earth corrupting it. Allah does
not love corrupters. (5:64)
• Those who say that the Messiah, son of Maryam, is Allah are
disbelievers. The Messiah said, ‘Tribe of Israel! Worship Allah,
my Lord and your Lord. If anyone associates anything with Allah,
Allah has forbidden him the Garden and his refuge will be the
Fire.’ The wrongdoers will have no helpers. (5:72)
• As for those who disbelieve and deny Our Signs, they are the
Companions of the Blazing Fire. (5:86)
• If only you could see when they are standing before the Fire and
saying, ‘Oh! If only we could be sent back again, we would not
deny the Signs of our Lord and we would be among the
believers.’ (6:27)
• But as for those who reject Our Signs and are arrogant regarding
them, they are the Companions of the Fire, remaining in it
timelessly, for ever. (7:36)
• He will say, ‘Enter the Fire together with the nations of jinn and
men who have passed away before you.’ Each time a nation
enters, it will curse its sister nation, until, when they are all
gathered together in it, the last of them will say to the first, ‘Our
Lord, those are the ones who misguided us, so give them a
double punishment in the Fire.’ He will say, ‘Each will receive
double. But you do not know it.’ (7:38)
• When they turn their eyes towards the Companions of the Fire,
they will say, ‘Our Lord, do not place us with the people of the
wrongdoers!’ (7:47)
• The Companions of the Fire will call out to the Companions of the
Garden, ‘Throw down some water to us or some of what Allah
has given you as provision.’ They will say, ‘Allah has forbidden
them to the disbelievers.’ (7:50)
• That is your reward, so taste it. The disbelievers will also have the
punishment of the Fire. (8:14)
• Allah has promised the men and women of the hypocrites and
disbelievers the Fire of Hell, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. It
will suffice them. Allah has cursed them. They will have
everlasting punishment. (9:68)
• Those who were left behind were glad to stay behind the
Messenger of Allah. They did not want to strive with their wealth
and themselves in the Way of Allah. They said, ‘Do not go out to
fight in the heat.’ Say: ‘The Fire of Hell is much hotter, if they only
understood.’ (9:81)
• It is not right for the Prophet and those who believe to ask
forgiveness for the idolaters–even if they are close relatives–after
it has become clear to them that they are the Companions of the
Blazing Fire. (9:113)
• Their shelter will be the Fire because of what they earned. (10:8)
• But as for those who have earned bad actions–a bad action will
be repaid with one the like of it. Debasement will darken them.
They will have no one to protect them from Allah. It is as if their
faces were covered by dark patches of the night. Those are the
Companions of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever.
(10:27)
• But such people will have nothing in the hereafter but the Fire.
What they achieved here will come to nothing. What they did will
prove to be null and void. (11:16)
• But as for those who have clear evidence from their Lord followed
up by a witness from Him–and before it the Book of Musa came
as a model and a mercy–such people believe in it. Any faction
which rejects it is promised the Fire. Be in no doubt about it. It is
the Truth from your Lord. But most people have no faith. (11:17)
• Do not rely on those who do wrong thus causing the Fire to afflict
you, for you have no protector besides Allah; then you will not be
helped. (11:113)
• He sends down water from the sky and river-beds fill up and flow
according to their size, and the floodwater carries with it an
increasing layer of scum; a similar kind of scum comes from what
you heat up in the fire, when you desire to make jewellery or
other things. That is how Allah depicts the true and the false. As
for the scum, it is quickly swept away. But as for that which is of
use to people, it remains behind in the ground. That is a
metaphor which Allah has made. (13:17)
• What is the Garden promised to those who guard against evil like?
It has rivers flowing under it and its foodstuffs and cool shade
never fail. That is the final fate of those who guard against evil.
But the final fate of the disbelievers is the Fire. (13:35)
• That Day you will see the evildoers yoked together in chains,
wearing shirts of tar, their faces enveloped in the Fire. (14:49-50)
• We created the jinn before out of the fire of a searing wind. (15:27)
• They allot to Allah what they themselves dislike and their tongues
frame the lie that they will receive the Best. There is no doubt at
all that they will receive the Fire and that they are people who go
to excess. (16:62)
• Say: ‘It is the truth from your Lord; so let whoever wishes believe
and whoever wishes disbelieve.’ We have prepared for the
wrongdoers a Fire whose billowing walls of smoke will hem them
in. If they call for help, they will be helped with water like seething
molten brass, frying their faces. What a noxious drink! What an
evil repose! (18:29)
• The evildoers will see the Fire and realise they are going to fall
into it and find no way of escaping from it. (18:53)
• When he (Musa) saw a fire and said to his family, ‘Wait here. I
can make out a fire. Maybe I will bring you a brand from it, or will
find guidance there.’ (20:10)
• If those who disbelieve only knew of the time when they will not
be able to keep the Fire away from their faces or their backs! And
they will receive no help! (21:39)
• Here are two rival groups who disputed concerning their Lord.
Those who disbelieve will have garments of fire cut out for them,
and boiling water poured over their heads. (22:19)
• But as for those who strive against My Signs and try to thwart
them, they will be the Companions of the Blazing Fire. (22:51)
• Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The metaphor of
His Light is that of a niche in which is a lamp, the lamp inside a
glass, the glass like a brilliant star, lit from a blessed tree, an olive,
neither of the east nor of the west, its oil all but giving off light
even if no fire touches it. Light upon Light. Allah guides to His
Light whoever He wills and Allah makes metaphors for mankind
and Allah has knowledge of all things. (24:35)
• When Musa said to his people, ‘I can make out a fire. I will bring
you news from it or at least a burning brand so that hopefully you
will be able to warm yourselves.’ (27:7)
• Those who perform bad actions will be flung head first into the
Fire: ‘Are you being repaid for anything other than what you did?’
(27:90)
• When Musa had fulfilled the appointed term and had set off with
his family, he noticed a fire from one side of the Mount. He said to
his family, ‘Stay here, I can see a fire. Hopefully I will bring you
back some news from it or a burning branch from the fire so that
you will be able to warm yourselves.’ (28:29)
• Pharaoh said, ‘Council, I do not know of any other god for you
apart from Me. Haman, kindle a fire for me over the clay and build
me a lofty tower so that perhaps I may be able to climb up to
Musa’s god! I consider him a blatant liar.’ (28:38)
• We made them leaders, summoning to the Fire, and on the Day
of Rising they will not be helped. (28:41)
• The only answer of his people was to say: ‘Kill him or burn him!’
But Allah rescued him (Ibrahim) from the fire. There are certainly
Signs in that for people who are believers. (29:24)
• When they are told: ‘Follow what Allah has sent down,’ they say,
‘No, we will follow what we found our fathers doing.’ What! Even if
Satan is calling them to the punishment of the Blazing Fire?
(31:21)
• But as for those who are deviators, their refuge is the Fire. Every
time that they want to get out, they are put straight back into it
again and they are told, ‘Taste the punishment of the Fire, which
you denied.’ (32:20)
• They will say on the Day their faces are rolled over in the Fire, ‘If
only we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger!’ (33:66)
• Whereas for those who disbelieve there will be the Fire of Hell.
They will not be killed off so that they die and its punishment will
not be lightened for them. That is how We repay every thankless
man. (35:36)
• Say ‘He Who made them in the first place will bring them back to
life. He has total knowledge of each created thing; He Who
produces fire for you from green trees so that you use them to
light your fires.’ (36:79-80)
• Assemble those who did wrong together with their associates and
what they worshipped besides Allah, and guide them to the Path
of the Blazing Fire! (37:22-23)
• So he will look down and see him in the midst of the Blazing Fire.
(37:55)
• You will entice no one to them except for him who is to roast in
the Blazing Fire. (37:162-163)
• They will say, ‘Our Lord, give him who brought this on us double
the punishment in the Fire!’ (38:61)
• When harm touches man he calls upon his Lord, repenting to Him.
Then when He grants him a blessing from Him, he forgets what
he was calling for before and ascribes rivals to Allah, so as to
misguide others from His Way. Say: ‘Enjoy your disbelief for a
little while. You are among the Companions of the Fire.’ (39:8)
• They will have awnings of Fire above them and awnings below
them. By that Allah strikes fear into His servants: ‘So have fear,
My servants, of Me!’ (39:16)
• But as for those against whom the decree of Punishment is justly
carried out, can you rescue those who are in the Fire? (39:19)
• Those who bear the Throne, and all those around it, glorify their
Lord with praise and believe in Him and ask forgiveness for those
who believe: ‘Our Lord, You encompass everything in mercy and
knowledge! Forgive those who turn to You and who follow Your
Way and safeguard them from the punishment of the Blazing
Fire.’ (40:7)
• (The man who believed said,) ‘My people! How is it that I call you
to salvation while you call me to the Fire?’ (40:41)
• So Allah safeguarded him from the evil things they plotted and a
most evil torment engulfed Pharaoh’s people–the Fire, morning
and night, to which they are exposed; and on the Day the Hour
takes place: ‘Admit Pharaoh’s people to the harshest
punishment!’ (40:45-46)
• When they are squabbling with one another in the Fire, the weak
will say to those deemed great, ‘We were your followers, so why
do you not relieve us of a portion of the Fire?’ (40:47)
• Those in the Fire will say to the custodians of Hell, ‘Call on your
Lord to make the punishment less for us for just one day.’ (40:49)
• Those who deny the Book and that with which We sent Our
Messengers will certainly come to know when they have shackles
and chains around their necks and are dragged along the ground
into the boiling water and then are thrown into the Fire! (40:70-72)
• On the Day We crowd the enemies of Allah into the Fire and they
are driven in close-packed ranks. (41:19)
• If they are steadfast, the Fire will still be their residence! If they
ask for favour, no favour will be given. (41:24)
• Those who adulterate Our Signs are not concealed from Us. Who
is better–someone who will be thrown into the fire or someone
who will arrive in safety on the Day of Rising? Do what you like.
He sees whatever you do. (41:40)
• (The Guard of Hell will be told,) ‘Seize him and drag him bodily
into the middle of the Blazing Fire.’ (44:47)
• They will not taste any death there–except for the first one. He
will safeguard them from the punishment of the Blazing Fire.
(44:56)
• They will be told, ‘Today We have forgotten you as you forgot the
meeting of this your Day. Your refuge is the Fire and you have no
helpers.’ (45:34)
• On the Day when those who disbelieved are exposed to the Fire:
‘You dissipated the good things you had in your worldly life and
enjoyed yourself in it. So today you are being repaid with the
punishment of humiliation for being arrogant in the earth without
any right and for being deviators.’ (46:20)
• On the Day when those who disbelieved are exposed to the Fire,
they will be asked, ‘Is this not the truth?’ They will say, ‘Yes, by
our Lord.’ He will say, ‘Then taste the punishment for having
disbelieved.’ (46:34)
• Allah will admit those who believe to Gardens with rivers flowing
under them. Those who disbelieve have their enjoyment, eating
as cattle eat, but the Fire will be their final residence. (47:12)
• The Day they are shoved roughly into the Fire of Hell: (the
deniers will be told,) ‘This is the Fire which you denied!’ (52:13-14)
• On the Day that they are dragged face-first into the Fire: ‘Taste
the scorching touch of Saqar!’ (54:48)
• They will go back and forth between fire and scalding water.
(55:44)
• Have you thought about the fire that you light? Is it you who make
the trees that fuel it grow or are We the Grower? (56:71-72)
• Neither their wealth nor their children will help them at all against
Allah. Such people are the Companions of the Fire, remaining in
it timelessly, for ever. (58:17)
• The final fate of both of them is that they will be timelessly, for
ever in the Fire. That is the repayment of the wrongdoers. (59:17)
• But as for those who disbelieve and deny Our Signs they are the
Companions of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. What
an evil destination! (64:10)
• Allah has made an example for those who disbelieve: the wife of
Nuh and the wife of Lut. They were married to two of Our
servants who were righteous but they betrayed them and were
not helped at all against Allah. They were told, ‘Enter the Fire
along with all who enter it.’ (66:10)
• (The Guards of Hell will be told,) ‘Then roast him in the Blazing
Fire.’ (69:31)
• Because of their errors they were drowned and put into the Fire.
They found no one to help them besides Allah. (71:25)
• (Say: ‘It has been revealed to me that a band of the jinn listened
and said,) "The deviators will be firewood for Hellfire."’ (72:15)
• Say: ‘No one can protect me from Allah and I will never find any
refuge apart from Him–only in transmitting from Allah and His
Messages. As for him who disobeys Allah and His Messenger, he
will have the Fire of Hell, remaining in it timelessly, for ever and
ever.’ (72:22-23)
• And the Blazing Fire will be displayed for all who can see. (79:36)
• But the most miserable will shun it (the reminder), those who will
roast in the Greatest Fire. (87:11-12)
• The People of the Book who disbelieve and the idolaters will be in
the Fire of Hell, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. They are the
worst of creatures. (98:6)
• The kindled Fire of Allah reaching right into the heart. It is sealed
in above them in towering columns. (104:6-9)
• He (Abu Lahab) will burn in a Flaming Fire. And so will his wife,
the firewood-carrier. (111:3-4)
FIREWOOD
• (Say: ‘It has been revealed to me that a band of the jinn listened
and said,) "the deviators will be firewood for Hellfire."’ (72:15)
• Ruin to the hands of Abu Lahab and ruin to him! His wealth has
not helped him nor anything he has earned. He will burn in a
Flaming Fire. And so will his wife, the firewood-carrier, with a rope
of twisted fibre round her neck. (111:1-5)
FISH
• Ask them about the town which was by the sea when they broke
the Sabbath–when their fish came to them near the surface on
their Sabbath day but did not come on the days which they did
not keep the Sabbath. In this way We put them to the test
because they were deviators. (7:163)
• But when they reached their meeting-place, they forgot their fish
which quickly burrowed its way into the sea. (18:61)
FLAW
• He Who created the seven heavens in layers. You will not find
any flaw in the creation of the All-Merciful. Look again–do you see
any gaps? (67:3)
FLESH
• Their flesh and blood does not reach Allah but your heedfulness
does reach Him. In this way He has subjected them to you so that
you might proclaim Allah’s greatness for the way that He has
guided you. Give good news to the good-doers. (22:37)
FLOODWATER
• He sends down water from the sky and river-beds fill up and flow
according to their size, and the floodwater carries with it an
increasing layer of scum; a similar kind of scum comes from what
you heat up in the fire, when you desire to make jewellery or
other things. That is how Allah depicts the true and the false. As
for the scum, it is quickly swept away. But as for that which is of
use to people, it remains behind in the ground. That is a
metaphor which Allah has made. (13:17)
FLY
• And when you said, ‘Musa, we will not put up with just one kind of
food so ask your Lord to supply to us some of what the earth
produces–its green vegetables, cucumbers, grains, lentils and
onions,’ he said, ‘Do you want to replace what is better with what
is inferior? Go back to Egypt, then you will have what you are
asking for.’ Abasement and destitution were stamped upon them.
They brought down anger from Allah upon themselves. That was
because they rejected Allah’s Signs and killed the Prophets
without any right to do so. That was because they rebelled and
went beyond the limits. (2:61)
• Or (what about) the one who passed by a town which had fallen
into ruin? He asked, ‘How can Allah restore this to life when it has
died?’ Allah caused him to die a hundred years then brought him
back to life. Then He asked, ‘How long have you been here?’ He
replied, ‘I have been here a day or part of a day.’ He said, ‘Not so!
You have been here a hundred years. Look at your food and
drink–it has not gone bad–and look at your donkey so We can
make you a Sign for all mankind. Look at the bones–how We
raise them up and clothe them in flesh.’ When it had become
clear to him, he said, ‘Now I know that Allah has power over all
things.’ (2:259)
• Her Lord accepted her with approval and made her grow in health
and beauty. And Zakariyya became her guardian. Every time
Zakariyya visited her in the Upper Room, he found food with her.
He said, ‘Maryam, how did you come by this?’ She said, ‘It is from
Allah. Allah provides for whoever He wills without any reckoning.’
(3:37)
• All food was lawful for the tribe of Israel except what Israel made
unlawful for himself before the Torah was sent down. Say, ‘Bring
the Torah and read it out if you are telling the truth.’ (3:93)
• Today all good things have been made lawful for you. And the
food of those given the Book is also lawful for you and your food
is lawful for them. So are chaste women from among the
believers and chaste women of those given the Book before you,
once you have given them their dowries in marriage, not in
fornication or taking them as lovers. But as for anyone who
rejects faith, his actions will come to nothing and in the hereafter
he will be among the losers. (5:5)
• Anything you catch in the sea is lawful for you, and all food from it,
for your enjoyment and that of travellers, but land game is
forbidden for you while you are in the state of pilgrimage. So have
fear of Allah, Him to Whom you will be gathered. (5:96)
• Say: ‘I do not find, in what has been revealed to me, any food it is
forbidden to eat except for carrion, flowing blood, and pork–for
that is unclean–or some deviance consecrated to other than Allah.
But if anyone is forced to eat it, without desiring to or going to
excess in it, your Lord is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.’ (6:145)
• We did not give them bodies which did not eat food, nor were
they immortal. (21:8)
• They say, ‘What is the matter with this Messenger, that he eats
food and walks in the market-place? Why has an angel not been
sent down to him so that it can be a warner along with him? Why
has treasure not been showered down on him? Why does he not
have a garden to give him food?’ The wrongdoers say, ‘You are
merely following a man who is bewitched.’ (25:7-8)
• We never sent any Messengers before you who did not eat food
and walk in the market-place. But We have made some of you a
trial for others to see if you will be steadfast. Your Lord sees
everything. (25:20)
• With Us there are shackles and a Blazing Fire and food that
chokes and a painful punishment. (73:12-13)
• They give food, despite their love for it, to the poor and orphans
and captives. (76:8)
FOODSTUFFS
• What is the Garden promised to those who guard against evil like?
It has rivers flowing under it and its foodstuffs and cool shade
never fail. That is the final fate of those who guard against evil.
But the final fate of the disbelievers is the Fire. (13:35)
FOOL
• When they are told, ‘Believe in the way that the people believe,’
they say, ‘What! Are we to believe in the way that fools believe?’
No indeed! They are the fools, but they do not know it. (2:13)
• The fools among the people will ask, ‘What has made them turn
round from the direction they used to face?’ Say, ‘Both East and
West belong to Allah. He guides whoever He wills to a straight
path.’ (2:142)
• The ruling circle of those of his people who disbelieved said, ‘We
consider you a fool and think you are a liar.’ He (Hud) said, ‘My
people, I am by no means a fool, but rather am a Messenger from
the Lord of all the worlds.’ (7:66-67)
• Musa chose seventy men from his people for Our appointed time
and when the earthquake seized them he said, ‘My Lord, if You
had willed, You could have destroyed them previously and me as
well. Would you destroy us for what the fools among us did? It
was only a trial from You by which You misguided those You
willed and guided those You willed. You are our Protector so
forgive us and have mercy on us. You are the Best of Forgivers.’
(7:155)
• (Say: ‘It has been revealed to me that a band of the jinn listened
and said,) "The fools among us have uttered a vile slander
against Allah."’ (72:4)
FOOTSTEP
• Mankind! Eat what is good and lawful on the earth. And do not
follow in the footsteps of Satan. He truly is an outright enemy to
you. (2:168)
• And also animals for riding and for haulage and animals for
slaughtering and for wool. Eat what Allah has provided for you
and do not follow in the footsteps of Satan. He is an outright
enemy to you. (6:142)
• He (Musa) said, ‘That is the very thing that we were looking for!’
So, following their footsteps, they retraced their route. (18:64)
• No, in fact they say, ‘We found our fathers following a religion and
we are simply guided in their footsteps.’ (43:22)
• Similarly We never sent any warner before you to any city without
the affluent among them saying, ‘We found our fathers following a
religion and we are simply following in their footsteps.’ (43:23)
FORBIDDEN (HARAM)
• Then you are the people who are killing one another and
expelling a group among you from their homes, ganging up
against them in wrongdoing and enmity. Yet if they are brought to
you as captives, you ransom them, when it was forbidden for you
to expel them in the first place! Do you, then, believe in one part
of the Book and reject the other? What repayment will there be
for any of you who do that except disgrace in this world? And on
the Day of Rising, they will be returned to the harshest of
punishments. Allah is not unaware of what you do. (2:85)
• He has only forbidden you carrion, blood and pork and what has
been consecrated to other than Allah. But anyone who is forced
to eat it–without desiring it or going to excess in it–commits no
crime. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (2:173)
• Those who practise usury will not rise from the grave except as
someone driven mad by Satan's touch. That is because they say,
‘Trade is the same as usury.’ But Allah has permitted trade and
He has forbidden usury. Whoever is given a warning by his Lord
and then desists, can keep what he received in the past and his
affair is Allah’s concern. But all who return to it will be the
Companions of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever.
(2:275)
• (‘Isa will say,) ‘I come confirming the Torah I find already there,
and to make lawful for you some of what was previously
forbidden to you. I have brought you a Sign from your Lord. So
have fear of Allah and obey me.’ (3:50)
• Forbidden for you are: your mothers and your daughters and your
sisters, your maternal aunts and your paternal aunts, your
brothers’ daughters and your sisters’ daughters, your foster
mothers who have suckled you, your foster sisters by suckling,
your wives’ mothers, your stepdaughters who are under your
protection: the daughters of your wives whom you have had
sexual relations with (though if you have not had sexual relations
with them there is nothing blameworthy for you in it then), the
wives of your sons whom you have fathered, and marrying two
sisters at the same time–except for what may have already taken
place. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:23)
• If you avoid the serious wrong actions you have been forbidden,
We will erase your bad actions from you and admit you by a Gate
of Honour. (4:31)
• He said (to Musa), ‘The land will be forbidden to them (the Tribe
of Israel) for forty years during which they will wander aimlessly
about the earth. Do not waste grief on this deviant people.’ (5:26)
• Those who say that the Messiah, son of Maryam, is Allah are
disbelievers. The Messiah said, ‘Tribe of Israel! Worship Allah,
my Lord and your Lord. If anyone associates anything with Allah,
Allah has forbidden him the Garden and his refuge will be the
Fire.’ The wrongdoers will have no helpers. (5:72)
• You who believe! Do not make forbidden the good things Allah
has made lawful for you, and do not overstep the limits. Allah
does not love people who overstep the limits.(5:87)
• Anything you catch in the sea is lawful for you, and all food from it,
for your enjoyment and that of travellers, but land game is
forbidden for you while you are in the state of pilgrimage. So have
fear of Allah, Him to Whom you will be gathered. (5:96)
• No, it is simply that what they were concealing before has been
shown to them; and if they were sent back they would merely
return to what they were forbidden to do. Truly they are liars.
(6:28)
• What is the matter with you that you do not eat that over which
the name of Allah has been mentioned, when He has made clear
to you what He has made forbidden for you except when you are
forced to eat it? Many people lead others astray through their
whims and desires without having any knowledge. Your Lord
knows best those who overstep the limits. (6;119)
• They say, ‘These animals and crops are sacrosanct. No one may
eat them except those we wish’,–as they allege–and animals on
whose backs it is forbidden to ride, and animals over which they
do not mention Allah’s name, inventing falsehood against Him.
He will repay them for the things they have invented. (6:138)
• Those who kill their children foolishly without any knowledge and
make what Allah has provided for them forbidden, inventing lies
against Allah, such people are lost. They are misguided. They are
not guided. (6:140)
• And a pair of camels and a pair of cattle–Say: ‘Is it the two males
He has made forbidden, or the two females, or what the wombs of
the two females contain? Were you then witnesses when Allah
gave you this instruction?’ Who could do greater wrong than
someone who invents lies against Allah thus leading people
astray without any knowledge? Allah does not guide the people of
the wrongdoers. (6:144)
• Say: ‘I do not find, in what has been revealed to me, any food it is
forbidden to eat except for carrion, flowing blood, and pork–for
that is unclean–or some deviance consecrated to other than Allah.
But if anyone is forced to eat it, without desiring to or going to
excess in it, your Lord is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.’ (6:145)
• Say: ‘Come and I will recite to you what your Lord has made
forbidden for you’: that you do not associate anything with Him;
that you are good to your parents; that you do not kill your
children because of poverty–We will provide for you and them;
that you do not approach indecency–outward or inward; that you
do not kill any person Allah has made inviolate–except with the
right to do so. That is what He instructs you to do so that
hopefully you will use your intellect. (6:151)
• Say: ‘Who has forbidden the fine clothing Allah has produced for
His servants and the good kinds of provision?’ Say: ‘On the Day
of Rising such things will be exclusively for those who believed
during their life in this world.’ In this way We make the Signs clear
for people who know. (7:32)
• Say: ‘My Lord has forbidden indecency, both open and hidden,
and wrong action, and unrightful tyranny, and associating
anything with Allah for which He has sent down no authority, and
saying things about Allah you do not know.’ (7:33)
• The Companions of the Fire will call out to the Companions of the
Garden, ‘Throw down some water to us or some of what Allah
has given you as provision.’ They will say, ‘Allah has forbidden
them to the disbelievers.’ (7:50)
• (Allah said,) ‘Those who follow the Messenger, the Ummi, whom
they find written down with them in the Torah and the Gospel,
commanding them to do right and forbidding them to do wrong,
making good things lawful for them and bad things forbidden for
them, relieving them of their heavy loads and the chains which
were around them. Those who believe in him and honour him and
help him, and follow the Light that has been sent down with him,
they are the ones who are successful.’ (7:157)
• Then when they forgot what they had been reminded of, We
rescued those who had forbidden the evil and seized those who
did wrong with a harsh punishment because they were deviators.
(7:165)
• When they were insolent about what they had been forbidden to
do, We said to them, ‘Be apes, despised, cast out!’ (7:166)
• Fight those of the people who were given the Book who do not
believe in Allah and the Last Day and who do not make forbidden
what Allah and His Messenger have made forbidden and do not
take as their religion the religion of Truth, until they pay the poll
tax with their own hands in a state of complete abasement. (9:29)
• There have been twelve months with Allah in the Book of Allah,
from the day He first created the heavens and earth. Four of them
are forbidden. That is the True Religion. So do not wrong one
another during them. However, fight the idolaters totally just as
they fight you totally, and know that Allah is with those who guard
against evil. (9:36)
• Say: ‘What do you think about the things Allah has sent down to
you as provision which you have then designated as lawful and
forbidden?’ Say: ‘Has Allah given you authority to do this or are
you inventing lies against Allah?’ (10:59)
• He (Shu‘ayb) said, ‘My people! What do you think? If I do
possess a Clear Sign from my Lord and He has given me His
good provision, I would clearly not want to go behind your backs
and do something I have forbidden you to do. I only want to put
things right as far as I can. My success is with Allah alone. I have
put my trust in Him and I turn to Him.’ (11:88)
• The idolaters say, ‘If Allah had willed we would not have
worshipped anything apart from Him, neither we nor our fathers,
nor would we have forbidden anything without His say.’ Those
before them said the same. Are the Messengers responsible for
anything but clear transmission? (16:35)
• Do not say about what your lying tongues describe: ‘This is lawful
and this is forbidden,’ inventing lies against Allah. Those who
invent lies against Allah are not successful. (16:116)
• A man who has fornicated may only marry a woman who has
fornicated or a woman of the idolaters. A woman who has
fornicated may only marry a man who has fornicated or a man of
the idolaters. Doing such a thing is forbidden for the believers.
(24:3)
FOREHEAD
• You who believe! Many of the rabbis and monks devour people’s
property under false pretences and bar people from access to the
Way of Allah. As for those who hoard up gold and silver and do
not spend it in the Way of Allah, give them the news of a painful
punishment on the Day it is heated up in the fire of Hell and their
foreheads, sides and backs are branded with it: ‘This is what you
hoarded for yourselves, so taste what you were hoarding!’ (9:34-
35)
FORELOCK
• (Hud said,) ‘I have put my trust in Allah, my Lord and your Lord.
There is no creature He does not hold by the forelock. My Lord is
on a Straight Path.’ (11:56)
FORGIVENESS
• Remember when We said, ‘Go into this town and eat from it
wherever you like, freely. Enter the gate prostrating and say,
"Relieve us of our burdens!" Your mistakes will be forgiven. We
will grant increase to all good-doers.’ (2:58)
• Many of the People of the Book would love it if they could turn
you back to disbelief after you have become believers, showing
their innate envy now that the truth is clear to them. But you
should pardon and overlook until Allah gives His command. Truly
Allah has power over all things. (2:109)
• Those are the ones who have sold guidance for misguidance and
forgiveness for punishment. How steadfastly they will endure the
Fire! (2:175)
• On the night of the fast it is lawful for you to have sexual relations
with your wives. They are clothing for you and you for them. Allah
knows that you have been betraying yourselves and He has
turned towards you and excused you. Now you may have sexual
intercourse with them and seek what Allah has written for you.
Eat and drink until you can clearly discern the white thread from
the black thread of the dawn, then fulfil the fast until the night
appears. But do not have sexual intercourse with them while you
are in retreat in the mosques. These are Allah’s limits, so do not
go near them. In this way does Allah make His Signs clear to
people so that hopefully they will guard against evil. (2:187)
• Then press on from where the people press on and ask Allah’s
forgiveness. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (2:199)
• Those who believe and migrate and strive in the Way of Allah can
expect Allah’s mercy. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
(2:218)
• Allah will not take you to task for inadvertent statements in your
oaths, but He will take you to task for the intention your hearts
have made. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, All-Forbearing. (2:225)
• Those who swear to abstain from sexual relations with their wives
can wait for a period of up to four months. If they then retract their
oath, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (2:226)
• The Messenger believes in what has been sent down to him from
his Lord, and so do the believers. Each one believes in Allah and
His angels and His Books and His Messengers. We do not
differentiate between any of His Messengers. They say, ‘We hear
and we obey. Forgive us, our Lord! You are our journey’s end.’
(2:285)
• Allah does not impose on any self any more than it can stand. For
it is what it has earned; against it, what it has brought upon itself.
‘Our Lord, do not take us to task if we forget or make a mistake!
Our Lord, do not place on us a load like the one You placed on
those before us! Our Lord, do not place on us a load we have not
the strength to bear! And pardon us; and forgive us; and have
mercy on us. You are our Master, so help us against the people
of the disbelievers.’ (2:286)
• The steadfast, the truthful, the obedient, the givers, and those
who seek forgiveness before dawn. (3:17)
• Say, ‘If you love Allah, then follow me and Allah will love you and
forgive you for your wrong actions. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful.’ (3:31)
• Except for those who, after that, repent and put things right. Truly
Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (3:89)
• (Believers are) those who give in times of both ease and hardship,
those who control their rage and pardon other people–Allah loves
the good-doers–those who, when they act indecently or wrong
themselves, remember Allah and ask forgiveness for their bad
actions (and who can forgive bad actions except Allah?) and do
not knowingly persist in what they were doing. (3:134-135)
• All they said was, ‘Our Lord, forgive us our wrong actions and any
excesses we went to in what we did and make our feet firm and
help us against these disbelieving people.’ (3:147)
• Allah fulfilled His promise to you when you were slaughtering
them by His permission. But then you faltered, disputing the
command, and disobeyed after He showed you what you love.
Among you are those who want this world and among you are
those who want the hereafter. Then He turned you from them in
order to test you–but He has pardoned you. Allah shows favour to
the believers. (3:152)
• Those of you who turned their backs on the day the two armies
clashed–it was Satan who made them slip for what they had done.
But Allah has pardoned them. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, All-
Forbearing. (3:155)
• If you are killed in the Way of Allah or if you die, forgiveness and
mercy from Allah are better than anything you can acquire. (3:157)
• It is a mercy from Allah that you were gentle with them. If you had
been rough or hard of heart, they would have scattered from
around you. So pardon them and ask forgiveness for them, and
consult with them about the matter. Then when you have reached
a firm decision, put your trust in Allah. Allah loves those who put
their trust in Him. (3:159)
• Forbidden for you are: your mothers and your daughters and your
sisters, your maternal aunts and your paternal aunts, your
brothers’ daughters and your sisters’ daughters, your foster
mothers who have suckled you, your foster sisters by suckling,
your wives’ mothers, your stepdaughters who are under your
protection: the daughters of your wives whom you have had
sexual relations with (though if you have not had sexual relations
with them there is nothing blameworthy for you in it then), the
wives of your sons whom you have fathered, and marrying two
sisters at the same time–except for what may have already taken
place. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:23)
• If any of you do not have the means to marry free women who
are believers, you may marry slavegirls who are believers. Allah
knows best about your faith; you are all the same in that respect.
Marry them with their owners’ permission and give them their
dowries correctly and courteously as married women, not in
fornication or taking them as lovers. When they are married, if
they commit fornication they should receive half the punishment
of free women. This is for those of you who are afraid of
committing fornication. But being patient is better for you. Allah is
Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:25)
• You who believe! Do not approach the prayer when you are drunk,
so that you will know what you are saying, nor in a state of major
impurity–unless you are travelling–until you have washed
yourselves completely. If you are ill or on a journey, or any of you
have come from the lavatory or touched women, and you cannot
find any water, then take for yourselves clean earth, wiping your
faces and your hands. Allah is Ever-Pardoning, Ever-Forgiving.
(4:43)
• Allah does not forgive anything being associated with Him but He
forgives whoever He wills for anything other than that. Anyone
who associates something with Allah has committed a terrible
crime. (4:48)
• (Allah has preferred those who strive over those who stay behind
by an immense reward:) high ranks conferred by Him as well as
forgiveness and mercy. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
(4:96)
• Anyone who does evil or wrongs himself and then asks Allah’s
forgiveness will find Allah Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:110)
• Allah does not forgive anything being associated with Him but He
forgives whoever He wills for anything other than that. Anyone
who associates something with Allah has gone very far astray.
(4:116)
• As for those who believe and then return to disbelief, and then
again believe and then return to disbelief, and then increase in
disbelief, Allah will not forgive them or guide them on any path.
(4:137)
• The People of the Book will ask you to bring down a Book from
heaven to them. They asked Musa for even more than that. They
said, ‘Let us see Allah with our own eyes.’ So the lightning-bolt
struck them down for their wrongdoing. Then they adopted the
Calf after the Clear Signs had come to them, but We pardoned
them for that and gave Musa clear authority. (4:153)
• Allah will not forgive those who disbelieve and do wrong or guide
them on any path. (4:168)
• Forbidden for you are carrion, blood and pork, and what has been
consecrated to other than Allah, and animals which have been
strangled, and animals which have been killed by a blow, and
animals which have fallen to their death, and animals which have
been gored, and animals which wild beasts have eaten–except
those you are able to slaughter properly–and animals which have
been sacrificed on altars, and deciding things by means of
divining arrows–that is deviance. Today those who disbelieve
have despaired of overcoming your religion. So do not be afraid
of them but be afraid of Me. Today I have perfected your religion
for you and completed My blessing upon you and I am pleased
with Islam as a religion for you. But if anyone is forced by hunger,
not intending any wrongdoing, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. (5:3)
• The Jews and Christians say, ‘We are Allah’s children and His
loved ones.’ Say: ‘Why, then, does He punish you for your wrong
actions? No, you are merely human beings among those He has
created. He forgives whoever He wills and He punishes whoever
He wills. The kingdom of the heavens and the earth and
everything between them belongs to Allah. He is our final
destination.’ (5:18)
• But if anyone repents after his wrongdoing and puts things right,
Allah will turn towards him. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
(5:39)
• Do you not know that the kingdom of the heavens and earth
belongs to Allah? He punishes whoever He wills and forgives
whoever He wills. Allah has power over all things. (5:40)
• Why do they not turn to Allah and ask for His forgiveness? Allah
is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (5:74)
• You who believe! Do not kill game while you are in the state of
pilgrimage. If one of you kills any deliberately, the reprisal for it is
a livestock animal equivalent to what he killed, as judged by two
just men among you, a sacrifice to reach the Kaaba, or expiation
by feeding the poor, or fasting commensurate with that, so that he
may taste the evil consequences of what he did. Allah has
pardoned all that took place in the past; but if anyone does it
again Allah will take revenge on him. Allah is Almighty, Exactor of
Revenge. (5:95)
• You who believe! Do not ask about matters which, if they were
made known to you, would make things difficult for you. If you do
ask about them when the Qur’an is being sent down, they will be
made known to you. Allah has ignored them. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, All-Forbearing. (5:101)
• (Isa said,) ‘If You punish them, they are Your servants. If you
forgive them, You are the Almighty, the All-Wise.’ (5:118)
• When those who believe in Our Signs come to you, say, ‘Peace
be upon you!’ Allah has made mercy incumbent on Himself. If
anyone among you does evil out of ignorance and then
afterwards repents and puts things right, He is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (6:54)
• Say: ‘I do not find, in what has been revealed to me, any food it is
forbidden to eat except for carrion, flowing blood, and pork–for
that is unclean–or some deviance consecrated to other than Allah.
But if anyone is forced to eat it, without desiring to or going to
excess in it, your Lord is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.’ (6:145)
• When they took full stock of what they had done and saw they
had been misled, they said, ‘If our Lord does not have mercy on
us and forgive us, we will certainly be among the lost.’ (7:149)
• Musa chose seventy men from his people for Our appointed time
and when the earthquake seized them he said, ‘My Lord, if You
had willed, You could have destroyed them previously and me as
well. Would you destroy us for what the fools among us did? It
was only a trial from You by which You misguided those You
willed and guided those You willed. You are our Protector so
forgive us and have mercy on us. You are the Best of Forgivers.’
(7:155)
• When they were told: ‘Live in this town and eat of it wherever you
like and say, "Relieve us of our burdens!" and enter the gate
prostrating. Your mistakes will be forgiven you. We will grant
increase to good-doers.’ (7:161)
• Then your Lord announced that He would send against them until
the Day of Rising people who would inflict an evil punishment on
them. Your Lord is Swift in Retribution. And He is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (7:167)
• They are in truth the believers. They have high ranks with their
Lord and forgiveness and generous provision. (8:4)
• You who believe! If you have fear of Allah, He will give you
discrimination and erase your bad actions from you and forgive
you. Allah’s favour is indeed immense. (8:29)
• Allah would not punish them while you were among them. Allah
would not punish them as long as they sought forgiveness. (8:33)
• Say to those who disbelieve that if they stop, they will be forgiven
what is past; but if they return to it, they have the pattern of
previous peoples in the past. (8:38)
• So make full use of any booty you have taken which is lawful and
good; and have fear of Allah. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. (8:69)
• Prophet! Say to those you are holding prisoner, ‘If Allah knows of
any good in your hearts, He will give you something better than
what has been taken from you and forgive you.’ Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (8:70)
• Those who believe and have migrated and strived in the Way of
Allah and those who have given refuge and help, they are the
true believers. They will have forgiveness and generous provision.
(8:74)
• Then, when the sacred months are over, kill the idolaters
wherever you find them, and seize them and besiege them and
lie in wait for them on every road. If they repent and perform
prayer and give the alms, let them go on their way. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (9:5)
• Then after that Allah will turn to anyone He wills. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (9:27)
• Allah pardon you! Why did you excuse them until it was clear to
you which of them were telling the truth and until you knew the
liars? (9:43)
• You can ask forgiveness for them, or not ask forgiveness for them.
Even if you asked forgiveness for them seventy times, Allah still
would not forgive them. That is because they have rejected Allah
and His Messenger. Allah does not guide deviant people. (9:80)
• Nothing is held against the weak and sick nor against those who
find nothing to spend, provided they are true to Allah and His
Messenger–there is no way open against good-doers, Allah is
Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (9:91)
• It is not right for the Prophet and those who believe to ask
forgiveness for the idolaters–even if they are close relatives–after
it has become clear to them that they are the Companions of the
Blazing Fire. (9:113)
• Ibrahim would not have asked forgiveness for his father but for a
promise he made to him, and when it became clear to him that he
was an enemy of Allah, he renounced him. Ibrahim was tender-
hearted and forbearing. (9:114)
• If Allah afflicts you with harm, no one can remove it except Him. If
He desires good for you, no one can avert His favour. He
bestows it on whichever of His servants He wills. He is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (10:107)
• ‘Ask your Lord for forgiveness and then repent to Him. He will let
you enjoy a good life until a specified time, and will give His
favour to all who merit it. But if you turn your backs, I fear for you
the punishment of a Mighty Day.’ (11:3)
• Except for those who are steadfast and do right actions. They will
receive forgiveness and a large reward. (11:11)
• (Hud said,) ‘My people! Ask forgiveness of your Lord and then
repent to Him. He will send heaven down to you in abundant rain,
and increase you with strength upon strength. Do not turn away
as evildoers.’ (11:52)
• (Shu‘ayb said,) ‘Ask your Lord for forgiveness and then repent to
Him. My Lord is Most Merciful, Most Loving.’ (11:90)
• (The governor said,) ‘Yusuf, ignore all this, and you, my wife,
should ask forgiveness for your evil act. There is no doubt that
you are in the wrong.’ (12:29)
• He (Yusuf) said (to his brothers), ‘No blame at all will fall on you.
Today you have forgiveness from Allah. He is the Most Merciful of
the merciful.’ (12:92)
• They want you to hasten the bad rather than the good when
examples of punishment are there before them in the past. Your
Lord has forgiveness for people for their wrongdoing; but your
Lord is also severe in retribution. (13:6)
• Their Messengers said, ‘Is there any doubt about Allah, the
Bringer into Being of the heavens and the earth? He summons
you to forgive you for your wrong actions and to defer you until a
specified time.’ They said, ‘You are nothing but human beings like
ourselves who want to debar us from what our fathers
worshipped; so bring us a clear authority.’ (14:10)
• Your Lord knows best what is in your selves. If you are righteous,
He is Ever-Forgiving to the remorseful. (17:25)
• The seven heavens and the earth and everyone in them glorify
Him. There is nothing which does not glorify Him with praise but
you do not understand their glorification. He is All-Forbearing,
Ever-Forgiving. (17:44)
• He (Ibrahim) said (to his father), ‘Peace be upon you. I will ask
my Lord to forgive you. He has always honoured me.’ (19:47)
• As for those who believe and do right actions, they will have
forgiveness and generous provision. (22:50)
• That is so. And if anyone inflicts an injury the same as the one
done to him and then is again oppressed, Allah will come to his
aid. Allah is All-Pardoning, Ever-Forgiving. (22:60)
• Except for those who after that repent and put things right. Allah
is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (24:5)
• Corrupt women are for corrupt men and corrupt men are for
corrupt women, Good women are for good men and good men
are for good women. The latter are innocent of what they say.
They will have forgiveness and generous provision. (24:26)
• The believers are those who believe in Allah and His Messenger
and who, when they are with him on a matter of common concern,
do not leave until they have asked him for permission. Those
people who ask you for permission are the ones who truly believe
in Allah and His Messenger. If they ask your permission to attend
to their own affairs, give permission to any of them you please;
and ask Allah’s forgiveness for them. Allah is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (24:62)
• Say: ‘The One Who sent it down is He Who knows all hidden
secrets in the heavens and earth. He is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful.’ (25:6)
• Except for those who repent and believe and act rightly: Allah will
transform the wrong actions of such people into good–Allah is
Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (25:70)
• (The magicians said,) ‘We remain hopeful that our Lord will
forgive us our mistakes for being the first of the believers.’ (26:51)
• Except for one who did wrong and then changed evil into good–
for I am Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (27:11)
• He (Salih) said, ‘My people, why are you so anxious to hasten the
bad before the good? If only you would ask for forgiveness from
Allah, so that mercy might perhaps be shown to you.’ (27:46)
• So that Allah might recompense the truthful for their truth and
punish the hypocrites, if He wills, or turn towards them. Allah is
Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:24)
• Men and women who are Muslims, men and women who are
believers, men and women who are obedient, men and women
who are truthful, men and women who are steadfast, men and
women who are humble, men and women who give charity, men
and women who fast, men and women who guard their chastity,
men and women who remember Allah much: Allah has prepared
forgiveness for them and an immense reward. (33:35)
• Prophet! We have made lawful for you: your wives to whom you
have given dowries and any slavegirls you own from the booty
Allah has allotted you and the daughters of your paternal uncles
and the daughters of your paternal aunts and the daughters of
your maternal uncles and the daughters of your maternal aunts
who have migrated with you and any believing woman who gives
herself to the Prophet if the Prophet desires to marry her:
exclusively for you as opposed to the rest of the believers–We
know very well what We have prescribed for them regarding their
wives and any slavegirls they possess–in order that there be no
restriction on you. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:50)
• Prophet! Tell your wives and daughters and the women of the
believers to draw their outer garments closely round themselves.
This makes it more likely that they will be recognised and not be
harmed. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:59)
• He will put your actions right for you and forgive you your wrong
deeds. All who obey Allah and His Messenger have won a mighty
victory. (33:71)
• This was so that Allah might punish the men and women of the
hypocrites, and the men and women of the idolaters, and turn
towards the men and women of the believers. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:73)
• He knows what goes into the earth and what comes out of it, and
what comes down from heaven and what goes up into it. And He
is the Most Merciful, the Ever-Forgiving. (34:2)
• There was also a sign for Saba in their dwelling place: two
gardens–one to the right and one to the left. ‘Eat of your Lord’s
provision and give thanks to Him: a bountiful land and a forgiving
Lord.’ (34:15)
• (Believers hope) that He will pay them their wages in full and give
them more from His unbounded favour. He is Ever-Forgiving,
Ever-Thankful. (35:30)
• They will say, ‘Praise be to Allah Who has removed all sadness
from us. Truly our Lord is Ever-Forgiving, Ever-Thankful.’ (35:34)
• You can only warn those who act on the Reminder and fear the
All-Merciful in the Unseen. Give them the good news of
forgiveness and a generous reward. (36:11)
• He was told, ‘Enter the Garden!’ He said, ‘If my people only knew
how my Lord has forgiven me and placed me among the
honoured ones!’ (36:26-27)
• He (Dawud) said, ‘He has wronged you by asking for your ewe to
add to his ewes. Truly many partners are unjust to one another–
except those who believe and do right actions, and how few they
are!’ Dawud realised that We had put him to the test. He begged
forgiveness from his Lord and fell down prone, prostrating, and
repented. (38:24)
• He (Sulayman) said, ‘My Lord, forgive me and give me a kingdom
the like of which will never be granted to anyone after me. Truly
You are the Ever-Giving.’ (38:35)
• He created the heavens and the earth with truth. He wraps the
night around the day and wraps the day around the night, and
has made the sun and moon subservient, each one running for a
specified term. Is He not indeed the Almighty, the Endlessly
Forgiving? (39:5)
• Say (from Me): ‘My servants, you who have transgressed against
yourselves, do not despair of the mercy of Allah. Truly Allah
forgives all wrong actions. He is the Ever-Forgiving, the Most
Merciful.’ (39:53)
• Those who bear the Throne, and all those around it, glorify their
Lord with praise and believe in Him and ask forgiveness for those
who believe: ‘Our Lord, You encompass everything in mercy and
knowledge! Forgive those who turn to You and who follow Your
Way and safeguard them from the punishment of the Blazing
Fire.’ (40:7)
• (The man who believed said to his people,) ‘You call me to reject
Allah and to associate something with Him about which I have no
knowledge, while I call you to the Almighty, the Endlessly
Forgiving.’ (40:42)
• Nothing has been said to you that was not said to the
Messengers before you. Your Lord is the Possessor of
forgiveness but also of painful retribution. (41:43)
• The heavens are all but rent asunder from above when the
angels glorify their Lord with praise and ask forgiveness for those
who are on the earth. Allah is the Ever-Forgiving, the Most
Merciful. (42:5)
• That is the good news which Allah gives to His servants who
believe and do right actions. Say: ‘I do not ask you for any wage
for this–except for you to love your near of kin. If anyone does a
good action, We will increase the good of it for him. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Ever-Thankful.’ (42:23)
• Any disaster that strikes you is through what your own hands
have earned and He pardons much. (42:30)
• Tell those who believe that they should forgive those who feel no
fear about the Days of Allah, when He will repay people
according to what they earned. (45:14)
• Or do they say, ‘He has invented it’? Say: ‘If I have invented it,
then you possess no power to help me against Allah in any way.
He knows best what you hold forth about. He is witness enough
between me and you. He is the Ever-Forgiving, the Most
Merciful.’ (46:8)
• Know then that there is no god except Allah and ask forgiveness
for your wrongdoing, and for the men and women who believe.
Allah knows both your activity and your repose. (47:19)
• Those who disbelieve and obstruct the Way of Allah, and then die
disbeliever, Allah will not forgive them. (47:34)
• Those Arabs who remained behind will say to you, ‘Our wealth
and families kept us occupied, so ask forgiveness for us.’ They
say with their tongues what is not in their hearts. Say: ‘Who can
control Allah for you in any way whether He wants harm for you
or wants benefit for you?’ Allah is aware of what you do. (48:11)
• Those who lower their voices when they are with the Messenger
of Allah are people whose hearts Allah has tested for heedfulness.
They will have forgiveness and an immense reward. (49:3)
• If they had only been patient until you came out to them, it would
have been better for them. But Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. (49:5)
• The desert Arabs say, ‘We believe.’ Say: ‘You do not believe. Say
rather, "We have become Muslim," for faith has not yet entered
into your hearts. If you obey Allah and His Messenger, He will not
undervalue your actions in any way. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful.’ (49:14)
• And they (those who guard against evil) would seek forgiveness
before the dawn. (51:18)
• Know that the life of this world is merely a game and a diversion
and ostentation and a cause of boasting among yourselves and
trying to outdo one another in wealth and children: like the plant-
growth after rain which delights the cultivators, but then it withers
and you see it turning yellow, and then it becomes broken stubble.
In the hereafter there is terrible punishment but also forgiveness
from Allah and His good pleasure. The life of this world is nothing
but the enjoyment of delusion. (57:20)
• Those of you who divorce your wives by equating them with your
mothers, they are not your mothers. Your mothers are only those
who gave birth to you. What you are saying is wrong and a
slanderous lie. But Allah is Ever-Pardoning, Ever-Forgiving. (58:2)
• Those who have come after them say, ‘Our Lord, forgive us and
our brothers who preceded us in faith and do not put any rancour
in our hearts towards those who believe. Our Lord, You are All-
Gentle, Most Merciful.’ (59:10)
• It may well be that Allah will restore the love between you and
those of them who are now your enemies. Allah is All-Powerful.
Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (60:7)
• He will forgive you your wrong actions and admit you into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, and fine dwellings in the
Gardens of Eden. That is the Great Victory. (61:12)
• When they are told, ‘Come, and the Messenger of Allah will ask
forgiveness for you,’ they turn their heads and you see them turn
away in haughty arrogance. (63:5)
• You who believe! Some of your wives and children are an enemy
to you, so be wary of them. But if you pardon and exonerate and
forgive, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (64:14)
• You who believe! Repent to Allah. It may be that your Lord will
erase your bad actions from you and admit you into Gardens with
rivers flowing under them on the Day when Allah will not disgrace
the Prophet and those who believed along with him. Their light
will stream out ahead of them and on their right. They will say,
‘Our Lord, perfect our light for us and forgive us! You have power
over all things.’ (66:8)
• Those who fear their Lord in the Unseen will have forgiveness
and an immense reward. (67:12)
• (Nuh said to his people,) ‘He will forgive you your wrong actions
and defer you until a specified time. When Allah’s time comes it
cannot be deferred, if you only knew.’ (71:4)
• (Nuh said, ‘My Lord,) indeed, every time I called them to Your
forgiveness, they put their fingers in their ears, wrapped
themselves up in their clothes and were overweeningly arrogant.’
(71:7)
• (Nuh said,) ‘My Lord! Forgive me and my parents and all who
enter my house as believers, and all the men and women of the
believers.’ (71:28)
• Your Lord knows that you stay up nearly two-thirds of the night–or
half of it, or a third of it–and a group of those with you. Allah
determines the night and day. He knows you will not keep count
of it, so He has turned towards you. Recite as much of the Qur’an
as is easy for you. He knows that some of you are ill and that
others are travelling in the land seeking Allah’s bounty, and that
others are fighting in the Way of Allah. So recite as much of it as
is easy for you. And perform prayer and give the alms and lend a
generous loan to Allah. Whatever good you send ahead for
yourselves you will find it with Allah as something better and as a
greater reward. And seek forgiveness from Allah. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (73:20)
• Then glorify your Lord’s praise and ask His forgiveness. He is the
Ever-Returning. (110:3)
FORGOING
• If you divorce them before you have touched them but have
already allotted them a dowry, they should have half the amount
which you allotted, unless they forgo it or the one in charge of the
marriage contract forgoes it. To forgo it is closer to heedfulness.
Do not forget to show generosity to one another. Allah sees what
you do. (2:237)
• You who believe! Have fear of Allah and forgo any remaining
usury if you are believers. (2:278)
• We prescribed for them in it: a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a
nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth, and
retaliation for wounds. But if anyone forgoes that as a charity, it
will act as expiation for him. Those who do not judge by what
Allah has sent down, such people are wrongdoers. (5:45)
• We created you and then formed you and then We said to the
angels, ‘Prostrate before Adam,’ and they prostrated–except for
Diabolis. He was not among those who prostrated. (7:11)
• It is Allah Who made the earth a stable home for you and the sky
a dome, and formed you, giving you the best of forms, and
provided you with good and wholesome things. That is Allah, your
Lord. Blessed be Allah, the Lord of all the worlds. (40:64)
• He created the heavens and the earth with truth and formed you,
giving you the best of forms. And He is your final destination.
(64:3)
FORNICATION (ZINAH)
• And also (forbidden for you are) married women, except for those
you have taken in war as slaves. This is what Allah has
prescribed for you. Apart from that He has made all other women
lawful for you provided you seek them with your wealth in
marriage and not in fornication. When you consummate your
marriage with them give them their prescribed dowry. There is
nothing wrong in any further agreement you might come to after
the dowry has been given. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (4:24)
• If any of you do not have the means to marry free women who
are believers, you may marry slavegirls who are believers. Allah
knows best about your faith; you are all the same in that respect.
Marry them with their owners’ permission and give them their
dowries correctly and courteously as married women, not in
fornication or taking them as lovers. When they are married, if
they commit fornication they should receive half the punishment
of free women. This is for those of you who are afraid of
committing fornication. But being patient is better for you. Allah is
Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:25)
• Today all good things have been made lawful for you. And the
food of those given the Book is also lawful for you and your food
is lawful for them. So are chaste women from among the
believers and chaste women of those given the Book before you,
once you have given them their dowries in marriage, not in
fornication or taking them as lovers. But as for anyone who
rejects faith, his actions will come to nothing and in the hereafter
he will be among the losers. (5:5)
• But those who make accusations against chaste women and then
do not produce four witnesses: flog them with eighty lashes and
never again accept them as witnesses. Such people are
deviators–except for those who after that repent and put things
right. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (24:4-5)
• And the punishment is removed from her if she testifies four times
by Allah that he is lying and a fifth time that Allah’s anger will be
upon her if he is telling the truth. (24:8-9)
• (Believers are) those who do not call on any other god together
with Allah and do not kill anyone Allah has made inviolate, except
with the right to do so, and do not fornicate; anyone who does
that will receive an evil punishment. (25:68)
FORTRESS
FORTUNE-TELLER
• It is not the word of a poet–how little faith you have! Nor the word
of a fortune-teller–how little heed you pay! (69:41-42)
FOSTER MOTHER
• Forbidden for you are: your mothers and your daughters and your
sisters, your maternal aunts and your paternal aunts, your
brothers’ daughters and your sisters’ daughters, your foster
mothers who have suckled you, your foster sisters by suckling,
your wives’ mothers, your stepdaughters who are under your
protection: the daughters of your wives whom you have had
sexual relations with (though if you have not had sexual relations
with them there is nothing blameworthy for you in it then), the
wives of your sons whom you have fathered, and marrying two
sisters at the same time–except for what may have already taken
place. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:23)
FOUNTAIN
• And when Musa was looking for water for his people, We said,
‘Strike the rock with your staff.’ Then twelve fountains gushed out
from it and all the people knew their drinking place. ‘Eat and drink
of Allah's provision and do not go about the earth corrupting it.’
(2:60)
• The people who guard against people will be in a safe place amid
gardens and fountains, (44:51-52)
• If any of you do not have the means to marry free women who
are believers, you may marry slavegirls who are believers. Allah
knows best about your faith; you are all the same in that respect.
Marry them with their owners’ permission and give them their
dowries correctly and courteously as married women, not in
fornication or taking them as lovers. When they are married, if
they commit fornication they should receive half the punishment
of free women. This is for those of you who are afraid of
committing fornication. But being patient is better for you. Allah is
Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:25)
• Allah does not take you to task for your inadvertent oaths, but He
will take you to task for oaths you make intentionally. The
expiation in that case is to feed ten poor people with the average
amount you feed your family, or clothe them, or free a slave.
Anyone without the means to do so should fast three days. That
is the expiation for breaking oaths when you have sworn them.
Keep your oaths. In this way Allah makes His Signs clear to you,
so that hopefully you will be thankful. (5:89)
• Those who divorce their wives by equating them with their
mothers, and then wish to go back on what they said, must set
free a slave before the two of them may touch one another. This
is what you are enjoined to do. Allah is aware of what you do.
(58:3)
• You who believe! When you are called to prayer on the Day of
Friday, hasten to the remembrance of Allah and abandon trade.
That is better for you if you only knew. (62:9)
• Then when the prayer is finished spread through the earth and
seek Allah’s bounty and remember Allah much so that hopefully
you will be successful. (62:10)
FRIEND
• You who believe! Give away some of what We have provided for
you before a Day arrives on which there is no trading, no close
friendship and no intercession. It is the disbelievers who are the
wrongdoers. (2:254)
• That was only Satan who intimidated his adherents. But do not
fear them–fear Me if you are believers. (3:175)
• But if you meet with favour from Allah they say–as if there were
no friendship between you and them–‘Oh! If only I had been with
them so that I too might have won a great victory.’ (4:73)
• You who believe! Do not take the Jews and Christians as your
friends; they are the friends of one another. Any of you who takes
them as friends is one of them. Allah does not guide wrongdoing
people. (5:51)
• Your friend is only Allah and His Messenger and those who
believe: those who perform prayer and give the alms, and bow.
(5:55)
• As for those who make Allah their friend, and His Messenger and
those who believe: it is the party of Allah who are victorious! (5:56)
• You who believe! Do not take as friends any of those who who
make a mockery and a game out of your religion among the ones
who were given the Book before you or the disbelievers. Have
fear of Allah if you are believers. (5:57)
• You see many of them taking those who disbelieve as their
friends. What their lower selves have advanced for them is evil
indeed, bringing Allah’s anger down upon them. They will suffer
punishment timelessly, for ever. (5:80)
• If they had believed in Allah and the Prophet and what has been
sent down to him, they would not have taken them as friends. But
most of them are deviators. (5:81)
• Do not eat anything over which the name of Allah has not been
mentioned. To do so is sheer deviance. The Satans inspire their
friends to dispute with you. If you obeyed them you would then be
idolaters. (6:121)
• Those who believe and have migrated and strived with their
wealth and themselves in the Way of Allah, and those who have
given refuge and help, they are the friends and protectors of one
another. But as for those who believe but have not migrated, you
are not in any way responsible for their protection until they
migrate. But if they ask you for help in respect of the religion, it is
your duty to help them, except against people you have a treaty
with. Allah sees what you do. (8:72)
• Or did you suppose that you would be left without Allah knowing
those of you who have strived and who have not taken anyone as
their intimate friends besides Allah and His Messenger and the
believers? Allah is aware of what you do. (9:16)
• You who believe, do not befriend your fathers and brothers if they
prefer disbelief to faith. Those among you who do befriend them
are wrongdoers. (9:23)
• The men and women of the believers are friends of one another.
They command what is right and forbid what is wrong, and
perform prayer and give the alms, and obey Allah and His
Messenger. They are the people on whom Allah will have mercy.
Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (9:71)
• Yes, the friends of Allah will feel no fear and will know no sorrow.
(10:62)
• Tell My servants who believe that they should perform prayer and
give from what We have provided for them, secretly and openly,
before a Day arrives on which there will be no trading and no
friendship. (14:31)
• He (Satan) only has authority over those who take him as a friend
and associate others with Allah. (16:100)
• It is written of him that if anyone takes him as a friend, he will
mislead him and guide him to the punishment of the Searing
Blaze. (22:4)
• (On that Day a wrongdoer will say,) ‘Alas for me! If only I had not
taken so-and-so for a friend!’ (25:28)
• (Companions of the Fire will say,) ‘We do not have a single loyal
friend.’ (26:101)
• The Prophet is closer to the believers than their own selves, and
his wives are their mothers. But blood-relations have closer ties to
one another in the Book of Allah than other believers and the
emigrants, except that you should act in a proper manner towards
your close associates. That is inscribed in the Book. (33:6)
• One of them will say, ‘I used to have a friend,’ who would say to
me, "Are you one of those who say that it is true: that when we
have died and are turned to dust and bones, we will face a
Reckoning?"’ (37:51-53)
• And warn them of the Day of Immediacy when hearts rise choking
to the throat. The wrongdoers will have no close friend nor any
intercessor who might be heard. (40:18)
• A good action and a bad action are not the same. Repel the bad
with something better and, if there is enmity between you and
someone else, he will be like a bosom friend. (41:34)
• If someone shuts his eyes to the remembrance of the All-Merciful,
We assign him a Satan who becomes his bosom friend. (43:36)
• The Day when friends will be of no use at all to one another, and
they will not be helped. (44:41)
• Those who do wrong will have their due, the same as that of their
friends. So they should not hurry Me! (51:59)
• Allah merely forbids you from taking as friends those who have
fought you in the religion and driven you from your homes and
who supported your expulsion. Any who take them as friends are
wrongdoers. (60:9)
• You who believe! Do not make friends of people with whom Allah
is angry, who have despaired of the hereafter as the disbelievers
have despaired of the inhabitants of the graves. (60:13)
• (On the Day) no good friend will ask about his friend. (70:10)
FROG
FROWN
FRUIT
• It is He Who made the earth a couch for you, and the sky a dome.
He sends down water from the sky and by it brings forth fruits for
your provision. Do not, then, knowingly make others equal to
Allah. (2:22)
• Give the good news to those who believe and do right actions
that they will have Gardens with rivers flowing under them. When
they are given fruit there as provision, they will say, ‘This is what
we were given before.’ But they were only given a simulation of it.
They will have there spouses of perfect purity and will remain
there timelessly, for ever. (2:25)
• And when Ibrahim said, ‘My Lord, make this a place of safety and
provide its inhabitants with fruits–all of them who believe in Allah
and the Last Day,’ He said, ‘I will let anyone who becomes a
disbeliever enjoy himself a little but then I will drive him to the
punishment of the Fire. What an evil destination!’ (2:126)
• We will test you with a certain amount of fear and hunger and
loss of wealth and life and fruits. But give good news to the
steadfast. (2:155)
• Would any of you like to have a garden of dates and grapes, with
rivers flowing underneath and containing all kinds of fruits, then to
be stricken with old age and have children who are weak, and
then for a fierce whirlwind containing fire to come and strike it so
that it goes up in flames? In this way Allah makes His Signs clear
to you, so that hopefully you will reflect. (2:266)
• It is He Who sends down water from the sky from which We bring
forth growth of every kind, and from that We bring forth the green
shoots and from them We bring forth close-packed seeds, and
from the spathes of the date palm date clusters hanging down,
and gardens of grapes and olives and pomegranates, both similar
and dissimilar. Look at their fruits as they bear fruit and ripen.
There are Signs in that for people who believe. (6:99)
• Allah is He Who created the heavens and the earth and sends
down water from the sky and by it brings forth fruits as provision
for you. He has made the ships subservient to you to run upon
the sea by His command, and He has made the rivers
subservient to you. (14:32)
• And by it He makes crops grow for you and olives and dates and
grapes and fruit of every kind. There is certainly a Sign in that for
people who reflect. (16:11)
• And from the fruit of the date-palm and the grape-vine you derive
both intoxicants and wholesome provision. There is certainly a
Sign in that for people who use their intellect. (16:67)
• (Your Lord revealed to the bees:) ‘Then eat from every kind of
fruit and travel the paths of your Lord, which have been made
easy for you to follow.’ From inside them comes a drink of varying
colours, containing healing for mankind. There is certainly a Sign
in that for people who reflect. (16:69)
• Do you not see that Allah sends down water from the sky and by
it We bring forth fruits of varying colours? And in the mountains
there are streaks of white and red, of varying shades, and rocks
of deep jet black. (35:27)
• They will call there for fruit of every kind, in complete security.
(44:55)
• We will supply them with any kind of fruit and meat that they
desire. (52:22)
• In the morning they called out to one another, ‘Leave early for
your land if you want to pick the fruit.’ (68:21-22)
• He will have a very pleasant life in an elevated Garden, its ripe
fruit hanging close to hand. (69:21-23)
• And (the heedful will) have any fruits that they desire. (77:42)
FUEL
• If you have doubts about what We have sent down to Our servant,
produce another sura equal to it, and call your witnesses, besides
Allah, if you are telling the truth. If you do not do that–and you will
not do it–then fear the Fire whose fuel is people and stones,
made ready for the disbelievers. (2:23-24)
• As for those who disbelieve, their wealth and children will not help
them against Allah in any way. They are fuel for the Fire. (3:10)
• You and what you worship besides Allah are fuel for Hell. You will
go down into it. (21:98)
• And that you do not go near the property of orphans before they
reach maturity–except in a good way; that you give full measure
and full weight with justice–We impose on no self any more than
it can bear; that you are equitable when you speak–even if a near
relative is concerned; and that you fulfil Allah’s contract. That is
what He instructs you to do, so that hopefully you will pay heed.
(6:152)
• Give full measure when you measure and weigh with a level
balance. That is better and gives the best result. (17:35)
• Woe to the stinters! Those who, when they take a measure from
people, exact full measure, but when they give them a measure
or weight, hand over less than is due. (83:1-3)
GABRIEL (JIBRIL)
• Say, ‘Anyone who is the enemy of Gabriel should know that it was
he who brought it down upon your heart, by Allah’s authority,
confirming what came before, and as guidance and good news
for the believers. Anyone who is the enemy of Allah and of His
angels, and of His Messengers and of Gabriel and Michael,
should know that Allah is the enemy of the disbelievers.’ (2:97-98)
• The angels and the Spirit ascend to Him in a day whose length is
fifty thousand years. (70:4)
• On the Day when the Spirit and the angels stand in ranks, no one
will speak, except for him who is authorised by the All-Merciful
and says what is right. (78:38)
• Say: ‘The Purest Spirit has brought it down from your Lord with
truth, to make those who believe firm, and as guidance and good
news for the Muslims.’ (16:102)
• And (Maryam) veiled herself from them. Then We sent Our Spirit
to her and it took on for her the form of a handsome, well-built
man. (19:17)
• If the two of you would only turn to Allah, for your hearts clearly
deviated... But if you support one another against him, Allah is his
Protector and so are Gabriel and every right-acting man of the
believers and, furthermore, the angels too will come to his
support. (66:4)
GAMBLING
• They will ask you about alcoholic drinks and gambling. Say,
‘There is great wrong in both of them and also certain benefits for
mankind. But the wrong in them is greater than the benefit.’ They
will ask you what they should give away. Say, ‘Whatever is
surplus to your needs.’ In this way Allah makes the Signs clear to
you, so that hopefully you will reflect. (2:219)
• You who believe! Wine and gambling, stone altars and divining
arrows are filth from the handiwork of Satan. Avoid them
completely so that hopefully you will be successful. (5:90)
GARDEN
• Would any of you like to have a garden of dates and grapes, with
rivers flowing underneath and containing all kinds of fruits, then to
be stricken with old age and have children who are weak, and
then for a fierce whirlwind containing fire to come and strike it so
that it goes up in flames? In this way Allah makes His Signs clear
to you, so that hopefully you will reflect. (2:266)
• It is He Who sends down water from the sky from which We bring
forth growth of every kind, and from that We bring forth the green
shoots and from them We bring forth close-packed seeds, and
from the spathes of the date palm date clusters hanging down,
and gardens of grapes and olives and pomegranates, both similar
and dissimilar. Look at their fruits as they bear fruit and ripen.
There are Signs in that for people who believe. (6:99)
• In the earth there are diverse regions side by side and gardens of
grapes and cultivated fields, and palm-trees sharing one root and
others with individual roots, all watered with the same water. And
We make some things better to eat than others. There are Signs
in that for people who use their intellect. (13:4)
• They say, ‘We will not believe you until you make a spring gush
out from the earth for us; or have a garden of dates and grapes
which you make rivers come pouring through; or make the sky, as
you claim, fall down on us in lumps; or bring Allah and the angels
here as a guarantee; or possess a house built out of gleaming
gold; or ascend up into heaven–and even then we will not believe
in your ascent unless you bring us down a book to read!’ Say:
‘Glory be to my Lord! Am I anything but a human messenger?’
(17:90-93)
• Why has treasure not been showered down on him? Why does
he not have a garden to give him food?’ The wrongdoers say,
‘You are merely following a man who is bewitched.’ (25:8)
• Have fear of Him Who has supplied you with what you know,
supplied you with livestock and children and gardens and clear
springs. (26:132-134)
• (Salih said to them) ‘Are you going to be left secure amid what is
here, amid gardens and clear springs, and cultivated fields and
palms with supple spathes?’ (26:146-148)
• He Who created the heavens and the earth and sends down
water for you from the sky by which We make luxuriant gardens
grow–you could never make their trees grow. Is there another
god besides Allah? No indeed, but they are people who equate
others with Him! (27:60)
• There was also a sign for Saba in their dwelling place: two
gardens–one to the right and one to the left. ‘Eat of your Lord’s
provision and give thanks to Him: a bountiful land and a forgiving
Lord.’ (34:15)
• But they turned away so We unleashed against them the flood
from the great dam and exchanged their two gardens for two
others containing bitter-tasting plants and tamarisk and a few lote
trees. (34:16)
• And We sent down blessed water from the sky and made
gardens grow by it and grain for harvesting. (50:9)
• We pour down plentiful water, then split the earth into furrows.
Then We make grain grow in it, and grapes and herbs and olives
and dates and luxuriant gardens and orchards and meadows, for
you and your livestock to enjoy. (80:25-32)
• Give the good news to those who believe and do right actions
that they will have Gardens with rivers flowing under them. When
they are given fruit there as provision, they will say, ‘This is what
we were given before.’ But they were only given a simulation of it.
They will have there spouses of perfect purity and will remain
there timelessly, for ever. (2:25)
• We said, ‘Adam, live in the Garden, you and your wife, and eat
freely from it wherever you will. But do not approach this tree and
so become wrongdoers.’ (2:35)
• Whereas those who believe and do right actions, such people are
the Companions of the Garden, remaining in it timelessly, for ever.
(2:82)
• They say, ‘No one will enter the Garden except for Jews and
Christians.’ Such is their vain hope. Say, ‘Produce your evidence
if you are telling the truth.’ (2:111)
• Or did you suppose that you would enter the Garden without
facing the same as those who came before you? Poverty and
illness afflicted them and they were shaken to the point that the
Messenger and those who believed with him said, ‘When is
Allah’s help coming?’ Be assured that Allah’s help is very near.
(2:214)
• Say, ‘Shall I tell you of something better than that?’ Those who
guard against evil will have Gardens with their Lord, with rivers
flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever, and
purified wives, and the Pleasure of Allah. Allah sees His servants.
(3:15)
• Or did you imagine that you were going to enter the Garden
without Allah knowing those among you who had struggled and
knowing the steadfast? (3:142)
• Every self will taste death. You will be paid your wages in full on
the Day of Rising. Anyone who is distanced from the Fire and
admitted to the Garden has triumphed. The life of this world is just
the enjoyment of delusion. (3:185)
• Their Lord responds to them: ‘I will not let the deeds of any doer
among you go to waste, male or female–you are both the same in
that respect. Those who migrated and were driven from their
homes and suffered harm in My Way and fought and were killed, I
will erase their bad actions from them and admit them into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, as a reward from Allah.
The best of all rewards is with Allah.’ (3:195)
• But those who have fear of their Lord will have Gardens with
rivers flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever:
hospitality from Allah. What is with Allah is better for those who
are truly good. (3:198)
• These are Allah’s limits. As for those who obey Allah and His
Messenger, We will admit them into Gardens with rivers flowing
under them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever. That is the
Great Victory. (4:13)
• But as for those who believe and do right actions, We will admit
them into Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in
them timelessly, for ever and ever. In them they will have
spouses of perfect purity and We will admit them into cool,
refreshing shade. (4:57)
• But as for those who believe and do right actions, We will admit
them into Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in
them timelessly, for ever and ever. Allah’s promise is true. Whose
speech could be truer than Allah’s? (4:122)
• If only the People of the Book had believed and guarded against
evil, We would have erased their evil deeds from them and
admitted them into Gardens of Delight. (5:65)
• Those who say that the Messiah, son of Maryam, is Allah are
disbelievers. The Messiah said, ‘Tribe of Israel! Worship Allah,
my Lord and your Lord. If anyone associates anything with Allah,
Allah has forbidden him the Garden and his refuge will be the
Fire.’ The wrongdoers will have no helpers. (5:72)
• Allah will reward them for what they say with Gardens with rivers
flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever. That is
the recompense of the good-doers. (5:85)
• Allah will say, ‘This is the Day when the sincerity of the sincere
will benefit them. They will have Gardens with rivers flowing under
them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever and ever. Allah is
pleased with them and they are pleased with Him. That is the
Great Victory.’ (5:119)
• (Allah said,) ‘Adam, live in the Garden, you and your wife, and eat
of it wherever you like. But do not go near this tree lest you
become wrongdoers.’ (7:19)
• So he (Satan) enticed them to do it by means of trickery. Then
when they tasted the tree, their private parts were disclosed to
them and they started stitching together the leaves of the Garden
in order to cover themselves. Their Lord called out to them, ‘Did I
not forbid you this tree and say to you, "Satan is an outright
enemy to you"?’ (7:22)
• As for those who deny Our Signs and are arrogant regarding
them, the Gates of Heaven will not be opened for them, and they
will not enter the Garden until a camel goes through a needle’s
eye. That is how We repay the evildoers. (7:40)
• We will strip away any rancour in their hearts. Rivers will flow
under them and they will say, ‘Praise be to Allah Who has guided
us to this! We would not have been guided, had Allah not guided
us. The Messengers of our Lord came with the Truth.’ It will be
proclaimed to them: ‘This is your Garden which you have
inherited for what you did.’ (7:43)
• The Companions of the Fire will call out to the Companions of the
Garden, ‘Throw down some water to us or some of what Allah
has given you as provision.’ They will say, ‘Allah has forbidden
them to the disbelievers.’ (7:50)
• Their Lord gives them the good news of His mercy and good
pleasure and Gardens where they will enjoy everlasting delight.
(9:21)
• Allah has promised the men and women of the believers Gardens
with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly, for
ever, and fine dwellings in the Gardens of Eden. And Allah’s good
pleasure is even greater. That is the great victory. (9:72)
• Allah has prepared Gardens for them with rivers flowing under
them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever. That is the great
victory. (9:89)
• Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their wealth
in return for the Garden. They fight in the Way of Allah and they
kill and are killed. It is a promise binding on Him in the Torah, the
Gospel and the Qur’an and who is truer to his contract than Allah?
Rejoice then in the bargain you have made. That is the great
victory. (9:111)
• But as for those who believe and do right actions, their Lord will
guide them by their faith. Rivers will flow under them in Gardens
of Delight. (10:9)
• Those who do good will have the best and more! Neither dust nor
debasement will darken their faces. They are the Companions of
the Garden, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (10:26)
• As for those who are glad, they will be in the Garden, remaining
in it timelessly, for ever, as long as the heavens and earth endure,
except as your Lord wills: an uninterrupted gift. (11:108)
• Gardens of Eden which they will enter, and all of their parents,
wives and children who were righteous. Angels will enter in to
welcome them from every gate. (13:23)
• What is the Garden promised to those who guard against evil like?
It has rivers flowing under it and its foodstuffs and cool shade
never fail. That is the final fate of those who guard against evil.
But the final fate of the disbelievers is the Fire. (13:35)
• Those who believed and did right actions will be admitted into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them
timelessly, for ever by the permission of their Lord. Their greeting
there is ‘Peace!’ (14:23)
• Those who guard against evil will be amid Gardens and Springs:
‘Enter them in peace, in complete security!’ We will strip away
any rancour in their hearts–brothers, resting on couches face-to-
face. They will not be affected by any tiredness there and they will
never be made to leave. (15:45-48)
• Gardens of Eden which they enter, with rivers flowing under them,
where they have whatever they desire. That is how Allah repays
those who guard against evil: those the angels take in a virtuous
state. They say, ‘Peace be upon you! Enter the Garden for what
you did.’ (16:31-32)
• They will have Gardens of Eden with rivers flowing under them.
They will be adorned in them with bracelets made of gold and
wear green garments made of the finest silk and rich brocade,
reclining there on couches under canopies. What an excellent
reward! What a wonderful repose! (18:31)
• Those who believe and do right actions will have the Gardens of
Firdaws as hospitality, remaining in them timelessly, for ever, with
no desire to move away from them. (18:107-108)
• Except for those who repent and believe and act rightly. They will
enter the Garden and they will not be wronged in any way:
Gardens of Eden which the All-Merciful has promised to His
servants in the Unseen. His promise is always kept. They will not
hear any prattling there–nothing but ‘Peace’. They will receive
their provision there morning and night. That is the Garden which
We will bequeath to those of Our servants who guard against evil.
(19:60-63)
• We said, ‘Adam, this is an enemy for you and your wife, so do not
let him expel you from the Garden and thus make you miserable.’
(20:117)
• So the two of them ate from it and their private parts were
disclosed to them and they started stitching together the leaves of
the Garden to cover themselves. Adam disobeyed his Lord and
became misled. (20:121)
• Allah will admit those who believe and do right actions into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them. Allah does whatever He
wishes. (22:14)
• But Allah will admit those who believe and do right actions into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them where they will be
adorned with gold bracelets and pearls, and where their clothing
will be of silk. (22:23)
• Say: ‘Is that better, or the Garden of Eternal Life which has been
promised to those who guard against evil? That is their
recompense and destination.’ They will have in it whatever they
want timelessly, for ever. It is a binding promise of your Lord.
(25:15-16)
• The Garden will be brought near to those who guard against evil.
(26:90)
• As for those who believe and do right actions, We will lodge them
in lofty chambers in the Garden, with rivers flowing under them,
remaining in them timelessly, for ever. How excellent is the
reward of those who act. (29:58)
• For those who believe and do right actions there are Gardens of
Delight, to remain in them timelessly, for ever. Allah’s promise is
true. He is the Almighty, the All-Wise. (31:8-9)
• As for those who believe and do right actions, they will have the
Gardens of Safe Refuge as hospitality for what they used to do.
(32:19)
• They will enter Gardens of Eden where they will be adorned with
gold bracelets and pearls, and where their clothing will be of silk.
They will say, ‘Praise be to Allah Who has removed all sadness
from us. Truly our Lord is Ever-Forgiving, Ever-Thankful: He Who
has lodged us, out of His favour, in the Abode of Permanence
where no weariness or fatigue affects us.’ (35:33-35)
• (A believer will say,) ‘Truly this is the Great Victory! It is for the
like of this that all workers should work!’ (37:60-61)
• And those who have fear of their Lord will be driven to the Garden
in companies and when they arrive there, finding its gates open,
its custodians will say to them, ‘Peace be upon you! You have
done well so enter it timelessly, for ever.’ (39:73)
• They will say, ‘Praise be to Allah Who has fulfilled His promise to
us and made us the inheritors of this land, letting us settle in the
Garden wherever we want. How excellent is the wage of those
who work!’ (39:74)
• (Angels ask forgiveness for the believers,) ‘Our Lord, admit them
to the Gardens of Eden You have promised them, and all of their
parents, wives and children who acted rightly. Truly You are the
Almighty, the All-Wise.’ (40:8)
• Whoever does an evil act will only be repaid with its equivalent.
But whoever acts rightly, male or female, being a believer, such a
person will enter the Garden, provided for in it without any
reckoning. (40:40)
• The angels descend on those who say, ‘Our Lord is Allah,’ and
then go straight: ‘Do not fear and do not grieve but rejoice in the
Garden you have been promised.’ (41:30)
• You will see the wrongdoers afraid of what they have earned,
when it is about to land right on top of them, whereas those who
believe and do right actions will be in the lush Meadows of the
Gardens. They will have whatever they wish for with their Lord.
That is the great favour. (42:22)
• (Believers will be told,) ‘Enter the Garden, you and your wives,
delighting in your joy.’ Platters and cups of gold will be passed
around among them and they will have there all that their hearts
desire and their eyes find delight in. You will remain in it
timelessly, for ever. That is the Garden you will inherit for what
you did. There will be many fruits in it for you to eat. (43:70-73)
• The people who guard against evil will be in a safe place amid
gardens and fountains, wearing fine silk and rich brocade, face to
face with one another. So it will be. We will marry them to dark-
eyed maidens. They will call there for fruit of every kind, in
complete security. They will not taste any death there–except for
the first one. He will safeguard them from the punishment of the
Blazing Fire. A favour from your Lord. That is the Great Victory.
(44:51-57)
• Those are people whose best deeds will be accepted and whose
wrong deeds will be overlooked. They are among the
Companions of the Garden, in fulfilment of the true promise made
to them. (46:16)
• And He will admit them into the Garden which He has made
known to them. (47: 6)
• Allah will admit those who believe to Gardens with rivers flowing
under them. Those who disbelieve have their enjoyment, eating
as cattle eat, but the Fire will be their final residence. (47:12)
• (It is) so that He may admit the men and women of the believers
into Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them
timelessly, for ever, and erase their bad actions from them; and in
Allah’s sight that is a mighty victory. (48:5)
• And the Garden will be brought up close to the heedful, not far
away: ‘This is what you were promised. It is for every careful
penitent: those who fear the All-Merciful in the Unseen and come
with a contrite heart. Enter it in peace. This is the Day of Timeless
Eternity.’ They will have there everything they want and with Us
there is still more. (50:31-35)
• We will supply them with any kind of fruit and meat that they
desire. They will pass round there a drinking cup to one another
with no foolish talk and no wrong action in it. Circulating among
them there will be youths like hidden pearls. Some of them will
come up to others and they will question one another. They will
say, ‘Beforehand we used live in fear among our families. But
Allah was gracious to us and safeguarded us from the
punishment of the searing wind.’ (52:22-27)
• He saw him again another time by the Lote-tree of the Final Limit,
beside which is the Garden of Refuge. (53:13-15)
• The people who guard against evil will be amid Gardens and
Rivers. (54:54)
• For those who fear the Station of their Lord there are two
Gardens. (55:46)
• Will the reward for doing good be anything other than good?
(55:60)
• On the Day you see the men and women of the believers, with
their light streaming out in front of them, and to their right: ‘Good
news for you today of Gardens with rivers flowing under them,
remaining in them timelessly, for ever. That is the Great Victory.’
(57:12)
• You will not find people who believe in Allah and the Last Day
having love for anyone who opposes Allah and His Messenger,
though they be their fathers, their sons, their brothers or their clan.
Allah has inscribed faith upon such people’s hearts and will
reinforce them with a Spirit from Him and admit them into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them
timelessly, for ever. Allah is pleased with them and they are
pleased with Him. Such people are the party of Allah. Truly it is
the party of Allah who are successful. (58:22)
• You who believe! Repent to Allah. It may be that your Lord will
erase your bad actions from you and admit you into Gardens with
rivers flowing under them on the Day when Allah will not disgrace
the Prophet and those who believed along with him. Their light
will stream out ahead of them and on their right. They will say,
‘Our Lord, perfect our light for us and forgive us! You have power
over all things.’ (66:8)
• Allah has made an example for those who believe: the wife of
Pharaoh when she said, ‘My Lord, build a house in the Garden for
me in Your presence and rescue me from Pharaoh and his deeds
and rescue me from this wrongdoing people.’ (66:11)
• The people who guard against evil will have Gardens of Delight
with their Lord. (68:34)
• As for him who is given his Book in his right hand, he will say,
‘Here, come and read my Book! I counted on meeting my
Reckoning.’ He will have a very pleasant life in an elevated
Garden, its ripe fruit hanging close to hand. ‘Eat and drink with
relish for what you did before in days gone by!’ (69:19-24)
• Those who honour their trusts and contracts; those who stand by
their testimony; those who safeguard their prayer; such people
will be in Gardens, highly honoured. (70:32-35)
• So Allah has safeguarded them from the evil of that Day and has
made them meet with radiance and pure joy. and will reward them
for their steadfastness with a Garden and with silk. Reclining in it
on couches, they will experience there neither burning sun nor
bitter cold. Its shading branches will droop down over them, its
ripe fruit hanging ready to be picked. Vessels of silver and goblets
of pure crystal will be passed round among them, crystalline
silver–they have measured them very exactly. They will be given
there a cup to drink mixed with the warmth of ginger. In it there is
a flowing spring called Salsabil. Ageless youths will circulate
among them, serving them. Seeing them, you would think them
scattered pearls. Seeing them, you see delight and a great
kingdom. They will wear green garments of fine silk and rich
brocade. They will be adorned with silver bracelets. And their
Lord will give them a pure draught to drink. ‘This is your reward.
Your striving is fully acknowledged.’ (76:11-22)
• For those who guard against evil there is triumph: Gardens and
grape vines, and nubile maidens of similar age, and an
overflowing cup, where they will hear no prattle and no denial, a
recompense from your Lord, a commensurate gift. (78:31-36)
• But as for him who feared the Station of his Lord and forbade the
lower self its appetites, the Garden will be his refuge. (79:40-41)
• When the Fire is set ablaze, when the Garden is brought up close:
then each self will know what it has done. (81:12-14)
• But those who believe and do right actions will have Gardens with
rivers flowing under them. That is the Great Victory. (85:11)
• But those who believe and do right actions–they are the best of
creatures. Their reward is with their Lord: Gardens of Eden with
rivers flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever
and ever. Allah is pleased with them and they are pleased with
Him. That is for those who fear their Lord. (98:7-8)
GARMENT
• That Day you will see the evildoers yoked together in chains,
wearing shirts of tar, their faces enveloped in the Fire. (14:49-50)
• It is He Who made the sea subservient to you so that you can eat
fresh flesh from it and bring out from it ornaments to wear. And
you see the ships cleaving through it so that you can seek His
bounty, and so that hopefully you will show thanks. (16:14)
• They will have Gardens of Eden with rivers flowing under them.
They will be adorned in them with bracelets made of gold and
wear green garments made of the finest silk and rich brocade,
reclining there on couches under canopies. What an excellent
reward! What a wonderful repose! (18:31)
• We taught him (Dawud) the art of making garments for you to
protect you against each others’ violence, but do you show any
thanks? (21:80)
• Here are two rival groups who disputed concerning their Lord.
Those who disbelieve will have garments of fire cut out for them,
and boiling water poured over their heads. (22:19)
• Prophet! Tell your wives and daughters and the women of the
believers to draw their outer garments closely round themselves.
This makes it more likely that they will be recognised and not be
harmed. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:59)
• They will wear green garments of fine silk and rich brocade. They
will be adorned with silver bracelets. And their Lord will give them
a pure draught to drink. (76:21)
GATHERING
• But how will it be when We gather them all together for a Day
about which there is no doubt? Every self will be paid in full for
what it earned. They will not be wronged. (3:25)
• If you die or you are killed, it is to Allah that you will be gathered.
(3:158)
• Allah, there is no god but Him. He will gather you to the Day of
Rising about which there is no doubt. And whose speech could
be truer than Allah’s? (4:87)
• It has been sent down to you in the Book that when you hear
Allah’s Signs being rejected and mocked at by people, you must
not sit with them till they start talking of other things. If you do you
are just the same as them. Allah will gather all the hypocrites and
disbelievers into Hell. (4:140)
• Anything you catch in the sea is lawful for you, and all food from it,
for your enjoyment and that of travellers, but land game is
forbidden for you while you are in the state of pilgrimage. So have
fear of Allah, Him to Whom you will be gathered. (5:96)
• On the Day We gather them all together, We will say to those who
associated others with Allah, ‘Where are the partner-gods, for
whom you made such claims?’ (6:22)
• (Say:) ‘And (we are commanded) to perform prayer and have fear
of Him. It is He to Whom you will be gathered.’ (6:72)
• On the Day We make the mountains move and you see the earth
laid bare and We gather them together, not leaving out a single
one of them. (18:47)
• By your Lord, We will collect them and the Satans together. Then
We will assemble them around Hell on their knees. (19:68)
• When Our Clear Signs are recited to them, those who disbelieve
say to those who believe, ‘Which of the two parties has the better
position and the more illustrious gathering?’ (19:73)
• On that Day We will gather those who guard against evil to the
All-Merciful with due ceremony. (19:85)
• He will say, ‘My Lord, why have you gathered me blind when
before I was able to see?’ (20:125)
• On the Day We gather them all together and then say to the
angels, ‘Was it you whom these people were worshipping?’
(34:40)
• Among His Signs is the creation of the heavens and earth and all
the creatures He has spread about in them. And He has the
power to gather them together whenever He wills. (42:29)
• Say: ‘Allah gives you life, then causes you to die, and then will
gather you together for the Day of Rising about which there is no
doubt. But most people do not know it.’ (45:26)
• The Day the earth splits open all around them as they come
rushing forth, that is a gathering, easy for Us to accomplish.
(50:44)
• Say: ‘The earlier and the later peoples will certainly all be
gathered.’ (56:49)
• Say: ‘It is He Who scattered you about the earth and you will be
gathered to Him.’ (67:24)
GENERATION
• Would that there had been more people with a vestige of good
among the generations of those who came before you, who
forbade corruption in the earth, other than the few among them
whom We saved. Those who did wrong gladly pursued the life of
luxury that they were given and were evildoers. (11:116)
• The same goes for ‘Ad and Thamud and the Companions of the
Rass and many generations in between. (25:38)
• But what of him who says to his parents, ‘Fie on you! Do you
promise me that I will be resurrected when generations before me
have passed away?’ They both call on Allah for help: ‘Woe to you!
Believe! Allah’s promise is true.’ But he says, ‘This is nothing but
the myths of previous peoples.’ (46:17)
• How many generations before them We destroyed who had
greater force than them and scoured many lands! Did they find
any way of escape? (50:36)
GENTLENESS
• And among the people there are some who give up everything,
desiring the good pleasure of Allah. Allah is Ever-Gentle with His
servants. (2:207)
• On the Day that each self finds the good it did, and the evil it did,
present there in front of it, it will wish there were an age between
it and then. Allah advises you to beware of Him. Allah is Ever-
Gentle with His servants. (3:30)
• They carry your loads to lands you would never reach except with
great difficulty. Your Lord is All-Gentle, Most Merciful. (16:7)
• Those who have come after them say, ‘Our Lord, forgive us and
our brothers who preceded us in faith and do not put any rancour
in our hearts towards those who believe. Our Lord, You are All-
Gentle, Most Merciful.’ (59:10)
GIFT
• Give women their dowry as an outright gift. But if they are happy
to give you some of it, make use of it with pleasure and goodwill.
(4:4)
• As for those who are glad, they will be in the Garden, remaining
in it timelessly, for ever, as long as the heavens and earth endure,
except as your Lord wills: an uninterrupted gift. (11:108)
• (Queen of Sheba said,) ‘I will send them a gift and then wait and
see what the messengers bring back.’ When it reached Sulayman
he said, ‘Would you give me wealth when what Allah has given
me is better than what He has given you? No, rather it is you who
delight in your gift.’ (27:35-36)
• You who believe! When you marry believing women and then
divorce them before you have touched them, there is no waiting
period for you to calculate for them, so give them a gift and let
them go with kindness. (33:49)
• Gardens and grape vines, and nubile maidens of similar age, and
an overflowing cup, where they will hear no prattle and no denial,
a recompense from your Lord, a commensurate gift. (78:32-36)
GINGER
GIRL
• When she gave birth, she said, ‘My Lord! I have given birth to a
girl’–and Allah knew very well what she had given birth to, male
and female are not the same–‘and I have named her Maryam and
placed her and her children in Your safekeeping from the
accursed Satan.’ (3:36)
• When one of them is given the good news of a baby girl, his face
darkens and he is furious. (16:58)
• Prophet! We have made lawful for you: your wives to whom you
have given dowries and any slavegirls you own from the booty
Allah has allotted you and the daughters of your paternal uncles
and the daughters of your paternal aunts and the daughters of
your maternal uncles and the daughters of your maternal aunts
who have migrated with you and any believing woman who gives
herself to the Prophet if the Prophet desires to marry her:
exclusively for you as opposed to the rest of the believers–We
know very well what We have prescribed for them regarding their
wives and any slavegirls they possess–in order that there be no
restriction on you. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:50)
• When the baby girl buried alive is asked, for what crime she was
killed. (81:8-9)
GIVING
• Give women their dowry as an outright gift. But if they are happy
to give you some of it, make use of it with pleasure and goodwill.
(4:4)
• And in addition to that We gave him Ishaq and Ya‘qub and made
both of them righteous. (21:72)
• We responded to him and gave him Yahya, restoring for him his
wife’s fertility. They outdid one another in good actions, calling out
to Us in yearning and in awe, and humbling themselves to Us.
(21:90)
• (Believers are) those who say, ‘Our Lord, give us joy in our wives
and children and make us a good example for those who guard
against evil’. (25:74)
• (Queen of Sheba said,) ‘I will send them a gift and then wait and
see what the messengers bring back.’ When it reached Sulayman
he said, ‘Would you give me wealth when what Allah has given
me is better than what He has given you? No, rather it is you who
delight in your gift.’ (27:35-36)
• We gave him Ishaq and Ya‘qub and placed Prophethood and the
Book among his progeny. We gave him his reward in this world
and in the hereafter he will be among the righteous. (29:27)
• We gave him (Ayyub) back his family and the same again with
them as a mercy from Us and a reminder for people of intellect.
(38:43)
GLASS
• Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The metaphor of
His Light is that of a niche in which is a lamp, the lamp inside a
glass, the glass like a brilliant star, lit from a blessed tree, an olive,
neither of the east nor of the west, its oil all but giving off light
even if no fire touches it. Light upon Light. Allah guides to His
Light whoever He wills and Allah makes metaphors for mankind
and Allah has knowledge of all things. (24:35)
• She was told: ‘Enter the courtyard,’ but when she saw it she
supposed it to be a pool and bared her legs. He (Sulayman) said,
‘It is a courtyard paved with glass.’ She said, ‘My Lord, I have
wronged myself but I have submitted with Sulayman to the Lord
of all the worlds.’ (27:44)
• GLORIFICATION
• The seven heavens and the earth and everyone in them glorify
Him. There is nothing which does not glorify Him with praise but
you do not understand their glorification. He is All-Forbearing,
Ever-Forgiving. (17:44)
• He (Zakariyya) came out to his people from the Upper Room and
gestured to them to glorify Allah in the morning and the evening.
(19:11)
• So be steadfast in the face of what they say and glorify your Lord
with praise before the rising of the sun and before its setting. And
glorify Him during part of the night and at both ends of the day, so
that hopefully you will be pleased. (20:130)
• They glorify Him by night and day, without ever flagging. (21:20)
• We gave Sulayman understanding of it. We gave each of them
judgement and knowledge. We subjected the mountains to
Dawud, glorifying, and the birds as well. This is something We
are well able to do. (21:79)
• Do you not see that everyone in the heavens and earth glorifies
Allah, as do the birds with their outspread wings? Each one
knows its prayer and glorification. Allah knows what they do.
(24:41)
• Put your trust in the Living Who does not die and glorify Him with
praise. He is well aware of the wrong actions of His servants.
(25:58)
• The people who truly do believe in Our Signs are those who fall to
the ground prostrating when they are reminded of them, and
glorify their Lord with praise, and are not arrogant. (32:15)
• You who believe! Remember Allah much, and glorify Him in the
morning and the evening. (33:41-42)
• Had it not been that he was a man who glorified Allah, he (Yunus)
would have remained inside its belly until the Day they are raised
again. (37:143-144)
• You will see the angels circling round the Throne, glorifying their
Lord with praise. It will be decided between them with truth. And it
will be said: ‘Praise be to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds.’ (39:75)
• Those who bear the Throne, and all those around it, glorify their
Lord with praise and believe in Him and ask forgiveness for those
who believe: ‘Our Lord, You encompass everything in mercy and
knowledge! Forgive those who turn to You and who follow Your
Way and safeguard them from the punishment of the Blazing
Fire.’ (40:7)
• If they grow arrogant, those who are with your Lord glorify Him
night and day and never grow tired. (41:38)
• The heavens are all but rent asunder from above when the
angels glorify their Lord with praise and ask forgiveness for those
who are on the earth. Allah is the Ever-Forgiving, the Most
Merciful. (42:5)
• (It is) so that you might all believe in Allah and His Messenger
and honour Him and respect Him and glorify Him in the morning
and the evening. (48:9)
• So be patient in the face of what they say and glorify your Lord
with praise before the rising of the sun and before it sets. (50:39)
• And glorify Him during the night and after you have prostrated.
(50:40)
• And glorify Him in the night and when the stars fade out. (52:49)
• The best of them said, ‘Did I not say to you, "Why do you not
glorify Allah?"’ (68:28)
• Prostrate to Him during the night and glorify Him throughout the
long night. (76:26)
• Then glorify your Lord’s praise and ask His forgiveness. He is the
Ever-Returning. (110:3)
GOAT
• And when you said, ‘Musa, we will not put up with just one kind of
food so ask your Lord to supply to us some of what the earth
produces–its green vegetables, cucumbers, grains, lentils and
onions,’ he said, ‘Do you want to replace what is better with what
is inferior? Go back to Egypt, then you will have what you are
asking for.’ Abasement and destitution were stamped upon them.
They brought down anger from Allah upon themselves. That was
because they rejected Allah’s Signs and killed the Prophets
without any right to do so. That was because they rebelled and
went beyond the limits. (2:61)
• Fight in the Way of Allah against those who fight you, but do not
go beyond the limits. Allah does not love those who go beyond
the limits. (2:190)
• You who believe! Do not profane the sacred rites of Allah or the
sacred months, or the sacrificial animals, or the ritual garlands, or
those heading for the Sacred House, desiring profit and good
pleasure from their Lord. When your pilgrimage is over, then you
may hunt. Do not let hatred for a people who debar you from the
Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) incite you into going beyond
the limits. Help each other to goodness and heedfulness. Do not
help each other to wrongdoing and enmity. Have fear of Allah.
Allah is severe in retribution. (5:2)
GOING TO WASTE
• Their Lord responds to them: ‘I will not let the deeds of any doer
among you go to waste, male or female–you are both the same in
that respect. Those who migrated and were driven from their
homes and suffered harm in My Way and fought and were killed, I
will erase their bad actions from them and admit them into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, as a reward from Allah.
The best of all rewards is with Allah.’ (3:195)
• As for those who hold fast to the Book and perform prayer, We
will not let the wage of the righteous be wasted. (7:170)
• It was not for people of Madina, and the desert arabs around
them, to remain behind the Messenger of Allah nor to prefer
themselves to him. That is because no thirst or weariness or
hunger will afflict them in the Way of Allah, nor will they take a
single step to infuriate the disbelievers, nor secure any gain from
the enemy, without a right action being written down for them
because of it. Allah does not let the wage of the good-doers go to
waste. (9:120)
• They said, ‘Are you Yusuf?’ He said, ‘I am indeed Yusuf, and this
here is my brother. Allah has acted graciously to us. As for those
who fear Allah and are steadfast, Allah does not allow to go to
waste the wage of any people who do good.’ (12:90)
• But as for those who believe and do right actions, We will not let
the wage of good-doers go to waste. (18:30)
GOLD
• Among the People of the Book there are some who, if you entrust
them with a pile of gold, will return it to you. But there are others
among them who, if you entrust them with just a single dinar, will
not return it to you, unless you stay standing over them. That is
because they say, ‘We are under no obligation where the gentiles
are concerned.’ They tell a lie against Allah and they know it.
(3:75)
• As for those who disbelieve and die while they are disbelievers,
the whole earth filled with gold would not be accepted from any of
them if they were to offer it as a ransom. They will have a painful
punishment. They will have no helpers. (3:91)
• You who believe! Many of the rabbis and monks devour people’s
property under false pretences and bar people from access to the
Way of Allah. As for those who hoard up gold and silver and do
not spend it in the Way of Allah, give them the news of a painful
punishment. (9:34)
• They say, ‘We will not believe you until you make a spring gush
out from the earth for us; or have a garden of dates and grapes
which you make rivers come pouring through; or make the sky, as
you claim, fall down on us in lumps; or bring Allah and the angels
here as a guarantee; or possess a house built out of gleaming
gold; or ascend up into heaven–and even then we will not believe
in your ascent unless you bring us down a book to read!’ Say:
‘Glory be to my Lord! Am I anything but a human messenger?’
(17:90-93)
• They will have Gardens of Eden with rivers flowing under them.
They will be adorned in them with bracelets made of gold and
wear green garments made of the finest silk and rich brocade,
reclining there on couches under canopies. What an excellent
reward! What a wonderful repose! (18:31)
• But Allah will admit those who believe and do right actions into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them where they will be
adorned with gold bracelets and pearls, and where their clothing
will be of silk. (22:23)
• They will enter Gardens of Eden where they will be adorned with
gold bracelets and pearls, and where their clothing will be of silk.
(35:33)
• Were it not that mankind might all become one community, We
would have given those who reject the All-Merciful silver roofs to
their houses and silver stairways to ascend and silver doors to
their houses and silver couches on which to recline, and gold
ornaments. All that is merely the trappings of the life of this world.
But the hereafter with your Lord is for those who guard against
evil. (43:33-35)
• (Pharaoh said to his people,) ‘Why have gold bracelets not been
put upon his arms and why is there not a train of angels
accompanying him?’ (43:53)
• Platters and cups of gold will be passed around among them and
they will have there all that their hearts desire and their eyes find
delight in. You will remain in it timelessly, for ever. (43:71)
GOLIATH (JALUT)
• When Talut marched out with the army, he said, ‘Allah will test
you with a river. Anyone who drinks from it is not with me. But
anyone who does not taste it is with me–except for him who
merely scoops up a little in his hand.’ But they drank from it–
except for a few of them. Then when he and those who believed
with him had crossed it, they said, ‘We do not have the strength
to face Goliath and his troops today.’ But those who were sure
that they were going to meet Allah said, ‘How many a small force
has triumphed over a much greater one by Allah’s permission!
Allah is with the steadfast.’ (2:249)
• When they came out against Goliath and his troops, they said,
‘Our Lord, pour down steadfastness upon us, and make our feet
firm, and help us against this disbelieving people.’ (2:250)
• Perform prayer and give the alms. Any good you send ahead for
yourselves, you will find with Allah. Certainly Allah sees what you
do. (2:110)
• They will ask you what they should give away. Say, ‘Any wealth
you give away should go to your parents and relatives and to
orphans and the very poor and travellers.’ Whatever good you do,
Allah knows it. (2:215)
• If you make your charity public, that is good. But if you conceal it
and give it to the poor, that is better for you, and We will erase
some of your bad actions from you. Allah is aware of what you do.
(2:271)
• (People who guard against evil are) those who give in times of
both ease and hardship, those who control their rage and pardon
other people–Allah loves the good-doers. (3:134)
• Any good thing that happens to you comes from Allah. Any bad
thing that happens to you comes from yourself. We have sent you
to mankind as a Messenger. Allah suffices as a Witness. (4:79)
• And We have sent down the Book to you with truth, confirming
and conserving the previous Books. So judge between them by
what Allah has sent down and do not follow their whims and
desires deviating from the Truth that has come to you. We have
appointed a law and a practice for every one of you. Had Allah
willed, He would have made you a single community, but He
wanted to test you regarding what has come to you. So compete
with each other in doing good. Every one of you will return to
Allah and He will inform you regarding the things about which you
differed. (5:48)
• If Allah afflicts you with harm, no one can remove it except Him. If
He desires good for you, no one can avert His favour. He
bestows it on whichever of His servants He wills. He is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (10:107)
• Perform prayer at each end of the day and in the first part of the
night. Good actions eradicate bad actions. This is a reminder for
people who pay heed. (11:114)
• Allah is with those who have fear of Him and with those who are
good-doers. (16:128)
• Every self will taste death. We test you with both good and evil as
a trial. And you will be returned to Us. (21:35)
• You who believe! Bow and prostrate and worship your Lord, and
do good, so that hopefully you will be successful. (22:77)
• Such people are truly racing towards good things, and they are
the first to reach them. (23:61)
• The truly good will drink from a cup mixed with the coolness of
camphor. (76:5)
GOOD-DOERS
• Remember when We said, ‘Go into this town and eat from it
wherever you like, freely. Enter the gate prostrating and say,
"Relieve us of our burdens!" Your mistakes will be forgiven. We
will grant increase to all good-doers.’ (2:58)
• Not so! All who submit themselves completely to Allah and are
good-doers will find their reward with their Lord. They will feel no
fear and will know no sorrow. (2:112)
• Spend in the Way of Allah. Do not cast yourselves into
destruction. And do good: Allah loves good-doers. (2:195)
• Those who give in times of both ease and hardship, those who
control their rage and pardon other people–Allah loves the good-
doers. (3:134)
• So Allah gave them the reward of this world and the best reward
of the hereafter. Allah loves good-doers. (3:148)
• Allah will reward them for what they say with Gardens with rivers
flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever. That is
the recompense of the good-doers. (5:85)
• Those who believe and do right actions are not to blame for
anything they have eaten provided they guard against evil and
believe and do right actions, and then again guard against evil
and believe, and then guard against evil and do good. Allah loves
good-doers. (5:93)
• Do not corrupt the earth after it has been put right. Call on Him
fearfully and eagerly. Allah’s mercy is close to the good-doers.
(7:56)
• When they were told: ‘Live in this town and eat of it wherever you
like and say, "Relieve us of our burdens!" and enter the gate
prostrating. Your mistakes will be forgiven you. We will grant
increase to good-doers.’ (7:161)
• Nothing is held against the weak and sick nor against those who
find nothing to spend, provided they are true to Allah and His
Messenger–there is no way open against good-doers, Allah is
Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (9:91)
• It was not for people of Madina, and the desert arabs around
them, to remain behind the Messenger of Allah nor to prefer
themselves to him. That is because no thirst or weariness or
hunger will afflict them in the Way of Allah, nor will they take a
single step to infuriate the disbelievers, nor secure any gain from
the enemy, without a right action being written down for them
because of it. Allah does not let the wage of the good-doers go to
waste. (9:120)
• Allah is with those who have fear of Him and with those who are
good-doers. (16:128)
• But as for those who believe and do right actions, We will not let
the wage of good-doers go to waste. (18:30)
• Their flesh and blood does not reach Allah but your heedfulness
does reach Him. In this way He has subjected them to you so that
you might proclaim Allah’s greatness for the way that He has
guided you. Give good news to the good-doers. (22:37)
• And when he reached his full strength and maturity, We gave him
judgement and knowledge. That is how We recompense good-
doers. (28:14)
• As for those who strive in Our Way, We will guide them to Our
Paths. Truly Allah is with the good-doers. (29:69)
• Those are the Signs of the Wise Book–guidance and mercy for
the good-doers. (31:2-3)
• (O Prophet, tell your wives,) ‘But if you desire Allah and His
Messenger and the abode of the hereafter, Allah has prepared an
immense reward for those among you who are good-doers.’
(33:29)
• They will have anything they wish for with their Lord. That is the
recompense of the good-doers. (39:34)
• Follow the best that has been sent down to you from your Lord
before the punishment comes upon you suddenly when you are
not expecting it; lest anyone should say, ‘Alas for me for
neglecting what Allah was due, and being one of the scoffers!’ or
lest they should say, ‘If only Allah had guided me, I would have
guarded against evil,’ or lest he should say, when he sees the
punishment, ‘If only I could have another chance so that I could
be a good-doer!’ (39:55-58)
• But before it there was the Book of Musa as a model and a mercy.
And this is a corroborating Book in the Arabic tongue so that you
may warn those who do wrong, and as good news for the good-
doers. (46:12)
GOODS
• You who believe! When you go out to fight in the Way of Allah
verify things carefully. Do not say, ‘You are not a believer’, to
someone who greets you as a Muslim, simply out of desire for the
goods of this world. With Allah there is booty in abundance. That
is the way you were before but Allah has been kind to you. So
verify things carefully. Allah is aware of what you do. (4:94)
• My people! Give full measure and full weight with justice; do not
diminish people's goods; and do not go about the earth,
corrupting it. (11:85)
• Some travellers came that way and then dispatched their water-
drawer who let his bucket down. He said, ‘Good news for me, I’ve
found a boy!’ They then hid him (Yusuf) away among their goods.
Allah knew very well what they were doing. (12:19)
• He (Yusuf) told his serving men, ‘Put back their goods into their
saddlebags for them to find when they arrive back to their families
so that perhaps they will return again.’ (12:62)
• He said, ‘Allah forbid that we should take anyone but him with
whom our goods were found. In that case we would clearly be
wrongdoers.’ (12:79)
GOOD WORDS
• They have been guided to speak good words and guided to the
praiseworthy path. (22:24)
• If anyone wants power, all power belongs to Allah. All good words
rise to Him and He raises up all virtuous deeds. But people who
plot evil deeds will suffer a harsh punishment. The plotting of
such people is profitless. (35:10)
• He has sent down the Book to you with truth, confirming what was
there before it. And He sent down the Torah and the Gospel. (3:3)
• He will teach him the Book and Wisdom, and the Torah and the
Gospel. (3:48)
• You who have been given the Book! Believe in what We have
sent down confirming what is with you, before We obliterate faces,
turning them inside out, or We curse you as We cursed the
Companions of the Sabbath. Allah’s command is always carried
out. (4:47)
• The people of the Gospel should judge by what Allah sent down
in it. Those who do not judge by what Allah has sent down, such
people are deviators. (5:47)
• If only they had implemented the Torah and the Gospel and what
was sent down to them from their Lord, they would have been fed
from above their heads and beneath their feet. Among them there
is a moderate group but what most of them do is evil. (5:66)
• Say: ‘People of the Book! You have nothing to stand on until you
implement the Torah and the Gospel and what has been sent
down to you from your Lord.’ What has been sent down to you
from your Lord increases many of them in insolence and disbelief.
So do not waste your grief on the people of the disbelievers. (5:68)
• (Allah said, ‘I will prescribe My mercy for) those who follow the
Messenger, the Ummi, whom they find written down with them in
the Torah and the Gospel, commanding them to do right and
forbidding them to do wrong, making good things lawful for them
and bad things forbidden for them, relieving them of their heavy
loads and the chains which were around them. Those who
believe in him and honour him and help him, and follow the Light
that has been sent down with him, they are the ones who are
successful.’ (7:157)
• Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their wealth
in return for the Garden. They fight in the Way of Allah and they
kill and are killed. It is a promise binding on Him in the Torah, the
Gospel and the Qur’an and who is truer to his contract than Allah?
Rejoice then in the bargain you have made. That is the great
victory. (9:111)
GOVERNOR
• Some city women said, ‘The governor’s wife solicited her slave.
He’s fired her heart with love. We see that she’s the one to
blame.’ (12:30)
• He said, ‘What was this past affair of yours when you solicited
Yusuf?’ Then they said ‘Allah forbid! We know no bad of him.’ The
governor’s wife then said, ‘The truth has now emerged. Indeed I
tried to seduce him then and he has simply told the honest truth.’
(12:51)
• (Yusuf said,) ‘In this way he (the governor) may know at last that I
did not dishonour him behind his back and that Allah most surely
does not guide the deviousness of the dishonourable.’ (12:52)
GRAIN
• And when you said, ‘Musa, we will not put up with just one kind of
food so ask your Lord to supply to us some of what the earth
produces–its green vegetables, cucumbers, grains, lentils and
onions,’ he said, ‘Do you want to replace what is better with what
is inferior? Go back to Egypt, then you will have what you are
asking for.’ Abasement and destitution were stamped upon them.
They brought down anger from Allah upon themselves. That was
because they rejected Allah’s Signs and killed the Prophets
without any right to do so. That was because they rebelled and
went beyond the limits. (2:61)
• We will set up the Just Balance on the Day of Rising and no self
will be wronged in any way. Even if it is no more than the weight
of a grain of mustard-seed, We will produce it. We are sufficient
as a Reckoner. (21:47)
• A Sign for them is the dead land which We bring to life and from
which We bring forth grain of which they eat. (36:33)
• And We sent down blessed water from the sky and made
gardens grow by it and grain for harvesting. (50:9)
• GRANDCHILDREN
• Allah has given you wives from among yourselves, and given you
children and grandchildren from your wives, and provided good
things for you. So why do they believe in falsehood and reject the
blessings of Allah? (16:72)
GRAPE
• Would any of you like to have a garden of dates and grapes, with
rivers flowing underneath and containing all kinds of fruits, then to
be stricken with old age and have children who are weak, and
then for a fierce whirlwind containing fire to come and strike it so
that it goes up in flames? In this way Allah makes His Signs clear
to you, so that hopefully you will reflect. (2:266)
• It is He Who sends down water from the sky from which We bring
forth growth of every kind, and from that We bring forth the green
shoots and from them We bring forth close-packed seeds, and
from the spathes of the date palm date clusters hanging down,
and gardens of grapes and olives and pomegranates, both similar
and dissimilar. Look at their fruits as they bear fruit and ripen.
There are Signs in that for people who believe. (6:99)
• In the earth there are diverse regions side by side and gardens of
grapes and cultivated fields, and palm-trees sharing one root and
others with individual roots, all watered with the same water. And
We make some things better to eat than others. There are Signs
in that for people who use their intellect. (13:4)
• And by it (water) He makes crops grow for you and olives and
dates and grapes and fruit of every kind. There is certainly a Sign
in that for people who reflect. (16:11)
• And from the fruit of the date-palm and the grape-vine you derive
both intoxicants and wholesome provision. There is certainly a
Sign in that for people who use their intellect. (16:67)
• They say, ‘We will not believe you until you make a spring gush
out from the earth for us; or have a garden of dates and grapes
which you make rivers come pouring through;’ (17:90-91)
GRAVE
• And the Hour is coming without any doubt and Allah will raise up
all those in the graves. (22:7)
• The living and dead are not the same. Allah makes anyone He
wills hear but you cannot make those in the grave hear. (35:22)
• The Trumpet will be blown and at once they will be sliding from
their graves towards their Lord. (36:51)
• They will emerge from their graves with downcast eyes, like
swarming locusts. (54:7)
• The Day they will emerge swiftly from their graves as if rushing to
rally to the flag. (70:43)
• When the graves are emptied out, each self will know what it has
sent ahead and left behind. (82:4-5)
• Does he not know that when the graves are emptied out, and the
heart’s contents are brought into the open, that Day their Lord will
certainly be aware of them. (100:9-11)
GREAT ABUNDANCE
GREED
• Rather you will find them (the Tribe of Israel) the people greediest
for life, along with the idolaters. One of them would love to be
allowed to live a thousand years. But being allowed to live would
not save him from the punishment. Allah sees what they do. (2:96)
GREEN
• It is He Who sends down water from the sky from which We bring
forth growth of every kind, and from that We bring forth the green
shoots and from them We bring forth close-packed seeds, and
from the spathes of the date palm date clusters hanging down,
and gardens of grapes and olives and pomegranates, both similar
and dissimilar. Look at their fruits as they bear fruit and ripen.
There are Signs in that for people who believe. (6:99)
• The King declared, ‘I dreamt of seven fat cows which seven thin
ones ate and seven green ears of wheat and seven others which
were dry. O counsellors! Explain my dream to me if you are those
who can interpret visions!’ (12:43)
• Say ‘He Who made them in the first place will bring them back to
life. He has total knowledge of each created thing; He Who
produces fire for you from green trees so that you use them to
light your fires.’ (36:79-80)
• They will wear green garments of fine silk and rich brocade. They
will be adorned with silver bracelets. And their Lord will give them
a pure draught to drink. (76:21)
GREETING - ‘PEACE’
• You who believe! When you go out to fight in the Way of Allah
verify things carefully. Do not say, ‘You are not a believer’, to
someone who greets you as a Muslim, simply out of desire for the
goods of this world. With Allah there is booty in abundance. That
is the way you were before but Allah has been kind to you. So
verify things carefully. Allah is aware of what you do. (4:94)
• When those who believe in Our Signs come to you, say, ‘Peace
be upon you!’ Allah has made mercy incumbent on Himself. If
anyone among you does evil out of ignorance and then
afterwards repents and puts things right, He is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (6:54)
• It was said, ‘Nuh, descend with peace from Us and with blessings
on you and on the nations which will issue from those who are
with you. But there are nations to whom we will give enjoyment
and then a painful punishment from Us will afflict them.’ (11:48)
• ... Angels will enter in to welcome them from every gate: ‘Peace
be upon you because of your steadfastness! How wonderful is
the Ultimate Abode!’ (13:23-24)
• Those who believed and did right actions will be admitted into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them
timelessly, for ever by the permission of their Lord. Their greeting
there is ‘Peace!’ (14:23)
• Gardens of Eden which they enter, with rivers flowing under them,
where they have whatever they desire. That is how Allah repays
those who guard against evil: those the angels take in a virtuous
state. They say, ‘Peace be upon you! Enter the Garden for what
you did.’ (16:31-32)
• Peace be upon him the day he (Yahya) was born, and the day he
dies, and the day he is raised up again alive. (19:15)
• (‘Isa said,) ‘Peace be upon me the day I was born, and the day I
die and the day I am raised up again alive.’ (19:33)
• Go to him and say, "We are your Lord’s Messengers so send the
tribe of Israel away with us and do not punish them. We have
brought you a Sign from your Lord. Peace be upon those who
follow the guidance.’ (20:47)
• You who believe! Do not enter houses other than your own until
you have asked permission and greeted their inhabitants. That is
better for you, so that hopefully you will pay heed. (24:27)
• The servants of the All-Merciful are those who walk lightly on the
earth and, who, when the ignorant speak to them, say, ‘Peace’;
(25:63)
• When they hear worthless talk they turn away from it and say,
‘We have our actions and you have your actions. Peace be upon
you. We do not desire the company of the ignorant.’ (28:55)
• Their greeting on the Day they meet Him will be ‘Peace!’ and He
has prepared a generous reward for them. (33:44)
• And those who guard against evil of their Lord will be driven to
the Garden in companies and when they arrive there, finding its
gates open, its custodians will say to them, ‘Peace be upon you!
You have done well so enter it timelessly, for ever.’ (39:73)
• Turn from them and say, ‘Peace! You will soon come to know.’
(43:89)
• They said, ‘We’re missing the goblet of the king. The man who
brings it will get a camel’s load. Regarding that I stand as
guarantor.’ (12:72)
• Be true to Allah’s contract when you have agreed to it, and do not
break your oaths once they are confirmed and you have made
Allah your guarantee. Allah knows what you do. (16:91)
GUARDIAN
• You who believe! When you take on a debt for a specified period,
write it down. A writer should write it down between you justly. No
writer should refuse to write; as Allah has taught him, so he
should write. The one incurring the debt should dictate and
should have fear of Allah his Lord and not reduce it in any way. If
the person incurring the debt is incompetent or weak or unable to
dictate, then his guardian should dictate for him justly. Two men
among you should act as witnesses. But if there are not two men,
then a man and two women with whom you are satisfied as
witnesses; then if one of them forgets, the other can remind her.
Witnesses should not refuse when they are called upon. Do not
think it too trivial to write down, whether small or large, with the
date that it falls due. Doing that is more just in Allah’s sight and
more helpful when bearing witness and more likely to eliminate
any doubt–unless it is an immediate transaction hand to hand,
taken and given without delay. There is nothing wrong in your not
writing that down. Call witnesses when you trade. Neither writer
nor witness should be put under pressure. If you do that, it is
deviancy on your part. Have fear of Allah and Allah will give you
knowledge. Allah has knowledge of all things. (2:282)
• They have the word, ‘Obedience!’ on their tongues but when they
leave your presence, a group of them spend the night plotting to
do other than what you say. Allah is recording their nocturnal
plotting. So let them be and put your trust in Allah. Allah suffices
as a Guardian. (4:81)
• Here you are arguing on their behalf in this world, but who will
argue with Allah on their behalf on the Day of Rising? Who will
act as guardian for them then? (4:109)
• Your people deny it and yet it is the Truth. Say: ‘I am not here as
your guardian.’ (6:66)
• If Allah had willed, they would not have associated anything with
Him. We did not appoint you over them as their keeper and you
are not set over them as their guardian. (6:107)
• Say: ‘Mankind! The truth has come to you from your Lord.
Whoever is guided is only guided for his own good. Whoever is
misguided is only misguided to his detriment. I have not been set
over you as a guardian.’ (10:108)
• Perhaps you are leaving aside part of what has been revealed to
you and your breast is constricted by this because they say, ‘Why
has treasure not been sent down to him or an angel not
accompanied him?’ You are only a warner and Allah is Guardian
over all things. (11:12)
• He said, ‘I will not send him out with you until you make a
covenant with Allah to bring him home unless you are
overwhelmed.’ When they had made their covenant, he said,
‘Allah is Guardian over what we say.’ (12:66)
• We gave Musa the Book and made it guidance for the tribe of
Israel: ‘Do not take anyone besides Me as a guardian.’ (17:2)
• Your Lord knows you best. If He wills, He will have mercy on you,
and, if He wills, He will punish you. We did not send you to be
their guardian. (17:54)
• (Allah said to Satan,) ‘But as for My servants, you will not have
any authority over them.’ Your Lord suffices as a guardian. (17:65)
• Do you feel secure against Him causing the shore to swallow you
up or sending against you a sudden squall of stones? Then you
will find no one to be your guardian. (17:68)
• Have you seen him who has taken his whims and desires to be
his god? Will you then be his guardian? (25:43)
• We have sent down to you the Book for mankind with truth. So
whoever is guided is guided to his own good and whoever is
misguided, it is to his detriment. You are not set over them as a
guardian. (39:41)
• Lord of the East and West–there is no god but Him–so take Him
as your Guardian. (73:9)
• You will not be denied the reward for any good thing you do. Allah
knows those who guard against evil. (3:115)
• Do you not see those who were told: ‘Hold back from fighting but
perform prayer and give the alms’? Then when fighting is
prescribed for them, a group of them fear people as Allah should
be feared, or even more than that. They say, ‘Our Lord, why have
you prescribed fighting for us? If only You would give us just a
little more time!’ Say, ‘The enjoyment of this world is very brief.
The hereafter is better for those who guard against evil. You will
not be wronged by so much as the smallest speck.’ (4:77)
• How could any of the idolaters possibly have a treaty with Allah
and with His Messenger, except for those you made a treaty with
at the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram)? As long as they are
straight with you, be straight with them. Allah loves those who
guard against evil. (9:7)
• There have been twelve months with Allah in the Book of Allah,
from the day He first created the heavens and earth. Four of them
are forbidden. That is the True Religion. So do not wrong one
another during them. However, fight the idolaters totally just as
they fight you totally, and know that Allah is with those who guard
against evil. (9:36)
• Those who believe in Allah and the Last Day do not ask you to
excuse them from striving with their wealth and themselves. Allah
knows the people who guard against evil. (9:44)
• You who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to
you and let them find you implacable. Know that Allah is with
those who guard against evil. (9:123)
• What is the Garden promised to those who guard against evil like?
It has rivers flowing under it and its foodstuffs and cool shade
never fail. That is the final fate of those who guard against evil.
But the final fate of the disbelievers is the Fire. (13:35)
• Those who guard against evil will be amid Gardens and Springs.
(15:45)
• When those who have fear of Allah are asked, ‘What has your
Lord sent down?’ their reply is, ‘Good!’ There is good in this world
for those who do good, and the abode of the hereafter is even
better. How wonderful is the abode of those who guard against
evil: Gardens of Eden which they enter, with rivers flowing under
them, where they have whatever they desire. That is how Allah
repays those who guard against evil. (16:30-31)
• And (We gave Yahya) tenderness and purity from Us–he guarded
against evil. (19:13)
• She (Maryam) said, ‘I seek refuge from you with the All-Merciful if
you guard against evil.’ (19:18)
• Then We will rescue those who guarded against evil and We will
leave the wrongdoers in it on their knees. (19:72)
• On that Day We will gather those who guard against evil to the
All-Merciful with due ceremony. (19:85)
• We have made it (the Qur'an) easy on your tongue so that you
can give good news to those who guard against evil and warn
stubbornly hostile people by it. (19:97)
• We have sent down Clear Signs to you and the example of those
who passed away before you and an admonition for those who
guard against evil. (24:34)
• Say: ‘Is that better, or the Garden of Eternal Life which has been
promised to those who guard against evil? That is their
recompense and destination.’ (25:15)
• (Believers are) those who say, ‘Our Lord, give us joy in our wives
and children and make us a good example for those who guard
against evil’. (25:74)
• (On the Day) the Garden will be brought near to those who guard
against evil. (26:90)
• Would We make those who believe and do right actions the same
as those who cause corruption on the earth? Would We make
those who guard against evil the same as the dissolute? (38:28)
• He who brings the truth and he who confirms it–those are the
people who guard against evil. (39:33)
• Follow the best that has been sent down to you from your Lord
before the punishment comes upon you suddenly when you are
not expecting it; lest anyone should say, ‘Alas for me for
neglecting what Allah was due, and being one of the scoffers!’ or
lest they should say, ‘If only Allah had guided me, I would have
guarded against evil.’ (39:55-57)
• Allah will give security those who guarded against evil in their
victorious Safe Haven. No evil will touch them and they will know
no sorrow. (39:61)
• The people who guard against evil will be in a safe place. (44:51)
• They will not help you in any way against Allah. The wrongdoers
are protectors of one another but Allah is the Protector of those
who guard against evil. (45:19)
• The people who guard against evil will be amid Gardens and
Rivers. (54:54)
• The people who guard against evil will have Gardens of Delight
with their Lord. (68:34)
• (The guard of Hell will be told,) ‘Seize him and drag him bodily
into the middle of the Blazing Fire. Then pour the punishment of
boiling water on his head.’ ‘Taste that! You are the mighty one,
the noble one!’ (44:47-49)
GUIDANCE
• The Jews and the Christians will never be pleased with you until
you follow their religion. Say, ‘Allah’s guidance is the true
guidance.’ If you were to follow their whims and desires, after the
knowledge that has come to you, you would find no protector or
helper against Allah. (2:120)
• They say, ‘Be Jews or Christians and you will be guided.’ Say,
‘Rather adopt the religion of Ibrahim, a man of natural pure belief.
He was not one of the idolaters.’ (2:135)
• If their faith is the same as yours then they are guided. But if they
turn away, they are entrenched in hostility. Allah will be enough
for you against them. He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
(2:137)
• When they are told, ‘Follow what Allah has sent down to you,’
They say, ‘We are following what we found our fathers doing.’
What, even though their fathers did not understand a thing and
were not guided! (2:170)
• The month of Ramadan is the one in which the Qur’an was sent
down as guidance for mankind, with Clear Signs containing
guidance and discrimination. Any of you who are resident for the
month should fast it. But any of you who are ill or on a journey
should fast a number of other days. Allah desires ease for you;
He does not desire difficulty for you. You should complete the
number of days and proclaim Allah’s greatness for the guidance
He has given you so that hopefully you will be thankful. (2:185)
• Do not trust anyone except for those who follow your religion.’
Say, ‘Allah’s guidance is true guidance. But you think it is
impossible for anyone to be given the same as you were given, or
to argue with you before your Lord.’ Say, ‘All favour is in Allah’s
Hand and He gives it to whoever He wills. Allah is All-
Encompassing, All-Knowing.’ (3:73)
• You who believe! You are only responsible for yourselves. The
misguided cannot harm you as long as you are guided. All of you
will return to Allah and He will inform you about what you were
doing. (5:105)
• His people argued with him. He (Ibrahim) said, ‘Are you arguing
with me about Allah when He has guided me? I have no fear of
any partner you ascribe to Him unless my Lord should will such a
thing to happen. My Lord encompasses all things in His
knowledge so will you not pay heed?’ (6:80)
• Those who kill their children foolishly without any knowledge and
make what Allah has provided for them forbidden, inventing lies
against Allah, such people are lost. They are misguided. They are
not guided. (6:140)
• Nor can you say: ‘If the Book had been sent down to us, We
would have been better guided than they were.’ For a Clear Sign
has come to you from your Lord, and guidance and mercy. Who
could do greater wrong than someone who denies Allah’s Signs
and turns away from them? We will repay those who turn away
from Our Signs with the worst kind of punishment because they
turned away. (6:157)
• I will divert from My Signs all those who are arrogant in the earth
without any right. If they see every Sign, they will not believe in it.
If they see the way of right guidance, they will not take it as a way.
But if they see the way of error, they will take that as a way. That
is because they denied Our Signs and paid no attention to them.
(7:146)
• If you call them to guidance, they do not hear. You see them
looking at you, yet they do not see. (7:198)
• Say: ‘If your fathers or your sons or your brothers or your wives or
your tribe, or any wealth you have acquired, or any business you
fear may slump, or any house which pleases you, are dearer to
you than Allah and His Messenger and striving in His Way, then
wait until Allah brings about His command. Allah does not guide
people who are deviators.’ (9:24)
• Say: ‘Can any of your partner-gods guide to the truth?’ Say: ‘Allah
guides to the truth. Who has more right to be followed–He Who
guides to the truth, or he who cannot guide unless he is guided?
What is the matter with you? How do you reach your judgement?’
(10:35)
• Among them there are some who look at you. But can you guide
the blind, even though they cannot see? (10:43)
• (We sent Musa) to Pharaoh and his ruling circle. They followed
Pharaoh’s command but Pharaoh’s command was not rightly
guided. (11:97)
• Those who disbelieve say, ‘Why has a Sign not been sent down
to him from his Lord?’ Say: ‘Allah misguides whoever He wills and
guides to Himself all who turn to Him.’ (13:27)
• They will all parade before Allah and the weak will say to those
who were arrogant, ‘We followed you, so can you help us at all
against the punishment of Allah?’ They will say, ‘If Allah had
guided us, we would have guided you. It makes no difference
whether we cannot stand it or bear it patiently. We have no way
of escape.’ (14:21)
• You would have seen the sun, when it rose, inclining away from
their cave towards the right, and, when it set, leaving them behind
on the left, while they were lying in an open part of it. That was
one of Allah’s Signs. Whoever Allah guides is truly guided. But if
He misguides someone, you will find no protector for them to
guide them rightly. (18:17)
• Musa said to him, ‘May I follow you on condition that you teach
me some of the right guidance you have been taught?’ (18:66)
• Those are some of the Prophets Allah has blessed, from the
descendants of Adam and from those We carried with Nuh, and
from the descendants of Ibrahim and Isra’il and from those We
guided and chose. When the Signs of the All-Merciful were
recited to them they fell on their faces, weeping, in prostration.
(19:58)
• When he (Musa) saw a fire and said to his family, ‘Wait here. I
can make out a fire. Maybe I will bring you a brand from it, or will
find guidance there.’ (20:10)
• He (Musa) said, ‘Our Lord is He Who gives each thing its created
form and then guides it.’ (20:50)
• But then his Lord chose him (Adam) and turned to him and
guided him. (20:122)
• He said, ‘Go down from it, all of you, as enemies to one another!
But when guidance comes to you from Me, all those who follow
My guidance will not go astray and will not be miserable.’ (20:123)
• If they do not respond to you then know that they are merely
following their whims and desires. And who could be further
astray than someone who follows his whims and desires without
any guidance from Allah? Allah does not guide the people of the
wrongdoers. (28:50)
• Do you not see that Allah has subjected to you everything in the
heavens and earth and has showered His blessings upon you,
both outwardly and inwardly? Yet there are people who argue
about Allah without knowledge or guidance or any illuminating
Book. (31:20)
• Is Allah not enough for His servant? Yet they try to scare you with
others apart from Him. If Allah misguides someone, he has no
guide. (39:36)
• Have you seen him who takes his whims and desires to be his
god–whom Allah has misguided knowingly, sealing up his hearing
and his heart and placing a blindfold over his eyes? Who then will
guide him after Allah? So will you not pay heed? (45:23)
• They are nothing but names which you yourselves have given,
you and your forefathers. Allah has sent down no authority for
them. They are following nothing but conjecture and what their
own selves desire. And that when guidance has reached them
from their Lord! (53:23)
• The metaphor of those who were charged with the Torah but then
have not upheld it, is that of a donkey loaded with weighty tomes.
How evil is the metaphor of those who deny Allah’s Signs! Allah
does not guide wrongdoing people. (62:5)
• (Say: ‘It has been revealed to me that a band of the jinn listened
and said,) "And when we heard the guidance, we believed in it.
Anyone who believes in his Lord need fear neither belittlement
nor tyranny."’ (72:13)
• Glorify the Name of your Lord, the Most High: He Who created
and moulded; He Who determined and guided. (87:1-3)
• Assuredly guidance is up to Us. (92:12)
GUT - BOWELS
HAMAN
• Pharaoh said, ‘Council, I do not know of any other god for you
apart from Me. Haman, kindle a fire for me over the clay and build
me a lofty tower so that perhaps I may be able to climb up to
Musa’s god! I consider him a blatant liar.’ (28:38)
• And Qarun and Pharaoh and Haman–Musa came with the Clear
Signs to them, but they were arrogant on the earth. They could
not outstrip Us. (29:39)
• You who believe! Wine and gambling, stone altars and divining
arrows are filth from the handiwork of Shaytan. Avoid them
completely so that hopefully you will be successful. (5:90)
• (We said to Musa,) ‘Throw down what is in your right hand. It will
swallow up their handiwork. Their handiwork is just a magician’s
trick. Magicians do not prosper wherever they go.’ (20:69)
• You will see the mountains you reckoned to be solid going past
like clouds–the handiwork of Allah Who gives to everything its
solidity. He is aware of what you do. (27:88)
• Have they not seen how We created for them, by Our own
handiwork, livestock which are under their control? (36:71)
HAPPINESS
• As for those who are glad, they will be in the Garden, remaining
in it timelessly, for ever, as long as the heavens and earth endure,
except as your Lord wills: an uninterrupted gift. (11:108)
HARDSHIP
• (Believers are) those who give in times of both ease and hardship,
those who control their rage and pardon other people– Allah
loves the good-doers. (3:134)
• When We let people taste mercy after hardship has afflicted them,
immediately they plot against Our Signs. Say: ‘Allah is swifter at
plotting.’ Your plotting is recorded by Our Messengers. (10:21)
• But if We let him taste blessings after hardship has afflicted him,
he says, ‘My troubles have gone away,’ and he is overjoyed,
boastful. (11:10)
• So when they came into his presence, they said, ‘Your Eminence!
Hardship has hit us and our families. We bring scant merchandise,
but fill the measure for us generously. Allah always rewards a
generous giver.’ (12:88)
• Their Prophet said to them, ‘The sign of his kingship is that the
Ark will come to you, containing serenity from your Lord and
certain relics left by the families of Musa and Harun. It will be
borne by angels. There is a sign for you in that if you are
believers.’ (2:248)
• They (the magicians) said, ‘We believe in the Lord of all the
worlds, the Lord of Musa and Harun.’ (7:121-122)
• We set aside thirty nights for Musa and then completed them with
ten, so the appointed time of his Lord was forty nights in all. Musa
said to his brother Harun, ‘Take my place among my people.
Keep order and do not follow the way of the corrupters.’ (7:142)
• Harun had earlier said to them, ‘My people! It is just a trial for you.
Your Lord is the All-Merciful, so follow me and obey my
command!’ (20:90)
• Then We sent Musa and his brother Harun with Our Signs and
clear authority. (23:45)
• We gave Musa the Book and appointed his brother Harun with
him as a helper. (25:35)
• He (Musa) said, ‘My Lord, I fear they will deny me and that my
breast will be constricted and that my tongue will not be free, so
send Harun as a Messenger as well.’ (26:12-13)
• They (the magicians) said, ‘We believe in the Lord of all the
worlds, the Lord of Musa and Harun.’ (26:47-48)
• He (Musa) said, ‘My Lord, I killed one of them and I am afraid
they will kill me; and my brother Harun is more eloquent than me
so send him with me to support me and back me up. I am afraid
they will call me a liar.’ (28:33-34)
HATRED
• Those who have come after them say, ‘Our Lord, forgive us and
our brothers who preceded us in faith and do not put any rancour
in our hearts towards those who believe. Our Lord, You are All-
Gentle, Most Merciful.’ (59:10)
• It is the one who hates you who is cut off without an heir. (108:3)
• Fight them! Allah will punish them at your hands, and disgrace
them and help you against them, and heal the hearts of those
who believe. (9:14)
• Mankind! Admonition has come to you from your Lord and also
healing for what is in the breasts and guidance and mercy for the
believers. (10:57)
• (Your Lord revealed to the bees:) ‘Then eat from every kind of
fruit and travel the paths of your Lord, which have been made
easy for you to follow.’ From inside them comes a drink of varying
colours, containing healing for mankind. There is certainly a Sign
in that for people who reflect. (16:69)
HEARING
• Allah has sealed up their hearts and hearing and over their eyes
is a blindfold. They will have a terrible punishment. (2:7)
• Say: ‘Who provides for you out of heaven and earth? Who
controls hearing and sight? Who brings forth the living from the
dead and the dead from the living? Who directs the whole affair?’
They will say, ‘Allah.’ Say, ‘So will you not guard against evil?’.
(10:31)
• Those are the people whose hearts, hearing and sight Allah has
sealed up. They are the unaware. (16:108)
• It is He Who has created hearing, sight and hearts for you. What
little thanks you show! (23:78)
• They give them (Satans) a hearing and most of them are liars.
(26:223)
• Then (He) formed him and breathed His Spirit into him and gave
you hearing, sight and hearts. What little thanks you show! (32:9)
• Say: ‘It is He Who brought you into being and gave you hearing,
sight and hearts. What little thanks you show!’ (67:23)
HEART
• Allah has sealed up their hearts and hearing and over their eyes
is a blindfold. They will have a terrible punishment. (2:7)
• Then your hearts became hardened after that, so they were like
rocks or even harder still. There are some rocks from which rivers
gush out, and others which split open and water pours out, and
others which crash down from fear of Allah. Allah is not unaware
of what you do. (2:74)
• Say, ‘Anyone who is the enemy of Gabriel should know that it was
he who brought it down upon your heart, by Allah’s authority,
confirming what came before, and as guidance and good news
for the believers. (2:97)
• Those who do not know say, ‘If only Allah would speak to us, or
some sign come to us!’ just like those before them who said the
same as they say. Their hearts are much the same. We have
made the Signs clear for people who have certainty. (2:118)
• Among the people there is someone whose words about the life
of this world excite your admiration, and he calls Allah to witness
what is in his heart, while he is in fact the most hostile of
adversaries. (2:204)
• Allah will not take you to task for inadvertent statements in your
oaths, but He will take you to task for the intention your hearts
have made. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, All-Forbearing. (2:225)
• When Ibrahim said, ‘My Lord, show me how You bring the dead
to life.’ He asked, ‘Do you not then believe?’ He replied, ‘Indeed I
do! But so that my heart may be at peace.’ He said, ‘Take four
birds and train them to yourself. Then put a part of them on each
mountain and call to them; they will come rushing to you. Know
that Allah is Almighty, All-Wise.’ (2:260)
• Hold fast to the rope of Allah all together, and do not separate.
Remember Allah’s blessing to you when you were enemies and
He joined your hearts together so that you became brothers by
His blessing. You were on the very brink of a pit of the Fire and
He rescued you from it. In this way Allah makes His Signs clear to
you, so that hopefully you will be guided. (3:103)
• There you are, loving them when they do not love you, even
though you believe in all the Books. When they meet you, they
say, ‘We believe.’ But when they leave they bite their fingers out
of rage against you. Say, ‘Die in your rage.’ Allah knows what
your hearts contain. (3:119)
• Allah only did this for it to be good news for you and so that your
hearts might be set at rest by it (help comes from no one but
Allah, the Almighty, the All-Wise). (3:126)
• You who believe! Do not be like those who disbelieve and say of
their brothers, when they are going on journeys or military
expeditions, ‘If they had only been with us, they would not have
died or been killed,’ so that Allah can make that anguish for them
in their hearts. It is Allah Who gives life and causes to die. Allah
sees what you do. (3:156)
• It is a mercy from Allah that you were gentle with them. If you had
been rough or hard of heart, they would have scattered from
around you. So pardon them and ask forgiveness for them, and
consult with them about the matter. Then when you have reached
a firm decision, put your trust in Allah. Allah loves those who put
their trust in Him. (3:159)
• What assailed you on the day the two armies met was by Allah’s
permission, so that He would know the believers, and so that He
would know the hypocrites. They were told, ‘Come and fight in the
Way of Allah or at least help defend us.’ They said, ‘If we knew
how to fight, we would certainly follow you.’ They were closer to
disbelief that day than to faith, saying with their mouths what was
not in their hearts. And Allah knows best what they are hiding.
(3:166-167)
• Because of the fact that they broke their covenant, and rejected
Allah’s Signs, and killed the Prophets without any right to do so
and said, ‘Our hearts are uncircumcised,’ Allah has stamped
them with disbelief, so they do not believe except for very few.
(4:155)
• Yet you see those with sickness in their hearts rushing to them,
saying, ‘We fear the wheel of fate may turn against us.’ But it may
well be that Allah will bring about victory or some other
contingency from Him. Then they will deeply regret their secret
thoughts. (5:52)
• They said, ‘We want to eat from it and for our hearts to be at
peace and to know that you have told us the truth and to be
among those who witness it.’ (5:113)
• Say: ‘What do you think? If Allah took away your hearing and
your sight and sealed up your hearts, what god is there, other
than Allah, who could give them back to you?’ Look how We vary
the Signs, yet still they turn away! (6:46)
• We will overturn their hearts and sight, just as when they did not
believe in it at first, and We will abandon them to wander blindly
in their excessive insolence. (6:110)
• In this way We have appointed as enemies to every Prophet
Satans from both mankind and from the jinn, who inspire each
other with delusions by means of specious words–if your Lord
had willed, they would not have done it, so abandon them and all
they fabricate–so that the hearts of those who do not believe in
the hereafter incline towards them and are pleased with them and
perpetrate whatever they perpetrate. (6:112-113)
• We will strip away any rancour in their hearts. Rivers will flow
under them and they will say, ‘Praise be to Allah Who has guided
us to this! We would not have been guided, had Allah not guided
us. The Messengers of our Lord came with the Truth.’ It will be
proclaimed to them: ‘This is your Garden which you have
inherited for what you did.’ (7:43)
• Is it not clear to those who have inherited the earth after these
people that, if We wanted to, We could strike them for their wrong
actions, sealing up their hearts so that they cannot hear? (7:100)
• We created many of the jinn and mankind for Hell. They have
hearts they do not understand with. They have eyes they do not
see with. They have ears they do not hear with. Such people are
like cattle. No, they are even further astray! They are the unaware.
(7:179)
• Allah only did this to give you good news and that so your hearts
would be at rest. Victory comes from no one but Allah. Allah is
Almighty, All-Wise. (8:10)
• And when He overcame you with sleep, making you feel secure,
and sent you down water from heaven to purify you and remove
the taint of Satan from you, and to fortify your hearts and make
your feet firm. (8:11)
• And when the hypocrites and those with sickness in their hearts
said, ‘These people have been deluded by their religion.’ But
those who put their trust in Allah will find Allah to be Almighty, All-
Wise. (8:49)
• And (it is He Who) unified their hearts. Even if you had spent
everything on the earth, you could not have unified their hearts.
But Allah has unified them. He is Almighty, All-Wise. (8:63)
• Prophet! Say to those you are holding prisoner, ‘If Allah knows of
any good in your hearts, He will give you something better than
what has been taken from you and forgive you.’ Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful.’ (8:70)
• How indeed! For if they get the upper hand over you, they will
respect neither kinship nor treaty. They please you with their
mouths but their hearts belie their words. Most of them are
deviators. (9:8)
• He will remove the rage from their hearts. Allah turns to anyone
He wills. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (9:15)
• Only those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day ask you
to excuse them. Their hearts are full of doubt and in their doubt
they waver to and fro. (9:45)
• The alms are for: the poor, the destitute, those who collect it,
reconciling people’s hearts, freeing slaves, those in debt,
spending in the Way of Allah, and travellers. It is a legal obligation
from Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (9:60)
• The hypocrites are afraid that a sura may be sent down about
them, informing them of what is in their hearts. Say: ‘Go on
mocking! Allah will expose everything you are afraid of. (9:64)
• They are pleased to be with those who stay behind. Their hearts
have been stamped so they do not understand. (9:87)
• There are only grounds against those who ask you for permission
to stay when they are rich. They were pleased to be among those
who were left behind. Allah has sealed up their hearts so they do
not know. (9:93)
• Each time a sura is sent down, they look at one another, implying,
‘Can anyone see you?’ Then they turn away. Allah has turned
their hearts away because they are people who do not
understand. (9:127)
• Mankind! Admonition has come to you from your Lord and also
healing for what is in the breasts and guidance and mercy for the
believers. (10:57)
• Musa said, ‘Our Lord, You have given Pharaoh and his ruling
circle finery and wealth in the life of this world, Our Lord, so that
they may be misguided from Your Way. Our Lord, obliterate their
wealth and harden their hearts so that they do not believe until
they see the painful punishment.’ (10:88)
• Your God is One God. As for those who do not believe in the
hereafter, their hearts are in denial and they are puffed up with
pride. (16:22)
• Those are the people whose hearts, hearing and sight Allah has
sealed up. They are the unaware. (16:108)
• We fortified their hearts when they stood up and said, ‘Our Lord is
the Lord of the heavens and the earth and We will not call on any
god apart from Him. We would in that case have uttered an
abomination.’ (18:14)
• That is it. As for those who honour Allah’s sacred rites should do
so from heartfelt heeding. (22:32)
• Have they not travelled about the earth and do they not have
hearts to understand with or ears to hear with? It is not their eyes
which are blind but the hearts in their breasts which are blind.
(22:46)
• It is He Who has created hearing, sight and hearts for you. What
little thanks you show! (23:78)
• ... there are men who proclaim His glory morning and evening,
not distracted by trade or commerce from the remembrance of
Allah and the performance of prayer and the giving of the alms;
fearing a day when all hearts and eyes will be in turmoil. (24:36-
37)
• Those who disbelieve say, ‘Why was the Qur’an not sent down to
him all in one go?’ It is so that We can fortify your heart by it. We
have recited it distinctly, little by little. (25:32)
• (Ibrahim said,) ‘The Day when neither wealth nor sons will be of
any use–except to those who come to Allah with sound and
flawless hearts.’ (26:88-89)
• Certainly your Lord knows what their hearts keep hidden and
what they divulge. (27:74)
• Musa’s mother felt a great emptiness in her heart and she almost
gave him away; only We fortified her heart so that she would be
one of the believers. (28:10)
• Your Lord knows what their hearts conceal and what they divulge.
(28:69)
• There are some people who say, ‘We believe in Allah,’ and then,
when they suffer harm in Allah’s cause, they take people’s
persecution for Allah’s punishment; but if help comes from your
Lord they say, ‘We were with you.’ Does Allah not know best what
is in every person’s heart? (29:10)
• In that way Allah seals up the hearts of those who do not know.
(30:59)
• And do not let the disbelief of those who disbelieve sadden you.
They will return to Us and We will inform them about the things
they did. Allah knows what the heart contains. (31:23)
• Then (He) formed him and breathed His Spirit into him and gave
you hearing, sight and hearts. What little thanks you show! (32:9)
• Allah has not allotted to any man two hearts within his breast, nor
has He made those of your wives you equate with your mothers
your actual mothers, nor has He made your adopted sons your
actual sons. These are just words coming out of your mouths. But
Allah speaks the truth and He guides to the Way. (33:4)
• When they came at you from above you and below you, when
your eyes rolled and your hearts rose to your throats, and you
thought unworthy thoughts about Allah. (33:10)
• When the hypocrites and people with sickness in their hearts said,
‘What Allah and His Messenger promised us was mere delusion.’
(33:12)
• Wives of the Prophet! You are not like other women provided you
guard against evil. Do not be too soft-spoken in your speech lest
someone with sickness in his heart becomes desirous. Speak
correct and courteous words. (33:32)
• You may refrain from any of them you will and keep close to you
any of them you will. And if you desire any you have left alone,
there is nothing wrong in that. This makes it more likely they will
be comforted and not be grieved, and all of them will be content
with what you give them. Allah knows what is in your hearts. Allah
is All-Knowing, All-Forbearing. (33:51)
• If the hypocrites and those with sickness in their hearts and the
rumour-mongers in Madina do not desist, We will set you onto
them. Then they will only be your neighbours there a very short
time. (33:60)
• Allah knows the Unseen of the heavens and earth. Allah knows
what the heart contains. (35:38)
• If you are ungrateful, Allah is rich beyond need of any of you and
He is not pleased with ingratitude in His servants. But if you are
grateful, He is pleased with you for that. No burden-bearer can
bear another’s burden. Then you will return to your Lord and He
will inform you of what you did. He knows what the heart contains.
(39:7)
• And warn them of the Day of Immediacy when hearts rise choking
to the throat. The wrongdoers will have no close friend nor any
intercessor who might be heard. (40:18)
• Those who argue about the Signs of Allah without any authority
coming to them do something hateful in the sight of Allah and in
the sight of the people who believe. That is how Allah seals up
the heart of every arrogant oppressor. (40:35)
• They say, ‘Our hearts are covered up against what you call us to
and there is a heaviness in our ears. There is a screen between
us and you. So act–we are certainly acting.’ (41:5)
• Have you seen him who takes his whims and desires to be his
god–whom Allah has misguided knowingly, sealing up his hearing
and his heart and placing a blindfold over his eyes? Who then will
guide him after Allah? So will you not pay heed? (45:23)
• Among them are those who listen to you and then, when they
leave your presence, say to those who have been given
knowledge, ‘What was that he just said?’ They are those whose
hearts Allah has sealed up and who follow their own desires.
(47:16)
• Those who believe say, ‘If only a sura could be sent down.’ But
when a straightforward sura is sent down and fighting is
mentioned in it, you see those with sickness in their hearts
looking at you with the look of someone about to faint from fear of
death. More fitting for them would be obedience and honourable
words... (47:20-21)
• Will they not then ponder the Qur’an or are there locks upon their
hearts? (47:24)
• Or did those with sickness in their hearts imagine that Allah would
not expose their malevolence? (47:29)
• It is He Who sent down serenity into the hearts of the believers
thereby increasing their faith with more faith–the legions of the
heavens and the earth belong to Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-
Wise. (48:4)
• Those Arabs who remained behind will say to you, ‘Our wealth
and families kept us occupied, so ask forgiveness for us.’ They
say with their tongues what is not in their hearts. Say: ‘Who can
control Allah for you in any way whether He wants harm for you
or wants benefit for you?’ Allah is aware of what you do. (48:11)
• No, you thought that the Messenger and the believers were not
going to return to their families, and that seemed pleasing to your
hearts and you thought evil thoughts and you were a blighted
people. (48:12)
• Those who lower their voices when they are with the Messenger
of Allah are people whose hearts Allah has tested for heedfulness.
They will have forgiveness and an immense reward. (49:3)
• The desert Arabs say, ‘We believe.’ Say: ‘You do not believe. Say
rather, "We have become Muslim," for faith has not yet entered
into your hearts. If you obey Allah and His Messenger, He will not
undervalue your actions in any way. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful.’ (49:14)
• ... It (the Garden) is for every careful penitent: those who fear the
All-Merciful in the Unseen and come with a contrite heart. (50:32-
33)
• Has the time not arrived for the hearts of those who believe to
yield to the remembrance of Allah and to the truth He has sent
down, so they are not like those who were given the Book before
for whom the time seemed over long so that their hearts became
hard? Many of them are deviators. (57:16)
• You will not find people who believe in Allah and the Last Day
having love for anyone who opposes Allah and His Messenger,
though they be their fathers, their sons, their brothers or their clan.
Allah has inscribed faith upon such people’s hearts and will
reinforce them with a Spirit from Him and admit them into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them
timelessly, for ever. Allah is pleased with them and they are
pleased with Him. Such people are the party of Allah. Truly it is
the party of Allah who are successful. (58:22)
• Those who have come after them say, ‘Our Lord, forgive us and
our brothers who preceded us in faith and do not put any rancour
in our hearts towards those who believe. Our Lord, You are All-
Gentle, Most Merciful.’ (59:10)
• They will not fight against you all together as a group except in
fortified towns or behind high walls. Their hostility towards each
other is intense. They are full of bravado in each other’s company.
You consider them united but their hearts are scattered wide.
That is because they are people who do not use their intellect.
(59:14)
• If the two of you would only turn to Allah, for your hearts clearly
deviated... But if you support one another against him, Allah is his
Protector and so are Gabriel and every right-acting man of the
believers and, furthermore, the angels too will come to his
support. (66:4)
• Whether you keep your words secret or say them out loud He
knows what the heart contains. (67:13)
• Say: ‘It is He Who brought you into being and gave you hearing,
sight and hearts. What little thanks you show!’ (67:23)
• We have only appointed angels as masters of the Fire and We
have only specified their number as a trial for those who
disbelieve; so that those who were given the Book might gain in
certainty, and those who believe might increase in their faith, and
both those who were given the Book and the believers might
have no doubt; and so that those with sickness in their hearts and
the disbelievers might say, ‘What did Allah intend by this
example?’In this way Allah misguides those He wills and guides
those He wills. No one knows the legions of your Lord but Him.
This is nothing but a reminder to all human beings. (74:31)
• On the Day the first blast shudders, and the second blast follows
it, hearts that Day will be pounding and eyes will be cast down.
(79:6-9)
• The kindled Fire of Allah reaching right into the heart. (104:6-7)
• Say: ‘I seek refuge with the Lord of mankind, the King of mankind,
the God of mankind, from the evil of the insidious whisperer who
whispers in people’s breasts and comes from the jinn and from
mankind.’ (114:1-6)
HEAVEN
• He said, ‘Adam, tell them their names.’ When he had told them
their names, He said, ‘Did I not tell you that I know the Unseen of
the heavens and the earth, and I know what you make known and
what you hide?’ (2:33)
• Those who are tight-fisted with the bounty Allah has given them
should not suppose that that is better for them. No indeed, it is
worse for them! What they were tight-fisted with will be hung
around their necks on the Day of Rising. Allah is the inheritor of
the heavens and the earth and Allah is aware of what you do.
(3:180)
• In the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation
of night and day, there are Signs for people with intelligence:
those who remember Allah, standing, sitting and lying on their
sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth:
‘Our Lord, You have not created this for nothing. Glory be to You!
So safeguard us from the punishment of the Fire.’ (3:190-191)
• Mankind! The Messenger has brought you the truth from your
Lord, so it is better for you to believe. But if you disbelieve,
everything in the heavens and the earth belongs to Allah. Allah is
All-Knowing, All-Wise. (4:170)
• The Jews and Christians say, ‘We are Allah’s children and His
loved ones.’ Say: ‘Why, then, does He punish you for your wrong
actions? No, you are merely human beings among those He has
created. He forgives whoever He wills and He punishes whoever
He wills. The kingdom of the heavens and the earth and
everything between them belongs to Allah. He is our final
destination.’ (5:18)
• Do you not know that the kingdom of the heavens and earth
belongs to Allah? He punishes whoever He wills and forgives
whoever He wills. Allah has power over all things. (5:40)
• Praise belongs to Allah Who created the heavens and the earth
and appointed darkness and light. Then those who disbelieve
make others equal to their Lord! (6:1)
• He is Allah in the heavens and in the earth. He knows what you
keep secret and what you make public and He knows what you
earn. (6:3)
• It is He Who created the heavens and the earth with truth. The
day He says ‘Be!’ it is. His speech is Truth. The Kingdom will be
His on the Day the Trumpet is blown, the Knower of the Unseen
and the Visible. He is the All-Wise, the All-Aware. (6:73)
• Your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six
days and then settled Himself firmly on the Throne. He covers the
day with the night, each pursuing the other urgently; and the sun
and moon and stars are subservient to His command. Both
creation and command belong to Him. Blessed be Allah, the Lord
of all the worlds. (7:54)
• Say: ‘Mankind! I am the Messenger of Allah to you all, of Him to
Whom the kingdom of the heavens and earth belongs. There is
no god but Him. He gives life and causes to die.’ So believe in
Allah and His Messenger, the Ummi, who believes in Allah and
His words, and follow him so that hopefully you will be guided.
(7:158)
• Have they not looked into the dominions of the heavens and the
earth and what Allah has created, and seen that it may well be
that their appointed time is near? In what discourse after this will
they believe? (7:185)
• They will ask you about the Hour: when is it due? Say:
‘Knowledge of it rests with my Lord alone. He alone will reveal it
at its proper time. It hangs heavy in the heavens and the earth. It
will not come upon you except suddenly.’ They will ask you as if
you had full knowledge of it. Say: ‘Knowledge of it rests with Allah
alone. But most people do not know that.’ (7:187)
• There have been twelve months with Allah in the Book of Allah,
from the day He first created the heavens and earth. Four of them
are forbidden. That is the True Religion. So do not wrong one
another during them. However, fight the idolaters totally just as
they fight you totally, and know that Allah is with those who guard
against evil. (9:36)
• Your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six
days and then established Himself firmly on the Throne. He
directs the whole affair. No one can intercede except with His
permission. That is Allah your Lord, so worship Him. Will you not
pay heed? (10:3)
• In the alternation of night and day and what Allah has created in
the heavens and the earth there are Signs for people who guard
against evil. (10:6)
• They worship, instead of Allah, what can neither harm them nor
help them, saying, ‘These are our intercessors with Allah.’ Say:
‘Would you inform Allah of something about which He does not
know either in the heavens or on the earth?’ May He be glorified
and exalted above what they associate with Him! (10:18)
• Say: ‘Look at what there is in the heavens and on the earth.’ But
Signs and warnings are of no avail to people who have no faith.
(10:101)
• It is He Who created the heavens and the earth in six days when
His Throne was on the water, in order to test which of you has the
best actions. If you say, ‘You will be raised up after death,’ those
who disbelieve will say, ‘This is nothing but downright magic.’
(11:7)
• As for those who are wretched, they will be in the Fire, where
they will sigh and gasp, remaining in it timelessly, for ever, as
long as the heavens and earth endure, except as your Lord wills.
Your Lord is the Doer of what He wills. (11:106-107)
• As for those who are glad, they will be in the Garden, remaining
in it timelessly, for ever, as long as the heavens and earth endure,
except as your Lord wills: an uninterrupted gift. (11:108)
• The Unseen of the heavens and the earth belongs to Allah and
the whole affair will be returned to Him. So worship Him and put
your trust in Him. Your Lord is not unaware of what you do.
(11:123)
• How many Signs there are in the heavens and earth! Yet they
pass them by, turning away from them. (12:105)
• Say: ‘Who is the Lord of the heavens and the earth?’ Say: ‘Allah.’
Say: ‘So why have you taken protectors apart from Him who
possess no power to help or harm themselves?’ Say: ‘Are the
blind and seeing equal? Or are darkness and light the same? Or
have they assigned partners to Allah who create as He creates,
so that all creating seems the same to them?’ Say: ‘Allah is the
Creator of everything. He is the One, the All-Conquering.’ (13:16)
• Their Messengers said, ‘Is there any doubt about Allah, the
Bringer into Being of the heavens and the earth? He summons
you to forgive you for your wrong actions and to defer you until a
specified time.’ They said, ‘You are nothing but human beings like
ourselves who want to debar us from what our fathers
worshipped; so bring us a clear authority.’ (14:10)
• Do you not see that Allah has created the heavens and the earth
with truth? If He wished He could eliminate you and bring about a
new creation. (14:19)
• Allah is He Who created the heavens and the earth and sends
down water from the sky and by it brings forth fruits as provision
for you. He has made the ships subservient to you to run upon
the sea by His command, and He has made the rivers
subservient to you. (14:32)
• On the Day the earth is changed to other than the earth, and the
heavens likewise, and they parade before Allah, the One, the All-
Conquering, that Day you will see the evildoers yoked together in
chains. (14:48-49)
• We did not create the heavens and earth and everything between
them, except with truth. The Hour is certainly coming, so turn
away graciously. (15:85)
• Allah has given you wives from among yourselves, and given you
children and grandchildren from your wives, and provided good
things for you. So why do they believe in falsehood and reject the
blessings of Allah, and worship, instead of Allah, things that have
no control over their provision from the heavens or earth in any
way, and are themselves completely impotent? (16:72-73)
• Do they not see that Allah, Who created the heavens and earth,
has the power to create the like of them, and has appointed fixed
terms for them of which there is no doubt? But the wrongdoers
still spurn anything but disbelief. (17:99)
• He (Musa) said, ‘You know that no one sent these down but the
Lord of the heavens and earth to be clear proofs. Pharaoh, I think
you are destroyed.’ (17:102)
• We fortified their hearts when they stood up and said, ‘Our Lord is
the Lord of the heavens and the earth and We will not call on any
god apart from Him. We would in that case have uttered an
abomination.’ (18:14)
• Say: ‘Allah knows best how long they stayed. The Unseen of the
heavens and the earth belongs to Him. How perfectly He sees,
how well He hears! They have no protector apart from Him. Nor
does He share His rule with anyone.’ (18:26)
• I did not make them witnesses of the creation of the heavens and
the earth nor of their own creation. I would not take as assistants
those who lead astray! (18:51)
• The heavens are all but rent apart and the earth split open and
the mountains brought crashing down, at their ascription of a son
to the All-Merciful! (19:90-91)
• There is no one in the heavens and earth who will not come to
the All-Merciful as a servant. (19:93)
• (The Qur’an is) a Revelation from Him Who created the earth and
the high heavens. (20:4)
• Do those who disbelieve not see that the heavens and the earth
were sewn together and then We unstitched them and that We
made from water every living thing? So will they not believe?
(21:30)
• He (Ibrahim) said, ‘Far from it! Your Lord is the Lord of the
heavens and the earth, He Who brought them into being. I am
one of those who bear witness to that.’ (21:56)
• If the truth were to follow their whims and desires, the heavens
and the earth and everyone in them would have been brought to
ruin. No indeed! We have given them their Reminder, but they
have turned away from it. (23:71)
• Say: ‘Who is the Lord of the Seven Heavens and the Lord of the
Mighty Throne?’ (23:86)
• Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The metaphor of
His Light is that of a niche in which is a lamp, the lamp inside a
glass, the glass like a brilliant star, lit from a blessed tree, an olive,
neither of the east nor of the west, its oil all but giving off light
even if no fire touches it. Light upon Light. Allah guides to His
Light whoever He wills and Allah makes metaphors for mankind
and Allah has knowledge of all things. (24:35)
• Do you not see that everyone in the heavens and earth glorifies
Allah, as do the birds with their outspread wings? Each one
knows its prayer and glorification. Allah knows what they do.
(24:41)
• Say: ‘The One Who sent it down is He Who knows all hidden
secrets in the heavens and earth. He is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful.’ (25:6)
• He (Musa) said, ‘The Lord of the heavens and the earth and
everything between them if you knew for sure.’ (26:24)
• (The hoopoe said,) ‘I found both her (Queen of Sheba) and her
people prostrating to the sun instead of Allah. Satan has made
their actions seem good to them and debarred them from the
Way so they are not guided and do not prostrate to Allah, Who
brings out what is hidden in the heavens and the earth, and
knows what you conceal and what you divulge.’ (27:24-25)
• He Who created the heavens and the earth and sends down
water for you from the sky by which We make luxuriant gardens
grow–you could never make their trees grow. Is there another
god besides Allah? No indeed, but they are people who equate
others with Him! (27:60)
• Say: ‘No one in the heavens and the earth knows the Unseen
except Allah.’ They are not aware of when they will be raised.
(27:65)
• Allah created the heavens and the earth with truth. There is
certainly a Sign in that for the believers. (29:44)
• If you ask them, ‘Who created the heavens and the earth and
made the sun and moon subservient?’ they will say, ‘Allah.’ So
how have they been perverted? (29:61)
• Have they not reflected within themselves? Allah did not create
the heavens and the earth and everything between them except
with truth and for a fixed term. Yet many people reject the
meeting with their Lord. (30:8)
• Among His Signs is the creation of the heavens and earth and the
variety of your languages and colours. There are certainly Signs
in that for every being. (30:22)
• Do you not see that Allah has subjected to you everything in the
heavens and earth and has showered His blessings upon you,
both outwardly and inwardly? Yet there are people who argue
about Allah without knowledge or guidance or any illuminating
Book. (31:20)
• If you asked them, ‘Who created the heavens and the earth?’
they would say, ‘Allah!’ Say: ‘Praise be to Allah!’ But most of them
do not know. (31:25)
• We offered the Trust to the heavens, the earth and the mountains
but they refused to take it on and shrank from it. But man took it
on. He is indeed wrongdoing and ignorant. (33:72)
• Say: ‘Call on those you make claims for besides Allah. They have
no power over even the smallest particle, either in the heavens or
in the earth. They have no share in them. He has no need of their
support.’ (34:22)
• Say: ‘Who provides for you from the heavens and earth?’ Say:
‘Allah. It is certain that one or the other of us, either we or you, is
following guidance or else clearly astray.’ (34:24)
• Allah knows the Unseen of the heavens and earth. Allah knows
what the heart contains. (35:38)
• Say: ‘Have you thought about your partner gods, those you call
upon besides Allah? Show me what they have created of the
earth; or do they have a partnership in the heavens?’ Have We
given them a Book whose Clear Signs they follow? No indeed!
The wrongdoers promise each other nothing but delusion. (35:40)
• Have they not travelled in the land and seen the final fate of those
before them? They were far greater than them in strength. Allah
cannot be withstood in any way, either in the heavens or on earth.
He is All-Knowing, All-Powerful. (35:44)
• Does He Who created the heavens and earth not have the power
to create the same again? Yes indeed! He is the Creator, the All-
Knowing. (36:81)
• Lord of the heavens and the earth and everything between them;
Lord of the Easts. (37:5)
• He created the heavens and the earth with truth. He wraps the
night around the day and wraps the day around the night, and
has made the sun and moon subservient, each one running for a
specified term. Is He not indeed the Almighty, the Endlessly
Forgiving? (39:5)
• If you ask them, ‘Who created the heavens and the earth?’ they
will say, ‘Allah.’ Say: ‘So what do you think? If Allah desires harm
for me, can those you call upon besides Allah remove His harm?
Or if He desires mercy for me, can they withhold His mercy?’ Say:
‘Allah is enough for me. All those who truly trust put their trust in
Him.’ (39:38)
• The keys of the heavens and earth belong to Him. It is those who
reject Allah’s Signs who are the losers. (39:63)
• They do not measure Allah with His true measure. The whole
earth will be a mere handful for Him on the Day of Rising the
heavens folded up in His right hand. Glory be to Him! He is
exalted above the partners they ascribe! (39:67)
• The Trumpet will be blown and those in the heavens and those in
the earth will all lose consciousness, except those Allah wills.
Then it will be blown a second time and at once they will be
standing upright, looking on. (39:68)
• The creation of the heavens and earth is far greater than the
creation of mankind. But most of mankind do not know it. (40:57)
• The heavens are all but rent asunder from above when the
angels glorify their Lord with praise and ask forgiveness for those
who are on the earth. Allah is the Ever-Forgiving, the Most
Merciful. (42:5)
• (He is) the Bringer into Being of the heavens and the earth: He
has given you mates from among yourselves, and given mates to
the livestock, in that way multiplying you. Nothing is like Him. He
is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing. (42:11)
• The Keys of the heavens and earth belong to Him. He expands
the provision of anyone He wills or restricts it. He has knowledge
of all things. (42:12)
• Among His Signs is the creation of the heavens and earth and all
the creatures He has spread about in them. And He has the
power to gather them together whenever He wills. (42:29)
• (Those who guard against evil are) those who believe in what has
been sent down to you and what was sent down before you, and
are certain about the hereafter. (2:4)
• Those are the people who trade the hereafter for this world. The
punishment will not be lightened for them. They will not be helped.
(2:86)
• Say, ‘If the abode of the hereafter with Allah is for you alone, to
the exclusion of all others, then long for death if you are telling the
truth.’ (2:94)
• And there are others who say, ‘Our Lord, give us good in this
world, and good in the hereafter, and safeguard us from the
punishment of the Fire.’ (2:201)
• They will ask you about the Sacred Month and fighting in it. Say,
‘Fighting in it is a serious matter; but barring access to the Way of
Allah and rejecting Him and barring access to the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram) and expelling its people from it are far more
serious in the sight of Allah. Discord is worse than killing.’ They
will not stop fighting you until they make you revert from your
religion, if they are able. As for any of you who revert from their
religion and die disbeliever, their actions will come to nothing in
this world and the hereafter. They are the Companions of the Fire,
remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (2:217)
• ... Allah makes the Signs clear to you, so that hopefully you will
reflect on this world and the hereafter. They will ask you about the
property of orphans. Say, ‘Managing it in their best interests is
best.’ If you mix your property with theirs, they are your brothers.
Allah knows a squanderer from a good manager. If Allah had
wanted, He could have been hard on you. Allah is Almighty, All-
Wise. (2:219-220)
• They are the ones whose actions come to nothing in this world or
the hereafter. They will have no helpers. (3:22)
• When the angels said, ‘Maryam, your Lord gives you good news
of a Word from Him. His name is the Messiah, ‘Isa, son of
Maryam, of high esteem in this world and the hereafter, and one
of those brought near. (3:45)
• Those who sell Allah’s contract and their own oaths for a paltry
price, such people will have no portion in the hereafter and on the
Day of Rising Allah will not speak to them or look at them or purify
them. They will have a painful punishment. (3:77)
• They believe in Allah and the Last Day, and enjoin the right and
forbid the wrong, and compete in doing good. They are among
the righteous. (3:114)
• So Allah gave them the reward of this world and the best reward
of the hereafter. Allah loves good-doers. (3:148)
• Do not let those who rush headlong into disbelief sadden you.
They do not harm Allah in any way. Allah desires to assign no
portion to them in the hereafter. They will have a terrible
punishment. (3:176)
• So let those who sell the life of this world for the hereafter fight in
the Way of Allah. If someone fights in the Way of Allah, whether
he is killed or is victorious, We will pay him an immense reward.
(4:74)
• Do you not see those who were told: ‘Hold back from fighting but
perform prayer and give the alms’? Then when fighting is
prescribed for them, a group of them fear people as Allah should
be feared, or even more than that. They say, ‘Our Lord, why have
you prescribed fighting for us? If only You would give us just a
little more time!’ Say, ‘The enjoyment of this world is very brief.
The hereafter is better for those who guard against evil. You will
not be wronged by so much as the smallest speck.’ (4:77)
• If anyone desires the reward of this world, the reward of both this
world and hereafter is with Allah. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Seeing.
(4:134)
• Today all good things have been made lawful for you. And the
food of those given the Book is also lawful for you and your food
is lawful for them. So are chaste women from among the
believers and chaste women of those given the Book before you,
once you have given them their dowries in marriage, not in
fornication or taking them as lovers. But as for anyone who
rejects faith, his actions will come to nothing and in the hereafter
he will be among the losers. (5:5)
• The reprisal against those who wage war on Allah and His
Messenger, and go about the earth corrupting it, is that they
should be killed or crucified, or have their alternate hands and
feet cut off, or be banished from the land. That will be their
degradation in this world and in the hereafter they will have a
terrible punishment, (5:33)
• As for those who denied Our Signs and the encounter of the
hereafter, their actions will come to nothing. Will they be repaid
except for what they did? (7:147)
• (Musa said,) ‘Prescribe good for us in this world and the hereafter.
We have truly turned to You.’ He said, ‘As for My punishment, I
strike with it anyone I will. My mercy extends to all things but I will
prescribe it for those who guard against evil and give the alms,
and those who believe in Our Signs.’ (7:156)
• An evil generation has succeeded them, inheriting the Book,
taking the goods of this lower world, and saying, ‘We will be
forgiven.’ But if similar goods come to them again they still take
them. Has not a covenant been made with them in the Book, that
they should only say the truth about Allah and have they not
studied what is in it? The Abode of the Hereafter is better for
those who guard against evil. Will you not use your intellect?
(7:169)
• You who believe! What is the matter with you that when you are
told, ‘Go out and fight in the way of Allah,’ you sink down heavily
to the earth? Are you happier with this world than the hereafter?
Yet the enjoyment of this world is very small compared to that of
the hereafter. (9:38)
• Like those before you who had greater strength than you and
more wealth and children. They enjoyed their portion; so enjoy
your portion as those before you enjoyed theirs. You have
plunged into defamation as they plunged into it. The actions of
such people come to nothing in this world or the hereafter. They
are the lost. (9:69)
• They swear by Allah that they said nothing, but they definitely
spoke the word of disbelief and returned to disbelief after their
Islam.They planned something which they did not achieve and
they were vindictive for no other cause than that Allah and His
Messenger had enriched them from His bounty. If they were to
repent, it would be better for them. But if they turn away, Allah will
punish them with a painful punishment in this world and the
hereafter, and they will not find any protector or helper on the
earth. (9:74)
• There is good news for them (the believers) in the life of this
world and in the hereafter. There is no changing the words of
Allah. That is the great victory! (10:64)
• But such people will have nothing in the hereafter but the Fire.
What they achieved here will come to nothing. What they did will
prove to be null and void. (11:16)
• (Allah's curse is on) those who bar access to the way of Allah and
seek in it something crooked and reject the hereafter. (11:19)
• He (Yusuf) said, ‘No meal to feed you will arrive before I have
informed you what they mean. That is part of what my Lord taught
me. For I have left the religion of a people who clearly have no
faith in Allah and who refuse to acknowledge the truth of the
world to come.’ (12:37)
• But the wages of the hereafter are the best for people who
believe and fear their Lord. (12:57)
• We sent none before you but men inspired with revelation from
among the people of the cities. Have they not travelled in the land
and seen the final fate of those before them? The abode of the
hereafter is better for those who guard against evil. So will you
not use your intellect? (12:109)
• Those who prefer the life of this world to the hereafter, and bar
access to the way of Allah, seeking in it something crooked; they
are greatly misguided. (14:3)
• Allah makes those who believe firm with the Firm Word in the life
of this world and the hereafter. But Allah misguides the
wrongdoers. Allah does whatever He wills. (14:27)
• Your God is One God. As for those who do not believe in the
hereafter, their hearts are in denial and they are puffed up with
pride. (16:22)
• When those who have fear of Allah are asked, ‘What has your
Lord sent down?’ their reply is, ‘Good!’ There is good in this world
for those who do good, and the abode of the hereafter is even
better. How wonderful is the abode of those who guard against
evil. (16:30)
• As for those who migrate for Allah’s sake after being wronged,
We shall give them good lodging in this world, and the reward of
the hereafter is greater still if they only knew. (16:41)
• That is because they prefer the life of this world to the hereafter
and because Allah does not guide disbelieving people. (16:107)
• But as for anyone who desires the hereafter, and strives for it with
the striving it deserves, being a believer, the striving of such
people will be gratefully acknowledged. (17:19)
• Look how We favour some of them over others. But the hereafter
has higher ranks and greater favours. (17:21)
• Those who are blind in this world will be blind in the hereafter and
even further off the Path. (17:72)
• We said to the tribe of Israel after that, ‘Inhabit the land and,
when the promise of the hereafter comes, We will produce you as
a motley crowd.’ (17:104)
• Among the people there is one who worships Allah right on the
edge. If good befalls him, he is content with it, but if a trial befalls
him, he reverts to his former ways, losing both this world and the
hereafter. That is indeed sheer loss. (22:11)
• Anyone who thinks that Allah will not help him in this world and
the hereafter should stretch a rope up to the ceiling and then cut
(it) off. Let him see whether his stratagem gets rid of what
enrages him! (22:15)
• Were it not for Allah’s favour to you and His mercy, both in this
world and the hereafter, a terrible punishment would have
afflicted you for your plunging headlong into it. (24:14)
• People who love to see filth being spread about concerning those
who believe will have a painful punishment both in this world and
the hereafter. Allah knows and you do not know. (24:19)
• Those who accuse chaste believing women, unaware (of the evil),
are cursed both in this world and the hereafter, and they will have
a terrible punishment. (24:23)
• (Believers are) those who perform prayer and give the alms and
are certain about the hereafter. (27:3)
• No, their knowledge stops short of the hereafter. In fact they have
doubts about it. In fact they are blind to it. (27:66)
• (His people said to Qarun,) ‘Seek the abode of the hereafter with
what Allah has given you, without forgetting your portion of this
world. And do good as Allah has been good to you. And do not
seek to cause corruption in the earth. Allah does not love
corrupters.’ (28:77)
• That abode of the hereafter–We grant it to those who do not seek
to exalt themselves in the earth or to cause corruption in it. The
successful outcome is for those who guard against evil. (28:83)
• Say: ‘Travel about the earth and see how He brought creation out
of nothing. Then later Allah will bring about the next existence (of
the hereafter). Allah has power over all things. (29:20)
• We gave him Ishaq and Ya‘qub and placed Prophethood and the
Book among his progeny. We gave him his reward in this world
and in the hereafter he will be among the righteous. (29:27)
• The life of this world is nothing but a game and a diversion. The
abode of the hereafter–that is truly Life if they only knew. (29:64)
• They know an outward aspect of the life of this world but are
heedless of the hereafter. (30:7)
• But as for those who disbelieved and denied Our Signs and the
meeting of the hereafter, they will be summoned to the
punishment. (30:16)
• (The good-doers are) those who perform prayer and give the
alms and are certain of the hereafter. (31:4)
• (O Prophet, tell your wives:) ‘But if you desire Allah and His
Messenger and the abode of the hereafter, Allah has prepared an
immense reward for those among you who are good-doers.’
(33:29)
• As for those who abuse Allah and His Messenger, Allah’s curse is
on them in this world and the hereafter. He has prepared a
humiliating punishment for them. (33:57)
• So Allah made them taste disgrace in the life of this world and the
punishment of the hereafter is far worse if they only knew. (39:26)
• (The man who believed said,) ‘My people! The life of this world is
only fleeting enjoyment. It is the hereafter which is the abode of
permanence.’ (40:39)
• (Woe to) those who do not give the alms and reject the hereafter.
(41:7)
• Those who do not believe in the hereafter give the angels female
names. (53:27)
• Know that the life of this world is merely a game and a diversion
and ostentation and a cause of boasting among yourselves and
trying to outdo one another in wealth and children: like the plant-
growth after rain which delights the cultivators, but then it withers
and you see it turning yellow, and then it becomes broken stubble.
In the hereafter there is terrible punishment but also forgiveness
from Allah and His good pleasure. The life of this world is nothing
but the enjoyment of delusion. (57:20)
• You who believe! Do not make friends of people with whom Allah
is angry, who have despaired of the hereafter as the disbelievers
have despaired of the inhabitants of the graves. (60:13)
• No indeed! But you love this fleeting world and you disregard the
hereafter. (75:20-21)
• So Allah made an example of him seizing him with punishment in
this world and the hereafter. (79:25)
• Yet still you prefer the life of this world, when the hereafter is
better and longer lasting. (87:16-17)
HEAVY RAIN
HEED
• If you divorce them before you have touched them but have
already allotted them a dowry, they should have half the amount
which you allotted, unless they forgo it or the one in charge of the
marriage contract forgoes it. To forgo it is closer to heedfulness.
Do not forget to show generosity to one another. Allah sees what
you do. (2:237)
• He gives wisdom to whoever He wills and he who has been given
wisdom has been given great good. But no one pays heed but
people of intelligence. (2:269)
• You who believe! Do not profane the sacred rites of Allah or the
sacred months, or the sacrificial animals, or the ritual garlands, or
those heading for the Sacred House, desiring profit and good
pleasure from their Lord. When your pilgrimage is over, then you
may hunt. Do not let hatred for a people who debar you from the
Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) incite you into going beyond
the limits. Help each other to goodness and heedfulness. Do not
help each other to wrongdoing and enmity. Have fear of Allah.
Allah is severe in retribution. (5:2)
• You who believe! Show integrity for the sake of Allah, bearing
witness with justice. Do not let hatred for a people incite you into
not being just. Be just. That is closer to heedfulness. Have fear of
Allah. Allah is aware of what you do. (5:8)
• His people argued with him. He said, ‘Are you arguing with me
about Allah when He has guided me? I have no fear of any
partner you ascribe to Him unless my Lord should will such a
thing to happen. My Lord encompasses all things in His
knowledge so will you not pay heed? (6:80)
• And that you do not go near the property of orphans before they
reach maturity–except in a good way; that you give full measure
and full weight with justice–We impose on no self any more than
it can bear; that you are equitable when you speak–even if a near
relative is concerned; and that you fulfil Allah’s contract. That is
what He instructs you to do, so that hopefully you will pay heed.
(6:152)
• Do they not see that they are tried once or twice in every year?
But still they do not turn back. They do not pay heed. (9:126)
• Your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six
days and then established Himself firmly on the Throne. He
directs the whole affair. No one can intercede except with His
permission. That is Allah your Lord, so worship Him. Will you not
pay heed? (10:3)
• The likeness of the two groups is that of the blind and deaf and
the seeing and hearing. Are they the same as one another? So
will you not pay heed? (11:24)
• Perform prayer at each end of the day and in the first part of the
night. Good actions eradicate bad actions. This is a reminder for
people who pay heed. (11:114)
• Is he who knows that what has been sent down to you from your
Lord is the truth like him who is blind? It is only people of
intelligence who pay heed: (13:19)
• Is He Who creates like him who does not create? So will you not
pay heed? (16:17)
• We have made things clear in this Qur’an so that they might pay
heed, but it only makes them run away the more! (17:41)
• (He said to Musa,) ‘But speak to him with gentle words so that
hopefully he will pay heed or show some fear.’ (20:44)
• That is it. As for those who honour Allah’s sacred rites should do
so from heartfelt heeding. (22:32)
• Their flesh and blood does not reach Allah but your heedfulness
does reach Him. In this way He has subjected them to you so that
you might proclaim Allah’s greatness for the way that He has
guided you. Give good news to the good-doers. (22:37)
• Say: ‘To whom does the earth belong, and everyone in it, if you
have any knowledge?’ They will say: ‘To Allah.’ Say: ‘So will you
not pay heed?’ (23:84-85)
• You who believe! Do not enter houses other than your own until
you have asked permission and greeted their inhabitants. That is
better for you, so that hopefully you will pay heed. (24:27)
• We have variegated it for them so they might pay heed but most
people spurn anything else but disbelief. (25:50)
• It is He Who made night and day succeed each other for those
who want to pay heed or to give thanks. (25:62)
• Nor were you on the side of the Mount when We called, yet it is a
mercy from your Lord so that you can warn a people to whom no
warner came before, so that hopefully they will pay heed. (28:46)
• They will shout out in it, ‘Our Lord! Take us out! We will act rightly,
differently from the way we used to act!’ Did We not let you live
long enough for anyone who was going to pay heed to pay heed?
And did not the warner come to you? Taste it then! There is no
helper for the wrongdoers. (35:37)
• The blind and the seeing are not the same. Nor are those who
believe and do right actions the same as evildoers. What little
heed they pay! (40:58)
• Have you seen him who takes his whims and desires to be his
god–whom Allah has misguided knowingly, sealing up his hearing
and his heart and placing a blindfold over his eyes? Who then will
guide him after Allah? So will you not pay heed? (45:23)
• Those who lower their voices when they are with the Messenger
of Allah are people whose hearts Allah has tested for heedfulness.
They will have forgiveness and an immense reward. (49:3)
• And the Garden will be brought up close to the heedful, not far
away. (50:31)
• You have known the first formation, so will you not pay heed?
(56:62)
• It is not the word of a poet–how little faith you have! Nor the word
of a fortune-teller–how little heed you pay! (69:41-42)
HEEL
• When Satan made their actions appear good to them, saying, ‘No
one will overcome you today for I am at your side.’ But when the
two parties came in sight of one another, he turned right round on
his heels saying, ‘I wash my hands of you. I see what you do not
see. I fear Allah. Allah is severe in retribution.’ (8:48)
• My Signs were recited to you and you turned round on your heels,
(23:66)
HELL (JAHANNAM)
• On the Day when faces are whitened and faces are blackened.
As for those whose faces are blackened: ‘What! Did you
disbelieve after having believed? Taste the punishment for your
disbelief!’ (3:106)
• Some of them believe in him, and some bar access to him. Hell
will suffice as a Searing Blaze! (4:55)
• As for those who reject Our Signs, We will roast them in a Fire.
Every time their skins are burned off, We will replace them with
new skins so that they can taste the punishment. Allah is
Almighty, All-Wise. (4:56)
• The angels ask those they take while they are wronging
themselves, ‘What were your circumstances?’ They reply, ‘We
were oppressed on earth.’ They say, ‘Was Allah’s earth not wide
enough for you to have migrated elsewhere in it?’ The shelter of
such people will be Hell. What an evil destination! (4:97)
• It has been sent down to you in the Book that when you hear
Allah’s Signs being rejected and mocked at by people, you must
not sit with them till they start talking of other things. If you do you
are just the same as them. Allah will gather all the hypocrites and
disbelievers into Hell. (4:140)
• Allah will not forgive those who disbelieve and do wrong or guide
them on any path, except the path of Hell, remaining in it
timelessly, for ever and ever. That is easy for Allah. (4:168-169)
• If only you could see when they are standing before the Fire and
saying, ‘Oh! If only we could be sent back again, we would not
deny the Signs of our Lord and we would be among the
believers.’ (6:27)
• If only you could see when they are standing before their Lord.
He will say, ‘Is this not the Truth?’ They will say, ‘Yes indeed, by
our Lord!’ He will say, ‘Then taste the punishment for your
disbelief.’ (6:30)
• He said, ‘Get out of it, reviled and driven out. As for those of them
who follow you, I will fill up Hell with every one of you.’ (7:18)
• He will say, ‘Enter the Fire together with the nations of jinn and
men who have passed away before you.’ Each time a nation
enters, it will curse its sister nation, until, when they are all
gathered together in it, the last of them will say to the first, ‘Our
Lord, those are the ones who misguided us, so give them a
double punishment in the Fire.’ He will say, ‘Each will receive
double. But you do not know it.’ (7:38)
• The first of them will say to the last, ‘You are in no way superior to
us so taste the punishment for what you earned.’ (7:39)
• As for those who deny Our Signs and are arrogant regarding
them, the Gates of Heaven will not be opened for them, and they
will not enter the Garden until a camel goes through a needle’s
eye. That is how We repay the evildoers. (7:40)
• When they turn their eyes towards the Companions of the Fire,
they will say, ‘Our Lord, do not place us with the people of the
wrongdoers!’ (7:47)
• The Companions of the Fire will call out to the Companions of the
Garden, ‘Throw down some water to us or some of what Allah
has given you as provision.’ They will say, ‘Allah has forbidden
them to the disbelievers: those who took their religion as a
diversion and a game, and were deluded by the life of this world.’
Today We will forget them just as they forgot the encounter of this
Day and denied Our Signs. (7:50-51)
• We created many of the jinn and mankind for Hell. They have
hearts they do not understand with. They have eyes they do not
see with. They have ears they do not hear with. Such people are
like cattle. No, they are even further astray! They are the unaware.
(7:179)
• Allah has promised the men and women of the hypocrites and
disbelievers the Fire of Hell, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. It
will suffice them. Allah has cursed them. They will have
everlasting punishment. (9:68)
• Those who were left behind were glad to stay behind the
Messenger of Allah. They did not want to strive with their wealth
and themselves in the Way of Allah. They said, ‘Do not go out to
fight in the heat.’ Say: ‘The Fire of Hell is much hotter, if they only
understood.’ (9:81)
• They will swear to you by Allah when you return to them, so that
you leave them alone. Leave them alone, then! They are filth.
Their shelter will be Hell as repayment for what they did. (9:95)
• If your Lord had wanted to, He would have made mankind into
one community but they persist in their differences, except for
those your Lord has mercy on. That is what He created them for–
so that the Word of your Lord would be fulfilled: ‘I will fill up Hell
with the jinn and mankind all together.’ (11:118-119)
• Those who respond to their Lord will receive the best. But as for
those who do not respond to Him, even if they owned everything
on the earth and the same again with it, they would offer it as a
ransom. They will receive an evil Reckoning. Their shelter will be
Hell. What an evil resting-place! (13:18)
• Hell, where they will roast? What an evil place to stay! (14:29)
• Warn mankind of the Day when the punishment will reach them.
Those who did wrong will say, ‘Our Lord, reprieve us for a short
time. We will respond to Your call and follow the Messengers.’
‘But did you not swear to Me before that you would never meet
your downfall?’ (14:44)
• It has seven gates and each gate has its allotted share. (15:44)
• As for those the angels take in death while they are wronging
themselves, they will offer their submission: ‘We did not do any
evil.’ Oh yes you did! Allah knows what you were doing. (16:28)
• That is part of the wisdom your Lord has revealed to you. Do not
set up another god together with Allah and so be thrown into Hell,
blamed and driven out. (17:39)
• He said, ‘Go! And as for any who follow you, your repayment is
Hell, repayment in full!’ (17:63)
• Say: ‘It is the truth from your Lord; so let whoever wishes believe
and whoever wishes disbelieve.’ We have prepared for the
wrongdoers a Fire whose billowing walls of smoke will hem them
in. If they call for help, they will be helped with water like seething
molten brass, frying their faces. What a noxious drink! What an
evil repose! (18:29)
• By your Lord, We will collect them and the Satans together. Then
We will assemble them around Hell on their knees. (19:68)
• Say: ‘As for those who are astray, let the All-Merciful prolong their
term until they see what they were promised, whether it be the
punishment or the Hour. Then they will know who is in the worse
position and has the weaker troops.’ (19:75)
• As for those who come to their Lord as evildoers, they will have
Hell where they will neither die nor stay alive. (20:74)
• You and what you worship besides Allah are fuel for Hell. You will
go down into it. (21:98)
• There will be sighing for them in it and they will not be able to
hear. (21:100)
• Here are two rival groups who disputed concerning their Lord.
Those who disbelieve will have garments of fire cut out for them,
and boiling water poured over their heads. (22:19)
• Every time they want to come out of it, because of their suffering,
they will be driven back into it: ‘Taste the punishment of the
Burning!’ (22:22)
• Those whose scales are heavy, they are the successful. Those
whose scales are light, they are the losers of their selves,
remaining in Hell timelessly, for ever. The Fire will sear their faces,
making them grimace horribly in it, their lips drawn back from their
teeth. Were My Signs not recited to you and did you not deny
them?’ They will say, ‘Our Lord, our miserable destiny
overpowered us. We were misguided people. Our Lord, remove
us from it! Then if we revert again, we will definitely be
wrongdoers.’ He will say, ‘Slink away into it and do not speak to
Me.’ (23:102-108)
• When they are flung into a narrow place in it, shackled together in
chains, they will cry out there for destruction. ‘Do not cry out
today for just one destruction, cry out for many destructions!’ Say:
‘Is that better, or the Garden of Eternal Life which has been
promised to those who guard against evil? That is their
recompense and destination.’ (25:13-15)
• So now they have disowned you for what you said, and they
cannot avert it or give you any help. As for anyone among you
who has done wrong, We will make him suffer great punishment.
(25:19)
• On the Day they see the angels, there will be no good news that
Day for the evildoers. They will say, ‘There is an absolute ban.’
(25:22)
• We will advance on the actions they have done and make them
scattered specks of dust. (25:23).
• Those who are herded headlong into Hell, such people are in the
worst position. They are the most misguided from the way. (25:34)
• (The servants of the All-Merciful are) those who say, ‘Our Lord,
avert from us the punishment of Hell, its punishment is
inescapable pain.’ (25:65)
• But as for those who disbelieved and denied Our Signs and the
meeting of the hereafter, they will be summoned to the
punishment. (30:16)
• But as for those who are deviators, their refuge is the Fire. Every
time that they want to get out, they are put straight back into it
again and they are told, ‘Taste the punishment of the Fire, which
you denied.’ (32:20)
• Whereas for those who disbelieve there will be the Fire of Hell.
They will not be killed off so that they die and its punishment will
not be lightened for them. That is how We repay every thankless
man. (35:36)
• They will shout out in it, ‘Our Lord! Take us out! We will act rightly,
differently from the way we used to act!’ Did We not let you live
long enough for anyone who was going to pay heed to pay heed?
And did not the warner come to you? Taste it then! There is no
helper for the wrongdoers. (35:37)
• (He said,) ‘I will fill up Hell with you and every one of them who
follows you.’ (38:85)
• Is someone who tries to shield himself with his face from the
worst of the torment on the Day of Rising...? The wrongdoers will
be told, ‘Taste what you have earned.’ (39:24)
• Who could do greater wrong than those who lie about Allah and
deny the truth when it comes to them? Do the disbelievers not
have a dwelling place in Hell? (39:32)
• On the Day of Rising you will see those who lied against Allah
with their faces blackened. Do not the arrogant have a dwelling
place in Hell? (39:60)
• They will be told, ‘Enter the gates of Hell and stay there timelessly,
for ever. How evil is the abode of the arrogant!’ (39:72)
• Those in the Fire will say to the custodians of Hell, ‘Call on your
Lord to make the punishment less for us for just one day.’ (40:49)
• Your Lord says, ‘Call on Me and I will answer you. Those who
who are too proud to worship Me will enter Hell abject.’ (40:60)
• Hell is right at their heels. Nothing they have earned will be of any
use to them, nor will those they took as protectors besides Allah.
They will have a terrible punishment. (45:10)
• And so that He might punish the men and women of the
hypocrites and the men and women of the idolaters–those who
think bad thoughts about Allah. They will suffer an evil turn of fate.
Allah is angry with them, and has cursed them and prepared Hell
for them. What an evil destination! (48:6)
• On the Day He says to Hell, ‘Are you full?’ it will ask, ‘Are there no
more to come?’ (50:30)
• The Day they are shoved roughly into the Fire of Hell: (deniers
will be told,) ‘This is the Fire which you denied! So is this magic?
Or is it that you do not see? Roast in it! And bear it patiently or do
not bear it patiently. It makes no difference either way. You are
simply being repaid for what you did.’ (52:13-16)
• They will go back and forth between fire and scalding water.
(55:44)
• That Day the men and women of the hypocrites will say to those
who believe, ‘Wait for us so that we can borrow some of your
light.’ They will be told, ‘Go back and look for light!’ And a wall will
be erected between them with a gate in it, on the inside of which
there will be mercy but before whose exterior lies the punishment.
(57:13)
• Those who reject their Lord will have the punishment of Hell.
What an evil destination! (67:6)
• It all but bursts with rage. Each time a group is flung into it its
custodians will question them: ‘Did no warner come to you?’ They
will say, ‘Yes indeed, a warner did come to us but we denied him
and said, "Allah has sent nothing down. You are just greatly
misguided."’ They will say, ‘If only we had really listened and used
our intellect, we would not have been Companions of the Blaze.’
Then they will acknowledge their wrong actions. Away with the
Companions of the Blaze! (67:8-11)
• (Say: ‘It has been revealed to me that a band of the jinn listened
and said,) "Some of us are Muslims and some are deviators.
Those who have become Muslim are those who sought right
guidance; the deviators will be firewood for Hellfire."’ (72:14-15)
• Say: ‘No one can protect me from Allah and I will never find any
refuge apart from Him–only in transmitting from Allah and His
Messages. As for him who disobeys Allah and His Messenger, he
will have the Fire of Hell, remaining in it timelessly, for ever and
ever.’ (72:22-23)
• They (the companions of the Right) will ask the evildoers: ‘What
caused you to enter Saqar?’ (74:41-42)
• We have made ready for the disbelievers shackles and chains
and a Searing Blaze. (76:4)
• Those who persecute men and women of the believers, and then
do not repent, will have the punishment of Hell, will have the
punishment of the Burning. (85:10)
• And that Day Hell is produced, that Day man will remember; but
how will the remembrance help him? (89:23)
• Those who reject Our signs, they are the Companions of the Left.
(90:19)
• I have warned you of a Fire which rages, in which only the most
wretched will roast. (92:14-15)
• The People of the Book who disbelieve and the idolaters will be in
the Fire of Hell, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. They are the
worst of creatures. (98:6)
• Ruin to the hands of Abu Lahab and ruin to him! His wealth has
not helped him nor anything he has earned. He will burn in a
Flaming Fire. And so will his wife, the firewood-carrier, with a rope
of twisted fibre round her neck. (111:1-5)
HELP
• Those are the people who trade the hereafter for this world. The
punishment will not be lightened for them. They will not be helped.
(2:86)
• The Jews and the Christians will never be pleased with you until
you follow their religion. Say, ‘Allah’s guidance is the true
guidance.’ If you were to follow their whims and desires, after the
knowledge that has come to you, you would find no protector or
helper against Allah. (2:120)
• When they came out against Goliath and his troops, they said,
‘Our Lord, pour down steadfastness upon us, and make our feet
firm, and help us against this disbelieving people.’ (2:250)
• Whatever amount you spend or vow you make, Allah knows it.
The wrongdoers have no helpers. (2:270)
• Allah does not impose on any self any more than it can stand. For
it is what it has earned; against it, what it has brought upon itself.
‘Our Lord, do not take us to task if we forget or make a mistake!
Our Lord, do not place on us a load like the one You placed on
those before us! Our Lord, do not place on us a load we have not
the strength to bear! And pardon us; and forgive us; and have
mercy on us. You are our Master, so help us against the people
of the disbelievers.’ (2:286)
• As for those who disbelieve, their wealth and children will not help
them against Allah in any way. They are fuel for the Fire. (3:10)
• There was a sign for you in the two parties which met face to face,
one party fighting in the Way of Allah and the other disbelievers.
You saw them as twice their number with your own eyes. Allah
reinforces with His help whoever He wills. There is instruction in
that for people of insight. (3:13)
• They are the ones whose actions come to nothing in this world or
the hereafter. They will have no helpers. (3:22)
• As for those who disbelieve and die while they are disbelievers,
the whole earth filled with gold would not be accepted from any of
them if they were to offer it as a ransom. They will have a painful
punishment. They will have no helpers. (3:91)
• They will not harm you except with abusive words. If they fight
you, they will turn their backs on you. Then they will not be helped.
(3:111)
• Allah helped you at Badr when you were weak so have fear of
Allah, so that hopefully you will be thankful. (3:123)
• All they said was, ‘Our Lord, forgive us our wrong actions and any
excesses we went to in what we did and make our feet firm and
help us against these disbelieving people.’ (3:147)
• What assailed you on the day the two armies met was by Allah’s
permission, so that He would know the believers, and so that He
would know the hypocrites. They were told, ‘Come and fight in the
Way of Allah or at least help defend us.’ They said, ‘If we knew
how to fight, we would certainly follow you.’ They were closer to
disbelief that day than to faith, saying with their mouths what was
not in their hearts. And Allah knows best what they are hiding.
(3:166-167)
• Those are the ones Allah has cursed. And if someone is cursed
by Allah you will not find any one to help him. (4:52)
• What reason could you have for not fighting in the Way of Allah–
for those men, women and children who are oppressed and say,
‘Our Lord, take us out of this city whose inhabitants are
wrongdoers! Give us a protector from You! Give us a helper from
You!’? (4:75)
• The hypocrites are in the lowest level of the Fire. You will not find
any one to help them. (4:145)
• As for those who believe and do right actions, He will pay them
their wages in full and will give them increase from His favour. As
for those who show disdain and grow arrogant, He will punish
them with a painful punishment. They will not find any protector or
helper for themselves besides Allah. (4:173)
• You who believe! Do not profane the sacred rites of Allah or the
sacred months, or the sacrificial animals, or the ritual garlands, or
those heading for the Sacred House, desiring profit and good
pleasure from their Lord. When your pilgrimage is over, then you
may hunt. Do not let hatred for a people who debar you from the
Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) incite you into going beyond
the limits. Help each other to goodness and heedfulness. Do not
help each other to wrongdoing and enmity. Have fear of Allah.
Allah is severe in retribution. (5:2)
• Those who say that the Messiah, son of Maryam, is Allah are
disbelievers. The Messiah said, ‘Tribe of Israel! Worship Allah,
my Lord and your Lord. If anyone associates anything with Allah,
Allah has forbidden him the Garden and his refuge will be the
Fire.’ The wrongdoers will have no helpers. (5:72)
• Messengers before you were also denied but they were steadfast
in the face of the denial and injury they suffered until Our help
arrived. There is no changing the Words of Allah. And news of
other Messengers has come to you. (6:34)
• (Allah said, ‘I will prescribe My mercy for) those who follow the
Messenger, the Ummi, whom they find written down with them in
the Torah and the Gospel, commanding them to do right and
forbidding them to do wrong, making good things lawful for them
and bad things forbidden for them, relieving them of their heavy
loads and the chains which were around them. Those who
believe in him and honour him and help him, and follow the Light
that has been sent down with him, they are the ones who are
successful.’ (7:157)
• Those you call on besides Him are not capable of helping you.
They cannot even help themselves. (7:197)
• But if they turn away, know that Allah is your Master, the Best of
Masters, and the Best of Helpers! (8:40)
• Those who believe and have migrated and strived with their
wealth and themselves in the Way of Allah, and those who have
given refuge and help, they are the friends and protectors of one
another. But as for those who believe but have not migrated, you
are not in any way responsible for their protection until they
migrate. But if they ask you for help in respect of the religion, it is
your duty to help them, except against people you have a treaty
with. Allah sees what you do. (8:72)
• Fight them! Allah will punish them at your hands, and disgrace
them and help you against them, and heal the hearts of those
who believe. (9:14)
• If you do not help him, Allah did help him when those who
disbelieved drove him out and there were two of them in the Cave.
He said to his companion, ‘Do not be despondent, Allah is with
us.’ Then Allah sent down His serenity upon him and reinforced
him with troops you could not see. He made the word of those
who disbelieved undermost. It is the word of Allah which is
uppermost. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (9:40)
• They swear by Allah that they said nothing, but they definitely
spoke the word of disbelief and returned to disbelief after their
Islam. They planned something which they did not achieve and
they were vindictive for no other cause than that Allah and His
Messenger had enriched them from His bounty. If they were to
repent, it would be better for them. But if they turn away, Allah will
punish them with a painful punishment in this world and the
hereafter, and they will not find any protector or helper on the
earth. (9:74)
• (Say:) ‘Do not call on something besides Allah which can neither
help nor harm you. If you do, you will then be wrongdoers.’
(10:106)
• (Nuh said,) ‘My people! Who would help me against Allah if I did
drive them away? So will you not pay heed?’ (11:30)
• Do not rely on those who do wrong thus causing the Fire to afflict
you, for you have no protector besides Allah; then you will not be
helped. (11:113)
• They then produced his shirt with false blood on it. He (Yusuf's
father) said, ‘It is merely that your lower selves have suggested
something to you which you did; but beauty lies in showing
steadfastness. It is Allah alone Who is my Help in face of the
event that you describe.’ (12:18)
• Say: ‘Who is the Lord of the heavens and the earth?’ Say: ‘Allah.’
Say: ‘So why have you taken protectors apart from Him who
possess no power to help or harm themselves?’ Say: ‘Are the
blind and seeing equal? Or are darkness and light the same? Or
have they assigned partners to Allah who create as He creates,
so that all creating seems the same to them?’ Say: ‘Allah is the
Creator of everything. He is the One, the All-Conquering.’ (13:16)
• They will all parade before Allah and the weak will say to those
who were arrogant, ‘We followed you, so can you help us at all
against the punishment of Allah?’ They will say, ‘If Allah had
guided us, we would have guided you. It makes no difference
whether we cannot stand it or bear it patiently. We have no way
of escape.’ (14:21)
• However eager you are for them to be guided, Allah will not guide
those whom He misguides. They will have no helpers. (16:37)
• Any blessing you have is from Allah. Then when harm touches
you, it is to Him you cry for help. (16:53)
• Do not kill any person Allah has made inviolate, except with the
right to do so. If someone is wrongly killed We have given
authority to his next of kin. But he should not be excessive in
taking life. He will be helped. (17:33)
• Say: ‘It is the truth from your Lord; so let whoever wishes believe
and whoever wishes disbelieve.’ We have prepared for the
wrongdoers a Fire whose billowing walls of smoke will hem them
in. If they call for help, they will be helped with water like seething
molten brass, frying their faces. What a noxious drink! What an
evil repose! (18:29)
• If those who disbelieve only knew of the time when they will not
be able to keep the Fire away from their faces or their backs! And
they will receive no help! (21:39)
• Or do they have gods besides Us who will protect them? They
cannot even help themselves! They will not be safe from Us.
(21:43)
• We helped him against the people who rejected Our Signs. They
were an evil people and We drowned them, every one. (21:77)
• Say: ‘Lord, judge with truth! Our Lord is the All-Merciful, the One
whose help is sought in the face of what you describe.’ (21:112)
• Those who were expelled from their homes without any right,
merely for saying, ‘Our Lord is Allah’ (if Allah had not driven some
people back by means of others, monasteries, churches,
synagogues and mosques, where Allah’s name is mentioned
much, would have been pulled down and destroyed. Allah will
certainly help those who help Him–Allah is All-Strong, Almighty).
(22:40)
• Strive for Allah with the striving due to Him. He has selected you
and not placed any constraint upon you in the religion–the religion
of your forefather Ibrahim. He named you Muslims before and
also in this, so that the Messenger could be witness against you
and you could be witnesses against all mankind. So perform
prayer and give the alms and hold fast to Allah. He is your
Protector–the Best Protector, the Best Helper. (22:78)
• But they have adopted gods apart from Him which do not create
anything but are themselves created. They have no power to
harm or help themselves. They have no power over death or life
or resurrection. (25:3)
• So now they have disowned you for what you said, and they
cannot avert it or give you any help. As for anyone among you
who has done wrong, We will make him suffer great punishment.
(25:19)
• We gave Musa the Book and appointed his brother Harun with
him as a helper. (25:35)
• Yet they worship instead of Allah what can neither help nor harm
them. The disbeliever is ever, against his Lord, an assistant (to
Satan). (25:55)
• He (Ibrahim) said, ‘Do they (the idols) hear you when you call or
do they help you or do you harm?’ (26:72-73)
• Morning found him in the city, fearful and on his guard. Then
suddenly the man who had sought his help the day before,
shouted for help from him again. Musa said to him, ‘You are
clearly a misguided man.’ (28:18)
• There are some people who say, ‘We believe in Allah,’ and then,
when they suffer harm in Allah’s cause, they take people’s
persecution for Allah’s punishment; but if help comes from your
Lord they say, ‘We were with you.’ Does Allah not know best what
is in every person’s heart? (29:10)
• (Say:) ‘There is no way out for you in earth or heaven. You have
no protector or helper besides Allah.’ (29:22)
• The Romans have been defeated in the land nearby, but after
their defeat they will themselves be victorious in a few years’ time.
The affair is Allah’s from beginning to end. On that day, the
believers will rejoice in Allah’s help. He grants victory to whoever
He wills. He is the Almighty, the Most Merciful. (30:2-5)
• On that Day the excuses of those who did wrong will not help
them nor will they be able to appease Allah. (30:57)
• Say: ‘Who is going to shield you from Allah if He desires evil for
you or desires mercy for you?’ They will find no one to protect or
help them besides Allah. (33:17)
• (A Searing Blaze) where they will remain timelessly, for ever and
ever, not finding any protector or any helper. (33:65)
• They will shout out in it, ‘Our Lord! Take us out! We will act rightly,
differently from the way we used to act!’ Did We not let you live
long enough for anyone who was going to pay heed to pay heed?
And did not the warner come to you? Taste it then! There is no
helper for the wrongdoers. (35:37)
• (The man from the far side of the city said,) ‘Am I to take as gods
instead of Him those whose intercession, if the All-Merciful
desires harm for me, will not help me at all and cannot save me?’
(36:23)
• They have taken gods besides Allah so that perhaps they may be
helped. (36:74)
• They cannot help them even though they are an army mobilised
in their support. (36:75)
• If Allah had willed, He would have made them a single nation. But
He admits whoever He wills into His mercy and the wrongdoers
have no protector and no helper. (42:8)
• You will not be able to thwart Him on the earth and you have no
protector or helper besides Allah. (42:31)
• They have no one to protect or help them apart from Allah. There
is no way out for anyone Allah misguides. (42:46)
• The Day when friends will be of no use at all to one another, and
they will not be helped. (44:41)
• They will not help you in any way against Allah. The wrongdoers
are protectors of one another but Allah is the Protector of those
who guard against evil. (45:19)
• They will be told, ‘Today We have forgotten you as you forgot the
meeting of this your Day. Your refuge is the Fire and you have no
helpers.’ (45:34)
• Or do they say, ‘He has invented it’? Say: ‘If I have invented it,
then you possess no power to help me against Allah in any way.
He knows best what you hold forth about. He is witness enough
between me and you. He is the Ever-Forgiving, the Most
Merciful.’ (46:8)
• But what of him who says to his parents, ‘Fie on you! Do you
promise me that I will be resurrected when generations before me
have passed away?’ They both call on Allah for help: ‘Woe to you!
Believe! Allah’s promise is true.’ But he says, ‘This is nothing
but the myths of previous peoples.’ (46:17)
• You who believe! If you help Allah, He will help you and make
your feet firm. (47:7)
• If those who disbelieve should fight you, they would turn their
backs and then find no one to protect or help them. (48:22)
• They (Thamud) could not stand upright and they were not helped.
(51:45)
• The Day their ploys will not profit them at all and they will not be
helped. (52:46)
• He will pursue you with a piercing flame and fiery smoke, and you
will not be helped. (55:35)
• We sent Our Messengers with the Clear Signs and sent down the
Book and the Balance with them so that mankind might establish
justice. And We sent down iron in which there lies great force and
which has many uses for mankind, so that Allah might know
those who help Him and His Messengers in the Unseen. Allah is
All-Strong, Almighty. (57:25)
• Neither their wealth nor their children will help them at all against
Allah. Such people are the Companions of the Fire, remaining in
it timelessly, for ever. (58:17)
• Did you not see the hypocrites saying to their brothers, those
among the People of the Book who disbelieve, ‘If you are driven
out we will leave with you, we will never obey anyone to your
detriment. And if you are fought against we will help you’? Allah
bears witness that they are truly liars. (59:11)
• If they are driven out they will not leave with them. If they are
fought against they will not help them. And if they did help them
they would turn their backs, and then they would not be helped.
(59:12)
• Allah has made an example for those who disbelieve: the wife of
Nuh and the wife of Lut. They were married to two of Our
servants who were righteous but they betrayed them and were
not helped at all against Allah. They were told, ‘Enter the Fire
along with all who enter it.’ (66:10)
• Because of their errors they were drowned and put into the Fire.
They found no one to help them besides Allah. (71:25)
• It is the Day when a self will have no power to help any other self
in any way. The command that Day will be Allah’s alone. (82:19)
• And that Day Hell is produced, that Day man will remember; but
how will the remembrance help him? (89:23)
• His wealth will not help him when he plummets to the depths.
(92:11)
• When Allah’s help and victory have arrived and you have seen
people entering Allah’s religion in droves, then glorify your Lord’s
praise and ask His forgiveness. He is the Ever-Returning. (110:1-
3)
• His (Abu Lahab's) wealth has not helped him nor anything he has
earned. (111:2)
HERB
• He laid out the earth for all living creatures. In it are fruits and
date-palms with covered spathes, and grains on leafy stems and
fragrant herbs. (55:10-12)
• Then We make grain grow in it, and grapes and herbs. (80:27-28)
HERITAGE (SEE LAWS OF HERITAGE)
HILL
• (Hud said to his people,) ‘Do you build a tower on every hilltop,
just to amuse yourselves?’ (26:128)
HOLY
• (Musa said,) ‘My people! Enter the Holy Land which Allah has
ordained for you. Do not turn back in your tracks and so become
transformed into losers.’ (5:21)
• (Allah said to Musa,) ‘I am your Lord. Take off your sandals. You
are in the holy valley of Tuwa.’ (20:12)
• Has the story of Musa reached you: when his Lord called out to
him in the holy valley of Tuwa? (79:15-16)
HOMOSEXUALITY
• (Lut said to his people,) ‘You come with lust to men instead of
women. You are indeed a depraved people.’ (Qur’an, 7:81)
• The only answer of his people was to say, ‘Expel them from your
city! They are people who keep themselves pure!’ (Qur’an, 7:82)
• (Lut said,) ‘Have fear of Allah and do not dishonour me.’ (15:69)
• They said, ‘Did we not forbid you to play host to anyone at all?’
(15:70)
• (Lut said to his people,) ‘Of all beings, do you lie with males.
(26:165)
• ‘Leaving the wives Allah has created for you? You are a people
who have overstepped the limits.’ (26:166)
• They said, ‘Lut, if you do not desist you will be expelled.’ (26:167)
• Do you lie with men and waylay them on the road and commit
depravities within your gatherings?’ the only answer of his people
was to say, ‘Bring us Allah’s punishment if you are telling the
truth.’ (29:29)
HONEY
HOOF
HORIZON
HORSE
HOSPITALITY
• But those who have fear of their Lord will have Gardens with
rivers flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever:
hospitality from Allah. What is with Allah is better for those who
are truly good. (3:198)
• (Say:) ‘Then you, you misguided, you deniers will eat from the
tree of Zaqqum, filling your stomachs with it and drink scalding
water on top of it, slurping like thirst-crazed camels. This will be
their hospitality on the Day of Judgment!’ (56:51-56)
• If their faith is the same as yours then they are guided. But if they
turn away, they are entrenched in hostility. Allah will be enough
for you against them. He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
(2:137)
• That is because Allah has sent down the Book with truth and
those who differ from the Book are entrenched in hostility. (2:176)
• Among the people there is someone whose words about the life
of this world excite your admiration, and he calls Allah to witness
what is in his heart, while he is in fact the most hostile of
adversaries. (2:204)
• You will find that the people most hostile to those who believe are
the Jews and the idolaters. You will find the people most
affectionate to those who believe are those who say, ‘We are
Christians.’ That is because some of them are priests and monks
and because they are not arrogant. (5:82)
• Will you not fight a people who have broken their oaths and
resolved to expel the Messenger, and who initiated hostilities
against you in the first place? Is it them you fear? Allah has more
right to your fear if you are believers. (9:13)
• Then on the Day of Rising He will disgrace them, and say, ‘Where
are My partner gods for whose sake you became so hostile?’
Those given knowledge will say, ‘Today there is disgrace and evil
for the disbelievers.’ (16:27)
• We have made it easy on your tongue so that you can give good
news to those who guard against evil and warn stubbornly hostile
people by it. (19:97)
• We did not send any Messenger or any Prophet before you
without Satan insinuating something into his recitation while he
was reciting. But Allah revokes whatever Satan insinuates and
then Allah confirms His Signs–Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise–so
that He can make what Satan insinuates a trial for those with
sickness in their hearts and for those whose hearts are hard–the
wrongdoers are entrenched in hostility. (22:52-53)
• Say: ‘What do you think? If it is from Allah and you reject it, who
could be more misguided than someone entrenched in hostility to
it?’ (41:52)
• Those who disbelieve and obstruct the Way of Allah and are
entrenched in hostility towards the Messenger after the guidance
has become clear to them, do not harm Allah in any way and He
makes their actions come to nothing. (47:32)
• They (the hypocrites) will not fight against you all together as a
group except in fortified towns or behind high walls.Their hostility
towards each other is intense. They are full of bravado in each
other’s company. You consider them united but their hearts are
scattered wide. That is because they are people who do not use
their intellect. (59:14)
HOUR
• Every nation has an appointed time. When their time comes, they
cannot delay it a single hour or bring it forward. (7:34)
• If Allah were to punish people for their wrong actions, not a single
creature would be left upon the earth, but He defers them till a
predetermined time. When their specified time arrives, they
cannot delay it for a single hour nor can they bring it forward.
(16:61)
HOUSE
• And when Ibrahim built the foundations of the House with Isma‘il:
‘Our Lord, accept this from us! You are the All-Hearing, the All-
Knowing.’ (2:127)
• Safa and Marwa are among the Landmarks of Allah, so anyone
who goes on pilgrimage to the House or does the pious visit
incurs no wrong in going back and forth between them. If anyone
spontaneously does good, Allah is All-Thankful, All-Knowing.
(2:158)
• They will ask you about the crescent moons. Say, ‘They are set
times for mankind and for the pilgrimage.’ It is not devoutness for
you to enter houses by the back. Rather devoutness is
possessed by those who guard against evil. So come to houses
by their doors and have fear of Allah, so that hopefully you will be
successful. (2:189)
• You who believe! Do not profane the sacred rites of Allah or the
sacred months, or the sacrificial animals, or the ritual garlands, or
those heading for the Sacred House, desiring profit and good
pleasure from their Lord. When your pilgrimage is over, then you
may hunt. Do not let hatred for a people who debar you from the
Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) incite you into going beyond
the limits. Help each other to goodness and heedfulness. Do not
help each other to wrongdoing and enmity. Have fear of Allah.
Allah is severe in retribution. (5:2)
• Just as your Lord brought you out from your house with truth,
even though a group of the believers disliked it, arguing with you
about the Truth after it had been made clear as though they were
being driven to their death with open eyes. (8:5-6)
• Their prayer at the House is nothing but whistling and clapping.
So taste the punishment because you disbelieved! (8:35)
• Say: ‘If your fathers or your sons or your brothers or your wives or
your tribe, or any wealth you have acquired, or any business you
fear may slump, or any house which pleases you, are dearer to
you than Allah and His Messenger and striving in His Way, then
wait until Allah brings about His command. Allah does not guide
people who are deviators.’ (9:24)
• Allah has made your houses places of rest for you and made
houses for you out of cattle hides which are light for you to carry
both when you are travelling and when you are staying in one
place. And from their wool and fur and hair you obtain clothing
and carpets and household utensils for a time. (16:80)
• And We located the position of the House for Ibrahim: ‘Do not
associate anything with Me and purify My House for those who
circle it, and those who stand and bow and prostrate.’ (22:26)
• You can make use of the sacrificial animals until a specified time,
and then their place of sacrifice is by the Ancient House. (22:33)
• You who believe! Do not enter houses other than your own until
you have asked permission and greeted their inhabitants. That is
better for you, so that hopefully you will pay heed. (24:27)
• These are the ruins of their houses because of the wrong they did.
There is certainly a Sign in that for people with knowledge. (27:52)
• Allah has made an example for those who believe: the wife of
Pharaoh when she said, ‘My Lord, build a house in the Garden for
me in Your presence and rescue me from Pharaoh and his deeds
and rescue me from this wrongdoing people.’ (66:11)
• And to ‘Ad We sent their brother Hud, who said, ‘My people,
worship Allah! You have no other god than Him. So will you not
guard against evil?’ (7:65)
• The ruling circle of those of his people who disbelieved said, ‘We
consider you a fool and think you are a liar.’ (7:66)
• So We rescued him and those with him by mercy from Us, and
We cut off the last remnant of those who denied Our Signs and
were not believers. (7:72)
• They said, ‘Hud, you have not brought us any clear sign. We will
not forsake our gods for what you say. We do not believe you.
We only say that one of our gods has driven you mad.’ He said, ‘I
call on Allah to be my witness, and you also bear witness, that I
am free of all the gods you have apart from Him. So scheme
against me, all of you together, and then grant me no respite. I
have put my trust in Allah, my Lord and your Lord. There is no
creature He does not hold by the forelock. My Lord is on a
Straight Path. If you turn your backs, I have transmitted to you
what I was sent to you with, and my Lord will replace you with
another people, and you will not harm Him at all. My Lord is the
Preserver of everything.’ (11:53-57)
• That was ‘Ad. They denied the Signs of their Lord and disobeyed
His Messengers and followed the command of every obdurate
tyrant. (11:59)
• They were pursued by a curse in this world and on the Day of
Rising. Yes indeed! ‘Ad rejected their Lord, so away with ‘Ad, the
people of Hud! (11:60)
• The same goes for ‘Ad and Thamud and the Companions of the
Rass and many generations in between. (25:38)
• ‘Ad denied the Messengers when their brother Hud said to them,
‘Will you not guard against evil? I am a faithful Messenger to you
so have fear of Allah and obey me. I do not ask you for any wage
for it. My wage is the responsibility of no one but the Lord of all
the worlds. Do you build a tower on every hilltop, just to amuse
yourselves, and construct great fortresses, hoping to live for ever,
and when you attack, attack as tyrants do? So have fear of Allah
and obey me. Have fear of Him Who has supplied you with what
you know, supplied you with livestock and children and gardens
and clear springs. I fear for you the punishment of a terrible Day.’
They said, ‘It makes no difference to us whether you preach or do
not preach. This is only what the previous peoples did. We are
not going to be punished.’ So they denied him and We destroyed
them. There is certainly a Sign in that, yet most of them are not
believers. Truly your Lord is the Almighty, the Most Merciful.
(26:123-140)
• And ‘Ad and Thamud–it must be clear to you from their dwelling
places! Satan made their actions seem good to them and so
debarred them from the Way, even though they were intelligent
people. (29:38)
• If they turn away, then say, ‘I warn you of a lightning-bolt like the
lightning-bolt of ‘Ad and of Thamud.’ (41:13)
• ‘Ad were arrogant in the land, without any right, saying, ‘Who has
greater strength than us?’ Did they not see that Allah, Who
created them, had greater strength than them? But they
renounced Our Signs. (41:15)
• (Or has he not been informed) that He destroyed ‘Ad, the earlier
people? (53:50)
• Do you not see what your Lord did with ‘Ad? (89:6)
HUMBLE
• Among the people of the Book there are some who believe in
Allah and in what has been sent down to you and what was sent
down to them, and who are humble before Allah. They do not sell
Allah’s Signs for a paltry price. Such people will have their reward
with their Lord. And Allah is swift at reckoning. (3:199)
• You who believe! If any of you renounce your religion, Allah will
bring forward a people whom He loves and who love Him, humble
to the believers, fierce to the disbelievers, who strive in the Way
of Allah and do not fear the blame of any censurer. That is the
unbounded favour of Allah which He gives to whoever He wills.
Allah is Boundless, All-Knowing. (5:54)
• Say: ‘Who rescues you from the darkness of the land and sea?
You call on Him humbly and secretly: "If you rescue us from this,
we will truly be among the thankful."’ (6:63)
• Call on your Lord humbly and secretly. He does not love those
who overstep the limits. (7:55)
• We responded to him and gave him Yahya, restoring for him his
wife’s fertility. They outdid one another in good actions, calling out
to Us in yearning and in awe, and humbling themselves to Us.
(21:90)
• And (it is) so that those who have been given knowledge will
know it is the truth from their Lord and believe in it and their
hearts will be humbled to Him. Allah guides those who believe to
a straight path. (22:54)
• We seized them with the punishment, but they did not go low
before their Lord; nor will they humble themselves until We open
to them a gate to a harsh punishment in which they will at once
be crushed by despair. (23:76-77)
• Men and women who are Muslims, men and women who are
believers, men and women who are obedient, men and women
who are truthful, men and women who are steadfast, men and
women who are humble, men and women who give charity, men
and women who fast, men and women who guard their chastity,
men and women who remember Allah much: Allah has prepared
forgiveness for them and an immense reward. (33:35)
HUMILITY
• Among the people of the Book there are some who believe in
Allah and in what has been sent down to you and what was sent
down to them, and who are humble before Allah. They do not sell
Allah’s Signs for a paltry price. Such people will have their reward
with their Lord. And Allah is swift at reckoning. (3:199)
• You who believe! If any of you renounce your religion, Allah will
bring forward a people whom He loves and who love Him, humble
to the believers, fierce to the disbelievers, who strive in the Way
of Allah and do not fear the blame of any censurer. That is the
unbounded favour of Allah which He gives to whoever He wills.
Allah is Boundless, All-Knowing. (5:54)
• Take them (your parents) under your wing, out of mercy, with due
humility and say: ‘Lord, show mercy to them as they did in looking
after me when I was small.’ (17:24)
• And (it is) so that those who have been given knowledge will
know it is the truth from their Lord and believe in it and their
hearts will be humbled to Him. Allah guides those who believe to
a straight path. (22:54)
• The servants of the All-Merciful are those who walk on the earth
in humility and, who, when the ignorant speak to them, say,
‘Peace’. (25:63)
• Men and women who are Muslims, men and women who are
believers, men and women who are obedient, men and women
who are truthful, men and women who are steadfast, men and
women who are humble, men and women who give charity, men
and women who fast, men and women who guard their chastity,
men and women who remember Allah much: Allah has prepared
forgiveness for them and an immense reward. (33:35)
HUNGER
• We will test you with a certain amount of fear and hunger and
loss of wealth and life and fruits. But give good news to the
steadfast. (2:155)
• Forbidden for you are carrion, blood and pork, and what has been
consecrated to other than Allah, and animals which have been
strangled, and animals which have been killed by a blow, and
animals which have fallen to their death, and animals which have
been gored, and animals which wild beasts have eaten–except
those you are able to slaughter properly–and animals which have
been sacrificed on altars, and deciding things by means of
divining arrows–that is deviance. Today those who disbelieve
have despaired of overcoming your religion. So do not be afraid
of them but be afraid of Me. Today I have perfected your religion
for you and completed My blessing upon you and I am pleased
with Islam as a religion for you. But if anyone is forced by hunger,
not intending any wrongdoing, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. (5:3)
• It was not for people of Madina, and the desert arabs around
them, to remain behind the Messenger of Allah nor to prefer
themselves to him. That is because no thirst or weariness or
hunger will afflict them in the Way of Allah, nor will they take a
single step to infuriate the disbelievers, nor secure any gain from
the enemy, without a right action being written down for them
because of it. Allah does not let the wage of the good-doers go to
waste. (9:120)
• What will convey to you what the steep ascent is? It is freeing a
slave or feeding on a day of hunger an orphaned relative or a
poor man in the dust. (90:12-16)
• So let them worship the Lord of this House Who has preserved
them from hunger and secured them from fear. (106: 3-4)
HUNTING
• You who believe! Fulfil your contracts. All livestock animals are
lawful for you, except those that are recited to you now; but it is
still not lawful to hunt while you are in the state of pilgrimage.
Allah makes whatever judgements He wills. (5:1)
• You who believe! Do not profane the sacred rites of Allah or the
sacred months, or the sacrificial animals, or the ritual garlands, or
those heading for the Sacred House, desiring profit and good
pleasure from their Lord. When your pilgrimage is over, then you
may hunt. Do not let hatred for a people who debar you from the
Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) incite you into going beyond
the limits. Help each other to goodness and heedfulness. Do not
help each other to wrongdoing and enmity. Have fear of Allah.
Allah is severe in retribution. (5:2)
• They will ask you what is lawful for them. Say: ‘All good things are
lawful for you, and also what is caught for you by hunting animals
which you have trained as Allah has taught you. Eat what they
catch for you, mentioning Allah’s name over it.’ And have fear of
Allah. Allah is swift at reckoning. (5:4)
• You who believe! Allah will test you with game animals which
come within the reach of your hands and spears, so that Allah will
know those who fear Him in the Unseen. Anyone who oversteps
the limits after this will have a painful punishment. You who
believe! Do not kill game while you are in the state of pilgrimage.
If one of you kills any deliberately, the reprisal for it is a livestock
animal equivalent to what he killed, as judged by two just men
among you, a sacrifice to reach the Kaaba, or expiation by
feeding the poor, or fasting commensurate with that, so that he
may taste the evil consequences of what he did. Allah has
pardoned all that took place in the past; but if anyone does it
again Allah will take revenge on him. Allah is Almighty, Exactor of
Revenge. Anything you catch in the sea is lawful for you, and all
food from it, for your enjoyment and that of travellers, but land
game is forbidden for you while you are in the state of pilgrimage.
So have fear of Allah, Him to whom you will be gathered. (5:94-96)
HUSBAND
• But if a man divorces his wife a third time, she is not lawful for
him after that until she has married another husband. Then if he
divorces her, there is nothing wrong in the original couple getting
back together provided they think they will remain within Allah’s
limits. These are Allah’s limits which he has made clear to people
who know. (2:230)
• When you divorce women and they are near the end of their
waiting period, do not prevent them from marrying their first
husbands if they have mutually agreed to it with correctness and
courtesy. This is an admonition for those of you who believe in
Allah and the Last Day. That is better and purer for you. Allah
knows and you do not know. (2:232)
• She (Ibrahim’s wife) said, ‘Woe is me! How can I give birth when I
am an old woman and my husband here is an aged man? This is
indeed an astonishing thing!’ (11:72)
• Say to the believing women that they should lower their eyes and
guard their chastity and not display their adornments–except for
what normally shows–and draw their head-coverings across their
breasts. They should only display their adornments to their
husbands or their fathers or their husbands’ fathers, or their sons
or their husbands’ sons or their brothers or their brothers’ sons or
their sisters’ sons or their women or those they own as slaves or
their male attendants who have no sexual desire or children who
still have no awareness of women’s private parts. Nor should they
stamp their feet so that their hidden ornaments are known. Turn
to Allah every one of you, believers, so that hopefully you will
have success. (24:31)
• Allah has heard the words of the woman who disputes with you
about her husband and lays her complaint before Allah. Allah
hears the two of you talking together. Allah is All-Hearing, All-
Seeing. (58:1)
HYPOCRITES (MUNAFIQUN)
• Among the people there are some who say, ‘We believe in Allah
and the Last Day,’ when they are not believers. (2:8)
• They think they deceive Allah and those who believe. They
deceive no one but themselves but they are not aware of it. (2:9)
• When they are told, ‘Do not cause corruption on the earth,’ they
say, ‘We are only putting things right.’ (2:11)
• No indeed! They are the corrupters, but they are not aware of it.
(2:12)
• When they are told, ‘Believe in the way that the people believe,’
they say, ‘What! Are we to believe in the way that fools believe?’
No indeed! They are the fools, but they do not know it. (2:13)
• When they meet those who believe, they say, ‘We believe.’ But
then when they go apart with their Satans, they say, ‘We are
really with you. We were only mocking.’ (2:14)
• But Allah is mocking them, and drawing them on, as they wander
blindly in their excessive insolence. (2:15)
• Those are the people who have sold guidance for misguidance.
Their trade has brought no profit; they are not guided. (2:16)
• Their likeness is that of people who light a fire, and then when it
has lit up all around them, Allah removes their light and leaves
them in darkness, unable to see. (2:17)
• The lightning all but takes away their sight. Whenever they have
light, they walk in it but whenever darkness covers them, they halt.
If Allah wished, He could take away their hearing and their sight.
Allah has power over all things. (2:20)
• Those who break Allah’s contract after it has been agreed, and
sever what Allah has commanded to be joined, and cause
corruption on the earth, it is they who are the lost. (2:27)
• Among the people there is someone whose words about the life
of this world excite your admiration, and he calls Allah to witness
what is in his heart, while he is in fact the most hostile of
adversaries. (2:204)
• You who believe! Do not be like those who disbelieve and say of
their brothers, when they are going on journeys or military
expeditions, ‘If they had only been with us, they would not have
died or been killed,’ so that Allah can make that anguish for them
in their hearts. It is Allah Who gives life and causes to die. Allah
sees what you do. (3:156)
• What assailed you on the day the two armies met was by Allah’s
permission, so that He would know the believers, and so that He
would know the hypocrites. They were told, ‘Come and fight in the
Way of Allah or at least help defend us.’ They said, ‘If we knew
how to fight, we would certainly follow you.’ They were closer to
disbelief that day than to faith, saying with their mouths what was
not in their hearts. And Allah knows best what they are hiding.
(3:166-167)
• They are those who said of their brothers, when they themselves
had stayed behind, ‘If they had only obeyed us, they would not
have been killed.’ Say, ‘Then ward off death from yourselves if
you are telling the truth.’ (3:168)
• Do you not see those who claim that they believe in what has
been sent down to you and what was sent down before you, still
desiring to turn to a satanic source for judgement in spite of being
ordered to reject it? Satan wants to misguide them far away.
(4:60)
• When they are told, ‘Come to what Allah has sent down and to
the Messenger,’ you see the hypocrites turning away from you
completely. (4:61)
• No, by your Lord, they are not believers until they make you their
judge in the disputes that break out between them, and then find
no resistance within themselves to what you decide and submit
themselves completely. (4:65)
• But if you meet with favour from Allah they say–as if there were
no friendship between you and them–‘Oh! If only I had been with
them so that I too might have won a great victory.’ (4:73)
• Do you not see those who were told: ‘Hold back from fighting but
perform prayer and give the alms’? Then when fighting is
prescribed for them, a group of them fear people as Allah should
be feared, or even more than that. They say, ‘Our Lord, why have
you prescribed fighting for us? If only You would give us just a
little more time!’ Say, ‘The enjoyment of this world is very brief.
The hereafter is better for those who guard against evil. You will
not be wronged by so much as the smallest speck.’ (4:77)
• Wherever you are, death will catch up with you, even if you are in
impregnable fortresses. If a good thing happens to them, they say,
‘This has come from Allah.’ But if a bad thing happens to them,
they say, ‘This has come from you.’ Say, ‘Everything comes from
Allah.’ What is the matter with these people that they scarcely
understand a single word? (4:78)
• They have the word, ‘Obedience!’ on their tongues but when they
leave your presence, a group of them spend the night plotting to
do other than what you say. Allah is recording their nocturnal
plotting. So let them be and put your trust in Allah. Allah suffices
as a Guardian. (4:81)
• Will they not ponder the Qur’an? If it had been from other than
Allah, they would have found many inconsistencies in it. (4:82)
• You will find others who desire to be safe from you and safe from
their own people. Each time they are returned to dissension they
are overwhelmed by it. If they do not keep away from you or
submit to you or refrain from fighting, seize them and kill them
wherever you find them. Over such people We have given you
clear authority. (4:91)
• Were it not for Allah’s favour to you and His mercy, a group of
them would almost have managed to mislead you. But they
mislead no one but themselves and do not harm you in any way.
Allah has sent down the Book and Wisdom to you and taught you
what you did not know before. Allah’s favour to you is indeed
immense. (4:113)
• There is no good in much of their secret talk, except in the case
of those who enjoin charity, or what is right, or putting things right
between people. If anyone does that, seeking the pleasure of
Allah, We will give him an immense reward. (4:114)
• As for those who believe and then return to disbelief, and then
again believe and then return to disbelief, and then increase in
disbelief, Allah will not forgive them or guide them on any path.
(4:137)
• It has been sent down to you in the Book that when you hear
Allah’s Signs being rejected and mocked at by people, you must
not sit with them till they start talking of other things. If you do you
are just the same as them. Allah will gather all the hypocrites and
disbelievers into Hell. (4:140)
• Those who anticipate the worst for you say, ‘Were we not with
you?’ whenever you gain a victory from Allah, but if the
disbelievers have a success they say, ‘Did we not have the upper
hand over you and yet in spite of that keep the believers away
from you?’ Allah will judge between you on the Day of Rising.
Allah will not give the disbelievers any way against the believers.
(4:141)
• The hypocrites are in the lowest level of the Fire. You will not find
any one to help them, except those who repent and put things
right and hold fast to Allah and dedicate their religion to Allah
alone; they are with the believers. Allah will give the believers an
immense reward. (4:145-146)
• Yet you see those with sickness in their hearts rushing to them,
saying, ‘We fear the wheel of fate may turn against us.’ But it may
well be that Allah will bring about victory or some other
contingency from Him. Then they will deeply regret their secret
thoughts. (5:52)
• Those who believe say, ‘Are these the people who swore by Allah,
with their most earnest oaths, that they were with you?’ Their
actions have come to nothing and they now are losers. (5:53)
• Allah pardon you! Why did you excuse them until it was clear to
you which of them were telling the truth and until you knew the
liars? (9:43)
• Those who believe in Allah and the Last Day do not ask you to
excuse them from striving with their wealth and themselves. Allah
knows the people who guard against evil. (9:44)
• Only those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day ask you
to excuse them. Their hearts are full of doubt and in their doubt
they waver to and fro. (9:45)
• If they had really desired to go out, they would have made proper
preparations for it, but Allah was averse to their setting out so He
held them back and they were told: ‘Stay behind with those who
stay behind.’ (9:46)
• If they had gone out among you, they would have added nothing
to you but confusion. They would have scurried about amongst
you seeking to cause conflict between you, and among you there
are some who would have listened to them. Allah knows the
wrongdoers. (9:47)
• Say: ‘What do you await for us except for one of the two best
things? But what we await for you is for Allah to inflict a
punishment on you either directly from Himself or at our hands.
So wait, we are waiting with you!’ (9:52)
• Nothing prevents what they give from being accepted from them
but the fact that they have rejected Allah and His Messenger, and
that they only come to prayer lethargically, and that they only give
reluctantly. (9:54)
• Do not let their wealth and children impress you. Allah merely
wants to punish them by them during their life in this world and for
them to expire while they are disbelievers. (9:55)
• They swear by Allah that they are of your number, but they are
not of your number. Rather, they are people who are scared.
(9:56)
• If they could find a bolt-hole, cave or burrow, they would turn and
scurry away into it. (9:57)
• Among them there are some who find fault with you concerning
the alms. If they are given some of it, they are pleased but if they
are not given any, they are angry. (9:58)
• If only they had been pleased with what Allah and His Messenger
had given them and had said, ‘Allah is enough for us. Allah will
give us of His bounty as will His Messenger. It is to Allah that we
make our plea.’ (9:59)
• Among them are some who insult the Prophet, saying he is only
an ear. Say, ‘An ear of good for you, believing in Allah and
believing in the believers, and a mercy for those among you who
believe.’ As for those who insult the Messenger of Allah, they will
have a painful punishment. (9:61)
• The hypocrites are afraid that a sura may be sent down about
them, informing them of what is in their hearts. Say: ‘Go on
mocking! Allah will expose everything you are afraid of.’ (9:64)
• If you ask them they will say, ‘We were only joking and playing
around.’ Say: ‘Would you make a mockery of Allah and of His
Signs and of His Messenger? Do not try to excuse yourselves.
You have disbelieved after believing. If one group of you is
pardoned, another group will be punished for being evildoers.’
(9:65-66)
• The men and women of the hypocrites are as bad as one another.
They command what is wrong and forbid what is right and keep
their fists tightly closed. They have forgotten Allah, so He has
forgotten them. The hypocrites are deviators. (9:67)
• Allah has promised the men and women of the hypocrites and
disbelievers the Fire of Hell, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. It
will suffice them. Allah has cursed them. They will have
everlasting punishment. (9:68)
• Do they not know that Allah knows their secrets and their private
talk, and that Allah is the Knower of all unseen things? (9:78)
• As for the people who find fault with those believers who give
charity spontaneously, and with those who can find nothing to
give but their own effort, and deride them, Allah derides them.
They will have a painful punishment. (9:79)
• You can ask forgiveness for them, or not ask forgiveness for them.
Even if you asked forgiveness for them seventy times, Allah still
would not forgive them. That is because they have rejected Allah
and His Messenger. Allah does not guide deviant people. (9:80)
• Those who were left behind were glad to stay behind the
Messenger of Allah. They did not want to strive with their wealth
and themselves in the Way of Allah. They said, ‘Do not go out to
fight in the heat.’ Say: ‘The Fire of Hell is much hotter, if they only
understood.’ (9:81)
• Let them laugh little and weep much, in repayment for what they
have earned. (9:82)
• If Allah returns you to a group of them, and they ask you for
permission to go out, say, ‘You will never go out with me, nor will
you ever fight an enemy with me. You were happy to stay behind
the first time, so stay behind with those who are left behind.’ (9:83)
• Never pray over any of them who die or stand at their graves.
They rejected Allah and His Messenger and died as deviators.
(9:84)
• Do not let their wealth and their children impress you. Allah
merely wants to punish them by them in this world, and for them
to expire while they are disbelievers. (9:85)
• They are pleased to be with those who stay behind. Their hearts
have been stamped so they do not understand. (9:87)
• The desert arabs came with their excuses asking for permission
to stay, and those who lied to Allah and His Messenger stayed
behind. A painful punishment will afflict those among them who
disbelieve. (9:90)
• There are only grounds against those who ask you for permission
to stay when they are rich. They were pleased to be among those
who were left behind. Allah has sealed up their hearts so they do
not know. (9:93)
• They will make excuses to you when you return to them. Say: ‘Do
not make excuses, we will not believe you. Allah has already
informed us about you. Allah will see your actions, as will His
Messenger. Then you will be returned to the Knower of the
Unseen and the Visible, and He will inform you regarding what
you did.’ (9:94)
• They will swear to you by Allah when you return to them, so that
you leave them alone. Leave them alone, then! They are filth.
Their shelter will be Hell as repayment for what they did. (9:95)
• They will swear to you to make you pleased with them, but even if
you are pleased with them, Allah is certainly not pleased with
deviant people. (9:96)
• Among the desert arabs there are some who regard what they
give as an imposition and are waiting for your fortunes to change.
The evil turn of fortune will be theirs! Allah is All-Hearing, All-
Knowing.(9:98)
• And among the desert arabs there are some who believe in Allah
and the Last Day and regard what they give as something which
will bring them nearer to Allah and to the prayers of the
Messenger. It does indeed bring them near. Allah will admit them
into His mercy. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (9:99)
• Some of the desert Arabs around you are hypocrites and some of
the people of Madina are obdurate in their hypocrisy. You do not
know them but We know them. We will punish them twice over
and then they will be returned to a terrible punishment. (9:101)
• Take charity from their wealth to purify and cleanse them and
pray for them. Your prayers bring relief to them. Allah is All-
Hearing, All-Knowing. (9:103)
• As for those who have set up a mosque, causing harm and out of
disbelief, to create division between the believers, and in
readiness for those who previously made war on Allah and His
Messenger, they will swear, ‘We only desired the best.’ But Allah
bears witness that they are truly liars. (9:107)
• Each time a sura is sent down there are some among them who
say, ‘Which of you has this increased in faith?’ As for those who
believe, it increases them in faith and they rejoice at it. (9:124)
• Do they not see that they are tried once or twice in every year?
But still they do not turn back. They do not pay heed. (9:126)
• Each time a sura is sent down, they look at one another, implying,
‘Can anyone see you?’ Then they turn away. Allah has turned
their hearts away because they are people who do not
understand. (9:127)
• Among the people there is one who worships Allah right on the
edge. If good befalls him, he is content with it, but if a trial befalls
him, he reverts to his former ways, losing both this world and the
hereafter. That is indeed sheer loss. (22:11)
• He calls on what is far more likely to harm than help. What an evil
protector! What an evil associate! (22:13)
• When the hypocrites and people with sickness in their hearts said,
‘What Allah and His Messenger promised us was mere delusion.’
(33:12)
• If they had been overrun from every side, and had then been
asked to revert to disbelief, they would have done so and
hesitated very little about it. (33:14)
• Yet they had previously made a contract with Allah that they
would never turn their backs. Contracts made with Allah will be
asked about. (33:15)
• Say: ‘Flight will not benefit you if you try to run away from death
or being killed. Then you will only enjoy a short respite.’ (33:16)
• Say: ‘Who is going to shield you from Allah if He desires evil for
you or desires mercy for you?’ They will find no one to protect or
help them besides Allah. (33:17)
• Allah knows the obstructers among you and those who say to
their brothers, ‘Come to us,’ and who only come to fight a very
little, and are begrudging towards you. Then when fear comes,
you see them looking at you, their eyes rolling like people scared
to death. But when fear departs they flay you with sharp tongues,
grasping for wealth. Such people have no faith and Allah will
make their actions come to nothing. That is easy for Allah. (33:18-
19)
• They think that the Confederates have not departed and if the
Confederates did appear then they would wish they were out in
the desert with the Arabs, asking for news of you. If they were
with you they would only fight a very little. (33:20)
• So that Allah might recompense the truthful for their truth and
punish the hypocrites, if He wills, or turn towards them. Allah is
Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:24)
• If the hypocrites and those with sickness in their hearts and the
rumour-mongers in Madina do not desist, We will set you onto
them. Then they will only be your neighbours there a very short
time. (33:60)
• This is Allah’s pattern with those who passed away before. You
will not find any alteration in Allah’s pattern. (33:62)
• Those who believe say, ‘If only a sura could be sent down.’ But
when a straightforward sura is sent down and fighting is
mentioned in it, you see those with sickness in their hearts
looking at you with the look of someone about to faint from fear of
death. More fitting for them would be obedience and honourable
words. Once the matter is resolved upon, being true to Allah
would be better for them. (47:20-21)
• Is it not likely that, if you did turn away, you would cause
corruption in the earth and sever your ties of kinship? (47:22)
• Such are the people Allah has cursed, making them deaf and
blinding their eyes. (47:23)
• Will they not then ponder the Qur’an or are there locks upon their
hearts? (47:24)
• Those who have turned back in their tracks after the guidance
became clear to them, it was Satan who talked them into it and
filled them with false hopes. (47:25)
• That is because they said to those who hate what Allah has sent
down, ‘We will obey you in part of the affair.’ But Allah knows their
secrets. (47:26)
• How will it be when the angels take them in death, beating their
faces and their backs? (47:27)
• That is because they followed what angers Allah and hated what
is pleasing to Him. So He made their actions come to nothing.
(47:28)
• Or did those with sickness in their hearts imagine that Allah would
not expose their malevolence? (47:29)
• We will test you until We know the true fighters among you and
those who are steadfast and test what is reported of you. (47:31)
• Those who disbelieve and obstruct the Way of Allah and are
entrenched in hostility towards the Messenger after the guidance
has become clear to them, do not harm Allah in any way and He
makes their actions come to nothing. (47:32)
• Those Arabs who remained behind will say to you, ‘Our wealth
and families kept us occupied, so ask forgiveness for us.’ They
say with their tongues what is not in their hearts. Say: ‘Who can
control Allah for you in any way whether He wants harm for you
or wants benefit for you?’ Allah is aware of what you do. (48:11)
• No, you thought that the Messenger and the believers were not
going to return to their families, and that seemed pleasing to your
hearts and you thought evil thoughts and you were a blighted
people. (48:12)
• When you go out to get the booty, those who remained behind
will say, ‘Allow us to follow you,’ desiring to alter Allah’s words.
Say: ‘You may not follow us. That is what Allah said before.’ They
will say, ‘It is only because you envy us.’ No indeed! How little
they have understood! (48:15)
• That Day the men and women of the hypocrites will say to those
who believe, ‘Wait for us so that we can borrow some of your
light.’ They will be told, ‘Go back and look for light!’ And a wall will
be erected between them with a gate in it, on the inside of which
there will be mercy but before whose exterior lies the punishment.
(57:13)
• They (hypocrites) will call out to them, ‘Were we not with you?’
They will reply, ‘Indeed you were. But you made trouble for
yourselves and hung back and doubted and false hopes deluded
you until Allah’s command arrived. The Deluder deluded you
about Allah. So today no ransom will be accepted from you or
from those who disbelieved. Your refuge is the Fire. It is your
master. What an evil destination!’ (57:14-15)
• Do you not see those who have turned to people with whom Allah
is angry? They belong neither to you nor to them. And they swear
to falsehood and do so knowingly. (58:14)
• They made their oaths into a cloak and barred the Way of Allah,
so they will have a humiliating punishment. (58:16)
• Neither their wealth nor their children will help them at all against
Allah. Such people are the Companions of the Fire, remaining in
it timelessly, for ever. (58:17)
• On the Day Allah raises up all of them together they will swear to
Him just as they have sworn to you and imagine they have
something to stand upon. No indeed! It is they who are the liars.
(58:18)
• Satan has gained mastery over them and made them forget the
remembrance of Allah. Such people are the party of Satan. No
indeed! It is the party of Satan who are the losers. (58:19)
• Those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, such people will be
among the most abased. (58:20)
• You will not find people who believe in Allah and the Last Day
having love for anyone who opposes Allah and His Messenger,
though they be their fathers, their sons, their brothers or their clan.
Allah has inscribed faith upon such people’s hearts and will
reinforce them with a Spirit from Him and admit them into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them
timelessly, for ever. Allah is pleased with them and they are
pleased with Him. Such people are the party of Allah. Truly it is
the party of Allah who are successful. (58:22)
• Did you not see the hypocrites saying to their brothers, those
among the People of the Book who disbelieve, ‘If you are driven
out we will leave with you, we will never obey anyone to your
detriment. And if you are fought against we will help you’? Allah
bears witness that they are truly liars. (59:11)
• If they are driven out they will not leave with them. If they are
fought against they will not help them. And if they did help them
they would turn their backs, and then they would not be helped.
(59:12)
• You are a greater cause of terror in their breasts than Allah! That
is because they are people who do not understand. (59:13)
• They will not fight against you all together as a group except in
fortified towns or behind high walls. Their hostility towards each
other is intense. They are full of bravado in each other’s company.
You consider them united but their hearts are scattered wide.
That is because they are people who do not use their intellect.
(59:14)
• When the hypocrites come to you they say, ‘We bear witness that
you are indeed the Messenger of Allah.’ Allah knows that you are
indeed His Messenger and Allah bears witness that the
hypocrites are certainly liars. (63:1)
• They have made their oaths into a cloak and barred the Way of
Allah. What they have done is truly evil. (63:2)
• When you see them, their outward form appeals to you, and if
they speak you listen to what they say. But they are like propped-
up planks of wood. They imagine every cry to be against them.
They are the enemy, so beware of them. Allah fight them! How
they are perverted! (63:4)
• When they are told, ‘Come, and the Messenger of Allah will ask
forgiveness for you,’ they turn their heads and you see them turn
away in haughty arrogance. (63:5)
• They are the people who say, ‘Do not spend on those who are
with the Messenger of Allah, so that they may go away.’ The
treasuries of the heavens and earth belong to Allah. But the
hypocrites do not understand this. (63:7)
• They say, ‘If we return to Madina, the mightier will drive out the
inferior.’ But all might belongs to Allah and to His Messenger and
the believers. But the hypocrites do not know this. (63:8)
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• And when Ibrahim said, ‘My Lord, make this a place of safety and
provide its inhabitants with fruits–all of them who believe in Allah
and the Last Day,’ He said, ‘I will let anyone who becomes a
disbeliever enjoy himself a little but then I will drive him to the
punishment of the Fire. What an evil destination!’ (2:126)
• And when Ibrahim built the foundations of the House with Isma‘il:
‘Our Lord, accept this from us! You are the All-Hearing, the All-
Knowing. Our Lord, make us both Muslims submitted to You, and
our descendants a Muslim community submitted to You. Show us
our rites of worship and turn towards us. You are the Ever-
Returning, the Most Merciful.’ (2:127-128)
• Ibrahim directed his sons to this, as did Ya‘qub: ‘My sons! Allah
has chosen this religion for you, so do not die except as Muslims.’
(2:132)
• Or were you present when death came to Ya‘qub and he said to
his sons, ‘What will you worship when I have gone?’ They said,
‘We will worship your God, the God of your forefathers, Ibrahim,
Isma‘il and Ishaq– one God. We are Muslims submitted to Him.’
(2:133)
• They say, ‘Be Jews or Christians and you will be guided.’ Say,
‘Rather adopt the religion of Ibrahim, a man of natural pure belief.
He was not one of the idolaters.’ (2:135)
• Say, ‘We believe in Allah and what has been sent down to us and
what was sent down to Ibrahim and Isma‘il and Ishaq and Ya‘qub
and the Tribes, and what Musa and ‘Isa were given, and what all
the Prophets were given by their Lord. We do not differentiate
between any of them. We are Muslims submitted to Him.’ (2:136)
• Or do they say that Ibrahim and Isma‘il and Ishaq and Ya‘qub and
the Tribes were Jews or Christians? Say, ‘Do you know better or
does Allah?’ Who could do greater wrong than someone who
hides the evidence he has been given by Allah? Allah is not
unaware of what you do. (2:140)
• What about the one who argued with Ibrahim about his Lord, on
the basis that Allah had given him sovereignty? Ibrahim said, ‘My
Lord is He Who gives life and causes to die.’ He said, ‘I too give
life and cause to die.’ Ibrahim said, ‘Allah makes the sun come
from the East. Make it come from the West.’ And the one who
was a disbeliever was dumbfounded. Allah does not guide
wrongdoing people. (2:258)
• When Ibrahim said, ‘My Lord, show me how You bring the dead
to life.’ He asked, ‘Do you not then believe?’ He replied, ‘Indeed I
do! But so that my heart may be at peace.’ He said, ‘Take four
birds and train them to yourself. Then put a part of them on each
mountain and call to them; they will come rushing to you. Know
that Allah is Almighty, All-Wise.’ (2:260)
• Allah chose Adam and Nuh and the family of Ibrahim and the
family of ‘Imran over all other beings. (3:33)
• (Say,) ‘People of the Book! Why do you argue concerning Ibrahim
when the Torah and Gospel were only sent down after him? Why
do you not use your intellect?’ (3:65)
• The people with the strongest claim to Ibrahim are those who
followed him and this Prophet and those who believe. Allah is the
Protector of the believers. (3:68)
• Say, ‘We believe in Allah and what has been sent down to us and
what was sent down to Ibrahim, Isma‘il and Ishaq and Ya‘qub and
the Tribes, and what Musa and ‘Isa and all the Prophets were
given by their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them.
We are Muslims submitted to Him.’ (3:84)
• In it are Clear Signs–the place where Ibrahim stood (to pray). All
who enter it are safe. Pilgrimage to the House is a duty owed to
Allah by all mankind–those who can find a way to do it. But if
anyone disbelieves, Allah is Rich Beyond Need of any being.
(3:97)
• Or do they in fact envy other people for the bounty Allah has
granted them? We gave the family of Ibrahim the Book and
Wisdom, and We gave them an immense kingdom. (4:54)
• When night covered him he saw a star and said, ‘This is my Lord!’
Then when it set he said, ‘I do not love what sets.’ (6:76)
• His people argued with him. He said, ‘Are you arguing with me
about Allah when He has guided me? I have no fear of any
partner you ascribe to Him unless my Lord should will such a
thing to happen. My Lord encompasses all things in His
knowledge so will you not pay heed? Why should I fear what you
have associated with Him when you yourselves apparently have
no fear of associating partners with Allah for which He has sent
down no authority to you? Which of the two parties is more
entitled to feel safe, if you have any knowledge?’ (6:80-81)
• Has the news of those who came before them not reached them
the people of Nuh and ‘Ad and Thamud, and the people of
Ibrahim and the inhabitants of Madyan and the overturned cities?
Their Messengers brought them the Clear Signs. Allah did not
wrong them; rather they wronged themselves. (9:70)
• Ibrahim would not have asked forgiveness for his father but for a
promise he made to him, and when it became clear to him that he
was an enemy of Allah, he renounced him. Ibrahim was tender-
hearted and forbearing. (9:114)
• When he saw that their hands were not reaching for it, he
suspected them and felt afraid of them. They said, ‘Have no fear!
We have been sent to the people of Lut.’ (11:70)
• His wife was standing there and she laughed out loud. So We
gave her the good news of Ishaq, and beyond Ishaq, Ya‘qub.
(11:71)
• She said, ‘Woe is me! How can I give birth when I am an old
woman and my husband here is an aged man? This is indeed an
astonishing thing!’ (11:72)
• When the feeling of fear left Ibrahim, and the good news reached
him, he disputed with Us about the people of Lut. (11:74)
• (Ya‘qub said to Yusuf,) ‘Accordingly your Lord will pick you out
and teach you the true meaning of events and perfectly fulfil His
blessing on you as well as on the family of Ya‘qub as He fulfilled it
perfectly before upon your forebears, Ibrahim and Ishaq. Most
certainly your Lord is Knowing, Wise.’ (12:6)
• When Ibrahim said, ‘My Lord! Make this land a place of safety
and keep me and my sons from worshipping idols. My Lord! They
have misguided many of mankind. If anyone follows me, he is
with me but if anyone disobeys me, You are Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. Our Lord! I have settled some of my offspring by Your
Sacred House in an uncultivated valley. Our Lord! Let them
perform prayer! Make the hearts of mankind incline towards them
and provide them with fruits, so that hopefully they will be thankful.
Our Lord! You know what we keep hidden and what we divulge.
Nothing is hidden from Allah either on the earth or in heaven.
Praise be to Allah Who, despite my old age, has given me Isma‘il
and Ishaq. My Lord is the Hearer of Prayer. My Lord! Make me
and my descendants people who perform prayer. My Lord!
Accept my prayer. Our Lord! Forgive me and my parents and the
believers on the Day the Reckoning takes place.’ (14:35-41)
• They said, ‘Do not be afraid. We bring you the good news of a
boy of great knowledge.’ (15:53)
• He said, ‘Do you bring me this good news despite the fact of old
age having reached me? What kind of good news are you
bringing me?’ (15:54)
• They said, ‘We bring you good news of the truth, so do not be
among those who despair.’ (15:55)
• They said, ‘We have been sent to a people who are evildoers–
with the exception of the family of Lut, all of whom We will save,
except for his wife. We have decreed her to be one of those who
stay behind.’ (15:58-60)
• He was thankful for His blessings. Allah chose him and guided
him to a straight path. (16:121)
• Those are some of the Prophets Allah has blessed, from the
descendants of Adam and from those We carried with Nuh, and
from the descendants of Ibrahim and Isra’il and from those We
guided and chose. When the Signs of the All-Merciful were
recited to them they fell on their faces, weeping, in prostration.
(19:58)
• When he said to his father and his people, ‘What are these
statues you are clinging to?’ (21:52)
• They said, ‘Have you brought us the truth or are you playing
games?’ (21:55)
• He said, ‘Far from it! Your Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the
earth, He Who brought them into being. I am one of those who
bear witness to that. By Allah, I will devise some scheme against
your idols when your backs are turned.’ (21:56-57)
• He broke them in pieces, except for the biggest one, so that they
would have it to consult! (21:58)
• They said, ‘Who has done this to our gods? He is definitely one of
the wrongdoers!’ (21:59)
• They said, ‘We heard a young man mentioning them. They call
him Ibrahim.’ (21:60)
• They said, ‘Bring him before the people’s eyes so they can be
witnesses.’ (21:61)
• He said, ‘No, this one, the biggest of them, did it. Ask them if they
are able to speak!’ (21:63)
• But then they relapsed back into their disbelief: ‘You know full
well these idols cannot talk.’ (21: 65)
• He said, ‘Do you then worship, instead of Allah, what cannot help
or harm you in any way? Shame on you and what you worship
besides Allah! Will you not use your intellect?’ (21:66-67)
• They said, ‘Burn him and support your gods if you are resolved to
do something.’ (21:68)
• They desired to trap him but We made them the losers. (21:70)
• We delivered both him and Lut to the land which We had blessed
for all beings. (21:71)
• And in addition to that We gave him Ishaq and Ya‘qub and made
both of them righteous. (21:72)
• We made them leaders, guiding by Our command, and revealed
to them how to do good actions and perform prayer and give the
alms, and they worshipped Us. (21:73)
• And We located the position of the House for Ibrahim: ‘Do not
associate anything with Me and purify My House for those who
circle it, and those who stand and bow and prostrate. (22:26)
• If they deny you, the people of Nuh before them denied him and
those of ‘Ad and of Thamud and the people of Ibrahim and the
people of Lut. (22:42-43)
• Strive for Allah with the striving due to Him. He has selected you
and not placed any constraint upon you in the religion–the religion
of your forefather Ibrahim. He named you Muslims before and
also in this, so that the Messenger could be witness against you
and you could be witnesses against all mankind. So perform
prayer and give the alms and hold fast to Allah. He is your
Protector–the Best Protector, the Best Helper. (22:78)
• They said, ‘We worship idols and will continue to cling to them.’
(26:71)
• He said, ‘Do they hear you when you call or do they help you or
do you harm?’ (26:72-73)
• They said, ‘No, but this is what we found our fathers doing.’
(26:74)
• He said, ‘Have you really thought about what you worship, you
and your fathers who came before? They are all my enemies–
except for the Lord of all the worlds: He Who created me and
guides me; He Who gives me food and gives me drink; and when
I am ill, it is He Who heals me; He Who will cause my death, then
give me life; He Who I sincerely hope will forgive my mistakes on
the Day of Reckoning. My Lord, give me right judgement and
unite me with the righteous; and make me highly esteemed
among the later peoples; and make me one of the inheritors of
the Garden of Delight; and forgive my father–he was one of the
misguided; and do not disgrace me on the Day they are raised up,
the Day when neither wealth nor sons will be of any use–except
to those who come to Allah with sound and flawless hearts.’
(26:75-89)
• And Ibrahim, when he said to his people, ‘Worship Allah and have
fear of Him. That is better for you if you only knew.’ (29:16)
• And if you deny it, nations before you also denied the truth. The
Messenger is only responsible for clear transmission. (29:18)
• The only answer of his people was to say: ‘Kill him or burn him!’
But Allah rescued him from the fire. There are certainly Signs in
that for people who are believers. (29:24)
• We gave him Ishaq and Ya‘qub and placed Prophethood and the
Book among his progeny. We gave him his reward in this world
and in the hereafter he will be among the righteous. (29:27)
• When Our messengers came with the good news to Ibrahim, they
said, ‘We are going to destroy the people of this city. Truly its
inhabitants are wrongdoers.’ (29:31)
• He said, ‘Lut is in it.’ They said, ‘We know very well who is in it.
We are going to rescue him and his family–except for his wife.
She will be one of those who stay behind.’ (29:32)
• He turned surreptitiously to their gods and said, ‘Do you not eat?
What is the matter with you that you do not speak?’ (37:91-92)
• He said, ‘Do you worship something you have carved when Allah
created both you and what you do?’ (37:95-96)
• They said, ‘Build a pyre for him and fling him into the blaze!’
(37:97)
• They tried to outwit him but We made them the lowest. (37:98)
• When he was of an age to work with him, he said, ‘My son, I saw
in a dream that I must sacrifice you. What do you think about
this?’ He said, ‘Do as you are ordered, father. Allah willing, you
will find me resolute.’ (37:102)
• Then when they had both submitted and he had lain him face
down on the ground, We called out to him, ‘Ibrahim! you have
discharged your vision.’ That is how We recompense good-doers.
(37:103-105)
• We ransomed him with a mighty sacrifice and left the later people
saying of him: ‘Peace be upon Ibrahim.’ (37:107-109)
• In Our eyes they are among the best of chosen men. (38:47)
• He offered it to them and then exclaimed, ‘Do you not then eat?’
(51:27)
• He felt afraid of them but they said, ‘Do not be afraid!’ and gave
him the good news of a son imbued with knowledge. (51:28)
• His wife came up with a shriek and struck her face and said,
‘What, and me a barren old woman!’ (51:29)
• They said, ‘That is what your Lord says. He is the All-Wise, the
All-Knowing.’ (51:30)
• We brought out all the believers who were there but found in it
only one house of Muslims. (51:35-36)
• We sent Nuh and Ibrahim and placed Prophethood and the Book
among their descendants. Some of them are guided but many of
them are deviators. (57:26)
• You have an excellent example in Ibrahim and those with him,
when they said to their people, ‘We wash our hands of you and all
that you worship apart from Allah, and we reject you. Between us
and you there will be enmity and hatred for ever unless and until
you believe in Allah alone.’ Except for Ibrahim’s words to his
father: ‘I will ask forgiveness for you but I have no power to help
you in any way against Allah.’ ‘Our Lord, we have put our trust in
You and have repented to You. You are our final destination.’
(60:4)
• This is certainly in the earlier texts, the texts of Ibrahim and Musa.
(87:18-19)
IDOL
• Remember when Ibrahim said to his father, Azar, ‘Do you take
idols as gods? I see that you and your people are clearly
misguided.’ (6:74)
• We conveyed the tribe of Israel across the sea and they came
upon some people who were devoting themselves to some idols
which they had. They said, ‘Musa, give us a god just as these
people have gods.’ He said, ‘You are indeed an ignorant people.’
(7:138)
• When Ibrahim said, ‘My Lord! Make this land a place of safety
and keep me and my sons from worshipping idols.’ (14:35)
• (Ibrahim said,) ‘By Allah, I will devise some scheme against your
idols when your backs are turned.’ (21:57)
• They said, ‘We worship idols and will continue to cling to them.’
(26:71)
• (Ibrahim said,) ‘Instead of Allah you worship only idols. You are
inventing a lie. Those you worship besides Allah have no power
to provide for you. So seek your provision from Allah and worship
Him and give thanks to Him. It is to Him you will be returned.’
(29:17)
• Rather you will find them the people greediest for life, along with
the idolaters. One of them would love to be allowed to live a
thousand years. But being allowed to live would not save him
from the punishment. Allah sees what they do. (2:96)
• Those of the People of the Book who disbelieve and the idolaters
do not like anything good to be sent down to you from your Lord.
But Allah selects for His mercy whomever He wills. Allah’s favour
is truly vast. (2:105)
• They say, ‘Be Jews or Christians and you will be guided.’ Say,
‘Rather adopt the religion of Ibrahim, a man of natural pure belief.
He was not one of the idolaters.’ (2:135)
• You will be tested in your wealth and in yourselves and you will
hear many abusive words from those given the Book before you
and from those who are idolaters. But if you are steadfast and
guard against evil, that is the most resolute course to take. (3:186)
• You will find that the people most hostile to those who believe are
the Jews and the idolaters. You will find the people most
affectionate to those who believe are those who say, ‘We are
Christians.’ That is because some of them are priests and monks
and because they are not arrogant. (5:82)
• Then they will have no recourse except to say, ‘By Allah, our Lord,
We were not idolaters.’ (6:23)
• Do not eat anything over which the name of Allah has not been
mentioned. To do so is sheer deviance. The Satans inspire their
friends to dispute with you. If you obeyed them you would then be
idolaters. (6:121)
• In the same way their idols have made killing their children
appear good to many of the idolaters, in order to destroy them
and confuse them in their religion. If Allah had willed, they would
not have done it; so abandon them and what they fabricate.
(6:137)
• Then, when the sacred months are over, kill the idolaters
wherever you find them, and seize them and besiege them and
lie in wait for them on every road. If they repent and perform
prayer and give the alms, let them go on their way. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (9:5)
• If any of the idolaters ask you for protection, give them protection
until they have heard the words of Allah. Then convey them to a
place where they are safe. That is because they are a people
who do not know. (9:6)
• How could any of the idolaters possibly have a treaty with Allah
and with His Messenger, except for those you made a treaty with
at the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram)? As long as they are
straight with you, be straight with them. Allah loves those who
guard against evil. (9:7)
• You who believe! The idolaters are unclean, so after this year
they should not come near the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram).
If you fear impoverishment, Allah will enrich you from His bounty
if He wills. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (9:28)
• There have been twelve months with Allah in the Book of Allah,
from the day He first created the heavens and earth. Four of them
are forbidden. That is the True Religion. So do not wrong one
another during them. However, fight the idolaters totally just as
they fight you totally, and know that Allah is with those who guard
against evil. (9:36)
• It is not right for the Prophet and those who believe to ask
forgiveness for the idolaters–even if they are close relatives–after
it has become clear to them that they are the Companions of the
Blazing Fire. (9:113)
• Turn your face towards the religion in pure natural faith, and on
no account be among the idolaters. (10:105)
• Say: ‘This is my way. I call to Allah with inner sight, I and all who
follow me. Glory be to Allah! I am not one of the idolaters!’
(12:108)
• Proclaim what you have been ordered to and turn away from the
idolaters. (15:94)
• The idolaters say, ‘If Allah had willed we would not have
worshipped anything apart from Him, neither we nor our fathers,
nor would we have forbidden anything without His say.’ Those
before them said the same. Are the Messengers responsible for
anything but clear transmission? (16:35)
• As for those who believe and those who are Jews and the
Sabaeans and the Christians, Magians and idolaters, Allah will
distinguish between them on the Day of Rising. Allah is witness of
all things. (22:17)
• A man who has fornicated may only marry a woman who has
fornicated or a woman of the idolaters. A woman who has
fornicated may only marry a man who has fornicated or a man of
the idolaters. Doing such a thing is forbidden for the believers.
(24:3)
• Do not let them debar you from Allah’s Signs after they have
been sent down to you. Call people to your Lord and on no
account be one of the idolaters. (28:87)
• Say: ‘Travel about the earth and see the final fate of those before.
Most of them were idolaters.’ (30:42)
• This was so that Allah might punish the men and women of the
hypocrites, and the men and women of the idolaters, and turn
towards the men and women of the believers. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:73)
• The People of the Book who disbelieve and the idolaters would
not be cut off until the Clear Sign came to them. (98:1)
• The People of the Book who disbelieve and the idolaters will be in
the Fire of Hell, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. They are the
worst of creatures. (98:6)
IDRIS (AS)
• And Isma‘il and Idris and Dhu’l-Kifl–each one was among the
steadfast. (21:85)
• Musa said, ‘You will find me patient, if Allah wills, and I will not
disobey you in any matter.’ (18:69)
• The Trumpet will be blown and those in the heavens and those in
the earth will all lose consciousness, except those Allah wills.
Then it will be blown a second time and at once they will be
standing upright, looking on. (39:68)
• But you will not will unless Allah wills. Allah is All-Knowing, All-
Wise. (76:30)
• But you will not will unless Allah wills, the Lord of all the Worlds.
(81:29)
• We will cause you to recite so that you do not forget–except what
Allah wills. He knows what is voiced out loud and what is hidden.
(87:6-7)
IGNORANCE
• When those who believe in Our Signs come to you, say, ‘Peace
be upon you!’ Allah has made mercy incumbent on Himself. If
anyone among you does evil out of ignorance and then
afterwards repents and puts things right, He is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (6:54)
• But to those who do evil in ignorance and then after that repent
and put things right, to them your Lord is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. (16:119)
IGNORANT
• It is for the poor who are held back in the Way of Allah, unable to
travel in the land. The ignorant consider them rich because of
their reticence. You will know them by their mark. They do not ask
from people insistently. Whatever good you give away, Allah
knows it. (2:273)
• So you cannot say: ‘The Book was only sent down to the two
groups before us and we were ignorant of their studies.’ (6:156)
• We conveyed the tribe of Israel across the sea and they came
upon some people who were devoting themselves to some idols
which they had. They said, ‘Musa, give us a god just as these
people have gods.’ He said, ‘You are indeed an ignorant people.’
(7:138)
• (Nuh said,) ‘My people! I do not ask you for any wealth for it. My
wage is the responsibility of Allah alone. I will not chase away
those who believe. They are surely going to meet their Lord.
However, I see you as ignorant people.’ (11:29)
• The servants of the All-Merciful are those who walk lightly on the
earth and, who, when the ignorant speak to them, say, ‘Peace’.
(25:63)
• (Lut said to his people,) ‘Do you come with lust to men instead of
women? You are a people who are deeply ignorant.’ (27:55)
• When they (believers) hear worthless talk they turn away from it
and say, ‘We have our actions and you have your actions. Peace
be upon you. We do not desire the company of the ignorant.’
(28:55)
• We offered the Trust to the heavens, the earth and the mountains
but they refused to take it on and shrank from it. But man took it
on. He is indeed wrongdoing and ignorant. (33:72)
• Say: ‘Do you order me to worship something other than Allah, you
ignorant people?’ (39:64)
• You who believe! Do not kill game while you are in the state of
pilgrimage. If one of you kills any deliberately, the reprisal for it is
a livestock animal equivalent to what he killed, as judged by two
just men among you, a sacrifice to reach the Kaaba, or expiation
by feeding the poor, or fasting commensurate with that, so that he
may taste the evil consequences of what he did. Allah has
pardoned all that took place in the past; but if anyone does it
again Allah will take revenge on him. Allah is Almighty, Exactor of
Revenge. (5:95)
ILL FORTUNE
• Whenever a good thing came to them, they said, ‘This is our due.’
But if anything bad happened to them, they would blame their ill
fortune on Musa and those with him. No indeed! The ill fortune is
theirs in Allah's sight. But most of them did not know. (7:131)
ILLITERATE
ILLNESS
• The month of Ramadan is the one in which the Qur’an was sent
down as guidance for mankind, with Clear Signs containing
guidance and discrimination. Any of you who are resident for the
month should fast it. But any of you who are ill or on a journey
should fast a number of other days. Allah desires ease for you;
He does not desire difficulty for you. You should complete the
number of days and proclaim Allah’s greatness for the guidance
He has given you so that hopefully you will be thankful. (2:185)
• Perform the pilgrimage and the pious visit for Allah. If you are
forcibly prevented, make whatever sacrifice is feasible. But do not
shave your heads until the sacrificial animal has reached the
place of sacrifice. If any of you are ill or have a head injury, the
expiation is fasting or charity or sacrifice when you are safe and
well again. And if you are secure, then he who takes advantage
of a pious visit before the pilgrimage should make whatever
sacrifice is feasible. For any one who cannot, there is three days’
fast on pilgrimage and seven on your return–that is ten in all. That
is for anyone whose family does not live near the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram). Have fear of Allah and know that Allah is fierce
in retribution. (2:196)
• You who believe! Do not approach the prayer when you are drunk,
so that you will know what you are saying, nor in a state of major
impurity–unless you are travelling–until you have washed
yourselves completely. If you are ill or on a journey, or any of you
have come from the lavatory or touched women, and you cannot
find any water, then take for yourselves clean earth, wiping your
faces and your hands. Allah is Ever-Pardoning, Ever-Forgiving.
(4:43)
• When you are with them and leading them in prayer, a group of
them should stand with you, keeping hold of their weapons. When
they prostrate, the others should guard your backs. Then the
other group who have not yet prayed should come and pray with
you. They too should be careful and keep hold of their weapons.
Those who disbelieve would like you to be negligent of your arms
and equipment so that they can swoop down on you once and for
all. There is nothing wrong, if you are bothered by rain or you are
ill, in laying your weapons down; but take every precaution. Allah
has prepared a humiliating punishment for the disbelievers.
(4:102)
• You who believe! When you get up to perform prayer, wash your
faces and your hands and your arms to the elbows, and wipe
over your heads, and (wash) your feet to the ankles. If you are in
a state of major impurity, then purify yourselves. But if you are ill
or on a journey, or have come from the lavatory, or have touched
women, and cannot find any water, then take for yourselves clean
earth, and wipe your faces and your hands therewith. Allah does
not want to make things difficult for you, but He does want to
purify you and to perfect His blessing upon you so that hopefully
you will be thankful. (5:6)
• Your Lord knows that you stay up nearly two-thirds of the night–or
half of it, or a third of it–and a group of those with you. Allah
determines the night and day. He knows you will not keep count
of it, so He has turned towards you. Recite as much of the Qur’an
as is easy for you. He knows that some of you are ill and that
others are travelling in the land seeking Allah’s bounty, and that
others are fighting in the Way of Allah. So recite as much of it as
is easy for you. And perform prayer and give the alms and lend a
generous loan to Allah. Whatever good you send ahead for
yourselves you will find it with Allah as something better and as a
greater reward. And seek forgiveness from Allah. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (73:20)
ILYAS (AS)
• And Zakariyya, Yahya, ‘Isa and Ilyas. All of them were among the
righteous. (6:85)
IMMORTAL
• We did not give them (Messengers) bodies which did not eat food,
nor were they immortal. (21:8)
• We did not give any human being before you immortality. And if
you die, will they then be immortal? (21:34)
• (Hud said to his people,) ‘Do you build a tower on every hilltop,
just to amuse yourselves, and construct great fortresses, hoping
to live for ever?’ (26:128-129)
IMPUDENCE
• (They said,) ‘Has the Reminder been given to him of all of us? No
indeed! He is an impudent liar.’ (54:25)
• ‘They will know tomorrow who the impudent liar is.’ (54:26)
IMPURITY
• You who believe! Do not approach the prayer when you are drunk,
so that you will know what you are saying, nor in a state of major
impurity–unless you are travelling–until you have washed
yourselves completely. If you are ill or on a journey, or any of you
have come from the lavatory or touched women, and you cannot
find any water, then take for yourselves clean earth, wiping your
faces and your hands. Allah is Ever-Pardoning, Ever-Forgiving.
(4:43)
• You who believe! When you get up to perform prayer, wash your
faces and your hands and your arms to the elbows, and wipe
over your heads, and (wash) your feet to the ankles. If you are in
a state of major impurity, then purify yourselves. But if you are ill
or on a journey, or have come from the lavatory, or have touched
women, and cannot find any water, then take for yourselves clean
earth, and wipe your faces and your hands therewith. Allah does
not want to make things difficult for you, but He does want to
purify you and to perfect His blessing upon you so that hopefully
you will be thankful. (5:6)
• Allah chose Adam and Nuh and the family of Ibrahim and the
family of ‘Imran over all other beings. (3:33)
• Remember when the wife of ‘Imran said, ‘My Lord, I have pledged
to You what is in my womb, devoting it to Your service. Please
accept my prayer. You are the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.’ (3:35)
INCONSISTENCY
• Will they not ponder the Qur’an? If it had been from other than
Allah, they would have found many inconsistencies in it. (4:82)
INDECENCY
• Recite what has been revealed to you of the Book and perform
prayer. Prayer precludes indecency and wrongdoing. And
remembrance of Allah is greater still. Allah knows what you do.
(29:45)
INFANT
• Mankind! If you are in any doubt about the Rising, know that We
created you from dust then from a drop of sperm then from a clot
of blood then from a lump of flesh, formed yet unformed, so We
may make things clear to you. We make watever We want stay in
the womb until a specified time and then We bring you out as
children so that you can reach your full maturity. Some of you die
and some of you revert to the lowest form of life so that, after
having knowledge, they then know nothing at all. And you see the
earth dead and barren; then when We send down water onto it it
quivers and swells and sprouts with luxuriant plants of every kind.
(22:5)
INHABITANT
• We have sent you with the Truth, bringing good news and giving
warning. Do not ask about the inhabitants of the Blazing Fire.
(2:119)
• And when Ibrahim said, ‘My Lord, make this a place of safety and
provide its inhabitants with fruits–all of them who believe in Allah
and the Last Day,’ He said, ‘I will let anyone who becomes a
disbeliever enjoy himself a little but then I will drive him to the
punishment of the Fire. What an evil destination!’ (2:126)
• What reason could you have for not fighting in the Way of Allah–
for those men, women and children who are oppressed and say,
‘Our Lord, take us out of this city whose inhabitants are
wrongdoers! Give us a protector from You! Give us a helper from
You!’? (4:75)
• Has the news of those who came before them not reached them
the people of Nuh and ‘Ad and Thamud, and the people of
Ibrahim and the inhabitants of Madyan and the overturned cities?
Their Messengers brought them the Clear Signs. Allah did not
wrong them; rather they wronged themselves. (9:70)
• You who believe! Do not enter houses other than your own until
you have asked permission and greeted their inhabitants. That is
better for you, so that hopefully you will pay heed. (24:27)
• She (Queen of Sheba) said, ‘When kings enter a city, they lay
waste to it and make its mightiest inhabitants the most abased.
That is what they too will do.’ (27:34)
• When Our messengers came with the good news to Ibrahim, they
said, ‘We are going to destroy the people of this city. Truly its
inhabitants are wrongdoers.’ (29:31)
• Make an example for them of the inhabitants of the city when the
Messengers came to it. (36:13)
• You who believe! Do not make friends of people with whom Allah
is angry, who have despaired of the hereafter as the disbelievers
have despaired of the inhabitants of the graves. (60:13)
INHERIT - BEQUEATH
• You receive half of what your wives leave if they are childless. If
they have children you receive a quarter of what they leave after
any bequest they make or any debts. They receive a quarter of
what you leave if you are childless. If you have children they
receive an eighth of what you leave after any bequest you make
or any debts. If a man or woman has no direct heirs, but has a
brother or sister, each of them receives a sixth. If there are more
than that they share in a third after any bequest you make or any
debts, making sure that no one’s rights are prejudiced. This is an
instruction from Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Forbearing. (4:12)
• You who believe! When one of you is near to death and makes a
will, two just men from among you should act as witnesses; or, if
you are travelling when the misfortune of death occurs, two men
who are strangers to you. You should detain them after prayer
and, if you are doubtful, they should swear by Allah: ‘We will not
sell it for any price, even to a near relative, and we will not
conceal the testimony of Allah. If we did we would indeed be
wrongdoers.’ (5:106)
• It is We Who give life and cause to die and We are the Inheritor.
(15:23)
• It is We Who will inherit the earth and all those on it. They will be
returned to Us. (19:40)
• Such people are the inheritors who will inherit Firdaws, remaining
in it timelessly, for ever. (23:10-11)
INK
• Say: ‘If all the sea was ink to write down the Words of my Lord, it
would run out long before the Words of my Lord ran out,’ even if
We were to bring the same amount of ink again. (18:109)
INSIGHT
• When Talut marched out with the army, he said, ‘Allah will test
you with a river. Anyone who drinks from it is not with me. But
anyone who does not taste it is with me–except for him who
merely scoops up a little in his hand.’ But they drank from it–
except for a few of them. Then when he and those who believed
with him had crossed it, they said, ‘We do not have the strength
to face Goliath and his troops today.’ But those who were sure
that they were going to meet Allah said, ‘How many a small force
has triumphed over a much greater one by Allah’s permission!
Allah is with the steadfast.’ (2:249)
• There was a sign for you in the two parties which met face to face,
one party fighting in the Way of Allah and the other disbelievers.
You saw them as twice their number with your own eyes. Allah
reinforces with His help whoever He wills. There is instruction in
that for people of insight. (3:13)
• When news of any matter reaches them they spread it about,
whether it is of a reassuring or disquieting nature. If they had only
referred it to the Messenger and those in command among them,
those among them able to discern the truth about it would have
had proper knowledge of it. If it were not for Allah’s favour to you
and His mercy, all but a very few of you would have followed
Satan. (4:83)
• ‘Clear insights have come to you from your Lord. Whoever sees
clearly, does so to his own benefit. Whoever is blind, it is to his
own detriment. I am not here as your keeper.’ (6:104)
• If you do not bring them a Sign, they say, ‘Why have you not
come up with one?’ Say, ‘I follow only what has been revealed to
me from my Lord.’ This is clear insight from your Lord, and
guidance and mercy, for people who believe. (7:203)
• Say: ‘This is my way. I call to Allah with inner sight, I and all who
follow me. Glory be to Allah! I am not one of the idolaters!’
(12:108)
• Allah revolves night and day. There is surely a lesson in that for
people with inner sight. (24:44)
• This is clear insight for mankind and guidance and mercy for
people with certainty. (45:20)
• But Allah is mocking them, and drawing them on, as they wander
blindly in their excessive insolence. (2:15)
• The Jews say, ‘Allah’s hand is chained.’ Their hands are chained
and they are cursed for what they say! No! Both His hands are
open wide and He gives however He wills. What has been sent
down to you from your Lord increases many of them in insolence
and disbelief. We have incited enmity and hatred between them
until the Day of Rising. Each time they kindle the fire of war, Allah
extinguishes it. They rush about the earth corrupting it. Allah does
not love corrupters. (5:64)
• Say: ‘People of the Book! You have nothing to stand on until you
implement the Torah and the Gospel and what has been sent
down to you from your Lord.’ What has been sent down to you
from your Lord increases many of them in insolence and disbelief.
So do not waste your grief on the people of the disbelievers. (5:68)
• We will overturn their hearts and sight, just as when they did not
believe in it at first, and We will abandon them to wander blindly
in their excessive insolence. (6:110)
• If Allah were to hasten evil for people the way they try to hasten
good, their term would already have been completed for them.
We abandon those who do not expect to meet Us to wander
blindly in their excessive insolence. (10:11)
• (He said to Musa,) ‘As for the boy, his parents were believers and
we feared that he would darken their days with excessive
insolence and disbelief.’ (18:80)
• Then We will drag out from every sect the one among them most
insolent towards the All-Merciful. (19:69)
• Those who do not expect to meet Us say, ‘Why have angels not
been sent down to us? Why do we not see our Lord?’ They have
become arrogant about themselves and are excessively insolent.
(25:21)
INSPIRATION
• On that Day it (the earth) will impart all its news because your
Lord has inspired it. (99:4-5)
INTELLECT - INTELLIGENCE
• In this way Allah makes His Signs clear to you, so that hopefully
you will use your intellect. (2:242)
• When you call to prayer they make a mockery and a game of it.
That is because they are people who do not use their intellect.
(5:58)
• Say: ‘Bad things and good things are not the same, even though
the abundance of the bad things may seem attractive to you.’
Have fear of Allah, people of intelligence, so that hopefully you
will be successful. (5:100)
• Allah did not institute any such thing as bahira or sa’iba or wasila
or hami. Those who disbelieved invented lies against Allah. Most
of them do not use their intellect. (5:103)
• The life of this world is nothing but a game and a diversion. The
hereafter is better for those who guard against evil. So will you
not use your intellect? (6:32)
• Say: ‘Come and I will recite to you what your Lord has made
forbidden for you’: that you do not associate anything with Him;
that you are good to your parents; that you do not kill your
children because of poverty–We will provide for you and them;
that you do not approach indecency–outward or inward; that you
do not kill any person Allah has made inviolate–except with the
right to do so. That is what He instructs you to do so that
hopefully you will use your intellect. (6:151)
• An evil generation has succeeded them, inheriting the Book,
taking the goods of this lower world, and saying, ‘We will be
forgiven.’ But if similar goods come to them again they still take
them. Has not a covenant been made with them in the Book, that
they should only say the truth about Allah and have they not
studied what is in it? The Final Abode is better for those who
guard against evil. Will you not use your intellect? (7:169)
• The worst of beasts in Allah’s sight are the deaf and dumb who
have no intellect. (8:22)
• Say: ‘Had Allah so wished, I would not have recited it to you nor
would He have made it known to you. I lived among you for many
years before it came. Will you not use your intellect?’ (10:16)
• (Hud said,) ‘My people! I do not ask you for any wage for it. My
wage is the responsibility of Him Who brought me into being. So
will you not use your intellect?’ (11:51)
• We sent none before you but men inspired with revelation from
among the people of the cities. Have they not travelled in the land
and seen the final fate of those before them? The abode of the
hereafter is better for those who guard against evil. So will you
not use your intellect? (12:109)
• In the earth there are diverse regions side by side and gardens of
grapes and cultivated fields, and palm-trees sharing one root and
others with individual roots, all watered with the same water. And
We make some things better to eat than others. There are Signs
in that for people who use their intellect. (13:4)
• Is he who knows that what has been sent down to you from your
Lord is the truth like him who is blind? It is only people of
intelligence who pay heed. (13:19)
• He has made night and day subservient to you, and the sun and
moon and stars, all subject to His command. There are certainly
Signs in that for people who use their intellect. (16:12)
• And from the fruit of the date-palm and the grape-vine you derive
both intoxicants and wholesome provision. There is certainly a
Sign in that for people who use their intellect. (16:67)
• Eat and pasture your cattle. Certainly there are Signs in that for
people of sound intellect. (20:54)
• Shame on you and what you worship besides Allah! Will you not
use your intellect?’ (21:67)
• It is He Who gives life and causes to die and His is the alternation
of the night and day. So will you not use your intellect? (23:80)
• He (Musa) said, ‘The Lord of the East and the West and
everything between them if you used your intellect.’ (26:28)
• Anything you have been given is only the enjoyment of the life of
this world and its finery. What is with Allah is better and longer
lasting. So will you not use your intellect? (28:60)
• We have left a Clear Sign of them behind for people who use
their intellect. (29:35)
• If you ask them, ‘Who sends down water from the sky, bringing
the earth back to life again after it was dead?’ they will say,
‘Allah.’ Say: ‘Praise be to Allah.’ But most of them do not use their
intellect. (29:63)
• He has led huge numbers of you into error. Why did you not use
your intellect? (36:62)
• We gave him back his family and the same again with them as a
mercy from Us and a reminder for people of intellect. (38:43)
• Those who listen well to what is said and follow the best of it, they
are the ones whom Allah has guided, they are the people of
intelligence. (39:18)
• Do you not see that Allah sends down water from the sky and
threads it through the earth to emerge as springs and then by it
brings forth crops of varying colours, which then wither and you
see them turning yellow and then He makes them into broken
stubble? There is a reminder in that for people of intelligence.
(39:21)
• As for those who call out to you from outside your private quarters,
most of them do not use their intellect. (49:4)
• Is it their intellects that direct them to say this or is it that they are
an unbridled people? (52:32)
• Know that Allah brings the earth to life after it was dead. We have
made the Signs clear to you so that hopefully you will use your
intellect. (57:17)
• They will not fight against you all together as a group except in
fortified towns or behind high walls. Their hostility towards each
other is intense. They are full of bravado in each other’s company.
You consider them united but their hearts are scattered wide.
That is because they are people who do not use their intellect.
(59:14)
• They will say, ‘If only we had really listened and used our intellect,
we would not have been Companions of the Blaze.’ (67:10)
• By the dawn and ten nights, and the even and odd, and the night
when it travels on, is there not in that an oath for the intelligent?
(89:1-5)
INTENTION
• Allah will not take you to task for inadvertent statements in your
oaths, but He will take you to task for the intention your hearts
have made. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, All-Forbearing. (2:225)
INTERCESSION
• You who believe! Give away some of what We have provided for
you before a Day arrives on which there is no trading, no close
friendship and no intercession. It is the disbelievers who are the
wrongdoers. (2:254)
• Abandon those who have turned their religion into a game and a
diversion and who have been deluded by the life of this world.
Remind by it lest a person is delivered up to destruction for what
he has earned with no protector or intercessor besides Allah.
Were he to offer every kind of compensation, it would not be
accepted from him. Such people are delivered up to destruction
for what they have earned. They will have scalding water to drink
and a painful punishment because they disbelieved. (6:70)
• What are they waiting for but its fulfilment? The Day its fulfilment
occurs, those who forgot it before will say, ‘The Messengers of
our Lord came with the Truth. Are there any intercessors to
intercede for us, or can we be sent back so that we can do
something other than what we did?’ They have lost their own
selves and what they invented has forsaken them. (7:53)
• Your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six
days and then established Himself firmly on the Throne. He
directs the whole affair. No one can intercede except with His
permission. That is Allah your Lord, so worship Him. Will you not
pay heed? (10:3)
• They worship, instead of Allah, what can neither harm them nor
help them, saying, ‘These are our intercessors with Allah.’ Say:
‘Would you inform Allah of something about which He does not
know either in the heavens or on the earth?’ May He be glorified
and exalted above what they associate with Him! (10:18)
• On that Day intercession will not be of any use except for him
whom the All-Merciful has authorised and with whose speech He
is well-pleased. (20:109)
• (They will say,) ‘And now we have no one to intercede for us.’
(26:100)
• None of their partner-gods will intercede for them. They will reject
their partner-gods. (30:13)
• (A man from the far side of the city said,) ‘Am I to take as gods
instead of Him those whose intercession, if the All-Merciful
desires harm for me, will not help me at all and cannot save me?’
(36:23)
• And warn them of the Day of Immediacy when hearts rise choking
to the throat. The wrongdoers will have no close friend nor any
intercessor who might be heard. (40:18)
INTERPRETATION
• He (Yusuf) raised his parents up onto the throne. The others fell
prostrate in front of him. He said, ‘My father, truly this is now the
interpretation of the dream I had. My Lord has made it all come
true; and He was kind to me by letting me out of prison and
brought you from the desert when Satan had caused dissent
between me and my brothers. My Lord is kind to anyone He wills.
He is indeed All-Knowing and All-Wise.’ (12:100)
INTIMATE
• Or did you suppose that you would be left without Allah knowing
those of you who have strived and who have not taken anyone as
their intimate friends besides Allah and His Messenger and the
believers? Allah is aware of what you do. (9:16)
IRAM
• (Do you not see what your Lord did with) Iram of the Columns?
(89:7)
IRON
• Such is the iron grip of your Lord when He seizes the cities which
do wrong. His grip is painful, violent. (11:102)
• Say: ‘It would not matter if you were rock or iron or indeed any
created thing that you think is harder still!’ They will say, ‘Who will
bring us back again?’ Say: ‘He Who brought you into being in the
first place.’ They will shake their heads at you and ask, ‘When will
it happen?’ Say: ‘It may well be that it is very near.’ (17:50-51)
• And (in hell) they will be beaten with cudgels made of iron. (22:21)
• Those deemed weak will say to those deemed great, ‘No, it was
your scheming night and day when you commanded us to reject
Allah and assign equals to Him.’ But they will show their remorse
when they see the punishment. We will put iron collars round the
necks of those who disbelieve. Will they be repaid for anything
but what they did? (34:33)
• We have put iron collars round their necks reaching up to the chin,
so that their heads are forced back. (36:8)
• We sent Our Messengers with the Clear Signs and sent down the
Book and the Balance with them so that mankind might establish
justice. And We sent down iron in which there lies great force and
which has many uses for mankind, so that Allah might know
those who help Him and His Messengers in the Unseen. Allah is
All-Strong, Almighty. (57:25)
IRRIGATION
• Say, ‘We believe in Allah and what has been sent down to us and
what was sent down to Ibrahim and Isma‘il and Ishaq and Ya‘qub
and the Tribes, and what Musa and ‘Isa were given, and what all
the Prophets were given by their Lord. We do not differentiate
between any of them. We are Muslims submitted to Him.’ (2:136)
• When the angels said, ‘Maryam, your Lord gives you good news
of a Word from Him. His name is the Messiah, ‘Isa, son of
Maryam, of high esteem in this world and the hereafter, and one
of those brought near. He will speak to people in the cradle, and
also when fully grown, and will be one of the righteous,’ she said,
‘My Lord! How can I have a son when no man has ever touched
me?’ He said, ‘It will be so.’ Allah creates whatever He wills.
When He decides on something, He just says to it, ‘Be!’ and it is.
He will teach him the Book and Wisdom, and the Torah and the
Gospel, as a Messenger to the tribe of Israel, saying: ‘I have
brought you a Sign from your Lord. I will create the shape of a
bird out of clay for you and then breathe into it and it will be a bird
by Allah’s permission. I will heal the blind and the leper, and bring
the dead to life, by Allah’s permission. I will tell you what you eat
and what you store up in your homes. There is a Sign for you in
that if you are believers. I come confirming the Torah I find
already there, and to make lawful for you some of what was
previously forbidden to you. I have brought you a Sign from your
Lord. So have fear of Allah and obey me. Allah is my Lord and
your Lord so worship Him. That is a straight path.’ When ‘Isa
sensed disbelief on their part, he said, ‘Who will be my helpers to
Allah?’ The disciples said, ‘We are Allah's helpers. We believe in
Allah. Bear witness that we are Muslims. Our Lord, we believe in
what You have sent down and have followed the Messenger, so
write us down among the witnesses.’ They plotted and Allah
plotted. But Allah is the best of plotters. When Allah said, ‘‘Isa, I
will take you back and raise you up to Me and purify you of those
who disbelieve. And I will place the people who follow you above
those who disbelieve until the Day of Rising. Then you will all
return to Me, and I will judge between you regarding the things
about which you differed.’ (3:45-55)
• Say, ‘We believe in Allah and what has been sent down to us and
what was sent down to Ibrahim, Isma‘il and Ishaq and Ya‘qub and
the Tribes, and what Musa and ‘Isa and all the Prophets were
given by their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them.
We are Muslims submitted to Him.’ (3:84)
• Because of the fact that they broke their covenant, and rejected
Allah’s Signs, and killed the Prophets without any right to do so
and said, ‘Our hearts are uncircumcised,’ Allah has stamped
them with disbelief, so they do not believe except for very few.
And on account of their disbelief, and their utterance of a
monstrous slander against Maryam, and their saying, ‘We killed
the Messiah, ‘Isa son of Maryam, Messenger of Allah.’ They did
not kill him and they did not crucify him but it was made to seem
so to them. Those who argue about him are in doubt about it.
They have no real knowledge of it, just conjecture. But they
certainly did not kill him. Allah raised him up to Himself. Allah is
Almighty, All-Wise. There is not one of the People of the Book
who will not believe in him before he dies; and on the Day of
Rising he will be a witness against them. (4:155-159)
• And Zakariyya, Yahya, ‘Isa and Ilyas. All of them were among the
righteous. (6:85)
• The Jews say, ‘‘Uzayr is the son of Allah,’ and the Christians say,
‘The Messiah is the son of Allah.’ That is what they say with their
mouths, copying the words of those who disbelieved before. Allah
fight them! How perverted they are! They have taken their rabbis
and monks as lords besides Allah, and also the Messiah, son of
Maryam. Yet they were commanded to worship only one God.
There is no god but Him! Glory be to Him above anything they
associate with Him! (9:30-31)
• Mention Maryam in the Book, how she withdrew from her people
to an eastern place, and veiled herself from them. Then We sent
Our Spirit to her and it took on for her the form of a handsome,
well-built man. She said, ‘I seek refuge from you with the All-
Merciful if you guard against evil.’ He said, ‘I am only your Lord’s
messenger so that He can give you a pure boy.’ She said, ‘How
can I have a boy when no man has touched me and I am not an
unchaste woman?’ He said, ‘It will be so! Your Lord says, "That is
easy for Me. It is so that We can make him a Sign for mankind
and a mercy from Us." It is a matter already decreed.’ So she
conceived him and withdrew with him to a distant place. The
pains of labour drove her to the trunk of a date-palm. She said,
‘Oh if only I had died before this time and was something
discarded and forgotten!’ A voice called out to her from under her,
‘Do not grieve! Your Lord has placed a small stream at your feet.
Shake the trunk of the palm towards you and fresh, ripe dates will
drop down onto you. Eat and drink and delight your eyes. If you
should see anyone at all, just say, "I have made a vow of
abstinence to the All-Merciful and today I will not speak to any
human being."’ She brought him to her people, carrying him. They
said, ‘Maryam! You have done an unthinkable thing! Sister of
Harun, your father was not an evil man nor was your mother an
unchaste woman!’ She pointed towards him. They said, ‘How can
a baby in the cradle speak?’ He said, ‘I am the servant of Allah,
He has given me the Book and made me a Prophet. He has
made me blessed wherever I am and directed me to perform
prayer and give the alms as long as I live, and to show devotion
to my mother. He has not made me insolent or arrogant. Peace
be upon me the day I was born, and the day I die and the day I
am raised up again alive.’ That is ‘Isa, son of Maryam, the word of
truth about which they are in doubt. It is not fitting for Allah to
have a son. Glory be to Him! When He decides on something, He
just says to it, ‘Be!’ and it is. (19:16-35)
• And We made the son of Maryam and his mother a Sign and
gave them shelter on a mountainside where there was a meadow
and a flowing spring. (23:50)
ISHAQ (AS)
• Say, ‘We believe in Allah and what has been sent down to us and
what was sent down to Ibrahim and Isma‘il and Ishaq and Ya‘qub
and the Tribes, and what Musa and ‘Isa were given, and what all
the Prophets were given by their Lord. We do not differentiate
between any of them. We are Muslims submitted to Him.’ (2:136)
• Say, ‘We believe in Allah and what has been sent down to us and
what was sent down to Ibrahim, Isma‘il and Ishaq and Ya‘qub and
the Tribes, and what Musa and ‘Isa and all the Prophets were
given by their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them.
We are Muslims submitted to Him.’ (3:84)
• His wife was standing there and she laughed out loud. So We
gave her the good news of Ishaq, and beyond Ishaq, Ya‘qub.
(11:71)
• (Ya‘qub said to Yusuf,) ‘Accordingly your Lord will pick you out
and teach you the true meaning of events and perfectly fulfil His
blessing on you as well as on the family of Ya‘qub as He fulfilled it
perfectly before upon your forebears, Ibrahim and Ishaq. Most
certainly your Lord is Knowing, Wise.’ (12:6)
ISLAM
• The religion with Allah is Islam. Those given the Book only
differed after knowledge had come to them, envying one another.
As for those who reject Allah’s Signs, Allah is swift at reckoning.
(3:19)
• Forbidden for you are carrion, blood and pork, and what has been
consecrated to other than Allah, and animals which have been
strangled, and animals which have been killed by a blow, and
animals which have fallen to their death, and animals which have
been gored, and animals which wild beasts have eaten–except
those you are able to slaughter properly–and animals which have
been sacrificed on altars, and deciding things by means of
divining arrows–that is deviance. Today those who disbelieve
have despaired of overcoming your religion. So do not be afraid
of them but be afraid of Me. Today I have perfected your religion
for you and completed My blessing upon you and I am pleased
with Islam as a religion for you. But if anyone is forced by hunger,
not intending any wrongdoing, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. (5:3)
• They swear by Allah that they said nothing, but they definitely
spoke the word of disbelief and returned to disbelief after their
Islam. They planned something which they did not achieve and
they were vindictive for no other cause than that Allah and His
Messenger had enriched them from His bounty. If they were to
repent, it would be better for them. But if they turn away, Allah will
punish them with a painful punishment in this world and the
hereafter, and they will not find any protector or helper on the
earth. (9:74)
ISMA‘IL (AS)
• And when Ibrahim built the foundations of the House with Isma‘il:
‘Our Lord, accept this from us! You are the All-Hearing, the All-
Knowing.’ (2:127)
• Or do they say that Ibrahim and Isma‘il and Ishaq and Ya‘qub and
the Tribes were Jews or Christians? Say, ‘Do you know better or
does Allah?’ Who could do greater wrong than someone who
hides the evidence he has been given by Allah? Allah is not
unaware of what you do. (2:140)
• Say, ‘We believe in Allah and what has been sent down to us and
what was sent down to Ibrahim, Isma‘il and Ishaq and Ya‘qub and
the Tribes, and what Musa and ‘Isa and all the Prophets were
given by their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them.
We are Muslims submitted to Him.’ (3:84)
• Mention Isma‘il in the Book. He was true to his promise and was a
Messenger and a Prophet. He used to command his people to
perform prayer and give the alms and he was pleasing to his Lord.
(19:54-55)
• And Isma‘il and Idris and Dhu’l-Kifl–each one was among the
steadfast. (21:85)
• Remember Our servants Isma‘il, Al-Yasa‘ and Dhu’l-Kifl; each of
them was among the best of men. (38:48)
ISRAEL
• All food was lawful for the tribe of Israel except what Israel made
unlawful for himself before the Torah was sent down. Say, ‘Bring
the Torah and read it out if you are telling the truth.’ (3:93)
• Those are some of the Prophets Allah has blessed, from the
descendants of Adam and from those We carried with Nuh, and
from the descendants of Ibrahim and Isra’il and from those We
guided and chose. When the Signs of the All-Merciful were
recited to them they fell on their faces, weeping, in prostration.
(19:58)
ITIKAAF
• On the night of the fast it is lawful for you to have sexual relations
with your wives. They are clothing for you and you for them. Allah
knows that you have been betraying yourselves and He has
turned towards you and excused you. Now you may have sexual
intercourse with them and seek what Allah has written for you.
Eat and drink until you can clearly discern the white thread from
the black thread of the dawn, then fulfil the fast until the night
appears. But do not have sexual intercourse with them while you
are in retreat in the mosques. These are Allah’s limits, so do not
go near them. In this way does Allah make His Signs clear to
people so that hopefully they will guard against evil. (Qur’an,
2:187)
(MASHA'LLAH)
JEW
• Those with faith, those who are Jews, and the Christians and
Sabaeans, all who believe in Allah and the Last Day and act
rightly, will have their reward with their Lord. They will feel no fear
and will know no sorrow. (2:62)
• They say, ‘No one will enter the Garden except for Jews and
Christians.’ Such is their vain hope. Say, ‘Produce your evidence
if you are telling the truth.’ (2:111)
• The Jews say, ‘The Christians have nothing to stand on,’ and the
Christians say, ‘The Jews have nothing to stand on,’ yet they both
recite the Book. Those who do not know say the same as they
say. Allah will judge between them on the Day of Rising regarding
the things about which they differ. (2:113)
• The Jews and the Christians will never be pleased with you until
you follow their religion. Say, ‘Allah’s guidance is the true
guidance.’ If you were to follow their whims and desires, after the
knowledge that has come to you, you would find no protector or
helper against Allah. (2:120)
• They say, ‘Be Jews or Christians and you will be guided.’ Say,
‘Rather adopt the religion of Ibrahim, a man of natural pure belief.
He was not one of the idolaters.’ (2:135)
• Or do they say that Ibrahim and Isma‘il and Ishaq and Ya‘qub and
the Tribes were Jews or Christians? Say, ‘Do you know better or
does Allah?’ Who could do greater wrong than someone who
hides the evidence he has been given by Allah? Allah is not
unaware of what you do. (2:140)
• Some of the Jews distort the true meaning of words, saying, ‘We
hear and disobey,’ and ‘Listen without listening,’ and ‘Listen to
us!’ twisting them with their tongues, disparaging the religion. If
they had said, ‘We hear and we obey,’ and ‘Listen,’ and, ‘Look at
us!’ that would have been better for them and more upright. But
Allah has cursed them for their disbelief. Very few of them believe.
(4:46)
• The Jews and Christians say, ‘We are Allah’s children and His
loved ones.’ Say: ‘Why, then, does He punish you for your wrong
actions? No, you are merely human beings among those He has
created. He forgives whoever He wills and He punishes whoever
He wills. The kingdom of the heavens and the earth and
everything between them belongs to Allah. He is our final
destination.’ (5:18)
• We sent down the Torah containing guidance and light, and the
Prophets who had submitted themselves gave judgement by it for
the Jews–as did their scholars and their rabbis–by what they had
been allowed to preserve of Allah’s Book to which they were
witnesses. Do not be afraid of people, be afraid of Me. And do not
sell My Signs for a paltry price. Those who do not judge by what
Allah has sent down, such people are disbelievers. (5:44)
• You who believe! Do not take the Jews and Christians as your
friends; they are the friends of one another. Any of you who takes
them as friends is one of them. Allah does not guide wrongdoing
people. (5:51)
• The Jews say, ‘Allah’s hand is chained.’ Their hands are chained
and they are cursed for what they say! No! Both His hands are
open wide and He gives however He wills. What has been sent
down to you from your Lord increases many of them in insolence
and disbelief. We have incited enmity and hatred between them
until the Day of Rising. Each time they kindle the fire of war, Allah
extinguishes it. They rush about the earth corrupting it. Allah does
not love corrupters. (5:64)
• Those who believe and those who are Jews and the Sabaeans
and the Christians, all who believe in Allah and the Last Day and
act rightly will feel no fear and will know no sorrow. (5:69)
• You will find that the people most hostile to those who believe are
the Jews and the idolaters. You will find the people most
affectionate to those who believe are those who say, ‘We are
Christians.’ That is because some of them are priests and monks
and because they are not arrogant. (5:82)
• The Jews say, ‘‘Uzayr is the son of Allah,’ and the Christians say,
‘The Messiah is the son of Allah.’ That is what they say with their
mouths, copying the words of those who disbelieved before. Allah
fight them! How perverted they are! (9:30)
• As for those who believe and those who are Jews and the
Sabaeans and the Christians, Magians and idolaters, Allah will
distinguish between them on the Day of Rising. Allah is witness of
all things. (22:17)
JEWELLERY
• He sends down water from the sky and river-beds fill up and flow
according to their size, and the floodwater carries with it an
increasing layer of scum; a similar kind of scum comes from what
you heat up in the fire, when you desire to make jewellery or
other things. That is how Allah depicts the true and the false. As
for the scum, it is quickly swept away. But as for that which is of
use to people, it remains behind in the ground. That is a
metaphor which Allah has made. (13:17)
• They said, ‘We did not break our promise to you of our own
volition. But we were weighed down with the heavy loads of the
people’s jewelry and we threw them in, for that is what the
Samaritan did.’ (20:87)
JINN
• Yet they make the jinn co-partners with Allah when He created
them! And they attribute sons and daughters to Him without any
knowledge. Glory be to Him! He is far above what they describe!
(6:100)
• Company of jinn and men! Did not Messengers come to you from
among yourselves relating My Signs to you and warning you of
the encounter of this Day of yours? They will say, ‘We testify
against ourselves.’ The life of this world deluded them and they
will testify against themselves that they were disbelievers. (6:130)
• He will say, ‘Enter the Fire together with the nations of jinn and
men who have passed away before you.’ Each time a nation
enters, it will curse its sister nation, until, when they are all
gathered together in it, the last of them will say to the first, ‘Our
Lord, those are the ones who misguided us, so give them a
double punishment in the Fire.’ He will say, ‘Each will receive
double. But you do not know it.’ (7:38)
• We created many of the jinn and mankind for Hell. They have
hearts they do not understand with. They have eyes they do not
see with. They have ears they do not hear with. Such people are
like cattle. No, they are even further astray! They are the unaware.
(7:179)
• If your Lord had wanted to, He would have made mankind into
one community but they persist in their differences, except for
those your Lord has mercy on. That is what He created them for–
so that the Word of your Lord would be fulfilled: ‘I will fill up Hell
with the jinn and mankind all together.’ (11:118-119)
• We created the jinn before out of the fire of a searing wind. (15:27)
• Say: ‘If both men and jinn banded together to produce the like of
this Qur'an, they could never produce anything like it, even if they
backed each other up.’ (17:88)
• A demon of the jinn said, ‘I will bring it to you before you get up
from your seat. I am strong and trustworthy enough to do it.’
(27:39)
• ‘Had We so willed We could have given guidance to everyone,
but now My Words are shown to be true: that I shall fill up Hell
entirely with jinn and human beings.’ (32:13)
• They will say, ‘Glory be to You! You are our Protector, not them.
No, they were worshipping the jinn. They mostly had faith in
them.’ (34:41)
• They claim there is a blood-tie between Him and the jinn but the
jinn know very well that they will be arraigned. (37:158)
• Those who disbelieve say, ‘Our Lord, show us those jinn and men
who misguided us and we will place them beneath our feet so
that they will be among the lowest of the low.’ (41:29)
• Those are people of whom the statement about the nations, both
of jinn and men, who passed away before them, has also proved
true; truly they were the lost. (46:18)
• Company of jinn and men, if you are able to pierce through the
confines of the heavens and earth, pierce through them. You will
not pierce through except with a clear authority. (55:33)
• That Day no man or jinn will be asked about his sin. (55:39)
• In them are maidens with eyes for them alone, untouched before
them by either man or jinn. (55:56)
• Say: ‘It has been revealed to me that a band of the jinn listened
and said, "We have heard a most amazing Recitation. It leads to
right guidance so we believe in it and will not associate anyone
with our Lord. He–exalted be the Majesty of our Lord!–has neither
wife nor son. The fools among us have uttered a vile slander
against Allah. We did not think it possible for either man or jinn to
tell a lie against Allah. Certain men from among mankind used to
seek refuge with certain men from among the jinn but they
increased them in wickedness. They thought–as you also think–
that Allah would never raise up anyone. We tried, as usual, to
travel to heaven in search of news but found it filled with fierce
guards and meteors. We used to sit there on special seats to
listen in. But anyone listening now finds a fiery meteor in wait for
him. We have no idea whether evil is intended for those on the
earth, or whether their Lord intends them to be rightly guided.
Among us there are some who are righteous and some who are
other than that. We follow many different paths. We realised we
would never thwart Allah on earth and would never thwart Him by
flight, and when we heard the guidance, we believed in it. Anyone
who believes in his Lord need fear neither belittlement nor
tyranny. Some of us are Muslims and some are deviators. Those
who have become Muslim are those who sought right guidance;
the deviators will be firewood for Hellfire."’ (72:1-15)
• Say: ‘I seek refuge with the Lord of mankind, the King of mankind,
the God of mankind, from the evil of the insidious whisperer who
whispers in people’s breasts and comes from the jinn and from
mankind.’ (114:1-6)
JOURNEY
• You who believe! Do not approach the prayer when you are drunk,
so that you will know what you are saying, nor in a state of major
impurity–unless you are travelling–until you have washed
yourselves completely. If you are ill or on a journey, or any of you
have come from the lavatory or touched women, and you cannot
find any water, then take for yourselves clean earth, wiping your
faces and your hands. Allah is Ever-Pardoning, Ever-Forgiving.
(4:43)
• You who believe! When you get up to perform prayer, wash your
faces and your hands and your arms to the elbows, and wipe
over your heads, and (wash) your feet to the ankles. If you are in
a state of major impurity, then purify yourselves. But if you are ill
or on a journey, or have come from the lavatory, or have touched
women, and cannot find any water, then take for yourselves clean
earth, and wipe your faces and your hands therewith. Allah does
not want to make things difficult for you, but He does want to
purify you and to perfect His blessing upon you so that hopefully
you will be thankful. (5:6)
JOY
• (Believers are) those who say, ‘Our Lord, give us joy in our wives
and children and make us a good example for those who guard
against evil’; (25:74)
• As for those who believed and did right actions, they will be made
joyful in a verdant meadow. (30:15)
• ‘Enter the Garden, you and your wives, delighting in your joy.’
(43:70)
• So Allah has safeguarded them from the evil of that Day and has
made them meet with radiance and pure joy. (76:11)
• As for him who is given his Book in his right hand, he will be given
an easy reckoning and return to his family joyfully. (84:7-9)
• Do you not see those who have been given a portion of the Book
being invited to let Allah's Book be the judge between them? But
then a group of them turn away. (3:23)
• No, by your Lord, they are not believers until they make you their
judge in the disputes that break out between them, and then find
no resistance within themselves to what you decide and submit
themselves completely. (4:65)
• How can they make you their judge when they have the Torah
with them which contains the judgement of Allah? Then even
after that they turn their backs! Such people are certainly not
believers. (5:43)
• When they despaired of him, they went apart to talk alone. The
eldest of them (Yusuf’s brothers) said, ‘You know full well your
father had you make a covenant with Allah concerning this, and
how before you failed him with Yusuf. I will not leave this land
until I have permission from my father, or Allah decides about the
case on my behalf. Truly He is the justest Judge of all.’ (12:80)
TO JUDGE
• The Jews say, ‘The Christians have nothing to stand on,’ and the
Christians say, ‘The Jews have nothing to stand on,’ yet they both
recite the Book. Those who do not know say the same as they
say. Allah will judge between them on the Day of Rising regarding
the things about which they differ. (2:113)
• When Allah said, ‘‘Isa, I will take you back and raise you up to Me
and purify you of those who disbelieve. And I will place the people
who follow you above those who disbelieve until the Day of Rising.
Then you will all return to Me, and I will judge between you
regarding the things about which you differed.’ (3:55)
• Allah commands you to return to their owners the things you hold
on trust and, when you judge between people, to judge with
justice. How excellent is what Allah exhorts you to do! Allah is All-
Hearing, All-Seeing. (4:58)
• We have sent down the Book to you with the truth so that you can
judge between people according to what Allah has shown to you.
But do not be an advocate for the treacherous. (4:105)
• Those who anticipate the worst for you say, ‘Were we not with
you?’ whenever you gain a victory from Allah, but if the
disbelievers have a success they say, ‘Did we not have the upper
hand over you and yet in spite of that keep the believers away
from you?’ Allah will judge between you on the Day of Rising.
Allah will not give the disbelievers any way against the believers.
(4:141)
• They are people who listen to lies and consume ill-gotten gains. If
they come to you, you can either judge between them or turn
away from them. If you turn away from them, they cannot harm
you in any way. But if you do judge, judge between them justly.
Allah loves the just. (5:42)
• We sent down the Torah containing guidance and light, and the
Prophets who had submitted themselves gave judgement by it for
the Jews–as did their scholars and their rabbis–by what they had
been allowed to preserve of Allah’s Book to which they were
witnesses. Do not be afraid of people, be afraid of Me. And do not
sell My Signs for a paltry price. Those who do not judge by what
Allah has sent down, such people are disbelievers. (5:44)
• We prescribed for them in it: a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a
nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth, and
retaliation for wounds. But if anyone forgoes that as a charity, it
will act as expiation for him. Those who do not judge by what
Allah has sent down, such people are wrongdoers. (5:45)
• The people of the Gospel should judge by what Allah sent down
in it. Those who do not judge by what Allah has sent down, such
people are deviators. (5:47)
• And We have sent down the Book to you with truth, confirming
and conserving the previous Books. So judge between them by
what Allah has sent down and do not follow their whims and
desires deviating from the Truth that has come to you. We have
appointed a law and a practice for every one of you. Had Allah
willed, He would have made you a single community, but He
wanted to test you regarding what has come to you. So compete
with each other in doing good. Every one of you will return to
Allah and He will inform you regarding the things about which you
differed. ( 5:48)
• (Shu‘ayb said to his people,) ‘There is a group of you who believe
in what I have been sent with and a group who do not, so be
steadfast until Allah judges between us. He is the best of judges.’
(7:87)
• The Sabbath was only enjoined on those who differed about it.
Your Lord will judge between them on the Day of Rising regarding
the things about which they differed. (16:124)
• Say: ‘Lord, judge with truth! Our Lord is the All-Merciful, the One
Whose help is sought in the face of what you describe.’ (21:112)
• The reply of the believers when they are summoned to Allah and
His Messenger so that he can judge between them, is to say, ‘We
hear and we obey.’ They are ones who are successful. (24:51)
• Say: ‘Our Lord will bring us all together and then will judge
between us with the truth. He is the Just Decider, the All-
Knowing.’ (34:26)
• Allah will judge with truth; and those you call upon apart from Him
will not judge with anything at all. It is Allah Who is the All-Hearing,
the All-Seeing. (40:20)
• They are the ones to whom We gave the Book, Judgement and
Prophethood. If these people reject it We have already entrusted
it to a people who did not. (6:89)
JUSTICE
• You who believe! When you take on a debt for a specified period,
write it down. A writer should write it down between you justly. No
writer should refuse to write; as Allah has taught him, so he
should write. The one incurring the debt should dictate and
should have fear of Allah his Lord and not reduce it in any way. If
the person incurring the debt is incompetent or weak or unable to
dictate, then his guardian should dictate for him justly. Two men
among you should act as witnesses. But if there are not two men,
then a man and two women with whom you are satisfied as
witnesses; then if one of them forgets, the other can remind her.
Witnesses should not refuse when they are called upon. Do not
think it too trivial to write down, whether small or large, with the
date that it falls due. Doing that is more just in Allah’s sight and
more helpful when bearing witness and more likely to eliminate
any doubt–unless it is an immediate transaction hand to hand,
taken and given without delay. There is nothing wrong in your not
writing that down. Call witnesses when you trade. Neither writer
nor witness should be put under pressure. If you do that, it is
deviancy on your part. Have fear of Allah and Allah will give you
knowledge. Allah has knowledge of all things. (2:282)
• Allah bears witness that there is no god but Him, as do the angels
and the people of knowledge, upholding justice. There is no god
but Him, the Almighty, the All-Wise. (3:18)
• As for those who reject Allah’s Signs, and kill the Prophets
without any right to do so, and kill those who command justice,
give them news of a painful punishment. (3:21)
• Allah commands you to return to their owners the things you hold
on trust and, when you judge between people, to judge with
justice. How excellent is what Allah exhorts you to do! Allah is All-
Hearing, All-Seeing. (4:58)
• You who believe! Show integrity for the sake of Allah, bearing
witness with justice. Do not let hatred for a people incite you into
not being just. Be just. That is closer to heedfulness. Have fear of
Allah. Allah is aware of what you do. (5:8)
• They are people who listen to lies and consume ill-gotten gains. If
they come to you, you can either judge between them or turn
away from them. If you turn away from them, they cannot harm
you in any way. But if you do judge, judge between them justly.
Allah loves the just. (5:42)
• You who believe! Do not kill game while you are in the state of
pilgrimage. If one of you kills any deliberately, the reprisal for it is
a livestock animal equivalent to what he killed, as judged by two
just men among you, a sacrifice to reach the Kaaba, or expiation
by feeding the poor, or fasting commensurate with that, so that he
may taste the evil consequences of what he did. Allah has
pardoned all that took place in the past; but if anyone does it
again Allah will take revenge on him. Allah is Almighty, Exactor of
Revenge. (5:95)
• You who believe! When one of you is near to death and makes a
will, two just men from among you should act as witnesses; or, if
you are travelling when the misfortune of death occurs, two men
who are strangers to you. You should detain them after prayer
and, if you are doubtful, they should swear by Allah: ‘We will not
sell it for any price, even to a near relative, and we will not
conceal the testimony of Allah. If we did we would indeed be
wrongdoers.’ (5:106)
• And that you do not go near the property of orphans before they
reach maturity–except in a good way; that you give full measure
and full weight with justice–We impose on no self any more than
it can bear; that you are equitable when you speak–even if a near
relative is concerned; and that you fulfil Allah’s contract. That is
what He instructs you to do, so that hopefully you will pay heed.
(6:152)
• Say: ‘My Lord has commanded justice. Stand and face Him in
every mosque and call on Him, making your religion sincerely His.
As He originated you, so you will return.’ (7:29)
• Each and every one of you will return to Him. Allah’s promise is
true. He brings creation out of nothing and then regenerates it so
that he can repay with justice those who believed and did right
actions. Those who disbelieved will have a drink of scalding water
and a painful punishment because of their disbelief. (10:4)
• Allah makes another metaphor: two men, one of them deaf and
dumb, unable to do anything, a burden on his master, no matter
where he directs him he brings no good, is he the same as
someone who commands justice and is on a straight path? (16:76)
• Every self will be repaid today for what it earned. Today there will
be no injustice. Allah is swift at reckoning. (40:17)
• The man who believed said, ‘My people! I fear for you a day like
that of the Confederates, the same as happened to the people of
Nuh and ‘Ad and Thamud and those who followed after them.
Allah does not want any injustice for His servants.’ (40:30-31)
• We sent Our Messengers with the Clear Signs and sent down the
Book and the Balance with them so that mankind might establish
justice. And We sent down iron in which there lies great force and
which has many uses for mankind, so that Allah might know
those who help Him and His Messengers in the Unseen. Allah is
All-Strong, Almighty. (57:25)
• Allah does not forbid you from being good to those who have not
fought you in the religion or driven you from your homes, or from
being just towards them. Allah loves those who are just. (60:8)
K
KAABA
• In it are Clear Signs–the place where Ibrahim stood (to pray). All
who enter it are safe. Pilgrimage to the House is a duty owed to
Allah by all mankind–those who can find a way to do it. But if
anyone disbelieves, Allah is Rich Beyond Need of any being.
(3:97)
• And We located the position of the House for Ibrahim: ‘Do not
associate anything with Me and purify My House for those who
circle it, and those who stand and bow and prostrate.’ (22:26)
KEY
• Qarun was one of the people of Musa but he lorded it over them.
We gave him treasures, the keys alone to which were a heavy
weight for a party of strong men. When his people said to him,
‘Do not gloat. Allah does not love people who gloat.’ (28:76)
• The keys of the heavens and earth belong to Him. It is those who
reject Allah’s Signs who are the losers. (39:63)
• And when Musa said to his people, ‘My people, You wronged
yourselves by adopting the Calf so turn towards your Maker and
kill yourselves. That is the best thing for you in your Maker’s
sight.’ And He turned towards you. He is the Ever-Returning, the
Most Merciful. (2:54)
• And when you said, ‘Musa, we will not put up with just one kind of
food so ask your Lord to supply to us some of what the earth
produces–its green vegetables, cucumbers, grains, lentils and
onions,’ he said, ‘Do you want to replace what is better with what
is inferior? Go back to Egypt, then you will have what you are
asking for.’ Abasement and destitution were stamped upon them.
They brought down anger from Allah upon themselves. That was
because they rejected Allah’s Signs and killed the Prophets
without any right to do so. That was because they rebelled and
went beyond the limits. (2:61)
• Then you are the people who are killing one another and
expelling a group among you from their homes, ganging up
against them in wrongdoing and enmity. Yet if they are brought to
you as captives, you ransom them, when it was forbidden for you
to expel them in the first place! Do you, then, believe in one part
of the Book and reject the other? What repayment will there be
for any of you who do that except disgrace in this world? And on
the Day of Rising, they will be returned to the harshest of
punishments. Allah is not unaware of what you do. (2:85)
• When they are told, ‘Believe in what Allah has sent down,’ they
say, ‘Our faith is in what was sent down to us,’ and they reject
anything beyond that, even though it is the truth, confirming what
they have. Say, ‘Why then, if you are believers, did you previously
kill the Prophets of Allah?’ (2:91)
• Do not say that those who are killed in the Way of Allah are dead.
On the contrary, they are alive but you are not aware of it. (2:154)
• Kill them wherever you come across them and expel them from
where they expelled you. Corruption is worse than killing. Do not
fight them in the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) until they fight
you there. But if they do fight you, then kill them. That is how the
disbelievers should be repaid. (2:191)
• As for those who reject Allah’s Signs, and kill the Prophets
without any right to do so, and kill those who command justice,
give them news of a painful punishment. (3:21)
• They are those who said of their brothers, when they themselves
had stayed behind, ‘If they had only obeyed us, they would not
have been killed.’ Say, ‘Then ward off death from yourselves if
you are telling the truth.’ (3:168)
• Do not suppose that those killed in the Way of Allah are dead. No
indeed! They are alive and well provided for in the very presence
of their Lord, (3:169)
• Allah has heard the words of those who say, ‘Allah is poor and we
are rich.’ We will write down what they said and their killing of the
Prophets without any right to do so and We will say, ‘Taste the
punishment of the Burning.’ (3:181)
• Their Lord responds to them: ‘I will not let the deeds of any doer
among you go to waste, male or female–you are both the same in
that respect. Those who migrated and were driven from their
homes and suffered harm in My Way and fought and were killed, I
will erase their bad actions from them and admit them into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, as a reward from Allah.
The best of all rewards is with Allah.’ (3:195)
• You will find others who desire to be safe from you and safe from
their own people. Each time they are returned to dissension they
are overwhelmed by it. If they do not keep away from you or
submit to you or refrain from fighting, seize them and kill them
wherever you find them. Over such people We have given you
clear authority. (4:91)
• Because of the fact that they broke their covenant, and rejected
Allah’s Signs, and killed the Prophets without any right to do so
and said, ‘Our hearts are uncircumcised,’ Allah has stamped
them with disbelief, so they do not believe except for very few.
(4:155)
• And (We punished them) on account of their disbelief, and their
utterance of a monstrous slander against Maryam, and their
saying, ‘We killed the Messiah, ‘Isa son of Maryam, Messenger of
Allah.’ They did not kill him and they did not crucify him but it was
made to seem so to them. Those who argue about him are in
doubt about it. They have no real knowledge of it, just conjecture.
But they certainly did not kill him. (4:156-157)
• Recite to them the true report of Adam’s two sons when they
offered a sacrifice and it was accepted from one of them but not
accepted from the other. The one said, ‘I shall kill you.’ The other
said, ‘Allah only accepts from people who guard against evil.
Even if you do raise your hand against me to kill me, I am not
going to raise my hand against you to kill you. Truly I fear Allah,
the Lord of all the worlds.’ (5:27-28)
• So his lower self persuaded him to kill his brother, and he killed
him and became one of the lost. (5:30)
• Then Allah sent a crow which scratched at the earth to show him
how to conceal his brother’s corpse. He said, ‘Woe is me! Can I
not even be like this crow and conceal my brother’s corpse?’ And
he became one of those who suffer bitter remorse on account of
that. So We decreed for the tribe of Israel that if someone kills
another person–unless it is in retaliation for someone else or for
causing corruption in the earth–it is as if he had murdered all
mankind. And if anyone gives life to another person, it is as if he
had given life to all mankind. Our Messengers came to them with
Clear Signs but even after that many of them committed outrages
in the earth. (5:31-32)
• The reprisal against those who wage war on Allah and His
Messenger, and go about the earth corrupting it, is that they
should be killed or crucified, or have their alternate hands and
feet cut off, or be banished from the land. That will be their
degradation in this world and in the hereafter they will have a
terrible punishment, (5:33)
• You who believe! Do not kill game while you are in the state of
pilgrimage. If one of you kills any deliberately, the reprisal for it is
a livestock animal equivalent to what he killed, as judged by two
just men among you, a sacrifice to reach the Kaaba, or expiation
by feeding the poor, or fasting commensurate with that, so that he
may taste the evil consequences of what he did. Allah has
pardoned all that took place in the past; but if anyone does it
again Allah will take revenge on him. Allah is Almighty, Exactor of
Revenge. (5:95)
• In the same way their idols have made killing their children
appear good to many of the idolaters, in order to destroy them
and confuse them in their religion. If Allah had willed, they would
not have done it; so abandon them and what they fabricate.
(6:137)
• Those who kill their children foolishly without any knowledge and
make what Allah has provided for them forbidden, inventing lies
against Allah, such people are lost. They are misguided. They are
not guided. (6:140)
• Say: ‘Come and I will recite to you what your Lord has made
forbidden for you’: that you do not associate anything with Him;
that you are good to your parents; that you do not kill your
children because of poverty–We will provide for you and them;
that you do not approach indecency–outward or inward; that you
do not kill any person Allah has made inviolate–except with the
right to do so. That is what He instructs you to do so that
hopefully you will use your intellect. (6:151)
• The ruling circle of Pharaoh’s people said, ‘Are you going to leave
Musa and his people to cause corruption in the earth and
abandon you and your gods?’ He said, ‘We will kill their sons and
let their women live. We have absolute power over them!’ (7:127)
• You did not kill them; it was Allah Who killed them; and you did
not throw, when you threw; it was Allah Who threw: so He might
test the believers with this excellent trial from Him. Allah is All-
Hearing, All-Knowing. (8:17)
• Then, when the sacred months are over, kill the idolaters
wherever you find them, and seize them and besiege them and
lie in wait for them on every road. If they repent and perform
prayer and give the alms, let them go on their way. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (9:5)
• Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their wealth
in return for the Garden. They fight in the Way of Allah and they
kill and are killed. It is a promise binding on Him in the Torah, the
Gospel and the Qur’an and who is truer to his contract than Allah?
Rejoice then in the bargain you have made. That is the great
victory. (9:111)
• Do not kill your children out of fear of being poor. We will provide
for them and you. Killing them is a terrible mistake. (17:31)
• Do not kill any person Allah has made inviolate, except with the
right to do so. If someone is wrongly killed We have given
authority to his next of kin. But he should not be excessive in
taking life. He will be helped. (17:33)
• (Allah said,) ‘When your sister went and said, "Shall I direct you to
someone who will take care of him?" that was how We returned
you to your mother so that she might delight her eyes and not be
grieved. You killed a man and We rescued you from trouble and
tested you with many trials. You stayed some years among the
people of Madyan. Then you arrived at the pre-ordained time,
Musa!’ (20:40)
• (Believers are) those who do not call on any other god together
with Allah and do not kill anyone Allah has made inviolate, except
with the right to do so, and do not fornicate; anyone who does
that will receive an evil punishment. (25:68)
• (Musa said,) ‘They hold a wrong action against me and I fear that
they may kill me.’ (26:14)
• The wife of Pharaoh said, ‘A source of delight for me and for you;
do not kill him. It may well be that he will be of use to us or
perhaps we could adopt him as a son.’ They were not aware.
(28:9)
• But when he was about to grab the man who was their common
enemy, he said, ‘Musa! Do you want to kill me just as you killed a
person yesterday? You only want to be a tyrant in the land; you
do not want to be a reformer.’ (28:19)
• A man came running from the furthest part of the city, saying,
‘Musa, the Council are conspiring to kill you, so leave! I am
someone who brings you good advice.’ (28:20)
• The only answer of his people was to say: ‘Kill him or burn him!’
But Allah rescued him from the fire. There are certainly Signs in
that for people who are believers. (29:24)
• Say: ‘Flight will not benefit you if you try to run away from death
or being killed. Then you will only enjoy a short respite.’ (33:16)
• When he brought them the truth from Us they said, ‘Slaughter the
sons of those who believe with him but let their women live.’ The
stratagems of the disbelievers are nothing but errors. (40:25)
• Pharaoh said, ‘Let me kill Musa and let him call upon his Lord! I
am afraid that he may change your religion and bring about
corruption in the land.’ (40:26)
• A man among Pharaoh’s people who believed, but kept his faith
concealed, said, ‘Are you going to kill a man for saying "My Lord
is Allah" when he has brought you Clear Signs from your Lord? If
he is telling a lie, be it on his own head. But if he is telling the
truth, then some of what he is promising you will certainly happen
to you. Allah does not guide any unbridled inveterate liar.’ (40:28)
• When the baby girl buried alive is asked for what crime she was
killed. (81:8-9)
KING - KINGSHIP
• What do you think about the council of the tribe of Israel after
Musa’s time when they said to one of their Prophets, ‘Give us a
king and we will fight in the Way of Allah!’? He said, ‘Is it not
possible that if fighting were prescribed for you, you would not
fight?’ They said, ‘How could we not fight in the way of Allah when
we have been driven from our homes and children?’ But then
when fighting was prescribed for them, they turned their backs–
except for a few of them. Allah knows the wrongdoers. (2:246)
• Their Prophet said to them, ‘The sign of his kingship is that the
Ark will come to you, containing serenity from your Lord and
certain relics left by the families of Musa and Harun. It will be
borne by angels. There is a sign for you in that if you are
believers.’ (2:248)
• The King declared, ‘I dreamt of seven fat cows which seven thin
ones ate and seven green ears of wheat and seven others which
were dry. O counsellors! Explain my dream to me if you are those
who can interpret visions!’ (12:43)
• The King said, ‘Bring him to me straight away!’ but when the
envoy came to him, he (Yusuf) said, ‘Go back to your master and
enquire of him what happened about the women who cut their
hands. My Lord has knowledge of their cunning guile.’ (12:50)
• The King said, ‘Bring him to me straight away! So I may draw him
very close to me.’ When he had spoken with him, he declared,
‘Today you are trusted, established in our sight.’ (12:54)
• They said, ‘We’re missing the goblet of the king. The man who
brings it will get a camel’s load. Regarding that I stand as
guarantor.’ (12:72)
• He started with their bags before his brother’s and then produced
it from his brother’s bag. In that way We devised a cunning
scheme for Yusuf. He could not have held his brother according
to the statutes of the King–only because Allah had willed it so.
We raise the rank of anyone We will. Over everyone with
knowledge is a Knower. (12:76)
• High exalted be Allah, the King, the Real! Do not rush ahead with
the Qur’an before its revelation to you is complete, and say: ‘My
Lord, increase me in knowledge.’ (20:114)
• Exalted be Allah, the King, the Real. There is no god but Him,
Lord of the Noble Throne. (23:116)
• She (Queen of Sheba) said, ‘When kings enter a city, they lay
waste to it and make its mightiest inhabitants the most abased.
That is what they too will do.’ (27:34)
KINSHIP
• How indeed! For if they get the upper hand over you, they will
respect neither kinship nor treaty. They please you with their
mouths but their hearts belie their words. Most of them are
deviators. (9:8)
• Is it not likely that, if you did turn away, you would cause
corruption in the earth and sever your ties of kinship? (47:22)
KNIFE
• But when she (the governor's wife) heard of their malicious talk,
she sent for them and made a sumptuous meal and then she
gave a knife to each of them. She said (to Yusuf), ‘Go out to
them.’ When they saw him, they were amazed by him and cut
their hands. They said, ‘Allah preserve us! This is no man. What
can this be but a noble angel here!’ (12:31)
KNOWLEDGE
• The Jews and the Christians will never be pleased with you until
you follow their religion. Say, ‘Allah’s guidance is the true
guidance.’ If you were to follow their whims and desires, after the
knowledge that has come to you, you would find no protector or
helper against Allah. (2:120)
• If you were to bring every Sign to those given the Book, they still
would not follow your direction. You do not follow their direction.
They do not follow each other’s direction. If you followed their
whims and desires, after the knowledge that has come to you,
you would then be one of the wrongdoers. (2:145)
• Allah bears witness that there is no god but Him, as do the angels
and the people of knowledge, upholding justice. There is no god
but Him, the Almighty, the All-Wise. (3:18)
• The religion with Allah is Islam. Those given the Book only
differed after knowledge had come to them, envying one another.
As for those who reject Allah’s Signs, Allah is swift at reckoning.
(3:19)
• If anyone argues with you about him after the knowledge that has
come to you, say, ‘Come then! Let us summon our sons and your
sons, our women and your women, ourselves and yourselves.
Then let us make earnest supplication and call down the curse of
Allah upon the liars.’ (3:61)
• But those of them who are firmly rooted in knowledge, and the
believers, believe in what has been sent down to you and what
was sent down before you: those who perform prayer and give
the alms, and believe in Allah and the Last Day–We will pay such
people an immense wage. (4:162)
• But Allah bears witness to what He has sent down to you. He has
sent it down with His knowledge. The angels bear witness as well.
And Allah suffices as a Witness. (4:166)
• His people argued with him. He (Ibrahim) said, ‘Are you arguing
with me about Allah when He has guided me? I have no fear of
any partner you ascribe to Him unless my Lord should will such a
thing to happen. My Lord encompasses all things in His
knowledge so will you not pay heed? Why should I fear what you
have associated with Him when you yourselves apparently have
no fear of associating partners with Allah for which He has sent
down no authority to you? Which of the two parties is more
entitled to feel safe, if you have any knowledge?’ (6:80-81)
• Yet they make the jinn co-partners with Allah when He created
them! And they attribute sons and daughters to Him without any
knowledge. Glory be to Him! He is far above what they describe!
(6:100)
• What is the matter with you that you do not eat that over which
the name of Allah has been mentioned, when He has made clear
to you what He has made forbidden for you except when you are
forced to eat it? Many people lead others astray through their
whims and desires without having any knowledge. Your Lord
knows best those who overstep the limits. (6:119)
• Those who kill their children foolishly without any knowledge and
make what Allah has provided for them forbidden, inventing lies
against Allah, such people are lost. They are misguided. They are
not guided. (6:140)
• And a pair of camels and a pair of cattle–Say: ‘Is it the two males
He has made forbidden, or the two females, or what the wombs of
the two females contain? Were you then witnesses when Allah
gave you this instruction?’ Who could do greater wrong than
someone who invents lies against Allah thus leading people
astray without any knowledge? Allah does not guide the people of
the wrongdoers. (6:144)
• Those who associate others with Allah will say, ‘If Allah had willed
we would not have associated anything with Him, nor would our
fathers; nor would we have made anything forbidden.’ In the
same way the people before them also lied until they felt Our
violent force. Say: ‘Do you have some knowledge you can
produce for us? You are following nothing but conjecture. You are
only guessing.’ (6:148)
• They will ask you about the Hour: when is it due? Say:
‘Knowledge of it rests with my Lord alone. He alone will reveal it
at its proper time. It hangs heavy in the heavens and the earth. It
will not come upon you except suddenly.’ They will ask you as if
you had full knowledge of it. Say: ‘Knowledge of it rests with Allah
alone. But most people do not know that.’ (7:187)
• No, the fact is that they have denied something which their
knowledge does not embrace and the meaning of which has not
yet reached them. In the same way those before them also
denied the truth. See the final fate of the wrongdoers! (10:39)
• We settled the tribe of Israel in a noble place and gave them good
things as provision. They did not differ until knowledge came to
them. Your Lord will decide between them on the Day of Rising
regarding the things about which they differed. (10:93)
• If they do not respond to you then know that it has been sent
down with Allah’s knowledge and that there is no god but Him. So
will you not become Muslims? (11:14)
• He (Nuh) said, ‘My Lord, I seek refuge with You from asking You
for anything about which I have no knowledge. If You do not
forgive me and have mercy on me, I will be among the lost.’
(11:47)
• But when they entered as their father said, it did not save them
from Allah at all, yet a need in Ya‘qub’s soul was satisfied. He
had knowledge which We had taught him, but most of mankind
simply do not know. (12:68)
• He started with their bags before his brother’s and then produced
it from his brother’s bag. In that way We devised a cunning
scheme for Yusuf. He could not have held his brother according
to the statutes of the King–only because Allah had willed it so.
We raise the rank of anyone We will. Over everyone with
knowledge is a Knower. (12:76)
• Those who disbelieve say, ‘You are not a Messenger.’ Say: ‘Allah
is a sufficient witness between you and me, and anyone else who
has knowledge of the Book.’ (13:43)
• They (Our Messengers) said, ‘Do not be afraid. We bring you the
good news of a boy of great knowledge.’ (15:53)
• Then on the Day of Rising He will disgrace them, and say, ‘Where
are My partner gods for whose sake you became so hostile?’
Those given knowledge will say, ‘Today there is disgrace and evil
for the disbelievers.’ (16:27)
• They will ask you about the Spirit. Say: ‘The Spirit is my Lord’s
concern. You have only been given a little knowledge.’ (17:85)
• (He said to Musa,) ‘How indeed could you bear with patience
something you have not encompassed in your knowledge?’
(18:68)
• (Musa said,) ‘Your god is Allah alone, there is no god but Him. He
encompasses all things in His knowledge.’ (20:98)
• High exalted be Allah, the King, the Real! Do not rush ahead with
the Qur’an before its revelation to you is complete, and say: ‘My
Lord, increase me in knowledge.’ (20:114)
• Mankind! If you are in any doubt about the Rising, know that We
created you from dust then from a drop of sperm then from a clot
of blood then from a lump of flesh, formed yet unformed, so We
may make things clear to you. We make whatever We want stay
in the womb until a specified time and then We bring you out as
children so that you can reach your full maturity. Some of you die
and some of you revert to the lowest form of life so that, after
having knowledge, they then know nothing at all. And you see the
earth dead and barren; then when We send down water onto it it
quivers and swells and sprouts with luxuriant plants of every kind.
(22:5)
• And (it is) so that those who have been given knowledge will
know it is the truth from their Lord and believe in it and their
hearts will be humbled to Him. Allah guides those who believe to
a straight path. (22:54)
• Say: ‘To whom does the earth belong, and everyone in it, if you
have any knowledge?’ (23:84)
• Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The metaphor of
His Light is that of a niche in which is a lamp, the lamp inside a
glass, the glass like a brilliant star, lit from a blessed tree, an olive,
neither of the east nor of the west, its oil all but giving off light
even if no fire touches it. Light upon Light. Allah guides to His
Light whoever He wills and Allah makes metaphors for mankind
and Allah has knowledge of all things. (24:35)
• Everything in the heavens and the earth belongs to Allah. He
knows what you are engaged upon. On the Day when they are
returned to Him, He will inform them of what they did. Allah has
knowledge of all things. (24:64)
• Then when she (Queen of Sheba) came, she was asked, ‘Is your
throne like this?’ She said, ‘It is exactly like it.’ ‘We were given
knowledge before her and were already Muslims.’ (27:42)
• These are the ruins of their houses because of the wrong they did.
There is certainly a Sign in that for people with knowledge. (27:52)
• No, their knowledge stops short of the hereafter. In fact they have
doubts about it. In fact they are blind to it. (27:66)
• Then when they arrive He will say, ‘Did you deny My Signs even
though you did not have proper knowledge of them. What were
you doing?’ (27:84)
• You cannot guide those you would like to but Allah guides those
He wills. He has best knowledge of the guided. (28:56)
• But those who had been given knowledge said, ‘Woe to you!
Allah’s reward is better for those who believe and act rightly. But
only the steadfast will obtain it.’ (28:80)
• Those who have been given knowledge and faith will say, ‘You
tarried in accordance with Allah’s Decree until the Day of Rising.
And this is the Day of Rising, but you did not know it.’ (30:56)
• (We have instructed man concerning his parents:) ‘But if they try
to make you associate something with Me about which you have
no knowledge, do not obey them. Keep company with them
correctly and courteously in this world but follow the Way of him
who turns to Me. Then you will return to Me and I will inform you
about the things you did.’ (31:15)
• Do you not see that Allah has subjected to you everything in the
heavens and earth and has showered His blessings upon you,
both outwardly and inwardly? Yet there are people who argue
about Allah without knowledge or guidance or any illuminating
Book. (31:20)
• Truly Allah has knowledge of the Hour and sends down abundant
rain and knows what is in the womb. And no self knows what it
will earn tomorrow and no self knows in what land it will die. Allah
is All-Knowing, All-Aware. (31:34)
• People will ask you about the Last Hour. Say: ‘Only Allah has
knowledge of it. What will make you understand? It may be that
the Last Hour is very near.’ (33:63)
• Those who have been given knowledge see that what has been
sent down to you from your Lord is the truth and that it guides to
the Path of the Almighty, the Praiseworthy. (34:6)
• Allah created you from dust and then from a drop of sperm and
then made you into pairs. No female becomes pregnant or gives
birth except with His knowledge. And no living thing lives long or
has its life cut short without that being in a Book. That is easy for
Allah. (35:11)
• Those who bear the Throne, and all those around it, glorify their
Lord with praise and believe in Him and ask forgiveness for those
who believe: ‘Our Lord, You encompass everything in mercy and
knowledge! Forgive those who turn to You and who follow Your
Way and safeguard them from the punishment of the Blazing
Fire.’ (40:7)
• (The man who believed said to his people,) ‘You call me to reject
Allah and to associate something with Him about which I have no
knowledge, while I call you to the Almighty, the Endlessly
Forgiving.’ (40:42)
• They say, ‘There is nothing but our existence in this world. We die
and we live and nothing destroys us except for time.’ They have
no knowledge of that. They are only conjecturing. (45:24)
• Say: ‘Have you thought about those you call upon apart from
Allah? Show me what they have created on the earth. Or do they
have a partnership in the heavens? Produce a Book for me
before this one or a shred of knowledge if you are telling the
truth.’ (46:4)
• Among them are those who listen to you and then, when they
leave your presence, say to those who have been given
knowledge, ‘What was that he just said?’ They are those whose
hearts Allah has sealed up and who follow their own desires.
(47:16)
• They are those who disbelieved and debarred you from the
Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) and prevented the sacrifice
from reaching its proper place, and had it not been for some men
and women who are believers, whom you did not know and might
trample underfoot, and so unknowingly incur blame on their
account–so that Allah might admit into His mercy those He wills–
and had those among them who disbelieve been clearly
distinguishable, We would have punished them with a painful
punishment. (48:25)
• Say: ‘Do you presume to teach Allah your religion when Allah
knows everything in the heavens and everything in the earth?
Allah has knowledge of all things.’ (49:16)
• He (Ibrahim) felt afraid of them but they said, ‘Do not be afraid!’
and gave him the good news of a son imbued with knowledge.
(51:28)
• He is the First and the Last, the Outward and the Inward. He has
knowledge of all things. (57:3)
• Do you not see that Allah knows what is in the heavens and on
the earth? Three men cannot confer together secretly without Him
being the fourth of them, or five without Him being the sixth of
them, or fewer than that or more without Him being with them
wherever they are. Then He will inform them on the Day of Rising
of what they did. Allah has knowledge of all things. (58:7)
• You who believe! When you are told: ‘Make room in the
gathering,’ then make room and Allah will make room for you!
And when it is said, ‘Get up’, get up. Allah will raise in rank those
of you who believe and those who have been given knowledge.
Allah is aware of what you do. (58:11)
• It is Allah Who created the seven heavens and of the earth the
same number, the Command descending down through all of
them, so that you might know that Allah has power over all things
and that Allah encompasses all things in His knowledge. (65:12)
LABOUR
LADDER
LAME
LAMP
• Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The metaphor of
His Light is that of a niche in which is a lamp, the lamp inside a
glass, the glass like a brilliant star, lit from a blessed tree, an olive,
neither of the east nor of the west, its oil all but giving off light
even if no fire touches it. Light upon Light. Allah guides to His
Light whoever He wills and Allah makes metaphors for mankind
and Allah has knowledge of all things. (24:35)
• We have adorned the lowest heaven with lamps and made some
of them stones for the Satans for whom We have prepared the
punishment of the Blaze. (67:5)
• It (the charity) is for the poor who are held back in the Way of
Allah, unable to travel in the land. The ignorant consider them rich
because of their reticence. You will know them by their mark.
They do not ask from people insistently. Whatever good you give
away, Allah knows it. (2:273)
• When you are travelling in the land, there is nothing wrong in your
shortening your prayer if you fear that those who disbelieve may
harass you. The disbelievers are your clear-cut enemies. (4:101)
• He said, ‘The land will be forbidden to them for forty years during
which they will wander aimlessly about the earth. Do not waste
grief on this deviant people.’ (5:26)
• They said, ‘We suffered harm before you came to us and after
you came to us.’ He (Musa) said, ‘It may well be that your Lord is
going to destroy your enemy and make you the successors in the
land so that He can see how you behave.’ (7:129)
• When you were few and oppressed in the land, afraid that the
people would snatch you away, He gave you refuge and
supported you with His help and provided you with good things so
that hopefully you would be thankful. (8:26)
• No one believed in Musa except for a few of his people out of fear
that Pharaoh, and the elders, would persecute them. Pharaoh
was high and mighty in the land. He was one of the profligate.
(10:83)
• The Egyptian who had bought him told his wife, ‘Look after him
with honour and respect. It’s possible he will be of use to us or
perhaps we might adopt him as a son.’ And thus We established
Yusuf in the land to teach him the true meaning of events. Allah is
in control of His affair. However, most of mankind do not know.
(12:21)
• We sent none before you but men inspired with revelation from
among the people of the cities. Have they not travelled in the land
and seen the final fate of those before them? The abode of the
hereafter is better for those who guard against evil. So will you
not use your intellect? (12:109)
• We said to the tribe of Israel after that, ‘Inhabit the land and,
when the promise of the hereafter comes, We will produce you as
a motley crowd.’ (17:104)
• Allah has promised those of you who believe and do right actions
that He will make them successors in the land as He made those
before them successors, and will firmly establish for them their
religion with which He is pleased and give them, in place of their
fear, security. ‘They worship Me, not associating anything with
Me.’ Any who disbelieve after that, such people are deviators.
(24:55)
• But when he was about to grab the man who was their common
enemy, he said, ‘Musa! Do you want to kill me just as you killed a
person yesterday? You only want to be a tyrant in the land; you
do not want to be a reformer.’ (28:19)
• Have they not travelled in the earth and seen the final fate of
those before them? They had greater strength than them and
cultivated the land and inhabited it in far greater numbers than
they do. Their Messengers also came to them with the Clear
Signs. Allah would never have wronged them; but they wronged
themselves. (30:9)
• Do they not see how We drive water to barren land and bring
forth crops by it which their livestock and they themselves both
eat? So will they not see? (32:27)
• They swore by Allah with their most earnest oaths that if a warner
came to them they would be better guided than any other
community. But then when a warner did come to them, it only
increased their aversion, shown by their arrogance in the land
and evil plotting. But evil plotting envelops only those who do it.
Do they expect anything but the pattern of previous peoples? You
will not find any changing in the pattern of Allah. You will not find
any alteration in the pattern of Allah. (35:42-43)
• Have they not travelled in the land and seen the final fate of those
before them? They were far greater than them in strength. Allah
cannot be withstood in any way, either in the heavens or on earth.
He is All-Knowing, All-Powerful. (35:44)
• A Sign for them is the dead land which We bring to life and from
which We bring forth grain of which they eat. (36:33)
• Pharaoh said, ‘Let me kill Musa and let him call upon his Lord! I
am afraid that he may change your religion and bring about
corruption in the land.’ (40:26)
• (A man among Pharaoh’s people who believed, but kept his faith
concealed, said,) ‘My people! The kingdom is yours today, as
masters in the land, but who will help us against Allah’s violent
force, if it comes upon us?’ Pharaoh said, ‘I only show you what I
see myself and I only guide you to the path of rectitude.’ (40:29)
• Have they not travelled in the land and seen the final fate of those
before them? They were more numerous than them and greater
in strength and left more and deeper traces on earth, but what
they earned was of no use to them. (40:82)
• ‘Ad were arrogant in the land, without any right, saying, ‘Who has
greater strength than us?’ Did they not see that Allah, Who
created them, had greater strength than them? But they
renounced Our Signs. (41:15)
• Your Lord knows that you stay up nearly two-thirds of the night–or
half of it, or a third of it–and a group of those with you. Allah
determines the night and day. He knows you will not keep count
of it, so He has turned towards you. Recite as much of the Qur’an
as is easy for you. He knows that some of you are ill and that
others are travelling in the land seeking Allah’s bounty, and that
others are fighting in the Way of Allah. So recite as much of it as
is easy for you. And perform prayer and give the alms and lend a
generous loan to Allah. Whatever good you send ahead for
yourselves you will find it with Allah as something better and as a
greater reward. And seek forgiveness from Allah. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (73:20)
LANGUAGE
• We have not sent any Messenger except with the language of his
people so he can make things clear to them. Allah misguides
anyone He wills and guides anyone He wills. He is the Almighty,
the All-Wise. (14:4)
• We know that they say, ‘It is only a human being who is teaching
him.’ The language of him they allude to is a foreign one whereas
this is in clear and lucid Arabic. (16:103)
• Among His Signs is the creation of the heavens and earth and the
variety of your languages and colours. There are certainly Signs
in that for every being. (30:22)
LASH
• But those who make accusations against chaste women and then
do not produce four witnesses: flog them with eighty lashes and
never again accept them as witnesses. Such people are deviators.
(24:4)
• Among the people there are some who say, ‘We believe in Allah
and the Last Day,’ when they are not believers. (2:8)
• Those with faith, those who are Jews, and the Christians and
Sabaeans, all who believe in Allah and the Last Day and act
rightly, will have their reward with their Lord. They will feel no fear
and will know no sorrow. (2:62)
• Who could do greater wrong than someone who bars access to
the mosques of Allah, preventing His name from being
remembered in them, and goes about destroying them? Such
people will never be able to enter them–except in fear. They will
have disgrace in this world and in the hereafter they will have a
terrible punishment. (2:114)
• And when Ibrahim said, ‘My Lord, make this a place of safety and
provide its inhabitants with fruits–all of them who believe in Allah
and the Last Day,’ He said, ‘I will let anyone who disbelieves
enjoy himself a little but then I will drive him to the punishment of
the Fire. What an evil destination!’ (2:126)
• When you divorce women and they are near the end of their
waiting period, do not prevent them from marrying their first
husbands if they have mutually agreed to it with correctness and
courtesy. This is an admonition for those of you who believe in
Allah and the Last Day. That is better and purer for you. Allah
knows and you do not know. (2:232)
• They believe in Allah and the Last Day, and enjoin the right and
forbid the wrong, and compete in doing good. They are among
the righteous. (3:114)
• What harm would it have done them to have believed in Allah and
the Last Day and to have given of what Allah has provided for
them? Allah knows everything about them. (4:39)
• You who believe! Obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those
in command among you. If you have a dispute about something,
refer it back to Allah and the Messenger, if you believe in Allah
and the Last Day. That is the best thing to do and gives the best
result. (4:59)
• You who believe! Believe in Allah and His Messenger and in the
Book He sent down to His Messenger, and the Books He sent
down before. Anyone who rejects Allah and His angels and His
Books and His Messengers and the Last Day has gone very far
astray. (4:136)
• But those of them who are firmly rooted in knowledge, and the
believers, believe in what has been sent down to you and what
was sent down before you: those who perform prayer and give
the alms, and believe in Allah and the Last Day–We will pay such
people an immense wage. (4:162)
• Those who believe and those who are Jews and the Sabaeans
and the Christians, all who believe in Allah and the Last Day and
act rightly will feel no fear and will know no sorrow. (5:69)
• Do you make the giving of water to the pilgrims and looking after
the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) the same as believing in
Allah and the Last Day and striving in the Way of Allah? They are
not equal in the sight of Allah. Allah does not guide wrongdoing
people. (9:19)
• Fight those of the people who were given the Book who do not
believe in Allah and the Last Day and who do not make forbidden
what Allah and His Messenger have made forbidden and do not
take as their religion the religion of Truth, until they pay the poll
tax with their own hands in a state of complete abasement. (9:29)
• Those who believe in Allah and the Last Day do not ask you to
excuse them from striving with their wealth and themselves. Allah
knows the people who guard against evil. (9:44)
• Only those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day ask you
to excuse them. Their hearts are full of doubt and in their doubt
they waver to and fro. (9:45)
• And among the desert arabs there are some who believe in Allah
and the Last Day and regard what they give as something which
will bring them nearer to Allah and to the prayers of the
Messenger. It does indeed bring them near. Allah will admit them
into His mercy. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (9:99)
• You will not find people who believe in Allah and the Last Day
having love for anyone who opposes Allah and His Messenger,
though they be their fathers, their sons, their brothers or their clan.
Allah has inscribed faith upon such people’s hearts and will
reinforce them with a Spirit from Him and admit them into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them
timelessly, for ever. Allah is pleased with them and they are
pleased with Him. Such people are the party of Allah. Truly it is
the party of Allah who are successful. (58:22)
• Then when they have reached the end of their waiting period
either retain them with correctness and courtesy or part from
them with correctness and courtesy. Call two upright men from
among yourselves as witnesses and they should carry out the
witnessing for Allah. This is admonishment for all who believe in
Allah and the Last Day. Whoever has fear of Allah–He will give
him a way out. (65:2)
LAUGHTER
• Let them laugh little and weep much, in repayment for what they
have earned. (9:82)
• His wife was standing there and she laughed out loud. So We
gave her the good news of Ishaq, and beyond Ishaq, Ya‘qub.
(11:71)
• But you made a mockery of them so that they made you forget to
remember Me while you were laughing at them. (23:110)
• When they see a Sign they only laugh with scorn. (37:14)
• But when he came to them with Our Signs, they merely laughed
at them. (43:57)
• Are you then amazed at this discourse and laugh and do not cry,
treating life as a game? (53:59-61)
• Those who did evil used to laugh at those who believed. (83:29)
• So today those who believe are laughing at the disbelievers.
(83:34)
LAW
• And We have sent down the Book to you with truth, confirming
and conserving the previous Books. So judge between them by
what Allah has sent down and do not follow their whims and
desires deviating from the Truth that has come to you. We have
appointed a law and a practice for every one of you. Had Allah
willed, He would have made you a single community, but He
wanted to test you regarding what has come to you. So compete
with each other in doing good. Every one of you will return to
Allah and He will inform you regarding the things about which you
differed. (5:48)
• Mankind! Eat what is good and lawful on the earth. And do not
follow in the footsteps of Satan. He truly is an outright enemy to
you. (2:168)
• On the night of the fast it is lawful for you to have sexual relations
with your wives. They are clothing for you and you for them. Allah
knows that you have been betraying yourselves and He has
turned towards you and excused you. Now you may have sexual
intercourse with them and seek what Allah has written for you.
Eat and drink until you can clearly discern the white thread from
the black thread of the dawn, then fulfil the fast until the night
appears. But do not have sexual intercourse with them while you
are in retreat in the mosques. These are Allah’s limits, so do not
go near them. In this way does Allah make His Signs clear to
people so that hopefully they will guard against evil. (2:187)
• (‘Isa said,) ‘I come confirming the Torah I find already there, and
to make lawful for you some of what was previously forbidden to
you. I have brought you a Sign from your Lord. So have fear of
Allah and obey me.’ (3:50)
• All food was lawful for the tribe of Israel except what Israel made
unlawful for himself before the Torah was sent down. Say, ‘Bring
the Torah and read it out if you are telling the truth.’ (3:93)
• And also married women, except for those you have taken in war
as slaves. This is what Allah has prescribed for you. Apart from
that He has made all other women lawful for you provided you
seek them with your wealth in marriage and not in fornication.
When you consummate your marriage with them give them their
prescribed dowry. There is nothing wrong in any further
agreement you might come to after the dowry has been given.
Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (4:24)
• They will ask you what is lawful for them. Say: ‘All good things are
lawful for you, and also what is caught for you by hunting animals
which you have trained as Allah has taught you. Eat what they
catch for you, mentioning Allah’s name over it.’ And have fear of
Allah. Allah is swift at reckoning. (5:4)
• Today all good things have been made lawful for you. And the
food of those given the Book is also lawful for you and your food
is lawful for them. So are chaste women from among the
believers and chaste women of those given the Book before you,
once you have given them their dowries in marriage, not in
fornication or taking them as lovers. But as for anyone who
rejects faith, his actions will come to nothing and in the hereafter
he will be among the losers. (5:5)
• You who believe! Do not make forbidden the good things Allah
has made lawful for you, and do not overstep the limits. Allah
does not love people who overstep the limits.(5:87)
• (Allah said, ‘I will prescribe My mercy for) those who follow the
Messenger, the Ummi, whom they find written down with them in
the Torah and the Gospel, commanding them to do right and
forbidding them to do wrong, making good things lawful for them
and bad things forbidden for them, relieving them of their heavy
loads and the chains which were around them. Those who
believe in him and honour him and help him, and follow the Light
that has been sent down with him, they are the ones who are
successful.’ (7:157)
• So make full use of any booty you have taken which is lawful and
good; and have fear of Allah. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. (8:69)
• Say: ‘What do you think about the things Allah has sent down to
you as provision which you have then designated as lawful and
forbidden?’ Say: ‘Has Allah given you authority to do this or are
you inventing lies against Allah?’ (10:59)
• So eat from what Allah has provided for you, lawful and good,
and be thankful for the blessing of Allah if it is Him you worship.
(16:114)
• Do not say about what your lying tongues describe: ‘This is lawful
and this is forbidden,’ inventing lies against Allah. Those who
invent lies against Allah are not successful. (16:116)
• Prophet! We have made lawful for you: your wives to whom you
have given dowries and any slavegirls you own from the booty
Allah has allotted you and the daughters of your paternal uncles
and the daughters of your paternal aunts and the daughters of
your maternal uncles and the daughters of your maternal aunts
who have migrated with you and any believing woman who gives
herself to the Prophet if the Prophet desires to marry her:
exclusively for you as opposed to the rest of the believers–We
know very well what We have prescribed for them regarding their
wives and any slavegirls they possess–in order that there be no
restriction on you. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:50)
• After that no other women are lawful for you nor may you
exchange them for other wives, even though their beauty might
be pleasing to you, with the exception of any you own as slaves.
Allah is watchful over all things. (33:52)
• Mankind! Eat what is good and lawful on the earth. And do not
follow in the footsteps of Satan. He truly is an outright enemy to
you. (2:168)
• You who believe! Fulfil your contracts. All livestock animals are
lawful for you, except those that are recited to you now; but it is
still not lawful to hunt while you are in the state of pilgrimage.
Allah makes whatever judgements He wills. (5:1)
• Today all good things have been made lawful for you. And the
food of those given the Book is also lawful for you and your food
is lawful for them. So are chaste women from among the
believers and chaste women of those given the Book before you,
once you have given them their dowries in marriage, not in
fornication or taking them as lovers. But as for anyone who
rejects faith, his actions will come to nothing and in the hereafter
he will be among the losers. (5:5)
• Eat the lawful and good things Allah has provided for you, and
have fear of Allah, Him in Whom you believe. (5:88)
• Anything you catch in the sea is lawful for you, and all food from it,
for your enjoyment and that of travellers, but land game is
forbidden for you while you are in the state of pilgrimage. So have
fear of Allah, Him to Whom you will be gathered. (5:96)
• So make full use of any booty you have taken which is lawful and
good; and have fear of Allah. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. (8:69)
• Say: ‘What do you think about the things Allah has sent down to
you as provision which you have then designated as lawful and
forbidden?’ Say: ‘Has Allah given you authority to do this or are
you inventing lies against Allah?’ (10:59)
• So eat from what Allah has provided for you, lawful and good,
and be thankful for the blessing of Allah if it is Him you worship.
(16:114)
LAWS OF HERITAGE
• Give orphans their property, and do not substitute bad things for
good. Do not assimilate their property into your own. Doing that is
a serious crime. (4:2)
• Men receive a share of what their parents and relatives leave and
women receive a share of what their parents and relatives leave,
a fixed share, no matter whether it is a little or a lot. (4:7)
• People should show concern in the same way that they would
fear for small children if they were to die leaving them behind.
They should have fear of Allah and say words that are
appropriate. (4:9)
• You who believe! It is not lawful for you to inherit women by force.
Nor may you treat them harshly so that you can make off with
part of what you have given them, unless they commit an act of
flagrant indecency. Live together with them correctly and
courteously. If you dislike them, it may well be that you dislike
something in which Allah has placed a lot of good. (4:19)
• They request from you a ruling. Say: ‘Allah gives you a ruling
about people who die without direct heirs: If a man dies childless
but has a sister she receives half of what he leaves, and he is her
heir if she dies childless. If there are two sisters they receive two-
thirds of what he leaves. If there are brothers and sisters the
males receive the share of two females. Allah makes things clear
to you so you will not go astray. Allah has knowledge of all
things.’ (4:176)
• You who believe! When one of you is near to death and makes a
will, two just men from among you should act as witnesses; or, if
you are travelling when the misfortune of death occurs, two men
who are strangers to you. You should detain them after prayer
and, if you are doubtful, they should swear by Allah: ‘We will not
sell it for any price, even to a near relative, and we will not
conceal the testimony of Allah. If we did we would indeed be
wrongdoers.’ (5:106)
• If it then comes to light that the two of them have merited the
allegation of wrongdoing, two others who have the most right to
do so should take their place and swear by Allah: ‘Our testimony
is truer than their testimony. We have not committed perjury. If we
had we would indeed be wrongdoers.’ (5:107)
• That makes it more likely that they will give their evidence
properly or be afraid that their oaths will be refuted by subsequent
oaths. Have fear of Allah and listen carefully. Allah does not guide
deviant people. 5:108)
LEADER
• If they break their oaths after making their treaty and defame your
religion, then fight the leaders of disbelief–they have no binding
oaths–so that hopefully they will stop. (9:12)
LEAF
• So the two of them ate from it and their private parts were
disclosed to them and they started stitching together the leaves of
the Garden to cover themselves. Adam disobeyed his Lord and
became misled. (20:121)
• He laid out the earth for all living creatures. In it are fruits and
date-palms with covered spathes, and grains on leafy stems and
fragrant herbs. (55:10-12)
LEFT
• (Satan said,) ‘Then I will come at them, from in front of them and
behind them, from their right and from their left. You will not find
most of them thankful.’ (7:17)
• Do they not see the things Allah has created, casting their
shadows to the right and to the left, prostrating themselves before
Allah in complete humility? (16:48)
• You would have seen the sun, when it rose, inclining away from
their cave towards the right, and, when it set, leaving them behind
on the left, while they were lying in an open part of it. That was
one of Allah’s Signs. Whoever Allah guides is truly guided. But if
He misguides someone, you will find no protector for them to
guide them rightly. (18:17)
• You would have supposed them to be awake whereas in fact they
were asleep. We moved them to the right and to the left, and, at
the entrance, their dog stretched out its paws. If you had looked
down and seen them, you would have turned from them and run
and have been filled with terror at the sight of them. (18:18)
• There was also a sign for Saba in their dwelling place: two
gardens–one to the right and one to the left. ‘Eat of your Lord’s
provision and give thanks to Him: a bountiful land and a forgiving
Lord.’ (34:15)
• And the two recording angels are recording, sitting on the right
and on the left. (50:17)
• But as for him who is given his Book in his left hand, he will say,
‘If only I had not been given my Book.’ (69:25)
• What is the matter with those who disbelieve? They run about in
front of you, with outstretched necks and staring eyes, on the
right and on the left in scattered groups! (70:36-37)
• Those who reject Our signs, they are the Companions of the Left.
(90:19)
LEGION
• The legions of the heavens and the earth belong to Allah. Allah is
Almighty, All-Wise. (48:7)
LENTIL
• And when you said, ‘Musa, we will not put up with just one kind of
food so ask your Lord to supply to us some of what the earth
produces–its green vegetables, cucumbers, grains, lentils and
onions,’ he said, ‘Do you want to replace what is better with what
is inferior? Go back to Egypt, then you will have what you are
asking for.’ Abasement and destitution were stamped upon them.
They brought down anger from Allah upon themselves. That was
because they rejected Allah’s Signs and killed the Prophets
without any right to do so. That was because they rebelled and
went beyond the limits. (2:61)
LEPER
• He will teach him (‘Isa) the Book and Wisdom, and the Torah and
the Gospel, as a Messenger to the tribe of Israel, saying: ‘I have
brought you a Sign from your Lord. I will create the shape of a
bird out of clay for you and then breathe into it and it will be a bird
by Allah’s permission. I will heal the blind and the leper, and bring
the dead to life, by Allah’s permission. I will tell you what you eat
and what you store up in your homes. There is a Sign for you in
that if you are believers.’ (3:48-49)
LESSON
• As for thieves, both male and female, cut off their hands in
reprisal for what they have done: an object lesson from Allah.
Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (5:38)
• Allah revolves night and day. There is surely a lesson in that for
people with inner sight. (24:44)
LIE
• Among them is a group who distort the Book with their tongues so
that you think it is from the Book when it is not from the Book.
They say, ‘It is from Allah,’ but it is not from Allah. They tell a lie
against Allah and they know it. (3:78)
• So any who, after this, invent a lie against Allah are indeed
wrongdoers. (3:94)
• And a pair of camels and a pair of cattle–Say: ‘Is it the two males
He has made forbidden, or the two females, or what the wombs of
the two females contain? Were you then witnesses when Allah
gave you this instruction?’ Who could do greater wrong than
someone who invents lies against Allah thus leading people
astray without any knowledge? Allah does not guide the people of
the wrongdoers. (6:144)
• Say: ‘What do you think about the things Allah has sent down to
you as provision which you have then designated as lawful and
forbidden?’ Say: ‘Has Allah given you authority to do this or are
you inventing lies against Allah?’ (10:59)
• What will those who invent lies against Allah think on the Day of
Rising? Allah shows favour to mankind but most of them are not
thankful. (10:60)
• Say: ‘People who invent lies against Allah will not be successful.’
(10:69)
• Who could do greater wrong than those who invent lies against
Allah? Such people will be arrayed before their Lord and the
witnesses will say, ‘Those are the ones who lied against their
Lord.’ Yes indeed! Allah’s curse is on the wrongdoers. (11:18)
• Do not say about what your lying tongues describe: ‘This is lawful
and this is forbidden,’ inventing lies against Allah. Those who
invent lies against Allah are not successful. (16:116)
• (The ruling circle of his people said,) ‘What is he but a man who
has invented a lie against Allah? We do not believe in him.’
(23:38)
• Why, when you heard it, did you not, as men and women of the
believers, instinctively think good thoughts and say, ‘This is
obviously a lie’? (24:12)
• Those who disbelieve say, ‘This is nothing but a lie he has
invented and other people have helped him to do it. They have
brought injustice and falsehood.’ (25:4)
• When Our Clear Signs are recited to them, they say, ‘This is
nothing but a man who wants to debar you from what your fathers
used to worship.’ They say, ‘This is nothing but an invented lie.’
Those who disbelieve say to the truth when it comes to them,
‘This is nothing but downright magic.’ (34:43)
LIGHT
• Mankind! A clear proof has come to you from your Lord. We have
sent down a Clear Light to you. (4:174)
• By it, Allah guides those who follow what pleases Him to the ways
of Peace. He will bring them from the darkness to the light by His
permission, and guide them to a straight path. (5:16)
• We sent down the Torah containing guidance and light, and the
Prophets who had submitted themselves gave judgement by it for
the Jews–as did their scholars and their rabbis–by what they had
been allowed to preserve of Allah’s Book to which they were
witnesses. Do not be afraid of people, be afraid of Me. And do not
sell My Signs for a paltry price. Those who do not judge by what
Allah has sent down, such people are disbelievers. (5:44)
• They do not measure Allah with His true measure when they say,
‘Allah would not send down anything to a mere human being.’
Say: ‘Who, then, sent down the Book which Musa brought as a
Light and Guidance for the people?’ You put it down on sheets of
paper to display it while concealing much. You were taught things
you did not know, neither you nor your forefathers. Say: ‘Allah!’
Then leave them engrossed in playing their games. (6:91)
• (Allah said, ‘Believers are) those who follow the Messenger, the
Ummi, whom they find written down with them in the Torah and
the Gospel, commanding them to do right and forbidding them to
do wrong, making good things lawful for them and bad things
forbidden for them, relieving them of their heavy loads and the
chains which were around them. Those who believe in him and
honour him and help him, and follow the Light that has been sent
down with him, they are the ones who are successful.’ (7:157)
• They want you to hasten the bad rather than the good when
examples of punishment are there before them in the past. Your
Lord has forgiveness for people for their wrongdoing; but your
Lord is also severe in retribution. (13:6)
• Alif Lam Ra. This is a Book We have sent down to you so that
you can bring mankind from the darkness to the light, by the
permission of their Lord, to the Path of the Almighty, the
Praiseworthy. (14:1)
• We sent Musa with Our Signs: ‘Bring your people from the
darkness to the light and remind them of the Days of Allah.’ There
are certainly Signs in that for everyone who is steadfast, thankful.
(14:5)
• Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The metaphor of
His Light is that of a niche in which is a lamp, the lamp inside a
glass, the glass like a brilliant star, lit from a blessed tree, an olive,
neither of the east nor of the west, its oil all but giving off light
even if no fire touches it. Light upon Light. Allah guides to His
Light whoever He wills and Allah makes metaphors for mankind
and Allah has knowledge of all things. (24:35)
• And the earth will shine with the Pure Light of its Lord; the Book
will be put in place; the Prophets and witnesses will be brought; it
will be decided between them with the truth; and they will not be
wronged. (39:69)
• Accordingly We have revealed to you a Spirit by Our command.
You had no idea of what the Book was, nor faith. Nonetheless We
have made it a Light by which We guide those of Our servants
We will. Truly you are guiding to a Straight Path. (42:52)
• On the Day you see the men and women of the believers, with
their light streaming out in front of them, and to their right: ‘Good
news for you today of Gardens with rivers flowing under them,
remaining in them timelessly, for ever. That is the Great Victory.’
(57:12)
• That Day the men and women of the hypocrites will say to those
who believe, ‘Wait for us so that we can borrow some of your
light.’ They will be told, ‘Go back and look for light!’ And a wall will
be erected between them with a gate in it, on the inside of which
there will be mercy but before whose exterior lies the punishment.
(57:13)
• You who believe! Repent to Allah. It may be that your Lord will
erase your bad actions from you and admit you into Gardens with
rivers flowing under them on the Day when Allah will not disgrace
the Prophet and those who believed along with him. Their light
will stream out ahead of them and on their right. They will say,
‘Our Lord, perfect our light for us and forgive us! You have power
over all things.’ (66:8)
LIGHTNING
• The lightning all but takes away their sight. Whenever they have
light, they walk in it but whenever darkness covers them, they halt.
If Allah wished, He could take away their hearing and their sight.
Allah has power over all things. (2:20)
• The People of the Book will ask you to bring down a Book from
heaven to them. They asked Musa for even more than that. They
said, ‘Let us see Allah with our own eyes.’ So the lightning-bolt
struck them down for their wrongdoing. Then they adopted the
Calf after the Clear Signs had come to them, but We pardoned
them for that and gave Musa clear authority. (4:153)
• Do you not see that Allah propels the clouds then makes them
coalesce then heaps them up, and then you see the rain come
pouring out of the middle of them? And He sends down
mountains from the sky with hail inside them, striking with it
anyone He wills and averting it from anyone He wills. The
brightness of His lightning almost blinds the sight. (24:43)
• If they turn away, then say, ‘I warn you of a lightning-bolt like the
lightning-bolt of ‘Ad and of Thamud.’ (41:13)
LIKENESS
• Their likeness is that of people who light a fire, and then when it
has lit up all around them, Allah removes their light. (2:17)
• The likeness of the two groups is that of the blind and deaf and
the seeing and hearing. Are they the same as one another? So
will you not pay heed? (11:24)
• Those who do not believe in the akhira have an evil likeness.
Allah’s is the Highest Likeness. He is the Almighty, the All-Wise.
(16:60)
• Look how they make likenesses of you and go astray. They are
unable to find their way. (17:48)
• They bring you no similitude but We bring you the truth and the
best of explanations (as against it). (25:33)
LINING
LION
• What is the matter with them that they run from the Reminder like
panicked donkeys, fleeing from a lion? (74:49-51)
LIP
• The Fire will sear their faces, making them grimace horribly in it,
their lips drawn back from their teeth. (23:104)
• Have We not given him two eyes, and a tongue and two lips and
shown him the two highways? (90:8-10)
LITTLE BY LITTLE
LIVELIHOOD
• And We put livelihoods in it both for you and for those you do not
provide for. (15:20)
• Is it, then, they who allocate the mercy of your Lord? We have
allocated their livelihood among them in the life of this world and
raised some of them above others in rank so that some of them
are subservient to others. But the mercy of your Lord is better
than anything they amass. (43:32)
LIVESTOCK
• You who believe! Fulfil your contracts. All livestock animals are
lawful for you, except those that are recited to you now; but it is
still not lawful to hunt while you are in the state of pilgrimage.
Allah makes whatever judgements He wills. (5:1)
• You who believe! Do not kill game while you are in the state of
pilgrimage. If one of you kills any deliberately, the reprisal for it is
a livestock animal equivalent to what he killed, as judged by two
just men among you, a sacrifice to reach the Kaaba, or expiation
by feeding the poor, or fasting commensurate with that, so that he
may taste the evil consequences of what he did. Allah has
pardoned all that took place in the past; but if anyone does it
again Allah will take revenge on him. Allah is Almighty, Exactor of
Revenge. (5:95)
• Do they not see how We drive water to barren land and bring
forth crops by it which their livestock and they themselves both
eat? So will they not see? (32:27)
• Have they not seen how We created for them, by Our own
handiwork, livestock which are under their control? (36:71)
• He created you from a single self, then produced its mate from it,
and sent down livestock to you–eight kinds in pairs. He creates
you stage by stage in your mothers’ wombs in a threefold
darkness. That is Allah, your Lord. Sovereignty is His. There is no
god but Him. So what has made you deviate? (39:6)
• It is Allah Who has given you livestock, some for you to ride and
some to eat. (40:79)
• (He is) the Bringer into Being of the heavens and the earth: He
has given you mates from among yourselves, and given mates to
the livestock, in that way multiplying you. Nothing is like Him.
He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing. (42:11)
• It is He Who created all the species and gave you ships and
livestock for you to ride. (43:12)
• And (He) made the mountains firm, for you and for your livestock
to enjoy. (79:32-33)
• Then We make grain grow in it, and grapes and herbs and olives
and dates and luxuriant gardens and orchards and meadows, for
you and your livestock to enjoy. (80:27-32)
LOCUST
• They will emerge from their graves with downcast eyes, like
swarming locusts. (54:7)
LONGING
• You were longing for death before you met it. Now you have seen
it with your own eyes. (3:143)
LOSS
• Those who break Allah’s contract after it has been agreed, and
sever what Allah has commanded to be joined, and cause
corruption on the earth, it is they who are the lost. (2:27)
• Then after that you turned away, and were it not for Allah's favour
to you and His mercy, you would have been among the lost. (2:64)
• Those to whom We have given the Book, who recite it in the way
it should be recited, such people believe in it. As for those who
reject it, they are the losers. (2:121)
• We will test you with a certain amount of fear and hunger and
loss of wealth and life and fruits. But give good news to the
steadfast. (2:155)
• You who believe! If you obey those who disbelieve, they will turn
you round on your heels and you will be transformed into losers.
(3:149)
• (Satan said,) ‘I will lead them astray and fill them with false hopes.
I will command them and they will cut off cattle’s ears. I will
command them and they will change Allah’s creation.’ Anyone
who takes Satan as his protector in place of Allah has clearly lost
everything. (4:119)
• Today all good things have been made lawful for you. And the
food of those given the Book is also lawful for you and your food
is lawful for them. So are chaste women from among the
believers and chaste women of those given the Book before you,
once you have given them their dowries in marriage, not in
fornication or taking them as lovers. But as for anyone who
rejects faith, his actions will come to nothing and in the hereafter
he will be among the losers. (5:5)
• So his lower self persuaded him to kill his brother, and he killed
him and became one of the lost. (5:30)
• Those who believe say, ‘Are these the people who swore by Allah,
with their most earnest oaths, that they were with you?’ Their
actions have come to nothing and they now are losers. (5:53)
• Those who deny the meeting with Allah have lost, so that, when
the Hour comes upon them suddenly, they will say, ‘Alas for what
we neglected there!’ They will bear their burdens on their backs.
How evil is what they bear! (6:31)
• Those who kill their children foolishly without any knowledge and
make what Allah has provided for them forbidden, inventing lies
against Allah, such people are lost. They are misguided. They are
not guided. (6:140)
• As for those whose scales are light, they are the ones who have
lost their own selves because they wrongfully rejected Our Signs.
(7:9)
• What are they waiting for but its fulfilment? The Day its fulfilment
occurs, those who forgot it before will say, ‘The Messengers of
our Lord came with the Truth. Are there any intercessors to
intercede for us, or can we be sent back so that we can do
something other than what we did?’ They have lost their own
selves and what they invented has forsaken them. (7:53)
• The ruling circle of those of his people who disbelieved said, ‘If
you follow Shu‘ayb, you will definitely be lost.’ (7:90)
• As for those who denied Shu‘ayb, it was as if they had never lived
there. It was the people who denied Shu‘ayb who were the lost.
(7:92)
• When they took full stock of what they had done and saw they
had been misled, they said, ‘If our Lord does not have mercy on
us and forgive us, we will certainly be among the lost.’ (7:149)
• (It is) so that Allah can sift the bad out from the good, and pile the
bad on top of one another, heaping them all together, and tip
them into Hell. They are the lost. (8:37)
• Like those before you who had greater strength than you and
more wealth and children. They enjoyed their portion; so enjoy
your portion as those before you enjoyed theirs. You have
plunged into defamation as they plunged into it. The actions of
such people come to nothing in this world or the hereafter. They
are the lost. (9:69)
• Those are the people who have lost their own selves. What they
invented has abandoned them. (11:21)
• He (Nuh) said, ‘My Lord, I seek refuge with You from asking You
for anything about which I have no knowledge. If You do not
forgive me and have mercy on me, I will be among the lost.’
(11:47)
• Both gardens yielded their crops and did not suffer any loss, and
We made a river flow right through the middle of them. (18:33)
• Among the people there is one who worships Allah right on the
edge. If good befalls him, he is content with it, but if a trial befalls
him, he reverts to his former ways, losing both this world and the
hereafter. That is indeed sheer loss. (22:11)
• Those whose scales are light, they are the losers of their selves,
remaining in Hell timelessly, for ever. (23:103)
• The keys of the heavens and earth belong to Him. It is those who
reject Allah’s Signs who are the losers. (39:63)
• It has been revealed to you and those before you: ‘If you
associate others with Allah, your actions will come to nothing and
you will be among the losers.’ (39:65)
• (Skins of the enemies of Allah will say,) ‘It is that thought you had
about your Lord that has destroyed you so now you find
yourselves among the lost.’ (41:23)
• You will see them as they are exposed to it, abject in their
abasement, glancing around them furtively. Those who believe
will say, ‘Truly the losers are those who lose themselves and their
families on the Day of Rising.’ The wrongdoers are in an
everlasting punishment. (42:45)
• Those are people of whom the statement about the nations, both
of jinn and men, who passed away before them, has also proved
true; truly they were the lost. (46:18)
• Satan has gained mastery over them and made them forget the
remembrance of Allah. Such people are the party of Satan. No
indeed! It is the party of Satan who are the losers. (58:19)
• You who believe! Do not let your wealth or children divert you
from the remembrance of Allah. Whoever does that is lost. (63:9)
• Nuh said, ‘My Lord, they have disobeyed me and followed those
whose wealth and children have only increased them in loss.’
(71:21)
LOTE TREE
• He saw him again another time by the Lote-tree of the Final Limit,
beside which is the Garden of Refuge, when that which covered
the Lote-tree covered it. (53:13-16)
LOUSE
LOVE
• Some city women said, ‘The governor’s wife solicited her slave.
He’s fired her heart with love. We see that she’s the one to
blame.’ (12:30)
• As for those who believe and do right actions, the All-Merciful will
bestow His love on them. (19:96)
• That is the good news which Allah gives to His servants who
believe and do right actions. Say: ‘I do not ask you for any wage
for this–except for you to love your near of kin. If anyone does a
good action, We will increase the good of it for him. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Ever-Thankful.’ (42:23)
• You will not find people who believe in Allah and the Last Day
having love for anyone who opposes Allah and His Messenger,
though they be their fathers, their sons, their brothers or their
clan .Allah has inscribed faith upon such people’s hearts and will
reinforce them with a Spirit from Him and admit them into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them
timelessly, for ever. Allah is pleased with them and they are
pleased with Him. Such people are the party of Allah. Truly it is
the party of Allah who are successful. (58:22)
• It may well be that Allah will restore the love between you and
those of them who are now your enemies. Allah is All-Powerful.
Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (60:7)
• They give food, despite their love for it, to the poor and orphans
and captives: (76:8)
LUQMAN (AS)
• When he (Ibrahim) saw that their hands were not reaching for it,
he suspected them and felt afraid of them. They said, ‘Have no
fear! We have been sent to the people of Lut.’ (11:70)
• When the feeling of fear left Ibrahim, and the good news reached
him, he disputed with Us about the people of Lut. (11:74)
• (Lut said,) ‘Have fear of Allah and do not dishonour me.’ They
said, ‘Did we not forbid you to play host to anyone at all?’ He said,
‘Here are my daughters if you are determined to do something.’
By your life! They were wandering blindly in their drunkenness!
So the Great Blast seized hold of them at the break of day. We
turned the place completely upside down and rained down on
them stones of hard-baked clay. There are certainly Signs in that
for the discerning. They were beside a road which still exists.
There is certainly a Sign in that for the believers. (15:69-77)
• The people of Lut denied the Messengers, when their brother Lut
said to them, ‘Will you not guard against evil? I am a faithful
Messenger to you. So have fear of Allah and obey me. I do not
ask you for any wage for it. My wage is the responsibility of no
one but the Lord of all the worlds. Of all beings, do you lie with
males, leaving the wives Allah has created for you? You are a
people who have overstepped the limits.’ They said, ‘Lut, if you
do not desist you will be expelled.’ He said, ‘I am someone who
detests the deed you perpetrate. My Lord, rescue me and my
family from what they are doing.’ Therefore We rescued him and
all his family–except for an old woman who remained behind.
Then We utterly destroyed the rest and made a Rain come
pouring down upon them. How evil is the rain of those who are
warned! There is certainly a Sign in that, yet most of them are not
believers. Truly your Lord is the Almighty, the Most Merciful.
(26:160-175)
• And when Lut said to his people: ‘Do you approach depravity with
open eyes? Do you come with lust to men instead of women?
You are a people who are deeply ignorant.’ The only response of
his people was to say: ‘Drive the the family of Lut out of your city!
They are people who keep themselves pure!’ So We rescued him
and his family–except for his wife. We ordained her to be one of
those who stayed behind. We rained down a rain upon them.
How evil is the rain of those who are warned! Say: ‘Praise be to
Allah and peace be upon His servants whom He has chosen.’ Is
Allah better, or what you associate with Him? (27:54-59)
• And Lut was one of the Messengers. When We rescued him and
all his family–except an old woman among those who stayed
behind. Then We utterly destroyed the rest. And you pass by
them in the daytime and at night. So will you not use your intellect?
(37:133-138)
• And Thamud and the people of Lut and the Companions of the
Thicket. Those too were Confederates. (38:13)
MADINA
• Some of the desert Arabs around you are hypocrites and some of
the people of Madina are obdurate in their hypocrisy. You do not
know them but We know them. We will punish them twice over
and then they will be returned to a terrible punishment. (9:101)
• It was not for people of Madina, and the desert arabs around
them, to remain behind the Messenger of Allah nor to prefer
themselves to him. That is because no thirst or weariness or
hunger will afflict them in the Way of Allah, nor will they take a
single step to infuriate the disbelievers, nor secure any gain from
the enemy, without a right action being written down for them
because of it. Allah does not let the wage of the good-doers go to
waste. (9:120)
• If the hypocrites and those with sickness in their hearts and the
rumour-mongers in Madina do not desist, We will set you onto
them. Then they will only be your neighbours there a very short
time. (33:60)
• They say, ‘If we return to Madina, the mightier will drive out the
inferior.’ But all might belongs to Allah and to His Messenger and
the believers. But the hypocrites do not know this. (63:8)
MADNESS
• Those who practise usury will not rise from the grave except as
someone driven mad by Satan's touch. That is because they say,
‘Trade is the same as usury.’ But Allah has permitted trade and
He has forbidden usury. Whoever is given a warning by his Lord
and then desists, can keep what he received in the past and his
affair is Allah’s concern. But all who return to it will be the
Companions of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever.
(2:275)
• (They said, ‘Hud,) we only say that one of our gods has driven
you mad.’ He said, ‘I call on Allah to be my witness, and you also
bear witness, that I am free of all the gods you have apart from
Him.’ (11:54)
• They say, ‘You, to whom the Reminder has been sent down, are
clearly mad.’ (15:6)
• They said, ‘Are we to forsake our gods for a mad poet?’ (37:36)
• But then they turned away from him and said, ‘He is an instructed
madman!’ (44:14)’
• Remind them then! For, by the blessing of your Lord, you are
neither a soothsayer nor a madman. (52:29)
• Before them the people of Nuh denied the truth. They denied Our
servant, saying, ‘He is madman,’ and he was driven away with
jeers. (54:9)
• So you will see and they will see which of you is mad. (68:5-6)
• Those who disbelieve all but strike you down with their evil looks
when they hear the Reminder and say, ‘He is quite mad.’ (68:51)
MAGIC - MAGICIAN
• When the truth came to them from Us, they said, ‘This is
downright magic!’ Musa said, ‘Do you say to the truth when it
comes to you, "This is magic"? Magicians are not successful.’
They said, ‘Have you come to us to turn us from what we found
our fathers doing, and to gain greatness in the land? We do not
believe you.’ Pharaoh said, ‘Bring me every knowledgeable
magician.’ When the magicians came, Musa said to them, ‘Throw
whatever you have to throw!’ When they had thrown, Musa said,
‘What you have brought is magic. Allah will certainly prove it false.
Allah does not uphold the actions of corrupters.’ (10:76-81)
• It is He Who created the heavens and the earth in six days when
His Throne was on the water, in order to test which of you has the
best actions. If you say, ‘You will be raised up after death,’ those
who disbelieve will say, ‘This is nothing but downright magic.’
(11:7)
• When Our Signs came to them in all their clarity, they said, ‘This
is downright magic.’ (27:13)
• But when Musa brought them Our Clear Signs they said, ‘This is
nothing but trumped-up magic. We never heard anything like this
among our earlier forefathers.’ (28:36)
• But when the truth did come to them from Us they said, ‘Why has
he not been given the same as Musa was given?’ But did they not
previously reject what Musa was given? They say, ‘Two
magicians who back each other up.’ And they say, ‘We reject
both of them.’ (28:48)
• When Our Clear Signs are recited to them, they say, ‘This is
nothing but a man who wants to debar you from what your fathers
used to worship.’ They say, ‘This is nothing but an invented lie.’
Those who disbelieve say to the truth when it comes to them,
‘This is nothing but downright magic.’ (34:43)
• But when the truth came to them they said, ‘This is magic and we
reject it.’ (43:30)
• They said (to Musa), ‘Magician, invoke your Lord for us by the
contract He has made with you and we shall certainly follow the
guidance.’ (43:49)
• When Our Clear Signs are recited to them, those who reject say
to the truth when it comes to them, ‘This is downright magic.’
(46:7)
• Say to the believing women that they should lower their eyes and
guard their chastity and not display their adornments–except for
what normally shows–and draw their head-coverings across their
breasts. They should only display their adornments to their
husbands or their fathers or their husbands’ fathers, or their sons
or their husbands’ sons or their brothers or their brothers’ sons or
their sisters’ sons or their women or those they own as slaves or
their male attendants who have no sexual desire or children who
still have no awareness of women’s private parts. Nor should they
stamp their feet so that their hidden ornaments are known. Turn
to Allah every one of you, believers, so that hopefully you will
have success. (24:31)
MAIDEN
• In them are maidens with eyes for them alone, untouched before
them by either man or jinn. (55:56)
• In them are sweet, lovely maidens. (55:70)
• And (there are) nubile maidens of similar age (for those who
guard against evil). (78:33)
MAINTAIN
• Do you make the giving of water to the pilgrims and looking after
the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) the same as believing in
Allah and the Last Day and striving in the Way of Allah? They are
not equal in the sight of Allah. Allah does not guide wrongdoing
people. (9:19)
MAJORITY
• What do you think about those who left their homes in thousands
in fear of death? Allah said to them, ‘Die!’ and then brought them
back to life. Allah shows great favour to mankind, but most people
are not grateful. (2:243)
• You are the best nation ever to be produced before mankind. You
enjoin the right, forbid the wrong and believe in Allah. If the
People of the Book were to believe, it would be better for them.
Some of them are believers but most of them are deviators.
(3:110)
• They thought there would be no testing. They were blind and deaf.
Then Allah turned towards them. Then many of them went blind
and deaf again. Allah sees what they do. (5:71)
• But as for those who have clear evidence from their Lord followed
up by a witness from Him–and before it the Book of Musa came
as a model and a mercy–such people believe in it. Any faction
which rejects it is promised the Fire. Be in no doubt about it. It is
the Truth from your Lord. But most people have no faith. (11:17)
• They also said, ‘We have more wealth and children. We are not
going to be punished.’ (34:35)
MAKING CLEAR
• But if a man divorces his wife a third time, she is not lawful for
him after that until she has married another husband. Then if he
divorces her, there is nothing wrong in the original couple getting
back together provided they think they will remain within Allah’s
limits. These are Allah’s limits which he has made clear to people
who know. (2:230)
• What is the matter with you that you do not eat that over which
the name of Allah has been mentioned, when He has made clear
to you what He has made forbidden for you except when you are
forced to eat it? Many people lead others astray through their
whims and desires without having any knowledge. Your Lord
knows best those who overstep the limits. (6:119)
• Just as your Lord brought you out from your house with truth,
even though a group of the believers disliked it, arguing with you
about the Truth after it had been made clear as though they were
being driven to their death with open eyes. (8:5-6)
• We have only ever sent before you men who were given
Revelation–ask the People of the Reminder if you do not know–
who brought Clear Signs and Revealed Books. And We have sent
down the Reminder to you so that you can make clear to mankind
what has been sent down to them so that hopefully they will
reflect. (16:43-44)
• We have only sent down the Book to you so that you can make
clear to them the things about which they differ, and as a
guidance and a mercy to people who believe. (16:64)
• Do not be like a woman who spoils the thread she has spun by
unravelling it after it is strong, by making your oaths a means of
deceiving one another, merely because one community is bigger
than another. Allah is only testing you by this. He will make clear
to you on the Day of Rising the things about which you differed.
(16:92)
• If He did ask you for it and put you under pressure, you would be
tight-fisted and it would bring out your malevolence. (47:37)
• If you do not help him, Allah did help him when those who
disbelieved drove him out (of Makka) and there were two of them
in the Cave. He said to his companion, ‘Do not be despondent,
Allah is with us.’ Then Allah sent down His serenity upon him and
reinforced him with troops you could not see. He made the word
of those who disbelieved undermost. It is the word of Allah which
is uppermost. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (9:40)
• And (I swear by) this safe land, We created man in the finest
mould. (95:3-4)
• It is He Who held their hands back from you, and your hands from
them in the valley of Makka, after giving you the upper hand over
them. Allah sees what you do. (48:24)
MAN - MEN
• (Nuh said to his people,) ‘Or are you astonished that a reminder
should come to you from your Lord by way of a man among you,
to warn you and make you guard against evil so that hopefully
you will gain mercy?’ (7:63)
• (Hud said,) ‘Or are you astonished that a reminder should come
to you from your Lord by way of a man among you in order to
warn you? Remember when He appointed you successors to the
people of Nuh, and increased you greatly in stature. Remember
Allah’s blessings, so that hopefully you will be successful.’ (7:69)
• Musa chose seventy men from his people for Our appointed time
and when the earthquake seized them he said, ‘My Lord, if You
had willed, You could have destroyed them previously and me as
well. Would you destroy us for what the fools among us did? It
was only a trial from You by which You misguided those You
willed and guided those You willed. You are our Protector so
forgive us and have mercy on us. You are the Best of Forgivers.’
(7:155)
• We know how they listen when they listen to you, and when they
confer together secretly, and when the wrongdoers say, ‘You are
only following a man who is bewitched!’ (17:47)
• When the young men took refuge in the cave and said, ‘Our Lord,
give us mercy directly from You and open the way for us to right
guidance in our situation.’ (18:10)
• We will relate their story to you with truth. They were young men
who believed in their Lord and We increased them in guidance.
(18:13)
• They said, ‘We heard a young man mentioning them. They call
him Ibrahim.’ (21:60)
• (The ruling circle of Nuh’s people said,) ‘He is nothing but a man
possessed so wait a while and see what happens to him.’ (23:25)
• (The ruling circle of his people said,) ‘What is he but a man who
has invented a lie against Allah? We do not believe in him.’
(23:38)
• A man came running from the furthest part of the city, saying,
‘Musa, the Council are conspiring to kill you, so leave! I am
someone who brings you good advice.’ (28:20)
• Allah has not allotted to any man two hearts within his breast, nor
has He made those of your wives you equate with your mothers
your actual mothers, nor has He made your adopted sons your
actual sons. These are just words coming out of your mouths. But
Allah speaks the truth and He guides to the Way. (33:4)
• Among the believers there are men who have been true to the
contract they made with Allah. Some of them have fulfilled their
pact by death and some are still waiting to do so, not having
changed in any way at all. (33:23)
• Those who disbelieve say, ‘Shall we show you to a man who will
tell you that when you have completely disintegrated, you will
then be recreated all anew? (34:7)
• When Our Clear Signs are recited to them, they say, ‘This is
nothing but a man who wants to debar you from what your fathers
used to worship.’ They say, ‘This is nothing but an invented lie.’
Those who disbelieve say to the truth when it comes to them,
‘This is nothing but downright magic.’ (34:43)
• A man came running from the far side of the city, saying, ‘My
people! Follow the Messengers!’ (36:20)
• They will say, ‘How is it that we do not see some men whom we
used to count among the worst of people?’ (38:62)
• A man among Pharaoh’s people who believed, but kept his faith
concealed, said, ‘Are you going to kill a man for saying "My Lord
is Allah" when he has brought you Clear Signs from your Lord? If
he is telling a lie, be it on his own head. But if he is telling the
truth, then some of what he is promising you will certainly happen
to you. Allah does not guide any unbridled inveterate liar.’ (40:28)
• They say, ‘Why was this Qur’an not sent down to one of the great
men of the two cities?’ (43:31)
• Certain men from among mankind used to seek refuge with
certain men from among the jinn but they increased them in
wickedness. (72:6)
MARK
MARKET-PLACE
• They say, ‘What is the matter with this Messenger, that he eats
food and walks in the market-place? Why has an angel not been
sent down to him so that it can be a warner along with him?’ (25:7)
• We never sent any Messengers before you who did not eat food
and walk in the market-place. But We have made some of you a
trial for others to see if you will be steadfast? Your Lord sees
everything. (25:20)
MARRIAGE
• But if a man divorces his wife a third time, she is not lawful for
him after that until she has married another husband. Then if he
divorces her, there is nothing wrong in the original couple getting
back together provided they think they will remain within Allah’s
limits. These are Allah’s limits which he has made clear to people
who know. (2:230)
• When you divorce women and they are near the end of their
waiting period, do not prevent them from marrying their first
husbands if they have mutually agreed to it with correctness and
courtesy. This is an admonition for those of you who believe in
Allah and the Last Day. That is better and purer for you. Allah
knows and you do not know. (2:232)
• If you divorce them before you have touched them but have
already allotted them a dowry, they should have half the amount
which you allotted, unless they forgo it or the one in charge of the
marriage contract forgoes it. To forgo it is closer to heedfulness.
Do not forget to show generosity to one another. Allah sees what
you do. (2:237)
• Forbidden for you are: your mothers and your daughters and your
sisters, your maternal aunts and your paternal aunts, your
brothers’ daughters and your sisters’ daughters, your foster
mothers who have suckled you, your foster sisters by suckling,
your wives’ mothers, your stepdaughters who are under your
protection: the daughters of your wives whom you have had
sexual relations with (though if you have not had sexual relations
with them there is nothing blameworthy for you in it then), the
wives of your sons whom you have fathered, and marrying two
sisters at the same time–except for what may have already taken
place. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:23)
• And also married women, except for those you have taken in war
as slaves. This is what Allah has prescribed for you. Apart from
that He has made all other women lawful for you provided you
seek them with your wealth in marriage and not in fornication.
When you consummate your marriage with them give them their
prescribed dowry. There is nothing wrong in any further
agreement you might come to after the dowry has been given.
Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (4:24)
• If any of you do not have the means to marry free women who
are believers, you may marry slavegirls who are believers. Allah
knows best about your faith; you are all the same in that respect.
Marry them with their owners’ permission and give them their
dowries correctly and courteously as married women, not in
fornication or taking them as lovers. When they are married, if
they commit fornication they should receive half the punishment
of free women. This is for those of you who are afraid of
committing fornication. But being patient is better for you. Allah is
Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:25)
• Men have charge of women because Allah has preferred the one
above the other and because they spend their wealth on them.
Right-acting women are obedient (to Allah), guarding the unseen
as Allah has guarded. If there are women whose disobedience
you fear, you may admonish them, refuse to sleep with them, and
then beat them. But if they obey you, do not look for a way to
punish them. Allah is All-High, Most Great. (4:34)
• Today all good things have been made lawful for you. And the
food of those given the Book is also lawful for you and your food
is lawful for them. So are chaste women from among the
believers and chaste women of those given the Book before you,
once you have given them their dowries in marriage, not in
fornication or taking them as lovers. But as for anyone who
rejects faith, his actions will come to nothing and in the hereafter
he will be among the losers. (5:15)
• A man who has fornicated may only marry a woman who has
fornicated or a woman of the idolaters. A woman who has
fornicated may only marry a man who has fornicated or a man of
the idolaters. Doing such a thing is forbidden for the believers.
(24:3)
• Marry off those among you who are unmarried and those of your
slaves and slavegirls who are righteous. If they are poor, Allah
will enrich them from His bounty. Allah is All-Encompassing, All-
Knowing. (24:32)
• As for women who are past child-bearing age and no longer have
any hope of getting married, there is nothing wrong in their
removing their outer clothes, provided they do not flaunt their
adornments; but to refrain from doing so is better for them. Allah
is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (24:60)
• You who believe! When you marry believing women and then
divorce them before you have touched them, there is no waiting
period for you to calculate for them, so give them a gift and let
them go with kindness. (33:49)
• Prophet! We have made lawful for you: your wives to whom you
have given dowries and any slavegirls you own from the booty
Allah has allotted you and the daughters of your paternal uncles
and the daughters of your paternal aunts and the daughters of
your maternal uncles and the daughters of your maternal aunts
who have migrated with you and any believing woman who gives
herself to the Prophet if the Prophet desires to marry her:
exclusively for you as opposed to the rest of the believers–We
know very well what We have prescribed for them regarding their
wives and any slavegirls they possess–in order that there be no
restriction on you. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:50)
• After that no other women are lawful for you nor may you
exchange them for other wives, even though their beauty might
be pleasing to you, with the exception of any you own as slaves.
Allah is watchful over all things. (33:52)
• Allah has made an example for those who disbelieve: the wife of
Nuh and the wife of Lut. They were married to two of Our
servants who were righteous but they betrayed them and were
not helped at all against Allah. They were told, ‘Enter the Fire
along with all who enter it.’ (66:10)
MARTYRDOM
• Do not say that those who are killed in the Way of Allah are dead.
On the contrary, they are alive but you are not aware of it. (2:154)
• If you are killed in the Way of Allah or if you die, forgiveness and
mercy from Allah are better than anything you can acquire. (3:157)
• Do not suppose that those killed in the Way of Allah are dead. No
indeed! They are alive and well provided for in the very presence
of their Lord, delighting in the favour Allah has bestowed on them,
rejoicing over those they left behind who have not yet joined them,
feeling no fear and knowing no sorrow, rejoicing in blessings and
favour from Allah and that Allah does not let the wage of the
believers go to waste. (169-171)
• Whoever obeys Allah and the Messenger will be with those whom
Allah has blessed: the Prophets, the steadfast affirmers of truth,
the martyrs and the righteous. What excellent company such
people are! (4:69)
• So let those who sell the life of this world for the hereafter fight in
the Way of Allah. If someone fights in the Way of Allah, whether
he is killed or is victorious, We will pay him an immense reward.
(4:74)
• Say: ‘What do you await for us except for one of the two best
things (martyrdom or victory)? But what we await for you is for
Allah to inflict a punishment on you either directly from Himself or
at our hands. So wait, we are waiting with you!’ (9:52)
• Those who migrate in the Way of Allah and then are killed or die,
Allah will provide for them handsomely. Truly Allah is the best
Provider. (22:58)
• And when the Disciples said, ‘‘Isa son of Maryam! Can your Lord
send down a table to us out of heaven?’ He said, ‘Have fear of
Allah if you are believers!’ (5:112)
• ‘Isa son of Maryam said, ‘Allah, our Lord, send down a table to us
out of heaven to be a feast for us, for the first and last of us, and
as a Sign from You. Provide for us! You are the Best of
Providers!’ (5:114)
• And when Allah says, ‘‘Isa son of Maryam! Did you say to people,
"Take me and my mother as gods besides Allah?"’ he will say,
‘Glory be to You! It is not for me to say what I have no right to say!
If I had said it, then You would have known it. You know what is
in my self but I do not know what is in Your Self. You are the
Knower of all unseen things.’ (5:116)
• They have taken their rabbis and monks as lords besides Allah,
and also the Messiah, son of Maryam. Yet they were commanded
to worship only one God. There is no god but Him! Glory be to
Him above anything they associate with Him! (9:31)
• Mention Maryam in the Book, how she withdrew from her people
to an eastern place. (19:16)
• She brought him to her people, carrying him. They said, ‘Maryam!
You have done an unthinkable thing! ’ (19:27)
• That is ‘Isa, son of Maryam, the word of truth about which they
are in doubt. (19:34)
• And We made the son of Maryam and his mother a Sign and
gave them shelter on a mountainside where there was a meadow
and a flowing spring. (23:50)
• Allah chose Adam and Nuh and the family of Ibrahim and the
family of ‘Imran over all other beings–descendants one of the
other. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (3:33-34)
• Remember when the wife of ‘Imran said, ‘My Lord, I have pledged
to You what is in my womb, devoting it to Your service. Please
accept my prayer. You are the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.’
( 3:35)
• When she gave birth, she said, ‘My Lord! I have given birth to a
girl’–and Allah knew very well what she had given birth to, male
and female are not the same–‘and I have named her Maryam and
placed her and her children in Your safekeeping from the
accursed Satan.’ ( 3:36)
• Her Lord accepted her with approval and made her grow in health
and beauty. And Zakariyya became her guardian. Every time
Zakariyya visited her in the Upper Room, he found food with her.
He said, ‘Maryam, how did you come by this?’ She said, ‘It is from
Allah. Allah provides for whoever He wills without any reckoning.’
(3: 37)
MASTER
• Allah does not impose on any self any more than it can stand. For
it is what it has earned; against it, what it has brought upon itself.
‘Our Lord, do not take us to task if we forget or make a mistake!
Our Lord, do not place on us a load like the one You placed on
those before us! Our Lord, do not place on us a load we have not
the strength to bear! And pardon us; and forgive us; and have
mercy on us. You are our Master, so help us against the people
of the disbelievers.’ (2:286)
• But if they turn away, know that Allah is your Master, the Best of
Masters, and the Best of Helpers! (8:40)
• Then and there every self will be tried for what it did before. They
will be returned to Allah, their Master, the Real, and what they
invented will abandon them. (10:30)
• Allah has made the expiation of your oaths obligatory for you.
Allah is your Master–He is the All-Knowing, the All-Wise. (66:2)
MATE
• mankind! Have fear of your Lord Who created you from a single
self and created its mate from it and then disseminated many
men and women from the two of them. Have fear of Allah in
Whose name you make demands on one another and also in
respect of your families. Allah watches over you continually. (4:1)
• He created you from a single self, then produced its mate from it,
and sent down livestock to you–eight kinds in pairs. He creates
you stage by stage in your mothers’ wombs in a threefold
darkness. That is Allah, your Lord. Sovereignty is His. There is no
god but Him. So what has made you deviate? (39:6)
• The Bringer into Being of the heavens and the earth: He has
given you mates from among yourselves, and given mates to the
livestock, in that way multiplying you. Nothing is like Him. He is
the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing. (42:11)
MATURITY
• And that you do not go near the property of orphans before they
reach maturity–except in a good way; that you give full measure
and full weight with justice–We impose on no self any more than
it can bear; that you are equitable when you speak–even if a near
relative is concerned; and that you fulfil Allah’s contract. That is
what He instructs you to do, so that hopefully you will pay heed.
(6:152)
• Mankind! If you are in any doubt about the Rising, know that We
created you from dust then from a drop of sperm then from a clot
of blood then from a lump of flesh, formed yet unformed, so We
may make things clear to you. We make whatever We want stay
in the womb until a specified time and then We bring you out as
children so that you can reach your full maturity. Some of you die
and some of you revert to the lowest form of life so that, after
having knowledge, they then know nothing at all. And you see the
earth dead and barren; then when We send down water onto it it
quivers and swells and sprouts with luxuriant plants of every kind.
(22:5)
• And We made the son of Maryam and his mother a Sign and
gave them shelter on a mountainside where there was a meadow
and a flowing spring. (23:50)
• As for those who believed and did right actions, they will be made
joyful in a verdant meadow. (30:15)
• You will see the wrongdoers afraid of what they have earned,
when it is about to land right on top of them, whereas those who
believe and do right actions will be in the lush Meadows of the
Gardens. They will have whatever they wish for with their Lord.
That is the great favour. (42:22)
• And (then We make) orchards and meadows (grow in it), for you
and your livestock to enjoy. (80:31-32)
MEAL
• But when she heard of their malicious talk, she sent for them and
made a sumptuous meal and then she gave a knife to each of
them. She said (to Yusuf), ‘Go out to them.’ When they saw him,
they were amazed by him and cut their hands. They said, ‘Allah
preserve us! This is no man. What can this be but a noble angel
here!’ (12:31)
• He (Yusuf) said, ‘No meal to feed you will arrive before I have
informed you what they mean. That is part of what my Lord taught
me. For I have left the religion of a people who clearly have no
faith in Allah and who refuse to acknowledge the truth of the
world to come.’ (12:37)
• When they had gone a distance further on, he (Musa) said to his
servant, ‘Bring us our morning meal. Truly this journey of ours
has made us tired.’ (18:62)
MEANING
• Some of the Jews distort the true meaning of words, saying, ‘We
hear and disobey,’ and ‘Listen without listening,’ and ‘Listen to
us!’ twisting them with their tongues, disparaging the religion. If
they had said, ‘We hear and we obey,’ and ‘Listen,’ and, ‘Look at
us!’ that would have been better for them and more upright. But
Allah has cursed them for their disbelief. Very few of them believe.
(4:46)
• No, the fact is that they have denied something which their
knowledge does not embrace and the meaning of which has not
yet reached them. In the same way those before them also
denied the truth. See the final fate of the wrongdoers! (10:39)
• (Yusuf's father said,) ‘Accordingly your Lord will pick you out and
teach you the true meaning of events and perfectly fulfil His
blessing on you as well as on the family of Ya‘qub as He fulfilled it
perfectly before upon your forebears, Ibrahim and Ishaq. Most
certainly your Lord is Knowing, Wise.’ (12:6)
• The Egyptian who had bought him told his wife, ‘Look after him
with honour and respect. It’s possible he will be of use to us or
perhaps we might adopt him as a son.’ And thus We established
Yusuf in the land to teach him the true meaning of events. Allah is
in control of His affair. However, most of mankind do not know.
(12:21)
• Two servants entered prison along with him. One said (to Yusuf),
‘I dreamt that I was pressing grapes.’ The other said, ‘I dreamt I
carried bread upon my head and birds were eating it. Tell us the
true meaning of these dreams. We see that you’re one of the
righteous.’ (12:36)
• The King declared, ‘I dreamt of seven fat cows which seven thin
ones ate and seven green ears of wheat and seven others which
were dry. O counsellors! Explain my dream to me if you are those
who can interpret visions!’ They said, ‘A jumbled mass of mixed-
up dreams! We do not know the meaning of such things.’ The one
of them who had been saved then said, remembering after a
period, ‘I will tell you what it signifies, so send me out.’ (12:43-45)
• He (Yusuf) raised his parents up onto the throne. The others fell
prostrate in front of him. He said, ‘My father, truly this is now the
interpretation of the dream I had. My Lord has made it all come
true; and He was kind to me by letting me out of prison and
brought you from the desert when Satan had caused dissent
between me and my brothers. My Lord is kind to anyone He wills.
He is indeed All-Knowing and All-Wise. My Lord, You have
granted power to me on earth and taught me the true meaning of
events. Originator of the heavens and earth, You are my Friend in
this world and the Next. So take me as a Muslim at my death and
join me to the people who are righteous.’ (12:100-101)
MEASURE
• And that you do not go near the property of orphans before they
reach maturity–except in a good way; that you give full measure
and full weight with justice–We impose on no self any more than
it can bear; that you are equitable when you speak–even if a near
relative is concerned; and that you fulfil Allah’s contract. That is
what He instructs you to do, so that hopefully you will pay heed.
(6:152)
• (Yusuf said,) ‘But if you do not bring him here to me, your
measure from me then will be denied and you will not come near
to me at all.’ (12:60)
• Then when they got back to their father’s house, they said,
‘Father! Our measure has been denied. Please send our brother
with us so we may obtain our measure. We will take care of him.’
(12:63)
• So when they came into his presence, they said, ‘Your Eminence!
Hardship has hit us and our families. We bring scant merchandise,
but fill the measure for us generously. Allah always rewards a
generous giver.’ (12:88)
• Give full measure when you measure and weigh with a level
balance. That is better and gives the best result. (17:35)
• And (He will) provide for him from where he does not expect.
Whoever puts his trust in Allah–He will be enough for him. Allah
always achieves His aim. Allah has appointed a measure for all
things. (65:3)
MEAT
• We will supply them with any kind of fruit and meat that they
desire. (52:22)
MENSTRUATION (HAYD)
MERCY
• Those are the people who will have blessings and mercy from
their Lord; they are the ones who are guided. (2:157)
• Your God is One God. There is no god but Him, the All-Merciful,
the Most Merciful. (2:163)
• He has only forbidden you carrion, blood and pork and what has
been consecrated to other than Allah. But anyone who is forced
to eat it–without desiring it or going to excess in it–commits no
crime. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (2:173)
• Obey Allah and the Messenger so that hopefully you will gain
mercy. ( 3:132)
• Anyone who does evil or wrongs himself and then asks Allah’s
forgiveness will find Allah Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:110)
• When they took full stock of what they had done and saw they
had been misled, they said, ‘If our Lord does not have mercy on
us and forgive us, we will certainly be among the lost.’ ( 7:149)
• And among the desert arabs there are some who believe in Allah
and the Last Day and regard what they give as something which
will bring them nearer to Allah and to the prayers of the
Messenger. It does indeed bring them near. Allah will admit them
into His mercy. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (9:99)
• He (Nuh) said, ‘My Lord, I seek refuge with You from asking You
for anything about which I have no knowledge. If You do not
forgive me and have mercy on me, I will be among the lost.’
(11:47)
• (Yusuf said,) ‘I do not say my self was free from blame. The self
indeed commands to evil acts–except for those my Lord has
mercy on. My Lord, He is Forgiving, Merciful.’ (12:53)
• He (Yusuf) said, ‘No blame at all will fall on you. Today you have
forgiveness from Allah. He is the Most Merciful of the merciful.’
(12:92)
• They carry your loads to lands you would never reach except with
great difficulty. Your Lord is All-Gentle, Most Merciful. (16:7)
• Or (do they feel secure) that He will not seize them little by little?
For your Lord is All-Compassionate, Most Merciful. (16:47)
• But to those who migrated after they were persecuted and then
strived and remained steadfast, to them your Lord is All-
Compassionate, Most Merciful. (16:110)
• (We decreed in the Book for the tribe of Israel:) ‘It may well be
that your Lord will have mercy on you. But if you revert to what
you did, We also will revert. We have made Hell a prison for the
disbelievers.’ (17:8)
• Your Lord knows you best. If He wills, He will have mercy on you,
and, if He wills, He will punish you. We did not send you to be
their guardian. (17:54)
• Your Lord is He Who propels the ships on the sea for you so that
you may seek His bounty. He is indeed Most Merciful to you.
(17:66)
• And Ayyub when he called out to his Lord, ‘Great harm has
afflicted me and You are the Most Merciful of the merciful,’ (21:83)
• Do you not see that Allah has made everything on the earth
subservient to you and the ships running upon the sea by His
command? He holds back the heaven, preventing it from falling to
the earth–except by His permission. Allah is All-Compassionate
to mankind, Most Merciful. (22:65)
(LORD’S) MESSAGE
• (It is) so that He may know that they have indeed transmitted the
Messages of their Lord. He encompasses what is in their hands
and has counted the exact number of everything. (72:28)
MESSENGER
• Allah will only leave the believers in the position you now are in
so that He can sift out the rotten from the good. Allah has not
given you access to the Unseen. But Allah chooses those of His
Messengers whom He wills. So believe in Allah and His
Messengers. If you believe and guard against evil you will have
an immense reward. (3:179)
• If they deny you, Messengers before you were also denied, who
brought the Clear Signs and written texts and the illuminating
Book. (3:184)
• (Those who remember Allah say,) ‘Our Lord, give us what You
promised us through Your Messengers, and do not disgrace us
on the Day of Rising. You do not break Your promise.’ (3:194)
• You who believe! Believe in Allah and His Messenger and in the
Book He sent down to His Messenger, and the Books He sent
down before. Anyone who rejects Allah and His angels and His
Books and His Messengers and the Last Day has gone very far
astray. (4:136)
• Those who believe in Allah and His Messengers and do not
differentiate between any of them, We will pay them their wages.
Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:152)
• Then Allah sent a crow which scratched at the earth to show him
how to conceal his brother’s corpse. He said, ‘Woe is me! Can I
not even be like this crow and conceal my brother’s corpse?’ And
he became one of those who suffer bitter remorse on account of
that. So We decreed for the tribe of Israel that if someone kills
another person–unless it is in retaliation for someone else or for
causing corruption in the earth–it is as if he had murdered all
mankind. And if anyone gives life to another person, it is as if he
had given life to all mankind. Our Messengers came to them with
Clear Signs but even after that many of them committed outrages
in the earth. (5:31-32)
• Messengers before you were also denied but they were steadfast
in the face of the denial and injury they suffered until Our help
arrived. There is no changing the Words of Allah. And news of
other Messengers has come to you. (6:34)
• When a Sign comes to them, they say, ‘We will not believe until
we have been given the same as the Messengers of Allah were
given.’ Allah knows best where to place His Message.
Debasement in the sight of Allah and a severe punishment will
strike those who did wrong for the plots that they concocted.
(6:124)
• Company of jinn and men! Did not Messengers come to you from
among yourselves relating My Signs to you and warning you of
the encounter of this Day of yours? They will say, ‘We testify
against ourselves.’ The life of this world deluded them and they
will testify against themselves that they were disbelievers. (6:130)
• We will strip away any rancour in their hearts. Rivers will flow
under them and they will say, ‘Praise be to Allah Who has guided
us to this! We would not have been guided, had Allah not guided
us. The Messengers of our Lord came with the Truth.’ It will be
proclaimed to them: ‘This is your Garden which you have
inherited for what you did.’ (7:43)
• What are they waiting for but its fulfilment? The Day its fulfilment
occurs, those who forgot it before will say, ‘The Messengers of
our Lord came with the Truth. Are there any intercessors to
intercede for us, or can we be sent back so that we can do
something other than what we did?’ They have lost their own
selves and what they invented has forsaken them. (7:53)
• These cities–We have given you news of them. Their
Messengers came to them with Clear Signs, but they were never
going to believe in what they had previously rejected. That is how
Allah seals up the hearts of the disbelievers. (7:101)
• Has the news of those who came before them not reached them
the people of Nuh and ‘Ad and Thamud, and the people of
Ibrahim and the inhabitants of Madyan and the overturned cities?
Their Messengers brought them the Clear Signs. Allah did not
wrong them; rather they wronged themselves. (9:70)
• That was ‘Ad. They denied the Signs of their Lord and disobeyed
His Messengers and followed the command of every obdurate
tyrant. (11:59)
• Has news not reached you of those who came before you, the
peoples of Nuh and ‘Ad and Thamud, and those who came after
them who are known to no one but Allah? Their Messengers
came to them with Clear Signs, but they put their hands to their
mouths, saying, ‘We reject what you have been sent with. We
have grave doubts about what you are calling us to.’ (14:9)
• Their Messengers said, ‘Is there any doubt about Allah, the
Bringer into Being of the heavens and the earth? He summons
you to forgive you for your wrong actions and to defer you until a
specified time.’ They said, ‘You are nothing but human beings like
ourselves who want to debar us from what our fathers
worshipped; so bring us a clear authority.’ (14:10)
• Warn mankind of the Day when the punishment will reach them.
Those who did wrong will say, ‘Our Lord, reprieve us for a short
time. We will respond to Your call and follow the Messengers.’
‘But did you not swear to Me before that you would never meet
your downfall?’ (14:44)
• Do not imagine that Allah will break His promise to His
Messengers. Allah is Almighty, Exactor of Revenge. (14:47)
• The idolaters say, ‘If Allah had willed we would not have
worshipped anything apart from Him, neither we nor our fathers,
nor would we have forbidden anything without His say.’ Those
before them said the same. Are the Messengers responsible for
anything but clear transmission? (16:35)
• That was the pattern with those We sent before you as Our
Messengers. You will not find any changing of Our pattern. (17:77)
• Messengers before you were also mocked, but those who jeered
were engulfed by what they mocked. (21:41)
• When Our messengers came with the good news to Ibrahim, they
said, ‘We are going to destroy the people of this city. Truly its
inhabitants are wrongdoers.’ (29:31)
• Have they not travelled in the earth and seen the final fate of
those before them? They had greater strength than them and
cultivated the land and inhabited it in far greater numbers than
they do. Their Messengers also came to them with the Clear
Signs. Allah would never have wronged them; but they wronged
themselves. (30:9)
• Those before them also denied the truth but these people do not
have even a tenth of what We gave to them. They denied My
Messengers. And how complete was My denial! (34:45)
• If they deny you, Messengers before you were also denied. All
matters return to Allah. (35:4)
• If they deny you, those before them also denied the truth. Their
Messengers came to them with Clear Signs, and psalms and the
Illuminating Book. (35:25)
• They (custodians of Hell) will ask, ‘Did your Messengers not bring
you the Clear Signs?’ They will answer, ‘Yes.’ They will say,
‘Then you call!’ But the calling of the disbelievers only goes astray.
(40:50)
• Those who deny the Book and that with which We sent Our
Messengers will certainly come to know. (40:70)
• Nothing has been said to you that was not said to the
Messengers before you. Your Lord is the Possessor of
forgiveness but also of painful retribution. (41:43)
• Ask those We sent before you as Our Messengers: Have We
ever designated any gods to be worshipped besides the All-
Merciful? (43:45)
• We sent Our Messengers with the Clear Signs and sent down the
Book and the Balance with them so that mankind might establish
justice. And We sent down iron in which there lies great force and
which has many uses for mankind, so that Allah might know
those who help Him and His Messengers in the Unseen. Allah is
All-Strong, Almighty. (57:25)
• MESSIAH
• When the angels said, ‘Maryam, your Lord gives you good news
of a Word from Him. His name is the Messiah, ‘Isa, son of
Maryam, of high esteem in this world and the hereafter, and one
of those brought near.’ (3:45)
• Those who say that the Messiah, son of Maryam, is Allah are
disbelievers. The Messiah said, ‘Tribe of Israel! Worship Allah,
my Lord and your Lord. If anyone associates anything with Allah,
Allah has forbidden him the Garden and his refuge will be the
Fire.’ The wrongdoers will have no helpers. (5:72)
• The Jews say, ‘‘Uzayr is the son of Allah,’ and the Christians say,
‘The Messiah is the son of Allah.’ That is what they say with their
mouths, copying the words of those who disbelieved before. Allah
fight them! How perverted they are! (9:30)
• They have taken their rabbis and monks as lords besides Allah,
and also the Messiah, son of Maryam. Yet they were commanded
to worship only one God. There is no god but Him! Glory be to
Him above anything they associate with Him! (9:31)
METEOR
• (Say: ‘It has been revealed to me that a band of the jinn listened
and said,) "We tried, as usual, to travel to heaven in search of
news but found it filled with fierce guards and meteors. We used
to sit there on special seats to listen in. But anyone listening now
finds a fiery meteor in wait for him." (72:8-9)
MICHAEL (MIKA’IL)
• (Say,) ‘Anyone who is the enemy of Allah and of His angels, and
of His Messengers and of Gabriel and Michael, should know that
Allah is the enemy of the disbelievers.’ (2:98)
MIDDLE
• So he will look down and see him in the midst of the Blazing Fire.
(37:55)
MIGHT
• They (the magicians) threw down their ropes and staffs and said,
‘By the might of Pharaoh we are the winners.’ (26:44)
• He (Satan) said, ‘By Your might, I will mislead all of them.’ (38:82)
• They say, ‘If we return to Madina, the mightier will drive out the
inferior.’ But all might belongs to Allah and to His Messenger and
the believers. But the hypocrites do not know this. (63:8)
MIGRANTS (MUHAJIRUN)
• The Prophet is closer to the believers than their own selves, and
his wives are their mothers. But blood-relations have closer ties to
one another in the Book of Allah than other believers and the
emigrants, except that you should act in a proper manner towards
your close associates. That is inscribed in the Book. (33:6)
MIGRATION (HIJRA)
• Those who believe and migrate and strive in the Way of Allah can
expect Allah’s mercy. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
(2:218)
• Their Lord responds to them: ‘I will not let the deeds of any doer
among you go to waste, male or female–you are both the same in
that respect. Those who migrated and were driven from their
homes and suffered harm in My Way and fought and were killed, I
will erase their bad actions from them and admit them into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, as a reward from Allah.
The best of all rewards is with Allah.’ (3:195)
• They would like you to disbelieve as they disbelieve so that you
will all be the same. Do not take any of them as friends until they
have migrated in the Way of Allah. But if they run away then seize
them and kill them wherever you find them. Do not take any of
them as either a friend or helper. (4:89)
• The angels ask those they take while they are wronging
themselves, ‘What were your circumstances?’ They reply, ‘We
were oppressed on earth.’ They say, ‘Was Allah’s earth not wide
enough for you to have migrated elsewhere in it?’ The shelter of
such people will be Hell. What an evil destination! (4:97)
• Those who migrate in the Way of Allah will find many places of
refuge on the earth and ample sustenance. If anyone leaves his
home, migrating to Allah and His Messenger, and death catches
up with him, it is Allah Who will reward him. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:100)
• Those who believe and have migrated and strived with their
wealth and themselves in the Way of Allah, and those who have
given refuge and help, they are the friends and protectors of one
another. But as for those who believe but have not migrated, you
are not in any way responsible for their protection until they
migrate. But if they ask you for help in respect of the religion, it is
your duty to help them, except against people you have a treaty
with. Allah sees what you do. (8:72)
• Those who believe and have migrated and strived in the Way of
Allah and those who have given refuge and help, they are the
true believers. They will have forgiveness and generous provision.
(8:74)
• Those who believe and migrate and strive in the Way of Allah
with their wealth and themselves have a higher rank with Allah.
They are the ones who are victorious. (9:20)
• As for those who migrate for Allah’s sake after being wronged,
We shall give them good lodging in this world, and the reward of
the hereafter is greater still if they only knew. (16:41)
• But to those who migrated after they were persecuted and then
strived and remained steadfast, to them your Lord is All-
Compassionate, Most Merciful. (16:110)
• Those who migrate in the Way of Allah and then are killed or die,
Allah will provide for them handsomely. Truly Allah is the best
Provider. (22:58)
• Prophet! We have made lawful for you: your wives to whom you
have given dowries and any slavegirls you own from the booty
Allah has allotted you and the daughters of your paternal uncles
and the daughters of your paternal aunts and the daughters of
your maternal uncles and the daughters of your maternal aunts
who have migrated with you and any believing woman who gives
herself to the Prophet if the Prophet desires to marry her:
exclusively for you as opposed to the rest of the believers–We
know very well what We have prescribed for them regarding their
wives and any slavegirls they possess–in order that there be no
restriction on you. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:50)
• Those who were already settled in the abode, and in faith, before
they came, love those who have migrated to them and do not find
in their hearts any need for what they have been given and prefer
them to themselves even if they themselves are needy. It is the
people who are safe-guarded from the avarice of their own selves
who are successful. (59:9)
• You who believe! When women who believe come to you as
emigrants, submit them to a test. Allah has best knowledge of
their faith. If you know they are believers, do not return them to
the disbelievers. They are not lawful for the disbelievers nor are
the disbelievers lawful for them. Give the disbelievers whatever
dowry they paid. And there is nothing wrong in your marrying
them provided you pay them their due. Do not hold to any
marriage ties with women who disbelieve. Ask for what you paid
and let them ask for what they paid. That is Allah’s judgement.
Allah will judge between them. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.
(60:10)
MILK
MISERABLE
• We did not send down the Qur’an to you to make you miserable.
(20:2)
• We said, ‘Adam, this is an enemy for you and your wife, so do not
let him expel you from the Garden and thus make you miserable.’
(20:117)
• He said, ‘Go down from it, all of you, as enemies to one another!
But when guidance comes to you from Me, all those who follow
My guidance will not go astray and will not be miserable.’ (20:123)
• They will say, ‘Our Lord, our miserable destiny overpowered us.
We were misguided people.’ (23:106)
• He who has fear will be reminded; but the most miserable will
shun it. (87:10-11)
MISGUIDANCE
• Those are the people who have sold guidance for misguidance.
Their trade has brought no profit; they are not guided. (2:16)
• Those are the ones who have sold guidance for misguidance and
forgiveness for punishment. How steadfastly they will endure the
Fire! (2:175)
• Do you not see those who were given a portion of the Book
trading in misguidance and wanting you to be misguided from the
way? (4:44)
• Do you not see those who claim that they believe in what has
been sent down to you and what was sent down before you, still
desiring to turn to a satanic source for judgement in spite of being
ordered to reject it? Satan wants to misguide them far away.
(4:60)
• Remember when Ibrahim said to his father, Azar, ‘Do you take
idols as gods? I see that you and your people are clearly
misguided.’ (6:74)
• That is Allah, your Lord, the Truth, and what is there after truth
except misguidance? So how have you been distracted? (10:32)
• Those who prefer the life of this world to the hereafter, and bar
access to the way of Allah, wanting to make it crooked; they are
greatly misguided. (14:3)
• The metaphor of those who reject their Lord is that their actions
are like ashes scattered by strong winds on a stormy day. They
have no power at all over anything they have earned. That is
extreme misguidance. (14:18)
• How clear will be their hearing, how perfect their sight, on the Day
they come to Us; whereas today the wrongdoers are clearly
misguided. (19:38)
• He Who has imposed the Qur’an upon you will most certainly
bring you back home again. Say: ‘My Lord knows best who has
brought true guidance and who is plainly misguided.’ (28:85)
• You will not guide blind men from their misguidance. You will not
make anyone hear except for those who believe in Our Signs and
so are Muslims. (30:53)
• (A man from far side of the city said,) ‘Am I to take as gods
instead of Him those whose intercession, if the All-Merciful
desires harm for me, will not help me at all and cannot save me?
In that case I would clearly be misguided.’ (36:23-24)
• Those who do not believe in it try to hasten it. But those who
believe in it are afraid of it. They know it is the truth. Those who
doubt the Hour are greatly misguided. (42:18)
• Can you make the deaf hear or guide the blind and those who are
patently misguided? (43:40)
• Then you, you misguided, you deniers will eat from the tree of
Zaqqum, (56:51-52)
• (Nuh said, ‘My Lord!) They have misguided many people. Do not
increase the wrongdoers in anything but misguidance!’ (71:24)
MISTAKE
• Remember when We said, ‘Go into this town and eat from it
wherever you like, freely. Enter the gate prostrating and say,
"Relieve us of our burdens!" Your mistakes will be forgiven. We
will grant increase to all good-doers.’ (2:58)
• No indeed! Those who accumulate bad actions and are
surrounded by their mistakes, such people are the Companions
of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (2:81)
• Allah does not impose on any self any more than it can stand. For
it is what it has earned; against it, what it has brought upon itself.
‘Our Lord, do not take us to task if we forget or make a mistake!
Our Lord, do not place on us a load like the one You placed on
those before us! Our Lord, do not place on us a load we have not
the strength to bear! And pardon us; and forgive us; and have
mercy on us. You are our Master, so help us against the people
of the disbelievers.’ (2:286)
• When they were told: ‘Live in this town and eat of it wherever you
like and say, "Relieve us of our burdens!" and enter the gate
prostrating. Your mistakes will be forgiven you. We will grant
increase to good-doers.’ (7:161)
• When they declared, ‘Why! Yusuf and his brother are dearer to
our father than we are although we constitute a powerful group.
Our father is clearly making a mistake.’ (12:8)
• They said, ‘Our father, may we be forgiven for all the many
wrongs that we have done. We were indeed greatly mistaken
men.’ (12:97)
• Do not kill your children out of fear of being poor. We will provide
for them and you. Killing them is a terrible mistake. (17:31)
• (Magicians said to Pharaoh,) ‘We have believed in our Lord so
that He may forgive us for our mistakes and for the magic which
you forced us to perform. Allah is better and longer lasting.’
(20:73)
• (Magicians said,) ‘We remain hopeful that our Lord will forgive us
our mistakes for being the first of the believers.’ (26:51)
• Those who disbelieve say to those who believe, ‘Follow our way
and we will bear the weight of your mistakes.’ They will not bear
the weight of a single one of their mistakes. Truly they are liars.
(29:12)
• Pharaoh and those before him and the Overturned Cities made a
great mistake. (69:9)
MOCKERY
• When they meet those who believe, they say, ‘We believe.’ But
then when they go apart with their Satans, they say, ‘We are
really with you. We were only mocking.’ (2:14)
• But Allah is mocking them, and drawing them on, as they wander
blindly in their excessive insolence. (2:15)
• It has been sent down to you in the Book that when you hear
Allah’s Signs being rejected and mocked at by people, you must
not sit with them till they start talking of other things. If you do you
are just the same as them. Allah will gather all the hypocrites and
disbelievers into Hell. (4:140)
• You who believe! Do not take as friends any of those who who
make a mockery and a game out of your religion among the ones
who were given the Book before you or the disbelievers. Have
fear of Allah if you are believers. (5:57)
• When you call to prayer they make a mockery and a game of it.
That is because they are people who do not use their intellect.
(5:58)
• They deny the truth each time it comes to them but news of what
they were mocking will certainly reach them. (6:5)
• Messengers before you were also mocked, but those who jeered
were engulfed by what they mocked. (6:10)
• The hypocrites are afraid that a sura may be sent down about
them, informing them of what is in their hearts. Say: ‘Go on
mocking! Allah will expose everything you are afraid of.’ (9:64)
• If you ask them they will say, ‘We were only joking and playing
around.’ Say: ‘Would you make a mockery of Allah and of His
Signs and of His Messenger?’ (9:65)
• As for the people who find fault with those believers who give
charity spontaneously, and with those who can find nothing to
give but their own effort, and deride them, Allah derides them.
They will have a painful punishment. (9:79)
• The evil actions they did assailed them. They were engulfed by
what they mocked. (16:34)
• When those who disbelieve see you, they only make a mockery
out of you: ‘Is this the one who makes mention of your gods?’ Yet
they disown any mention of the All-Merciful. (21:36)
• Messengers before you were also mocked, but those who jeered
were engulfed by what they mocked. (21:41)
• (Their Lord will say,) ‘But you made a mockery of them so that
they made you forget to remember Me while you were laughing at
them.’ (23:110)
• When they see you they only make a mockery of you: ‘Is this the
one Allah has sent as a Messenger?’ (25:41)
• They have denied the truth, but the news of what they mocked
will certainly come to them. (26:6)
• Then the final fate of those who did evil will be the Worst because
they denied Allah’s Signs and mocked at them. (30:10)
• What confronts them will be the evil actions which they earned
and what they used to mock at will engulf them. (39:48)
• The evil deeds they did will appear before them and the things
they mocked at will engulf them. (45:33)
• You who believe! People should not ridicule others who may be
better than themselves; nor should any women ridicule other
women who may be better than themselves. And do not find fault
with one another or insult each other with derogatory nicknames.
How evil it is to have a name for evil conduct after coming to faith!
Those people who do not turn from it are wrongdoers. (49:11)
MONASTICISM
MONASTERY
• You will find that the people most hostile to those who believe are
the Jews and the idolaters. You will find the people most
affectionate to those who believe are those who say, ‘We are
Christians.’ That is because some of them are priests and monks
and because they are not arrogant. (5:82)
• They have taken their rabbis and monks as lords besides Allah,
and also the Messiah, son of Maryam. Yet they were commanded
to worship only one God. There is no god but Him! Glory be to
Him above anything they associate with Him! (9:31)
• You who believe! Many of the rabbis and monks devour people’s
property under false pretences and bar people from access to the
Way of Allah. As for those who hoard up gold and silver and do
not spend it in the Way of Allah, give them the news of a painful
punishment (9:34)
MOON
• They will ask you about the crescent moons. Say, ‘They are set
times for mankind and for the pilgrimage.’ It is not devoutness for
you to enter houses by the back. Rather devoutness is
possessed by those who guard against evil. So come to houses
by their doors and have fear of Allah, so that hopefully you will be
successful. (2:189)
• Your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six
days and then settled Himself firmly on the Throne. He covers the
day with the night, each pursuing the other urgently; and the sun
and moon and stars are subservient to His command. Both
creation and command belong to Him. Blessed be Allah, the Lord
of all the worlds. (7:54)
• When Yusuf told his father, ‘Father! I saw eleven bright stars, and
the sun and moon as well. I saw them all prostrate in front of me.’
(12:4)
• And He has made the sun and moon subservient to you holding
steady to their courses, and He has made the night and day
subservient to you. (14:33)
• He has made night and day subservient to you, and the sun and
moon and stars, all subject to His command. There are certainly
Signs in that for people who use their intellect. (16:12)
• It is He Who created night and day and the sun and moon, each
one swimming in a sphere. (21:33)
• Do you not see that Allah makes night merge into day and day
merge into night, and that He has made the sun and moon
subservient, each one running for a specified time, and that Allah
is aware of what you do? That is because Allah–He is the Truth,
and what you call upon besides Him is falsehood. Allah is the All-
High, the Most Great. (31:29-30)
• He makes night merge into day and day merge into night, and He
has made the sun and moon subservient, each one running until
a specified time. That is Allah, your Lord. The Kingdom is His.
Those you call on besides Him have no power over even the
smallest speck. (35:13)
• And We have decreed set phases for the moon, until it ends up
looking like an old palm spathe. It is not for the sun to overtake
the moon nor for the night to outstrip the day; each one is
swimming in a sphere. (36:39-40)
• He created the heavens and the earth with truth. He wraps the
night around the day and wraps the day around the night, and
has made the sun and moon subservient, each one running for a
specified term. Is He not indeed the Almighty, the Endlessly
Forgiving? (39:5)
• Among His Signs are the night and day and the sun and moon.
Do not prostrate to the sun nor to the moon. Prostrate to Allah
Who created them, if you worship Him. (41:37)
• The Hour has drawn near and the moon has split. (54:1)
• The sun and the moon both run with precision. (55:5)
• But when the eyesight is dazzled, and the moon is eclipsed, and
the sun and moon are fused together, on that Day man will say,
‘Where can I run?’ (75:7-10)
• (I swear) by the sun and its morning brightness, and the moon
when it follows it. (91:1-2)
MORNING
• Do not chase away those who call on their Lord morning and
evening, seeking His Face. Their reckoning is in no way your
responsibility and your reckoning is in no way their responsibility.
Indeed if you did chase them away, you would be among the
wrongdoers. (6:52)
• The Great Blast seized hold of those who did wrong and morning
found them lying flattened in their homes. (11:67)
• They said, ‘Lut, we are messengers from your Lord. They will not
be able to get at you. Set out with your family–except for your
wife–in the middle of the night and none of you should look back.
What strikes them will strike her as well. Their promised
appointment is the morning. Is the morning not close at hand?’
(11:81)
• But the Great Blast seized hold of them in the morning, (15:83)
• He (Zakariyya) came out to his people from the Upper Room and
gestured to them to glorify Allah in the morning and the evening.
(19:11)
• They will not hear any prattling there–nothing but ‘Peace’. They
will receive their provision there morning and night. (19:62)
• He (Musa) said, ‘Your time is the day of the Festival. The people
should gather in the morning.’ (20:59)
• But they denied him so the earthquake seized them and morning
found them lying flattened in their homes. (29:37)
• So glory be to Allah when you start the night and when you greet
the day. (30:17)
• The Fire, morning and night, to which they are exposed; and on
the Day the Hour takes place: ‘Admit Pharaoh’s people to the
harshest punishment!’ (40:46)
• (It is) so that you might all believe in Allah and His Messenger
and honour Him and respect Him and glorify Him in the morning
and the evening. (48:9)
• In the morning they called out to one another, ‘Leave early for
your land if you want to pick the fruit.’ (68:21-22)
• On the Day they see it, it will be as if they had only lingered for
the evening or the morning of a single day. (79:46)
• Say: ‘I seek refuge with the Lord of Daybreak, from the evil of
what He has created and from the evil of the darkness when it
gathers and from the evil of women who blow on knots and from
the evil of an envier when he envies.’ (113:1-5)
MOSQUE (MASJID)
• On the night of the fast it is lawful for you to have sexual relations
with your wives. They are clothing for you and you for them. Allah
knows that you have been betraying yourselves and He has
turned towards you and excused you. Now you may have sexual
intercourse with them and seek what Allah has written for you.
Eat and drink until you can clearly discern the white thread from
the black thread of the dawn, then fulfil the fast until the night
appears. But do not have sexual intercourse with them while you
are in retreat in the mosques. These are Allah’s limits, so do not
go near them. In this way does Allah make His Signs clear to
people so that hopefully they will guard against evil. (2:187)
• Say: ‘My Lord has commanded justice. Stand and face Him in
every mosque and call on Him, making your religion sincerely His.
As He originated you, so you will return.’ (7:29)
• Children of Adam! Wear fine clothing in every mosque and eat
and drink but do not be profligate. He does not love the profligate.
(7:31)
• As for those who have set up a mosque, causing harm and out of
disbelief, to create division between the believers, and in
readiness for those who previously made war on Allah and His
Messenger, they will swear, ‘We only desired the best.’ But Allah
bears witness that they are truly liars. (9:107)
• ... if Allah had not driven some people back by means of others,
monasteries, churches, synagogues and mosques, where Allah’s
name is mentioned much, would have been pulled down and
destroyed. Allah will certainly help those who help Him–Allah is
All-Strong, Almighty. (22:40)
MOSQUITO
MOUNT AL-JUDI
MOUNT, THE
• We called out to him from the right hand side of the Mount and
We brought him near in close communication. (19:52)
• When Musa had fulfilled the appointed term and had set off with
his family, he noticed a fire from one side of the Mount. He said to
his family, ‘Stay here, I can see a fire. Hopefully I will bring you
back some news from it or a burning branch from the fire so that
you will be able to warm yourselves.’ (28:29)
• You were not on the western side (of the Mount) when We gave
Musa the command. You were not a witness. (28:44)
• Nor were you on the side of the Mount when We called, yet it is a
mercy from your Lord so that you can warn a people to whom no
warner came before, so that hopefully they will pay heed. (28:46)
• By the fig and the olive and Mount Sinai and this safe land, We
created man in the finest mould. (95:1-4)
MOUNTAIN
• When Ibrahim said, ‘My Lord, show me how You bring the dead
to life.’ He asked, ‘Do you not then believe?’ He replied, ‘Indeed I
do! But so that my heart may be at peace.’ He said, ‘Take four
birds and train them to yourself. Then put a part of them on each
mountain and call to them; they will come rushing to you. Know
that Allah is Almighty, All-Wise.’ (2:260)
• When Musa came to Our appointed time and his Lord spoke to
him, he said, ‘My Lord, show me Yourself so that I may look at
You!’ He said, ‘You will not see Me, but look at the mountain. If it
remains firm in its place, then you will see Me.’ But when His Lord
manifested Himself to the mountain, He crushed it flat and Musa
fell unconscious to the ground. When he regained consciousness
he said, ‘Glory be to You! I repent to You and I am the first of the
believers!’ (7:143)
• They concocted their plots, but their plots were with Allah, even if
they were such as to make the mountains vanish. (14:46)
• They carved out houses from the mountains, feeling safe. (15:82)
• Allah has made shaded places for you in what He has created
and He has made shelters for you in the mountains and He has
made shirts for you to protect you from the heat and shirts to
protect you from each other’s violence. In that way He perfects
His blessing on you so that hopefully you will become Muslims.
(16:81)
• Do not strut arrogantly about the earth. You will certainly never
split the earth apart nor will you ever rival the mountains in height.
(17:37)
• On the Day We make the mountains move and you see the earth
laid bare and We gather them together, not leaving out a single
one of them. (18:47)
• The heavens are all but rent apart and the earth split open and
the mountains brought crashing down. (19:90)
• They will ask you about the mountains. Say: ‘My Lord will scatter
them as dust.’ (20:105)
• And We made the son of Maryam and his mother a Sign and
gave them shelter on a mountainside where there was a meadow
and a flowing spring. (23:50)
• Do you not see that Allah propels the clouds then makes them
coalesce then heaps them up, and then you see the rain come
pouring out of the middle of them? And He sends down
mountains from the sky with hail inside them, striking with it
anyone He wills and averting it from anyone He wills. The
brightness of His lightning almost blinds the sight. (24:43)
• You will see the mountains you reckoned to be solid going past
like clouds–the handiwork of Allah Who gives to everything its
solidity. He is aware of what you do. (27:88)
• We offered the Trust to the heavens, the earth and the mountains
but they refused to take it on and shrank from it. But man took it
on. He is indeed wrongdoing and ignorant. (33:72)
• Do you not see that Allah sends down water from the sky and by
it We bring forth fruits of varying colours? And in the mountains
there are streaks of white and red, of varying shades, and rocks
of deep jet black. (35:27)
• We subjected the mountains to glorify with him in the evening and
at sunrise. (38:18)
• Among His Signs are the tall ships sailing like mountains through
the sea. (42:32)
• And the earth: how We stretched it out and cast firmly embedded
mountains onto it and caused luxuriant plants of every kind to
grow in it. (50:7)
• On the Day when heaven sways to and fro and the mountains
shift about. (52:9-10)
• His, too, are the ships sailing like mountain peaks on the sea.
(55:24)
• So when the Trumpet is blown with a single blast, and the earth
and the mountains are lifted and crushed with a single blow.
(69:13-14)
• On the Day the sky is like molten brass and the mountains like
tufts of coloured wool. (70:8-9)
• On the Day the earth and mountains shake and the mountains
become like shifting dunes. (73:14)
• Have We not made the earth a flat carpet and the mountains its
pegs? (78:6-7)
• The Day the Trumpet is blown and you come in droves, and
heaven is opened and becomes doorways, and the mountains
are shifted and become a mirage. (78:18-20)
• It is the Day when mankind will be like scattered moths and the
mountains like tufts of coloured wool. (101:4-5)
• We have sent you with the Truth (the Qur'an), bringing good news
and giving warning. Do not ask about the inhabitants of the
Blazing Fire. (2:119)
• Those are Allah’s Signs which We recite to you with truth. You
are indeed one of the Messengers. (2:252)
• We have sent down the Book to you with the truth so that you can
judge between people according to what Allah has shown to you.
But do not be an advocate for the treacherous. (4:105)
• Messenger! Transmit what has been sent down to you from your
Lord. If you do not do it you will not have transmitted His
Message. Allah will protect you from people. Allah does not guide
the people of the disbelievers. (5:67)
• Say: ‘Mankind! I am the Messenger of Allah to you all, of Him to
Whom the kingdom of the heavens and earth belongs. There is
no god but Him. He gives life and causes to die.’ So believe in
Allah and His Messenger, the Ummi, who believes in Allah and
His words, and follow him so that hopefully you will be guided.
(7:158)
• Those who disbelieve say, ‘If only a Sign could be sent down to
him from his Lord!’ You are only a warner and to every people a
guide. (13:7)
• Your Lord knows you best. If He wills, He will have mercy on you,
and, if He wills, He will punish you. We did not send you to be
their guardian. (17:54)
• We sent you only to bring good news and to give warning. (25:56)
• (Say:) ‘I have simply been ordered to worship the Lord of this land
which He has declared sacred–everything belongs to Him–and I
have been ordered to be one of the Muslims and to recite the
Qur’an.’ Whoever is guided is only guided to his own good; if
someone is misguided just say, ‘I am only a warner.’ (27:91-92)
• We only sent you for the whole of mankind, bringing good news
and giving warning. But most of mankind do not know it. (34:28)
• We have sent you with the truth bringing good news and giving
warning. There is no community to which a warner has not come.
(35:24)
• We did not teach him poetry nor would it be right for him. It is
simply a reminder and a clear Qur’an. (36:69)
MULE
• And horses, mules and donkeys both to ride and for adornment.
And He creates other things you do not know. (16:8)
• And when We allotted to Musa forty nights. Then you adopted the
Calf when he had gone and you were wrongdoers. (2:51)
• And when Musa said to his people, ‘My people, You wronged
yourselves by adopting the Calf so turn towards your Maker and
kill yourselves. That is the best thing for you in your Maker’s
sight.’ And He turned towards you. He is the Ever-Returning, the
Most Merciful. (2:54)
• And when you said, ‘Musa, we will not believe in you until we see
Allah with our own eyes.’ So the thunder-bolt struck you dead
while you were looking. (2:55)
• And We shaded you with clouds and sent down manna and
quails to you: ‘Eat of the good things We have provided for you.’
They did not wrong Us; rather it was themselves they were
wronging. (2:57)
• Remember when We said, ‘Go into this town and eat from it
wherever you like, freely. Enter the gate prostrating and say,
"Relieve us of our burdens!" Your mistakes will be forgiven. We
will grant increase to all good-doers.’ (2:58)
• But those who did wrong substituted words other than those they
had been given. So We sent down a plague from heaven on
those who did wrong because they were deviators. (2:59)
• And when Musa was looking for water for his people, We said,
‘Strike the rock with your staff.’ Then twelve fountains gushed out
from it and all the people knew their drinking place. ‘Eat and drink
of Allah's provision and do not go about the earth corrupting it.’
(2:60)
• And when you said, ‘Musa, we will not put up with just one kind of
food so ask your Lord to supply to us some of what the earth
produces–its green vegetables, cucumbers, grains, lentils and
onions,’ he said, ‘Do you want to replace what is better with what
is inferior? Go back to Egypt, then you will have what you are
asking for.’ Abasement and destitution were stamped upon them.
They brought down anger from Allah upon themselves. That was
because they rejected Allah’s Signs and killed the Prophets
without any right to do so. That was because they rebelled and
went beyond the limits. (2:61)
• Remember when We made the covenant with you and lifted up
the Mount above your heads: ‘Take hold vigorously of what We
have given you and pay heed to what is in it, so that hopefully you
will guard against evil.’ (2:63)
• Then after that you turned away, and were it not for Allah's favour
to you and His mercy, you would have been among the lost. (2:64)
• Say, ‘We believe in Allah and what has been sent down to us and
what was sent down to Ibrahim and Isma‘il and Ishaq and Ya‘qub
and the Tribes, and what Musa and ‘Isa were given, and what all
the Prophets were given by their Lord. We do not differentiate
between any of them. We are Muslims submitted to Him.’ (2:136)
• What do you think about the council of the tribe of Israel after
Musa’s time when they said to one of their Prophets, ‘Give us a
king and we will fight in the Way of Allah!’? He said, ‘Is it not
possible that if fighting were prescribed for you, you would not
fight?’ They said, ‘How could we not fight in the way of Allah when
we have been driven from our homes and children?’ But then
when fighting was prescribed for them, they turned their backs–
except for a few of them. Allah knows the wrongdoers. (2:246)
• The People of the Book will ask you to bring down a Book from
heaven to them. They asked Musa for even more than that. They
said, ‘Let us see Allah with our own eyes.’ So the lightning-bolt
struck them down for their wrongdoing. Then they adopted the
Calf after the Clear Signs had come to them, but We pardoned
them for that and gave Musa clear authority. (4:153)
• They said, ‘There are tyrants in it, Musa. We will not enter it until
they leave. If they leave it, then we will go in.’ (5:22)
• Two men among those who were afraid, but whom Allah had
blessed, said, ‘Enter the gate against them! Once you have
entered it, you will be victorious. Put your trust in Allah if you are
believers.’ (5:23)
• They said, ‘We will never enter it, Musa, as long as they are there.
So you and your Lord go and fight. We will stay sitting here.’ (5:24)
• He said, ‘The land will be forbidden to them for forty years during
which they will wander aimlessly about the earth. Do not waste
grief on this deviant people.’ (5:26)
• They do not measure Allah with His true measure when they say,
‘Allah would not send down anything to a mere human being.’
Say: ‘Who, then, sent down the Book which Musa brought as a
Light and Guidance for the people?’ You put it down on sheets of
paper to display it while concealing much. You were taught things
you did not know, neither you nor your forefathers. Say: ‘Allah!’
Then leave them engrossed in playing their games. (6:91)
• Then We gave Musa the Book, complete and perfect for him who
does good, elucidating everything, and a guidance and a mercy,
so that hopefully they will believe in their encounter with their Lord.
(6:154)
• And then, after them, We sent Musa with Our Signs to Pharaoh
and his ruling circle but they wrongfully rejected them. See the
final fate of the corrupters! (7:103)
• He (Pharaoh) said, ‘If you have come with a Clear Sign produce it
if you are telling the truth.’ (7:106)
• They said, ‘Detain him and his brother and send out marshals to
the cities, to bring you all the skilled magicians.’ (7:111-112)
• He said, ‘Yes, and you will be among those brought near.’ (7:114)
• They said, ‘Musa, will you throw first or shall we be the ones to
throw?’ (7:115)
• He (Musa) said, ‘You throw.’ And when they threw, they cast a
spell on the people's eyes and caused them to feel great fear of
them. They produced an extremely powerful magic. (7:116)
• We revealed to Musa, ‘Throw down your staff.’ And it immediately
swallowed up what they had forged. (7:117)
• So the Truth took place and what they did was shown to be false.
(7:118)
• They said, ‘We believe in the Lord of all the worlds, the Lord of
Musa and Harun.’ (7:121-122)
• They said, ‘We are returning to our Lord. You are only avenging
yourself on us because we believed in our Lord’s Signs when
they came to us. Our Lord, pour down steadfastness upon us and
take us back to You as Muslims.’ (7:125-126)
• The ruling circle of Pharaoh’s people said, ‘Are you going to leave
Musa and his people to cause corruption in the earth and
abandon you and your gods?’ He said, ‘We will kill their sons and
let their women live. We have absolute power over them!’ (7:127)
• They said, ‘We suffered harm before you came to us and after
you came to us.’ He said, ‘It may well be that your Lord is going to
destroy your enemy and make you the successors in the land so
that He can see how you behave.’ (7:129)
• We seized Pharaoh’s people with years of drought and scarcity of
fruits so that hopefully they would pay heed. (7:130)
• Whenever a good thing came to them, they said, ‘This is our due.’
But if anything bad happened to them, they would blame their ill
fortune on Musa and those with him. No indeed! The ill fortune is
theirs in Allah's sight. But most of them did not know. (7:131)
• They said, ‘No matter what kind of Sign you bring us to bewitch
us, we will not believe in you.’ (7:132)
• Whenever the plague came down on them they said, ‘Musa, pray
to your Lord for us by the contract He has with you. If you remove
the plague from us, we will definitely believe in you and send the
tribe of Israel away with you.’ (7:134)
• We conveyed the tribe of Israel across the sea and they came
upon some people who were devoting themselves to some idols
which they had. They said, ‘Musa, give us a god just as these
people have gods.’ He said, ‘You are indeed an ignorant people.
What these people are doing is destined for destruction. What
they are doing is purposeless.’ (7:138-139)
• He said, ‘Should I seek something other than Allah as a god for
you when He has favoured you over all other beings?’ (7:140)
• We set aside thirty nights for Musa and then completed them with
ten, so the appointed time of his Lord was forty nights in all. Musa
said to his brother Harun, ‘Take my place among my people.
Keep order and do not follow the way of the corrupters.’ (7:142)
• When Musa came to Our appointed time and his Lord spoke to
him, he said, ‘My Lord, show me Yourself so that I may look at
You!’ He said, ‘You will not see Me, but look at the mountain. If it
remains firm in its place, then you will see Me.’ But when His Lord
manifested Himself to the mountain, He crushed it flat and Musa
fell unconscious to the ground. When he regained consciousness
he said, ‘Glory be to You! I repent to You and I am the first of the
believers!’ (7:143)
• When they took full stock of what they had done and saw they
had been misled, they said, ‘If our Lord does not have mercy on
us and forgive us, we will certainly be among the lost.’ (7:149)
• When Musa returned to his people in anger and great sorrow, he
said, ‘What an evil thing you did in my absence after I left! Did
you want to hasten your Lord’s command?’ He threw down the
Tablets and seized hold of his brother’s head, dragging him
towards him. Harun said, ‘Son of my mother, The people
oppressed me and almost killed me. Do not give my enemies
cause to gloat over me. Do not include me with the wrongdoing
people.’ (7:150)
• As for those who adopted the Calf, anger from their Lord will
overtake them together with abasement in the life of this world.
That is how We repay the purveyors of falsehood. (7:152)
• Musa chose seventy men from his people for Our appointed time
and when the earthquake seized them he said, ‘My Lord, if You
had willed, You could have destroyed them previously and me as
well. Would you destroy us for what the fools among us did? It
was only a trial from You by which You misguided those You
willed and guided those You willed. You are our Protector so
forgive us and have mercy on us. You are the Best of Forgivers.
Prescribe good for us in this world and the hereafter. We have
truly turned to You.’ He said, ‘As for My punishment, I strike with it
anyone I will. My mercy extends to all things but I will prescribe it
for those who guard against evil and give the alms, and those
who believe in Our Signs: those who follow the Messenger, the
Ummi, whom they find written down with them in the Torah and
the Gospel, commanding them to do right and forbidding them to
do wrong, making good things lawful for them and bad things
forbidden for them, relieving them of their heavy loads and the
chains which were around them. Those who believe in him and
honour him and help him, and follow the Light that has been sent
down with him, they are the ones who are successful.’ (7:155-157)
• When they were told: ‘Live in this town and eat of it wherever you
like and say, "Relieve us of our burdens!" and enter the gate
prostrating. Your mistakes will be forgiven you. We will grant
increase to good-doers.’ (7:161)
• But those of them who did wrong substituted words other than
those they had been given. So We sent a plague on them from
heaven for their wrongdoing. (7:162)
• Then after them We sent Musa and Harun with Our Signs to
Pharaoh and his ruling circle, but they were arrogant and were a
people of evildoers. (10:75)
• When the truth came to them from Us, they said, ‘This is
downright magic!’ (10:76)
• Musa said, ‘Do you say to the truth when it comes to you, "This is
magic"? Magicians are not successful.’ (10:77)
• When they had thrown, Musa said, ‘What you have brought is
magic. Allah will certainly prove it false. Allah does not uphold the
actions of corrupters.’ (10:81)
• Allah confirms the Truth by His words, even though the evildoers
hate it. (10:82)
• No one believed in Musa except for a few of his people out of fear
that Pharaoh, and the elders, would persecute them. Pharaoh
was high and mighty in the land. He was one of the profligate.
(10:83)
• Musa said, ‘My people! If you believe in Allah, then put your trust
in Him, if you are Muslims.’ (10:84)
• They said, ‘We have put our trust in Allah. Our Lord, Do not make
us a target for this wrongdoing people, and rescue us, by Your
mercy, from this disbelieving people!’ (10:85-86)
• Musa said, ‘Our Lord, You have given Pharaoh and his ruling
circle finery and wealth in the life of this world, Our Lord, so that
they may be misguided from Your Way. Our Lord, obliterate their
wealth and harden their hearts so that they do not believe until
they see the painful punishment.’ (10:88)
• He said, ‘Your request is answered, so go straight and do not
follow the way of those who have no knowledge.’ (10:89)
• We brought the tribe of Israel across the sea and Pharaoh and
his troops pursued them out of tyranny and enmity. Then, when
he was on the point of drowning, he said, ‘I believe that there is
no god but Him in Whom the tribe of Israel believe. I am one of
the Muslims.’ (10:90)
• ‘What, now! When previously you rebelled and were one of the
corrupters? Today We will preserve your body so you can be a
Sign for people who come after you. Surely many people are
heedless of Our Signs.’ (10:91-92)
• We settled the tribe of Israel in a noble place and gave them good
things as provision. They did not differ until knowledge came to
them. Your Lord will decide between them on the Day of Rising
regarding the things about which they differed. (10:93)
• We sent Musa with Our Signs: ‘Bring your people from the
darkness to the light and remind them of the Days of Allah.’ There
are certainly Signs in that for everyone who is steadfast, thankful.
(14:5)
• We gave Musa the Book and made it guidance for the tribe of
Israel: ‘Do not take anyone besides Me as a guardian.’ (17:2)
• We gave Musa nine Clear Signs. Ask the tribe of Israel about
when he came to them and Pharaoh said to him, ‘Musa, I think
you are bewitched.’ (17:101)
• He said, ‘You know that no one sent these down but the Lord of
the heavens and earth to be clear proofs. Pharaoh, I think you are
destroyed.’ (17:102)
• He wanted to scare them from the land but We drowned him and
every one of those with him. (17:103)
• We said to the tribe of Israel after that, ‘Inhabit the land and,
when the promise of the hereafter comes, We will produce you as
a motley crowd.’ (17:104)
• Remember when Musa said to his servant, ‘I will not give up until
I reach the meeting-place of the two seas, even if I must press on
for many years.’ (18:60)
• But when they reached their meeting-place, they forgot their fish
which quickly burrowed its way into the sea. (18:61)
• When they had gone a distance further on, he said to his servant,
‘Bring us our morning meal. Truly this journey of ours has made
us tired.’ (18:62)
• He said, ‘Do you see what has happened? When we went to find
shelter at the rock, I forgot the fish. No one made me forget to
remember it except Satan. It found its way into the sea in an
amazing way.’ (18:63)
• He said, ‘That is the very thing that we were looking for!’ So,
following their footsteps, they retraced their route. (18:64)
• They found a servant of Ours whom We had granted mercy from
Us and whom We had also given knowledge direct from Us.
(18:65)
• Musa said to him, ‘May I follow you on condition that you teach
me some of the right guidance you have been taught?’ (18:66)
• He said, ‘You will not be able to bear with me. How indeed could
you bear with patience something you have not encompassed in
your knowledge?’ (18:67-68)
• Musa said, ‘You will find me patient, if Allah wills, and I will not
disobey you in any matter.’ (18:69)
• He said, ‘Did I not say that you would not be able to bear with
me?’ (18:72)
• He said, ‘Did I not tell you that you would not be able to bear with
me?’ (18:75)
• Musa said, ‘If I ask you about anything after this, then you should
no longer keep me company. I will have given you excuse
enough.’ (18:76)
• So they went on until they reached the inhabitants of a town.
They asked them for food but they refused them hospitality. They
found there a wall about to fall down and he built it up. Musa said,
‘If you had wanted, you could have taken a wage for doing that.’
(18:77)
• He said, ‘This is where you and I part company. I will let you know
the explanation of those things about which you were not able to
restrain yourself. As for the boat, it belonged to some poor people
who worked on the sea. I wanted to damage it because a king
was coming behind them, commandeering every boat. As for the
boy, his parents were believers and we feared that he would
darken their days with excessive insolence and disbelief. We
wanted their Lord to give them in exchange a purer son than him,
one more compassionate. As for the wall, it belonged to two
young orphans in the town and there was a treasure underneath
it, belonging to them. Their father was one of the righteous and
your Lord wanted them to come of age and then to unearth their
treasure as a mercy from Him. I did not do it of my own volition.
That is the explanation of the things about which you were not
able to restrain yourself.’ (18:78-82)
• When he saw a fire and said to his family, ‘Wait here. I can make
out a fire. Maybe I will bring you a brand from it, or will find
guidance there.’ (20:10)
• He said, ‘Our Lord is He Who gives each thing its created form
and then guides it.’ (20:50)
• Eat and pasture your cattle. Certainly there are Signs in that for
people of sound intellect. (20:54)
• He (Musa) said, ‘Your time is the day of the Festival. The people
should gather in the morning.’ (20:59)
• So Pharaoh went away and concocted his scheme and then he
arrived. (20:60)
• They said, ‘Musa, will you throw or shall we be the first to throw?’
(20:65)
• He (Musa) said, ‘No, you throw!’ And suddenly their ropes and
staffs appeared to him, by their magic, to be slithering about.
(20:66)
• We said, ‘Have no fear. You will have the upper hand. Throw
down what is in your right hand. It will swallow up their handiwork.
Their handiwork is just a magician’s trick. Magicians do not
prosper wherever they go.’ (20:68-69)
• They said, ‘We will never prefer you to the Clear Signs which
have come to us nor to Him Who brought us into being. Decide
on any judgment you like. Your jurisdiction only covers the life of
this world. We have believed in our Lord so that He may forgive
us for our mistakes and for the magic which you forced us to
perform. Allah is better and longer lasting.’ (20:72-73)
• As for those who come to their Lord as evildoers, they will have
Hell where they will neither die nor stay alive. (20:74)
• But as for those who come to Him as believers, having done right
actions, they will have the highest ranks: Gardens of Eden with
rivers flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever.
That is the reward of those who purify themselves. (20:75-76)
• Pharaoh pursued them with his troops and the sea overwhelmed
them utterly. (20:78)
• Eat of the good things We have provided for you but do not go to
excess in it or My anger will be unleashed on you. Anyone who
has My anger unleashed on him has plunged to his ruin. (20:81)
• He said, ‘We tried your people after you left and the Samaritan
has misguided them.’ (20:85)
• Musa returned to his people in anger and great sorrow. He said,
‘My people, did not your Lord make you a handsome promise?
Did the fulfilment of the contract seem too long to you or did you
want to unleash your Lord’s anger upon yourselves, so you broke
your promise to me?’ (20:86)
• They said, ‘We did not break our promise to you of our own
volition. But we were weighed down with the heavy loads of the
people’s jewelry and we threw them in, for that is what the
Samaritan did.’ (20:87)
• Could they not see that it did not reply to them and that it
possessed no power to either harm or benefit them? (20:89)
• Harun had earlier said to them, ‘My people! It is just a trial for you.
Your Lord is the All-Merciful, so follow me and obey my
command!’ (20:90)
• They said, ‘We will not stop devoting ourselves to it until Musa
returns to us.’ (20:91)
• Then We sent Musa and his brother Harun with Our Signs and
clear authority to Pharaoh and his ruling circle. But they were
proud and were a haughty people. (23:45-46)
• We said, ‘Go to the people who have denied Our Signs,’ and We
annihilated them completely. (25:36)
• When your Lord called out to Musa: ‘Go to the wrongdoing people,
the people of Pharaoh. Will they not guard against evil?’ (26:10-
11)
• He said, ‘My Lord, I fear they will deny me and that my breast will
be constricted and that my tongue will not be free, so send Harun
as a Messenger as well. They hold a wrong action against me
and I fear that they may kill me.’ (26:12-14)
• He said, ‘By no means! Go, both of you, with Our Signs. We will
certainly be together with you, listening. Go to Pharaoh and say,
"We are the Messenger of the Lord of all the worlds to tell you to
send the tribe of Israel away with us."’ (26:15-17)
• He (Pharaoh) said, ‘Did we not bring you up among us as a child
and did you not spend many years of your life among us? Yet you
did the deed you did and were ungrateful.’ (26:18-19)
• He (Musa) said, ‘At the time I did it I was one of the misguided
and so I fled from you when I was in fear of you but my Lord gave
me right judgement and made me one of the Messengers. And
anyway you can only reproach me with this favour because you
made the tribe of Israel into slaves!’ (26:20-22)
• He said, ‘The Lord of the heavens and the earth and everything
between them if you knew for sure.’ (26:24)
• He (Musa) said, ‘Your Lord and the Lord of your forefathers, the
previous peoples.’ (26:26)
• He (Musa) said, ‘The Lord of the East and the West and
everything between them if you used your intellect.’ (26:28)
• He (Pharaoh) said, ‘If you take any god other than me, I will
certainly throw you into prison.’ (26:29)
• And he drew out his hand and there it was, pure white to those
who looked. (26:33)
• He (Pharaoh) said to the High Council round about him, ‘This
certainly is a skilled magician who desires by his magic to expel
you from your land, so what do you recommend?’ (26:34-35)
• They said, ‘Detain him and his brother and send out marshals to
the cities, to bring you all the skilled magicians.’ (26:36-37)
• The people were asked, ‘Are you all assembled so we can follow
the magicians if they are the winners?’ (26:39-40)
• He said, ‘Yes, and in that case you will be among those brought
near.’ (26:42)
• They threw down their ropes and staffs and said, ‘By the might of
Pharaoh we are the winners.’ (26:44)
• But Musa threw down his staff and at once it swallowed up what
they had fabricated. (26:45)
• They said, ‘We believe in the Lord of all the worlds, the Lord of
Musa and Harun.’ (26:47-48)
• Pharaoh sent marshals into the cities: ‘These people are a small
group and they are raging furiously against us and we constitute
a vigilant majority.’ (26:53-56)
• So they (Pharaoh and his troops) pursued them towards the east.
(26:60)
• And when the two hosts came into sight of one another, Musa’s
companions said, ‘We will surely be overtaken!’ (26:61)
• We rescued Musa and all those who were with him. (26:65)
• There is certainly a Sign in that yet most of them are not believers.
(26:67)
• When Musa said to his people, ‘I can make out a fire. I will bring
you news from it or at least a burning brand so that hopefully you
will be able to warm yourselves.’ (27:7)
• But when he reached it, a voice called out to him, ‘Blessed be
Him who is in the Fire and all who are around it. Glory be to Allah,
the Lord of all the worlds! Musa, I am Allah, the Almighty, the All-
Wise. Throw down your staff.’ Then when he saw it slithering like
a snake he turned and fled and did not turn back again. ‘Have no
fear, Musa. In My Presence the Messengers have no fear–except
for one who did wrong; and if he then changes evil into good, I
am Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. Put your hand inside your shirt
front. It will emerge pure white, yet quite unharmed–one of nine
Signs to Pharaoh and his people. They are a people of deviators.’
(27:8-12)
• When Our Signs came to them in all their clarity, they said, ‘This
is downright magic,’ and they repudiated them wrongly and
haughtily, in spite of their own certainty about them. See the final
fate of the corrupters. (27:13-14)
• We recite to you with truth some news of Musa and Pharaoh for
people who believe. (28:3)
• Musa’s mother felt a great emptiness in her heart and she almost
gave him away; only We fortified her heart so that she would be
one of the believers. (28:10)
• She said to his sister, ‘Go after him.’ And she kept an eye on him
from afar and they were not aware. (28:11)
• And when he reached his full strength and maturity, We gave him
judgement and knowledge. That is how We recompense good-
doers. (28:14)
• Morning found him in the city, fearful and on his guard. Then
suddenly the man who had sought his help the day before,
shouted for help from him again. Musa said to him, ‘You are
clearly a misguided man.’ (28:18)
• But when he was about to grab the man who was their common
enemy, he said, ‘Musa! Do you want to kill me just as you killed a
person yesterday? You only want to be a tyrant in the land; you
do not want to be a reformer.’ (28:19)
• A man came running from the furthest part of the city, saying,
‘Musa, the Council are conspiring to kill you, so leave! I am
someone who brings you good advice.’ (28:20)
• So he left there fearful and on his guard, saying, ‘My Lord, rescue
me from the people of the wrongdoers!’ (28:21)
• So he drew water for them and then withdrew into the shade and
said, ‘My Lord, I am truly in need of any good You have in store
for me.’ (28:24)
• One of them came walking shyly up to him and said, ‘My father
invites you so that he can pay you your wage for drawing water
for us.’ When he came to him and told him the whole story he
said, ‘Have no fear, you have escaped from wrongdoing people.’
(28:25)
• One of them said, ‘Hire him, father. The best person to hire is
someone strong and trustworthy.’ (28:26)
• When Musa had fulfilled the appointed term and had set off with
his family, he noticed a fire from one side of the Mount. He said to
his family, ‘Stay here, I can see a fire. Hopefully I will bring you
back some news from it or a burning branch from the fire so that
you will be able to warm yourselves.’ (28:29)
• But when he reached it a voice called out to him from the right
hand side of the valley in the part which was full of blessing, from
out of the bush: ‘Musa, I am Allah, the Lord of all the worlds.
Throw down your staff!’ Then when he saw it slithering like a
snake he turned and fled and did not turn back again. ‘Musa,
approach and have no fear! You are one of those who are secure.
Put your hand inside your shirt front. It will emerge pure white yet
quite unharmed. And hug your arms to your sides to still your fear.
These are two proofs from your Lord for Pharaoh and his ruling
circle. They are a deviant people.’ (28:30-32)
• He said, ‘My Lord, I killed one of them and I am afraid they will kill
me; and my brother Harun is more eloquent than me so send him
with me to support me and back me up. I am afraid they will call
me a liar.’ (28:33-34)
• He said, ‘We will reinforce you with your brother and by Our Signs
will give you both authority, so that they will not be able to lay a
hand on you. You and those who follow you will be the victors.’
(28:35)
• But when Musa brought them Our Clear Signs they said, ‘This is
nothing but trumped-up magic. We never heard anything like this
among our earlier forefathers.’ (28:36)
• Musa said, ‘My Lord knows best who has come with guidance
from Him and who will have the best Home in the end. The
wrongdoers will certainly not be successful.’ (28:37)
• Pharaoh said, ‘Council, I do not know of any other god for you
apart from Me. Haman, kindle a fire for me over the clay and build
me a lofty tower so that perhaps I may be able to climb up to
Musa’s god! I consider him a blatant liar.’ (28:38)
• He and his troops were arrogant in the land without any right.
They thought that they would not return to Us. (28:39)
• So We seized him and his troops and flung them into the sea.
See the final fate of the wrongdoers! (28:40)
• You were not on the western side when We gave Musa the
command. You were not a witness. (28:44)
• Nor were you on the side of the Mount when We called, yet it is a
mercy from your Lord so that you can warn a people to whom no
warner came before, so that hopefully they will pay heed. (28:46)
• Qarun was one of the people of Musa but he lorded it over them.
We gave him treasures, the keys alone to which were a heavy
weight for a party of strong men. When his people said to him,
‘Do not gloat. Allah does not love people who gloat.’ (28:76)
• And Qarun and Pharaoh and Haman–Musa came with the Clear
Signs to them, but they were arrogant on the earth. They could
not outstrip Us. (29:39)
• You who believe! Do not be like those who abused Musa. Allah
absolved him of what they said and he was highly honoured with
Allah. (33:69)
• They truly were among Our servants who are believers. (37:122)
• We sent Musa with Our Signs and clear authority to Pharaoh,
Haman and Qarun. But they said, ‘A lying magician.’ (40:23-24)
• When he brought them the truth from Us they said, ‘Slaughter the
sons of those who believe with him but let their women live.’ The
stratagems of the disbelievers are nothing but errors. (40:25)
• Pharaoh said, ‘Let me kill Musa and let him call upon his Lord! I
am afraid that he may change your religion and bring about
corruption in the land.’ (40:26)
• Musa said, ‘I seek refuge in my Lord and your Lord from every
proud man who does not believe in the Day of Reckoning.’ (40:27)
• A man among Pharaoh’s people who believed, but kept his faith
concealed, said, ‘Are you going to kill a man for saying "My Lord
is Allah" when he has brought you Clear Signs from your Lord? If
he is telling a lie, be it on his own head. But if he is telling the
truth, then some of what he is promising you will certainly happen
to you. Allah does not guide any unbridled inveterate liar. My
people! The kingdom is yours today, as masters in the land, but
who will help us against Allah’s violent force, if it comes upon us?’
Pharaoh said, ‘I only show you what I see myself and I only guide
you to the path of rectitude.’ (40:28-29)
• The man who believed said, ‘My people! I fear for you a day like
that of the Confederates, the same as happened to the people of
Nuh and ‘Ad and Thamud and those who followed after them.
Allah does not want any injustice for His servants. My people! I
fear for you the Day of Calling Out, the Day when you will turn
your backs in flight, having no one to protect you from Allah.
Whoever Allah misguides will have no guide. Yusuf brought you
the Clear Signs before, but you never stopped doubting what he
brought to you to the extent that when he died, you said, "Allah
will never send another Messenger after him." That is how Allah
misguides those who are unbridled and full of doubt.’ (40:30-34)
• Those who argue about the Signs of Allah without any authority
coming to them do something hateful in the sight of Allah and in
the sight of the people who believe. That is how Allah seals up
the heart of every arrogant oppressor. (40:35)
• The man who believed said, ‘My people! Follow me and I will
guide you to the path of rectitude. My people! The life of this
world is only fleeting enjoyment. It is the hereafter which is the
abode of permanence. Whoever does an evil act will only be
repaid with its equivalent. But whoever acts rightly, male or
female, being a believer, such a person will enter the Garden,
provided for in it without any reckoning. My people! How is it that I
call you to salvation while you call me to the Fire? You call me to
reject Allah and to associate something with Him about which I
have no knowledge, while I call you to the Almighty, the Endlessly
Forgiving. There is no question that what you call me to has no
foundation either in this world or the hereafter, that our return is to
Allah, and that the profligate will be Companions of the Fire. You
will remember what I say to you. I consign my affair completely to
Allah. Truly Allah sees His servants.’ (40:38-44)
• So Allah safeguarded him from the evil things they plotted and a
most evil torment engulfed Pharaoh’s people–the Fire, morning
and night, to which they are exposed; and on the Day the Hour
takes place: ‘Admit Pharaoh’s people to the harshest
punishment!’ (40:45-46)
• We gave Musa the Book but there was disagreement about it.
And had it not been for a prior Word from your Lord, the
judgement between them would already have been made. They
are indeed in grave doubt about it. (41:45)
• He has laid down the same religion for you as He enjoined on
Nuh: that which We have revealed to you and which We enjoined
on Ibrahim, Musa and ‘Isa: ‘Establish the religion and do not
make divisions in it.’ What you call the idolaters to follow is very
hard for them. Allah chooses for Himself anyone He wills and
guides to Himself those who turn to Him. (42:13)
• We sent Musa with Our Signs to Pharaoh and his nobles. He said,
‘I am the Messenger of the Lord of the worlds.’ But when he came
to them with Our Signs, they merely laughed at them. We showed
them no Sign which was not greater than the one before it. We
seized them with punishment so that hopefully they would turn
back. They said, ‘Magician, invoke your Lord for us by the
contract He has made with you and we shall certainly follow the
guidance.’ But when We removed the punishment from them,
they immediately broke their word. Pharaoh called to his people,
saying, ‘My people, does the kingdom of Egypt not belong to me?
Do not all these rivers flow under my control? Do you not then
see? Am I not better than this man who is contemptible and can
scarcely make anything clear? Why have gold bracelets not been
put upon his arms and why is there not a train of angels
accompanying him?’ In that way he swayed his people and they
succumbed to him. They were a people of deviators. Then when
they had provoked Our wrath, We took revenge on them and
drowned every one of them. We made them a thing of the past,
an example for later peoples. (43:46-56)
• But before it there was the Book of Musa as a model and a mercy.
And this is a corroborating Book in the Arabic tongue so that you
may warn those who do wrong, and as good news for the good-
doers. (46:12)
• They said, ‘Our people, we have heard a Book which was sent
down after Musa, confirming what came before it, guiding to the
truth and to a straight path.’ (46:30)
• Has the story of Musa reached you: when his Lord called out to
him in the holy valley of Tuwa? ‘Go to Pharaoh–he has
overstepped the limits–and say: "Do you resolve to purify yourself.
I will guide you to your Lord so that you may fear Him?"’ Then he
showed him the Great Sign. But he denied it and disobeyed, and
then he hastily backed away. But then he rallied and called out,
saying, ‘I am your Lord Most High!’ So Allah made an example of
him seizing him with punishment in this world and the hereafter.
There is certainly instruction in that for those who fear. (79:15-26)
• This is certainly in the earlier texts, the texts of Ibrahim and Musa.
(87:18-19)
MYTH
• When Our Signs are recited to them, they say, ‘We have already
heard all this. If we wanted, we could say the same thing. This is
nothing but the myths of previous peoples.’ (8:31)
• When they are asked, ‘What has your Lord sent down?’ they say,
‘Myths and legends of previous peoples.’ (16:24)
• They said, ‘Our Lord, put more distance between our staging
posts.’ They wronged themselves so We made legends of them
and scattered them without a trace. There are certainly Signs in
that for everyone who is steadfast and thankful. (34:19)
• When Our Signs are recited to him, he says, ‘Just myths and
legends of the previous peoples!’ (83:13)
NAKEDNESS
NAME
• He said, ‘Adam, tell them their names.’ When he had told them
their names, He said, ‘Did I not tell you that I know the Unseen of
the heavens and the earth, and I know what you make known and
what you hide?’ (2:33)
• When she gave birth, she said, ‘My Lord! I have given birth to a
girl’–and Allah knew very well what she had given birth to, male
and female are not the same–‘and I have named her Maryam and
placed her and her children in Your safekeeping from the
accursed Satan.’ (3:36)
• When the angels said, ‘Maryam, your Lord gives you good news
of a Word from Him. His name is the Messiah, ‘Isa, son of
Maryam, of high esteem in this world and the hereafter, and one
of those brought near.’ (3:45)
• mankind! Have fear of your Lord Who created you from a single
self and created its mate from it and then disseminated many
men and women from the two of them. Have fear of Allah in
whose name you make demands on one another and also in
respect of your families. Allah watches over you continually. (4:1)
• They will ask you what is lawful for them. Say: ‘All good things are
lawful for you, and also what is caught for you by hunting animals
which you have trained as Allah has taught you. Eat what they
catch for you, mentioning Allah’s name over it.’ And have fear of
Allah. Allah is swift at reckoning. (5:4)
• Eat that over which the name of Allah has been mentioned, if you
believe in His Signs. (6:118)
• What is the matter with you that you do not eat that over which
the name of Allah has been mentioned, when He has made clear
to you what He has made forbidden for you except when you are
forced to eat it? Many people lead others astray through their
whims and desires without having any knowledge. Your Lord
knows best those who overstep the limits. (6:119)
• Do not eat anything over which the name of Allah has not been
mentioned. To do so is sheer deviance. The Satans inspire their
friends to dispute with you. If you obeyed them you would then be
idolaters. (6:121)
• They say, ‘These animals and crops are sacrosanct. No one may
eat them except those we wish’,–as they allege–and animals on
whose backs it is forbidden to ride, and animals over which they
do not mention Allah’s name, inventing falsehood against Him.
He will repay them for the things they have invented. (6:138)
• What you serve apart from Him are only names which you and
your forefathers have made up There is no mandate for them
from Allah. Allah alone is qualified to judge. His order is to
worship none but Him. That is in truth the straight and upright
religion, but most of mankind simply do not know. (12:40)
• (His Lord said,) ‘Zakariyya! We give you the good news of a boy
named Yahya, a name we have given to no one else before.’
(19:7)
• Allah, there is no god but Him. The Most Beautiful Names are His.
(20:8)
• Those who were expelled from their homes without any right,
merely for saying, ‘Our Lord is Allah’ (if Allah had not driven some
people back by means of others, monasteries, churches,
synagogues and mosques, where Allah’s name is mentioned
much, would have been pulled down and destroyed. Allah will
certainly help those who help Him–Allah is All-Strong, Almighty).
(22:40)
• Strive for Allah with the striving due to Him. He has selected you
and not placed any constraint upon you in the religion–the religion
of your forefather Ibrahim. He named you Muslims before and
also in this, so that the Messenger could be witness against you
and you could be witnesses against all mankind. So perform
prayer and give the alms and hold fast to Allah. He is your
Protector–the Best Protector, the Best Helper. (22:78)
• You who believe! People should not ridicule others who may be
better than themselves; nor should any women ridicule other
women who may be better than themselves. And do not find fault
with one another or insult each other with derogatory nicknames.
How evil it is to have a name for evil conduct after coming to faith!
Those people who do not turn from it are wrongdoers. (49:11)
• They (the idols) are nothing but names which you yourselves
have given, you and your forefathers. Allah has sent down no
authority for them. They are following nothing but conjecture and
what their own selves desire. And that when guidance has
reached them from their Lord! (53:23)
• Those who do not believe in the hereafter give the angels female
names. (53:27)
NAMES OF ALLAH
• They say, ‘Allah has a son.’ Glory be to Him! No, everything in the
heavens and earth belongs to Him. Everything is obedient to Him,
the Originator of the heavens and earth. When He decides on
something, He just says to it, ‘Be!’ and it is. (2:116-117)
• If their faith is the same as yours then they are guided. But if they
turn away, they are entrenched in hostility. Allah will be enough
for you against them. He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
(2:137)
• Your God is One God. There is no god but Him, the All-Merciful,
the Most Merciful. (2:163)
• And among the people there are some who give up everything,
desiring the good pleasure of Allah. Allah is Ever-Gentle with His
servants. (2: 207)
• Allah bears witness that there is no god but Him, as do the angels
and the people of knowledge, upholding justice. There is no god
but Him, the Almighty, the All-Wise. (3:18)
• Allah chose Adam and Nuh and the family of Ibrahim and the
family of ‘Imran over all other beings–descendants one of the
other. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (3:33-34)
• If anyone desires the reward of this world, the reward of both this
world and hereafter is with Allah. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Seeing.
(4:134)
• (Isa said,) ‘If You punish them, they are Your servants. If you
forgive them, You are the Almighty, the All-Wise.’ (5:118)
• Your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six
days and then settled Himself firmly on the Throne. He covers the
day with the night, each pursuing the other urgently; and the sun
and moon and stars are subservient to His command. Both
creation and command belong to Him. Blessed be Allah, the Lord
of all the worlds. (7:54)
• Allah only did this to give you good news and that so your hearts
would be at rest. Victory comes from no one but Allah. Allah is
Almighty, All-Wise. (8:10)
• And (He turned) also towards the three who were left behind, so
that when the earth became narrow for them, for all its great
breadth, and their own selves became constricted for them and
they realised that there was no refuge from Allah except in Him,
He turned to them so that they might turn to Him. Allah is the
Ever-Returning, the Most Merciful. (9:118)
• That is Allah, your Lord, the Truth, and what is there after truth
except misguidance? So how have you been distracted? (10:32)
• Then when Our command came We rescued Salih and those who
believed along with him by a mercy from Us from the disgrace of
that day. Your Lord is the All-Strong, the Almighty. (11:66)
• He said, ‘No blame at all will fall on you. Today you have
forgiveness from Allah. He is the Most Merciful of the merciful.’
(12: 92)
• It is We Who give life and cause to die and We are the Inheritor.
(15: 23)
• Put your trust in the Living Who does not die and glorify Him with
praise. He is well aware of the wrong actions of His servants.
(25:58)
• That is the Knower of the Unseen and the Visible, the Almighty,
the Most Merciful. (32:6)
• And remember the Signs of Allah and the wise words which are
recited in your rooms. Allah is All-Pervading, All-Aware. (33:34)
• Say: ‘Our Lord will bring us all together and then will judge
between us with the truth. He is the Just Decider, the All-
Knowing.’ (34:26)
• Mankind! You are the poor in need of Allah whereas Allah is the
Rich Beyond Need, the Praiseworthy. (35:15)
• Allah keeps a firm hold on the heavens and earth, preventing
them from vanishing away. And if they vanished no one could
then keep hold of them. Certainly He is Most Forbearing, Ever-
Forgiving. (35:41)
• It is He Who sends down abundant rain, after they have lost all
hope, and unfolds His mercy. He is the Protector, the
Praiseworthy. (42:28)
• The legions of the heavens and the earth belong to Allah. Allah is
Almighty, All-Wise. (48:7)
• (Allah does not love) those who are tight-fisted and tell others to
be tight-fisted. If anyone turns away, Allah is the Rich Beyond
Need, the Praiseworthy. (57:24)
NASR
• They have hatched a mighty plot saying, "Do not abandon your
gods. Do not abandon Wadd or Suwa‘ or Yaghuth or Ya‘uq or
Nasr." (71:22-23)
NATION
• You are the best nation ever to be produced before mankind. You
enjoin the right, forbid the wrong and believe in Allah. If the
People of the Book were to believe, it would be better for them.
Some of them are believers but most of them are deviators.
(3:110)
• Do not curse those they call upon besides Allah, in case that
makes them curse Allah in animosity, without knowledge. In this
way We make the actions of every nation seem attractive to them.
Then they will return to their Lord, and He will inform them about
what they did. (6:108)
• Every nation has an appointed time. When their time comes, they
cannot delay it a single hour or bring it forward. (7:34)
• He will say, ‘Enter the Fire together with the nations of jinn and
men who have passed away before you.’ Each time a nation
enters, it will curse its sister nation, until, when they are all
gathered together in it, the last of them will say to the first, ‘Our
Lord, those are the ones who misguided us, so give them a
double punishment in the Fire.’ He will say, ‘Each will receive
double. But you do not know it.’ (7:38)
• It was said, ‘Nuh, descend with peace from Us and with blessings
on you and on the nations which will issue from those who are
with you. But there are nations to whom we will give enjoyment
and then a painful punishment from Us will afflict them.’ (11:48)
• In the same way We have sent you among a nation before which
other nations passed away, to recite to them what We have
revealed to you. Yet they still reject the All-Merciful. Say: ‘He is
my Lord; there is no god but Him. I put my trust in Him and I turn
to Him.’ (13:30)
• No nation can advance its appointed time nor can they delay it.
(15:5)
• No nation can advance its appointed time nor can they delay it.
(23:43)
• We will drag out a witness from each nation and will say,
‘Produce your evidence!’ They will know then that the truth is with
Allah and that what they invented has forsaken them. (28:75)
• And if you deny it, nations before you also denied the truth. The
Messenger is only responsible for clear transmission. (29:18)
• The people of Nuh denied the truth before them, and the
Confederates after them. Every nation planned to seize its
Messenger and used false arguments to rebut the truth. So I
seized them, and how was My retribution! (40:5)
• If Allah had willed, He would have made them a single nation. But
He admits whoever He wills into His mercy and the wrongdoers
have no protector and no helper. (42:8)
• You will see every nation on its knees, every nation summoned to
its Book: ‘Today you will be repaid for what you did.’ (45:28)
• Those are people of whom the statement about the nations, both
of jinn and men, who passed away before them, has also proved
true; truly they were the lost. (46:18)
• They say, ‘Be Jews or Christians and you will be guided.’ Say,
‘Rather adopt the religion of Ibrahim, a man of natural pure belief.
He was not one of the idolaters.’ (2:135)
• Turn your face towards the religion in pure natural faith, and on
no account be among the idolaters. (10:105)
• Or did you suppose that you would enter the Garden without
facing the same as those who came before you? Poverty and
illness afflicted them and they were shaken to the point that the
Messenger and those who believed with him said, ‘When is
Allah’s help coming?’ Be assured that Allah’s help is very near.
(2:214)
• We created man and We know what his own self whispers to him.
We are nearer to him than his jugular vein. (50:16)
• Why then, when death reaches his throat and you are at that
moment looking on–and We are nearer him than you but you
cannot see. (56:83-85)
• Do you not see that Allah knows what is in the heavens and on
the earth? Three men cannot confer together secretly without Him
being the fourth of them, or five without Him being the sixth of
them, or fewer than that or more without Him being with them
wherever they are. Then He will inform them on the Day of Rising
of what they did. Allah has knowledge of all things. (58:7)
NEIGHBOUR
NEWS
• Give the good news to those who believe and do right actions
that they will have Gardens with rivers flowing under them. When
they are given fruit there as provision, they will say, ‘This is what
we were given before.’ But they were only given a simulation of it.
They will have there spouses of perfect purity and will remain
there timelessly, for ever. (2:25)
• Say, ‘Anyone who is the enemy of Gabriel should know that it was
He Who brought it down upon your heart, by Allah’s authority,
confirming what came before, and as guidance and good news
for the believers.’ (2:97)
• We have sent you with the Truth, bringing good news and giving
warning. Do not ask about the inhabitants of the Blazing Fire.
(2:119)
• We will test you with a certain amount of fear and hunger and
loss of wealth and life and fruits. But give good news to the
steadfast. (2:155)
• Your women are fertile fields for you, so come to your fertile fields
however you like. Send good ahead for yourselves and have fear
of Allah. Know that you are going to meet Him. And give good
news to the believers. (2:223)
• As for those who reject Allah’s Signs, and kill the Prophets
without any right to do so, and kill those who command justice,
give them news of a painful punishment. (3:21)
• This is news from the Unseen which We reveal to you. You were
not with them when they cast their reeds to see which of them
would be the guardian of Maryam. You were not with them when
they quarrelled. (3:44)
• When the angels said, ‘Maryam, your Lord gives you good news
of a Word from Him. His name is the Messiah, ‘Isa, son of
Maryam, of high esteem in this world and the hereafter, and one
of those brought near. (3:45)
• Allah only did this for it to be good news for you and so that your
hearts might be set at rest by it (help comes from no one but
Allah, the Almighty, the All-Wise). (3:126)
• They deny the truth each time it comes to them but news of what
they were mocking will certainly reach them. (6:5)
• Messengers before you were also denied but they were steadfast
in the face of the denial and injury they suffered until Our help
arrived. There is no changing the Words of Allah. And news of
other Messengers has come to you. (6:34)
• Allah only did this to give you good news and that so your hearts
would be at rest. Victory comes from no one but Allah. Allah is
Almighty, All-Wise. (8:10)
• A proclamation from Allah and His Messenger to mankind on the
day of the greater pilgrimage: ‘Allah is free of the idolaters, as is
His Messenger. If you repent, it will be better for you. But if you
turn your backs, know that you cannot thwart Allah.’ Give those
who disbelieve the news of a painful punishment. (9:3)
• Their Lord gives them the good news of His mercy and good
pleasure and Gardens where they will enjoy everlasting delight.
(9:21)
• You who believe! Many of the rabbis and monks devour people’s
property under false pretences and bar people from access to the
Way of Allah. As for those who hoard up gold and silver and do
not spend it in the Way of Allah, give them the news of a painful
punishment. (9:34)
• Has the news of those who came before them not reached them,
the people of Nuh and ‘Ad and Thamud, and the people of
Ibrahim and the inhabitants of Madyan and the overturned cities?
Their Messengers brought them the Clear Signs. Allah did not
wrong them; rather they wronged themselves. (9:70)
• Those who repent, those who worship, those who praise, those
who fast, those who bow, those who prostrate, those who
command the right, those who forbid the wrong, those who
preserve the limits of Allah: give good news to the believers.
(9:112)
• There is good news for them (the believers) in the life of this
world and in the hereafter. There is no changing the words of
Allah. That is the great victory! (10:64)
• His wife was standing there and she laughed out loud. So We
gave her the good news of Ishaq, and beyond Ishaq, Ya‘qub.
(11:71)
• When the feeling of fear left Ibrahim, and the good news reached
him, he disputed with Us about the people of Lut. (11:74)
• Some travellers came that way and then dispatched their water-
drawer who let his bucket down. He said, ‘Good news for me, I’ve
found a boy!’ They then hid him (Yusuf) away among their goods.
Allah knew very well what they were doing. (12:19)
• (Yusuf's father said,) ‘My sons! Seek news of Yusuf and his
brother. Do not despair of solace from Allah. No one despairs of
solace from Allah except for people who are disbelievers.’ (12:87)
• But when the bringer of the good news came, he cast it (Yusuf's
shirt) on his face and sight returned. He (Yusuf's father) said, ‘Did
I not say to you before, I know things from Allah you do not
know?’ (12:96)
• This is news of the Unseen which We reveal to you. You were not
with them when they decided what to do and devised their
scheme. (12:102)
• Has news not reached you of those who came before you, the
peoples of Nuh and ‘Ad and Thamud, and those who came after
them who are known to no one but Allah? Their Messengers
came to them with Clear Signs, but they put their hands to their
mouths, saying, ‘We reject what you have been sent with. We
have grave doubts about what you are calling us to.’ (14:9)
• They said, ‘Do not be afraid. We bring you the good news of a
boy of great knowledge.’ (15:53)
• He (Ibrahim) said, ‘Do you bring me this good news despite the
fact of old age having reached me? What kind of good news are
you bringing me?’ (15:54)
• They said, ‘We bring you good news of the truth, so do not be
among those who despair.’ (15:55)
• When one of them is given the good news of a baby girl, his face
darkens and he is furious. (16:58)
• He hides away from people because of the evil of the good news
he has been given. Should he keep her ignominiously or bury her
in the earth? What an evil judgement they make! (16:59)
• This Qur’an guides to the most upright Way and gives good news
to the believers who do right actions that they will have a large
reward. (17:9)
• We have sent it down with truth and with truth it has come down.
We only sent you to bring good news and to give warning.
(17:105)
• (His Lord said,) ‘Zakariyya! We give you the good news of a boy
named Yahya, a name we have given to no one else before.’
(19:7)
• We have made it easy on your tongue so that you can give good
news to those who guard against evil and warn stubbornly hostile
people by it. (19:97)
• In this way We give you news of what has gone before and We
have given you a reminder direct from Us. (20:99)
• Their flesh and blood does not reach Allah but your heedfulness
does reach Him. In this way He has subjected them to you so that
you might proclaim Allah’s greatness for the way that He has
guided you. Give good news to the good-doers. (22:37)
• On the Day they see the angels, there will be no good news that
Day for the evildoers. They will say, ‘There is an absolute ban.’
(25:22)
• We sent you only to bring good news and to give warning. (25:56)
• They have denied the truth, but the news of what they mocked
will certainly come to them. (26:6)
• It (the Qur’an) is guidance and good news for the believers. (27:2)
• When Musa said to his people, ‘I can make out a fire. I will bring
you news from it or at least a burning brand so that hopefully you
will be able to warm yourselves.’ (27:7)
• He Who guides you in the darkness of land and sea and sends
out the winds bringing advance news of His mercy. Is there
another god besides Allah? May Allah be exalted above what
they associate with Him! (27:63)
• We recite to you with truth some news of Musa and Pharaoh for
people who believe. (28:3)
• When Musa had fulfilled the appointed term and had set off with
his family, he noticed a fire from one side of the Mount. He said to
his family, ‘Stay here, I can see a fire. Hopefully I will bring you
back some news from it or a burning branch from the fire so that
you will be able to warm yourselves.’ (28:29)
• Among His Signs is that He sends the winds bearing good news,
to give you a taste of His mercy, and to make the ships run by His
command, and to enable you to seek His bounty so that hopefully
you will be thankful. (30:46)
• They think that the Confederates have not departed and if the
Confederates did appear then they would wish they were out in
the desert with the Arabs, asking for news of you. If they were
with you they would only fight a very little. (33:20)
• Give good news to the believers that they will receive immense
favour from Allah. (33:47)
• We only sent you for the whole of mankind, bringing good news
and giving warning. But most of mankind do not know it. (34:28)
• We have sent you with the truth bringing good news and giving
warning. There is no community to which a warner has not come.
(35:24)
• You can only warn those who act on the Reminder and fear the
All-Merciful in the Unseen. Give them the good news of
forgiveness and a generous reward. (36:11)
• Those who shun the worship of false gods and turn towards Allah
will have good news. So give good news to My servants. (39:17)
• That is the good news which Allah gives to His servants who
believe and do right actions. Say: ‘I do not ask you for any wage
for this–except for you to love your near of kin. If anyone does a
good action, We will increase the good of it for him. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Ever-Thankful.’ (42:23)
• When any of them is given the good news of the very thing which
he himself has ascribed to the All-Merciful his face darkens and
he is furious. (43:17)
• Woe to every wicked liar who hears the Signs of Allah recited to
him and then persists in his arrogance just as if he had never
heard them. Give him the news of a painful punishment. (45:7-8)
• But before it there was the Book of Musa as a model and a mercy.
And this is a corroborating Book in the Arabic tongue so that you
may warn those who do wrong, and as good news for the good-
doers. (46:12)
• We will test you until We know the true fighters among you and
those who are steadfast and test what is reported of you. (47:31)
• On the Day you see the men and women of the believers, with
their light streaming out in front of them, and to their right: ‘Good
news for you today of Gardens with rivers flowing under them,
remaining in them timelessly, for ever. That is the Great Victory.’
(57:12)
• And other things you love: support from Allah and imminent
victory. Give good news to the believers! (61:13)
• Has the news not reached you of those who disbelieved before
and tasted the evil consequences of what they did? They will
have a painful punishment. (64:5)
• About what are they asking one another? About the momentous
news: the thing about which they differ. (78:1-3)
• On that Day it (the earth) will impart all its news. (99:4)
NICHE
• Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The metaphor of
His Light is that of a niche in which is a lamp, the lamp inside a
glass, the glass like a brilliant star, lit from a blessed tree, an olive,
neither of the east nor of the west, its oil all but giving off light
even if no fire touches it. Light upon Light. Allah guides to His
Light whoever He wills and Allah makes metaphors for mankind
and Allah has knowledge of all things. (24:35)
NICKNAME
• You who believe! People should not ridicule others who may be
better than themselves; nor should any women ridicule other
women who may be better than themselves. And do not find fault
with one another or insult each other with derogatory nicknames.
How evil it is to have a name for evil conduct after coming to faith!
Those people who do not turn from it are wrongdoers. (49:11)
NIGHT
• And when We allotted to Musa forty nights. Then you adopted the
Calf when he had gone and you were wrongdoers. (2:51)
• On the night of the fast it is lawful for you to have sexual relations
with your wives. They are clothing for you and you for them. Allah
knows that you have been betraying yourselves and He has
turned towards you and excused you. Now you may have sexual
intercourse with them and seek what Allah has written for you.
Eat and drink until you can clearly discern the white thread from
the black thread of the dawn, then fulfil the fast until the night
appears. But do not have sexual intercourse with them while you
are in retreat in the mosques. These are Allah’s limits, so do not
go near them. In this way does Allah make His Signs clear to
people so that hopefully they will guard against evil. (2:187)
• Those of you who die leaving wives behind: they should wait by
themselves for four months and ten nights. When their waiting
period comes to an end, you are not to blame for anything they
do with themselves with correctness and courtesy. Allah is aware
of what you do. (2:234)
• Those who give away their wealth by night and day, secretly and
openly, will have their reward with their Lord. They will feel no
fear and will know no sorrow. (2:274)
• (Say, ‘O Allah!) You merge the night into the day. You merge the
day into the night. You bring out the living from the dead. You
bring out the dead from the living. You provide for whoever You
will without any reckoning.’ (3:27)
• They are not all the same. There is a community among the
People of the Book who are upright. They recite Allah’s Signs
throughout the night, and they prostrate. (3:113)
• In the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation
of night and day, there are Signs for people with intelligence.
(3:190)
• They have the word, ‘Obedience!’ on their tongues but when they
leave your presence, a group of them spend the night plotting to
do other than what you say. Allah is recording their nocturnal
plotting. So let them be and put your trust in Allah. Allah suffices
as a Guardian. (4:81)
• All that inhabits the night and the day belongs to Him. He is the
All-Hearing, the All-Knowing. (6:13)
• Say: ‘What do you think? If Allah’s punishment were to come
upon you suddenly by night or openly by day, would any but the
wrongdoing people be destroyed?’ (6:47)
• When night covered him he (Ibrahim) saw a star and said, ‘This is
my Lord!’ Then when it set he said, ‘I do not love what sets.’ (6:76)
• Your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six
days and then settled Himself firmly on the Throne. He covers the
day with the night, each pursuing the other urgently; and the sun
and moon and stars are subservient to His command. Both
creation and command belong to Him. Blessed be Allah, the Lord
of all the worlds. (7:54)
• Do the people of the cities feel secure against Our violent force
coming down on them in the night while they are asleep? (7:97)
• We set aside thirty nights for Musa and then completed them with
ten, so the appointed time of his Lord was forty nights in all. Musa
said to his brother Harun, ‘Take my place among my people.
Keep order and do not follow the way of the corrupters.’ (7:142)
• In the alternation of night and day and what Allah has created in
the heavens and the earth there are Signs for people who guard
against evil. (10:6)
• The metaphor of the life of this world is that of water which We
send down from the sky, and which then mingles with the plants
of the earth to provide food for both people and animals. Then,
when the earth is at its loveliest and takes on its fairest guise and
its people think they have it under their control, Our command
comes upon it by night or day and We reduce it to dried-out
stubble, as though it had not been flourishing just the day before!
In this way We make Our Signs clear for people who reflect.
(10:24)
• But as for those who have earned bad actions–a bad action will
be repaid with one the like of it. Debasement will darken them.
They will have no one to protect them from Allah. It is as if their
faces were covered by dark patches of the night. Those are the
Companions of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever.
(10:27)
• It is He Who appointed the night for you, so that you could rest in
it, and the day for seeing. There are certainly Signs in that for
people who listen. (10:67)
• They said, ‘Lut, we are messengers from your Lord. They will not
be able to get at you. Set out with your family–except for your
wife–in the middle of the night and none of you should look back.
What strikes them will strike her as well. Their promised
appointment is the morning. Is the morning not close at hand?’
(11:81)
• Perform prayer at each end of the day and in the first part of the
night. Good actions eradicate bad actions. This is a reminder for
people who pay heed. (11:114)
• And He has made the sun and moon subservient to you holding
steady to their courses, and He has made the night and day
subservient to you. (14:33)
• He has made night and day subservient to you, and the sun and
moon and stars, all subject to His command. There are certainly
Signs in that for people who use their intellect. (16:12)
• We made the night and day two Signs. We blotted out the Sign of
the night and made the Sign of the day a time for seeing so that
you can seek favour from your Lord and will know the number of
years and the reckoning of time. We have made all things very
clear. (17:12)
• Perform prayer from the time the sun declines until the darkening
of the night, and also the recitation at dawn. The dawn recitation
is certainly witnessed. (17:78)
• So be steadfast in the face of what they say and glorify your Lord
with praise before the rising of the sun and before its setting. And
glorify Him during part of the night and at both ends of the day, so
that hopefully you will be pleased. (20:130)
• They glorify Him by night and day, without ever flagging. (21:20)
• It is He Who created night and day and the sun and moon, each
one swimming in a sphere. (21:33)
• Say: ‘Who will protect you night and day from the All-Merciful?’
Yet they turn away from the remembrance of their Lord. (21:42)
• And Dawud and Sulayman when they gave judgement about the
field, when the people’s sheep strayed into it at night. We were
Witness to their judgement. (21:78)
• That is because Allah merges night into day and merges day into
night and because Allah is All-Hearing, All-Seeing. (22:61)
• (The affluent will be told,) ‘My Signs were recited to you and you
turned round on your heels, arrogant towards it, talking arrant
nonsense all night long.’ (23:66-67)
• It is He Who gives life and causes to die and His is the alternation
of the night and day. So will you not use your intellect? (23:80)
• Allah revolves night and day. There is surely a lesson in that for
people with inner sight. (24:44)
• It is He Who made the night a cloak for you and sleep a rest, and
He made the day a time for rising. (25:47)
• It is He Who made night and day succeed each other for those
who want to pay heed or to give thanks. (25:62)
• (The servants of the All-Merciful are) those who pass the night
prostrating and standing before their Lord; (25:64)
• Do they not see that We have made the night for them to rest in
and the day for seeing? There are certainly Signs in that for
people who believe. (27:86)
• Say: ‘What do you think? If Allah made it permanent night for you
till the Day of Rising, what god is there other than Allah to bring
you light? Do you not then hear?’ (28:71)
• Say: ‘What do you think? If Allah made it permanent day for you
till the Day of Rising, what god is there other than Allah to bring
you night to rest in? Do you not then see?’ (28:72)
• But part of His mercy is that He has made both night and day for
you so that you can have your rest and seek His bounty, and so
that hopefully you will be thankful. (28:73)
• So glory be to Allah when you start the night and when you greet
the day. (30:17)
• Among His Signs is your sleep by night and day and your seeking
after His bounty. There are certainly Signs in that for people who
hear. (30:23)
• Do you not see that Allah makes night merge into day and day
merge into night, and that He has made the sun and moon
subservient, each one running for a specified time, and that Allah
is aware of what you do? (31:29)
• Those deemed weak will say to those deemed great, ‘No, it was
your scheming night and day when you commanded us to reject
Allah and assign equals to Him.’ But they will show their remorse
when they see the punishment. We will put iron collars round the
necks of those who disbelieve. Will they be repaid for anything
but what they did? (34:33)
• He makes night merge into day and day merge into night, and He
has made the sun and moon subservient, each one running until
a specified time. That is Allah, your Lord. The Kingdom is His.
Those you call on besides Him have no power over even the
smallest speck. (35:13)
• A Sign for them is the night: We peel the day away from it and
there they are in darkness. (36:37)
• It is not for the sun to overtake the moon nor for the night to
outstrip the day; each one is swimming in a sphere. (36:40)
• And you pass by them in the daytime and at night. So will you not
use your intellect? (37:137-138)
• He created the heavens and the earth with truth. He wraps the
night around the day and wraps the day around the night, and
has made the sun and moon subservient, each one running for a
specified term. Is He not indeed the Almighty, the Endlessly
Forgiving? (39:5)
• Allah is He Who appointed the night for you so that you might rest
in it, and the day for seeing. Allah pours out His favour on
mankind but most people do not show thanks. (40:61)
• Among His Signs are the night and day and the sun and moon.
Do not prostrate to the sun nor to the moon. Prostrate to Allah
Who created them, if you worship Him. (41:37)
• If they grow arrogant, those who are with your Lord glorify Him
night and day and never grow tired. (41:38)
• (We said to Musa,) ‘Set out with My servants by night. You will
certainly be pursued.’ (44:23)
• And in the alternation of night and day and the provision Allah
sends down from the sky, bringing the earth to life by it after it has
died, and the varying direction of the winds, there are Signs for
people who use their intellect. (45:5)
• And glorify Him during the night and after you have prostrated.
(50:40)
• The part of the night they spent asleep was small. (51:17)
• And glorify Him in the night and when the stars fade out. (52:49)
• He makes night merge into day and day merge into night. He
knows what the heart contains. (57:6)
• Allah subjected them to it for seven whole nights and eight whole
days without a break. You could see the people flattened in their
homes just like the hollow stumps of uprooted palms. (69:7)
• He (Nuh) said, ‘My Lord, I have called my people night and day.’
(71:5)
• Your Lord knows that you stay up nearly two-thirds of the night–or
half of it, or a third of it–and a group of those with you. Allah
determines the night and day. He knows you will not keep count
of it, so He has turned towards you. Recite as much of the Qur’an
as is easy for you. He knows that some of you are ill and that
others are travelling in the land seeking Allah’s bounty, and that
others are fighting in the Way of Allah. So recite as much of it as
is easy for you. And perform prayer and give the alms and lend a
generous loan to Allah. Whatever good you send ahead for
yourselves you will find it with Allah as something better and as a
greater reward. And seek forgiveness from Allah. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (73:20)
• Prostrate to Him during the night and glorify Him throughout the
long night. (76:26)
• He darkened its night and brought forth its morning light. (79:29)
• And what will convey to you what the Night-Comer is? (86:2)
• And (I swear by) ten nights. (89:2)
• And what will convey to you what the Night of Power is? (97:2)
NIGHT-COMER
NOON
• You who believe! Those you own as slaves and those of you who
have not yet reached puberty should ask your permission to enter
at three times: before the Dawn Prayer, when you have
undressed at noon, and after the Prayer of Night–three times of
nakedness for you. There is nothing wrong for you or them at
other times in moving around among yourselves from one to
another. In this way Allah makes the Signs clear to you. Allah is
All-Knowing, All-Wise. (24:58)
• We sent Nuh to his people and he said, ‘My people, worship Allah!
You have no other god than Him. I fear for you the punishment of
a dreadful Day.’ The ruling circle of his people said, ‘We see you
in flagrant error.’ He said, ‘My people, I am not in error at all but
rather am a Messenger from the Lord of all the worlds,
transmitting my Lord’s Message to you and giving you good
counsel, and I know from Allah what you do not know. Or are you
astonished that a reminder should come to you from your Lord by
way of a man among you, to warn you and make you guard
against evil so that hopefully you will gain mercy?’ But they
denied him so We rescued him and those with him in the Ark. And
We drowned the people who denied Our Signs. They were a blind
people. (7:59-64)
• (Hud said,) ‘Or are you astonished that a reminder should come
to you from your Lord by way of a man among you in order to
warn you? Remember when He appointed you successors to the
people of Nuh, and increased you greatly in stature. Remember
Allah’s blessings, so that hopefully you will be successful.’ (7:69)
• Has the news of those who came before them not reached them,
the people of Nuh and ‘Ad and Thamud, and the people of
Ibrahim and the inhabitants of Madyan and the overturned cities?
Their Messengers brought them the Clear Signs. Allah did not
wrong them; rather they wronged themselves. (9:70)
• Recite to them the story of Nuh when he said to his people, ‘My
people, if my standing here and reminding you of Allah’s Signs
has become too much for you to bear, know that I have put my
trust in Allah. So decide, you and your gods, on what you want to
do and be open about it. Do with me whatever you decide and do
not keep me waiting. If you turn your backs, I have not asked you
for any wage. My wage is the responsibility of Allah alone. I am
commanded to be one of the Muslims.’ But they denied him so
We rescued him, and all those with him, in the Ark and We made
them the successors and We drowned the people who denied
Our Signs. See the final fate of those who were warned! (10:71-
73)
• Has news not reached you of those who came before you, the
peoples of Nuh and ‘Ad and Thamud, and those who came after
them who are known to no one but Allah? Their Messengers
came to them with Clear Signs, but they put their hands to their
mouths, saying, ‘We reject what you have been sent with. We
have grave doubts about what you are calling us to.’ (14:9)
• Those are some of the Prophets Allah has blessed, from the
descendants of Adam and from those We carried with Nuh, and
from the descendants of Ibrahim and Isra’il and from those We
guided and chose. When the Signs of the All-Merciful were
recited to them they fell on their faces, weeping, in prostration.
(19:58)
• And Nuh, when he called out before and We responded to him
and rescued him and his family from the terrible plight. We helped
him against the people who rejected Our Signs. They were an evil
people and We drowned them, every one. (21:76-77)
• If they deny you, the people of Nuh before them denied him and
those of ‘Ad and of Thamud. (22:42)
• We sent Nuh to his people and he said, ‘My people, worship Allah.
You have no god other than Him. So will you not guard against
evil?’ The ruling circle of those of his people who disbelieved said,
‘This is nothing but a human being like yourselves who simply
wants to gain ascendancy over you. If Allah had wanted He would
have sent angels down. We never heard of anything like this
among our ancestors, the earlier peoples. He is nothing but a
man possessed so wait a while and see what happens to him.’
He said, ‘My Lord, help me because of their calling me a liar!’ We
revealed to him: ‘Build the Ship under Our supervision and as We
reveal. When Our command comes and water bubbles up from
the earth, load into it a pair of every species, and your family–
except for those among them against whom the word has already
gone ahead. And do not address Me concerning those who do
wrong. They shall be drowned. When you and those with you are
settled in the Ship, then say: "Praise be to Allah Who has rescued
us from the people of the wrongdoers!" And say: "My Lord, land
me in a blessed landing-place. You are the best Bringer to Land."’
There are Signs in that. We are always putting people to the test.
(23:23-30)
• We sent Nuh to his people and he remained among them for fifty
short of a thousand years; yet the Flood engulfed them while they
were wrongdoers. We rescued him and the occupants of the Ark
and made that into a Sign for all the worlds. (29:14-15)
• The people of Nuh denied the truth before them, and the
Confederates after them. Every nation planned to seize its
Messenger and used false arguments to rebut the truth. So I
seized them, and how was My retribution! (40:5)
• The man who believed said, ‘My people! I fear for you a day like
that of the Confederates, the same as happened to the people of
Nuh and ‘Ad and Thamud and those who followed after them.
Allah does not want any injustice for His servants.’ (40:30-31)
• Before them the people of Nuh also denied the truth and the
Companions of Rass and Thamud. (50:12)
• Before them the people of Nuh denied the truth. They denied Our
servant, saying, ‘He is madman,’ and he was driven away with
jeers. He called upon his Lord: ‘I am overwhelmed, so help me!’
So We opened the gates of heaven with torrential water and
made the earth burst forth with gushing springs. And the waters
met together in a way which was decreed. We bore him on a
planked and well-caulked ship, which ran before Our eyes–a
reward for him who had been rejected. We left it as a Sign. But is
there any rememberer there? How terrible were My punishment
and warnings! (54:9-16)
• We sent Nuh and Ibrahim and placed Prophethood and the Book
among their descendants. Some of them are guided but many of
them are deviators. (57:26)
• Allah has made an example for those who disbelieve: the wife of
Nuh and the wife of Lut. They were married to two of Our
servants who were righteous but they betrayed them and were
not helped at all against Allah. They were told, ‘Enter the Fire
along with all who enter it.’ (66:10)
NURSING
• Mothers should nurse their children for two full years–those who
wish to complete the full term of nursing. It is the duty of the
fathers to feed and clothe them with correctness and courtesy–no
self is charged with more than it can bear. No mother should be
put under pressure in respect of her child nor any father in
respect of his child. The same duty is incumbent on the heir. If the
couple both wish weaning to take place after mutual agreement
and consultation, there is nothing wrong in their doing that. If you
wish to find wet-nurses for your children, there is nothing wrong in
your doing that provided you hand over to them what you have
agreed to give with correctness and courtesy. Have fear of Allah
and know that Allah sees what you do. (2:233)
• On the day they see it, every nursing woman will be oblivious of
the baby at her breast, and every pregnant woman will abort the
contents of her womb, and you will think people drunk when they
are not drunk; it is just that the punishment of Allah is so severe.
(22:2)
O
OATH
• Allah will not take you to task for inadvertent statements in your
oaths, but He will take you to task for the intention your hearts
have made. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, All-Forbearing. (2:225)
• Those who swear to abstain from sexual relations with their wives
can wait for a period of up to four months. If they then retract their
oath, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (2:226)
• Those who sell Allah’s contract and their own oaths for a paltry
price, such people will have no portion in the hereafter and on the
Day of Rising Allah will not speak to them or look at them or purify
them. They will have a painful punishment. (3:77)
• Those who believe say, ‘Are these the people who swore by Allah,
with their most earnest oaths, that they were with you?’ Their
actions have come to nothing and they now are losers. (5:53)
• Allah does not take you to task for your inadvertent oaths, but He
will take you to task for oaths you make intentionally. The
expiation in that case is to feed ten poor people with the average
amount you feed your family, or clothe them, or free a slave.
Anyone without the means to do so should fast three days. That
is the expiation for breaking oaths when you have sworn them.
Keep your oaths. In this way Allah makes His Signs clear to you,
so that hopefully you will be thankful. (5:89)
• You who believe! When one of you is near to death and makes a
will, two just men from among you should act as witnesses; or, if
you are travelling when the misfortune of death occurs, two men
who are strangers to you. You should detain them after prayer
and, if you are doubtful, they should swear by Allah: ‘We will not
sell it for any price, even to a near relative, and we will not
conceal the testimony of Allah. If we did we would indeed be
wrongdoers.’ If it then comes to light that the two of them have
merited the allegation of wrongdoing, two others who have the
most right to do so should take their place and swear by Allah:
‘Our testimony is truer than their testimony. We have not
committed perjury. If we had we would indeed be wrongdoers.’
That makes it more likely that they will give their evidence
properly or be afraid that their oaths will be refuted by subsequent
oaths. Have fear of Allah and listen carefully. Allah does not guide
deviant people. (5:106-108)
• They have sworn by Allah with their most earnest oaths that if a
Sign comes to them they will believe in it. Say: ‘The Signs are in
Allah’s control alone.’ What will make you realise that even if a
Sign did come, they would still not believe? (6:109)
• If they break their oaths after making their treaty and defame your
religion, then fight the leaders of disbelief–they have no binding
oaths–so that hopefully they will stop. (9:12)
• Will you not fight a people who have broken their oaths and
resolved to expel the Messenger, and who initiated hostilities
against you in the first place? Is it them you fear? Allah has more
right to your fear if you are believers. (9:13)
• They swear by Allah with their most earnest oaths that Allah will
not raise up those who die, when, on the contrary, it is a binding
promise on Him; but most people do not know it. (16:38)
• Be true to Allah’s contract when you have agreed to it, and do not
break your oaths once they are confirmed and you have made
Allah your guarantee. Allah knows what you do. (16:91)
• Do not be like a woman who spoils the thread she has spun by
unravelling it after it is strong, by making your oaths a means of
deceiving one another, merely because one community is bigger
than another. Allah is only testing you by this. He will make clear
to you on the Day of Rising the things about which you differed.
(16:92)
• Do not make your oaths a means of deceiving one another or
your foot will slip after it was firmly placed and you will taste evil
for barring access to the Way of Allah and you will have a terrible
punishment. (16:94)
• They have sworn by Allah with their most earnest oaths that if you
give them the command, they will go out. Say: ‘Do not swear.
Honourable obedience is enough. Allah is aware of what you do.’
(24:53)
• They swore by Allah with their most earnest oaths that if a warner
came to them they would be better guided than any other
community. But then when a warner did come to them, it only
increased their aversion. (35:42)
• They made their oaths into a cloak and barred the Way of Allah,
so they will have a humiliating punishment. (58:16)
• They have made their oaths into a cloak and barred the Way of
Allah. What they have done is truly evil. (63:2)
• Allah has made the expiation of your oaths obligatory for you.
Allah is your Master–He is the All-Knowing, the All-Wise. (66:2)
OBDURATE
• That was ‘Ad. They denied the Signs of their Lord and disobeyed
His Messengers and followed the command of every obdurate
tyrant. (11:59)
• They asked for Allah’s victory, and every obdurate tyrant failed.
(14:15)
• (The Guards of Hell will be told,) ‘Hurl into Hell every obdurate
disbeliever.’ (50:24)
• Say, ‘Obey Allah and the Messenger.’ Then if they turn away,
Allah does not love the disbelievers. (3:32)
• These are Allah’s limits. As for those who obey Allah and His
Messenger, We will admit them into Gardens with rivers flowing
under them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever. That is the
Great Victory. (4:13)
• As for those who disobey Allah and His Messenger and overstep
His limits, We will admit them into a Fire, remaining in it timelessly,
for ever. They will have a humiliating punishment. (4:14)
• Some of the Jews distort the true meaning of words, saying, ‘We
hear and disobey,’ and ‘Listen without listening,’ and ‘Listen to
us!’ twisting them with their tongues, disparaging the religion. If
they had said, ‘We hear and we obey,’ and ‘Listen,’ and, ‘Look at
us!’ that would have been better for them and more upright. But
Allah has cursed them for their disbelief. Very few of them believe.
(4:46)
• You who believe! Obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those
in command among you. If you have a dispute about something,
refer it back to Allah and the Messenger, if you believe in Allah
and the Last Day. That is the best thing to do and gives the best
result. (4:59)
• No, by your Lord, they are not believers until they make you their
judge in the disputes that break out between them, and then find
no resistance within themselves to what you decide and submit
themselves completely. (4:65)
• Obey Allah and obey the Messenger and beware! If you turn your
backs, know that Our Messenger is only responsible for clear
transmission. (5:92)
• (Allah said, ‘Believers are) those who follow the Messenger, the
Ummi, whom they find written down with them in the Torah and
the Gospel, commanding them to do right and forbidding them to
do wrong, making good things lawful for them and bad things
forbidden for them, relieving them of their heavy loads and the
chains which were around them. Those who believe in him and
honour him and help him, and follow the Light that has been sent
down with him, they are the ones who are successful.’ (7:157)
• They will ask you about booty. Say: ‘Booty belongs to Allah and
the Messenger. So have fear of Allah and put things right
between you. Obey Allah and His Messenger if you are
believers.’ (8:1)
• You who believe! Obey Allah and His Messenger. And do not turn
away from him when you are able to hear. (8:20)
• It was not for people of Madina, and the desert arabs around
them, to remain behind the Messenger of Allah nor to prefer
themselves to him. That is because no thirst or weariness or
hunger will afflict them in the Way of Allah, nor will they take a
single step to infuriate the disbelievers, nor secure any gain from
the enemy, without a right action being written down for them
because of it. Allah does not let the wage of the good-doers go to
waste. (9:120)
• Harun had earlier said to them, ‘My people! It is just a trial for you.
Your Lord is the All-Merciful, so follow me and obey my
command!’ (20:90)
• The reply of the believers when they are summoned to Allah and
His Messenger so that he can judge between them, is to say, ‘We
hear and we obey.’ They are ones who are successful. (24:51)
• All who obey Allah and His Messenger and have awe of Allah and
fear of Him, they are the ones who are victorious. (24:52)
• They have sworn by Allah with their most earnest oaths that if you
give them the command, they will go out. Say: ‘Do not swear.
Honourable obedience is enough. Allah is aware of what you do.’
(24:53)
• Say: ‘Obey Allah and obey the Messenger. Then if they turn away
he is only responsible for what he is charged with and you are
responsible for what you are charged with. If you obey him, you
will be guided.’ The Messenger is only responsible for clear
transmission. (24:54)
• Perform prayer and give the alms and obey the Messenger so
that hopefully mercy will be shown to you. (24:56)
• The believers are those who believe in Allah and His Messenger
and who, when they are with him on a matter of common concern,
do not leave until they have asked him for permission. Those
people who ask you for permission are the ones who truly believe
in Allah and His Messenger. If they ask your permission to attend
to their own affairs, give permission to any of them you please;
and ask Allah’s forgiveness for them. Allah is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (24:62)
• (Nuh said,) ‘So have fear of Allah and obey me.’ (26:108, 26:110)
• (Hud said,) ‘So have fear of Allah and obey me.’ (26:126, 26:131)
• (Salih said,) ‘So have fear of Allah and obey me.’ (26:144)
• (Salih said,) ‘So have fear of Allah and obey me. Do not obey the
orders of the profligate.’ (26:150-151)
• (Lut said,) ‘So have fear of Allah and obey me.’ (26:163)
• (Shu‘ayb said,) ‘So have fear of Allah and obey me.’ (26:179)
• He will put your actions right for you and forgive you your wrong
deeds. All who obey Allah and His Messenger have won a mighty
victory. (33:71)
• You who believe! Obey Allah and obey the Messenger. Do not
make your actions of no worth. (47:33)
• The desert Arabs say, ‘We believe.’ Say: ‘You do not believe. Say
rather, "We have become Muslim," for faith has not yet entered
into your hearts. If you obey Allah and His Messenger, He will not
undervalue your actions in any way. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful.’ (49:14)
• Those who oppose Allah and His Messenger will be subdued and
overcome as those before them were also subdued and
overcome. We have sent down Clear Signs. The disbelievers will
have a humiliating punishment. (58:5)
• You will not find people who believe in Allah and the Last Day
having love for anyone who opposes Allah and His Messenger,
though they be their fathers, their sons, their brothers or their clan.
Allah has inscribed faith upon such people’s hearts and will
reinforce them with a Spirit from Him and admit them into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them
timelessly, for ever. Allah is pleased with them and they are
pleased with Him. Such people are the party of Allah. Truly it is
the party of Allah who are successful. (58:22)
• Obey Allah and obey the Messenger. But if you turn your backs,
the Messenger is only responsible for clear transmission. (64:12)
• So have fear of Allah, as much as you are able to, and listen and
obey and spend for your own benefit. It is the people who are
safe-guarded from the avarice of their own selves who are
successful. (64:16)
• They say, ‘Allah has a son.’ Glory be to Him! No, everything in the
heavens and earth belongs to Him. Everything is obedient to Him.
(2:116)
• Say, ‘Do you argue with us about Allah when He is our Lord and
your Lord? We have our actions and you have your actions. We
act for Him alone.’ (2:139)
• The steadfast, the truthful, the obedient, the givers, and those
who seek forgiveness before dawn. (3:17)
• (The angels said,) ‘Maryam, obey your Lord and prostrate and
bow with those who bow.’ (3:43)
• Men have charge of women because Allah has preferred the one
above the other and because they spend their wealth on them.
Right-acting women are obedient (to Allah), guarding the unseen
as Allah has guarded. If there are women whose disobedience
you fear, you may admonish them, refuse to sleep with them, and
then beat them. But if they obey you, do not look for a way to
punish them. Allah is All-High, Most Great. (4:34)
• But those of you who are obedient to Allah and His Messenger
and act rightly will be given their reward twice over; and We have
prepared generous provision for them. (33:31)
• Men and women who are Muslims, men and women who are
believers, men and women who are obedient, men and women
who are truthful, men and women who are steadfast, men and
women who are humble, men and women who give charity, men
and women who fast, men and women who guard their chastity,
men and women who remember Allah much: Allah has prepared
forgiveness for them and an immense reward. (33:35)
• It may be that if he does divorce you, his Lord will give him in
exchange better wives than you: Muslim women, believing
women, obedient women, penitent women, women who worship,
women who fast much–previously married women as well as
virgins. (66:5)
OBSCENITY
OBSTRUCT
• They will ask you about the Sacred Month and fighting in it. Say,
‘Fighting in it is a serious matter; but barring access to the Way of
Allah and rejecting Him and barring access to the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram) and expelling its people from it are far more
serious in the sight of Allah. Discord is worse than killing.’ They
will not stop fighting you until they make you revert from your
religion, if they are able. As for any of you who revert from their
religion and die disbeliever, their actions will come to nothing in
this world and the hereafter. They are the Companions of the Fire,
remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (2:217)
• Say, ‘People of the Book, why do you bar those who believe from
the Way of Allah, seeking in it something crooked, when you
yourselves are witnesses to it? Allah is not unaware of what you
do.’ (3:99)
• Some of them believe in him, and some bar access to him. Hell
will suffice as a Searing Blaze! (4:55)
• Those who disbelieve and bar access to the Way of Allah have
gone very far astray. (4:167)
• You who believe! Do not profane the sacred rites of Allah or the
sacred months, or the sacrificial animals, or the ritual garlands, or
those heading for the Sacred House, desiring profit and good
pleasure from their Lord. When your pilgrimage is over, then you
may hunt. Do not let hatred for a people who debar you from the
Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) incite you into going beyond
the limits. Help each other to goodness and heedfulness. Do not
help each other to wrongdoing and enmity. Have fear of Allah.
Allah is severe in retribution. (5:2)
• But why should Allah not punish them now when they bar access
to the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram)? They are not its
guardians. Only people who guard against evil can be its
guardians. But most of them do not know that. (8:34)
• They have sold Allah’s Signs for a paltry price, and they have
barred access to His Way. What they have done is truly evil. (9:9)
• You who believe! Many of the rabbis and monks devour people’s
property under false pretences and bar people from access to the
Way of Allah. As for those who hoard up gold and silver and do
not spend it in the Way of Allah, give them the news of a painful
punishment. (9:34)
• The woman whose house it was solicited him (Yusuf). She barred
the doors and said, ‘Come over here!’ He said, ‘Allah is my refuge!
He is My lord and has been good to me with where I live. Those
who do wrong will surely not succeed.’ (12:23)
• (Woe to) those who prefer the life of this world to the hereafter,
and bar access to the way of Allah, seeking in it something
crooked; they are greatly misguided. (14:3)
• Their Messengers said, ‘Is there any doubt about Allah, the
Bringer into Being of the heavens and the earth? He summons
you to forgive you for your wrong actions and to defer you until a
specified time.’ They said, ‘You are nothing but human beings like
ourselves who want to debar us from what our fathers
worshipped; so bring us a clear authority.’ (14:10)
• Do not let those who have no faith in it and follow their whims and
desires debar you from it or you will be destroyed. (20:16)
• Those who disbelieve and bar access to the Way of Allah and to
the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) which We have appointed
for all mankind–equally for those who live near it and those who
come from far away–those who desire to profane it with
wrongdoing, We will let them taste a painful punishment. (22:25)
• (The hoopoe said,) ‘I found both her and her people prostrating to
the sun instead of Allah. Satan has made their actions seem good
to them and debarred them from the Way so they are not guided.’
(27:24)
• Do not let them debar you from Allah’s Signs after they have
been sent down to you. Call people to your Lord and on no
account be one of the idolaters. (28:87)
• And ‘Ad and Thamud–it must be clear to you from their dwelling
places! Satan made their actions seem good to them and so
debarred them from the Way, even though they were intelligent
people. (29:38)
• Allah knows the obstructers among you and those who say to
their brothers, ‘Come to us,’ and who only come to fight a very
little, (33:18)
• When Our Clear Signs are recited to them, they say, ‘This is
nothing but a man who wants to debar you from what your fathers
used to worship.’ They say, ‘This is nothing but an invented lie.’
Those who disbelieve say to the truth when it comes to them,
‘This is nothing but downright magic.’ (34:43)
• They debar them from the path, yet they still think they are guided.
(43:37)
• As for those who disbelieve and bar others from the Way of Allah,
Allah will make their actions go astray. (47:1)
• Those who disbelieve and obstruct the Way of Allah and are
entrenched in hostility towards the Messenger after the guidance
has become clear to them, do not harm Allah in any way and He
makes their actions come to nothing. (47:32)
• Those who disbelieve and obstruct the Way of Allah, and then die
disbeliever, Allah will not forgive them. (47:34)
• They are those who disbelieved and debarred you from the
Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) and prevented the sacrifice
from reaching its proper place, and had it not been for some men
and women who are believers, whom you did not know and might
trample underfoot, and so unknowingly incur blame on their
account–so that Allah might admit into His mercy those He wills–
and had those among them who disbelieve been clearly
distinguishable, We would have punished them with a painful
punishment. (48:25)
• They made their oaths into a cloak and barred the Way of Allah,
so they will have a humiliating punishment. (58:16)
• They have made their oaths into a cloak and barred the Way of
Allah. What they have done is truly evil. (63:2)
OFFSPRING
OIL
• Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The metaphor of
His Light is that of a niche in which is a lamp, the lamp inside a
glass, the glass like a brilliant star, lit from a blessed tree, an olive,
neither of the east nor of the west, its oil all but giving off light
even if no fire touches it. Light upon Light. Allah guides to His
Light whoever He wills and Allah makes metaphors for mankind
and Allah has knowledge of all things. (24:35)
• When heaven is split apart and goes red like dregs of oil. (55:37)
OLD AGE
• Would any of you like to have a garden of dates and grapes, with
rivers flowing underneath and containing all kinds of fruits, then to
be stricken with old age and have children who are weak, and
then for a fierce whirlwind containing fire to come and strike it so
that it goes up in flames? In this way Allah makes His Signs clear
to you, so that hopefully you will reflect. (2:266)
• He said, ‘My Lord, how can I possibly have a son when I have
reached old age and my wife is barren?’ He said, ‘It will be so.
Allah does whatever He wills.’ (3:40)
• She said, ‘Woe is me! How can I give birth when I am an old
woman and my husband here is an aged man? This is indeed an
astonishing thing!’ (11:72)
• They said, ‘Your Eminence! He has an old and venerable father,
so take one of us instead of him. We see without a doubt that you
are of the people who do good.’ (12:78)
• He (Ibrahim) said, ‘Do you bring me this good news despite the
fact of old age having reached me? What kind of good news are
you bringing me?’ (15:54)
• Allah created you and then will take you back again. And some of
you revert to the lowest form of life so that after having knowledge,
you know nothing at all. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Powerful. (16:70)
• Your Lord has decreed that you should worship none but Him,
and that you should show kindness to your parents. Whether one
or both of them reach old age with you, do not say ‘Ugh!’ to them
out of irritation and do not be harsh with them but speak to them
with gentleness and generosity. (17:23)
• Mankind! If you are in any doubt about the Rising, know that We
created you from dust then from a drop of sperm then from a clot
of blood then from a lump of flesh, formed yet unformed, so We
may make things clear to you. We make whatever We want stay
in the womb until a specified time and then We bring you out as
children so that you can reach your full maturity. Some of you die
and some of you revert to the lowest form of life so that, after
having knowledge, they then know nothing at all. And you see the
earth dead and barren; then when We send down water onto it it
quivers and swells and sprouts with luxuriant plants of every kind.
(22:5)
• His wife came up with a shriek and struck her face and said,
‘What, and me a barren old woman!’ (51:29)
OLD WOMAN
• She (Ibrahim’s wife) said, ‘Woe is me! How can I give birth when I
am an old woman and my husband here is an aged man? This is
indeed an astonishing thing!’ (11:72)
• It is He Who sends down water from the sky from which We bring
forth growth of every kind, and from that We bring forth the green
shoots and from them We bring forth close-packed seeds, and
from the spathes of the date palm date clusters hanging down,
and gardens of grapes and olives and pomegranates, both similar
and dissimilar. Look at their fruits as they bear fruit and ripen.
There are Signs in that for people who believe. (6:99)
• And by it He makes crops grow for you and olives and dates and
grapes and fruit of every kind. There is certainly a Sign in that for
people who reflect. (16:11)
• Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The metaphor of
His Light is that of a niche in which is a lamp, the lamp inside a
glass, the glass like a brilliant star, lit from a blessed tree, an olive,
neither of the east nor of the west, its oil all but giving off light
even if no fire touches it. Light upon Light. Allah guides to His
Light whoever He wills and Allah makes metaphors for mankind
and Allah has knowledge of all things. (24:35)
• Then We make grain grow in it, and grapes and herbs and olives
and dates, (80:27-29)
ON FOOT
• Your God is One God. There is no god but Him, the All-Merciful,
the Most Merciful. (2:163)
• Allah bears witness that there is no god but Him, as do the angels
and the people of knowledge, upholding justice. There is no god
but Him, the Almighty, the All-Wise. (3:18)
• Allah, there is no god but Him. He will gather you to the Day of
Rising about which there is no doubt. And whose speech could
be truer than Allah’s? (4:87)
• Those who say that Allah is the third of three are disbelievers.
There is no god but One God. If they do not stop saying what
they say, a painful punishment will afflict those among them who
disbelieve. (5:73)
• That is Allah, your Lord. There is no god but Him, the Creator of
everything. So worship Him. He is responsible for everything.
(6:102)
• Follow what has been revealed to you from your Lord–there is no
god but Him–and turn away from the idolaters. (6:106)
• They have taken their rabbis and monks as lords besides Allah,
and also the Messiah, son of Maryam. Yet they were commanded
to worship only one God. There is no god but Him! Glory be to
Him above anything they associate with Him! (9:31)
• But if they turn away, say, ‘Allah is enough for me. There is no
god but Him. I have put my trust in Him. He is the Lord of the
Mighty Throne.’ (9:129)
• We brought the tribe of Israel across the sea and Pharaoh and
his troops pursued them out of tyranny and enmity. Then, when
he was on the point of drowning, he said, ‘I believe that there is
no god but Him in whom the tribe of Israel believe. I am one of
the Muslims.’ (10:90)
• If they do not respond to you then know that it has been sent
down with Allah’s knowledge and that there is no god but Him. So
will you not become Muslims? (11:14)
• In the same way We have sent you among a nation before which
other nations passed away, to recite to them what We have
revealed to you. Yet they still reject the All-Merciful. Say: ‘He is
my Lord; there is no god but Him. I put my trust in Him and I turn
to Him.’ (13:30)
• Say: ‘If there had, as you say, been other gods together with Him,
they would have sought a way to the Master of the Throne.’
(17:42)
• Allah, there is no god but Him. The Most Beautiful Names are His.
(20:8)
• (Musa said,) ‘Your god is Allah alone, there is no god but Him. He
encompasses all things in His knowledge.’ (20:98)
• We sent Nuh to his people and he said, ‘My people, worship Allah.
You have no god other than Him. So will you not guard against
evil?’ (23:23)
• And (We) sent a Messenger to them from themselves: ‘Worship
Allah. You have no god other than Him! So will you not guard
against evil?’ (23:32)
• Exalted be Allah, the King, the Real. There is no god but Him,
Lord of the Noble Throne. (23:116)
• Do not call on any other god along with Allah. There is no god but
Him. All things are passing except His Face. Judgement belongs
to Him. You will be returned to Him. (28:88)
• Your God is One: Lord of the heavens and the earth and
everything between them; Lord of the Easts. (37:4-5)
• When they were told, ‘There is no god but Allah,’ they were
arrogant. (37:35)
• He created you from a single self, then produced its mate from it,
and sent down livestock to you–eight kinds in pairs. He creates
you stage by stage in your mothers’ wombs in a threefold
darkness. That is Allah, your Lord. Sovereignty is His. There is no
god but Him. So what has made you deviate? (39:6)
• Know then that there is no god except Allah and ask forgiveness
for your wrongdoing, and for the men and women who believe.
Allah knows both your activity and your repose. (47:19)
• Allah–there is no god but Him. So let the believers put their trust
in Allah. (64:13)
• Lord of the East and West–there is no god but Him–so take Him
as your Guardian. (73:9)
• And when you said, ‘Musa, we will not put up with just one kind of
food so ask your Lord to supply to us some of what the earth
produces–its green vegetables, cucumbers, grains, lentils and
onions,’ he said, ‘Do you want to replace what is better with what
is inferior? Go back to Egypt, then you will have what you are
asking for.’ Abasement and destitution were stamped upon them.
They brought down anger from Allah upon themselves. That was
because they rejected Allah’s Signs and killed the Prophets
without any right to do so. That was because they rebelled and
went beyond the limits. (2:61)
ORNAMENT
• It is He Who made the sea subservient to you so that you can eat
fresh flesh from it and bring out from it ornaments to wear. And
you see the ships cleaving through it so that you can seek His
bounty, and so that hopefully you will show thanks. (16:14)
• The two seas are not the same: the one is sweet, refreshing,
delicious to drink, the other salty, bitter to the taste. Yet from both
of them you eat fresh flesh and extract ornaments for yourselves
to wear; and you see ships on them, cleaving through the waves
so that you can seek His bounty and so that hopefully you will be
thankful. (35:12)
ORPHAN
• They will ask you what they should give away. Say, ‘Any wealth
you give away should go to your parents and relatives and to
orphans and the very poor and travellers.’ Whatever good you do,
Allah knows it. (2:215)
• ... In this way Allah makes the Signs clear to you, so that
hopefully you will reflect on this world and the hereafter. They will
ask you about the property of orphans. Say, ‘Managing it in their
best interests is best.’ If you mix your property with theirs, they
are your brothers. Allah knows a squanderer from a good
manager. If Allah had wanted, He could have been hard on you.
Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (2:219-220)
• Give orphans their property, and do not substitute bad things for
good. Do not assimilate their property into your own. Doing that is
a serious crime. (4:2)
• If you are afraid of not behaving justly towards orphans, then
marry other permissible women, two, three or four. But if you are
afraid of not treating them equally, then only one, or those you
own as slaves. That makes it more likely that you will not be
unfair. (4:3)
• Know that when you take any booty a fifth of it belongs to Allah,
and to the Messenger, and to close relatives, orphans, the very
poor and travellers, if you believe in Allah and in what We sent
down to Our servant on the Day of Discrimination, the day the two
groups met–Allah has power over all things. (8:41)
• (He said to Musa,) ‘As for the wall, it belonged to two young
orphans in the town and there was a treasure underneath it,
belonging to them. Their father was one of the righteous and your
Lord wanted them to come of age and then to unearth their
treasure as a mercy from Him. I did not do it of my own volition.
That is the explanation of the things about which you were not
able to restrain yourself.’ (18:82)
• They give food, despite their love for it, to the poor and orphans
and captives. (76:8)
• What will convey to you what the steep ascent is? It is freeing a
slave or feeding on a day of hunger an orphaned relative or a
poor man in the dust; (90:12-16)
• Did He not find you orphaned and shelter you? (93:6)
OVERCOMING
• When Satan made their actions appear good to them, saying, ‘No
one will overcome you today for I am at your side.’ But when the
two parties came in sight of one another, he turned right round on
his heels saying, ‘I wash my hands of you. I see what you do not
see. I fear Allah. Allah is severe in retribution.’ (8:48)
• Those who oppose Allah and His Messenger will be subdued and
overcome as those before them were also subdued and
overcome. We have sent down Clear Signs. The disbelievers will
have a humiliating punishment. (58:5)
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PAIR
• And a pair of camels and a pair of cattle–Say: ‘Is it the two males
He has made forbidden, or the two females, or what the wombs of
the two females contain? Were you then witnesses when Allah
gave you this instruction?’ Who could do greater wrong than
someone who invents lies against Allah thus leading people
astray without any knowledge? Allah does not guide the people of
the wrongdoers. (6:144)
• Allah created you from dust and then from a drop of sperm and
then made you into pairs. No female becomes pregnant or gives
birth except with His knowledge. And no living thing lives long or
has its life cut short without that being in a Book. That is easy for
Allah. (35:11)
• Glory be to Him Who created all the pairs: from what the earth
produces and from themselves and from things unknown to them.
(36:36)
• He created you from a single self, then produced its mate from it,
and sent down livestock to you–eight kinds in pairs. He creates
you stage by stage in your mothers’ wombs in a threefold
darkness. That is Allah, your Lord. Sovereignty is His. There is no
god but Him. So what has made you deviate? (39:6)
• And We created all things in pairs so that hopefully you would pay
heed. (51:49)
PALACE
PALTRY
• Woe to those who write the Book with their own hands and then
say ‘This is from Allah’ to sell it for a paltry price. Woe to them for
what their hands have written! Woe to them for what they earn!
(2:79)
• Those who sell Allah’s contract and their own oaths for a paltry
price, such people will have no portion in the hereafter and on the
Day of Rising Allah will not speak to them or look at them or purify
them. They will have a painful punishment. (3:77)
• Allah made a covenant with those given the Book: ‘You must
make it clear to people and not conceal it.’ But they toss it in
disdain behind their backs and sell it for a paltry price. What an
evil sale they make! (3:187)
• Among the people of the Book there are some who believe in
Allah and in what has been sent down to you and what was sent
down to them, and who are humble before Allah. They do not sell
Allah’s Signs for a paltry price. Such people will have their reward
with their Lord. And Allah is swift at reckoning. (3:199)
• We sent down the Torah containing guidance and light, and the
Prophets who had submitted themselves gave judgement by it for
the Jews–as did their scholars and their rabbis–by what they had
been allowed to preserve of Allah’s Book to which they were
witnesses. Do not be afraid of people, be afraid of Me. And do not
sell My Signs for a paltry price. Those who do not judge by what
Allah has sent down, such people are disbelievers. (5:44)
• They have sold Allah’s Signs for a paltry price, and they have
barred access to His Way. What they have done is truly evil. (9:9)
• Do not sell Allah’s contract for a paltry price. What is with Allah is
better for you if you only knew. (16:95)
(HIGHEST) PARADISE
PARTNER
• On the Day We gather them all together, We will say to those who
associated others with Allah, ‘Where are the partner-gods, for
whom you made such claims?’ (6:22)
• His people argued with him. He (Ibrahim) said, ‘Are you arguing
with me about Allah when He has guided me? I have no fear of
any partner you ascribe to Him unless my Lord should will such a
thing to happen. My Lord encompasses all things in His
knowledge so will you not pay heed? Why should I fear what you
have associated with Him when you yourselves apparently have
no fear of associating partners with Allah for which He has sent
down no authority to you? Which of the two parties is more
entitled to feel safe, if you have any knowledge?’ (6:80-81)
• Say: ‘My prayer and my rites, my living and my dying, are for
Allah alone, the Lord of all the worlds, Who has no partner. I am
commanded to be like that and I am the first of the Muslims.’
(6:162-163)
• Do they make things into partner-gods which cannot create
anything and are themselves created; which are not capable of
helping them and cannot even help themselves? (7:191-192)
• Say: ‘Who is the Lord of the heavens and the earth?’ Say: ‘Allah.’
Say: ‘So why have you taken protectors apart from Him who
possess no power to help or harm themselves?’ Say: ‘Are the
blind and seeing equal? Or are darkness and light the same? Or
have they assigned partners to Allah who create as He creates,
so that all creating seems the same to them?’ Say: ‘Allah is the
Creator of everything. He is the One, the All-Conquering.’ (13:16)
• Then on the Day of Rising He will disgrace them, and say, ‘Where
are My partner gods for whose sake you became so hostile?’
Those given knowledge will say, ‘Today there is disgrace and evil
for the disbelievers.’ (16:27)
• When those who associated others with Allah see those they
associated, they will say, ‘Our Lord, these are our partner gods,
the ones we called upon apart from You.’ But they will fling their
words back in their faces: ‘You are truly liars!’ (16:86)
• And say: ‘Praise be to Allah Who has had no son and Who has
no partner in His Kingdom and Who needs no one to protect Him
from abasement.’ And proclaim His Greatness repeatedly!
(17:111)
• None of their partner-gods will intercede for them. They will reject
their partner-gods. (30:13)
• Allah is He Who created you, then provides for you, then will
cause you to die and then bring you back to life. Can any of your
partner-gods do any of that? Glory be to Him and may He be
exalted above anything they associate with Him! (30:40)
• Say: ‘Have you thought about your partner gods, those you call
upon besides Allah? Show me what they have created of the
earth; or do they have a partnership in the heavens?’ Have We
given them a Book whose Clear Signs they follow? No indeed!
The wrongdoers promise each other nothing but delusion. (35:40)
• They do not measure Allah with His true measure. The whole
earth will be a mere handful for Him on the Day of Rising the
heavens folded up in His right hand. Glory be to Him! He is
exalted above the partners they ascribe! (39:67)
• Say: ‘Have you thought about those you call upon apart from
Allah? Show me what they have created on the earth. Or do they
have a partnership in the heavens? Produce a Book for me
before this one or a shred of knowledge if you are telling the
truth.’ (46:4)
PATH OF ALLAH
• The fools among the people will ask, ‘What has made them turn
round from the direction they used to face?’ Say, ‘Both East and
West belong to Allah. He guides whoever He wills to a straight
path.’ (2:142)
• Fight in the Way of Allah against those who fight you, but do not
go beyond the limits. Allah does not love those who go beyond
the limits. (2:190)
• Those who believe and migrate and strive in the Way of Allah can
expect Allah’s mercy. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
(2:218)
• What do you think about the council of the tribe of Israel after
Musa’s time when they said to one of their Prophets, ‘Give us a
king and we will fight in the Way of Allah!’? He said, ‘Is it not
possible that if fighting were prescribed for you, you would not
fight?’ They said, ‘How could we not fight in the way of Allah when
we have been driven from our homes and children?’ But then
when fighting was prescribed for them, they turned their backs–
except for a few of them. Allah knows the wrongdoers. (2:246)
• Those who spend their wealth in the Way of Allah, and then do
not follow what they have spent by demands for gratitude or
insulting words will have their reward with their Lord. They will
feel no fear and will know no sorrow. (2:262)
• It (the charity) is for the poor who are held back in the Way of
Allah, unable to travel in the land. The ignorant consider them rich
because of their reticence. You will know them by their mark.
They do not ask from people insistently. Whatever good you give
away, Allah knows it. (2:273)
• There was a sign for you in the two parties which met face to face,
one party fighting in the Way of Allah and the other disbelievers.
You saw them as twice their number with your own eyes. Allah
reinforces with His help whoever He wills. There is instruction in
that for people of insight. (3:13)
• (‘Isa will say,) ‘Allah is my Lord and your Lord so worship Him.
That is a straight path.’ (3:51)
• Say, ‘People of the Book, why do you bar those who believe from
the Way of Allah, seeking in it something crooked, when you
yourselves are witnesses to it? Allah is not unaware of what you
do.’ (3:99)
• How can you disbelieve, when Allah’s Signs are recited to you
and the Messenger is there among you? Whoever holds fast to
Allah has been guided to a straight path. (3:101)
• If you are killed in the Way of Allah or if you die, forgiveness and
mercy from Allah are better than anything you can acquire. (3:157)
• And (it is) so that He would know the hypocrites. They were told,
‘Come and fight in the Way of Allah or at least help defend us.’
They said, ‘If we knew how to fight, we would certainly follow you.’
They were closer to disbelief that day than to faith, saying with
their mouths what was not in their hearts. And Allah knows best
what they are hiding. (3:167)
• Do not suppose that those killed in the Way of Allah are dead. No
indeed! They are alive and well provided for in the very presence
of their Lord. (3:169)
• Their Lord responds to them: ‘I will not let the deeds of any doer
among you go to waste, male or female–you are both the same in
that respect. Those who migrated and were driven from their
homes and suffered harm in My Way and fought and were killed, I
will erase their bad actions from them and admit them into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, as a reward from Allah.
The best of all rewards is with Allah.’ (3:195)
• Do you not see those who were given a portion of the Book
trading in misguidance and wanting you to be misguided from the
way? (4:44)
• Do you not see those who were given a portion of the Book
believing in idols and false gods and saying of those who
disbelieve, ‘These people are better guided on their path than the
believers’? (4:51)
• So let those who sell the life of this world for the hereafter fight in
the Way of Allah. If someone fights in the Way of Allah, whether
he is killed or is victorious, We will pay him an immense reward.
(4:74)
• What reason could you have for not fighting in the Way of Allah–
for those men, women and children who are oppressed and say,
‘Our Lord, take us out of this city whose inhabitants are
wrongdoers! Give us a protector from You! Give us a helper from
You!’? (4:75)
• You who believe! When you go out to fight in the Way of Allah
verify things carefully. Do not say, ‘You are not a believer’, to
someone who greets you as a Muslim, simply out of desire for the
goods of this world. With Allah there is booty in abundance. That
is the way you were before but Allah has been kind to you. So
verify things carefully. Allah is aware of what you do. (4:94)
• Those who migrate in the Way of Allah will find many places of
refuge on the earth and ample sustenance. If anyone leaves his
home, migrating to Allah and His Messenger, and death catches
up with him, it is Allah Who will reward him. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:100)
• As for those who believe and then return to disbelief, and then
again believe and then return to disbelief, and then increase in
disbelief, Allah will not forgive them or guide them on any path.
(4:137)
• Those who disbelieve and bar access to the Way of Allah have
gone very far astray. (4:167)
• Allah will not forgive those who disbelieve and do wrong or guide
them on any path. (4:168)
• As for those who believe in Allah and hold fast to Him, He will
admit them into mercy and favour from Him and will guide them to
Him on a straight path. (4:175)
• By it, Allah guides those who follow what pleases Him to the ways
of Peace. He will bring them from the darkness to the light by His
permission, and guide them to a straight path. (5:16)
• You who believe! Have fear of Allah and seek the means of
drawing near to Him, and strive in His Way, so that hopefully you
will be successful. (5:35)
• You who believe! If any of you renounce your religion, Allah will
bring forward a people whom He loves and who love Him, humble
to the believers, fierce to the disbelievers, who strive in the Way
of Allah and do not fear the blame of any censurer. That is the
unbounded favour of Allah which He gives to whoever He wills.
Allah is Boundless, All-Knowing. (5:54)
• Say: ‘Shall I tell you of a reward with Allah far worse than that:
that of those whom Allah has cursed and with whom He is angry–
turning some of them into monkeys and into pigs–and who
worshipped false gods? Such people are in a worse situation and
further from the right way.’ (5:60)
• Those who deny Our Signs are deaf and dumb in utter darkness.
Allah misguides whoever He wills, and puts whoever He wills on a
straight path. (6:39)
• Your Lord knows best who is misguided from His Way and He
knows best those who are guided. (6:117)
• We set aside thirty nights for Musa and then completed them with
ten, so the appointed time of his Lord was forty nights in all. Musa
said to his brother Harun, ‘Take my place among my people.
Keep order and do not follow the way of the corrupters.’ (7:142)
• I will divert from My Signs all those who are arrogant in the earth
without any right. If they see every Sign, they will not believe in it.
If they see the way of right guidance, they will not take it as a way.
But if they see the way of error, they will take that as a way. That
is because they denied Our Signs and paid no attention to them.
(7:146)
• Arm yourselves against them with all the firepower and cavalry
you can muster, to terrify the enemies of Allah and your enemies,
and others besides them whom you do not know. Allah knows
them. Anything you spend in the Way of Allah will be repaid to
you in full. You will not be wronged. (8:60)
• Those who believe and have migrated and strived with their
wealth and themselves in the Way of Allah, and those who have
given refuge and help, they are the friends and protectors of one
another. But as for those who believe but have not migrated, you
are not in any way responsible for their protection until they
migrate. But if they ask you for help in respect of the religion, it is
your duty to help them, except against people you have a treaty
with. Allah sees what you do. (8:72)
• Those who believe and have migrated and strived in the Way of
Allah and those who have given refuge and help, they are the
true believers. They will have forgiveness and generous provision.
(8:74)
• They have sold Allah’s Signs for a paltry price, and they have
barred access to His Way. What they have done is truly evil. (9:9)
• Do you make the giving of water to the pilgrims and looking after
the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) the same as believing in
Allah and the Last Day and striving in the Way of Allah? They are
not equal in the sight of Allah. Allah does not guide wrongdoing
people. (9:19)
• Those who believe and migrate and strive in the Way of Allah
with their wealth and themselves have a higher rank with Allah.
They are the ones who are victorious. (9:20)
• Say: ‘If your fathers or your sons or your brothers or your wives or
your tribe, or any wealth you have acquired, or any business you
fear may slump, or any house which pleases you, are dearer to
you than Allah and His Messenger and striving in His Way, then
wait until Allah brings about His command. Allah does not guide
people who are deviators.’ (9:24)
• You who believe! Many of the rabbis and monks devour people’s
property under false pretences and bar people from access to the
Way of Allah. As for those who hoard up gold and silver and do
not spend it in the Way of Allah, give them the news of a painful
punishment. (9:34)
• You who believe! What is the matter with you that when you are
told, ‘Go out and fight in the way of Allah,’ you sink down heavily
to the earth? Are you happier with this world than the hereafter?
Yet the enjoyment of this world is very small compared to that of
the hereafter. (9:38)
• The alms are for: the poor, the destitute, those who collect it,
reconciling people’s hearts, freeing slaves, those in debt,
spending in the Way of Allah, and travellers. It is a legal obligation
from Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (9:60)
• Those who were left behind were glad to stay behind the
Messenger of Allah. They did not want to strive with their wealth
and themselves in the Way of Allah. They said, ‘Do not go out to
fight in the heat.’ Say: ‘The Fire of Hell is much hotter, if they only
understood.’ (9:81)
• Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their wealth
in return for the Garden. They fight in the Way of Allah and they
kill and are killed. It is a promise binding on Him in the Torah, the
Gospel and the Qur’an and who is truer to his contract than Allah?
Rejoice then in the bargain you have made. That is the great
victory. (9:111)
• It was not for people of Madina, and the desert arabs around
them, to remain behind the Messenger of Allah nor to prefer
themselves to him. That is because no thirst or weariness or
hunger will afflict them in the Way of Allah, nor will they take a
single step to infuriate the disbelievers, nor secure any gain from
the enemy, without a right action being written down for them
because of it. Allah does not let the wage of the good-doers go to
waste. (9:120)
• Musa said, ‘Our Lord, You have given Pharaoh and his ruling
circle finery and wealth in the life of this world, Our Lord, so that
they may be misguided from Your Way. Our Lord, obliterate their
wealth and harden their hearts so that they do not believe until
they see the painful punishment.’ He said, ‘Your request is
answered, so go straight and do not follow the way of those who
have no knowledge.’ (10:88-89)
• (Hud said,) ‘I have put my trust in Allah, my Lord and your Lord.
There is no creature He does not hold by the forelock. My Lord is
on a Straight Path.’ (11:56)
• Say: ‘This is my way. I call to Allah with inner sight, I and all who
follow me. Glory be to Allah! I am not one of the idolaters!’
(12:108)
• Alif Lam Ra. This is a Book We have sent down to you so that
you can bring mankind from the darkness to the light, by the
permission of their Lord, to the Path of the Almighty, the
Praiseworthy. (14:1)
• Those who prefer the life of this world to the hereafter, and bar
access to the way of Allah, seeking in it something crooked; they
are greatly misguided. (14:3)
• (Their Messengers said,) ‘And why indeed should we not put our
trust in Allah when He has guided us to our ways? We will be
steadfast however much you harm us. Those who trust put their
trust in Allah.’ (14:12)
• The Way should lead to Allah, but there are those who deviate
from it. If He had wished He could have guided every one of you.
(16:9)
• Allah makes another metaphor: two men, one of them deaf and
dumb, unable to do anything, a burden on his master, no matter
where he directs him he brings no good, is he the same as
someone who commands justice and is on a straight path? (16:76)
• He was thankful for His blessings. Allah chose him and guided
him to a straight path. (16:121)
• Call to the way of your Lord with wisdom and fair admonition, and
argue with them in the kindest way. Your Lord knows best who is
misguided from His way. And He knows best who are guided.
(16:125)
• This Qur’an guides to the most upright Way and gives good news
to the believers who do right actions that they will have a large
reward. (17:9)
• Those who are blind in this world will be blind in the hereafter and
even further off the Path. (17:72)
• Say: ‘Each man acts according to his nature, but your Lord knows
best who is best guided on the Path.’ (17:84)
• They have been guided to speak good words and guided to the
praiseworthy path. (22:24)
• Those who disbelieve and bar access to the Way of Allah and to
the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) which We have appointed
for all mankind–equally for those who live near it and those who
come from far away–those who desire to profane it with
wrongdoing, We will let them taste a painful punishment. (22:25)
• And (it is) so that those who have been given knowledge will
know it is the truth from their Lord and believe in it and their
hearts will be humbled to Him. Allah guides those who believe to
a straight path. (22:54)
• But those who do not believe in the hereafter recoil from the path.
(23:74)
• The Day when a wrongdoer will bite his hands and say, ‘Alas for
me! If only I had gone the way of the Messenger!’ (25:27)
• Those who are herded headlong into Hell, such people are in the
worst position. They are the most misguided from the way. (25:34)
• Say: ‘I do not ask you for any wage for it–only that anyone who
wants to should make his way towards his Lord.’ (25:57)
• (The hoopoe said,) ‘I found both her and her people prostrating to
the sun instead of Allah. Satan has made their actions seem good
to them and debarred them from the Way so they are not guided.’
(27:24)
• And ‘Ad and Thamud–it must be clear to you from their dwelling
places! Satan made their actions seem good to them and so
debarred them from the Way, even though they were intelligent
people. (29:38)
• As for those who strive in Our Way, We will guide them to Our
Paths. Truly Allah is with the good-doers. (29:69)
• (We have instructed man concerning his parents:) ‘But if they try
to make you associate something with Me about which you have
no knowledge, do not obey them. Keep company with them
correctly and courteously in this world but follow the Way of him
who turns to Me. Then you will return to Me and I will inform you
about the things you did.’ (31:15)
• Allah has not allotted to any man two hearts within his breast, nor
has He made those of your wives you equate with your mothers
your actual mothers, nor has He made your adopted sons your
actual sons. These are just words coming out of your mouths. But
Allah speaks the truth and He guides to the Way. (33:4)
• And they will say, ‘Our Lord, we obeyed our masters and great
men and they misguided us from the Way.’ (33:67)
• Those who have been given knowledge see that what has been
sent down to you from your Lord is the truth and that it guides to
the Path of the Almighty, the Praiseworthy. (34:6)
• Did I not make a contract with you, tribe of Adam, not to worship
Satan, who truly is an outright enemy to you, but to worship Me?
That is a straight path. (36:60-61)
• When harm touches man he calls upon his Lord, repenting to Him.
Then when He grants him a blessing from Him, he forgets what
he was calling for before and ascribes rivals to Allah, so as to
misguide others from His Way. Say: ‘Enjoy your disbelief for a
little while. You are among the Companions of the Fire.’ (39:8)
• Those who bear the Throne, and all those around it, glorify their
Lord with praise and believe in Him and ask forgiveness for those
who believe: ‘Our Lord, You encompass everything in mercy and
knowledge! Forgive those who turn to You and who follow Your
Way and safeguard them from the punishment of the Blazing
Fire.’ (40:7)
• (A man among Pharaoh’s people who believed, but kept his faith
concealed, said,) ‘My people! The kingdom is yours today, as
masters in the land, but who will help us against Allah’s violent
force, if it comes upon us?’ Pharaoh said, ‘I only show you what I
see myself and I only guide you to the path of rectitude.’ (40:29)
• The man who believed said, ‘My people! Follow me and I will
guide you to the path of rectitude.’ (40:38)
• They (Satans) debar them from the path, yet they still think they
are guided. (43:37)
• (‘Isa said,) ‘Allah is my Lord and your Lord so worship Him. This
is a straight path.’ (43:64)
• As for those who disbelieve and bar others from the Way of Allah,
Allah will make their actions go astray. (47:1)
• Therefore when you meet those who disbelieve strike their necks.
Then when you have decimated them, tie their bonds tightly and
set them free or ransom them, until the war is finally over. That is
how it is to be. If Allah willed, He could avenge Himself on them.
But it is so that He can test some of you by means of others. As
for those who fight in the Way of Allah, He will not let their actions
go astray. (47:4)
• Those who disbelieve and obstruct the Way of Allah and are
entrenched in hostility towards the Messenger after the guidance
has become clear to them, do not harm Allah in any way and He
makes their actions come to nothing. (47:32)
• Those who disbelieve and obstruct the Way of Allah, and then die
disbelievers, Allah will not forgive them. (47:34)
• Here you are then: people who are called upon to spend in the
Way of Allah and then some of you are tight-fisted! But whoever
is tight-fisted is only tight-fisted to himself. Allah is Rich and you
are poor. If you turn away, He will replace you with a people other
than yourselves and they will not be like you. (47:38)
• Truly We have granted you a clear victory, so that Allah may
forgive you your earlier errors and any later ones and complete
His blessing upon you, and guide you on a Straight Path. (48:1-2)
• Allah has promised you much booty which you will take, and has
hastened this for you and held people’s hands back from you, so
that it might be a Sign to the believers, and so that He might
guide you to a straight path. (48:20)
• The believers are only those who have believed in Allah and His
Messenger and then have had no doubt and have strived with
their wealth and themselves in the Way of Allah. They are the
ones who are true to their word. (49:15)
• And how is it with you that you do not give in the Way of Allah,
when the inheritance of the heavens and the earth belongs to
Allah? Those of you who gave and fought before the Victory are
not the same as those who gave and fought afterwards. They are
higher in rank. But to each of them Allah has promised the Best.
Allah is aware of what you do. (57:10)
• They made their oaths into a cloak and barred the Way of Allah,
so they will have a humiliating punishment. (58:16)
• Allah loves those who fight in His Way in ranks like well-built walls.
(61:4)
• They have made their oaths into a cloak and barred the Way of
Allah. What they have done is truly evil. (63:2)
• Then when they have reached the end of their waiting period
either retain them with correctness and courtesy or part from
them with correctness and courtesy. Call two upright men from
among yourselves as witnesses and they should carry out the
witnessing for Allah. This is admonishment for all who believe in
Allah and the Last Day. Whoever has fear of Allah–He will give
him a way out. (65:2)
• Your Lord knows best who is misguided from His Way and He
knows best those who are guided. (68:7)
• This truly is a reminder, so let anyone who wills take the Way
towards his Lord. (73:19)
• Your Lord knows that you stay up nearly two-thirds of the night–or
half of it, or a third of it–and a group of those with you. Allah
determines the night and day. He knows you will not keep count
of it, so He has turned towards you. Recite as much of the Qur’an
as is easy for you. He knows that some of you are ill and that
others are travelling in the land seeking Allah’s bounty, and that
others are fighting in the Way of Allah. So recite as much of it as
is easy for you. And perform prayer and give the alms and lend a
generous loan to Allah. Whatever good you send ahead for
yourselves you will find it with Allah as something better and as a
greater reward. And seek forgiveness from Allah. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (73:20)
PATIENCE
• If any of you do not have the means to marry free women who
are believers, you may marry slavegirls who are believers. Allah
knows best about your faith; you are all the same in that respect.
Marry them with their owners’ permission and give them their
dowries correctly and courteously as married women, not in
fornication or taking them as lovers. When they are married, if
they commit fornication they should receive half the punishment
of free women. This is for those of you who are afraid of
committing fornication. But being patient is better for you. Allah is
Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:25)
• They will all parade before Allah and the weak will say to those
who were arrogant, ‘We followed you, so can you help us at all
against the punishment of Allah?’ They will say, ‘If Allah had
guided us, we would have guided you. It makes no difference
whether we cannot stand it or bear it patiently. We have no way
of escape.’ (14:21)
• If you want to retaliate, retaliate to the same degree as the injury
done to you. But if you are patient, it is better to be patient.
(16:126)
• (He said to Musa,) ‘How indeed could you bear with patience
something you have not encompassed in your knowledge?’
(18:68)
• Musa said, ‘You will find me patient, if Allah wills, and I will not
disobey you in any matter.’ (18:69)
• If they had only been patient until you came out to them, it would
have been better for them. But Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. (49:5)
• So be patient in the face of what they say and glorify your Lord
with praise before the rising of the sun and before it sets. (50:39)
• (The Day they are shoved roughly into the Fire of Hell, they will
be told,) ‘Roast in it! And bear it patiently or do not bear it
patiently. It makes no difference either way. You are simply being
repaid for what you did.’ (52:16)
PATTERN (SUNNAH)
• Say to those who disbelieve that if they stop, they will be forgiven
what is past; but if they return to it, they have the pattern of
previous peoples in the past. (8:38)
• That was the pattern with those We sent before you as Our
Messengers. You will not find any changing of Our pattern. (17:77)
• This is Allah’s pattern with those who passed away before. You
will not find any alteration in Allah’s pattern. (33:62)
• They swore by Allah with their most earnest oaths that if a warner
came to them they would be better guided than any other
community. But then when a warner did come to them, it only
increased their aversion, shown by their arrogance in the land
and evil plotting. But evil plotting envelops only those who do it.
Do they expect anything but the pattern of previous peoples? You
will not find any changing in the pattern of Allah. You will not find
any alteration in the pattern of Allah. (35:42-43)
• But when they saw Our violent force their faith was of no use to
them. That is the pattern Allah has always followed with His
servants. Then and there the disbelievers were lost. (40:85)
• That is Allah’s pattern which has passed away before. You will
not find any changing in the pattern of Allah. (48:23)
PAYMENT
• As for those who desire the life of this world and its finery, We will
give them full payment in it for their actions. They will not be
deprived here of their due. (11:15)
• Are you asking them for payment? Your Lord’s payment is better.
He is the Best of Providers. (23:72)
PEACE
• They will have the Abode of Peace with their Lord. He is their
Protector because of what they have done. (6:127)
• If they (enemies) incline to peace, you too incline to it, and put
your trust in Allah. He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing. (8:61)
• Do not become faint-hearted and call for peace when you are
uppermost and Allah is with you–He would never cheat you of
your deeds. (47:35)
PEACE OF HUDAYBIYYAH
• No, you thought that the Messenger and the believers were not
going to return to their families, and that seemed pleasing to your
hearts and you thought evil thoughts and you were a blighted
people. (48:12)
• When you go out to get the booty, those who remained behind
will say, ‘Allow us to follow you,’ desiring to alter Allah’s words.
Say: ‘You may not follow us. That is what Allah said before.’ They
will say, ‘It is only because you envy us.’ No indeed! How little
they have understood! (48:15)
• Allah has promised you much booty which you will take, and has
hastened this for you and held people’s hands back from you, so
that it might be a Sign to the believers, and so that He might
guide you to a straight path. (48:20)
• And other booty you do not yet have the power to take–Allah has
already encompassed it. Allah has power over all things. (48:21)
• If those who disbelieve should fight you, they would turn their
backs and then find no one to protect or help them. (48:22)
• It is He Who held their hands back from you, and your hands from
them in the valley of Makka, after giving you the upper hand over
them. Allah sees what you do. (48:24)
• They are those who disbelieved and debarred you from the
Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) and prevented the sacrifice
from reaching its proper place, and had it not been for some men
and women who are believers, whom you did not know and might
trample underfoot, and so unknowingly incur blame on their
account–so that Allah might admit into His mercy those He wills–
and had those among them who disbelieve been clearly
distinguishable, We would have punished them with a painful
punishment. (48:25)
• Allah has confirmed His Messenger’s vision with truth: ‘You will
enter the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) in safety, Allah
willing, shaving your heads and cutting your hair without any fear.’
He knew what you did not know and ordained, in place of this, an
imminent victory. (48:27)
PEARL
• It is He Who made the sea subservient to you so that you can eat
fresh flesh from it and bring out from it ornaments to wear. And
you see the ships cleaving through it so that you can seek His
bounty, and so that hopefully you will show thanks. (16:14)
• But Allah will admit those who believe and do right actions into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them where they will be
adorned with gold bracelets and pearls, and where their clothing
will be of silk. (22:23)
• They will enter Gardens of Eden where they will be adorned with
gold bracelets and pearls, and where their clothing will be of silk.
(35:33)
• From out of them (the seas) come glistening pearls and coral.
(55:22)
• (In the Gardens there are maidens) like precious gems of ruby
and pearl. (55:58)
PEN
• If all the trees on earth were pens and all the sea, with seven
more seas besides, was ink Allah’s words still would not run dry.
Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (31:27)
• He Who taught by the pen, taught man what he did not know.
(96:4-5)
PEOPLE OF AL-HIJR
(AHL AL-KITAB)
• Those of the People of the Book who disbelieve and the idolaters
do not like anything good to be sent down to you from your Lord.
But Allah selects for His mercy whomever He wills. Allah’s favour
is truly vast. (2:105)
• Many of the People of the Book would love it if they could turn
you back to disbelief after you have become believers, showing
their innate envy now that the truth is clear to them. But you
should pardon and overlook until Allah gives His command. Truly
Allah has power over all things. (2:109)
• People of the Book! Why do you reject Allah’s Signs when you
yourselves are there as witnesses? (3:70)
• People of the Book! Why do you mix truth with falsehood and
knowingly conceal the truth? (3:71)
• A group of the People of the Book say, ‘At the beginning of the
day, you should claim to believe in what was sent down to those
who believe, and then at the end of the day, you should reject it,
so that hopefully they will revert.’ (3:72)
• Among the People of the Book there are some who, if you entrust
them with a pile of gold, will return it to you. But there are others
among them who, if you entrust them with just a single dinar, will
not return it to you, unless you stay standing over them. That is
because they say, ‘We are under no obligation where the gentiles
are concerned.’ They tell a lie against Allah and they know it.
(3:75)
• Say, ‘People of the Book, why do you reject Allah’s Signs when
Allah is witness of everything you do?’ (3:98)
• Say, ‘People of the Book, why do you bar those who believe from
the Way of Allah, seeking in it something crooked, when you
yourselves are witnesses to it? Allah is not unaware of what you
do.’ (3:99)
• You are the best nation ever to be produced before mankind. You
enjoin the right, forbid the wrong and believe in Allah. If the
People of the Book were to believe, it would be better for them.
Some of them are believers but most of them are deviators.
(3:110)
• They are not all the same. There is a community among the
People of the Book who are upright. They recite Allah’s Signs
throughout the night, and they prostrate. (3:113)
• Among the people of the Book there are some who believe in
Allah and in what has been sent down to you and what was sent
down to them, and who are humble before Allah. They do not sell
Allah’s Signs for a paltry price. Such people will have their reward
with their Lord. And Allah is swift at reckoning. (3:199)
• The People of the Book will ask you to bring down a Book from
heaven to them. They asked Musa for even more than that. They
said, ‘Let us see Allah with our own eyes.’ So the lightning-bolt
struck them down for their wrongdoing. Then they adopted the
Calf after the Clear Signs had come to them, but We pardoned
them for that and gave Musa clear authority. (4:153)
• There is not one of the People of the Book who will not believe in
him (‘Isa son of Maryam) before he dies; and on the Day of Rising
he will be a witness against them. (4:159)
• Say: ‘People of the Book! Do you resent us for any other reason
than that we believe in Allah and what was sent down to us, and
what was sent down before, and because most of you are
deviators?’ (5:59)
• If only the People of the Book had believed and guarded against
evil, We would have erased their evil deeds from them and
admitted them into Gardens of Delight. (5:65)
• Say: ‘People of the Book! You have nothing to stand on until you
implement the Torah and the Gospel and what has been sent
down to you from your Lord.’ What has been sent down to you
from your Lord increases many of them in insolence and disbelief.
So do not waste your grief on the people of the disbelievers. (5:68)
• Only argue with the People of the Book in the kindest way–except
in the case of those of them who do wrong–saying, ‘We believe in
what has been sent down to us and what was sent down to you.
Our God and your God are one and we submit to Him.’ (29:46)
• He brought down from their fortresses those of the People of the
Book who supported them and cast terror into their hearts. You
killed some of them and some you took prisoner. (33:26)
• So that the People of the Book may know that they have no
power at all over any of Allah’s favour and that all favour is in the
Hand of Allah. He gives it to anyone He wills. Allah’s favour is
indeed immense. (57:29)
• Did you not see the hypocrites saying to their brothers, those
among the People of the Book who disbelieve, ‘If you are driven
out we will leave with you, we will never obey anyone to your
detriment. And if you are fought against we will help you’? Allah
bears witness that they are truly liars. (59:11)
• The People of the Book who disbelieve and are the idolaters
would not be cut off until the Clear Sign came to them. (98:1)
• The People of the Book who disbelieve and the idolaters will be in
the Fire of Hell, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. They are the
worst of creatures. (98:6)
PEOPLE OF TUBBA
• Are they better or the people of Tubba‘ and those before them
whom We destroyed? They were certainly evildoers. (44:37)
• (Their Messengers said,) ‘And why indeed should we not put our
trust in Allah when He has guided us to our ways? We will be
steadfast however much you harm us. Those who trust put their
trust in Allah.’ (14:12)
• But to those who migrated after they were persecuted and then
strived and remained steadfast, to them your Lord is All-
Compassionate, Most Merciful. (16:110)
• There are some people who say, ‘We believe in Allah,’ and then,
when they suffer harm in Allah’s cause, they take people’s
persecution for Allah’s punishment; but if help comes from your
Lord they say, ‘We were with you.’ Does Allah not know best what
is in every person’s heart? (29:10)
• Those who persecute men and women of the believers, and then
do not repent, will have the punishment of Hell, will have the
punishment of the Burning. (85:10)
PHARAOH
• And when We parted the sea for you and rescued you, and
drowned the people of Pharaoh while you watched. (2:50)
• As for those who disbelieve, their wealth and children will not help
them against Allah in any way. They are fuel for the Fire, as was
the case with the people of Pharaoh and those before them. They
denied Our Signs so Allah seized them for their wrong actions.
Allah is fierce in retribution. (3:10-11)
• And then, after them, We sent Musa with Our Signs to Pharaoh
and his ruling circle but they wrongfully rejected them. See the
final fate of the corrupters! (7:103)
• He (Pharaoh) said, ‘If you have come with a Clear Sign produce it
if you are telling the truth.’ (7:106)
• They said, ‘Detain him and his brother and send out marshals to
the cities, to bring you all the skilled magicians.’ (7:111-112)
• He said, ‘Yes, and you will be among those brought near.’ (7:114)
• They said, ‘Musa, will you throw first or shall we be the ones to
throw?’ (7:115)
• He said, ‘You throw.’ And when they threw, they cast a spell on
the people's eyes and caused them to feel great fear of them.
They produced an extremely powerful magic. (7:116)
• So the Truth took place and what they did was shown to be false.
(7:118)
• They said, ‘We believe in the Lord of all the worlds, the Lord of
Musa and Harun.’ (7:121-122)
• They said, ‘We are returning to our Lord. You are only avenging
yourself on us because we believed in our Lord’s Signs when
they came to us. Our Lord, pour down steadfastness upon us and
take us back to You as Muslims.’ (7:125-126)
• The ruling circle of Pharaoh’s people said, ‘Are you going to leave
Musa and his people to cause corruption in the earth and
abandon you and your gods?’ He said, ‘We will kill their sons and
let their women live. We have absolute power over them!’ (7:127)
• Whenever a good thing came to them, they said, ‘This is our due.’
But if anything bad happened to them, they would blame their ill
fortune on Musa and those with him. No indeed! The ill fortune is
theirs in Allah's sight. But most of them did not know. (7:131)
• They said, ‘No matter what kind of Sign you bring us to bewitch
us, we will not believe in you.’ (7:132)
• Whenever the plague came down on them they said, ‘Musa, pray
to your Lord for us by the contract He has with you. If you remove
the plague from us, we will definitely believe in you and send the
tribe of Israel away with you.’ (7:134)
• Such was the case with Pharaoh’s people and those before them.
They rejected Allah’s Signs so Allah seized them for their wrong
actions. Allah is Strong, Severe in Retribution. (8:52)
• Such was the case with Pharaoh’s people and those before them.
They denied their Lord’s Signs so We destroyed them for their
wrong actions. We drowned Pharaoh’s people. All of them were
wrongdoers. (8:54)
• Then after them We sent Musa and Harun with Our Signs to
Pharaoh and his ruling circle, but they were arrogant and were a
people of evildoers. (10:75)
• Musa said, ‘Do you say to the truth when it comes to you, "This is
magic"? Magicians are not successful.’ (10:77)
• When they had thrown, Musa said, ‘What you have brought is
magic. Allah will certainly prove it false. Allah does not uphold the
actions of corrupters.’ (10:81)
• Allah confirms the Truth by His words, even though the evildoers
hate it. (10:82)
• No one believed in Musa except for a few of his people out of fear
that Pharaoh, and the elders, would persecute them. Pharaoh
was high and mighty in the land. He was one of the profligate.
(10:83)
• Musa said, ‘My people! If you believe in Allah, then put your trust
in Him, if you are Muslims.’ (10:84)
• They said, ‘We have put our trust in Allah. Our Lord, Do not make
us a target for this wrongdoing people, and rescue us, by Your
mercy, from this disbelieving people!’ (10:85-86)
• Musa said, ‘Our Lord, You have given Pharaoh and his ruling
circle finery and wealth in the life of this world, Our Lord, so that
they may be misguided from Your Way. Our Lord, obliterate their
wealth and harden their hearts so that they do not believe until
they see the painful punishment.’ (10:88)
• We brought the tribe of Israel across the sea and Pharaoh and
his troops pursued them out of tyranny and enmity. Then, when
he was on the point of drowning, he said, ‘I believe that there is
no god but Him in whom the tribe of Israel believe. I am one of
the Muslims.’ (10:90)
• ‘What, now! When previously you rebelled and were one of the
corrupters? Today We will preserve your body so you can be a
Sign for people who come after you. Surely many people are
heedless of Our Signs.’ (10:91-92)
• We sent Musa with Our Signs and clear authority to Pharaoh and
his ruling circle. They followed Pharaoh’s command but
Pharaoh’s command was not rightly guided. (11:96-97)
• He will go ahead of his people on the Day of Rising and lead
them down into the Fire. What an evil watering-hole to be led to!
(11:98)
• We gave Musa nine Clear Signs. Ask the tribe of Israel about
when he came to them and Pharaoh said to him, ‘Musa, I think
you are bewitched.’ (17:101)
• He said, ‘You know that no one sent these down but the Lord of
the heavens and earth to be clear proofs. Pharaoh, I think you are
destroyed.’ (17:102)
• He wanted to scare them from the land but We drowned him and
every one of those with him. (17:103)
• Then We sent Musa and his brother Harun with Our Signs and
clear authority to Pharaoh and his ruling circle. But they were
proud and were a haughty people. (23:45-46)
• When your Lord called out to Musa: ‘Go to the wrongdoing people,
the people of Pharaoh. Will they not guard against evil?’ (26:10-
11)
• (Allah said to Musa,) ‘Go to Pharaoh and say, "We are the
Messenger of the Lord of all the worlds to tell you to send the
tribe of Israel away with us."’ (26:16-17)
• They said, ‘Detain him and his brother and send out marshals to
the cities, to bring you all the skilled magicians.’ (26:36-37)
• The people were asked, ‘Are you all assembled so we can follow
the magicians if they are the winners?’ (26:39-40)
• They threw down their ropes and staffs and said, ‘By the might of
Pharaoh we are the winners.’ (26:44)
• Pharaoh sent marshals into the cities: ‘These people are a small
group and we find them irritating and we constitute a vigilant
majority.’ (26:53-56)
• (Allah said to Musa,) ‘Put your hand inside your shirt front. It will
emerge pure white, yet quite unharmed–one of nine Signs to
Pharaoh and his people. They are a people of deviators.’ (27:12)
• We recite to you with truth some news of Musa and Pharaoh for
people who believe. (28:3)
• (Allah said to Musa,) ‘Put your hand inside your shirt front. It will
emerge pure white yet quite unharmed. And hug your arms to
your sides to still your fear. These are two proofs from your Lord
for Pharaoh and his ruling circle. They are a deviant people.’
(28:32)
• Pharaoh said, ‘Council, I do not know of any other god for you
apart from Me. Haman, kindle a fire for me over the clay and build
me a lofty tower so that perhaps I may be able to climb up to
Musa’s god! I consider him a blatant liar.’ (28:38)
• He and his troops were arrogant in the land without any right.
They thought that they would not return to Us. (28:39)
• So We seized him and his troops and flung them into the sea.
See the final fate of the wrongdoers! (28:40)
• And Qarun and Pharaoh and Haman–Musa came with the Clear
Signs to them, but they were arrogant on the earth. They could
not outstrip Us. (29:39)
• Before them the people of Nuh denied the truth, as did ‘Ad and
Pharaoh of the Stakes. (38:12)
• When he brought them the truth from Us they said, ‘Slaughter the
sons of those who believe with him but let their women live.’ The
stratagems of the disbelievers are nothing but errors. (40:25)
• Pharaoh said, ‘Let me kill Musa and let him call upon his Lord! I
am afraid that he may change your religion and bring about
corruption in the land.’ (40:26)
• Musa said, ‘I seek refuge in my Lord and your Lord from every
proud man who does not believe in the Day of Reckoning.’ (40:27)
• A man among Pharaoh’s people who believed, but kept his faith
concealed, said, ‘Are you going to kill a man for saying "My Lord
is Allah" when he has brought you Clear Signs from your Lord? If
he is telling a lie, be it on his own head. But if he is telling the
truth, then some of what he is promising you will certainly happen
to you. Allah does not guide any unbridled inveterate liar. My
people! The kingdom is yours today, as masters in the land, but
who will help us against Allah’s violent force, if it comes upon us?’
Pharaoh said, ‘I only show you what I see myself and I only guide
you to the path of rectitude.’ (40:28-29)
• So Allah safeguarded him from the evil things they plotted and a
most evil torment engulfed Pharaoh’s people–the Fire, morning
and night, to which they are exposed; and on the Day the Hour
takes place: ‘Admit Pharaoh’s people to the harshest
punishment!’ (40:45-46)
• We sent Musa with Our Signs to Pharaoh and his nobles. He said,
‘I am the Messenger of the Lord of the worlds.’ (43:46)
• But when he came to them with Our Signs, they merely laughed
at them. (43:47)
• We showed them no Sign which was not greater than the one
before it. We seized them with punishment so that hopefully they
would turn back. (43:48)
• How many gardens and fountains they left behind, and ripe crops
and noble residences. What comfort and ease they had delighted
in! So it was. Yet We bequeathed these things to another people.
(44:25-28)
• Neither heaven nor earth shed any tears for them and they were
granted no reprieve. (44:29)
• Before them the people of Nuh also denied the truth and the
Companions of Rass and Thamud, and ‘Ad and Pharaoh and the
brothers of Lut. (50:12-13)
• Allah has made an example for those who believe: the wife of
Pharaoh when she said, ‘My Lord, build a house in the Garden for
me in Your presence and rescue me from Pharaoh and his deeds
and rescue me from this wrongdoing people.’ (66:11)
• Pharaoh and those before him and the Overturned Cities made a
great mistake. (69:9)
• Has the story reached you of the legions of Pharaoh and Thamud?
(85:17-18)
• Do you not see what your Lord did with ‘Ad–Iram of the Columns
whose like was not created in any land–and Thamud who carved
out rocks in the valley-side, and Pharaoh of the Stakes, all of
whom were tyrants in their lands and caused much corruption in
them? (89:6-12)
PIG
• Say: ‘Shall I tell you of a reward with Allah far worse than that:
that of those whom Allah has cursed and with whom He is angry–
turning some of them into monkeys and into pigs–and who
worshipped false gods? Such people are in a worse situation and
further from the right way.’ (5:60)
PILGRIMAGE (HAJJ)
• They will ask you about the crescent moons. Say, ‘They are set
times for mankind and for the pilgrimage.’ It is not devoutness for
you to enter houses by the back. Rather devoutness is
possessed by those who guard against evil. So come to houses
by their doors and have fear of Allah, so that hopefully you will be
successful. (2:189)
• Perform the pilgrimage and the pious visit for Allah. If you are
forcibly prevented, make whatever sacrifice is feasible. But do not
shave your heads until the sacrificial animal has reached the
place of sacrifice. If any of you are ill or have a head injury, the
expiation is fasting or charity or sacrifice when you are safe and
well again. And if you are secure, then he who takes advantage
of a pious visit before the pilgrimage should make whatever
sacrifice is feasible. For any one who cannot, there is three days’
fast on pilgrimage and seven on your return–that is ten in all. That
is for anyone whose family does not live near the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram). Have fear of Allah and know that Allah is fierce
in retribution. (2:196)
• In it are Clear Signs–the place where Ibrahim stood (to pray). All
who enter it are safe. Pilgrimage to the House is a duty owed to
Allah by all mankind–those who can find a way to do it. But if
anyone disbelieves, Allah is Rich Beyond Need of any being.
(3:97)
• You who believe! Fulfil your contracts. All livestock animals are
lawful for you, except those that are recited to you now; but it is
still not lawful to hunt while you are in the state of pilgrimage.
Allah makes whatever judgements He wills. (5:1)
• You who believe! Do not profane the sacred rites of Allah or the
sacred months, or the sacrificial animals, or the ritual garlands, or
those heading for the Sacred House, desiring profit and good
pleasure from their Lord. When your pilgrimage is over, then you
may hunt. Do not let hatred for a people who debar you from the
Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) incite you into going beyond
the limits. Help each other to goodness and heedfulness. Do not
help each other to wrongdoing and enmity. Have fear of Allah.
Allah is severe in retribution. (5:2)
• You who believe! Do not kill game while you are in the state of
pilgrimage. If one of you kills any deliberately, the reprisal for it is
a livestock animal equivalent to what he killed, as judged by two
just men among you, a sacrifice to reach the Kaaba, or expiation
by feeding the poor, or fasting commensurate with that, so that he
may taste the evil consequences of what he did. Allah has
pardoned all that took place in the past; but if anyone does it
again Allah will take revenge on him. Allah is Almighty, Exactor of
Revenge. (5:95)
• Anything you catch in the sea is lawful for you, and all food from it,
for your enjoyment and that of travellers, but land game is
forbidden for you while you are in the state of pilgrimage. So have
fear of Allah, Him to Whom you will be gathered. (5:96)
• Those who disbelieve and bar access to the Way of Allah and to
the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) which We have appointed
for all mankind–equally for those who live near it and those who
come from far away–those who desire to profane it with
wrongdoing, We will let them taste a painful punishment. (22:25)
• Perform the pilgrimage and the pious visit for Allah. If you are
forcibly prevented, make whatever sacrifice is feasible. But do not
shave your heads until the sacrificial animal has reached the
place of sacrifice. If any of you are ill or have a head injury, the
expiation is fasting or charity or sacrifice when you are safe and
well again. And if you are secure, then he who takes advantage
of a pious visit before the pilgrimage should make whatever
sacrifice is feasible. For any one who cannot, there is three days’
fast on pilgrimage and seven on your return–that is ten in all. That
is for anyone whose family does not live near the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram). Have fear of Allah and know that Allah is fierce
in retribution. (2:196)
PLANK
PLANT
• Good land yields up its plants by its Lord’s permission, but that
which is bad only yields up scantily. In this way We vary the Signs
for people who are thankful. (7:58)
• Make a metaphor for them of the life of this world. It is like water
which We send down from the sky and the plants of the earth
combine with it but then become dry chaff scattered by the winds.
Allah has absolute power over everything. (18:45)
• Mankind! If you are in any doubt about the Rising, know that We
created you from dust then from a drop of sperm then from a clot
of blood then from a lump of flesh, formed yet unformed, so We
may make things clear to you. We make whatever We want stay
in the womb until a specified time and then We bring you out as
children so that you can reach your full maturity. Some of you die
and some of you revert to the lowest form of life so that, after
having knowledge, they then know nothing at all. And you see the
earth dead and barren; then when We send down water onto it it
quivers and swells and sprouts with luxuriant plants of every kind.
(22:5)
• But they turned away so We unleashed against them the flood
from the great dam and exchanged their two gardens for two
others containing bitter-tasting plants and tamarisk and a few lote
trees. (34:16)
• And (have they not looked at) the earth: how We stretched it out
and cast firmly embedded mountains onto it and caused luxuriant
plants of every kind to grow in it. (50:7)
• Know that the life of this world is merely a game and a diversion
and ostentation and a cause of boasting among yourselves and
trying to outdo one another in wealth and children: like the plant-
growth after rain which delights the cultivators, but then it withers
and you see it turning yellow, and then it becomes broken stubble.
In the hereafter there is terrible punishment but also forgiveness
from Allah and His good pleasure. The life of this world is nothing
but the enjoyment of delusion. (57:20)
PLEASURE OF ALLAH
• And among the people there are some who give up everything,
desiring the good pleasure of Allah. Allah is Ever-Gentle with His
servants. (2:207)
• You are not responsible for their guidance, but Allah guides
whoever He wills. Whatever good you give away is to your own
benefit, when you give desiring only the Face of Allah. Whatever
good you give away will be repaid to you in full. You will not be
wronged. (2:272)
• Say, ‘Shall I tell you of something better than that?’ Those who
guard against evil will have Gardens with their Lord, with rivers
flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever, and
purified wives, and the Pleasure of Allah. Allah sees His servants.
(3:15)
• So they returned with blessings and bounty from Allah and no evil
touched them. They pursued the pleasure of Allah. Allah’s favour
is indeed immense. (3:174)
• You who believe! Do not profane the sacred rites of Allah or the
sacred months, or the sacrificial animals, or the ritual garlands, or
those heading for the Sacred House, desiring profit and good
pleasure from their Lord. When your pilgrimage is over, then you
may hunt. Do not let hatred for a people who debar you from the
Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) incite you into going beyond
the limits. Help each other to goodness and heedfulness. Do not
help each other to wrongdoing and enmity. Have fear of Allah.
Allah is severe in retribution. (5:2)
• By it, Allah guides those who follow what pleases Him to the ways
of Peace. He will bring them from the darkness to the light by His
permission, and guide them to a straight path. (5:16)
• Allah has promised the men and women of the believers Gardens
with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly, for
ever, and fine dwellings in the Gardens of Eden. And Allah’s good
pleasure is even greater. That is the great victory. (9:72)
• On that Day intercession will not be of any use except for him
whom the All-Merciful has authorised and with whose speech He
is well-pleased. (20:109)
• Give relatives their due, and the poor and travellers. That is best
for those who seek the pleasure of Allah. They are the ones who
are successful. (30:38)
• What you give with usurious intent, aiming to get back a greater
amount from people’s wealth, does not become greater with Allah.
But anything you give as alms, seeking the Face of Allah–all who
do that will get back twice as much. (30:39)
• If you are ungrateful, Allah is rich beyond need of any of you and
He is not pleased with ingratitude in His servants. But if you are
grateful, He is pleased with you for that. No burden-bearer can
bear another’s burden. Then you will return to your Lord and He
will inform you of what you did. He knows what the heart contains.
(39:7)
• Know that the life of this world is merely a game and a diversion
and ostentation and a cause of boasting among yourselves and
trying to outdo one another in wealth and children: like the plant-
growth after rain which delights the cultivators, but then it withers
and you see it turning yellow, and then it becomes broken stubble.
In the hereafter there is terrible punishment but also forgiveness
from Allah and His good pleasure. The life of this world is nothing
but the enjoyment of delusion. (57:20)
• Then We sent Our Messengers following in their footsteps and
sent ‘Isa son of Maryam after them, giving him the Gospel. We
put compassion and mercy in the hearts of those who followed
him. They invented monasticism–We did not prescribe it for
them–purely out of desire to gain the pleasure of Allah, but even
so they did not observe it as it should have been observed. To
those of them who believed We gave their reward but many of
them are deviators. (57:27)
• It (the booty) is for the poor of the emigrants who were driven
from their homes and wealth desiring the favour and the pleasure
of Allah and supporting Allah and His Messenger. Such people
are the truly sincere. (59:8)
• (Believers say,) ‘We feed you only out of desire for the Face of
Allah. We do not want any repayment from you or any thanks.’
(76:9)
• (Those who guard against evil are) those who give their wealth to
purify themselves–not to repay someone else for a favour done–
desiring only the Face of their Lord Most High. (92:18-20)
PLOT
• They plotted and Allah plotted. But Allah is the best of plotters.
(3:54)
• And likewise in every city We set up its greatest wrongdoers to
plot in it. They plot against themselves alone, but they are not
aware of it. (6:123)
• When a Sign comes to them, they say, We will not believe until
we have been given the same as the Messengers of Allah were
given.’ Allah knows best where to place His Message.
Debasement in the sight of Allah and a severe punishment will
strike those who did wrong for the plots that they concocted.
(6:124)
• When We let people taste mercy after hardship has afflicted them,
immediately they plot against Our Signs. Say: ‘Allah is swifter at
plotting.’ Your plotting is recorded by Our Messengers. (10:21)
• They concocted their plots, but their plots were with Allah, even if
they were such as to make the mountains vanish. (14:46)
• Those before them also plotted, and Allah came at their building
from the foundations and the roof caved in on top of them. The
punishment came at them from where they did not expect. (16:26)
• They hatched a plot and We hatched a plot while they were not
aware. (27:50)
• Do not grieve over them and do not let the plots they make
distress you. (27:70)
• They swore by Allah with their most earnest oaths that if a warner
came to them they would be better guided than any other
community. But then when a warner did come to them, it only
increased their aversion, shown by their arrogance in the land
and evil plotting. But evil plotting envelops only those who do it.
Do they expect anything but the pattern of previous peoples? You
will not find any changing in the pattern of Allah. You will not find
any alteration in the pattern of Allah. (35:42-43)
• So Allah safeguarded him (Musa) from the evil things they plotted
and a most evil torment engulfed Pharaoh’s people. (40:45)
POET
• Fight those of the people who were given the Book who do not
believe in Allah and the Last Day and who do not make forbidden
what Allah and His Messenger have made forbidden and do not
take as their religion the religion of Truth, until they pay the poll
tax with their own hands in a state of complete abasement. (9:29)
POMEGRANATE
• It is He Who sends down water from the sky from which We bring
forth growth of every kind, and from that We bring forth the green
shoots and from them We bring forth close-packed seeds, and
from the spathes of the date palm date clusters hanging down,
and gardens of grapes and olives and pomegranates, both similar
and dissimilar. Look at their fruits as they bear fruit and ripen.
There are Signs in that for people who believe. (6:99)
PONDER (TAFAKKUR)
• Will they not ponder the Qur’an? If it had been from other than
Allah, they would have found many inconsistencies in it. (4:82)
• Do they not ponder these words? Has anything come to them that
did not come to their ancestors, the previous peoples? (23:68)
• It is a Book We have sent down to you, full of blessing, so let
people of intelligence ponder its Signs and take heed. (38:29)
• Will they not then ponder the Qur’an or are there locks upon their
hearts? (47:24)
POOR
• They will ask you what they should give away. Say, ‘Any wealth
you give away should go to your parents and relatives and to
orphans and the very poor and travellers.’ Whatever good you do,
Allah knows it. (2:215)
• If you make your charity public, that is good. But if you conceal it
and give it to the poor, that is better for you, and We will erase
some of your bad actions from you. Allah is aware of what you do.
(2:271)
• It (charity) is for the poor who are held back in the Way of Allah,
unable to travel in the land. The ignorant consider them rich
because of their reticence. You will know them by their mark.
They do not ask from people insistently. Whatever good you give
away, Allah knows it. (2:273)
• Allah has heard the words of those who say, ‘Allah is poor and we
are rich.’ We will write down what they said and their killing of the
Prophets without any right to do so and We will say, ‘Taste the
punishment of the Burning.’ (3:181)
• You who believe! Do not kill game while you are in the state of
pilgrimage. If one of you kills any deliberately, the reprisal for it is
a livestock animal equivalent to what he killed, as judged by two
just men among you, a sacrifice to reach the Kaaba, or expiation
by feeding the poor, or fasting commensurate with that, so that he
may taste the evil consequences of what he did. Allah has
pardoned all that took place in the past; but if anyone does it
again Allah will take revenge on him. Allah is Almighty, Exactor of
Revenge. (5:95)
• Know that when you take any booty a fifth of it belongs to Allah,
and to the Messenger, and to close relatives, orphans, the very
poor and travellers, if you believe in Allah and in what We sent
down to Our servant on the Day of Discrimination, the day the two
groups met–Allah has power over all things. (8:41)
• The alms are for: the poor, the destitute, those who collect it,
reconciling people’s hearts, freeing slaves, those in debt,
spending in the Way of Allah, and travellers. It is a legal obligation
from Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (9:60)
• Give your relatives their due, and the very poor and travellers but
do not squander what you have. (17:26)
• Do not kill your children out of fear of being poor. We will provide
for them and you. Killing them is a terrible mistake. (17:31)
• (He said to Musa,) ‘As for the boat, it belonged to some poor
people who worked on the sea. I wanted to damage it because a
king was coming behind them, commandeering every boat.’
(18:79)
• Announce the Pilgrimage to mankind. They will come to you on
foot and on every sort of lean animal, coming by every distant
road so that they can be present at what will profit them and
invoke Allah’s name on specific days over livestock He has
provided for them. Eat of them and feed those who are poor and
in need. (22:27-28)
• Marry off those among you who are unmarried and those of your
slaves and slavegirls who are righteous. If they are poor, Allah
will enrich them from His bounty. Allah is All-Encompassing, All-
Knowing. (24:32)
• Give relatives their due, and the poor and travellers. That is best
for those who seek the pleasure of Allah. They are the ones who
are successful. (30:38)
• Mankind! You are the poor in need of Allah whereas Allah is the
Rich Beyond Need, the Praiseworthy. (35:15)
• Here you are then: people who are called upon to spend in the
Way of Allah and then some of you are tight-fisted! But whoever
is tight-fisted is only tight-fisted to himself. Allah is Rich and you
are poor. If you turn away, He will replace you with a people other
than yourselves and they will not be like you. (47:38)
• Anyone who cannot find the means must fast for two consecutive
months before the two of them may touch one another again. And
anyone who is unable to do that must feed sixty poor people.
That is to affirm your faith in Allah and His Messenger. These are
Allah’s limits. The disbelievers will have a painful punishment.
(58:4)
• It (the booty) is for the poor of the emigrants who were driven
from their homes and wealth desiring the favour and the pleasure
of Allah and supporting Allah and His Messenger. Such people
are the truly sincere. (59:8)
• So they set off, quietly saying to one another, ‘Do not let any poor
man into it today while you are there.’ (68:23-24)
• They will say, ‘We were not among those who performed prayer
and we did not feed the poor.’ (74:43-44)
• They give food, despite their love for it, to the poor and orphans
and captives. (76:8)
• What will convey to you what the steep ascent is? It is freeing a
slave or feeding on a day of hunger an orphaned relative or a
poor man in the dust; (90:12-16)
• He is the one who harshly rebuffs the orphan and does not urge
the feeding of the poor. (107:2-3)
PORK
• He has only forbidden you carrion, blood and pork and what has
been consecrated to other than Allah. But anyone who is forced
to eat it–without desiring it or going to excess in it–commits no
crime. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (2:173)
• Forbidden for you are carrion, blood and pork, and what has been
consecrated to other than Allah, and animals which have been
strangled, and animals which have been killed by a blow, and
animals which have fallen to their death, and animals which have
been gored, and animals which wild beasts have eaten–except
those you are able to slaughter properly–and animals which have
been sacrificed on altars, and deciding things by means of
divining arrows–that is deviance. Today those who disbelieve
have despaired of overcoming your religion. So do not be afraid
of them but be afraid of Me. Today I have perfected your religion
for you and completed My blessing upon you and I am pleased
with Islam as a religion for you. But if anyone is forced by hunger,
not intending any wrongdoing, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. (5:3)
• Say: ‘I do not find, in what has been revealed to me, any food it is
forbidden to eat except for carrion, flowing blood, and pork–for
that is unclean–or some deviance consecrated to other than Allah.
But if anyone is forced to eat it, without desiring to or going to
excess in it, your Lord is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.’ (6:145)
POVERTY
• Or did you suppose that you would enter the Garden without
facing the same as those who came before you? Poverty and
illness afflicted them and they were shaken to the point that the
Messenger and those who believed with him said, ‘When is
Allah’s help coming?’ Be assured that Allah’s help is very near.
(2:214)
• Say: ‘Come and I will recite to you what your Lord has made
forbidden for you’: that you do not associate anything with Him;
that you are good to your parents; that you do not kill your
children because of poverty–We will provide for you and them;
that you do not approach indecency–outward or inward; that you
do not kill any person Allah has made inviolate–except with the
right to do so. That is what He instructs you to do so that
hopefully you will use your intellect. (6:151)
POWERLESSNESS
• What you are promised will come about and you can do nothing
to prevent it. (6:134)
• Do not imagine that those who disbelieve have got ahead. They
are quite powerless. (8:59)
• They will ask you to tell them if this is true. Say: ‘Yes indeed, by
my Lord, it certainly is true and you can do nothing to prevent
it.’(10:53)
• He (Nuh) said, ‘Allah will bring it to you if He wills and you will not
be able to prevent it.’ (11:33)
• Or that He will not seize them on their travels, something they are
powerless to prevent. (16:46)
• Have they not travelled in the land and seen the final fate of those
before them? They were far greater than them in strength. Allah
cannot be withstood in any way, either in the heavens or on earth.
He is All-Knowing, All-Powerful. (35:44)
• The evil deeds they earned caught up with them. And the evil
deeds which the wrongdoers among these people earn will also
catch up with them and they can do nothing to prevent it. (39:51)
• You will not be able to thwart Him on the earth and you have no
protector or helper besides Allah. (42:31)
• (A group of jinn said to their people,) ‘Those who do not respond
to Allah’s caller cannot thwart Allah on earth and have no
protectors apart from Him. Such people are clearly misguided.’
(46:32)
• (Say: ‘It has been revealed to me that a band of the jinn listened
and said,) "We realised we would never thwart Allah on earth and
would never thwart Him by flight."’ (72:12)
PRAISE
• You who believe! Give away some of the good things you have
earned and some of what the earth produces for you. Do not
have recourse to bad things when you give, things you would only
take with your eyes tight shut! Know that Allah is Rich Beyond
Need, Praiseworthy. (2:267)
• Those who exult in what they have done and love to be praised
for what they have not done should not suppose that they have
escaped the punishment. They will have a painful punishment.
(3:188)
• Praise belongs to Allah Who created the heavens and the earth
and appointed darkness and light. Then those who disbelieve
make others equal to their Lord! (6:1)
• So the last remnant of the people who did wrong was cut off.
Praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds! (6:45)
• We will strip away any rancour in their hearts. Rivers will flow
under them and they will say, ‘Praise be to Allah Who has guided
us to this! We would not have been guided, had Allah not guided
us. The Messengers of our Lord came with the Truth.’ It will be
proclaimed to them: ‘This is your Garden which you have
inherited for what you did.’ (7:43)
• Those who repent, those who worship, those who praise, those
who fast, those who bow, those who prostrate, those who
command the right, those who forbid the wrong, those who
preserve the limits of Allah: give good news to the believers.
(9:112)
• Their call there is: ‘Glory be to You, O Allah!’ Their greeting there
is: ‘Peace!’ The end of their call is: ‘Praise be to Allah, the Lord of
all the worlds!’ (10:10)
• Alif Lam Ra. This is a Book We have sent down to you so that
you can bring mankind from the darkness to the light, by the
permission of their Lord, to the Path of the Almighty, the
Praiseworthy. (14:1)
• Musa said, ‘If you were to be ungrateful, you and everyone on the
earth, Allah is Rich Beyond Need, Praiseworthy.’ (14:8)
• (Ibrahim said,) ‘Praise be to Allah Who, despite my old age, has
given me Isma‘il and Ishaq. My Lord is the Hearer of Prayer.’
(14:39)
• The seven heavens and the earth and everyone in them glorify
Him. There is nothing which does not glorify Him with praise but
you do not understand their glorification. He is All-Forbearing,
Ever-Forgiving. (17:44)
• On the Day He calls you, you will respond by praising Him and
think that you have only tarried a very short time. (17:52)
• And say: ‘Praise be to Allah Who has had no son and Who has
no partner in His Kingdom and Who needs no one to protect Him
from abasement.’ And proclaim His Greatness repeatedly!
(17:111)
• Praise belongs to Allah Who has sent down the Book to His
servant and has put no crookedness in it. (18:1)
• So be steadfast in the face of what they say and glorify your Lord
with praise before the rising of the sun and before its setting. And
glorify Him during part of the night and at both ends of the day, so
that hopefully you will be pleased. (20:130)
• They have been guided to speak good words and guided to the
praiseworthy path. (22:24)
• Everything in the heavens and everything in the earth belongs to
Him. Allah is the Rich Beyond Need, the Praiseworthy. (22:64)
• When you and those with you are settled in the Ship, then say:
"Praise be to Allah Who has rescued us from the people of the
wrongdoers!" (23:28)
• Put your trust in the Living Who does not die and glorify Him with
praise. He is well aware of the wrong actions of His servants.
(25:58)
• Say: ‘Praise be to Allah. He will show you His Signs and you will
recognise them. Your Lord is not unaware of what you do.’ (27:93)
• If you ask them, ‘Who sends down water from the sky, bringing
the earth back to life again after it was dead?’ they will say,
‘Allah.’ Say: ‘Praise be to Allah.’ But most of them do not use their
intellect. (29:63)
• The people who truly do believe in Our Signs are those who fall to
the ground prostrating when they are reminded of them, and
glorify their Lord with praise, and are not arrogant. (32:15)
• Those who have been given knowledge see that what has been
sent down to you from your Lord is the truth and that it guides to
the Path of the Almighty, the Praiseworthy. (34:6)
• Mankind! You are the poor in need of Allah whereas Allah is the
Rich Beyond Need, the Praiseworthy. (35:15)
• They will say, ‘Praise be to Allah Who has removed all sadness
from us. Truly our Lord is Ever-Forgiving, Ever-Thankful.’ (35:34)
• You will see the angels circling round the Throne, glorifying their
Lord with praise. It will be decided between them with truth. And it
will be said: ‘Praise be to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds.’ (39:75)
• Those who bear the Throne, and all those around it, glorify their
Lord with praise and believe in Him and ask forgiveness for those
who believe: ‘Our Lord, You encompass everything in mercy and
knowledge! Forgive those who turn to You and who follow Your
Way and safeguard them from the punishment of the Blazing
Fire.’ (40:7)
• The heavens are all but rent asunder from above when the
angels glorify their Lord with praise and ask forgiveness for those
who are on the earth. Allah is the Ever-Forgiving, the Most
Merciful. (42:5)
• It is He Who sends down abundant rain, after they have lost all
hope, and unfolds His mercy. He is the Protector, the
Praiseworthy. (42:28)
• All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the heavens and the Lord
of the earth, Lord of all the worlds. (45:36)
• So be patient in the face of what they say and glorify your Lord
with praise before the rising of the sun and before it sets. (50:39)
• (Allah does not love) those who are tight-fisted and tell others to
be tight-fisted. If anyone turns away, Allah is the Rich Beyond
Need, the Praiseworthy. (57:24)
• The only reason they punished them was because they believed
in Allah, the Almighty, the All-Praiseworthy. (85:8)
• When Allah’s help and victory have arrived and you have seen
people entering Allah’s religion in droves, then glorify your Lord’s
praise and ask His forgiveness. He is the Ever-Returning. (110:1-
3)
PRAYER
• (Those who guard against evil are) those who believe in the
Unseen and perform prayer and spend from what We have
provided for them. (2:3)
• Perform prayer and give the alms and bow with those who bow.
(2:43)
• Perform prayer and give the alms. Any good you send ahead for
yourselves, you will find with Allah. Certainly Allah sees what you
do. (2:110)
• You who believe! Do not approach the prayer when you are drunk,
so that you will know what you are saying, nor in a state of major
impurity–unless you are travelling–until you have washed
yourselves completely. If you are ill or on a journey, or any of you
have come from the lavatory or touched women, and you cannot
find any water then take for yourselves clean earth, wiping your
faces and your hands. Allah is Ever-Pardoning, Ever-Forgiving.
(4:43)
• Do you not see those who were told: ‘Hold back from fighting but
perform prayer and give the alms’? Then when fighting is
prescribed for them, a group of them fear people as Allah should
be feared, or even more than that. They say, ‘Our Lord, why have
you prescribed fighting for us? If only You would give us just a
little more time!’ Say, ‘The enjoyment of this world is very brief.
The hereafter is better for those who guard against evil. You will
not be wronged by so much as the smallest speck.’ (4:77)
• When you are travelling in the land, there is nothing wrong in your
shortening your prayer if you fear that those who disbelieve may
harass you. The disbelievers are your clear-cut enemies. (4:101)
• When you are with them and leading them in prayer, a group of
them should stand with you, keeping hold of their weapons. When
they prostrate, the others should guard your backs. Then the
other group who have not yet prayed should come and pray with
you. They too should be careful and keep hold of their weapons.
Those who disbelieve would like you to be negligent of your arms
and equipment so that they can swoop down on you once and for
all. There is nothing wrong, if you are bothered by rain or you are
ill, in laying your weapons down; but take every precaution. Allah
has prepared a humiliating punishment for the disbelievers.
(4:102)
• But those of them who are firmly rooted in knowledge, and the
believers, believe in what has been sent down to you and what
was sent down before you: those who perform prayer and give
the alms, and believe in Allah and the Last Day–We will pay such
people an immense wage. (4:162)
• You who believe! When you get up to perform prayer, wash your
faces and your hands and your arms to the elbows, and wipe
over your heads, and (wash) your feet to the ankles. If you are in
a state of major impurity, then purify yourselves. But if you are ill
or on a journey, or have come from the lavatory, or have touched
women, and cannot find any water, then then take for yourselves
clean earth, and wipe your faces and your hands therewith. Allah
does not want to make things difficult for you, but He does want
to purify you and to perfect His blessing upon you so that
hopefully you will be thankful. (5:6)
• Your friend is only Allah and His Messenger and those who
believe: those who perform prayer and give the alms, and bow.
(5:55)
• When you call to prayer they make a mockery and a game of it.
That is because they are people who do not use their intellect.
(5:58)
• You who believe! When one of you is near to death and makes a
will, two just men from among you should act as witnesses; or, if
you are travelling when the misfortune of death occurs, two men
who are strangers to you. You should detain them after prayer
and, if you are doubtful, they should swear by Allah: ‘We will not
sell it for any price, even to a near relative, and we will not
conceal the testimony of Allah. If we did we would indeed be
wrongdoers.’ (5:106)
• Say: ‘My prayer and my rites, my living and my dying, are for
Allah alone, the Lord of all the worlds.’ (6:162)
• Whenever the plague came down on them they said, ‘Musa, pray
to your Lord for us by the contract He has with you. If you remove
the plague from us, we will definitely believe in you and send the
tribe of Israel away with you.’ (7:134)
• As for those who hold fast to the Book and perform prayer, We
will not let the wage of the righteous be wasted. (7:170)
• Then, when the sacred months are over, kill the idolaters
wherever you find them, and seize them and besiege them and
lie in wait for them on every road. If they repent and perform
prayer and give the alms, let them go on their way. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (9:5)
• But if they repent and perform prayer and give the alms, they are
your brothers in the religion. We make the Signs clear for people
who have knowledge. (9:11)
• Nothing prevents what they give from being accepted from them
but the fact that they have rejected Allah and His Messenger, and
that they only come to prayer lethargically, and that they only give
reluctantly. (9:54)
• The men and women of the believers are friends of one another.
They command what is right and forbid what is wrong, and
perform prayer and give the alms, and obey Allah and His
Messenger. They are the people on whom Allah will have mercy.
Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (9:71)
• Never pray over any of them who die or stand at their graves.
They rejected Allah and His Messenger and died as deviators.
(9:84)
• And among the desert arabs there are some who believe in Allah
and the Last Day and regard what they give as something which
will bring them nearer to Allah and to the prayers of the
Messenger. It does indeed bring them near. Allah will admit them
into His mercy. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (9:99)
• Take charity from their wealth to purify and cleanse them and
pray for them. Your prayers bring relief to them. Allah is All-
Hearing, All-Knowing. (9:103)
• Perform prayer at each end of the day and in the first part of the
night. Good actions eradicate bad actions. This is a reminder for
people who pay heed. (11:114)
• Those who are steadfast in seeking the face of their Lord, and
perform prayer and give from the provision We have given them,
secretly and openly, and stave off evil with good, it is they who
will have the Ultimate Abode. (13:22)
• Tell My servants who believe that they should perform prayer and
give from what We have provided for them, secretly and openly,
before a Day arrives on which there will be no trading and no
friendship. (14:31)
• Man prays for evil just as he prays for good. Man is prone to be
impetuous. (17:11)
• Perform prayer from the time the sun declines until the darkening
of the night, and also the recitation at dawn. The dawn recitation
is certainly witnessed. (17:78)
• Strive for Allah with the striving due to Him. He has selected you
and not placed any constraint upon you in the religion–the religion
of your forefather Ibrahim. He named you Muslims before and
also in this, so that the Messenger could be witness against you
and you could be witnesses against all mankind. So perform
prayer and give the alms and hold fast to Allah. He is your
Protector–the Best Protector, the Best Helper. (22:78)
• ... there are men who proclaim His glory morning and evening,
not distracted by trade or commerce from the remembrance of
Allah and the performance of prayer and the giving of the alms;
fearing a day when all hearts and eyes will be in turmoil. (24:36-
37)
• Do you not see that everyone in the heavens and earth glorifies
Allah, as do the birds with their outspread wings? Each one
knows its prayer and glorification. Allah knows what they do.
(24:41)
• Perform prayer and give the alms and obey the Messenger so
that hopefully mercy will be shown to you. (24:56)
• You who believe! Those you own as slaves and those of you who
have not yet reached puberty should ask your permission to enter
at three times: before the Dawn Prayer, when you have
undressed at noon, and after the Prayer of Night–three times of
nakedness for you. There is nothing wrong for you or them at
other times in moving around among yourselves from one to
another. In this way Allah makes the Signs clear to you. Allah is
All-Knowing, All-Wise. (24:58)
• It is guidance and good news for the believers, those who
perform prayer and give the alms and are certain about the
hereafter. (27:2-3)
• Recite what has been revealed to you of the Book and perform
prayer. Prayer precludes indecency and wrongdoing. And
remembrance of Allah is greater still. Allah knows what you do.
(29:45)
• (The good-doers are) those who perform prayer and give the
alms and are certain of the hereafter. (31:4)
• Those who recite the Book of Allah and perform prayer and give
of what We have provided for them, secretly and openly, hope for
a transaction which will not prove profitless. (35:29)
• When We grant blessing to a man, he turns away and draws
aside but when any evil touches him, he is full of endless prayers!
(41:51)
• (What is with Allah is better for) those who respond to their Lord
and perform prayer, and manage their affairs by mutual
consultation and give of what We have provided for them. (42:38)
• You who believe! When you are called to prayer on the Day of
Friday, hasten to the remembrance of Allah and abandon trade.
That is better for you if you only knew. (62:9)
• Then when the prayer is finished spread through the earth and
seek Allah’s bounty and remember Allah much so that hopefully
you will be successful. (62:10)
• Your Lord knows that you stay up nearly two-thirds of the night–or
half of it, or a third of it–and a group of those with you. Allah
determines the night and day. He knows you will not keep count
of it, so He has turned towards you. Recite as much of the Qur’an
as is easy for you. He knows that some of you are ill and that
others are travelling in the land seeking Allah’s bounty, and that
others are fighting in the Way of Allah. So recite as much of it as
is easy for you. And perform prayer and give the alms and lend a
generous loan to Allah. Whatever good you send ahead for
yourselves you will find it with Allah as something better and as a
greater reward. And seek forgiveness from Allah. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (73:20)
• They will say, ‘We were not among those who performed prayer.’
(74:43)
• Have you seen him who prevents a servant when he goes to pray?
(96:9-10)
• (The servants of the All-Merciful are) those who pass the night
prostrating and standing before their Lord; (25:64)
• When you are travelling in the land, there is nothing wrong in your
shortening your prayer if you fear that those who disbelieve may
harass you. The disbelievers are your clear-cut enemies. (4:101)
• When you are with them and leading them in prayer, a group of
them should stand with you, keeping hold of their weapons. When
they prostrate, the others should guard your backs. Then the
other group who have not yet prayed should come and pray with
you. They too should be careful and keep hold of their weapons.
Those who disbelieve would like you to be negligent of your arms
and equipment so that they can swoop down on you once and for
all. There is nothing wrong, if you are bothered by rain or you are
ill, in laying your weapons down; but take every precaution. Allah
has prepared a humiliating punishment for the disbelievers.
(4:102)
PRAYER OF NIGHT
• You who believe! Those you own as slaves and those of you who
have not yet reached puberty should ask your permission to enter
at three times: before the Dawn Prayer, when you have
undressed at noon, and after the Prayer of Night–three times of
nakedness for you. There is nothing wrong for you or them at
other times in moving around among yourselves from one to
another. In this way Allah makes the Signs clear to you. Allah is
All-Knowing, All-Wise. (24:58)
PRECAUTION
• When you are with them and leading them in prayer, a group of
them should stand with you, keeping hold of their weapons. When
they prostrate, the others should guard your backs. Then the
other group who have not yet prayed should come and pray with
you. They too should be careful and keep hold of their weapons.
Those who disbelieve would like you to be negligent of your arms
and equipment so that they can swoop down on you once and for
all. There is nothing wrong, if you are bothered by rain or you are
ill, in laying your weapons down; but take every precaution. Allah
has prepared a humiliating punishment for the disbelievers.
(4:102)
PREGNANCY
• It is He Who created you from a single self and made from him
his spouse so that he might find repose in her. Then when he
covered her she bore a light load and carried it around. Then
when it became heavy they called on Allah, their Lord, ‘If You
grant us a healthy child, we will be among the thankful!’ (7:189)
• Allah knows what every female bears and every shrinking of the
womb and every swelling. Everything has its measure with Him.
(13:8)
• On the day they see it, every nursing woman will be oblivious of
the baby at her breast, and every pregnant woman will abort the
contents of her womb, and you will think people drunk when they
are not drunk; it is just that the punishment of Allah is so severe.
(22:2)
• Allah created you from dust and then from a drop of sperm and
then made you into pairs. No female becomes pregnant or gives
birth except with His knowledge. And no living thing lives long or
has its life cut short without that being in a Book. That is easy for
Allah. (35:11)
• In the case of those of your wives who are past the age of
menstruation, if you have any doubt, their waiting period should
be three months, and that also applies to those who have not yet
menstruated. The time for women who are pregnant is when they
give birth. Whoever has fear of Allah–He will make matters easy
for him. (65:4)
• Let them (the women you divorce) live where you live, according
to your means. Do not put pressure on them, so as to harass
them. If they are pregnant, maintain them until they give birth. If
they are suckling for you, give them their wages and consult
together with correctness and courtesy. But if you make things
difficult for one another, another woman should do the suckling
for you. (65:6)
• It is He Who created you from clay and then decreed a fixed term,
and another fixed term is specified with Him. Yet you still have
doubts! (6:2)
• Every nation has an appointed time. When their time comes, they
cannot delay it a single hour or bring it forward. (7:34)
• Were it not for a prior decree which had already proceeded from
Allah, a terrible punishment would have afflicted you on account
of what you took. (8:68)
• Mankind was only one community but then they differed, and had
it not been for a prior Word from your Lord, they would already
have been judged in respect of the differences between them.
(10:19)
• (It was revealed to Nuh:) ‘Build the Ark under Our supervision and
as We reveal and do not address Me concerning the wrongdoers.
They shall be drowned.’ (11:37)
• (Hud said,) ‘I have put my trust in Allah, my Lord and your Lord.
There is no creature He does not hold by the forelock. My Lord is
on a Straight Path.’ (11:56)
• As for those who are wretched, they will be in the Fire, where
they will sigh and gasp, remaining in it timelessly, for ever, as
long as the heavens and earth endure, except as your Lord wills.
Your Lord is the Doer of what He wills. As for those who are glad,
they will be in the Garden, remaining in it timelessly, for ever, as
long as the heavens and earth endure, except as your Lord wills:
an uninterrupted gift. (11:106-108)
• We did not destroy any city without it having a set time. (15:4)
• If Allah were to punish people for their wrong actions, not a single
creature would be left upon the earth, but He defers them till a
predetermined time. When their specified time arrives, they
cannot delay it for a single hour nor can they bring it forward.
(16:61)
• (Allah said,) ‘When your sister went and said, "Shall I direct you to
someone who will take care of him?" that was how We returned
you to your mother so that she might delight her eyes and not be
grieved. You killed a man and We rescued you from trouble and
tested you with many trials. You stayed some years among the
people of Madyan. Then you arrived at the pre-ordained time,
Musa!’ (20:40)
• And were it not for a prior word from your Lord, and a specified
term, it would inevitably have already taken place. (20:129)
• No nation can advance its appointed time nor can they delay it.
(23:43)
• Do you not see that Allah propels the clouds then makes them
coalesce then heaps them up, and then you see the rain come
pouring out of the middle of them? And He sends down
mountains from the sky with hail inside them, striking with it
anyone He wills and averting it from anyone He wills. The
brightness of His lightning almost blinds the sight. (24:43)
• Certainly your Lord knows what their hearts keep hidden and
what they divulge. (27:74)
• Truly Allah has knowledge of the Hour and sends down abundant
rain and knows what is in the womb. And no self knows what it
will earn tomorrow and no self knows in what land it will die. Allah
is All-Knowing, All-Aware. (31:34)
• He directs the whole affair from heaven to earth. Then it will again
ascend to Him on a Day whose length is a thousand years by the
way you measure. (32:5)
• Those who disbelieve say, ‘The Hour will never come.’ Say: ‘Yes,
by my Lord, it certainly will come!’ He is the Knower of the
Unseen, Whom not even the weight of the smallest particle
eludes, either in the heavens or in the earth; nor is there anything
smaller or larger than that which is not in a Clear Book. (34:3)
• Allah created you from dust and then from a drop of sperm and
then made you into pairs. No female becomes pregnant or gives
birth except with His knowledge. And no living thing lives long or
has its life cut short without that being in a Book. That is easy for
Allah. (35:11)
• If Allah were to take mankind to task for what they have earned,
He would not leave a single creature crawling on it, but He is
deferring them until a specified time. Then, when their time
comes, Allah sees His servants! (35:45)
• We gave Musa the Book but there was disagreement about it.
And had it not been for a prior Word from your Lord, the
judgement between them would already have been made. They
are indeed in grave doubt about it. (41:45)
• Know then that there is no god except Allah and ask forgiveness
for your wrongdoing, and for the men and women who believe.
Allah knows both your activity and your repose. (47:19)
• ... Whoever has fear of Allah–He will give him a way out and
provide for him from where he does not expect. Whoever puts his
trust in Allah–He will be enough for him. Allah always achieves
His aim. Allah has appointed a measure for all things. (65:2-3)
• (Nuh said to his people:) ‘He will forgive you your wrong actions
and defer you until a specified time. When Allah’s time comes it
cannot be deferred, if you only knew.’ (71:4)
PREVIOUSLY MARRIED
• It may be that if he does divorce you, his Lord will give him in
exchange better wives than you: Muslim women, believing
women, obedient women, penitent women, women who worship,
women who fast much–previously married women as well as
virgins. (66:5)
PRIEST
• You will find that the people most hostile to those who believe are
the Jews and the idolaters. You will find the people most
affectionate to those who believe are those who say, ‘We are
Christians.’ That is because some of them are priests and monks
and because they are not arrogant. (5:82)
PRISON - PRISONER
• Prophet! Say to those you are holding prisoner, ‘If Allah knows of
any good in your hearts, He will give you something better than
what has been taken from you and forgive you.’ Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. But if they mean to betray you, they
have already previously betrayed Allah, so He has given you
power over them. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (8:70-71)
• They raced to the door. She tore his (Yusuf's) shirt at the back.
They met her husband by the door. She said, ‘How should a man
whose intention was to harm your family be punished for what he
did except with prison or painful punishment?’ (12:25)
• She (the governor’s wife) said, ‘You see! It’s him you blamed me
for. I tried seducing him but he refused. If he does not do what I
order him, he will be put in prison and brought low.’ (12:32)
• Two servants entered prison along with him (Yusuf). One said, ‘I
dreamt that I was pressing grapes.’ The other said, ‘I dreamt I
carried bread upon my head and birds were eating it. Tell us the
true meaning of these dreams. We see that you’re one of the
righteous.’ (12:36)
• He (Yusuf) raised his parents up onto the throne. The others fell
prostrate in front of him. He said, ‘My father, truly this is now the
interpretation of the dream I had. My Lord has made it all come
true; and He was kind to me by letting me out of prison and
brought you from the desert when Satan had caused dissent
between me and my brothers. My Lord is kind to anyone He wills.
He is indeed All-Knowing and All-Wise.’ (12:100)
PRIVATE ONES
• Forbidden for you are: your mothers and your daughters and your
sisters, your maternal aunts and your paternal aunts, your
brothers’ daughters and your sisters’ daughters, your foster
mothers who have suckled you, your foster sisters by suckling,
your wives’ mothers, your stepdaughters who are under your
protection: the daughters of your wives whom you have had
sexual relations with (though if you have not had sexual relations
with them there is nothing blameworthy for you in it then), the
wives of your sons whom you have fathered, and marrying two
sisters at the same time–except for what may have already taken
place. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:23)
• And also married women, except for those you have taken in war
as slaves. This is what Allah has prescribed for you. Apart from
that He has made all other women lawful for you provided you
seek them with your wealth in marriage and not in fornication.
When you consummate your marriage with them give them their
prescribed dowry. There is nothing wrong in any further
agreement you might come to after the dowry has been given.
Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (4:24)
PRIVATE PARTS
• Say to the believing women that they should lower their eyes and
guard their chastity and not display their adornments–except for
what normally shows–and draw their head-coverings across their
breasts. They should only display their adornments to their
husbands or their fathers or their husbands’ fathers, or their sons
or their husbands’ sons or their brothers or their brothers’ sons or
their sisters’ sons or other women or those they own as slaves or
their male attendants who have no sexual desire or children who
still have no awareness of women’s private parts. Nor should they
stamp their feet so that their hidden ornaments are known. Turn
to Allah every one of you, believers, so that hopefully you will
have success. (24:31)
• The month of Ramadan is the one in which the Qur’an was sent
down as guidance for mankind, with Clear Signs containing
guidance and discrimination. Any of you who are resident for the
month should fast it. But any of you who are ill or on a journey
should fast a number of other days. Allah desires ease for you;
He does not desire difficulty for you. You should complete the
number of days and proclaim Allah’s greatness for the guidance
He has given you so that hopefully you will be thankful. (2:185)
• And say: ‘Praise be to Allah Who has had no son and Who has
no partner in His Kingdom and Who needs no one to protect Him
from abasement.’ And proclaim His Greatness repeatedly!
(17:111)
• Their flesh and blood does not reach Allah but your heedfulness
does reach Him. In this way He has subjected them to you so that
you might proclaim Allah’s greatness for the way that He has
guided you. Give good news to the good-doers. (22:37)
PROFITLESS ACTIONS
• They will ask you about the Sacred Month and fighting in it. Say,
‘Fighting in it is a serious matter; but barring access to the Way of
Allah and rejecting Him and barring access to the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram) and expelling its people from it are far more
serious in the sight of Allah. Discord is worse than killing.’ They
will not stop fighting you until they make you revert from your
religion, if they are able. As for any of you who revert from their
religion and die disbelievers, their actions will come to nothing in
this world and the hereafter. They are the Companions of the Fire,
remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (2:217)
• They are the ones whose actions come to nothing in this world or
the hereafter. They will have no helpers. (3:22)
• Today all good things have been made lawful for you. And the
food of those given the Book is also lawful for you and your food
is lawful for them. So are chaste women from among the
believers and chaste women of those given the Book before you,
once you have given them their dowries in marriage, not in
fornication or taking them as lovers. But as for anyone who
rejects faith, his actions will come to nothing and in the hereafter
he will be among the losers. (5:5)
• Those who believe say, ‘Are these the people who swore by Allah,
with their most earnest oaths, that they were with you?’ Their
actions have come to nothing and they now are losers. (5:53)
• That is Allah’s guidance. He guides by it those of His servants He
wills. If they had associated others with Him, nothing they did
would have been of any use. (6:88)
• As for those who denied Our Signs and the encounter of the
hereafter, their actions will come to nothing. Will they be repaid
except for what they did? (7:147)
• Like those before you who had greater strength than you and
more wealth and children. They enjoyed their portion; so enjoy
your portion as those before you enjoyed theirs. You have
plunged into defamation as they plunged into it. The actions of
such people come to nothing in this world or the hereafter. They
are the lost. (9:69)
• But such people will have nothing in the hereafter but the Fire.
What they achieved here will come to nothing. What they did will
prove to be null and void. (11:16)
• Those are the people who reject their Lord’s Signs and the
meeting with Him. Their actions will come to nothing and, on the
Day of Rising, We will not assign them any weight. (18:105)
• Allah knows the obstructers among you and those who say to
their brothers, ‘Come to us,’ and who only come to fight a very
little, and are begrudging towards you. Then when fear comes,
you see them looking at you, their eyes rolling like people scared
to death. But when fear departs they flay you with sharp tongues,
grasping for wealth. Such people have no faith and Allah will
make their actions come to nothing. That is easy for Allah. (33:18-
19)
• If anyone wants power, all power belongs to Allah. All good words
rise to Him and He raises up all virtuous deeds. But people who
plot evil deeds will suffer a harsh punishment. The plotting of
such people is profitless. (35:10)
• It has been revealed to you and those before you: ‘If you
associate others with Allah, your actions will come to nothing and
you will be among the losers.’ (39:65)
• That is because they hate what Allah has sent down, so He has
made their actions come to nothing. (47:9)
• That is because they followed what angers Allah and hated what
is pleasing to Him. So He made their actions come to nothing.
(47:28)
• Those who disbelieve and obstruct the Way of Allah and are
entrenched in hostility towards the Messenger after the guidance
has become clear to them, do not harm Allah in any way and He
makes their actions come to nothing. (47:32)
• You who believe! Do not raise your voices above the voice of the
Prophet and do not be as loud when speaking to him as you are
when speaking to one another, lest your actions should come to
nothing without your realising it. (49:2)
PROFLIGATE
• No one believed in Musa except for a few of his people out of fear
that Pharaoh, and the elders, would persecute them. Pharaoh
was high and mighty in the land. He was one of the profligate.
(10:83)
• But We kept Our promise to them and rescued them and those
We willed, and destroyed the profligate. (21:9)
• (The man who believed said,) ‘There is no question that what you
call me to has no foundation either in this world or the hereafter,
that our return is to Allah, and that the profligate will be
Companions of the Fire.’ (40:43)
• (Those firmly rooted in knowledge say,) ‘Our Lord, You are the
Gatherer of mankind to a Day of which there is no doubt. Allah
will not break His promise.’ (3:9)
• But as for those who believe and do right actions, We will admit
them into Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in
them timelessly, for ever and ever. Allah’s promise is true. Whose
speech could be truer than Allah’s? (4:122)
• Each and every one of you will return to Him. Allah’s promise is
true. He brings creation out of nothing and then regenerates it so
that he can repay with justice those who believed and did right
actions. Those who disbelieved will have a drink of scalding water
and a painful punishment because of their disbelief. (10:4)
• Nuh called out to his Lord and said, ‘My Lord, my son is one of
my family and Your promise is surely the truth and You are the
Justest of Judges.’ (11:45)
• When the affair is decided Satan will say, ‘Allah made you a
promise, a promise of truth, and I made you a promise but broke
my promise. I had no authority over you, except that I called you
and you responded to me. Do not, therefore, blame me but blame
yourselves. I cannot come to your aid nor you to mine. I reject the
way you associated me with Allah before.’ The wrongdoers will
have a painful punishment. (14:22)
• We said to the tribe of Israel after that, ‘Inhabit the land and,
when the promise of the hereafter comes, We will produce you as
a motley crowd.’ (17:104)
• Mention Isma‘il in the Book. He was true to his promise and was a
Messenger and a Prophet. (19:54)
• They ask you to hasten the punishment. Allah will not break His
promise. A day with your Lord is equivalent to a thousand years
in the way you count. (22:47)
• For those who believe and do right actions there are Gardens of
Delight, to remain in them timelessly, for ever. Allah’s promise is
true. He is the Almighty, the All-Wise. (31:8-9)
• Mankind! Have fear of your Lord and fear a day when no father
will be able to atone for his son, or son for his father, in any way.
Allah’s promise is true. So do not let the life of this world delude
you and do not let the Deluder delude you concerning Allah.
(31:33)
• Mankind! Allah’s promise is true. Do not let the life of this world
delude you and do not let the Deluder delude you about Allah.
(35:5)
• But those who have fear of their Lord will have high-ceilinged
Halls, and more such Halls built one above the other, and rivers
flowing under them. That is Allah’s promise. Allah does not break
His promise. (39:20)
• They will say, ‘Praise be to Allah Who has fulfilled His promise to
us and made us the inheritors of this land, letting us settle in the
Garden wherever we want. How excellent is the wage of those
who work!’ (39:74)
• But what of him who says to his parents, ‘Fie on you! Do you
promise me that I will be resurrected when generations before me
have passed away?’ They both call on Allah for help: ‘Woe to you!
Believe! Allah’s promise is true.’ But he says, ‘This is nothing but
the myths of previous peoples.’ (46:17)
(FULFILLING) PROMISES
• But We kept Our promise to them and rescued them and those
We willed, and destroyed the profligate. (21:9)
• They will say, ‘Praise be to Allah Who has fulfilled His promise to
us and made us the inheritors of this land, letting us settle in the
Garden wherever we want. How excellent is the wage of those
who work!’ (39:74)
PROOF
• Mankind! A clear proof has come to you from your Lord. We have
sent down a Clear Light to you. (4:174)
• She wanted him and he would have wanted her, had he not seen
the Clear Proof of his Lord. That happened so We might avert
from him all evil and lust. He was Our chosen servant. (12:24)
PROPERTY
• Give orphans their property, and do not substitute bad things for
good. Do not assimilate their property into your own. Doing that is
a serious crime. (4:2)
• And that you do not go near the property of orphans before they
reach maturity–except in a good way; that you give full measure
and full weight with justice–We impose on no self any more than
it can bear; that you are equitable when you speak–even if a near
relative is concerned; and that you fulfil Allah’s contract. That is
what He instructs you to do, so that hopefully you will pay heed.
(6:152)
• You who believe! Many of the rabbis and monks devour people’s
property under false pretences and bar people from access to the
Way of Allah. As for those who hoard up gold and silver and do
not spend it in the Way of Allah, give them the news of a painful
punishment. (9:34)
PROPHETS
• And when you said, ‘Musa, we will not put up with just one kind of
food so ask your Lord to supply to us some of what the earth
produces–its green vegetables, cucumbers, grains, lentils and
onions,’ he said, ‘Do you want to replace what is better with what
is inferior? Go back to Egypt, then you will have what you are
asking for.’ Abasement and destitution were stamped upon them.
They brought down anger from Allah upon themselves. That was
because they rejected Allah’s Signs and killed the Prophets
without any right to do so. That was because they rebelled and
went beyond the limits. (2:61)
• When they are told, ‘Believe in what Allah has sent down,’ they
say, ‘Our faith is in what was sent down to us,’ and they reject
anything beyond that, even though it is the truth, confirming what
they have. Say, ‘Why then, if you are believers, did you previously
kill the Prophets of Allah?’ (2:91)
• Say, ‘We believe in Allah and what has been sent down to us and
what was sent down to Ibrahim and Isma‘il and Ishaq and Ya‘qub
and the Tribes, and what Musa and ‘Isa were given, and what all
the Prophets were given by their Lord. We do not differentiate
between any of them. We are Muslims submitted to Him.’ (2:136)
• As for those who reject Allah’s Signs, and kill the Prophets
without any right to do so, and kill those who command justice,
give them news of a painful punishment. (3:21)
• Allah has heard the words of those who say, ‘Allah is poor and we
are rich.’ We will write down what they said and their killing of the
Prophets without any right to do so and We will say, ‘Taste the
punishment of the Burning.’ (3:181)
• Whoever obeys Allah and the Messenger will be with those whom
Allah has blessed: the Prophets, the steadfast affirmers of truth,
the martyrs and the righteous. What excellent company such
people are! (4:69)
• Because of the fact that they (the Tribe of Israel) broke their
covenant, and rejected Allah’s Signs, and killed the Prophets
without any right to do so and said, ‘Our hearts are
uncircumcised,’ Allah has stamped them with disbelief, so they do
not believe except for very few. (4:155)
• Those are some of the Prophets Allah has blessed, from the
descendants of Adam and from those We carried with Nuh, and
from the descendants of Ibrahim and Isra’il and from those We
guided and chose. When the Signs of the All-Merciful were
recited to them they fell on their faces, weeping, in prostration.
(19:58)
• And the earth will shine with the Pure Light of its Lord; the Book
will be put in place; the Prophets and witnesses will be brought; it
will be decided between them with the truth; and they will not be
wronged. (39:69)
PROPORTION
• What they call on apart from Him are female idols. What they call
on is an arrogant Satan whom Allah has cursed. He said, ‘I will
take a certain fixed proportion of Your servants.’ (4:117-118)
• As for the earth, We stretched it out and cast firmly embedded
mountains in it and made everything grow in due proportion on it.
(15:19)
• He Who created you and formed you and proportioned you. (82:7)
• And (I swear by) the self and what proportioned it and inspired it
with depravity or sense of duty, he who purifies it has succeeded,
he who covers it up has failed. (91:7-10)
PROSTRATION
• Remember when We said, ‘Go into this town and eat from it
wherever you like, freely. Enter the gate prostrating and say,
"Relieve us of our burdens!" Your mistakes will be forgiven. We
will grant increase to all good-doers.’ (2:58)
• (The angels said,) ‘Maryam, obey your Lord and prostrate and
bow with those who bow.’ (3:43)
• They are not all the same. There is a community among the
People of the Book who are upright. They recite Allah’s Signs
throughout the night, and they prostrate. (3:113)
• When you are with them and leading them in prayer, a group of
them should stand with you, keeping hold of their weapons. When
they prostrate, the others should guard your backs. Then the
other group who have not yet prayed should come and pray with
you. They too should be careful and keep hold of their weapons.
Those who disbelieve would like you to be negligent of your arms
and equipment so that they can swoop down on you once and for
all. There is nothing wrong, if you are bothered by rain or you are
ill, in laying your weapons down; but take every precaution. Allah
has prepared a humiliating punishment for the disbelievers.
(4:102)
• We created you and then formed you and then We said to the
angels, ‘Prostrate before Adam,’ and they prostrated–except for
Diabolis. He was not among those who prostrated. (7:11)
• When they were told: ‘Live in this town and eat of it wherever you
like and say, "Relieve us of our burdens!" and enter the gate
prostrating. Your mistakes will be forgiven you. We will grant
increase to good-doers.’ (7:161)
• Those who repent, those who worship, those who praise, those
who fast, those who bow, those who prostrate, those who
command the right, those who forbid the wrong, those who
preserve the limits of Allah: give good news to the believers.
(9:112)
• When Yusuf told his father, ‘Father! I saw eleven bright stars, and
the sun and moon as well. I saw them all prostrate in front of me.’
(12:4)
• He (Yusuf) raised his parents up onto the throne. The others fell
prostrate in front of him. He said, ‘My father, truly this is now the
interpretation of the dream I had. My Lord has made it all come
true; and He was kind to me by letting me out of prison and
brought you from the desert when Satan had caused dissent
between me and my brothers. My Lord is kind to anyone He wills.
He is indeed All-Knowing and All-Wise.’ (12:100)
• (Your Lord said to the angels,) ‘When I have formed him and
breathed My Spirit into him, fall down in prostration in front of
him!’ (15:29)
• Do they not see the things Allah has created, casting their
shadows to the right and to the left, prostrating themselves before
Allah in complete humility? (16:48)
• Those are some of the Prophets Allah has blessed, from the
descendants of Adam and from those We carried with Nuh, and
from the descendants of Ibrahim and Isra’il and from those We
guided and chose. When the Signs of the All-Merciful were
recited to them they fell on their faces, weeping, in prostration.
(19:58)
• You who believe! Bow and prostrate and worship your Lord, and
do good, so that hopefully you will be successful. (22:77)
• When they are told to prostrate to the All-Merciful, they say, ‘And
what is the All-Merciful? Are we to prostrate to something you
command us to?’ And it merely makes them run away all the
more. (25:60)
• (The servants of the All-Merciful are) those who pass the night
prostrating and standing before their Lord; (25:64)
• (The hoopoe said,) ‘I found both her and her people prostrating to
the sun instead of Allah. Satan has made their actions seem good
to them and debarred them from the Way so they are not guided
and do not prostrate to Allah, Who brings out what is hidden in
the heavens and the earth, and knows what you conceal and
what you divulge.’ (27:24-25)
• The people who truly do believe in Our Signs are those who fall to
the ground prostrating when they are reminded of them, and
glorify their Lord with praise, and are not arrogant. (32:15)
• (Your Lord said to the angels,) ‘When I have formed him and
breathed My Spirit into him, fall down in prostration to him!’ (38:72)
• And glorify Him during the night and after you have prostrated.
(50:40)
• The herbs and the trees all bow down in prostration. (55:6)
• On the Day when legs are bared and they are called on to
prostrate, they will not be able to do so. (68:42)
• Prostrate to Him during the night and glorify Him throughout the
long night. (76:26)
• What is the matter with them that they have no faith and, when
the Qur’an is recited to them, do not prostrate? (84:20-21)
• No indeed! Do not obey him, but prostrate and draw near. (96:19)
PROTECTION
• Those who believe and have migrated and strived with their
wealth and themselves in the Way of Allah, and those who have
given refuge and help, they are the friends and protectors of one
another. But as for those who believe but have not migrated, you
are not in any way responsible for their protection until they
migrate. But if they ask you for help in respect of the religion, it is
your duty to help them, except against people you have a treaty
with. Allah sees what you do. (8:72)
PROTECTOR
• The people with the strongest claim to Ibrahim are those who
followed him and this Prophet and those who believe. Allah is the
Protector of the believers. (3:68)
• What reason could you have for not fighting in the Way of Allah–
for those men, women and children who are oppressed and say,
‘Our Lord, take us out of this city whose inhabitants are
wrongdoers! Give us a protector from You! Give us a helper from
You!’? (4:75)
• It is not a matter of wishful thinking on your part nor of the wishful
thinking of the People of the Book. Anyone who does evil will be
repaid for it. He will not find any protector or helper besides Allah.
(4:123)
• Abandon those who have turned their religion into a game and a
diversion and who have been deluded by the life of this world.
Remind by it lest a person is delivered up to destruction for what
he has earned with no protector or intercessor besides Allah.
Were he to offer every kind of compensation, it would not be
accepted from him. Such people are delivered up to destruction
for what they have earned. They will have scalding water to drink
and a painful punishment because they disbelieved. (6:70)
• They will have the Abode of Peace with their Lord. He is their
Protector because of what they have done. (6:127)
• Follow what has been sent down to you from your Lord and do
not follow any protectors apart from Him. How little you remember!
(7:3)
• Musa chose seventy men from his people for Our appointed time
and when the earthquake seized them he said, ‘My Lord, if You
had willed, You could have destroyed them previously and me as
well. Would you destroy us for what the fools among us did? It
was only a trial from You by which You misguided those You
willed and guided those You willed. You are our Protector so
forgive us and have mercy on us. You are the Best of Forgivers.’
(7:155)
• (Say:) ‘My Protector is Allah Who sent down the Book. He takes
care of the righteous.’ (7:196)
• Those who believe and have migrated and strived with their
wealth and themselves in the Way of Allah, and those who have
given refuge and help, they are the friends and protectors of one
another. But as for those who believe but have not migrated, you
are not in any way responsible for their protection until they
migrate. But if they ask you for help in respect of the religion, it is
your duty to help them, except against people you have a treaty
with. Allah sees what you do. (8:72)
• Do not rely on those who do wrong thus causing the Fire to afflict
you, for you have no protector besides Allah; then you will not be
helped. (11:113)
• Say: ‘Who is the Lord of the heavens and the earth?’ Say: ‘Allah.’
Say: ‘So why have you taken protectors apart from Him who
possess no power to help or harm themselves?’ Say: ‘Are the
blind and seeing equal? Or are darkness and light the same? Or
have they assigned partners to Allah Who create as He creates,
so that all creating seems the same to them?’ Say: ‘Allah is the
Creator of everything. He is the One, the All-Conquering.’ (13:16)
• You would have seen the sun, when it rose, inclining away from
their cave towards the right, and, when it set, leaving them behind
on the left, while they were lying in an open part of it. That was
one of Allah’s Signs. Whoever Allah guides is truly guided. But if
He misguides someone, you will find no protector for them to
guide them rightly. (18:17)
• Say: ‘Allah knows best how long they stayed. The Unseen of the
heavens and the earth belongs to Him. How perfectly He sees,
how well He hears! They have no protector apart from Him. Nor
does He share His rule with anyone.’ (18:26)
• They will say, ‘Glory be to You! It would not have been fitting for
us to have taken any protectors apart from You. But You let them
and their fathers enjoy themselves so that they forgot the
Reminder. They were people devoid of good.’ (25:18)
• (Say:) ‘There is no way out for you in earth or heaven. You have
no protector or helper besides Allah.’ (29:22)
• Say: ‘Who is going to shield you from Allah if He desires evil for
you or desires mercy for you?’ They will find no one to protect or
help them besides Allah. (33:17)
• They (angels) will say, ‘Glory be to You! You are our Protector,
not them. No, they were worshipping the jinn. They mostly had
faith in them.’ (34:41)
• We are your protectors in the life of this world and the hereafter.
You will have there all that your selves could wish for. You will
have there everything you demand. (41:31)
• It is He Who sends down abundant rain, after they have lost all
hope, and unfolds His mercy. He is the Protector, the
Praiseworthy. (42:28)
• You will not be able to thwart Him on the earth and you have no
protector or helper besides Allah. (42:31)
• They have no one to protect or help them apart from Allah. There
is no way out for anyone Allah misguides. (42:46)
• Hell is right at their heels. Nothing they have earned will be of any
use to them, nor will those they took as protectors besides Allah.
They will have a terrible punishment. (45:10)
• They will not help you in any way against Allah. The wrongdoers
are protectors of one another but Allah is the Protector of those
who guard against evil. (45:19)
• If those who disbelieve should fight you, they would turn their
backs and then find no one to protect or help them. (48:22)
PROVIDE
• And We shaded you with clouds and sent down manna and
quails to you: ‘Eat of the good things We have provided for you.’
They did not wrong Us; rather it was themselves they were
wronging. (2:57)
• And when Ibrahim said, ‘My Lord, make this a place of safety and
provide its inhabitants with fruits–all of them who believe in Allah
and the Last Day,’ He said, ‘I will let anyone who becomes a
disbeliever enjoy himself a little but then I will drive him to the
punishment of the Fire. What an evil destination!’ (2:126)
• You who believe! Eat of the good things We have provided for
you and give thanks to Allah if you worship Him alone. (2:172)
• You who believe! Give away some of what We have provided for
you before a Day arrives on which there is no trading, no close
friendship and no intercession. It is the disbelievers who are the
wrongdoers. (2:254)
• (Say, ‘O Allah!) You merge the night into the day. You merge the
day into the night. You bring out the living from the dead. You
bring out the dead from the living. You provide for whoever You
will without any reckoning.’ (3:27)
• Her Lord accepted her with approval and made her grow in health
and beauty. And Zakariyya became her guardian. Every time
Zakariyya visited her in the Upper Room, he found food with her.
He said, ‘Maryam, how did you come by this?’ She said, ‘It is from
Allah. Allah provides for whoever He wills without any reckoning.’
(3:37)
• Do not suppose that those killed in the Way of Allah are dead. No
indeed! They are alive and well provided for in the very presence
of their Lord, (3:169)
• What harm would it have done them to have believed in Allah and
the Last Day and to have given of what Allah has provided for
them? Allah knows everything about them. (4:39)
• Eat the lawful and good things Allah has provided for you, and
have fear of Allah, Him in Whom you believe. (5:88)
• Isa son of Maryam said, ‘Allah, our Lord, send down a table to us
out of heaven to be a feast for us, for the first and last of us, and
as a Sign from You. Provide for us! You are the Best of
Providers!’ (5:114)
• Those who kill their children foolishly without any knowledge and
make what Allah has provided for them forbidden, inventing lies
against Allah, such people are lost. They are misguided. They are
not guided. (6:140)
• And also animals for riding and for haulage and animals for
slaughtering and for wool. Eat what Allah has provided for you
and do not follow in the footsteps of Satan. He is an outright
enemy to you. (6:142)
• Say: ‘Come and I will recite to you what your Lord has made
forbidden for you’: that you do not associate anything with Him;
that you are good to your parents; that you do not kill your
children because of poverty–We will provide for you and them;
that you do not approach indecency–outward or inward; that you
do not kill any person Allah has made inviolate–except with the
right to do so. That is what He instructs you to do so that
hopefully you will use your intellect. (6:151)
• When you were few and oppressed in the land, afraid that the
people would snatch you away, He gave you refuge and
supported you with His help and provided you with good things so
that hopefully you would be thankful. (8:26)
• Say: ‘Who provides for you out of heaven and earth? Who
controls hearing and sight? Who brings forth the living from the
dead and the dead from the living? Who directs the whole affair?’
They will say, ‘Allah.’ Say, ‘So will you not guard against evil?’
(10:31)
• Tell My servants who believe that they should perform prayer and
give from what We have provided for them, secretly and openly,
before a Day arrives on which there will be no trading and no
friendship. (14:31)
• So eat from what Allah has provided for you, lawful and good,
and be thankful for the blessing of Allah if it is Him you worship.
(16:114)
• Do not kill your children out of fear of being poor. We will provide
for them and you. Killing them is a terrible mistake. (17:31)
• Eat of the good things We have provided for you but do not go to
excess in it or My anger will be unleashed on you. Anyone who
has My anger unleashed on him has plunged to his ruin. (20:81)
• Those who migrate in the Way of Allah and then are killed or die,
Allah will provide for them handsomely. Truly Allah is the best
Provider. (22:58)
• Are you asking them for payment? Your Lord’s payment is better.
He is the Best of Providers. (23:72)
• (This is) so that Allah can reward them for the best of what they
did and give them more from His unbounded favour. Allah
provides for anyone He wills without reckoning. (24:38)
• He Who originates creation and then regenerates it and provides
for you from out of heaven and earth. Is there another god
besides Allah? Say: ‘Bring your proof if you are being truthful.’
(27:64)
• They will be given their reward twice over because they have
been steadfast and because they ward off the bad with the good
and give from what we have provided for them. (28:54)
• Allah is He Who created you, then provides for you, then will
cause you to die and then bring you back to life. Can any of your
partner-gods do any of that? Glory be to Him and may He be
exalted above anything they associate with Him! (30:40)
• Their sides eschew their beds as they call on their Lord in fear
and ardent hope. And they give of what We have provided for
them. (32:16)
• Say: ‘Who provides for you from the heavens and earth?’ Say:
‘Allah. It is certain that one or the other of us, either we or you, is
following guidance or else clearly astray.’ (34:24)
• Those who recite the Book of Allah and perform prayer and give
of what We have provided for them, secretly and openly, hope for
a transaction which will not prove profitless. (35:29)
• Whoever does an evil act will only be repaid with its equivalent.
But whoever acts rightly, male or female, being a believer, such a
person will enter the Garden, provided for in it without any
reckoning. (40:40)
• It is Allah Who made the earth a stable home for you and the sky
a dome, and formed you, giving you the best of forms, and
provided you with good and wholesome things. That is Allah, your
Lord. Blessed be Allah, the Lord of all the worlds. (40:64)
• Give from what We have provided for you before death comes to
one of you and he says, ‘My Lord, if only you would give me a
little more time so that I can give charity and be one of the
righteous!’ (63:10)
• ... Whoever has fear of Allah–He will give him a way out and
provide for him from where he does not expect. Whoever puts his
trust in Allah–He will be enough for him. Allah always achieves
His aim. Allah has appointed a measure for all things. (65:2-3)
PROVISION
• It is He Who made the earth a couch for you, and the sky a dome.
He sends down water from the sky and by it brings forth fruits for
your provision. Do not, then, knowingly make others equal to
Allah. (2:22)
• Give the good news to those who believe and do right actions
that they will have Gardens with rivers flowing under them. When
they are given fruit there as provision, they will say, ‘This is what
we were given before.’ But they were only given a simulation of it.
They will have there spouses of perfect purity and will remain
there timelessly, for ever. (2:25)
• And when Musa was looking for water for his people, We said,
‘Strike the rock with your staff.’ Then twelve fountains gushed out
from it and all the people knew their drinking place. ‘Eat and drink
of Allah's provision and do not go about the earth corrupting it.’
(2:60)
• Say: ‘Who has forbidden the fine clothing Allah has produced for
His servants and the good kinds of provision?’ Say: ‘On the Day
of Rising such things will be exclusively for those who believed
during their life in this world.’ In this way We make the Signs clear
for people who know. (7:32)
• The Companions of the Fire will call out to the Companions of the
Garden, ‘Throw down some water to us or some of what Allah
has given you as provision.’ They will say, ‘Allah has forbidden
them to the disbelievers:’ (7:50)
• They are in truth the believers. They have high ranks with their
Lord and forgiveness and generous provision. (8:4)
• Those who believe and have migrated and strived in the Way of
Allah and those who have given refuge and help, they are the
true believers. They will have forgiveness and generous provision.
(8:74)
• Say: ‘What do you think about the things Allah has sent down to
you as provision which you have then designated as lawful and
forbidden?’ Say: ‘Has Allah given you authority to do this or are
you inventing lies against Allah?’ (10:59)
• We settled the tribe of Israel in a noble place and gave them good
things as provision. They did not differ until knowledge came to
them. Your Lord will decide between them on the Day of Rising
regarding the things about which they differed. (10:93)
• And from the fruit of the date-palm and the grape-vine you derive
both intoxicants and wholesome provision. There is certainly a
Sign in that for people who use their intellect. (16:67)
• Allah has given you wives from among yourselves, and given you
children and grandchildren from your wives, and provided good
things for you. So why do they believe in falsehood and reject the
blessings of Allah, and worship, instead of Allah, things that have
no control over their provision from the heavens or earth in any
way, and are themselves completely impotent? (16:72-73)
• As for those who believe and do right actions, they will have
forgiveness and generous provision. (22:50)
• Corrupt women are for corrupt men and corrupt men are for
corrupt women, Good women are for good men and good men
are for good women. The latter are innocent of what they say.
They will have forgiveness and generous provision. (24:26)
• They say, ‘If we follow the guidance with you, we shall be forcibly
uprooted from our land.’ Have We not established a safe haven
for them to which produce of every kind is brought, provision
direct from Us? But most of them do not know it. (28:57)
• Those who had longed to take his place the day before woke up
saying, ‘Allah expands the provision of any of His servants He
wills or restricts it. If Allah had not shown great kindness to us, we
would have been swallowed up as well. Ah! Truly the disbelievers
are not successful.’ (28:82)
• (Ibrahim said,) ‘Instead of Allah you worship only idols. You are
inventing a lie. Those you worship besides Allah have no power
to provide for you. So seek your provision from Allah and worship
Him and give thanks to Him. It is to Him you will be returned.’
(29:17)
• How many creatures do not carry their provision with them! Allah
provides for them and He will for you. He is the All-Hearing, the
All-Knowing. (29:60)
• Allah expands the provision of any of His servants He wills and
restricts it. Allah has knowledge of all things. (29:62)
• Do they not see that Allah expands provision for whoever He wills
and also restricts it? There are certainly Signs in that for people
who believe. (30:37)
• But those of you who are obedient to Allah and His Messenger
and act rightly will be given their reward twice over; and We have
prepared generous provision for them. (33:31)
• There was also a sign for Saba in their dwelling place: two
gardens–one to the right and one to the left. ‘Eat of your Lord’s
provision and give thanks to Him: a bountiful land and a forgiving
Lord.’ (34:15)
• And when they are told, ‘Spend from the provision Allah has
given you,’ those who disbelieve say to those who believe, ‘Why
should we feed someone whom, if He wished, Allah would feed
Himself? You are clearly in error.’ (36:47)
• And in the alternation of night and day and the provision Allah
sends down from the sky, bringing the earth to life by it after it has
died, and the varying direction of the winds, there are Signs for
people who use their intellect. (45:5)
• (And We sent down blessed water from the sky) as provision for
Our servants; by it We brought a dead land to life. That is how the
Emergence will take place. (50:11)
• I do not require any provision from them and I do not require them
to nourish Me. (51:57)
• He who has plenty should spend out from his plenty, but he
whose provision is restricted should spend from what Allah has
given him. Allah does not demand from any self more than He
has given it. Allah will appoint after difficulty, ease. (65:7)
PUBERTY
• You who believe! Those you own as slaves and those of you who
have not yet reached puberty should ask your permission to enter
at three times: before the Dawn Prayer, when you have
undressed at noon, and after the Prayer of Night–three times of
nakedness for you. There is nothing wrong for you or them at
other times in moving around among yourselves from one to
another. In this way Allah makes the Signs clear to you. Allah is
All-Knowing, All-Wise. (24:58)
• Once your children have reached puberty, they should ask your
permission to enter as those before them also asked permission.
In this way Allah makes His Signs clear to you. Allah is All-
Knowing, All-Wise. (24:59)
PUNISHMENT
• Allah has sealed up their hearts and hearing and over their eyes
is a blindfold. They will have a terrible punishment. (2:7)
• Those are the people who trade the hereafter for this world. The
punishment will not be lightened for them. They will not be helped.
(2:86)
• What an evil thing they have sold themselves for in rejecting what
Allah has sent down, outraged that Allah should send down His
favour on whichever of His servants He wills. They have brought
down anger upon anger on themselves. The disbelievers will
have a humiliating punishment. (2:90)
• Rather you will find them the people greediest for life, along with
the idolaters. One of them would love to be allowed to live a
thousand years. But being allowed to live would not save him
from the punishment. Allah sees what they do. (2:96)
• You who believe! Do not say, ‘Listen to us,’ say, ‘Look at us,’ and
listen well. The disbelievers will have a painful punishment.
(2:104)
• And when Ibrahim said, ‘My Lord, make this a place of safety and
provide its inhabitants with fruits–all of them who believe in Allah
and the Last Day,’ He said, ‘I will let anyone who becomes a
disbeliever enjoy himself a little but then I will drive him to the
punishment of the Fire. What an evil destination!’ (2:126)
• But as for those who disbelieve and die while they are
disbelievers, the curse of Allah is upon them and that of the
angels and all mankind. They will be under it for ever. The
punishment will not be lightened for them. They will be granted no
reprieve. (2:161-162)
• When those who were followed disown those who followed them,
and they see the punishment, and the connection between them
is cut, (2:166)
• Those who conceal what Allah has sent down of the Book and
sell it cheap, take nothing into their bellies but the Fire. On the
Day of Rising Allah will not speak to them or purify them. They will
have a painful punishment. (2:174)
• Those are the ones who have sold guidance for misguidance and
forgiveness for punishment. How steadfastly they will endure the
Fire! (2:175)
• And there are others who say, ‘Our Lord, give us good in this
world, and good in the hereafter, and safeguard us from the
punishment of the Fire.’ (2:201)
• He has sent down the Book to you with truth, confirming what was
there before it. And He sent down the Torah and the Gospel,
previously, as guidance for mankind, and He has sent down the
Furqan (Discrimination). Those who reject Allah’s Signs will have
a terrible punishment. Allah is Almighty, Exactor of Revenge.
(3:3-4)
• As for those who reject Allah’s Signs, and kill the Prophets
without any right to do so, and kill those who command justice,
give them news of a painful punishment. (3:21)
• (Allah said,) ‘As for those who disbelieve, I will punish them with a
harsh punishment in this world and the hereafter. They will have
no helpers.’ (3:56)
• Those who sell Allah’s contract and their own oaths for a paltry
price, such people will have no portion in the hereafter and on the
Day of Rising Allah will not speak to them or look at them or purify
them. They will have a painful punishment. (3:77)
• As for those who disbelieve and die while they are disbelievers,
the whole earth filled with gold would not be accepted from any of
them if they were to offer it as a ransom. They will have a painful
punishment. They will have no helpers. (3:91)
• Do not be like those who split up and differed after the Clear
Signs came to them. They will have a terrible punishment. (3:105)
• On the Day when faces are whitened and faces are blackened.
As for those whose faces are blackened: ‘What! Did you
disbelieve after having believed? Taste the punishment for your
disbelief!’ (3:106)
• Do not let those who rush headlong into disbelief sadden you.
They do not harm Allah in any way. Allah desires to assign no
portion to them in the hereafter. They will have a terrible
punishment. (3:176)
• Those who sell faith for disbelief do not harm Allah in any way.
They will have a painful punishment. (3:177)
• Those who disbelieve should not imagine that the extra time We
grant to them is good for them. We only allow them more time so
they will increase in evildoing. They will have a humiliating
punishment. (3:178)
• Allah has heard the words of those who say, ‘Allah is poor and we
are rich.’ We will write down what they said and their killing of the
Prophets without any right to do so and We will say, ‘Taste the
punishment of the Burning.’ (3:181)
• Those who exult in what they have done and love to be praised
for what they have not done should not suppose that they have
escaped the punishment. They will have a painful punishment.
(3:188)
• As for those who disobey Allah and His Messenger and overstep
His limits, We will admit them into a Fire, remaining in it timelessly,
for ever. They will have a humiliating punishment. (4:14)
• If any of you do not have the means to marry free women who
are believers, you may marry slavegirls who are believers. Allah
knows best about your faith; you are all the same in that respect.
Marry them with their owners’ permission and give them their
dowries correctly and courteously as married women, not in
fornication or taking them as lovers. When they are married, if
they commit fornication they should receive half the punishment
of free women. This is for those of you who are afraid of
committing fornication. But being patient is better for you. Allah is
Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:25)
• As for those who reject Our Signs, We will roast them in a Fire.
Every time their skins are burned off, We will replace them with
new skins so that they can taste the punishment. Allah is
Almighty, All-Wise. (4:56)
• When you are with them and leading them in prayer, a group of
them should stand with you, keeping hold of their weapons. When
they prostrate, the others should guard your backs. Then the
other group who have not yet prayed should come and pray with
you. They too should be careful and keep hold of their weapons.
Those who disbelieve would like you to be negligent of your arms
and equipment so that they can swoop down on you once and for
all. There is nothing wrong, if you are bothered by rain or you are
ill, in laying your weapons down; but take every precaution. Allah
has prepared a humiliating punishment for the disbelievers.
(4:102)
• As for those who believe and do right actions, He will pay them
their wages in full and will give them increase from His favour. As
for those who show disdain and grow arrogant, He will punish
them with a painful punishment. They will not find any protector or
helper for themselves besides Allah. (4:173)
• The reprisal against those who wage war on Allah and His
Messenger, and go about the earth corrupting it, is that they
should be killed or crucified, or have their alternate hands and
feet cut off, or be banished from the land. That will be their
degradation in this world and in the hereafter they will have a
terrible punishment. (5:33)
• They will want to get out of the Fire but they will not be able to.
They will have an everlasting punishment. (5:37)
• Those who say that Allah is the third of three are disbelievers.
There is no god but One God. If they do not stop saying what
they say, a painful punishment will afflict those among them who
disbelieve. (5:73)
• You see many of them taking those who disbelieve as their
friends. What their lower selves have advanced for them is evil
indeed, bringing Allah’s anger down upon them. They will suffer
punishment timelessly, for ever. (5:80)
• You who believe! Allah will test you with game animals which
come within the reach of your hands and spears, so that Allah will
know those who fear Him in the Unseen. Anyone who oversteps
the limits after this will have a painful punishment. (5:94)
• Allah said, ‘I will send it down to you but if anyone among you
disbelieves after that, I will punish him with a punishment the like
of which I will not inflict on anyone else in all the worlds!’ (5:115)
• If only you could see when they are standing before their Lord.
He will say, ‘Is this not the Truth?’ They will say, ‘Yes indeed, by
our Lord!’ He will say, ‘Then taste the punishment for your
disbelief.’ (6:30)
• The punishment will fall on those who deny Our Signs because
they were deviators. (6:49)
• When a Sign comes to them, they say, ‘We will not believe until
we have been given the same as the Messengers of Allah were
given.’ Allah knows best where to place His Message.
Debasement in the sight of Allah and a severe punishment will
strike those who did wrong for the plots that they concocted.
(6:124)
• Nor can you say: ‘If the Book had been sent down to us, We
would have been better guided than they were.’ For a Clear Sign
has come to you from your Lord, and guidance and mercy. Who
could do greater wrong than someone who denies Allah’s Signs
and turns away from them? We will repay those who turn away
from Our Signs with the worst kind of punishment because they
turned away. (6:157)
• He will say, ‘Enter the Fire together with the nations of jinn and
men who have passed away before you.’ Each time a nation
enters, it will curse its sister nation, until, when they are all
gathered together in it, the last of them will say to the first, ‘Our
Lord, those are the ones who misguided us, so give them a
double punishment in the Fire.’ He will say, ‘Each will receive
double. But you do not know it.’ (7:38)
• The first of them will say to the last, ‘You are in no way superior to
us so taste the punishment for what you earned.’ (7:39)
• We sent Nuh to his people and he said, ‘My people, worship Allah!
You have no other god than Him. I fear for you the punishment of
a dreadful Day.’ (7:59)
• And to Thamud We sent their brother Salih, who said, ‘My people,
worship Allah! You have no other god than Him. A Clear Sign has
come to you from your Lord. This is the She-Camel of Allah as a
Sign for you. Leave her alone to eat on Allah’s earth and do not
harm her in any way or a painful punishment will afflict you.’ (7:73)
• (Musa said,) ‘Prescribe good for us in this world and the hereafter.
We have truly turned to You.’ He said, ‘As for My punishment, I
strike with it anyone I will. My mercy extends to all things but I will
prescribe it for those who guard against evil and give the alms,
and those who believe in Our Signs.’ (7:156)
• Then when they forgot what they had been reminded of, We
rescued those who had forbidden the evil and seized those who
did wrong with a harsh punishment because they were deviators.
(7:165)
• Then your Lord announced that He would send against them until
the Day of Rising people who would inflict an evil punishment on
them. Your Lord is Swift in Retribution. And He is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (7:167)
• That is your reward, so taste it. The disbelievers will also have the
punishment of the Fire. (8:14)
• And they (disbelievers) say, ‘Allah, if this is really the truth from
You, rain down stones on us out of heaven or send a painful
punishment down on us.’ (8:32)
• If only you could see when the angels take back those who
disbelieved at their death, beating their faces and their backs:
‘Taste the punishment of the Burning!’ (8:50)
• Were it not for a prior decree which had already proceeded from
Allah, a terrible punishment would have afflicted you on account
of what you took. (8:68)
• You who believe! Many of the rabbis and monks devour people’s
property under false pretences and bar people from access to the
Way of Allah. As for those who hoard up gold and silver and do
not spend it in the Way of Allah, give them the news of a painful
punishment. (9:34)
• Say: ‘What do you await for us except for one of the two best
things? But what we await for you is for Allah to inflict a
punishment on you either directly from Himself or at our hands.
So wait, we are waiting with you!’ (9:52)
• Among them are some who insult the Prophet, saying he is only
an ear. Say, ‘An ear of good for you, believing in Allah and
believing in the believers, and a mercy for those among you who
believe.’ As for those who insult the Messenger of Allah, they will
have a painful punishment. (9:61)
• Allah has promised the men and women of the hypocrites and
disbelievers the Fire of Hell, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. It
will suffice them. Allah has cursed them. They will have
everlasting punishment. (9:68)
• They swear by Allah that they said nothing, but they definitely
spoke the word of disbelief and returned to disbelief after their
Islam. They planned something which they did not achieve and
they were vindictive for no other cause than that Allah and His
Messenger had enriched them from His bounty. If they were to
repent, it would be better for them. But if they turn away, Allah will
punish them with a painful punishment in this world and the
hereafter, and they will not find any protector or helper on the
earth. (9:74)
• As for the people who find fault with those believers who give
charity spontaneously, and with those who can find nothing to
give but their own effort, and deride them, Allah derides them.
They will have a painful punishment. (9:79)
• The desert arabs came with their excuses asking for permission
to stay, and those who lied to Allah and His Messenger stayed
behind. A painful punishment will afflict those among them who
disbelieve. (9:90)
• Some of the desert Arabs around you are hypocrites and some of
the people of Madina are obdurate in their hypocrisy. You do not
know them but We know them. We will punish them twice over
and then they will be returned to a terrible punishment. (9:101)
• Each and every one of you will return to Him. Allah’s promise is
true. He brings creation out of nothing and then regenerates it so
that he can repay with justice those who believed and did right
actions. Those who disbelieved will have a drink of scalding water
and a painful punishment because of their disbelief. (10:4)
• When Our Clear Signs are recited to them, those who do not
expect to meet Us say, ‘Bring a Qur’an other than this one or
change it.’ Say: ‘It is not for me to change it of my own accord. I
follow nothing except what is revealed to me. I fear, were I to
disobey my Lord, the punishment of a Dreadful Day.’ (10:15)
• There is the enjoyment of this world. Then they will return to Us.
Then We will let them taste the terrible punishment because they
disbelieved. (10:70)
• Musa said, ‘Our Lord, You have given Pharaoh and his ruling
circle finery and wealth in the life of this world, Our Lord, so that
they may be misguided from Your Way. Our Lord, obliterate their
wealth and harden their hearts so that they do not believe until
they see the painful punishment.’ (10:88)
• Those against whom the words of your Lord are justly carried out
will never believe–not even if every Sign were to come to them–
until they see the painful punishment. (10:96-97)
• How is it that there has never been a city that believed, whose
faith then brought it benefit, except the people of Yunus? When
they believed We removed from them the punishment of disgrace
in the life of this world and We let them have enjoyment for a time.
(10:98)
• Ask your Lord for forgiveness and then repent to Him. He will let
you enjoy a good life until a specified time, and will give His
favour to all who merit it. But if you turn your backs, I fear for you
the punishment of a Mighty Day. (11:3)
• (Nuh said to his people,) ‘Worship none but Allah. I fear for you
the punishment of a painful day.’ (11:26)
• (Nuh said,) ‘You will soon know who will receive a punishment
which disgraces him and find unleashed against himself an
everlasting punishment.’ (11:39)
• It was said, ‘Nuh, descend with peace from Us and with blessings
on you and on the nations which will issue from those who are
with you. But there are nations to whom we will give enjoyment
and then a painful punishment from Us will afflict them.’ (11:48)
• They raced to the door. She tore his (Yusuf's) shirt at the back.
They met her husband by the door. She said, ‘How should a man
whose intention was to harm your family be punished for what he
did except with prison or painful punishment?’ (12:25)
• They want you to hasten the bad rather than the good when
examples of punishment are there before them in the past. Your
Lord has forgiveness for people for their wrongdoing; but your
Lord is also severe in retribution. (13:6)
• They will receive punishment in the life of this world and the
punishment of the hereafter is harsher still. They have no
defender against Allah. (13:34)
• They will all parade before Allah and the weak will say to those
who were arrogant, ‘We followed you, so can you help us at all
against the punishment of Allah?’ They will say, ‘If Allah had
guided us, we would have guided you. It makes no difference
whether we cannot stand it or bear it patiently. We have no way
of escape.’ (14:21)
• When the affair is decided Satan will say, ‘Allah made you a
promise, a promise of truth, and I made you a promise but broke
my promise. I had no authority over you, except that I called you
and you responded to me. Do not, therefore, blame me but blame
yourselves. I cannot come to your aid nor you to mine. I reject the
way you associated me with Allah before.’ The wrongdoers will
have a painful punishment. (14:22)
• Warn mankind of the Day when the punishment will reach them.
Those who did wrong will say, ‘Our Lord, reprieve us for a short
time. We will respond to Your call and follow the Messengers.’
‘But did you not swear to Me before that you would never meet
your downfall?’ (14:44)
• Those before them also plotted, and Allah came at their building
from the foundations and the roof caved in on top of them. The
punishment came at them from where they did not expect. (16:26)
• Do those who plot evil actions feel secure that Allah will not cause
the earth to swallow them up or that a punishment will not come
upon them from where they least expect? (16:45)
• When those who did wrong see the punishment, it will not be
lightened for them. They will be granted no reprieve. (16:85)
• As for those who do not believe in Allah’s Signs, Allah will not
guide them and they will have a painful punishment. (16:104)
• Do not say about what your lying tongues describe: ‘This is lawful
and this is forbidden,’ inventing lies against Allah. Those who
invent lies against Allah are not successful–a brief enjoyment,
then they will have a painful punishment. (16:116-117)
• But as for those who do not believe in the hereafter, We have
prepared for them a painful punishment. (17:10)
• Say: ‘As for those who are astray, let the All-Merciful prolong their
term until they see what they were promised, whether it be the
punishment or the Hour. Then they will know who is in the worse
position and has the weaker troops.’ (19:75)
• No indeed! We will write down what he says and prolong the
punishment for him. (19:79)
• (Allah said to Musa, ‘Go to him and say,) "It has been revealed to
us that punishment is for him who denies the truth and turns
away."’ (20:48)
• On the day they see it, every nursing woman will be oblivious of
the baby at her breast, and every pregnant woman will abort the
contents of her womb, and you will think people drunk when they
are not drunk; it is just that the punishment of Allah is so severe.
(22:2)
• It is written of him that if anyone takes him (Satan) as a friend, he
will mislead him and guide him to the punishment of the Searing
Blaze. (22:4)
• Every time they want to come out of it, because of their suffering,
they will be driven back into it: ‘Taste the punishment of the
Burning!’ (22:22)
• Those who disbelieve and bar access to the Way of Allah and to
the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) which We have appointed
for all mankind–equally for those who live near it and those who
come from far away–those who desire to profane it with
wrongdoing, We will let them taste a painful punishment. (22:25)
• They ask you to hasten the punishment. Allah will not break His
promise. A day with your Lord is equivalent to a thousand years
in the way you count. (22:47)
• But those who disbelieve and deny Our Signs will have a
humiliating punishment. (22:57)
• But then when We seize the affluent among them with the
punishment, they will suddenly start praying fervently. (23:64)
• We seized them with the punishment, but they did not go low
before their Lord; nor will they humble themselves until We open
to them a gate to a harsh punishment in which they will at once
be crushed by despair. (23:76-77)
• And the punishment is removed from her if she testifies four times
by Allah that he (her husband) is lying. (24:8)
• Were it not for Allah’s favour to you and His mercy, both in this
world and the hereafter, a terrible punishment would have
afflicted you for your plunging headlong into it. (24:14)
• People who love to see filth being spread about concerning those
who believe will have a painful punishment both in this world and
the hereafter. Allah knows and you do not know. (24:19)
• Those who accuse chaste believing women, unaware (of the evil),
are cursed both in this world and the hereafter, and they will have
a terrible punishment. (24:23)
• So now they have disowned you for what you said, and they
cannot avert it or give you any help. As for anyone among you
who has done wrong, We will make him suffer great punishment.
(25:19)
• When they see you they only make a mockery of you: ‘Is this the
one Allah has sent as a Messenger? He might almost have
misled us from our gods had we not stuck to them steadfastly!’
They will soon know, when they see the punishment, whose way
is the most misguided. (25:41-42)
• (The servants of the All-Merciful are) those who say, ‘Our Lord,
avert from us the punishment of Hell, its punishment is
inescapable pain.’ (25:65)
• Those who do not call on any other god together with Allah and
do not kill anyone Allah has made inviolate, except with the right
to do so, and do not fornicate; anyone who does that will receive
an evil punishment and on the Day of Rising his punishment will
be doubled and he will be humiliated in it timelessly, for ever.
(25:68-69)
• Say: ‘What has My Lord to do with you if you do not call on Him?
But you have denied the truth, so punishment is bound to come.’
(25:77)
• But they hamstrung her and woke up full of remorse, for the
punishment did come down them. There is certainly a Sign in that,
yet most of them are not believers. (26:157-158)
• They denied him and the punishment of the Day of Shadow came
down on them. It was indeed the punishment of a terrible Day.
(26:189)
• They will not believe in it until they see the painful punishment.
(26:201)
• There are some people who say, ‘We believe in Allah,’ and then,
when they suffer harm in Allah’s cause, they take people’s
persecution for Allah’s punishment; but if help comes from your
Lord they say, ‘We were with you.’ Does Allah not know best what
is in every person’s heart? (29:10)
• Those who reject Allah’s Signs and the meeting with Him, such
people can despair of My mercy, such people will have a painful
punishment. (29:23)
• They ask you to hasten the punishment but Hell already encircles
the disbelievers. (29:54)
• On the Day the punishment envelops them from above them and
from underneath their feet, He will say, ‘Taste what you were
doing!’ (29:55)
• But as for those who disbelieved and denied Our Signs and the
meeting of the hereafter, they will be summoned to the
punishment. (30:16)
• When they are told: ‘Follow what Allah has sent down,’ they say,
‘No, we will follow what we found our fathers doing.’ What! Even if
Satan is calling them to the punishment of the Blazing Fire?
(31:21)
• (They are told,) ‘So taste it. Because you forgot the meeting of
this Day, We have forgotten you. Taste the punishment of eternal
timelessness for what you did.’ (32:14)
• But as for those who are deviators, their refuge is the Fire. Every
time that they want to get out, they are put straight back into it
again and they are told, ‘Taste the punishment of the Fire, which
you denied.’ (32:20)
• (It is) so that He would be able to question the truthful about their
truth; and He has prepared a painful punishment for the
disbelievers. (33:8)
• As for those who abuse Allah and His Messenger, Allah’s curse is
on them in this world and the hereafter. He has prepared a
humiliating punishment for them. (33:57)
• But those who strive against Our Signs, trying to nullify them, will
have a punishment of agonising pain. (34: 5)
• Those deemed weak will say to those deemed great, ‘No, it was
your scheming night and day when you commanded us to reject
Allah and assign equals to Him.’ But they will show their remorse
when they see the punishment. We will put iron collars round the
necks of those who disbelieve. Will they be repaid for anything
but what they did? (34:33)
• But people who strive against Our Signs, trying to nullify them,
such people will be summoned to the punishment. (34:38)
• If anyone wants power, all power belongs to Allah. All good words
rise to Him and He raises up all virtuous deeds. But people who
plot evil deeds will suffer a harsh punishment. The plotting of
such people is profitless. (35:10)
• Whereas for those who disbelieve there will be the Fire of Hell.
They will not be killed off so that they die and its punishment will
not be lightened for them. That is how We repay every thankless
man. (35:36)
• They (the inhabitants of the city) said (to Our Messengers), ‘We
see an evil omen in you. If you do not stop we will stone you and
you will suffer a painful punishment at our hands.’ (36:18)
• They (Satans) cannot eavesdrop on the Highest Assembly and
they are stoned from every side, repelled with harshness–they
will suffer eternal punishment. (37:8-9)
• You will definitely taste the painful punishment and you will only
be repaid for what you did–except for Allah’s chosen servants.
(37:38-40)
• (Their leaders went off saying,) ‘Has the Reminder been sent
down to him out of all of us?’ They are in doubt about My
Reminder. They have yet to taste My punishment. (38:8)
• They will say, ‘Our Lord, give him who brought this on us double
the punishment in the Fire!’ (38:61)
• Those before them also denied the truth and the punishment
came upon them from where they did not expect. (39:25)
• So Allah made them taste disgrace in the life of this world and the
punishment of the hereafter is far worse if they only knew. (39:26)
• Say: ‘My people, do as you think best; that is what I am doing.
You will soon know who will receive a punishment which
disgraces him and will unleash against himself an everlasting
punishment.’ (39:39-40)
• If those who did wrong owned everything on earth, and the same
again with it, they would offer it as a ransom to save themselves
from the evil of the punishment on the Day of Rising. What
confronts them from Allah will be something they did not reckon
with. (39:47)
• Follow the best that has been sent down to you from your Lord
before the punishment comes upon you suddenly when you are
not expecting it; lest anyone should say, ‘Alas for me for
neglecting what Allah was due, and being one of the scoffers!’ or
lest they should say, ‘If only Allah had guided me, I would have
guarded against evil,’ or lest he should say, when he sees the
punishment, ‘If only I could have another chance so that I could
be a good-doer!’ (39:55-58)
• Those who bear the Throne, and all those around it, glorify their
Lord with praise and believe in Him and ask forgiveness for those
who believe: ‘Our Lord, You encompass everything in mercy and
knowledge! Forgive those who turn to You and who follow Your
Way and safeguard them from the punishment of the Blazing
Fire.’ (40:7)
• The Fire, morning and night, to which they are exposed; and on
the Day the Hour takes place: ‘Admit Pharaoh’s people to the
harshest punishment!’ (40:46)
• Those in the Fire will say to the custodians of Hell, ‘Call on your
Lord to make the punishment less for us for just one day.’ (40:49)
• The argument of those who argue about Allah, once He has been
acknowledged, has no basis whatsoever with their Lord. There is
anger upon them and they will have a harsh punishment. (42:16)
• Or do they have partners who have laid down a religion for them
for which Allah has not given any authority? Were it not for the
prior Word of Decision, the judgement between them would
already have been made. The wrongdoers will have a painful
punishment. (42:21)
• You will see them as they are exposed to it, abject in their
abasement, glancing around them furtively. Those who believe
will say, ‘Truly the losers are those who lose themselves and their
families on the Day of Rising.’ The wrongdoers are in an
everlasting punishment. (42:45)
• It will not benefit you today, since you did wrong, that you share
equally in the punishment. (43:39)
• We showed them no Sign which was not greater than the one
before it. We seized them with punishment so that hopefully they
would turn back. (43:48)
• They will not taste any death there–except for the first one. He
will safeguard them from the punishment of the Blazing Fire.
(44:56)
• Woe to every wicked liar who hears the Signs of Allah recited to
him and then persists in his arrogance just as if he had never
heard them. Give him the news of a painful punishment. (45:7-8)
• Hell is right at their heels. Nothing they have earned will be of any
use to them, nor will those they took as protectors besides Allah.
They will have a terrible punishment. (45:10)
• This is guidance. And those who reject the Signs of their Lord will
have a punishment of agonising pain. (45:11)
• On the Day when those who disbelieved are exposed to the Fire,
they will be asked, ‘Is this not the truth?’ They will say, ‘Yes, by
our Lord.’ He will say, ‘Then taste the punishment for having
disbelieved.’ (46:34)
• They are those who disbelieved and debarred you from the
Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) and prevented the sacrifice
from reaching its proper place, and had it not been for some men
and women who are believers, whom you did not know and might
trample underfoot, and so unknowingly incur blame on their
account–so that Allah might admit into His mercy those He wills–
and had those among them who disbelieve been clearly
distinguishable, We would have punished them with a painful
punishment. (48:25)
• And We left a Sign in it for those who fear the painful punishment.
(51:37)
• And those who do wrong will have a punishment besides that but
most of them do not know it. (52:47)
• They even wanted to seduce his guests! So We put out their eyes:
‘Taste My punishment and warnings!’ (54:37)
• That Day the men and women of the hypocrites will say to those
who believe, ‘Wait for us so that we can borrow some of your
light.’ They will be told, ‘Go back and look for light!’ And a wall will
be erected between them with a gate in it, on the inside of which
there will be mercy but before whose exterior lies the punishment.
(57:13)
• Know that the life of this world is merely a game and a diversion
and ostentation and a cause of boasting among yourselves and
trying to outdo one another in wealth and children: like the plant-
growth after rain which delights the cultivators, but then it withers
and you see it turning yellow, and then it becomes broken stubble.
In the hereafter there is terrible punishment but also forgiveness
from Allah and His good pleasure. The life of this world is nothing
but the enjoyment of delusion. (57:20)
• Anyone who cannot find the means must fast for two consecutive
months before the two of them may touch one another again. And
anyone who is unable to do that must feed sixty poor people.
That is to affirm your faith in Allah and His Messenger. These are
Allah’s limits. The disbelievers will have a painful punishment.
(58:4)
• Those who oppose Allah and His Messenger will be subdued and
overcome as those before them were also subdued and
overcome. We have sent down Clear Signs. The disbelievers will
have a humiliating punishment. (58:5)
• They made their oaths into a cloak and barred the Way of Allah,
so they will have a humiliating punishment. (58:16)
• They are the same as those a short time before them who tasted
the evil consequences of what they did. They will have a painful
punishment. (59:15)
• Has the news not reached you of those who disbelieved before
and tasted the evil consequences of what they did? They will
have a painful punishment. (64:5)
• We have adorned the lowest heaven with lamps and made some
of them stones for the Satans for whom We have prepared the
punishment of the Blaze. (67:5)
• Those who reject their Lord will have the punishment of Hell.
What an evil destination! (67:6)
• ‘You who disbelieve! Do not try to excuse yourselves today. You
are merely being repaid for what you did.’ (66:7)
• Say: ‘What do you think? If Allah destroys me and those with me,
or if He has mercy on us, who can shelter the disbelievers from a
painful punishment?’ (67:28)
• (On the Day) no good friend will ask about his friend even though
they can see each other. An evildoer will wish he could ransom
himself from the punishment of that Day, by means of his sons, or
his wife or his brother or his family who sheltered him or everyone
else on earth, if that only meant that he could save himself.
(70:10-14)
• With Us there are shackles and a Blazing Fire and food that
chokes and a painful punishment. (73:12-13)
• Those who persecute men and women of the believers, and then
do not repent, will have the punishment of Hell, will have the
punishment of the Burning. (85:10)
PURITY
• You who believe! When you get up to perform prayer, wash your
faces and your hands and your arms to the elbows, and wipe
over your heads, and (wash) your feet to the ankles. If you are in
a state of major impurity, then purify yourselves. But if you are ill
or on a journey, or have come from the lavatory, or have touched
women, and cannot find any water, then take for yourselves clean
earth, and wipe your faces and your hands therewith. Allah does
not want to make things difficult for you, but He does want to
purify you and to perfect His blessing upon you so that hopefully
you will be thankful. (5:6)
• And when He overcame you with sleep, making you feel secure,
and sent you down water from heaven to purify you and remove
the taint of Satan from you, and to fortify your hearts and make
your feet firm. (8:11)
• This! So let them taste it–boiling water and scalding pus. (38:57)
• And remember when two of your clans were on the point of losing
heart and Allah was their Protector. Let the believers put their
trust in Allah. (3:122)
• It is a mercy from Allah that you were gentle with them. If you had
been rough or hard of heart, they would have scattered from
around you. So pardon them and ask forgiveness for them, and
consult with them about the matter. Then when you have reached
a firm decision, put your trust in Allah. Allah loves those who put
their trust in Him. (3:159)
• They have the word, ‘Obedience!’ on their tongues but when they
leave your presence, a group of them spend the night plotting to
do other than what you say. Allah is recording their nocturnal
plotting. So let them be and put your trust in Allah. Allah suffices
as a Guardian. (4:81)
• Two men among those who were afraid, but whom Allah had
blessed, said, ‘Enter the gate against them! Once you have
entered it, you will be victorious. Put your trust in Allah if you are
believers.’ (5:23)
• And when the hypocrites and those with sickness in their hearts
said, ‘These people have been deluded by their religion.’ But
those who put their trust in Allah will find Allah to be Almighty, All-
Wise. (8:49)
• If they incline to peace, you too incline to it, and put your trust in
Allah. He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing. (8:61)
• But if they turn away, say, ‘Allah is enough for me. There is no
god but Him. I have put my trust in Him. He is the Lord of the
Mighty Throne.’ (9:129)
• Recite to them the story of Nuh when he said to his people, ‘My
people, if my standing here and reminding you of Allah’s Signs
has become too much for you to bear, know that I have put my
trust in Allah. So decide, you and your gods, on what you want to
do and be open about it. Do with me whatever you decide and do
not keep me waiting.’ (10:71)
• Musa said, ‘My people! If you believe in Allah, then put your trust
in Him, if you are Muslims.’ (10:84)
• They said, ‘We have put our trust in Allah. Our Lord, do not make
us a target for this wrongdoing people,’ (10:85)
• (Hud said,) ‘I have put my trust in Allah, my Lord and your Lord.
There is no creature He does not hold by the forelock. My Lord is
on a Straight Path.’ (11:56)
• The Unseen of the heavens and the earth belongs to Allah and
the whole affair will be returned to Him. So worship Him and put
your trust in Him. Your Lord is not unaware of what you do.
(11:123)
• He (Ya‘qub) said, ‘My sons! You must not enter through a single
gate. Go in through different gates. But I cannot save you from
Allah at all, for judgement comes from no one but Allah. In Him I
put my trust, and let all those who put their trust, put it in Him
alone.’ (12:67)
• In the same way We have sent you among a nation before which
other nations passed away, to recite to them what We have
revealed to you. Yet they still reject the All-Merciful. Say: ‘He is
my Lord; there is no god but Him. I put my trust in Him and I turn
to Him.’ (13:30)
• (Believers are) those who are steadfast and put their trust in their
Lord. (16:42)
• He (Satan) has no authority over those who believe and put their
trust in their Lord. (16:99)
• Put your trust in the Living Who does not die and glorify Him with
praise. He is well aware of the wrong actions of His servants.
(25:58)
• (Believers are) those who are steadfast and put their trust in their
Lord. (29:59)
• If you ask them, ‘Who created the heavens and the earth?’ they
will say, ‘Allah.’ Say: ‘So what do you think? If Allah desires harm
for me, can those you call upon besides Allah remove His harm?
Or if He desires mercy for me, can they withhold His mercy?’ Say:
‘Allah is enough for me. All those who truly trust put their trust in
Him.’ (39:38)
• Allah–there is no god but Him. So let the believers put their trust
in Allah. (64:13)
• And (He will) provide for him from where he does not expect.
Whoever puts his trust in Allah–He will be enough for him. Allah
always achieves His aim. Allah has appointed a measure for all
things. (65:3)
• When they (hypocrites) are told, ‘Do not cause corruption on the
earth,’ they say, ‘We are only putting things right.’ (2:11)
• Those who hide the Clear Signs and Guidance We have sent
down, after We have made it clear to people in the Book, Allah
curses them, and the cursers curse them–except for those who
repent and put things right and make things clear. I turn towards
them. I am the Ever-Returning, the Most Merciful. (2:159-160)
• The hypocrites are in the lowest level of the Fire. You will not find
any one to help them, except those who repent and put things
right and hold fast to Allah and dedicate their religion to Allah
alone; they are with the believers. Allah will give the believers an
immense reward. (4:145-146)
• But if anyone repents after his wrongdoing and puts things right,
Allah will turn towards him. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
(5:39)
• When those who believe in Our Signs come to you, say, ‘Peace
be upon you!’ Allah has made mercy incumbent on Himself. If
anyone among you does evil out of ignorance and then
afterwards repents and puts things right, He is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (6:54)
• But to those who do evil in ignorance and then after that repent
and put things right, to them your Lord is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. (16:119)
• But those who make accusations against chaste women and then
do not produce four witnesses: flog them with eighty lashes and
never again accept them as witnesses. Such people are
deviators–except for those who after that repent and put things
right. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (24:4-5)
• (Salih said to his people,) ‘Do not obey the orders of the profligate,
those who corrupt the earth and do not put things right.’ (26:151-
152)
• When your Lord took out all their descendants from the loins of
the children of Adam and made them testify against themselves
‘Am I not your Lord?’ they said, ‘We testify that indeed You are!’
Lest you say on the Day of Rising, ‘We knew nothing of this.’ Or
lest you say, ‘Our forefathers associated others with Allah before
our time, and we are merely descendants coming after them. So
are You going to destroy us for what those purveyors of
falsehood did?’ (7:172-173)
QARUN
• Qarun was one of the people of Musa but he lorded it over them.
We gave him treasures, the keys alone to which were a heavy
weight for a party of strong men. When his people said to him,
‘Do not gloat. Allah does not love people who gloat. Seek the
abode of the hereafter with what Allah has given you, without
forgetting your portion of this world. And do good as Allah has
been good to you. And do not seek to cause corruption in the
earth. Allah does not love corrupters.’ he said, ‘I have only been
given it because of knowledge I have.’ Did he not know that
before him Allah had destroyed generations with far greater
strength than his and far more possessions? The evildoers will
not be questioned about their sins. He went out among his people
in his finery. Those who desired the life of this world said, ‘Oh! If
only we had the same as Qarun has been given! What immense
good fortune he possesses.’ But those who had been given
knowledge said, ‘Woe to you! Allah’s reward is better for those
who believe and act rightly. But only the steadfast will obtain it.’
We caused the earth to swallow up both him and his house.
There was no group to come to his aid, besides Allah, and he
was not someone who is helped. Those who had longed to take
his place the day before woke up saying, ‘Allah expands the
provision of any of His servants He wills or restricts it. If Allah had
not shown great kindness to us, we would have been swallowed
up as well. Ah! Truly the disbelievers are not successful.’ That
abode of the hereafter–We grant it to those who do not seek to
exalt themselves in the earth or to cause corruption in it. The
successful outcome is for those who guard against evil. (28:76-83)
• And Qarun and Pharaoh and Haman–Musa came with the Clear
Signs to them, but they were arrogant on the earth. They could
not outstrip Us. (29:39)
QUAIL
• And We shaded you with clouds and sent down manna and
quails to you: ‘Eat of the good things We have provided for you.’
They did not wrong Us; rather it was themselves they were
wronging. (2:57)
QUILT
QUR'AN, THE
• The month of Ramadan is the one in which the Qur’an was sent
down as guidance for mankind, with Clear Signs containing
guidance and discrimination. Any of you who are resident for the
month should fast it. But any of you who are ill or on a journey
should fast a number of other days. Allah desires ease for you;
He does not desire difficulty for you. You should complete the
number of days and proclaim Allah’s greatness for the guidance
He has given you so that hopefully you will be thankful. (2:185)
• You who believe! Do not ask about matters which, if they were
made known to you, would make things difficult for you. If you do
ask about them when the Qur’an is being sent down, they will be
made known to you. Allah has ignored them. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, All-Forbearing. (5:101)
• Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their wealth
in return for the Garden. They fight in the Way of Allah and they
kill and are killed. It is a promise binding on Him in the Torah, the
Gospel and the Qur’an and who is truer to his contract than Allah?
Rejoice then in the bargain you have made. That is the great
victory. (9:111)
• When Our Clear Signs are recited to them, those who do not
expect to meet Us say, ‘Bring a Qur’an other than this one or
change it.’ Say: ‘It is not for me to change it of my own accord. I
follow nothing except what is revealed to me. I fear, were I to
disobey my Lord, the punishment of a Dreadful Day.’ (10:15)
• This Qur’an could never have been devised by any besides Allah.
Rather it is confirmation of what came before it and an elucidation
of the Book which contains no doubt from the Lord of all the
worlds. (10:37)
• Alif Lam Ra. Those are the Signs of the Book and a clear Qur’an.
(15:1)
• Whenever you recite the Qur'an, seek refuge with Allah from the
accursed Satan. (16:98)
• This Qur’an guides to the most upright Way and gives good news
to the believers who do right actions that they will have a large
reward. (17:9)
• We have made things clear in this Qur’an so that they might pay
heed, but it only makes them run away the more! (17:41)
• Say: ‘If both men and jinn banded together to produce the like of
this Qur'an, they could never produce anything like it, even if they
backed each other up.’ (17:88)
• We did not send down the Qur’an to you to make you miserable.
(20:2)
• High exalted be Allah, the King, the Real! Do not rush ahead with
the Qur’an before its revelation to you is complete, and say: ‘My
Lord, increase me in knowledge.’ (20:114)
• Those who disbelieve say, ‘Why was the Qur’an not sent down to
him all in one go?’ It is so that We can fortify your heart by it. We
have recited it distinctly, little by little. (25:32)
• Ta Sin. Those are the Signs of the Qur’an and a Clear Book.
(27:1)
• You receive the Qur’an directly from One who is All-Wise, All-
Knowing. (27:6)
• ‘... and (I have been ordered to) to recite the Qur’an.’ Whoever is
guided is only guided to his own good; if someone is misguided
just say, ‘I am only a warner.’ (27:92)
• He Who has imposed the Qur’an upon you will most certainly
bring you back home again. Say: ‘My Lord knows best who has
brought true guidance and who is plainly misguided.’ (28:85)
• Those who disbelieve say, ‘We will never believe in this Qur'an,
nor in what came before it.’ If only you could see when the
wrongdoers, standing in the presence of their Lord, cast
accusations back and forth at one another! Those deemed weak
will say to those deemed great, ‘Were it not for you, we would
have been believers!’ (34:31)
• We did not teach him poetry nor would it be right for him. It is
simply a reminder and a clear Qur’an. (36:69)
• Will they not then ponder the Qur’an or are there locks upon their
hearts? (47:24)
• We know best what they say. You are not a dictator over them.
So remind, with the Qur'an, whoever fears My Threat. (50:45)
• Your Lord knows that you stay up nearly two-thirds of the night–or
half of it, or a third of it–and a group of those with you. Allah
determines the night and day. He knows you will not keep count
of it, so He has turned towards you. Recite as much of the Qur’an
as is easy for you. He knows that some of you are ill and that
others are travelling in the land seeking Allah’s bounty, and that
others are fighting in the Way of Allah. So recite as much of it as
is easy for you. And perform prayer and give the alms and lend a
generous loan to Allah. Whatever good you send ahead for
yourselves you will find it with Allah as something better and as a
greater reward. And seek forgiveness from Allah. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (73:20)
• What is the matter with them that they have no faith and, when
the Qur’an is recited to them, do not prostrate? (84:20-21)
QURAYSH
RABBI
• We sent down the Torah containing guidance and light, and the
Prophets who had submitted themselves gave judgement by it for
the Jews–as did their scholars and their rabbis–by what they had
been allowed to preserve of Allah’s Book to which they were
witnesses. Do not be afraid of people, be afraid of Me. And do not
sell My Signs for a paltry price. Those who do not judge by what
Allah has sent down, such people are disbelievers. (5:44)
• Why do their scholars and rabbis not prohibit them from evil
speech and acquiring ill-gotten gains? What an evil thing they
invent! (5:63)
• They have taken their rabbis and monks as lords besides Allah,
and also the Messiah, son of Maryam. Yet they were commanded
to worship only one God. There is no god but Him! Glory be to
Him above anything they associate with Him! (9:31)
• You who believe! Many of the rabbis and monks devour people’s
property under false pretences and bar people from access to the
Way of Allah. As for those who hoard up gold and silver and do
not spend it in the Way of Allah, give them the news of a painful
punishment (9:34)
RACE
• They raced to the door. She tore his (Yusuf's) shirt at the back.
They met her husband by the door. She said, ‘How should a man
whose intention was to harm your family be punished for what he
did except with prison or painful punishment?’ (12:25)
• Such people are truly racing towards good things, and they are
the first to reach them. (23:61)
RAGE
• Those who give in times of both ease and hardship, those who
control their rage and pardon other people–Allah loves the good-
doers. (3:134)
• He will remove the rage from their hearts. Allah turns to anyone
He wills. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (9:15)
• Anyone who thinks that Allah will not help him in this world and
the hereafter should stretch a rope up to the ceiling and then cut
(it) off. Let him see whether his stratagem gets rid of what
enrages him! (22:15)
• Allah sent back those who disbelieved in their rage without their
achieving any good at all. Allah made it unnecessary for the
believers to fight. Allah is Most Strong, Almighty. (33:25)
• There you are, loving them when they do not love you, even
though you believe in all the Books. When they meet you, they
say, ‘We believe.’ But when they leave they bite their fingers out
of rage against you. Say, ‘Die in your rage.’ Allah knows what
your hearts contain. (3:119)
• It was not for people of Madina, and the desert arabs around
them, to remain behind the Messenger of Allah nor to prefer
themselves to him. That is because no thirst or weariness or
hunger will afflict them in the Way of Allah, nor will they take a
single step to infuriate the disbelievers, nor secure any gain from
the enemy, without a right action being written down for them
because of it. Allah does not let the wage of the good-doers go to
waste. (9:120)
• When one of them is given the good news of a baby girl, his face
darkens and he is furious. (16:58)
• It all but bursts with rage. Each time a group is flung into it its
custodians will question them: ‘Did no warner come to you?’ (67:8)
RAIN
• It is He Who made the earth a couch for you, and the sky a dome.
He sends down water from the sky and by it brings forth fruits for
your provision. Do not, then, knowingly make others equal to
Allah. (2:22)
• When you are with them and leading them in prayer, a group of
them should stand with you, keeping hold of their weapons. When
they prostrate, the others should guard your backs. Then the
other group who have not yet prayed should come and pray with
you. They too should be careful and keep hold of their weapons.
Those who disbelieve would like you to be negligent of your arms
and equipment so that they can swoop down on you once and for
all. There is nothing wrong, if you are bothered by rain or you are
ill, in laying your weapons down; but take every precaution. Allah
has prepared a humiliating punishment for the disbelievers.
(4:102)
• (Yusuf said,) ‘Then after that another year will come in which the
people will be helped by rain in plenty and when they once more
will press.’ (12:49)
• Do you not see that Allah propels the clouds then makes them
coalesce then heaps them up, and then you see the rain come
pouring out of the middle of them? And He sends down
mountains from the sky with hail inside them, striking with it
anyone He wills and averting it from anyone He wills. The
brightness of His lightning almost blinds the sight. (24:43)
• They themselves have come across the city which was rained on
by an evil rain. Did they not then see it? But they do not expect to
rise again. (25:40)
• We rained down a rain upon them. How evil is the rain of those
who are warned! (27:58)
• Truly Allah has knowledge of the Hour and sends down abundant
rain and knows what is in the womb. And no self knows what it
will earn tomorrow and no self knows in what land it will die. Allah
is All-Knowing, All-Aware. (31:34)
• It is He Who sends down abundant rain, after they have lost all
hope, and unfolds His mercy. He is the Protector, the
Praiseworthy. (42:28)
• Know that the life of this world is merely a game and a diversion
and ostentation and a cause of boasting among yourselves and
trying to outdo one another in wealth and children: like the plant-
growth after rain which delights the cultivators, but then it withers
and you see it turning yellow, and then it becomes broken stubble.
In the hereafter there is terrible punishment but also forgiveness
from Allah and His good pleasure. The life of this world is nothing
but the enjoyment of delusion. (57:20)
• He will send heaven down on you in abundant rain. (71:11)
RAMADAN
• The month of Ramadan is the one in which the Qur’an was sent
down as guidance for mankind, with Clear Signs containing
guidance and discrimination. Any of you who are resident for the
month should fast it. But any of you who are ill or on a journey
should fast a number of other days. Allah desires ease for you;
He does not desire difficulty for you. You should complete the
number of days and proclaim Allah’s greatness for the guidance
He has given you so that hopefully you will be thankful. (2:185)
RAMPART
RANSOM
• Then you are the people who are killing one another and
expelling a group among you from their homes, ganging up
against them in wrongdoing and enmity. Yet if they are brought to
you as captives, you ransom them, when it was forbidden for you
to expel them in the first place! Do you, then, believe in one part
of the Book and reject the other? What repayment will there be
for any of you who do that except disgrace in this world? And on
the Day of Rising, they will be returned to the harshest of
punishments. Allah is not unaware of what you do. (2:85)
• Have fear of a Day when no self will be able to compensate for
another in any way, and no ransom will be accepted from it, and
no intercession benefit it, and they will not be helped. (2:123)
• As for those who disbelieve and die while they are disbelievers,
the whole earth filled with gold would not be accepted from any of
them if they were to offer it as a ransom. They will have a painful
punishment. They will have no helpers. (3:91)
• Those who respond to their Lord will receive the best. But as for
those who do not respond to Him, even if they owned everything
on the earth and the same again with it, they would offer it as a
ransom. They will receive an evil Reckoning. Their shelter will be
Hell. What an evil resting-place! (13:18)
• If those who did wrong owned everything on earth, and the same
again with it, they would offer it as a ransom to save themselves
from the evil of the punishment on the Day of Rising. What
confronts them from Allah will be something they did not reckon
with. (39:47)
• Therefore when you meet those who disbelieve strike their necks.
Then when you have decimated them, tie their bonds tightly and
set them free or ransom them, until the war is finally over. That is
how it is to be. If Allah willed, He could avenge Himself on them.
But it is so that He can test some of you by means of others. As
for those who fight in the Way of Allah, He will not let their actions
go astray. (47:4)
• (On that Day) no good friend will ask about his friend even though
they can see each other. An evildoer will wish he could ransom
himself from the punishment of that Day, by means of his sons, or
his wife or his brother or his family who sheltered him or everyone
else on earth, if that only meant that he could save himself.
(70:10-14)
RECOMPENSATION
• Say: ‘Is that better, or the Garden of Eternal Life which has been
promised to those who guard against evil? That is their
recompense and destination.’ (25:15)
• And when he reached his full strength and maturity, We gave him
judgement and knowledge. That is how We recompense good-
doers. (28:14)
• So that Allah might recompense the truthful for their truth and
punish the hypocrites, if He wills, or turn towards them. Allah is
Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:24)
• It is not your wealth or your children that will bring you near to
Us–only in the case of people who believe and act rightly; such
people will have a double recompense for what they did. They will
be safe from all harm in the High Halls of Paradise. (34:37)
• They will have anything they wish for with their Lord. That is the
recompense of the good-doers. (39:34)
RECONCILIATION
• The alms are for: the poor, the destitute, those who collect it,
reconciling people’s hearts, freeing slaves, those in debt,
spending in the Way of Allah, and travellers. It is a legal obligation
from Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (9:60)
RECORDING ANGELS
• And the two recording angels are recording, sitting on the right
and on the left. (50:17)
• Standing over you are guardians, noble, recording, who know
what you do. (82:10-12)
REFLECT (TAFAKKUR)
• They will ask you about alcoholic drinks and gambling. Say,
‘There is great wrong in both of them and also certain benefits for
mankind. But the wrong in them is greater than the benefit.’ They
will ask you what they should give away. Say, ‘Whatever is
surplus to your needs.’ In this way Allah makes the Signs clear to
you, so that hopefully you will reflect. (2:219)
• Would any of you like to have a garden of dates and grapes, with
rivers flowing underneath and containing all kinds of fruits, then to
be stricken with old age and have children who are weak, and
then for a fierce whirlwind containing fire to come and strike it so
that it goes up in flames? In this way Allah makes His Signs clear
to you, so that hopefully you will reflect. (2:266)
• Say: ‘I do not say to you that I possess the treasuries of Allah, nor
do I know the Unseen, nor do I say to you that I am an angel. I
only follow what has been revealed to me.’ Say: ‘Are the blind the
same as those who can see? So will you not reflect?’ (6:50)
• And by it He makes crops grow for you and olives and dates and
grapes and fruit of every kind. There is certainly a Sign in that for
people who reflect. (16:11)
• We have only ever sent before you men who were given
Revelation–ask the People of the Reminder if you do not know–
who brought Clear Signs and Revealed Books. And We have sent
down the Reminder to you so that you can make clear to mankind
what has been sent down to them so that hopefully they will
reflect. (16:43-44)
• (Your Lord revealed to the bees:) ‘Then eat from every kind of
fruit and travel the paths of your Lord, which have been made
easy for you to follow.’ From inside them comes a drink of varying
colours, containing healing for mankind. There is certainly a Sign
in that for people who reflect. (16:69)
• Have they not reflected within themselves? Allah did not create
the heavens and the earth and everything between them except
with truth and for a fixed term. Yet many people reject the
meeting with their Lord. (30:8)
• Among His Signs is that He created spouses for you of your own
kind so that you might find tranquillity in them. And He has placed
affection and compassion between you. There are certainly Signs
in that for people who reflect. (30:21)
• Allah takes back people’s selves when their death arrives and
those who have not yet died, while they are asleep. He keeps
hold of those whose death has been decreed and sends the
others back for a specified term. There are certainly Signs in that
for people who reflect. (39:42)
REGION
• In the earth there are diverse regions side by side and gardens of
grapes and cultivated fields, and palm-trees sharing one root and
others with individual roots, all watered with the same water. And
We make some things better to eat than others. There are Signs
in that for people who use their intellect. (13:4)
REGRET
• Yet you see those with sickness in their hearts rushing to them,
saying, ‘We fear the wheel of fate may turn against us.’ But it may
well be that Allah will bring about victory or some other
contingency from Him. Then they will deeply regret their secret
thoughts. (5:52)
• Those who disbelieve spend their wealth barring access to the
Way of Allah. They will spend it; then they will regret it; then they
will be overthrown. Those who disbelieve will be gathered into
Hell. (8:36)
REJOICE
• Do not suppose that those killed in the Way of Allah are dead. No
indeed! They are alive and well provided for in the very presence
of their Lord, delighting in the favour Allah has bestowed on them,
rejoicing over those they left behind who have not yet joined them,
feeling no fear and knowing no sorrow. (3:169-170)
• Each time a sura is sent down there are some among them who
say, ‘Which of you has this increased in faith?’ As for those who
believe, it increases them in faith and they rejoice at it. (9:124)
• Those to whom We gave the Book rejoice at what has been sent
down to you but some of the parties refuse to acknowledge part
of it. Say: ‘I have only been ordered to worship Allah and not to
associate anything with Him. I summon to Him and to Him I will
return.’ (13:36)
• The Romans have been defeated in the land nearby, but after
their defeat they will themselves be victorious in a few years’ time.
The affair is Allah’s from beginning to end. On that day, the
believers will rejoice in Allah’s help. He grants victory to whoever
He wills. He is the Almighty, the Most Merciful. (30:2-5)
• The angels descend on those who say, ‘Our Lord is Allah,’ and
then go straight: ‘Do not fear and do not grieve but rejoice in the
Garden you have been promised. (41:30)
RELATIVE
• They will ask you what they should give away. Say, ‘Any wealth
you give away should go to your parents and relatives and to
orphans and the very poor and travellers.’ Whatever good you do,
Allah knows it.’ (2:215)
• Men receive a share of what their parents and relatives leave and
women receive a share of what their parents and relatives leave,
a fixed share, no matter whether it is a little or a lot. (4:7)
• You who believe! When one of you is near to death and makes a
will, two just men from among you should act as witnesses; or, if
you are travelling when the misfortune of death occurs, two men
who are strangers to you. You should detain them after prayer
and, if you are doubtful, they should swear by Allah: ‘We will not
sell it for any price, even to a near relative, and we will not
conceal the testimony of Allah. If we did we would indeed be
wrongdoers.’ (5:106)
• Say: ‘Come and I will recite to you what your Lord has made
forbidden for you’: that you do not associate anything with Him;
that you are good to your parents; that you do not kill your
children because of poverty–We will provide for you and them;
that you do not approach indecency–outward or inward; that you
do not kill any person Allah has made inviolate–except with the
right to do so. That is what He instructs you to do so that
hopefully you will use your intellect. And that you do not go near
the property of orphans before they reach maturity–except in a
good way; that you give full measure and full weight with justice–
We impose on no self any more than it can bear; that you are
equitable when you speak–even if a near relative is concerned;
and that you fulfil Allah’s contract. That is what He instructs you to
do, so that hopefully you will pay heed. (6:151-152)
• Know that when you take any booty a fifth of it belongs to Allah,
and to the Messenger, and to close relatives, orphans, the very
poor and travellers, if you believe in Allah and in what We sent
down to Our servant on the Day of Discrimination, the day the two
groups met–Allah has power over all things. (8:41)
• It is not right for the Prophet and those who believe to ask
forgiveness for the idolaters–even if they are close relatives–after
it has become clear to them that they are the Companions of the
Blazing Fire. (9:113)
• Your Lord has decreed that you should worship none but Him,
and that you should show kindness to your parents. Whether one
or both of them reach old age with you, do not say ‘Ugh!’ to them
out of irritation and do not be harsh with them but speak to them
with gentleness and generosity. Take them under your wing, out
of mercy, with due humility and say: ‘Lord, show mercy to them
as they did in looking after me when I was small.’ Your Lord
knows best what is in your selves. If you are righteous, He is
Ever-Forgiving to the remorseful. Give your relatives their due,
and the very poor and travellers but do not squander what you
have. (17:23 - 26)
• Give relatives their due, and the poor and travellers. That is best
for those who seek the pleasure of Allah. They are the ones who
are successful. (30:38)
• The Prophet is closer to the believers than their own selves, and
his wives are their mothers. But blood-relations have closer ties to
one another in the Book of Allah than the believers and the
emigrants, except that you should act in a proper manner towards
your close associates. That is inscribed in the Book. (33:6)
• Neither your blood relations nor your children will be of any use to
you. On the Day of Rising He will differentiate between you. Allah
sees what you do. (60:3)
• You who believe! Some of your wives and children are an enemy
to you, so be wary of them. But if you pardon and exonerate and
forgive, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (64:14)
• Your wealth and children are a trial. But with Allah there is an
immense reward. (64:15)
• The angels and the Spirit ascend to Him in a day whose length is
fifty thousand years. (70:4)
• He directs the whole affair from heaven to earth. Then it will again
ascend to Him on a Day whose length is a thousand years by the
way you measure. (32:5)
• They ask you to hasten the punishment. Allah will not break His
promise. A day with your Lord is equivalent to a thousand years
in the way you count. (22:47)
RELIGION (DEEN)
• The Jews and the Christians will never be pleased with you until
you follow their religion. Say, ‘Allah’s guidance is the true
guidance.’ If you were to follow their whims and desires, after the
knowledge that has come to you, you would find no protector or
helper against Allah. (2:120)
• They say, ‘Be Jews or Christians and you will be guided.’ Say,
‘Rather adopt the religion of Ibrahim, a man of natural pure belief.
He was not one of the idolaters.’ (2:135)
• The religion with Allah is Islam. Those given the Book only
differed after knowledge had come to them, envying one another.
As for those who reject Allah’s Signs, Allah is swift at reckoning.
(3:19)
• Is it other than the religion of Allah that you desire, when
everything in the heavens and earth, willingly or unwillingly,
submits to Him and to Him you will be returned? (3:83)
• Some of the Jews distort the true meaning of words, saying, ‘We
hear and disobey,’ and ‘Listen without listening,’ and ‘Listen to
us!’ twisting them with their tongues, disparaging the religion. If
they had said, ‘We hear and we obey,’ and ‘Listen,’ and, ‘Look at
us!’ that would have been better for them and more upright. But
Allah has cursed them for their disbelief. Very few of them believe.
(4:46)
• Forbidden for you are carrion, blood and pork, and what has been
consecrated to other than Allah, and animals which have been
strangled, and animals which have been killed by a blow, and
animals which have fallen to their death, and animals which have
been gored, and animals which wild beasts have eaten–except
those you are able to slaughter properly–and animals which have
been sacrificed on altars, and deciding things by means of
divining arrows–that is deviance. Today those who disbelieve
have despaired of overcoming your religion. So do not be afraid
of them but be afraid of Me. Today I have perfected your religion
for you and completed My blessing upon you and I am pleased
with Islam as a religion for you. But if anyone is forced by hunger,
not intending any wrongdoing, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. (5:3)
• You who believe! If any of you renounce your religion, Allah will
bring forward a people whom He loves and who love Him, humble
to the believers, fierce to the disbelievers, who strive in the Way
of Allah and do not fear the blame of any censurer. That is the
unbounded favour of Allah which He gives to whoever He wills.
Allah is Boundless, All-Knowing. (5:54)
• You who believe! Do not take as friends any of those who who
make a mockery and a game out of your religion among the ones
who were given the Book before you or the disbelievers. Have
fear of Allah if you are believers. (5:57)
• Abandon those who have turned their religion into a game and a
diversion and who have been deluded by the life of this world.
Remind by it lest a person is delivered up to destruction for what
he has earned with no protector or intercessor besides Allah.
Were he to offer every kind of compensation, it would not be
accepted from him. Such people are delivered up to destruction
for what they have earned. They will have scalding water to drink
and a painful punishment because they disbelieved. (6:70)
• In the same way their idols have made killing their children
appear good to many of the idolaters, in order to destroy them
and confuse them in their religion. If Allah had willed, they would
not have done it; so abandon them and what they fabricate.
(6:137)
• As for those who divide up their religion and form into sects, you
have nothing whatsoever to do with them. Their affair will go back
to Allah and then He will inform them about what they did. (6:159)
• (Believers will say, ‘Disbelievers are) those who took their religion
as a diversion and a game, and were deluded by the life of this
world.’ Today We will forget them just as they forgot the
encounter of this Day and denied Our Signs. (7:51)
• The ruling circle of those of his people who were arrogant said,
‘We will drive you out of our city, Shu‘ayb, you and those who
believe along with you, unless you return to our religion.’ He said,
‘What, even though we detest it? We would be inventing lies
against Allah if we returned to your religion after Allah has saved
us from it. We could never return to it unless Allah our Lord so
willed. Our Lord encompasses everything in His knowledge. We
have put our trust in Allah. Our Lord, judge between us and our
people with truth. You are the best of judges.’ (7:88-89)
• And when the hypocrites and those with sickness in their hearts
said, ‘These people have been deluded by their religion.’ But
those who put their trust in Allah will find Allah to be Almighty, All-
Wise. (8:49)
• Those who believe and have migrated and strived with their
wealth and themselves in the Way of Allah, and those who have
given refuge and help, they are the friends and protectors of one
another. But as for those who believe but have not migrated, you
are not in any way responsible for their protection until they
migrate. But if they ask you for help in respect of the religion, it is
your duty to help them, except against people you have a treaty
with. Allah sees what you do. (8:72)
• But if they repent and perform prayer and give the alms, they are
your brothers in the religion. We make the Signs clear for people
who have knowledge. (9:11)
• If they break their oaths after making their treaty and defame your
religion, then fight the leaders of disbelief–they have no binding
oaths–so that hopefully they will stop. (9:12)
• Fight those of the people who were given the Book who do not
believe in Allah and the Last Day and who do not make forbidden
what Allah and His Messenger have made forbidden and do not
take as their religion the religion of Truth, until they pay the poll
tax with their own hands in a state of complete abasement. (9:29)
• There have been twelve months with Allah in the Book of Allah,
from the day He first created the heavens and earth. Four of them
are forbidden. That is the True Religion. So do not wrong one
another during them. However, fight the idolaters totally just as
they fight you totally, and know that Allah is with those who guard
against evil. (9:36)
• (Yusuf said,) ‘What you serve apart from Him are only names
which you and your forefathers have made up. There is no
mandate for them from Allah. Allah alone is qualified to judge. His
order is to worship none but Him. That is in truth the straight and
upright religion, but most of mankind simply do not know.’ (12:40)
• Strive for Allah with the striving due to Him. He has selected you
and not placed any constraint upon you in the religion–the religion
of your forefather Ibrahim. He named you Muslims before and
also in this, so that the Messenger could be witness against you
and you could be witnesses against all mankind. So perform
prayer and give the alms and hold fast to Allah. He is your
Protector–the Best Protector, the Best Helper. (22:78)
• Allah has promised those of you who believe and do right actions
that He will make them successors in the land as He made those
before them successors, and will firmly establish for them their
religion with which He is pleased and give them, in place of their
fear, security. ‘They worship Me, not associating anything with
Me.’ Any who disbelieve after that, such people are deviators.
(24:55)
• So set your face firmly towards the True Religion, before a Day
comes from Allah which cannot be turned back. On that Day they
will be split up. (30:43)
• When the waves hang over them like canopies, they call on Allah,
making their religion sincerely His. But then when He delivers
them safely to the land, some of them are ambivalent. None but a
treacherous, thankless man denies Our Signs. (31:32)
• (Their leaders went off saying,) ‘We have not heard of this in the
old religion. This is merely something contrived.’ (38:7)
• We have sent down the Book to you with truth. So worship Allah,
making your religion sincerely His. (39:2)
• Pharaoh said, ‘Let me kill Musa and let him call upon his Lord! I
am afraid that he may change your religion and bring about
corruption in the land.’ (40:26)
• No, in fact they say, ‘We found our fathers following a religion and
we are simply guided in their footsteps.’ (43:22)
• Similarly We never sent any warner before you to any city without
the affluent among them saying, ‘We found our fathers following a
religion and we are simply following in their footsteps.’ (43:23)
• Say: ‘Do you presume to teach Allah your religion when Allah
knows everything in the heavens and everything in the earth?
Allah has knowledge of all things.’ (49:16)
• Allah does not forbid you from being good to those who have not
fought you in the religion or driven you from your homes, or from
being just towards them. Allah loves those who are just. (60:8)
• Allah merely forbids you from taking as friends those who have
fought you in the religion and driven you from your homes and
who supported your expulsion. Any who take them as friends are
wrongdoers. (60:9)
• When Allah’s help and victory have arrived and you have seen
people entering Allah’s religion in droves, then glorify your Lord’s
praise and ask His forgiveness. He is the Ever-Returning. (110:1-
3)
REMEMBRANCE OF ALLAH
• When you divorce women and they are near the end of their
waiting period, then either retain them with correctness and
courtesy or release them with correctness and courtesy. Do not
retain them by force, thus overstepping the limits. Anyone who
does that has wronged himself. Do not make a mockery of Allah’s
Signs. Remember Allah’s blessing to you and the Book and
Wisdom He has sent down to you to admonish you. Have fear of
Allah and know that Allah has knowledge of all things. (2:231)
• If you are afraid, then perform prayer on foot or mounted. But
when you are safe, remember Allah in the way He taught you
when previously you did not know. (2:239)
• Hold fast to the rope of Allah all together, and do not separate.
Remember Allah’s blessing to you when you were enemies and
He joined your hearts together so that you became brothers by
His blessing. You were on the very brink of a pit of the Fire and
He rescued you from it. In this way Allah makes His Signs clear to
you, so that hopefully you will be guided. (3:103)
• (People who guard against evil are) those who, when they act
indecently or wrong themselves, remember Allah and ask
forgiveness for their bad actions (and who can forgive bad actions
except Allah?) and do not knowingly persist in what they were
doing. (3:135)
• Follow what has been sent down to you from your Lord and do
not follow any protectors apart from Him. How little you remember!
(7:3)
• (Hud said to his people,) ‘Or are you astonished that a reminder
should come to you from your Lord by way of a man among you
in order to warn you? Remember when He appointed you
successors to the people of Nuh, and increased you greatly in
stature. Remember Allah’s blessings, so that hopefully you will be
successful.’ (7:69)
• As for those who guard against evil, when they are bothered by
visitors from Satan, they remember and immediately see clearly.
(7:201)
• You who believe! When you meet a troop, stand firm and
remember Allah repeatedly so that hopefully you will be
successful. (8:45)
• Those who disbelieve say, ‘Why has a Sign not been sent down
to him from his Lord?’ Say: ‘Allah misguides whoever He wills and
guides to Himself all who turn to Him: those who believe and
whose hearts find peace in the remembrance of Allah. Only in the
remembrance of Allah can the heart find peace.’ (13:27-28)
• (He said,) ‘Go, you and your brother, with My Signs and do not
slacken in remembering Me.’ (20:42)
• Say: ‘Who will protect you night and day from the All-Merciful?’
Yet they turn away from the remembrance of their Lord. (21:42)
• But you made a mockery of them so that they made you forget to
remember Me while you were laughing at them. (23:110)
• Do you not see how they ramble on in every style and say things
which they do not do, except those who believe and do right
actions and remember Allah repeatedly and defend themselves
after they have been wronged? Those who do wrong will soon
know the kind of reversal they will receive! (26:225-227)
• Recite what has been revealed to you of the Book and perform
prayer. Prayer precludes indecency and wrongdoing. And
remembrance of Allah is greater still. Allah knows what you do.
(29:45)
• You who believe! Remember Allah’s blessing to you when forces
came against you and We sent a wind against them and other
forces you could not see. Allah sees what you do. (33:9)
• And remember the Signs of Allah and the wise words which are
recited in your rooms. Allah is All-Pervading, All-Aware. (33:34)
• Men and women who are Muslims, men and women who are
believers, men and women who are obedient, men and women
who are truthful, men and women who are steadfast, men and
women who are humble, men and women who give charity, men
and women who fast, men and women who guard their chastity,
men and women who remember Allah much: Allah has prepared
forgiveness for them and an immense reward. (33:35)
• It is He Who created all the species and gave you ships and
livestock for you to ride, so that you might sit firmly on their backs
and remember your Lord’s blessing while you are seated on them,
saying, ‘Glory be to Him Who has subjected this to us. We could
never have done it by ourselves.’ (43:12-13)
• So turn away from him who turns away from Our remembrance
and desires nothing but the life of this world. (53:29)
• Has the time not arrived for the hearts of those who believe to
yield to the remembrance of Allah and to the truth He has sent
down, so they are not like those who were given the Book before
for whom the time seemed over long so that their hearts became
hard? Many of them are deviators. (57:16)
• Satan has gained mastery over them and made them forget the
remembrance of Allah. Such people are the party of Satan. No
indeed! It is the party of Satan who are the losers. (58:19)
• You who believe! When you are called to prayer on the Day of
Friday, hasten to the remembrance of Allah and abandon trade.
That is better for you if you only knew. (62:9)
• Then when the prayer is finished spread through the earth and
seek Allah’s bounty and remember Allah much so that hopefully
you will be successful. (62:10)
• You who believe! Do not let your wealth or children divert you
from the remembrance of Allah. Whoever does that is lost. (63:9)
REMEMBRANCE OF MESSENGERS
REMINDER (DHIKR)
• That is what We recite to you of the Signs and the wise Reminder.
(3:58)
• (Nuh said,) ‘Or are you astonished that a reminder should come
to you from your Lord by way of a man among you, to warn you
and make you guard against evil so that hopefully you will gain
mercy?’ (7:63)
• You do not ask them for any wage for it. It is only a reminder to all
beings. (12:104)
• We have only ever sent before you men who were given
Revelation–ask the People of the Reminder if you do not know–
who brought Clear Signs and Revealed Books. And We have sent
down the Reminder to you so that you can make clear to mankind
what has been sent down to them so that hopefully they will
reflect. (16:43-44)
• We did not send down the Qur’an to you to make you miserable,
but only as a reminder for those who have fear. (20:2-3)
• In this way We give you news of what has gone before and We
have given you a reminder direct from Us. (20:99)
• (He said,) ‘But if anyone turns away from My reminder, his life will
be a dark and narrow one and on the Day of Rising We will
gather him blind.’ (20:124)
• We have only ever sent before you men who were given
Revelation. Ask the People of the Reminder if you do not know.
(21:7)
• We responded to him and removed from him the harm which was
afflicting him and restored his family to him, and the same again
with them, as a mercy direct from Us and a Reminder to all
worshippers. (21:84)
• They (those they worship besides Allah) will say, ‘Glory be to You!
It would not have been fitting for us to have taken any protectors
apart from You. But You let them and their fathers enjoy
themselves so that they forgot the Reminder. They were people
devoid of good.’ (25:18)
• (A wrongdoer will say,) ‘He led me astray from the Reminder after
it came to me.’ Satan always leaves man in the lurch. (25:29)
• Is it not enough for them that We have sent down to you the Book
which is recited to them? There is certainly a mercy and reminder
in that for people who believe. (29:51)
• You can only warn those who act on the Reminder and fear the
All-Merciful in the Unseen. Give them the good news of
forgiveness and a generous reward. (36:11)
• They said, ‘Your evil omen is in yourselves. Is it not just that you
have been reminded? No, you are an unbridled people!’ (36:19)
• We did not teach him poetry nor would it be right for him. It is
simply a reminder and a clear Qur’an. (36:69)
• We gave him back his family and the same again with them as a
mercy from Us and a reminder for people of intellect. (38:43)
• Do you not see that Allah sends down water from the sky and
threads it through the earth to emerge as springs and then by it
brings forth crops of varying colours, which then wither and you
see them turning yellow and then He makes them into broken
stubble? There is a reminder in that for people of intelligence.
(39:21)
• What are they awaiting but for the Hour to come upon them
suddenly? Its Signs have already come. What good will their
Reminder be to them when it does arrive? (47:18)
• And the earth: how We stretched it out and cast firmly embedded
mountains onto it and caused luxuriant plants of every kind to
grow in it, an instruction and a reminder for every penitent human
being. (50:7-8)
• We know best what they say. You are not a dictator over them.
So remind, with the Qur'an, whoever fears My Threat. (50:45)
• And remind them, for truly the believers benefit from being
reminded. (51:55)
• Remind them then! For, by the blessing of your Lord, you are
neither a soothsayer nor a madman. (52:29)
• (They said,) ‘Has the Reminder been given to him of all of us? No
indeed! He is an impudent liar.’ (54:25)
• Those who disbelieve all but strike you down with their evil looks
when they hear the Reminder and say, ‘He is quite mad.’ (68:51)
• This truly is a reminder, so let anyone who wills take the Way
towards his Lord. (73:19)
• We have only appointed angels as masters of the Fire and We
have only specified their number as a trial for those who
disbelieve; so that those who were given the Book might gain in
certainty, and those who believe might increase in their faith, and
both those who were given the Book and the believers might
have no doubt; and so that those with sickness in their hearts and
the disbelievers might say, ‘What did Allah intend by this
example?’ In this way Allah misguides those He wills and guides
those He wills. No one knows the legions of your Lord but Him.
This is nothing but a reminder to all human beings. (74:31)
• What is the matter with them that they run from the Reminder?
(74:49)
REMORSE
• Then Allah sent a crow which scratched at the earth to show him
how to conceal his brother’s corpse. He said, ‘Woe is me! Can I
not even be like this crow and conceal my brother’s corpse?’ And
he became one of those who suffer bitter remorse. (5:31)
• If every self that did wrong possessed everything on earth, it
would offer it as a ransom. They will show remorse when they see
the punishment. Everything will be decided between them justly.
They will not be wronged. (10:54)
• Those deemed weak will say to those deemed great, ‘No, it was
your scheming night and day when you commanded us to reject
Allah and assign equals to Him.’ But they will show their remorse
when they see the punishment. We will put iron collars round the
necks of those who disbelieve. Will they be repaid for anything
but what they did? (34:33)
REPAYMENT
• Kill them wherever you come across them and expel them from
where they expelled you. Corruption is worse than killing. Do not
fight them in the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) until they fight
you there. But if they do fight you, then kill them. That is how the
disbelievers should be repaid. (2:191)
• But as for those who believe and do right actions, We will admit
them into Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in
them timelessly, for ever and ever. Allah’s promise is true. Whose
speech could be truer than Allah’s? It is not a matter of wishful
thinking on your part nor of the wishful thinking of the People of
the Book. Anyone who does evil will be repaid for it. He will not
find any protector or helper besides Allah. (4:122-123)
• (One of Adam's two sons said to the other,) ‘I want you to take on
both my wrongdoing and your wrongdoing and so become one of
the Companions of the Fire. That is the repayment of the
wrongdoers.’ (5:29)
• They say, ‘These animals and crops are sacrosanct. No one may
eat them except those we wish’,–as they allege–and animals on
whose backs it is forbidden to ride, and animals over which they
do not mention Allah’s name, inventing falsehood against Him.
He will repay them for the things they have invented. (6:138)
• Nor can you say: ‘If the Book had been sent down to us, We
would have been better guided than they were.’ For a Clear Sign
has come to you from your Lord, and guidance and mercy. Who
could do greater wrong than someone who denies Allah’s Signs
and turns away from them? We will repay those who turn away
from Our Signs with the worst kind of punishment because they
turned away. (6:157)
• Those who produce a good action will receive ten like it. But
those who produce a bad action will only be repaid with its
equivalent and they will not be wronged. (6:160)
• As for those who deny Our Signs and are arrogant regarding
them, the Gates of Heaven will not be opened for them, and they
will not enter the Garden until a camel goes through a needle’s
eye. That is how We repay the evildoers. (7:40)
• As for those who denied Our Signs and the encounter of the
hereafter, their actions will come to nothing. Will they be repaid
except for what they did? (7:147)
• As for those who adopted the Calf, anger from their Lord will
overtake them together with abasement in the life of this world.
That is how we repay the purveyors of falsehood. (7:152)
• Let them laugh little and weep much, in repayment for what they
have earned. (9:82)
• They will swear to you by Allah when you return to them, so that
you leave them alone. Leave them alone, then! They are filth.
Their shelter will be Hell as repayment for what they did. (9:95)
• Each and every one of you will return to Him. Allah’s promise is
true. He brings creation out of nothing and then regenerates it so
that he can repay with justice those who believed and did right
actions. Those who disbelieved will have a drink of scalding water
and a painful punishment because of their disbelief. (10:4)
• So that Allah may repay every self for what it earned. Allah is
swift at reckoning. (14:51)
• Gardens of Eden which they enter, with rivers flowing under them,
where they have whatever they desire. That is how Allah repays
those who guard against evil. (16:31)
• He said (to Satan), ‘Go! And as for any who follow you, your
repayment is Hell, repayment in full!’ (17:63)
• That is their repayment for rejecting Our Signs and saying, ‘What,
when we are bones and crumbled dust, will we then be raised up
as a new creation?’ (17:98)
• Those who perform bad actions will be flung head first into the
Fire: ‘Are you being repaid for anything other than what you did?’
(27:90)
• Those who disbelieved will find that their disbelief was against
themselves. Those who did right were making the way easy for
themselves; so that He can repay with His bounty those who
believed and did right actions. He certainly does not love the
disbelievers. (30:44-45)
• Those deemed weak will say to those deemed great, ‘No, it was
your scheming night and day when you commanded us to reject
Allah and assign equals to Him.’ But they will show their remorse
when they see the punishment. We will put iron collars round the
necks of those who disbelieve. Will they be repaid for anything
but what they did? (34:33)
• Whereas for those who disbelieve there will be the Fire of Hell.
They will not be killed off so that they die and its punishment will
not be lightened for them. That is how We repay every thankless
man. (35:36)
• You will definitely taste the painful punishment and you will only
be repaid for what you did–except for Allah’s chosen servants.
(37:38-40)
• Whoever does an evil act will only be repaid with its equivalent.
But whoever acts rightly, male or female, being a believer, such a
person will enter the Garden, provided for in it without any
reckoning. (40:40)
• Tell those who believe that they should forgive those who feel no
fear about the Days of Allah, when He will repay people
according to what they earned. (45:14)
• On the Day when those who disbelieved are exposed to the Fire:
‘You dissipated the good things you had in your worldly life and
enjoyed yourself in it. So today you are being repaid with the
punishment of humiliation for being arrogant in the earth without
any right and for being deviators.’ (46:20)
• (They will be told,) ‘Roast in it! And bear it patiently or do not bear
it patiently. It makes no difference either way. You are simply
being repaid for what you did.’ (52:16)
• The final fate of both of them is that they will be timelessly, for
ever in the Fire. That is the repayment of the wrongdoers. (59:17)
REPENTANCE (TAWBAH)
• Those who hide the Clear Signs and Guidance We have sent
down, after We have made it clear to people in the Book, Allah
curses them, and the cursers curse them–except for those who
repent and put things right and make things clear. I turn towards
them. I am the Ever-Returning, the Most Merciful. (2:159-160)
• You who believe! Have fear of Allah and forgo any remaining
usury if you are believers. If you do not, know that it means war
from Allah and His Messenger. But if you repent you may have
your capital, without wronging and without being wronged. (2:278-
279)
• Except for those who, after that, repent and put things right. Truly
Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (3:89)
• Those who disbelieve after believing and then increase in their
disbelief, their repentance will not be accepted. They are the
misguided. (3:90)
• The hypocrites are in the lowest level of the Fire. You will not find
any one to help them, except those who repent and put things
right and hold fast to Allah and dedicate their religion to Allah
alone; they are with the believers. Allah will give the believers an
immense reward. (4:145-146)
• The reprisal against those who wage war on Allah and His
Messenger, and go about the earth corrupting it, is that they
should be killed or crucified, or have their alternate hands and
feet cut off, or be banished from the land. That will be their
degradation in this world and in the hereafter they will have a
terrible punishment, except for those who repent before you gain
power over them. Know that Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. (5:33-34)
• But if anyone repents after his wrongdoing and puts things right,
Allah will turn towards him. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
(5:39)
• When those who believe in Our Signs come to you, say, ‘Peace
be upon you!’ Allah has made mercy incumbent on Himself. If
anyone among you does evil out of ignorance and then
afterwards repents and puts things right, He is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (6:54)
• When Musa came to Our appointed time and his Lord spoke to
him, he said, ‘My Lord, show me Yourself so that I may look at
You!’ He said, ‘You will not see Me, but look at the mountain. If it
remains firm in its place, then you will see Me.’ But when His Lord
manifested Himself to the mountain, He crushed it flat and Musa
fell unconscious to the ground. When he regained consciousness
he said, ‘Glory be to You! I repent to You and I am the first of the
believers!’ (7:143)
• Then, when the sacred months are over, kill the idolaters
wherever you find them, and seize them and besiege them and
lie in wait for them on every road. If they repent and perform
prayer and give the alms, let them go on their way. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (9:5)
• But if they repent and perform prayer and give the alms, they are
your brothers in the religion. We make the Signs clear for people
who have knowledge. (9:11)
• They swear by Allah that they said nothing, but they definitely
spoke the word of disbelief and returned to disbelief after their
Islam. They planned something which they did not achieve and
they were vindictive for no other cause than that Allah and His
Messenger had enriched them from His bounty. If they were to
repent, it would be better for them. But if they turn away, Allah will
punish them with a painful punishment in this world and the
hereafter, and they will not find any protector or helper on the
earth. (9:74)
• Those who repent, those who worship, those who praise, those
who fast, those who bow, those who prostrate, those who
command the right, those who forbid the wrong, those who
preserve the limits of Allah: give good news to the believers.
(9:112)
• ‘Ask your Lord for forgiveness and then repent to Him. He will let
you enjoy a good life until a specified time, and will give His
favour to all who merit it. But if you turn your backs, I fear for you
the punishment of a Mighty Day.’ (11:3)
• (Hud said,) ‘My people! Ask forgiveness of your Lord and then
repent to Him. He will send heaven down to you in abundant rain,
and increase you with strength upon strength. Do not turn away
as evildoers.’ (11:52)
• (Shu‘ayb said,) ‘Ask your Lord for forgiveness and then repent to
Him. My Lord is Most Merciful, Most Loving.’ (11:90)
• But to those who do evil in ignorance and then after that repent
and put things right, to them your Lord is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. (16:119)
• But those who make accusations against chaste women and then
do not produce four witnesses: flog them with eighty lashes and
never again accept them as witnesses. Such people are
deviators–except for those who after that repent and put things
right. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (24:4-5)
• For certainly all who repent and act rightly have turned sincerely
towards Allah; (25:71)
• But as for those who repent and act rightly, they will hopefully be
successful. (28:67)
• Those who persecute men and women of the believers, and then
do not repent, will have the punishment of Hell, will have the
punishment of the Burning. (85:10)
RESTING PLACE
RESURRECTION
• How can you reject Allah, when you were dead and then He gave
you life, then He will make you die and then give you life again,
then you will be returned to Him? (2:28)
• What do you think about those who left their homes in thousands
in fear of death? Allah said to them, ‘Die!’ and then brought them
back to life. Allah shows great favour to mankind, but most people
are not grateful. (2:243)
• Or the one who passed by a town which had fallen into ruin? He
asked, ‘How can Allah restore this to life when it has died?’ Allah
caused him to die a hundred years then brought him back to life.
Then He asked, ‘How long have you been here?’ He replied, ‘I
have been here a day or part of a day.’ He said, ‘Not so! You
have been here a hundred years. Look at your food and drink–it
has not gone bad–and look at your donkey so We can make you
a Sign for all mankind. Look at the bones–how We raise them up
and clothe them in flesh.’ When it had become clear to him, he
said, ‘Now I know that Allah has power over all things.’ (2:259)
• When Ibrahim said, ‘My Lord, show me how You bring the dead
to life.’ He asked, ‘Do you not then believe?’ He replied, ‘Indeed I
do! But so that my heart may be at peace.’ He said, ‘Take four
birds and train them to yourself. Then put a part of them on each
mountain and call to them; they will come rushing to you. Know
that Allah is Almighty, All-Wise.’ (2:260)
• They say, ‘There is nothing but this life and we will not be raised
again.’ (6:29)
• Only those who can hear respond. As for the dead, Allah will
raise them up, then to Him they will be returned. (6:36)
• It is He Who takes you back to Himself at night, while knowing the
things you perpetrate by day, and then raises you again to life, so
that a specified term may be fulfilled. Then you will return to Him.
Then He will inform you about what you did. (6:60)
• He gives life and causes to die and you will be returned to Him.
(10:56)
• It is He Who created the heavens and the earth in six days when
His Throne was on the water, in order to test which of you has the
best actions. If you say, ‘You will be raised up after death,’ those
who disbelieve will say, ‘This is nothing but downright magic.’
(11:7)
• He (Satan) said, ‘My Lord, grant me a reprieve until the Day they
are raised again.’ (15:36)
• They are dead, not alive, and they are not aware of when they will
be raised. (16:21)
• They swear by Allah with their most earnest oaths that Allah will
not raise up those who die, when, on the contrary, it is a binding
promise on Him; but most people do not know it. (16:38)
• (They will be raised up), so that He can make clear to them the
things they differed about and so that those who disbelieved will
know that they were liars. (16:39)
• Allah sends down water from the sky and by it brings the dead
earth back to life. There is certainly a Sign in that for people who
hear. (16:65)
• They say, ‘What! When we are bones and crumbled dust, will we
then be raised up as a new creation!’ (17:49)
• That is their repayment for rejecting Our Signs and saying, ‘What,
when we are bones and crumbled dust, will we then be raised up
as a new creation?’ (17:98)
• Or have they taken gods out of the earth who can bring the dead
to life? (21:21)
• Mankind! If you are in any doubt about the Rising, know that We
created you from dust then from a drop of sperm then from a clot
of blood then from a lump of flesh, formed yet unformed, so We
may make things clear to you. We make whatever We want stay
in the womb until a specified time and then We bring you out as
children so that you can reach your full maturity. Some of you die
and some of you revert to the lowest form of life so that, after
having knowledge, they then know nothing at all. And you see the
earth dead and barren; then when We send down water onto it it
quivers and swells and sprouts with luxuriant plants of every kind.
(22:5)
• That is because Allah is the Real and gives life to the dead and
has power over all things and the Hour is coming without any
doubt and Allah will raise up all those in the graves. (22:6-7)
• It is He Who gave you life and then will cause you to die and then
will give you life again. Man is truly ungrateful. (22:66)
• Does he promise you that when you have died and become dust
and bones you will be brought forth again? (23:35)
• What is there but our life in this world? We die and we live and we
will not be raised again. (23:37)
• They say, ‘When we are dead and turned to dust and bones, shall
we then be raised again?’ (23:82)
• But they have adopted gods apart from Him which do not create
anything but are themselves created. They have no power to
harm or help themselves. They have no power over death or life
or resurrection. (25:3)
• They themselves have come across the city which was rained on
by an evil rain. Did they not then see it? But they do not expect to
rise again. (25:40)
• (Ibrahim said, ‘It is) He Who will cause my death, then give me
life.’ (26:81)
• (Ibrahim said, ‘My Lord,) do not disgrace me on the Day they are
raised up.’ (26:87)
• Say: ‘No one in the heavens and the earth knows the Unseen
except Allah.’ They are not aware of when they will be raised.
(27:65)
• Those who disbelieve say, ‘When we and our fathers are turned
to dust will we then be brought forth again? We have been
promised (to be brought forth again) before, we and our fathers.
This is nothing but myths and legends of previous peoples.’
(27:67-68)
• If you ask them, ‘Who sends down water from the sky, bringing
the earth back to life again after it was dead?’ they will say,
‘Allah.’ Say: ‘Praise be to Allah.’ But most of them do not use their
intellect. (29:63)
• He brings forth the living from the dead and brings forth the dead
from the living and brings the earth to life after it was dead. In the
same way you too will be brought forth. (30:19)
• Allah is He Who created you, then provides for you, then will
cause you to die and then bring you back to life. Can any of your
partner-gods do any of that? Glory be to Him and may He be
exalted above anything they associate with Him! (30:40)
• Those who have been given knowledge and faith will say, ‘You
tarried in accordance with Allah’s Decree until the Day of Rising.
And this is the Day of Rising, but you did not know it.’ (30:56)
• Your creation and rising is only like that of a single self. Allah is
All-Hearing, All-Seeing. (31:28)
• It is Allah Who sends the winds which raise the clouds which We
then drive to a dead land and by them bring the earth to life after
it was dead. That is how the Resurrection will be. (35:9)
• We bring the dead to life and We record what they send ahead
and what they leave behind. We have listed everything in a clear
register. (36:12)
• A Sign for them is the dead land which We bring to life and from
which We bring forth grain of which they eat. (36:33)
• The Trumpet will be blown and at once they will be sliding from
their graves towards their Lord. (36:51)
• They will say, ‘Alas for us! Who has raised us from our resting-
place? This is what the All-Merciful promised us. The Messengers
were telling the truth.’ (36:52)
• Say: ‘He Who made them in the first place will bring them back to
life. He has total knowledge of each created thing.’ (36:79)
• (They say,) ‘When we are dead and turned to dust and bones will
we then be raised up again alive? And our earlier ancestors as
well?’ Say: ‘Yes, and you will be in a despicable state.’ There will
be but one Great Blast and then their eyes will open. (37:16-19)
• One of them will say, ‘I used to have a friend who would say to
me, "Are you one of those who say that it is true: that when we
have died and are turned to dust and bones, we will face a
Reckoning?"’ (37:51-53)
• Had it not been that he was a man who glorified Allah, he would
have remained inside its belly until the Day they are raised again.
(37:143-144)
• Say ‘He Who made them in the first place will bring them back to
life. He has total knowledge of each created thing.’ (36:79)
• He (Satan) said, ‘My Lord, grant me a reprieve until the Day they
are raised again.’ (38:79)
• They will say, ‘Our Lord, twice You caused us to die and twice
You gave us life. We admit our wrong actions. Is there no way
out?’ (40:11)
• Among His Signs is that you see the earth laid bare and then
when We send down water on it, it quivers and swells. He Who
gives it life is He Who gives life to the dead. Certainly He has
power over all things. (41:39)
• These people say, ‘There is nothing more than our first death. We
will not be raised up a second time.’ (44:34-35)
• And in the alternation of night and day and the provision Allah
sends down from the sky, bringing the earth to life by it after it has
died, and the varying direction of the winds, there are Signs for
people who use their intellect. (45:5)
• They say, ‘There is nothing but our existence in this world. We die
and we live and nothing destroys us except for time.’ They have
no knowledge of that. They are only conjecturing. (45:24)
• When Our Clear Signs are recited to them their only argument is
to say, ‘Bring us our fathers (back) if you are telling the truth.’
(45:25)
• Say: ‘Allah gives you life, then causes you to die, and then will
gather you together for the Day of Rising about which there is no
doubt. But most people do not know it.’ (45:26)
• But what of him who says to his parents, ‘Fie on you! Do you
promise me that I will be resurrected when generations before me
have passed away?’ They both call on Allah for help: ‘Woe to you!
Believe! Allah’s promise is true.’ But he says, ‘This is nothing but
the myths of previous peoples.’ (46:17)
• Do they not see that Allah–He Who created the heavens and the
earth and was not wearied by creating them–has the power to
bring the dead to life? Yes indeed! He has power over all things.
(46:33)
• The Day they hear the Blast in truth, that is the Day of
Emergence. (50:42)
• It is We Who give life and cause to die and We are their final
destination. (50:43)
• On the Day Allah raises up all of them together they will swear to
Him just as they have sworn to you and imagine they have
something to stand upon. No indeed! It is they who are the liars.
(58:18)
• Those who disbelieve claim that they will never be raised again.
Say: ‘Oh yes, by my Lord, you certainly will be raised again! And
then you will be informed about what you did. That is easy for
Allah.’ (64:7)
• Allah caused you to grow from the earth then will return you to it
and bring you out again. (71:17-18)
• Is He Who does this not able to bring the dead to life? (75:40)
• Do such people not realise that they will be raised up? (83:4)
RETALIATION
RETREAT
• On the night of the fast it is lawful for you to have sexual relations
with your wives. They are clothing for you and you for them. Allah
knows that you have been betraying yourselves and He has
turned towards you and excused you. Now you may have sexual
intercourse with them and seek what Allah has written for you.
Eat and drink until you can clearly discern the white thread from
the black thread of the dawn, then fulfil the fast until the night
appears. But do not have sexual intercourse with them while you
are in retreat in the mosques. These are Allah’s limits, so do not
go near them. In this way does Allah make His Signs clear to
people so that hopefully they will guard against evil. (2:187)
• They are not all the same. There is a community among the
People of the Book who are upright. They recite Allah’s Signs
throughout the night, and they prostrate. (3:113)
RETRIBUTION
• Perform the pilgrimage and the pious visit for Allah. If you are
forcibly prevented, make whatever sacrifice is feasible. But do not
shave your heads until the sacrificial animal has reached the
place of sacrifice. If any of you are ill or have a head injury, the
expiation is fasting or charity or sacrifice when you are safe and
well again. And if you are secure, then he who takes advantage
of a pious visit before the pilgrimage should make whatever
sacrifice is feasible. For any one who cannot, there is three days’
fast on pilgrimage and seven on your return–that is ten in all. That
is for anyone whose family does not live near the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram). Have fear of Allah and know that Allah is fierce
in retribution. (2:196)
• Ask the tribe of Israel how many Clear Signs We gave to them. If
anyone alters Allah’s blessing after it has come to him, Allah is
fierce in retribution. (2:211)
• They want you to hasten the bad rather than the good when
examples of punishment are there before them in the past. Your
Lord has forgiveness for people for their wrongdoing; but your
Lord is also severe in retribution. (13:6)
• The people of Nuh denied the truth before them, and the
Confederates after them. Every nation planned to seize its
Messenger and used false arguments to rebut the truth. So I
seized them, and how was My retribution! (40:5)
REVELATION
• This is news from the Unseen which We reveal to you. You were
not with them when they cast their reeds to see which of them
would be the guardian of Maryam. You were not with them when
they quarrelled. (3:44)
• Say: ‘I do not say to you that I possess the treasuries of Allah, nor
do I know the Unseen, nor do I say to you that I am an angel. I
only follow what has been revealed to me.’ Say: ‘Are the blind the
same as those who can see? So will you not reflect?’ (6:50)
• Say: ‘I do not find, in what has been revealed to me, any food it is
forbidden to eat except for carrion, flowing blood, and pork–for
that is unclean–or some deviance consecrated to other than Allah.
But if anyone is forced to eat it, without desiring to or going to
excess in it, your Lord is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.’ (6:145)
• If you do not bring them a Sign, they say, ‘Why have you not
come up with one?’ Say, ‘I follow only what has been revealed to
me from my Lord.’ This is clear insight from your Lord, and
guidance and mercy, for people who believe. (7:203)
• When Our Clear Signs are recited to them, those who do not
expect to meet Us say, ‘Bring a Qur’an other than this one or
change it.’ Say: ‘It is not for me to change it of my own accord. I
follow nothing except what is revealed to me. I fear, were I to
disobey my Lord, the punishment of a Dreadful Day.’ (10:15)
• Perhaps you are leaving aside part of what has been revealed to
you and your breast is constricted by this because they say, ‘Why
has treasure not been sent down to him or an angel not
accompanied him?’ You are only a warner and Allah is Guardian
over all things. (11:12)
• But when, in fact, they did go out with him (Yusuf) and gathered
all together and agreed to put him at the bottom of the well, We
then revealed to him that: ‘You will inform them of this deed they
perpetrate at a time when they are totally unaware.’ (12:15)
• This is news of the Unseen which We reveal to you. You were not
with them when they decided what to do and devised their
scheme.’ (12:102)
• We sent none before you but men inspired with revelation from
among the people of the cities. Have they not travelled in the land
and seen the final fate of those before them? The abode of the
hereafter is better for those who guard against evil. So will you
not use your intellect? (12:109)
• In the same way We have sent you among a nation before which
other nations passed away, to recite to them what We have
revealed to you. Yet they still reject the All-Merciful. Say: ‘He is
my Lord; there is no god but Him. I put my trust in Him and I turn
to Him.’ (13:30)
• We have only ever sent before you men who were given
Revelation–ask the People of the Reminder if you do not know.
(16:43)
• Your Lord revealed to the bees: ‘Build dwellings in the mountains
and the trees, and also in the structures which men erect.’ (16:68)
• That is part of the wisdom your Lord has revealed to you. Do not
set up another god together with Allah and so be thrown into Hell,
blamed and driven out. (17:39)
• They were very near to enticing you away from some of what We
have revealed to you, hoping that you would invent something
against Us. Then they would have taken you as their intimate.
(17:73)
• (He said to Musa ‘Go to Pharaoh and say,) "It has been revealed
to us that punishment is for him who denies the truth and turns
away."’ (20:48)
• We revealed to Musa, ‘Travel with My servants by night. Strike a
dry path for them through the sea. Have no fear of being
overtaken and do not be afraid.’ (20:77)
• High exalted be Allah, the King, the Real! Do not rush ahead with
the Qur’an before its revelation to you is complete, and say: ‘My
Lord, increase me in knowledge.’ (20:114)
• We have only ever sent before you men who were given
Revelation. Ask the People of the Reminder if you do not know.
(21:7)
• Say: ‘I can only warn you through the Revelation.’ But the deaf
cannot hear the call when they are warned. (21:45)
• Say: ‘It is revealed to me that your god is One God. So are you
Muslims?’ (21:108)
• Recite what has been revealed to you of the Book and perform
prayer. Prayer precludes indecency and wrongdoing. And
remembrance of Allah is greater still. Allah knows what you do.
(29:45)
• Follow what has been revealed to you from your Lord. Allah is
aware of what you do. (33:2)
• It has been revealed to you and those before you: ‘If you
associate others with Allah, your actions will come to nothing and
you will be among the losers.’ (39:65)
• Say: ‘It has been revealed to me that a band of the jinn listened
and said, "We have heard a most amazing Recitation."’ (72:1)
REVENGE
• He has sent down the Book to you with truth, confirming what was
there before it. And He sent down the Torah and the Gospel,
previously, as guidance for mankind, and He has sent down the
Furqan (Discrimination). Those who reject Allah’s Signs will have
a terrible punishment. Allah is Almighty, Exactor of Revenge.
(3:3-4)
• You who believe! Do not kill game while you are in the state of
pilgrimage. If one of you kills any deliberately, the reprisal for it is
a livestock animal equivalent to what he killed, as judged by two
just men among you, a sacrifice to reach the Kaaba, or expiation
by feeding the poor, or fasting commensurate with that, so that he
may taste the evil consequences of what he did. Allah has
pardoned all that took place in the past; but if anyone does it
again Allah will take revenge on him. Allah is Almighty, Exactor of
Revenge. (5:95)
• Is Allah not enough for His servant? Yet they try to scare you with
others apart from Him. If Allah misguides someone, he has no
guide and if Allah guides someone, he cannot be misguided. Is
Allah not Almighty, Exactor of Revenge? (39:36-37)
REVILED
• He said (to Satan), ‘Get out of it, reviled and driven out. As for
those of them who follow you, I will fill up Hell with every one of
you.’ (7:18)
• Do not set up any other god together with Allah and so sit there
reviled and forsaken. (17:22)
REWARD
• Those with faith, those who are Jews, and the Christians and
Sabaeans, all who believe in Allah and the Last Day and act
rightly, will have their reward with their Lord. They will feel no fear
and will know no sorrow. (2:62)
• If only they had believed and done their duty! A reward from Allah
is better, if they only knew. (2:103)
• Not so! All who submit themselves completely to Allah and are
good-doers will find their reward with their Lord. They will feel no
fear and will know no sorrow. (2:112)
• Those who spend their wealth in the Way of Allah, and then do
not follow what they have spent by demands for gratitude or
insulting words will have their reward with their Lord. They will
feel no fear and will know no sorrow. (2:262)
• Those who give away their wealth by night and day, secretly and
openly, will have their reward with their Lord. They will feel no
fear and will know no sorrow. (2:274)
• Those who believe and do right actions and perform prayer and
give the alms, will have their reward with their Lord. They will feel
no fear and will know no sorrow. (2:277)
• You will not be denied the reward for any good thing you do. Allah
knows those who guard against evil. (3:115)
• So Allah gave them the reward of this world and the best reward
of the hereafter. Allah loves good-doers. (3:148)
• Those who who did good and guarded against evil among those
who responded to Allah and the Messenger after the wound had
been inflicted will have an immense reward. (3:172)
• Allah will only leave the believers in the position you now are in
so that He can sift out the rotten from the good. Allah has not
given you access to the Unseen. But Allah chooses those of His
Messengers whom He wills. So believe in Allah and His
Messengers. If you believe and guard against evil you will have
an immense reward. (3:179)
• Their Lord responds to them: ‘I will not let the deeds of any doer
among you go to waste, male or female–you are both the same in
that respect. Those who migrated and were driven from their
homes and suffered harm in My Way and fought and were killed, I
will erase their bad actions from them and admit them into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, as a reward from Allah.
The best of all rewards is with Allah.’ (3:195)
• Among the people of the Book there are some who believe in
Allah and in what has been sent down to you and what was sent
down to them, and who are humble before Allah. They do not sell
Allah’s Signs for a paltry price. Such people will have their reward
with their Lord. And Allah is swift at reckoning. (3:199)
• In that case (if they had done what they were urged to do) We
would have given them an immense reward from Us. (4:67)
• So let those who sell the life of this world for the hereafter fight in
the Way of Allah. If someone fights in the Way of Allah, whether
he is killed or is victorious, We will pay him an immense reward.
(4:74)
• Those who join forces for good will receive a reward for it. Those
who join forces for evil will be answerable for it. Allah gives all
things what they deserve. (4:85)
• Those who migrate in the Way of Allah will find many places of
refuge on the earth and ample sustenance. If anyone leaves his
home, migrating to Allah and His Messenger, and death catches
up with him, it is Allah Who will reward him. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:100)
• If anyone desires the reward of this world, the reward of both this
world and hereafter is with Allah. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Seeing.
(4:134)
• The hypocrites are in the lowest level of the Fire. You will not find
any one to help them, except those who repent and put things
right and hold fast to Allah and dedicate their religion to Allah
alone; they are with the believers. Allah will give the believers an
immense reward. (4:145-146)
• Allah will reward them for what they say with Gardens with rivers
flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever. That is
the recompense of the good-doers. (5:85)
• That is your reward, so taste it. The disbelievers will also have the
punishment of the Fire. (8:14)
• Know that your wealth and children are a trial and that there is an
immense reward with Allah. (8:28)
• Their Lord gives them the good news of His mercy and good
pleasure and Gardens where they will enjoy everlasting delight,
remaining in them timelessly, for ever and ever. Truly there is an
immense reward with Allah. (9:21-22)
• Except for those who are steadfast and do right actions. They will
receive forgiveness and a large reward. (11:11)
• So when they came into his (Yusuf's) presence, they said, ‘Your
Eminence! Hardship has hit us and our families. We bring scant
merchandise, but fill the measure for us generously. Allah always
rewards a generous giver.’ (12:88)
• (Their Lord revealed to them,) ‘We will leave you the land to live
in after them. That is the reward of those who fear My station and
fear My threat.’ (14:14)
• As for those who migrate for Allah’s sake after being wronged,
We shall give them good lodging in this world, and the reward of
the hereafter is greater still if they only knew. (16:41)
• This Qur’an guides to the most upright Way and gives good news
to the believers who do right actions that they will have a large
reward. (17:9)
• They will have Gardens of Eden with rivers flowing under them.
They will be adorned in them with bracelets made of gold and
wear green garments made of the finest silk and rich brocade,
reclining there on couches under canopies. What an excellent
reward! What a wonderful repose! (18:31)
• (Allah will say,) ‘Today I have rewarded them for being steadfast.
They are the ones who are victorious.’ (23:111)
• ... there are men who proclaim His glory morning and evening,
not distracted by trade or commerce from the remembrance of
Allah and the performance of prayer and the giving of the alms;
fearing a day when all hearts and eyes will be in turmoil–so that
Allah can reward them for the best of what they did and give them
more from His unbounded favour. Allah provides for anyone He
wills without reckoning. (24:36-38)
• They will be given their reward twice over because they have
been steadfast and because they ward off the bad with the good
and give from what we have provided for them. (28:54)
• But those who had been given knowledge said, ‘Woe to you!
Allah’s reward is better for those who believe and act rightly. But
only the steadfast will obtain it.’ (28:80)
• We gave him Ishaq and Ya‘qub and placed Prophethood and the
Book among his progeny. We gave him his reward in this world
and in the hereafter he will be among the righteous. (29:27)
• As for those who believe and do right actions, We will lodge them
in lofty chambers in the Garden, with rivers flowing under them,
remaining in them timelessly, for ever. How excellent is the
reward of those who act. (29:58)
• (O Prophet, tell your wives:) ‘But if you desire Allah and His
Messenger and the abode of the hereafter, Allah has prepared an
immense reward for those among you who are good-doers.’
(33:29)
• But those of you who are obedient to Allah and His Messenger
and act rightly will be given their reward twice over; and We have
prepared generous provision for them. (33:31)
• Men and women who are Muslims, men and women who are
believers, men and women who are obedient, men and women
who are truthful, men and women who are steadfast, men and
women who are humble, men and women who give charity, men
and women who fast, men and women who guard their chastity,
men and women who remember Allah much: Allah has prepared
forgiveness for them and an immense reward. (33:35)
• Their greeting on the Day they meet Him will be ‘Peace!’ and He
has prepared a generous reward for them. (33:44)
• You can only warn those who act on the Reminder and fear the
All-Merciful in the Unseen. Give them the good news of
forgiveness and a generous reward. (36:11)
• Those who lower their voices when they are with the Messenger
of Allah are people whose hearts Allah has tested for heedfulness.
They will have forgiveness and an immense reward. (49:3)
• We bore him (Nuh) on a planked and well-caulked ship, which ran
before Our eyes–a reward for him who had been rejected. (54:13-
14)
• Will the reward for doing good be anything other than good?
(55:60)
• Who will make a good loan to Allah so that He may multiply it for
him? He will have a generous reward. (57:11)
• The men and women who give charity and make a good loan to
Allah will have it increased for them and they will have a
generous reward. (57:18)
• Your wealth and children are a trial. But with Allah there is an
immense reward. (64:15)
• Those who fear their Lord in the Unseen will have forgiveness
and an immense reward. (67:12)
• Your Lord knows that you stay up nearly two-thirds of the night–or
half of it, or a third of it–and a group of those with you. Allah
determines the night and day. He knows you will not keep count
of it, so He has turned towards you. Recite as much of the Qur’an
as is easy for you. He knows that some of you are ill and that
others are travelling in the land seeking Allah’s bounty, and that
others are fighting in the Way of Allah. So recite as much of it as
is easy for you. And perform prayer and give the alms and lend a
generous loan to Allah. Whatever good you send ahead for
yourselves you will find it with Allah as something better and as a
greater reward. And seek forgiveness from Allah. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (73:20)
• So Allah has safeguarded them from the evil of that Day and has
made them meet with radiance and pure joy and will reward them
for their steadfastness with a Garden and with silk. (76:11-12)
RICH
• It (the charity) is for the poor who are held back in the Way of
Allah, unable to travel in the land. The ignorant consider them rich
because of their reticence. You will know them by their mark.
They do not ask from people insistently. Whatever good you give
away, Allah knows it. (2:273)
• Allah has heard the words of those who say, ‘Allah is poor and we
are rich.’ We will write down what they said and their killing of the
Prophets without any right to do so and We will say, ‘Taste the
punishment of the Burning.’ (3:181)
• You who believe! The idolaters are unclean, so after this year
they should not come near the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram).
If you fear impoverishment, Allah will enrich you from His bounty
if He wills. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (9:28)
• They swear by Allah that they said nothing, but they definitely
spoke the word of disbelief and returned to disbelief after their
Islam. They planned something which they did not achieve and
they were vindictive for no other cause than that Allah and His
Messenger had enriched them from His bounty. If they were to
repent, it would be better for them. But if they turn away, Allah will
punish them with a painful punishment in this world and the
hereafter, and they will not find any protector or helper on the
earth. (9:74)
• There are only grounds against those who ask you for permission
to stay when they are rich. They were pleased to be among those
who were left behind. Allah has sealed up their hearts so they do
not know. (9:93)
• Marry off those among you who are unmarried and those of your
slaves and slavegirls who are righteous. If they are poor, Allah
will enrich them from His bounty. Allah is All-Encompassing, All-
Knowing. (24:32)
RIDING
• They say, ‘These animals and crops are sacrosanct. No one may
eat them except those we wish’,–as they allege–and animals on
whose backs it is forbidden to ride, and animals over which they
do not mention Allah’s name, inventing falsehood against Him.
He will repay them for the things they have invented. (6:138)
• And also (He provides) animals for riding and for haulage and
animals for slaughtering and for wool. Eat what Allah has
provided for you and do not follow in the footsteps of Satan. He is
an outright enemy to you. (6:142)
• And horses, mules and donkeys both to ride and for adornment.
And He creates other things you do not know. (16:8)
• We have made them tame for them and some they ride and some
they eat. (36:72)
• It is Allah Who has given you livestock, some for you to ride and
some to eat. (40:79)
• It is He Who created all the species and gave you ships and
livestock for you to ride. (43:12)
RIGHTEOUS (SALIHUN)
• When the angels said, ‘Maryam, your Lord gives you good news
of a Word from Him. His name is the Messiah, ‘Isa, son of
Maryam, of high esteem in this world and the hereafter, and one
of those brought near.’ (3:45)
• They believe in Allah and the Last Day, and enjoin the right and
forbid the wrong, and compete in doing good. They are among
the righteous. (3:114)
• Whoever obeys Allah and the Messenger will be with those whom
Allah has blessed: the Prophets, the steadfast affirmers of truth,
the martyrs and the righteous. What excellent company such
people are! (4:69)
• How could we not believe in Allah, and the truth that has come to
us, when we long for our Lord to include us among the
righteous?’ (5:84)
• And Zakariyya, Yahya, ‘Isa and Ilyas. All of them were among the
righteous. (6:85)
• And We divided them into nations in the earth. Some of them are
righteous and some are other than that. We tried them with good
and evil so that hopefully they would return. (7:168)
• As for those who hold fast to the Book and perform prayer, We
will not let the wage of the righteous be wasted. (7:170)
• (Say:) ‘My Protector is Allah Who sent down the Book. He takes
care of the righteous.’ (7:196)
• Two servants entered prison along with him (Yusuf). One said, ‘I
dreamt that I was pressing grapes.’ The other said, ‘I dreamt I
carried bread upon my head and birds were eating it. Tell us the
true meaning of these dreams. We see that you’re one of the
righteous.’ (12:36)
• Gardens of Eden which they will enter, and all of their parents,
wives and children who were righteous. Angels will enter in to
welcome them from every gate. (13:23)
• Your Lord knows best what is in your selves. If you are righteous,
He is Ever-Forgiving to the remorseful. (17:25)
• And in addition to that We gave him Ishaq and Ya‘qub and made
both of them righteous. (21:72)
• We admitted him into Our mercy. He was one of the righteous.
(21:75)
• Marry off those among you who are unmarried and those of your
slaves and slavegirls who are righteous. If they are poor, Allah
will enrich them from His bounty. Allah is All-Encompassing, All-
Knowing. (24:32)
• He said (to Musa), ‘I would like to marry you to one of these two
daughters of mine on condition that you work for me for eight full
years. If you complete ten, that is up to you. I do not want to be
hard on you. You will find me, Allah willing, to be one of the
righteous.’ (28:27)
• As for those who believe and do right actions, We will admit them
among the righteous. (29:9)
• We gave him Ishaq and Ya‘qub and placed Prophethood and the
Book among his progeny. We gave him his reward in this world
and in the hereafter he will be among the righteous. (29:27)
• Give from what We have provided for you before death comes to
one of you and he says, ‘My Lord, if only you would give me a
little more time so that I can give charity and be one of the
righteous!’ (63:10)
• Allah has made an example for those who disbelieve: the wife of
Nuh and the wife of Lut. They were married to two of Our
servants who were righteous but they betrayed them and were
not helped at all against Allah. They were told, ‘Enter the Fire
along with all who enter it.’ (66:10)
• But his Lord chose him and made him one of the righteous.
(68:50)
• Among us there are some who are righteous and some who are
other than that. We follow many different paths. (72:11)
RIVER
• Give the good news to those who believe and do right actions
that they will have Gardens with rivers flowing under them. When
they are given fruit there as provision, they will say, ‘This is what
we were given before.’ But they were only given a simulation of it.
They will have there spouses of perfect purity and will remain
there timelessly, for ever. (2:25)
• Then your hearts became hardened after that, so they were like
rocks or even harder still. There are some rocks from which rivers
gush out, and others which split open and water pours out, and
others which crash down from fear of Allah. Allah is not unaware
of what you do. (2:74)
• When Talut marched out with the army, he said, ‘Allah will test
you with a river. Anyone who drinks from it is not with me. But
anyone who does not taste it is with me–except for him who
merely scoops up a little in his hand.’ But they drank from it–
except for a few of them. Then when he and those who believed
with him had crossed it, they said, ‘We do not have the strength
to face Goliath and his troops today.’ But those who were sure
that they were going to meet Allah said, ‘How many a small force
has triumphed over a much greater one by Allah’s permission!
Allah is with the steadfast.’ (2:249)
• Would any of you like to have a garden of dates and grapes, with
rivers flowing underneath and containing all kinds of fruits, then to
be stricken with old age and have children who are weak, and
then for a fierce whirlwind containing fire to come and strike it so
that it goes up in flames? In this way Allah makes His Signs clear
to you, so that hopefully you will reflect. (2:266)
• Say, ‘Shall I tell you of something better than that?’ Those who
guard against evil will have Gardens with their Lord, with rivers
flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever, and
purified wives, and the Pleasure of Allah. Allah sees His servants.
(3:15)
• Their Lord responds to them: ‘I will not let the deeds of any doer
among you go to waste, male or female–you are both the same in
that respect. Those who migrated and were driven from their
homes and suffered harm in My Way and fought and were killed, I
will erase their bad actions from them and admit them into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, as a reward from Allah.
The best of all rewards is with Allah.’ (3:195)
• But those who have fear of their Lord will have Gardens with
rivers flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever:
hospitality from Allah. What is with Allah is better for those who
are truly good. (3:198)
• These are Allah’s limits. As for those who obey Allah and His
Messenger, We will admit them into Gardens with rivers flowing
under them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever. That is the
Great Victory. (4:13)
• But as for those who believe and do right actions, We will admit
them into Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in
them timelessly, for ever and ever. In them they will have
spouses of perfect purity and We will admit them into cool,
refreshing shade. (4:57)
• But as for those who believe and do right actions, We will admit
them into Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in
them timelessly, for ever and ever. Allah’s promise is true. Whose
speech could be truer than Allah’s? (4:122)
• Allah will reward them for what they say with Gardens with rivers
flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever. That is
the recompense of the good-doers. (5:85)
• Allah will say, ‘This is the Day when the sincerity of the sincere
will benefit them. They will have Gardens with rivers flowing under
them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever and ever. Allah is
pleased with them and they are pleased with Him. That is the
Great Victory.’ (5:119)
• Allah has promised the men and women of the believers Gardens
with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly, for
ever, and fine dwellings in the Gardens of Eden. And Allah’s good
pleasure is even greater. That is the great victory. (9:72)
• Allah has prepared Gardens for them with rivers flowing under
them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever. That is the great
victory. (9:89)
• But as for those who believe and do right actions, their Lord will
guide them by their faith. Rivers will flow under them in Gardens
of Delight. (10:9)
• He sends down water from the sky and river-beds fill up and flow
according to their size, and the floodwater carries with it an
increasing layer of scum; a similar kind of scum comes from what
you heat up in the fire, when you desire to make jewellery or
other things. That is how Allah depicts the true and the false. As
for the scum, it is quickly swept away. But as for that which is of
use to people, it remains behind in the ground. That is a
metaphor which Allah has made. (13:17)
• What is the Garden promised to those who guard against evil like?
It has rivers flowing under it and its foodstuffs and cool shade
never fail. That is the final fate of those who guard against evil.
But the final fate of the disbelievers is the Fire. (13:35)
• Those who believed and did right actions will be admitted into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them
timelessly, for ever by the permission of their Lord. Their greeting
there is ‘Peace!’ (14:23)
• Allah is He Who created the heavens and the earth and sends
down water from the sky and by it brings forth fruits as provision
for you. He has made the ships subservient to you to run upon
the sea by His command, and He has made the rivers
subservient to you. (14:32)
• Gardens of Eden which they enter, with rivers flowing under them,
where they have whatever they desire. That is how Allah repays
those who guard against evil. (16:31)
• They say, ‘We will not believe you until you make a spring gush
out from the earth for us; or have a garden of dates and grapes
which you make rivers come pouring through.’ (17:90-91)
• They will have Gardens of Eden with rivers flowing under them.
They will be adorned in them with bracelets made of gold and
wear green garments made of the finest silk and rich brocade,
reclining there on couches under canopies. What an excellent
reward! What a wonderful repose! (18:31)
• Both gardens yielded their crops and did not suffer any loss, and
We made a river flow right through the middle of them. (18:33)
• But Allah will admit those who believe and do right actions into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them where they will be
adorned with gold bracelets and pearls, and where their clothing
will be of silk. (22:23)
• As for those who believe and do right actions, We will lodge them
in lofty chambers in the Garden, with rivers flowing under them,
remaining in them timelessly, for ever. How excellent is the
reward of those who act. (29:58)
• But those who have fear of their Lord will have high-ceilinged
Halls, and more such Halls built one above the other, and rivers
flowing under them. That is Allah’s promise. Allah does not break
His promise. (39:20)
• Allah will admit those who believe to Gardens with rivers flowing
under them. Those who disbelieve have their enjoyment, eating
as cattle eat, but the Fire will be their final residence. (47:12)
• The people who guard against evil will be amid Gardens and
Rivers. (54:54)
• On the Day you see the men and women of the believers, with
their light streaming out in front of them, and to their right: ‘Good
news for you today of Gardens with rivers flowing under them,
remaining in them timelessly, for ever. That is the Great Victory.’
(57:12)
• You will not find people who believe in Allah and the Last Day
having love for anyone who opposes Allah and His Messenger,
though they be their fathers, their sons, their brothers or their clan.
Allah has inscribed faith upon such people’s hearts and will
reinforce them with a Spirit from Him and admit them into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them
timelessly, for ever. Allah is pleased with them and they are
pleased with Him. Such people are the party of Allah. Truly it is
the party of Allah who are successful. (58:22)
• He will forgive you your wrong actions and admit you into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, and fine dwellings in the
Gardens of Eden. That is the Great Victory. (61:12)
• You who believe! Repent to Allah. It may be that your Lord will
erase your bad actions from you and admit you into Gardens with
rivers flowing under them on the Day when Allah will not disgrace
the Prophet and those who believed along with him. Their light
will stream out ahead of them and on their right. They will say,
‘Our Lord, perfect our light for us and forgive us! You have power
over all things.’ (66:8)
• But those who believe and do right actions will have Gardens with
rivers flowing under them. That is the Great Victory. (85:11)
ROCK
• And (remember) when Musa was looking for water for his people,
We said, ‘Strike the rock with your staff.’ Then twelve fountains
gushed out from it and all the people knew their drinking place.
‘Eat and drink of Allah's provision and do not go about the earth
corrupting it.’ (2:60)
• Then your hearts became hardened after that, so they were like
rocks or even harder still. There are some rocks from which rivers
gush out, and others which split open and water pours out, and
others which crash down from fear of Allah. Allah is not unaware
of what you do. (2:74)
• Say: ‘It would not matter if you were rock or iron or indeed any
created thing that you think is harder still!’ They will say, ‘Who will
bring us back again?’ Say: ‘He Who brought you into being in the
first place.’ They will shake their heads at you and ask, ‘When will
it happen?’ Say: ‘It may well be that it is very near.’ (17:50-51)
• And Thamud who carved out rocks in the valley-side (was one of
the tyrants). (89:9)
• When they came at you from above you and below you, when
your eyes rolled and your hearts rose to your throats, and you
thought unworthy thoughts about Allah, at that point the believers
were tested and severely shaken. (33:10-11)
• Allah knows the obstructers among you and those who say to
their brothers, ‘Come to us,’ and who only come to fight a very
little, and are begrudging towards you. Then when fear comes,
you see them looking at you, their eyes rolling like people scared
to death. But when fear departs they flay you with sharp tongues,
grasping for wealth. Such people have no faith and Allah will
make their actions come to nothing. That is easy for Allah. (33:18-
19)
ROMANS
• The Romans have been defeated in the land nearby, but after
their defeat they will themselves be victorious in a few years’ time.
The affair is Allah’s from beginning to end. On that day, the
believers will rejoice. (30:2-4)
ROOF
• Those before them also plotted, and Allah came at their building
from the foundations and the roof caved in on top of them. The
punishment came at them from where they did not expect. (16:26)
• We made the sky a preserved and protected roof yet still they
turn away from Our Signs. (21:32)
ROUT
• The assembly will be routed and will turn their backs in flight.
(54:45)
RUBY
RULING
• They request from you a ruling. Say: ‘Allah gives you a ruling
about people who die without direct heirs: If a man dies childless
but has a sister she receives half of what he leaves, and he is her
heir if she dies childless. If there are two sisters they receive two-
thirds of what he leaves. If there are brothers and sisters the
males receive the share of two females. Allah makes things clear
to you so you will not go astray. Allah has knowledge of all
things.’ (4:176)
S
SA’IBA
• Allah did not institute any such thing as bahira or sa’iba or wasila
or hami. Those who disbelieved invented lies against Allah. Most
of them do not use their intellect. (5:103)
SABAEANS
• Those with faith, those who are Jews, and the Christians and
Sabaeans, all who believe in Allah and the Last Day and act
rightly, will have their reward with their Lord. They will feel no fear
and will know no sorrow. (2:62)
• Those who believe and those who are Jews and the Sabaeans
and the Christians, all who believe in Allah and the Last Day and
act rightly will feel no fear and will know no sorrow. (5:69)
• As for those who believe and those who are Jews and the
Sabaeans and the Christians, Magians and idolaters, Allah will
distinguish between them on the Day of Rising. Allah is witness of
all things. (22:17)
SABBATH
• You are well aware of those of you who broke the Sabbath. We
said to them, ‘Be apes, despised, cast out.’ (2:65)
• You who have been given the Book! Believe in what We have
sent down confirming what is with you, before We obliterate faces,
turning them inside out, or We curse you as We cursed the
Companions of the Sabbath. Allah’s command is always carried
out. (4:47)
• Ask them about the town which was by the sea when they broke
the Sabbath–when their fish came to them near the surface on
their Sabbath day but did not come on the days which they did
not keep the Sabbath. In this way We put them to the test
because they were deviators. (7:163)
• The Sabbath was only enjoined on those who differed about it.
Your Lord will judge between them on the Day of Rising regarding
the things about which they differed. (16:124)
• They will ask you about the Sacred Month and fighting in it. Say,
‘Fighting in it is a serious matter; but barring access to the Way of
Allah and rejecting Him and barring access to the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram) and expelling its people from it are far more
serious in the sight of Allah. Discord is worse than killing.’ They
will not stop fighting you until they make you revert from your
religion, if they are able. As for any of you who revert from their
religion and die disbelievers, their actions will come to nothing in
this world and the hereafter. They are the Companions of the Fire,
remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (2:217)
• You who believe! Do not profane the sacred rites of Allah or the
sacred months, or the sacrificial animals, or the ritual garlands, or
those heading for the Sacred House, desiring profit and good
pleasure from their Lord. When your pilgrimage is over, then you
may hunt. Do not let hatred for a people who debar you from the
Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) incite you into going beyond
the limits. Help each other to goodness and heedfulness. Do not
help each other to wrongdoing and enmity. Have fear of Allah.
Allah is severe in retribution. (5:2)
• Then, when the sacred months are over, kill the idolaters
wherever you find them, and seize them and besiege them and
lie in wait for them on every road. If they repent and perform
prayer and give the alms, let them go on their way. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (9:5)
• There have been twelve months with Allah in the Book of Allah,
from the day He first created the heavens and earth. Four of them
are forbidden. That is the True Religion. So do not wrong one
another during them. However, fight the idolaters totally just as
they fight you totally, and know that Allah is with those who guard
against evil. (9:36)
SACRED LANDMARK
• Wherever you come from, turn your face to the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram). This is certainly the truth from your Lord. Allah
is not unaware of what you do. (2:149)
• Kill them wherever you come across them and expel them from
where they expelled you. Corruption is worse than killing. Do not
fight them in the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) until they fight
you there. But if they do fight you, then kill them. That is how the
disbelievers should be repaid. (2:191)
• Perform the pilgrimage and the pious visit for Allah. If you are
forcibly prevented, make whatever sacrifice is feasible. But do not
shave your heads until the sacrificial animal has reached the
place of sacrifice. If any of you are ill or have a head injury, the
expiation is fasting or charity or sacrifice when you are safe and
well again. And if you are secure, then he who takes advantage
of a pious visit before the pilgrimage should make whatever
sacrifice is feasible. For any one who cannot, there is three days’
fast on pilgrimage and seven on your return–that is ten in all. That
is for anyone whose family does not live near the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram). Have fear of Allah and know that Allah is fierce
in retribution. (2:196)
• You who believe! Do not profane the sacred rites of Allah or the
sacred months, or the sacrificial animals, or the ritual garlands, or
those heading for the Sacred House, desiring profit and good
pleasure from their Lord. When your pilgrimage is over, then you
may hunt. Do not let hatred for a people who debar you from the
Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) incite you into going beyond
the limits. Help each other to goodness and heedfulness. Do not
help each other to wrongdoing and enmity. Have fear of Allah.
Allah is severe in retribution. (5:2)
• But why should Allah not punish them now when they bar access
to the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram)? They are not its
guardians. Only people who guard against evil can be its
guardians. But most of them do not know that. (8:34)
• How could any of the idolaters possibly have a treaty with Allah
and with His Messenger, except for those you made a treaty with
at the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram)? As long as they are
straight with you, be straight with them. Allah loves those who
guard against evil. (9:7)
• Do you make the giving of water to the pilgrims and looking after
the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) the same as believing in
Allah and the Last Day and striving in the Way of Allah? They are
not equal in the sight of Allah. Allah does not guide wrongdoing
people. (9:19)
• Those who disbelieve and bar access to the Way of Allah and to
the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) which We have appointed
for all mankind–equally for those who live near it and those who
come from far away–those who desire to profane it with
wrongdoing, We will let them taste a painful punishment. (22:25)
• And We located the position of the House (Kaaba) for Ibrahim:
‘Do not associate anything with Me and purify My House for those
who circle it, and those who stand and bow and prostrate.’ (22:26)
• (We said to Ibrahim,) ‘Then they should end their state of self-
neglect and fufil their vows and circle the Ancient House.’ (22:29)
• You can make use of the sacrificial animals until a specified time,
and then their place of sacrifice is by the Ancient House. (22:33)
SACRED RITE
• You who believe! Do not profane the sacred rites of Allah or the
sacred months, or the sacrificial animals, or the ritual garlands, or
those heading for the Sacred House, desiring profit and good
pleasure from their Lord. When your pilgrimage is over, then you
may hunt. Do not let hatred for a people who debar you from the
Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) incite you into going beyond
the limits. Help each other to goodness and heedfulness. Do not
help each other to wrongdoing and enmity. Have fear of Allah.
Allah is severe in retribution. (5:2)
• That is it. As for those who honour Allah’s sacred rites should do
so from heartfelt heeding. (22:32)
SACRIFICIAL ANIMAL
• Perform the pilgrimage and the pious visit for Allah. If you are
forcibly prevented, make whatever sacrifice is feasible. But do not
shave your heads until the sacrificial animal has reached the
place of sacrifice. If any of you are ill or have a head injury, the
expiation is fasting or charity or sacrifice when you are safe and
well again. And if you are secure, then he who takes advantage
of a pious visit before the pilgrimage should make whatever
sacrifice is feasible. For any one who cannot, there is three days’
fast on pilgrimage and seven on your return–that is ten in all. That
is for anyone whose family does not live near the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram). Have fear of Allah and know that Allah is fierce
in retribution. (2:196)
• Those who say, ‘Allah has made a contract with us that we
should not believe in any Messenger until he brings us a sacrifice
consumed by fire.’ Say, ‘Messengers came to you before me with
the Clear Signs and with what you say. So why did you kill them if
you are telling the truth?’ (3:183)
• You who believe! Do not profane the sacred rites of Allah or the
sacred months, or the sacrificial animals, or the ritual garlands, or
those heading for the Sacred House, desiring profit and good
pleasure from their Lord. When your pilgrimage is over, then you
may hunt. Do not let hatred for a people who debar you from the
Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) incite you into going beyond
the limits. Help each other to goodness and heedfulness. Do not
help each other to wrongdoing and enmity. Have fear of Allah.
Allah is severe in retribution. (5:2)
• Recite to them the true report of Adam’s two sons when they
offered a sacrifice and it was accepted from one of them but not
accepted from the other. The one said, ‘I shall kill you.’ The other
said, ‘Allah only accepts from people who guard against evil.’
(5:27)
• You who believe! Do not kill game while you are in the state of
pilgrimage. If one of you kills any deliberately, the reprisal for it is
a livestock animal equivalent to what he killed, as judged by two
just men among you, a sacrifice to reach the Kaaba, or expiation
by feeding the poor, or fasting commensurate with that, so that he
may taste the evil consequences of what he did. Allah has
pardoned all that took place in the past; but if anyone does it
again Allah will take revenge on him. Allah is Almighty, Exactor of
Revenge. (5:95)
SAFEGUARDER
SAFETY
• And when Ibrahim said, ‘My Lord, make this a place of safety and
provide its inhabitants with fruits–all of them who believe in Allah
and the Last Day,’ He said, ‘I will let anyone who becomes a
disbeliever enjoy himself a little but then I will drive him to the
punishment of the Fire. What an evil destination!’ (2:126)
• Perform the pilgrimage and the pious visit for Allah. If you are
forcibly prevented, make whatever sacrifice is feasible. But do not
shave your heads until the sacrificial animal has reached the
place of sacrifice. If any of you are ill or have a head injury, the
expiation is fasting or charity or sacrifice when you are safe and
well again. And if you are secure, then he who takes advantage
of a pious visit before the pilgrimage should make whatever
sacrifice is feasible. For any one who cannot, there is three days’
fast on pilgrimage and seven on your return–that is ten in all. That
is for anyone whose family does not live near the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram). Have fear of Allah and know that Allah is fierce
in retribution. (2:196)
• In it are Clear Signs–the place where Ibrahim stood (to pray). All
who enter it are safe. Pilgrimage to the House is a duty owed to
Allah by all mankind–those who can find a way to do it. But if
anyone disbelieves, Allah is Rich Beyond Need of any being.
(3:97)
• You will find others who desire to be safe from you and safe from
their own people. Each time they are returned to dissension they
are overwhelmed by it. If they do not keep away from you or
submit to you or refrain from fighting, seize them and kill them
wherever you find them. Over such people We have given you
clear authority. (4:91)
• (Ibrahim said,) ‘Why should I fear what you have associated with
Him when you yourselves apparently have no fear of associating
partners with Allah for which He has sent down no authority to
you? Which of the two parties is more entitled to feel safe, if you
have any knowledge? Those who believe and do not mix up their
faith with any wrongdoing, they are the ones who are safe; it is
they who are guided.’ (6:81-82)
• If any of the idolaters ask you for protection, give them protection
until they have heard the words of Allah. Then convey them to a
place where they are safe. That is because they are a people
who do not know. (9:6)
• When Ibrahim said, ‘My Lord! Make this land a place of safety
and keep me and my sons from worshipping idols.’ (14:35)
• Those who perform good actions will receive better than them
and will be safe that Day from terror. (27:89)
• They say, ‘If we follow the guidance with you, we shall be forcibly
uprooted from our land.’ Have We not established a safe haven
for them to which produce of every kind is brought, provision
direct from Us? But most of them do not know it. (28:57)
• Allah and His angels call down blessings on the Prophet. You
who believe! Call down blessings on him and ask for complete
peace and safety for him. (33:56)
• We placed between them and the cities We had blessed other
clearly conspicuous cities, making them measured stages on the
way: ‘Travel between them in safety by night and day.’ (34:18)
• It is not your wealth or your children that will bring you near to
Us–only in the case of people who believe and act rightly; such
people will have a double recompense for what they did. They will
be safe from all harm in the High Halls of Paradise. (34:37)
• Those who adulterate Our Signs are not concealed from Us.
Who is better–someone who will be thrown into the fire or
someone who will arrive in safety on the Day of Rising? Do what
you like. He sees whatever you do. (41:40)
• The people who guard against evil will be in a safe place. (44:51)
• Allah has confirmed His Messenger’s vision with truth: ‘You will
enter the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) in safety, Allah
willing, shaving your heads and cutting your hair without any fear.’
He knew what you did not know and ordained, in place of this, an
imminent victory. (48:27)
• So let them worship the Lord of this House Who has preserved
them from hunger and secured them from fear. (106:3-4)
• And to Thamud We sent their brother Salih, who said, ‘My people,
worship Allah! You have no other god than Him. A Clear Sign has
come to you from your Lord. This is the She-Camel of Allah as a
Sign for you. Leave her alone to eat on Allah’s earth and do not
harm her in any way or a painful punishment will afflict you.
Remember when He appointed you successors to ‘Ad and settled
you in the land. You built palaces on its plains and carved out
houses from the mountains. Remember Allah’s blessings and do
not go about the earth, corrupting it.’ (7:73-74)
• The ruling circle of those of his people who were arrogant said to
those who were oppressed–those among them who believed–‘Do
you know that Salih has been sent from his Lord?’ They said, ‘We
believe in what he has been sent with.’ (7:75)
• Those who were arrogant said, ‘We reject Him in Whom you
believe.’ (7:76)
• Has the news of those who came before them not reached them,
the people of Nuh and ‘Ad and Thamud, and the people of
Ibrahim and the inhabitants of Madyan and the overturned cities?
Their Messengers brought them the Clear Signs. Allah did not
wrong them; rather they wronged themselves. (9:70)
• Then when Our command came We rescued Salih and those who
believed along with him by a mercy from Us from the disgrace of
that day. Your Lord is the All-Strong, the Almighty. (11:66)
• The Great Blast seized hold of those who did wrong and morning
found them lying flattened in their homes. (11:67)
• It was as if they had never lived there at all. Yes indeed! Thamud
rejected their Lord. So away with Thamud! (11:68)
• Has news not reached you of those who came before you, the
peoples of Nuh and ‘Ad and Thamud, and those who came after
them who are known to no one but Allah? Their Messengers
came to them with Clear Signs, but they put their hands to their
mouths, saying, ‘We reject what you have been sent with. We
have grave doubts about what you are calling us to.’ (14:9)
• Nothing has prevented Us sending you Signs except the fact that
the previous peoples denied them. We gave Thamud the she-
camel as a visible Sign, and then they mistreated her. We do not
send Signs except to frighten people. (17:59)
• If they deny you, the people of Nuh before them denied him and
those of ‘Ad and of Thamud. (22:42)
• The same goes for ‘Ad and Thamud and the Companions of the
Rass and many generations in between. (25:38)
• They said, ‘You are merely someone bewitched. You are nothing
but a human being like ourselves, so produce a Sign if you are
telling the truth.’ (26:153-154)
• But they hamstrung her and woke up full of remorse, for the
punishment did come down them. There is certainly a Sign in that,
yet most of them are not believers. Truly your Lord is the Almighty,
the Most Merciful. (26:157-159)
• And ‘Ad and Thamud–it must be clear to you from their dwelling
places! Satan made their actions seem good to them and so
debarred them from the Way, even though they were intelligent
people. (29:38)
• And Thamud and the people of Lut and the Companions of the
Thicket. Those too were Confederates. Each one of them denied
the Messengers and so My punishment was justly carried out.
(38:13-14)
• The man who believed said, ‘My people! I fear for you a day like
that of the Confederates, the same as happened to the people of
Nuh and ‘Ad and Thamud and those who followed after them.
Allah does not want any injustice for His servants.’ (40:30-31)
• If they turn away, then say, ‘I warn you of a lightning-bolt like the
lightning-bolt of ‘Ad and of Thamud.’ When the Messengers came
to them from in front and from behind, saying, ‘Do not worship
anyone but Allah’, they said, ‘If our Lord had willed, He could
have sent angels down, so we reject the Message you have been
sent with.’ (41:13-14)
• Has the story reached you of the legions of Pharaoh and Thamud?
(85:17-18)
• Do you not see what your Lord did with ‘Ad–Iram of the Columns
whose like was not created in any land–and Thamud who carved
out rocks in the valley-side, and Pharaoh of the Stakes, all of
whom were tyrants in their lands and caused much corruption in
them? (89:6-12)
SALSABIL
SALT
• The two seas are not the same: the one is sweet, refreshing,
delicious to drink, the other salty, bitter to the taste. Yet from both
of them you eat fresh flesh and extract ornaments for yourselves
to wear; and you see ships on them, cleaving through the waves
so that you can seek His bounty and so that hopefully you will be
thankful. (35:12)
SAMARITAN
• He (Allah) said, ‘We tried your people after you left and the
Samaritan has misguided them.’ (20:85)
• They said, ‘We did not break our promise to you of our own
volition. But we were weighed down with the heavy loads of the
people’s jewelry and we threw them in, for that is what the
Samaritan did.’ (20:87)
• Then he produced a calf for them, a physical form which made a
lowing sound. So they said, ‘This is your god–and Musa’s god as
well, but he forgot.’ (20:88)
• Could they not see that it did not reply to them and that it
possessed no power to either harm or benefit them? (20:89)
• Harun had earlier said to them, ‘My people! It is just a trial for you.
Your Lord is the All-Merciful, so follow me and obey my
command!’ (20:90)
• They said, ‘We will not stop devoting ourselves to it until Musa
returns to us.’ (20:91)
SANDAL
SATAN (SHAYTAN)
• When they meet those who believe, they say, ‘We believe.’ But
then when they go apart with their Satans, they say, ‘We are
really with you. We were only mocking.’ (2:14)
• Mankind! Eat what is good and lawful on the earth. And do not
follow in the footsteps of Satan. He truly is an outright enemy to
you. (2:168)
• Those who practise usury will not rise from the grave except as
someone driven mad by Satan's touch. That is because they say,
‘Trade is the same as usury.’ But Allah has permitted trade and
He has forbidden usury. Whoever is given a warning by his Lord
and then desists, can keep what he received in the past and his
affair is Allah’s concern. But all who return to it will be the
Companions of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever.
(2:275)
• But Satan made them slip up by means of it, expelling them from
where they were. We said, ‘Go down from here as enemies to
each other! You will have residence on the earth and enjoyment
for a time.’ (2:36)
• Those of you who turned their backs on the day the two armies
clashed–it was Satan who made them slip for what they had done.
But Allah has pardoned them. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, All-
Forbearing. (3:155)
• That was only Satan who intimidated his adherents. But do not
fear them–fear Me if you are believers. (3:175)
• When she gave birth, she said, ‘My Lord! I have given birth to a
girl’–and Allah knew very well what she had given birth to, male
and female are not the same–‘and I have named her Maryam and
placed her and her children in Your safekeeping from the
accursed Satan.’ (3:36)
• What they call on apart from Him are female idols. What they call
on is an arrogant Satan. (4:117)
• As for those who are tight-fisted and direct others to be tight-
fisted, and hide the bounty Allah has given them, We have
prepared a humiliating punishment for those who disbelieve, and
also for those who spend their wealth to show off to people, not
believing in Allah and the Last Day. Anyone who has made Satan
his comrade, what an evil comrade he is! (4:37-38)
• Do you not see those who claim that they believe in what has
been sent down to you and what was sent down before you, still
desiring to turn to a satanic source for judgement in spite of being
ordered to reject it? Satan wants to misguide them far away.
(4:60)
• (Satan said,) ‘I will lead them astray and fill them with false hopes.
I will command them and they will cut off cattle’s ears. I will
command them and they will change Allah’s creation.’ Anyone
who takes Satan as his protector in place of Allah has clearly lost
everything. He makes promises to them and fills them with false
hopes. But what Satan promises them is nothing but delusion.
(4:119-120)
• You who believe! Wine and gambling, stone altars and divining
arrows are filth from the handiwork of Satan. Avoid them
completely so that hopefully you will be successful. Satan wants
to stir up enmity and hatred between you by means of wine and
gambling, and to debar you from remembrance of Allah and from
prayer. Will you not then give them up? (5:90-91)
• In this way We have appointed as enemies to every Prophet
Satans from both mankind and from the jinn, who inspire each
other with delusions by means of specious words–if your Lord
had willed, they would not have done it, so abandon them and all
they fabricate. (6:112)
• Do not eat anything over which the name of Allah has not been
mentioned. To do so is sheer deviance. The Satans inspire their
friends to dispute with you. If you obeyed them you would then be
idolaters. (6:121)
• And also animals for riding and for haulage and animals for
slaughtering and for wool. Eat what Allah has provided for you
and do not follow in the footsteps of Satan. He is an outright
enemy to you. (6:142)
• We created you and then formed you and then We said to the
angels, ‘Prostrate before Adam,’ and they prostrated–except for
Diabolis. He was not among those who prostrated. He said, ‘What
prevented you from prostrating when I commanded you to?’ He
replied, ‘I am better than him. You created me from fire and You
created him from clay.’ He said, ‘Descend from Heaven. It is not
for you to be arrogant in it. So get out! You are one of the
abased.’ He said, ‘Grant me a reprieve until the day they are
raised up.’ He said, ‘You are one of the reprieved.’ He said, ‘By
Your misguidance of me, I will lie in ambush for them on your
straight path. Then I will come at them, from in front of them and
behind them, from their right and from their left. You will not find
most of them thankful.’ He said, ‘Get out of it, reviled and driven
out. As for those of them who follow you, I will fill up Hell with
every one of you.’ ‘Adam, live in the Garden, you and your wife,
and eat of it wherever you like. But do not go near this tree lest
you become wrongdoers.’ Then Satan whispered to them,
disclosing to them their private parts that had been concealed
from them. He said, ‘Your Lord has only forbidden you this tree
lest you become angels or among those who live for ever.’ He
swore to them, ‘I am one of those who give you good advice.’ So
he enticed them to do it by means of trickery. Then when they
tasted the tree, their private parts were disclosed to them and
they started stitching together the leaves of the Garden in order to
cover themselves. Their Lord called out to them,‘Did I not forbid
you this tree and say to you, "Satan is an outright enemy to
you"?’ (7:11-22)
• Recite to them the tale of him to whom We gave Our Signs, but
who then cast them to one side and Satan caught up with him. He
was one of those lured into error. (7:175)
• And when He overcame you with sleep, making you feel secure,
and sent you down water from heaven to purify you and remove
the taint of Satan from you, and to fortify your hearts and make
your feet firm. (8:11)
• When Satan made their actions appear good to them, saying, ‘No
one will overcome you today for I am at your side.’ But when the
two parties came in sight of one another, he turned right round on
his heels saying, ‘I wash my hands of you. I see what you do not
see. I fear Allah. Allah is severe in retribution.’ (8:48)
• He (Yusuf) raised his parents up onto the throne. The others fell
prostrate in front of him. He said, ‘My father, truly this is now the
interpretation of the dream I had. My Lord has made it all come
true; and He was kind to me by letting me out of prison and
brought you from the desert when Satan had caused dissent
between me and my brothers. My Lord is kind to anyone He wills.
He is indeed All-Knowing and All-Wise. (12:100)
• He said, ‘My son, don’t tell your brothers your dream lest they
devise some scheme to injure you, Satan is a clear-cut enemy to
man. (12:5)
• When the affair is decided Satan will say, ‘Allah made you a
promise, a promise of truth, and I made you a promise but broke
my promise. I had no authority over you, except that I called you
and you responded to me. Do not, therefore, blame me but blame
yourselves. I cannot come to your aid nor you to mine. I reject the
way you associated me with Allah before.’ The wrongdoers will
have a painful punishment. (14:22)
• They would only say, ‘Our eyesight is befuddled! Or rather we
have been put under a spell!’ We have placed constellations in
heaven and made them beautiful for those who look. We have
guarded them from every cursed Satan–except for the one who
listens stealthily, and he is followed by an open flame. (15:15-18)
• He (Satan) said, ‘My Lord, because You misled me, I will make
things on the earth seem good to them and I will mislead them all,
every one of them, except Your servants among them who are
sincere.’ He said, ‘This is a Straight Path to Me. You have no
authority over any of My servants except for the misled who
follow you.’ (15:39-42)
• Whenever you recite the Qur'an, seek refuge with Allah from the
accursed Satan. He has no authority over those who believe and
put their trust in their Lord. He only has authority over those who
take him as a friend and associate others with Allah. (16:98-100)
• Say to My servants that they should only say the best. Satan
wants to stir up trouble between them. Satan is an outright enemy
to man. (17:53)
• (He said,) ‘Stir up any of them you can with your voice and rally
against them your cavalry and your infantry and share with them
in their children and their wealth and make them promises! The
promise of Satan is nothing but delusion. But as for My servants,
you will not have any authority over them.’ Your Lord suffices as a
guardian. (17:64-65)
• Do you not see that We send the Satans against those who
disbelieve to goad them on? (19:83)
• By your Lord, We will collect them and the Satans together. Then
We will assemble them around Hell on their knees. Then We will
drag out from every sect the one among them most insolent
towards the All-Merciful. Then it is We Who will know best those
most deserving to roast in it. There is not one of you who will not
come to it. That is the final decision of your Lord. Then We will
rescue those who guarded against evil and We will leave the
wrongdoers in it on their knees. (19:68-72)
• But Satan whispered to him, saying, ‘Adam, shall I show you the
way to the Tree of Everlasting Life and to a kingdom which will
never fade away?’ (20:120)
• And some of the Satans dived for him and did other things apart
from that. And We were watching over them. (21:82)
• Say: ‘My Lord, I seek refuge with You from the goadings of the
Satans.’ (23:97)
• (On the Day a wrongdoer will say,) ‘He led me astray from the
Reminder after it came to me.’ Satan always leaves man in the
lurch. (25:29)
• Shall I tell you upon whom the Satans descend? They descend
on every evil liar. They give them a hearing and most of them are
liars. (26:221-223)
• (The hoopoe said,) ‘I found both her and her people prostrating to
the sun instead of Allah. Satan has made their actions seem good
to them and debarred them from the Way so they are not guided.’
(27:24)
• When they are told: ‘Follow what Allah has sent down,’ they say,
‘No, we will follow what we found our fathers doing.’ What! Even if
Satan is calling them to the punishment of the Blazing Fire?
(31:21)
• Mankind! Allah’s promise is true. Do not let the life of this world
delude you and do not let the Deluder delude you about Allah.
Satan is your enemy so treat him as an enemy. He summons his
party so they will be among the people of the Searing Blaze.
(35:5-6)
• ‘Did I not make a contract with you, tribe of Adam, not to worship
Satan, who truly is an outright enemy to you.’ (36:60)
• Its (the tree of Zaqqum’s) fruits are just like the heads of Satans.
(37:65)
• If an evil urge from Satan eggs you on, seek refuge in Allah. He is
the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing. (41:36)
• Those who have turned back in their tracks after the guidance
became clear to them, it was Satan who talked them into it and
filled them with false hopes. (47:25)
• Satan has gained mastery over them and made them forget the
remembrance of Allah. Such people are the party of Satan. No
indeed! It is the party of Satan who are the losers. (58:19)
• They are the same as those a short time before them who tasted
the evil consequences of what they did. They will have a painful
punishment. They are like Satan when he says to a human being,
‘Disbelieve,’ and then when he disbelieves, says, ‘I wash my
hands of you. Truly I fear Allah, the Lord of all the worlds.’ The
final fate of both of them is that they will be timelessly, for ever in
the Fire. That is the repayment of the wrongdoers. (59:15-17)
• We have adorned the lowest heaven with lamps and made some
of them stones for the Satans for whom We have prepared the
punishment of the Blaze. (67:5)
SCALE
• The weighing that Day will be the truth. As for those whose scales
are heavy, they are the successful. (7:8)
• As for those whose scales are light, they are the ones who have
lost their own selves because they wrongfully rejected Our Signs.
(7:9)
• Those whose scales are heavy, they are the successful. (23:102)
• Those whose scales are light, they are the losers of their selves,
remaining in Hell timelessly, for ever. (23:103)
SCANT YIELD
• Good land yields up its plants by its Lord’s permission, but that
which is bad only yields up scantily. In this way We vary the Signs
for people who are thankful. (7:58)
SCHEME
• (Hud said,) ‘So scheme against me, all of you together, and then
grant me no respite.’ (11:55)
• He (Yusuf's father) said, ‘My son, don’t tell your brothers your
dream lest they devise some scheme to injure you, Satan is a
clear-cut enemy to man.’ (12:5)
• Then when he had supplied them with their needs, he (Yusuf) put
the goblet in his brother’s bag. A herald called out, ‘Caravan! You
are thieves!’ They turned to them and said, ‘What are you
missing?’ They said, ‘We’re missing the goblet of the king. The
man who brings it will get a camel’s load. Regarding that I stand
as guarantor.’ They said, ‘By Allah, you know we did not come to
corrupt the land and that we are not thieves.’ They said, ‘What is
the reparation for it if it in fact transpires that you are liars?’ They
said, ‘Its reparation shall be him in the saddlebags of whom it is
discovered. With us that is how wrongdoers are repaid.’ He
started with their bags before his brother’s and then produced it
from his brother’s bag. In that way We devised a cunning scheme
for Yusuf. He could not have held his brother according to the
statutes of the King–only because Allah had willed it so. We raise
the rank of anyone We will. Over everyone with knowledge is a
Knower. (12:70-76)
• This is news of the Unseen which We reveal to you. You were not
with them when they decided what to do and devised their
scheme. (12:102)
• (Ibrahim said,) ‘By Allah, I will devise some scheme against your
idols when your backs are turned.’ (21:57)
• They said, ‘Did you do this to our gods, Ibrahim?’ He said, ‘No,
this one, the biggest of them, did it. Ask them if they are able to
speak!’ They consulted among themselves and said, ‘It is you
yourselves who are wrongdoers.’ But then they relapsed back
into their disbelief: ‘You know full well these idols cannot talk.’ He
said, ‘Do you then worship, instead of Allah, what cannot help or
harm you in any way? Shame on you and what you worship
besides Allah! Will you not use your intellect?’ (21:62-67)
• Those deemed weak will say to those deemed great, ‘No, it was
your scheming night and day when you commanded us to reject
Allah and assign equals to Him.’ But they will show their remorse
when they see the punishment. We will put iron collars round the
necks of those who disbelieve. Will they be repaid for anything
but what they did? (34:33)
• Do you not see what your Lord did with the Companions of the
Elephant? Did He not bring all their schemes to nothing? (105:1-2)
SCORN
SCREEN
• They say, ‘Our hearts are covered up against what you call us to
and there is a heaviness in our ears. There is a screen between
us and you. So act–we are certainly acting.’ (41:5)
SCRIBE
SEA
• And when We parted the sea for you and rescued you, and
drowned the people of Pharaoh while you watched. (2:50)
• Say: ‘Who rescues you from the darkness of the land and sea?
You call on Him humbly and secretly: "If you rescue us from this,
we will truly be among the thankful."’ (6:63)
• We conveyed the tribe of Israel across the sea and they came
upon some people who were devoting themselves to some idols
which they had. They said, ‘Musa, give us a god just as these
people have gods.’ He said, ‘You are indeed an ignorant people.’
(7:138)
• Ask them about the town which was by the sea when they broke
the Sabbath–when their fish came to them near the surface on
their Sabbath day but did not come on the days which they did
not keep the Sabbath. In this way We put them to the test
because they were deviators. (7:163)
• We brought the tribe of Israel across the sea and Pharaoh and
his troops pursued them out of tyranny and enmity. Then, when
he was on the point of drowning, he said, ‘I believe that there is
no god but Him in whom the tribe of Israel believe. I am one of
the Muslims.’ (10:90)
• Allah is He Who created the heavens and the earth and sends
down water from the sky and by it brings forth fruits as provision
for you. He has made the ships subservient to you to run upon
the sea by His command, and He has made the rivers
subservient to you. (14:32)
• It is He Who made the sea subservient to you so that you can eat
fresh flesh from it and bring out from it ornaments to wear. And
you see the ships cleaving through it so that you can seek His
bounty, and so that hopefully you will show thanks. (16:14)
• Your Lord is He Who propels the ships on the sea for you so that
you may seek His bounty. He is indeed Most Merciful to you.
(17:66)
• Remember when Musa said to his servant, ‘I will not give up until
I reach the meeting-place of the two seas, even if I must press on
for many years.’ (18:60)
• But when they reached their meeting-place, they forgot their fish
which quickly burrowed its way into the sea. (18:61)
• He (Musa’s servant) said, ‘Do you see what has happened?
When we went to find shelter at the rock, I forgot the fish. No one
made me forget to remember it except Satan. It found its way into
the sea in an amazing way.’ (18:63)
• (He said to Musa,) ‘As for the boat, it belonged to some poor
people who worked on the sea. I wanted to damage it because a
king was coming behind them, commandeering every boat.’
(18:79)
• Say: ‘If all the sea was ink to write down the Words of my Lord, it
would run out long before the Words of my Lord ran out,’ even if
We were to bring the same amount of ink again. (18:109)
• Pharaoh pursued them with his troops and the sea overwhelmed
them utterly. (20:78)
• Do you not see that Allah has made everything on the earth
subservient to you and the ships running upon the sea by His
command? He holds back the heaven, preventing it from falling to
the earth–except by His permission. Allah is All-Compassionate
to mankind, Most Merciful. (22:65)
• Or they (the actions of disbelievers) are like the darkness of a
fathomless sea which is covered by waves above which are
waves above which are clouds, layers of darkness, one upon the
other. If he puts out his hand, he can scarcely see it. Those Allah
gives no light to, they have no light. (24:40)
• He Who guides you in the darkness of land and sea and sends
out the winds bringing advance news of His mercy. Is there
another god besides Allah? May Allah be exalted above what
they associate with Him! (27:63)
• So We seized him (Pharaoh) and his troops and flung them into
the sea. See the final fate of the wrongdoers! (28:40)
• If all the trees on earth were pens and all the sea, with seven
more seas besides, was ink Allah’s words still would not run dry.
Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (31:27)
• Do you not see that ships sail on the sea by Allah’s blessing so
that He can show you something of His Signs? There are
certainly Signs in that for everyone who is steadfast and thankful.
(31:31)
• The two seas are not the same: the one is sweet, refreshing,
delicious to drink, the other salty, bitter to the taste. Yet from both
of them you eat fresh flesh and extract ornaments for yourselves
to wear; and you see ships on them, cleaving through the waves
so that you can seek His bounty and so that hopefully you will be
thankful. (35:12)
• Among His Signs are the tall ships sailing like mountains through
the sea. (42:32)
• (It was revealed to Musa,) ‘Leave the sea divided as it is. They
are an army who will be drowned.’ (44:24)
• It is Allah Who has made the sea subservient to you so that the
ships sail on it at His command, enabling you to seek His bounty,
so that hopefully you will be thankful. (45:12)
• So We seized him (Pharaoh) and his armies and hurled them into
the sea, and he was to blame. (51:40)
• He has let loose the two seas, converging together, with a barrier
between them; they do not break through. (55:19-20)
• His, too, are the ships sailing like mountain peaks on the sea.
(55:24)
SECRET
• Do they not know that Allah knows what they keep secret and
what they make public? (2:77)
• Yet you see those with sickness in their hearts rushing to them,
saying, ‘We fear the wheel of fate may turn against us.’ But it may
well be that Allah will bring about victory or some other
contingency from Him. Then they will deeply regret their secret
thoughts. (5:52)
• Do they not know that Allah knows their secrets and their private
talk, and that Allah is the Knower of all unseen things? (9:78)
• Allah knows what you keep secret and what you make public.
(16:19)
• There is no doubt that Allah knows what they keep secret and
what they make public. He does not love people puffed up with
pride. (16:23)
• Though you speak out loud, He knows your secrets and what is
even more concealed. (20:7)
• Say: ‘The One Who sent it down is He Who knows all hidden
secrets in the heavens and earth. He is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful.’ (25:6)
• So do not let their words distress you. We know what they keep
secret and what they divulge. (36:76)
• That is because they said to those who hate what Allah has sent
down, ‘We will obey you in part of the affair.’ But Allah knows their
secrets. (47:26)
• Whether you keep your words secret or say them out loud He
knows what the heart contains. (67:13)
SECURITY
• Do the people of the cities feel secure against Our violent force
coming down on them in the night while they are asleep? (7:97)
• Or do the people of the cities feel secure against Our violent force
coming down on them in the day while they are playing games?
(7:98)
• And when He overcame you with sleep, making you feel secure,
and sent you down water from heaven to purify you and remove
the taint of Satan from you, and to fortify your hearts and make
your feet firm. (8:11)
• Those who guard against evil will be amid Gardens and Springs:
‘Enter them in peace, in complete security!’ (15:45-46)
• Do those who plot evil actions feel secure that Allah will not cause
the earth to swallow them up or that a punishment will not come
upon them from where they least expect? (16:45)
• Do you feel secure against Him causing the shore to swallow you
up or sending against you a sudden squall of stones? Then you
will find no one to be your guardian. (17:68)
• Or do you feel secure against Him taking you back into it another
time and sending a violent storm against you and drowning you
for your ingratitude? Then you will find no one to defend you
against Us. (17:69)
• Allah has promised those of you who believe and do right actions
that He will make them successors in the land as He made those
before them successors, and will firmly establish for them their
religion with which He is pleased and give them, in place of their
fear, security. ‘They worship Me, not associating anything with
Me.’ Any who disbelieve after that, such people are deviators.
(24:55)
• (Salih said to his people,) ‘Are you going to be left secure amid
what is here?’ (26:146)
• They will call there for fruit of every kind, in complete security.
(44:55)
SEED
• Allah is He Who splits the seed and kernel. He brings forth the
living from the dead, and produces the dead out of the living. That
is Allah, so how are you perverted? (6:95)
• It is He Who sends down water from the sky from which We bring
forth growth of every kind, and from that We bring forth the green
shoots and from them We bring forth close-packed seeds, and
from the spathes of the date palm date clusters hanging down,
and gardens of grapes and olives and pomegranates, both similar
and dissimilar. Look at their fruits as they bear fruit and ripen.
There are Signs in that for people who believe. (6:99)
• We will set up the Just Balance on the Day of Rising and no self
will be wronged in any way. Even if it is no more than the weight
of a grain of mustard-seed, We will produce it. We are sufficient
as a Reckoner. (21:47)
• (I swear) by Heaven with its cyclical systems and the earth with
its splitting seeds, it is truly a Decisive Word. (86:11-13)
SELF (NAFS)
• And when Musa said to his people, ‘My people, You wronged
yourselves by adopting the Calf so turn towards your Maker and
kill yourselves. That is the best thing for you in your Maker’s
sight.’ And He turned towards you. He is the Ever-Returning, the
Most Merciful. (2:54)
• And We shaded you with clouds and sent down manna and
quails to you: ‘Eat of the good things We have provided for you.’
They did not wrong Us; rather it was themselves they were
wronging. (2:57)
• What an evil thing they have sold themselves for in rejecting what
Allah has sent down, outraged that Allah should send down His
favour on whichever of His servants He wills. They have brought
down anger upon anger on themselves. The disbelievers will
have a humiliating punishment. (2:90)
• Many of the People of the Book would love it if they could turn
you back to disbelief after you have become believers, showing
their innate envy now that the truth is clear to them. But you
should pardon and overlook until Allah gives His command. Truly
Allah has power over all things. (2:109)
• On the night of the fast it is lawful for you to have sexual relations
with your wives. They are clothing for you and you for them. Allah
knows that you have been betraying yourselves and He has
turned towards you and excused you. Now you may have sexual
intercourse with them and seek what Allah has written for you.
Eat and drink until you can clearly discern the white thread from
the black thread of the dawn, then fulfil the fast until the night
appears. But do not have sexual intercourse with them while you
are in retreat in the mosques. These are Allah’s limits, so do not
go near them. In this way does Allah make His Signs clear to
people so that hopefully they will guard against evil. (2:187)
• It is not for any prophet to be false to his trust. Those who are
false will arrive on the Day of Rising with what they have
misappropriated. Then every self will be paid in full for what it
earned. They will not be wronged. (3:161)
• Every self will taste death. You will be paid your wages in full on
the Day of Rising. Anyone who is distanced from the Fire and
admitted to the Garden has triumphed. The life of this world is just
the enjoyment of delusion. (3:185)
• mankind! Have fear of your Lord Who created you from a single
self and created its mate from it and then disseminated many
men and women from the two of them. Have fear of Allah in
Whose name you make demands on one another and also in
respect of your families. Allah watches over you continually. (4:1)
• The angels ask those they take while they are wronging
themselves, ‘What were your circumstances?’ They reply, ‘We
were oppressed on earth.’ They say, ‘Was Allah’s earth not wide
enough for you to have migrated elsewhere in it?’ The shelter of
such people will be Hell. What an evil destination! (4:97)
• Were it not for Allah’s favour to you and His mercy, a group of
them would almost have managed to mislead you. But they
mislead no one but themselves and do not harm you in any way.
Allah has sent down the Book and Wisdom to you and taught you
what you did not know before. Allah’s favour to you is indeed
immense. (4:113)
• You who believe! You are only responsible for yourselves. The
misguided cannot harm you as long as you are guided. All of you
will return to Allah and He will inform you about what you were
doing. (5:105)
• Company of jinn and men! Did not Messengers come to you from
among yourselves relating My Signs to you and warning you of
the encounter of this Day of yours? They will say, ‘We testify
against ourselves.’ The life of this world deluded them and they
will testify against themselves that they were disbelievers. (6:130)
• Say: ‘Am I to desire other than Allah as Lord when He is the Lord
of all things?’ What each self earns is for itself alone. No burden-
bearer can bear another’s burden. Then you will return to your
Lord, and He will inform you regarding the things about which you
differed. (6:164)
• As for those whose scales are light, they are the ones who have
lost their own selves because they wrongfully rejected Our Signs.
(7:9)
• When your Lord took out all their descendants from the loins of
the children of Adam and made them testify against themselves
‘Am I not your Lord?’ they said, ‘We testify that indeed You are!’
Lest you say on the Day of Rising, ‘We knew nothing of this.’
(7:172)
• How evil is the metaphor of those who deny Our Signs. It is
themselves that they have badly wronged. (7:177)
• It is He Who created you from a single self and made from him
his spouse so that he might find repose in her. Then when he
covered her she bore a light load and carried it around. Then
when it became heavy they called on Allah, their Lord, ‘If You
grant us a healthy child, we will be among the thankful!’ (7:189)
• Has the news of those who came before them not reached them,
the people of Nuh and ‘Ad and Thamud, and the people of
Ibrahim and the inhabitants of Madyan and the overturned cities?
Their Messengers brought them the Clear Signs. Allah did not
wrong them; rather they wronged themselves. (9:70)
• And (He turned) also towards the three who were left behind, so
that when the earth became narrow for them, for all its great
breadth, and their own selves became constricted for them and
they realised that there was no refuge from Allah except in Him,
He turned to them so that they might turn to Him. Allah is the
Ever-Returning, the Most Merciful. (9:118)
• It was not for people of Madina, and the desert arabs around
them, to remain behind the Messenger of Allah nor to prefer
themselves to him. That is because no thirst or weariness or
hunger will afflict them in the Way of Allah, nor will they take a
single step to infuriate the disbelievers, nor secure any gain from
the enemy, without a right action being written down for them
because of it. Allah does not let the wage of the good-doers go to
waste. (9:120)
• Then and there every self will be tried for what it did before. They
will be returned to Allah, their Master, the Real, and what they
invented will abandon them. (10:30)
• Allah does not wrong people in any way; rather it is people who
wrong themselves. (10:44)
• (Yusuf said,) ‘I do not say my self was free from blame. The self
indeed commands to evil acts–except for those my Lord has
mercy on. My Lord, He is Forgiving, Merciful.’ (12:53)
• Warn mankind of the Day when the punishment will reach them.
Those who did wrong will say, ‘Our Lord, reprieve us for a short
time. We will respond to Your call and follow the Messengers.’
‘But did you not swear to Me before that you would never meet
your downfall, even though you inhabited the houses of those
who had wronged themselves and it was made clear to you how
We had dealt with them and We gave you many examples?’
(14:44-45)
• As for those the angels take in death while they are wronging
themselves, they will offer their submission: ‘We did not do any
evil.’ Oh yes you did! Allah knows what you were doing. (16:28)
• What are they waiting for but the angels to come to them or your
Lord's command to come? That is like what those before them did.
Allah did not wrong them; rather they wronged themselves.
(16:33)
• Allah has given you wives from among yourselves, and given you
children and grandchildren from your wives, and provided good
things for you. So why do they believe in falsehood and reject the
blessings of Allah? (16:72)
• Every self will taste death. We test you with both good and evil as
a trial. And you will be returned to Us. (21:35)
• We will set up the Just Balance on the Day of Rising and no self
will be wronged in any way. Even if it is no more than the weight
of a grain of mustard-seed, We will produce it. We are sufficient
as a Reckoner. (21:47)
• They will not hear the slightest hint of it and they will remain there
timelessly, for ever, among everything their selves desire. (21:102)
• Those whose scales are light, they are the losers of their selves,
remaining in Hell timelessly, for ever. (23:103)
• But they have adopted gods apart from Him which do not create
anything but are themselves created. They have no power to
harm or help themselves. They have no power over death or life
or resurrection. (25:3)
• Those who do not expect to meet Us say, ‘Why have angels not
been sent down to us? Why do we not see our Lord?’ They have
become arrogant about themselves and are excessively insolent.
(25:21)
• Every self will taste death. Then you will be returned to Us. (29:57)
• Have they not reflected within themselves? Allah did not create
the heavens and the earth and everything between them except
with truth and for a fixed term. Yet many people reject the
meeting with their Lord. (30:8)
• Have they not travelled in the earth and seen the final fate of
those before them? They had greater strength than them and
cultivated the land and inhabited it in far greater numbers than
they do. Their Messengers also came to them with the Clear
Signs. Allah would never have wronged them; but they wronged
themselves. (30:9)
• The Prophet is closer to the believers than their own selves, and
his wives are their mothers. But blood-relations have closer ties to
one another in the Book of Allah than other believers and the
emigrants, except that you should act in a proper manner towards
your close associates. That is inscribed in the Book. (33:6)
• They said, ‘Our Lord, put more distance between our staging
posts.’ They wronged themselves so We made legends of them
and scattered them without a trace. There are certainly Signs in
that for everyone who is steadfast and thankful. (34:19)
• Glory be to Him Who created all the pairs: from what the earth
produces and from themselves and from things unknown to them.
(36:36)
• He created you from a single self, then produced its mate from it,
and sent down livestock to you–eight kinds in pairs. He creates
you stage by stage in your mothers’ wombs in a threefold
darkness. That is Allah, your Lord. Sovereignty is His. There is no
god but Him. So what has made you deviate? (39:6)
• Every self will be repaid today for what it earned. Today there will
be no injustice. Allah is swift at reckoning. (40:17)
• We are your protectors in the life of this world and the hereafter.
You will have there all that your selves could wish for. You will
have there everything you demand. (41:31)
• (He is) the Bringer into Being of the heavens and the earth: He
has given you mates from among yourselves, and given mates to
the livestock, in that way multiplying you. Nothing is like Him. He
is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing. (42:11)
• You will see them as they are exposed to it, abject in their
abasement, glancing around them furtively. Those who believe
will say, ‘Truly the losers are those who lose themselves and their
families on the Day of Rising.’ The wrongdoers are in an
everlasting punishment. (42:45)
• Allah created the heavens and earth with truth so that every self
might be repaid for what it earned and they will not be wronged.
(45:22)
• You who believe! People should not ridicule others who may be
better than themselves; nor should any women ridicule other
women who may be better than themselves. And do not find fault
with one another or insult each other with derogatory nicknames.
How evil it is to have a name for evil conduct after coming to faith!
Those people who do not turn from it are wrongdoers. (49:11)
• (On that Day) every self will come together with a driver and a
witness. (50:21)
• There are certainly Signs in the earth for people with certainty;
and in yourselves as well. Do you not then see? (51:20-21)
• They are nothing but names which you yourselves have given,
you and your forefathers. Allah has sent down no authority for
them. They are following nothing but conjecture and what their
own selves desire. And that when guidance has reached them
from their Lord! (53:23)
• Those who were already settled in the abode, and in faith, before
they came, love those who have migrated to them and do not find
in their hearts any need for what they have been given and prefer
them to themselves even if they themselves are needy. It is the
people who are safe-guarded from the avarice of their own selves
who are successful. (59:9)
• Each self will know what it has sent ahead and left behind. (82:5)
• When you divorce women and they are near the end of their
waiting period, then either retain them with correctness and
courtesy or release them with correctness and courtesy. Do not
retain them by force, thus overstepping the limits. Anyone who
does that has wronged himself. Do not make a mockery of Allah’s
Signs. Remember Allah’s blessing to you and the Book and
Wisdom He has sent down to you to admonish you. Have fear of
Allah and know that Allah has knowledge of all things. (2:231)
• Allah does not impose on any self any more than it can stand. For
it is what it has earned; against it, what it has brought upon itself.
‘Our Lord, do not take us to task if we forget or make a mistake!
Our Lord, do not place on us a load like the one You placed on
those before us! Our Lord, do not place on us a load we have not
the strength to bear! And pardon us; and forgive us; and have
mercy on us. You are our Master, so help us against the people
of the disbelievers.’ (2:286)
• But how will it be when We gather them all together for a Day
about which there is no doubt? Every self will be paid in full for
what it earned. They will not be wronged. (3:25)
• On the Day that each self finds the good it did, and the evil it did,
present there in front of it, it will wish there were an age between
it and then. Allah advises you to beware of Him. Allah is Ever-
Gentle with His servants. (3:30)
• Anyone who does evil or wrongs himself and then asks Allah’s
forgiveness will find Allah Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:110)
• So his lower self persuaded him to kill his brother, and he killed
him and became one of the lost. (5:30)
• And that you do not go near the property of orphans before they
reach maturity–except in a good way; that you give full measure
and full weight with justice–We impose on no self any more than
it can bear; that you are equitable when you speak–even if a near
relative is concerned; and that you fulfil Allah’s contract. That is
what He instructs you to do, so that hopefully you will pay heed.
(6:152)
• They then produced his shirt with false blood on it. He (Ya‘qub)
said, ‘It is merely that your lower selves have suggested
something to you which you did; but beauty lies in showing
steadfastness. It is Allah alone Who is my Help in face of the
event that you describe.’ (12:18)
• So that Allah may repay every self for what it earned. Allah is
swift at reckoning. (14:51)
• On that Day every self will come to argue for itself and every self
will be paid in full for what it did. They will not be wronged.
(16:111)
• When you said to him whom Allah has blessed and you yourself
have greatly favoured, ‘Keep your wife to yourself and have fear
of Allah,’ while concealing something in yourself which Allah
wished to bring to light, you were fearing people when Allah has
more right to your fear. Then when Zayd divorced her We married
her to you so that there should be no restriction for the believers
regarding the wives of their adopted sons when they have
divorced them. Allah’s command is always carried out. (33:37)
• And what of him the evil of whose actions appears fine to him so
that he sees them as good? Allah misguides whoever He wills
and guides whoever He wills. So do not let yourself waste away
out of regret for them. Allah knows what they do. (35:8)
• Then We made Our chosen servants inherit the Book. But some
of them wrong themselves; some are ambivalent; and some
outdo each other in good by Allah’s permission. That is the great
favour. (35:32)
• Every self will be repaid in full for what it did. He knows best what
they are doing. (39:70)
• Here you are then: people who are called upon to spend in the
Way of Allah and then some of you are tight-fisted! But whoever
is tight-fisted is only tight-fisted to himself. Allah is Rich and you
are poor. If you turn away, He will replace you with a people other
than yourselves and they will not be like you. (47:38)
• We created man and We know what his own self whispers to him.
We are nearer to him than his jugular vein. (50:16)
• So have fear of Allah, as much as you are able to, and listen and
obey and spend for your own benefit. It is the people who are
safe-guarded from the avarice of their own selves who are
successful. (64:16)
• He who has plenty should spend out from his plenty, but he
whose provision is restricted should spend from what Allah has
given him. Allah does not demand from any self more than He
has given it. Allah will appoint after difficulty, ease. (65:7)
• But as for him who feared the Station of his Lord and forbade the
lower self its appetites, the Garden will be his refuge. (79:40-41)
• It is the Day when a self will have no power to help any other self
in any way. The command that Day will be Allah’s alone. (82:19)
• And (I swear by) the self and what proportioned it, (91:7)
SELFISH
SELF-SUFFICIENT
• As for him who thinks himself self-sufficient, you give him your
complete attention, but it is not up to you whether or not he is
purified. (80:5-7)
SERENITY
• Their Prophet said to them, ‘The sign of his kingship is that the
Ark will come to you, containing serenity from your Lord and
certain relics left by the families of Musa and Harun. It will be
borne by angels. There is a sign for you in that if you are
believers.’ (2:248)
• Then Allah sent down His serenity on His Messenger and on the
believers, and sent down troops you could not see, and punished
those who disbelieved. That is how the disbelievers are repaid.
(9:26)
• If you do not help him, Allah did help him when those who
disbelieved drove him out and there were two of them in the Cave.
He said to his companion, ‘Do not be despondent, Allah is with
us.’ Then Allah sent down His serenity upon him and reinforced
him with troops you could not see. He made the word of those
who disbelieved undermost. It is the word of Allah which is
uppermost. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (9:40)
SEXUALLY PERVERTED
• (Lut said to his people,) ‘Of all beings, do you lie with males,
leaving the wives Allah has created for you? You are a people
who have overstepped the limits.’ They said, ‘Lut, if you do not
desist you will be expelled.’ (26:165-167)
• And when Lut said to his people: ‘Do you approach depravity with
open eyes? Do you come with lust to men instead of women?
You are a people who are deeply ignorant’ the only response of
his people was to say: ‘Drive the the family of Lut out of your city!
They are people who keep themselves pure!’ (27:54-56)
• And We shaded you with clouds and sent down manna and
quails to you: ‘Eat of the good things We have provided for you.’
They did not wrong Us; rather it was themselves they were
wronging. (2:57)
• What are they waiting for but for Allah to come to them in the
shadows of the clouds, together with the angels, in which case
the matter will have been settled? All matters return to Allah.
(2:210)
• But as for those who believe and do right actions, We will admit
them into Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in
them timelessly, for ever and ever. In them they will have
spouses of perfect purity and We will admit them into cool,
refreshing shade. (4:57)
• What is the Garden promised to those who guard against evil like?
It has rivers flowing under it and its foodstuffs and cool shade
never fail. That is the final fate of those who guard against evil.
But the final fate of the disbelievers is the Fire. (13:35)
• Do they not see the things Allah has created, casting their
shadows to the right and to the left, prostrating themselves before
Allah in complete humility? (16:48)
• Allah has made shaded places for you in what He has created
and He has made shelters for you in the mountains and He has
made shirts for you to protect you from the heat and shirts to
protect you from each other’s violence. In that way He perfects
His blessing on you so that hopefully you will become Muslims.
(16:81)
• Do you not see how your Lord stretches out shadows? If He had
wished He could have made them stationary. Then We appoint
the sun to be the pointer to them. (25:45)
• They denied him and the punishment of the Day of Shadow came
down on them. It was indeed the punishment of a terrible Day.
(26:189)
• So he (Musa) drew water for them and then withdrew into the
shade and said, ‘My Lord, I am truly in need of any good You
have in store for me.’ (28:24)
• The blind and seeing are not the same nor are darkness and light
nor are cool shade and fierce heat. (35:19-21)
• Do you not see that Allah sends down water from the sky and by
it We bring forth fruits of varying colours? And in the mountains
there are streaks of white and red, of varying shades, and rocks
of deep jet black. (35:27)
• For those who fear the Station of their Lord there are two
Gardens. So which of your Lord’s blessings do you both then
deny? Shaded by spreading branches. (55:46-48)
• Its shading branches will droop down over them, its ripe fruit
hanging ready to be picked. (76:14)
• (Deniers!) Proceed to a shadow which forks into three but gives
no shade or protection from the flames. (77:30-31)
SHARE
• They will have a good share from what they have earned. Allah is
swift at reckoning. (2:202)
• (He said to Satan,) ‘Stir up any of them you can with your voice
and rally against them your cavalry and your infantry and share
with them in their children and their wealth and make them
promises! The promise of Satan is nothing but delusion.’ (17:64)
• Say: ‘Call on those you make claims for besides Allah. They have
no power over even the smallest particle, either in the heavens or
in the earth. They have no share in them. He has no need of their
support.’ (34:22)
SHAVE
• Allah has confirmed His Messenger’s vision with truth: ‘You will
enter the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) in safety, Allah
willing, shaving your heads and cutting your hair without any fear.’
He knew what you did not know and ordained, in place of this, an
imminent victory. (48:27)
• Perform the pilgrimage and the pious visit for Allah. If you are
forcibly prevented, make whatever sacrifice is feasible. But do not
shave your heads until the sacrificial animal has reached the
place of sacrifice. If any of you are ill or have a head injury, the
expiation is fasting or charity or sacrifice when you are safe and
well again. And if you are secure, then he who takes advantage
of a pious visit before the pilgrimage should make whatever
sacrifice is feasible. For any one who cannot, there is three days’
fast on pilgrimage and seven on your return–that is ten in all. That
is for anyone whose family does not live near the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram). Have fear of Allah and know that Allah is fierce
in retribution. (2:196)
SHEBA
• He (Sulayman) said, ‘We will soon see if you have told the truth
or are a liar. Take this letter of mine and deliver it to them and
then withdraw from them a little and see how they respond.’
(27:27-28)
• They said, ‘We possess strength and we possess great force. But
the matter is in your hands so consider what you command.’
(27:33)
• She said, ‘When kings enter a city, they lay waste to it and make
its mightiest inhabitants the most abased. That is what they too
will do. I will send them a gift and then wait and see what the
messengers bring back.’ (27:34-35)
• He said, ‘Council! Who among you will bring me her throne before
they come to me in submission?’ (27:38)
• A demon of the jinn said, ‘I will bring it to you before you get up
from your seat. I am strong and trustworthy enough to do it.’
(27:39)
• He who possessed knowledge of the Book said, ‘I will bring it to
you before your glance returns to you.’ And when he saw it
standing firmly in his presence, he said, ‘This is part of my Lord's
favour to test me to see if I will give thanks or show ingratitude.
Whoever gives thanks only does so to his own gain. Whoever is
ungrateful, my Lord is Rich Beyond Need, Generous.’ (27:40)
• Then when she came, she was asked, ‘Is your throne like this?’
She said, ‘It is exactly like it.’ ‘We were given knowledge before
her and were already Muslims, but what she worshipped besides
Allah impeded her. She was from an unbelieving people.’ (27:42-
43)
• She was told: ‘Enter the courtyard,’ but when she saw it she
supposed it to be a pool and bared her legs. He said, ‘It is a
courtyard paved with glass.’ She said, ‘My Lord, I have wronged
myself but I have submitted with Sulayman to the Lord of all the
worlds.’ (27:44)
SHEEP
• (One of the two litigants said to Dawud,) ‘This brother of mine has
ninety-nine ewes and I have only one. He said, "Let me have
charge of it," and got the better of me with his words.’ He said,
‘He has wronged you by asking for your ewe to add to his ewes.
Truly many partners are unjust to one another–except those who
believe and do right actions, and how few they are!’ Dawud
realised that We had put him to the test. He begged forgiveness
from his Lord and fell down prone, prostrating, and repented.
(38:23-24)
SHEETS OF PAPER
• They do not measure Allah with His true measure when they say,
‘Allah would not send down anything to a mere human being.’
Say: ‘Who, then, sent down the Book which Musa brought as a
Light and Guidance for the people?’ You put it down on sheets of
paper to display it while concealing much. You were taught things
you did not know, neither you nor your forefathers. Say: ‘Allah!’
Then leave them engrossed in playing their games. (6:91)
SHIP
• Allah is He Who created the heavens and the earth and sends
down water from the sky and by it brings forth fruits as provision
for you. He has made the ships subservient to you to run upon
the sea by His command, and He has made the rivers
subservient to you. (14:32)
• It is He Who made the sea subservient to you so that you can eat
fresh flesh from it and bring out from it ornaments to wear. And
you see the ships cleaving through it so that you can seek His
bounty, and so that hopefully you will show thanks. (16:14)
• Your Lord is He Who propels the ships on the sea for you so that
you may seek His bounty. He is indeed Most Merciful to you.
(17:66)
• Do you not see that Allah has made everything on the earth
subservient to you and the ships running upon the sea by His
command? He holds back the heaven, preventing it from falling to
the earth–except by His permission. Allah is All-Compassionate
to mankind, Most Merciful. (22:65)
• When you and those with you are settled in the Ship, then say:
"Praise be to Allah Who has rescued us from the people of the
wrongdoers!" (23:28)
• So We rescued him (Nuh) and those with him in the loaded ship.
(26:119)
• Among His Signs is that He sends the winds bearing good news,
to give you a taste of His mercy, and to make the ships run by His
command, and to enable you to seek His bounty so that hopefully
you will be thankful. (30:46)
• Do you not see that ships sail on the sea by Allah’s blessing so
that He can show you something of His Signs? There are
certainly Signs in that for everyone who is steadfast and thankful.
(31:31)
• The two seas are not the same: the one is sweet, refreshing,
delicious to drink, the other salty, bitter to the taste. Yet from both
of them you eat fresh flesh and extract ornaments for yourselves
to wear; and you see ships on them, cleaving through the waves
so that you can seek His bounty and so that hopefully you will be
thankful. (35:12)
• A Sign for them is that We carried their families in the laden ship.
(36:41)
• You gain various benefits from them (livestock), and on them you
can obtain what your hearts desire, and on them and on the ships
you are transported. (40:80)
• Among His Signs are the tall ships sailing like mountains through
the sea. (42:32)
• It is He Who created all the species and gave you ships and
livestock for you to ride. (43:12)
• It is Allah Who has made the sea subservient to you so that the
ships sail on it at His command, enabling you to seek His bounty,
so that hopefully you will be thankful. (45:12)
• His, too, are the ships sailing like mountain peaks on the sea.
(55:24)
SHIRT
• They then produced his (Yusuf’s) shirt with false blood on it. He
(Yusuf’s father) said, ‘It is merely that your lower selves have
suggested something to you which you did; but beauty lies in
showing steadfastness. It is Allah alone Who is my Help in face of
the event that you describe.’ (12:18)
• They raced to the door. She tore his (Yusuf’s) shirt at the back.
They met her husband by the door. She said, ‘How should a man
whose intention was to harm your family be punished for what he
did except with prison or painful punishment?’ He (Yusuf) said, ‘It
was she who tried to seduce me.’ A witness from her people then
declared, ‘If his shirt is torn in front, she speaks the truth and he
has clearly told a shameless lie. If his shirt is torn at the back,
then she has lied and he has clearly told the simple truth.’ He saw
the shirt torn at the back and said, ‘The source of this is women’s
deviousness. Without a doubt your guile is very great.’ (12:25-28)
• (Yusuf said,) ‘Go with this shirt of mine and cast it on my father’s
face and he will see again. Then come to me with all your
families.’ (12:93)
• That Day you will see the evildoers yoked together in chains,
wearing shirts of tar, their faces enveloped in the Fire. (14:49-50)
• Allah has made shaded places for you in what He has created
and He has made shelters for you in the mountains and He has
made shirts for you to protect you from the heat and shirts to
protect you from each other’s violence. In that way He perfects
His blessing on you so that hopefully you will become Muslims.
(16:81)
• (Allah said to Musa,) ‘Put your hand inside your shirt front. It will
emerge pure white, yet quite unharmed–one of nine Signs to
Pharaoh and his people. They are a people of deviators.’ (27:12)
• (Allah said to Musa,) ‘Put your hand inside your shirt front. It will
emerge pure white yet quite unharmed. And hug your arms to
your sides to still your fear. These are two proofs from your Lord
for Pharaoh and his ruling circle. They are a deviant people.’
(28:32)
SHOWING OFF
• Has the news of those who came before them not reached them,
the people of Nuh and ‘Ad and Thamud, and the people of
Ibrahim and the inhabitants of Madyan and the overturned cities?
Their Messengers brought them the Clear Signs. Allah did not
wrong them; rather they wronged themselves. (9:70)
SICKNESS
• Yet you see those with sickness in their hearts rushing to them,
saying, ‘We fear the wheel of fate may turn against us.’ But it may
well be that Allah will bring about victory or some other
contingency from Him. Then they will deeply regret their secret
thoughts. (5:52)
• And when the hypocrites and those with sickness in their hearts
said, ‘These people have been deluded by their religion.’ But
those who put their trust in Allah will find Allah to be Almighty, All-
Wise. (8:49)
• Nothing is held against the weak and sick nor against those who
find nothing to spend, provided they are true to Allah and His
Messenger–there is no way open against good-doers, Allah is
Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (9:91)
• Wives of the Prophet! You are not like other women provided you
guard against evil. Do not be too soft-spoken in your speech lest
someone with sickness in his heart becomes desirous. Speak
correct and courteous words. (33:32)
• If the hypocrites and those with sickness in their hearts and the
rumour-mongers in Madina do not desist, We will set you onto
them. Then they will only be your neighbours there a very short
time. (33:60)
• Those who believe say, ‘If only a sura could be sent down.’ But
when a straightforward sura is sent down and fighting is
mentioned in it, you see those with sickness in their hearts
looking at you with the look of someone about to faint from fear of
death. More fitting for them would be obedience and honourable
words. Once the matter is resolved upon, being true to Allah
would be better for them. (47:20-21)
• Or did those with sickness in their hearts imagine that Allah would
not expose their malevolence? (47:29)
SIGHT
• The lightning all but takes away their sight. Whenever they have
light, they walk in it but whenever darkness covers them, they halt.
If Allah wished, He could take away their hearing and their sight.
Allah has power over all things. (2:20)
• We will overturn their hearts and sight, just as when they did not
believe in it at first, and We will abandon them to wander blindly
in their excessive insolence. (6:110)
• Say: ‘Who provides for you out of heaven and earth? Who
controls hearing and sight? Who brings forth the living from the
dead and the dead from the living? Who directs the whole affair?’
They will say, ‘Allah.’ Say, ‘So will you not guard against evil?’
(10:31)
• But when the bringer of the good news came, he (Yusuf's father)
cast it on his face and sight returned. He said, ‘Did I not say to
you before, I know things from Allah you do not know?’ (12:96)
• Those are the people whose hearts, hearing and sight Allah has
sealed up. They are the unaware. (16:108)
• It is He Who has created hearing, sight and hearts for you. What
little thanks you show! (23:78)
• Do you not see that Allah propels the clouds then makes them
coalesce then heaps them up, and then you see the rain come
pouring out of the middle of them? And He sends down
mountains from the sky with hail inside them, striking with it
anyone He wills and averting it from anyone He wills. The
brightness of His lightning almost blinds the sight. (24:43)
• Then (He) formed him and breathed His Spirit into him and gave
you hearing, sight and hearts. What little thanks you show! (32:9)
• He Who created the seven heavens in layers. You will not find
any flaw in the creation of the All-Merciful. Look again– do you
see any gaps? Then look again and again. Your sight will return
to you dazzled and exhausted! (67:3-4)
• Say: ‘It is He Who brought you into being and gave you hearing,
sight and hearts. What little thanks you show!’ (67:23)
SIGN - MIRACLE
• They said, ‘No matter what kind of Sign you bring us to bewitch
us, we will not believe in you.’ (7:132)
• Put your hand under your arm and press it to your side. It will
emerge pure white yet quite unharmed, another Sign. (20:22)
SIJJIN
• They will have Gardens of Eden with rivers flowing under them.
They will be adorned in them with bracelets made of gold and
wear green garments made of the finest silk and rich brocade,
reclining there on couches under canopies. What an excellent
reward! What a wonderful repose! (18:31)
• But Allah will admit those who believe and do right actions into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them where they will be
adorned with gold bracelets and pearls, and where their clothing
will be of silk. (22:23)
• They will enter Gardens of Eden where they will be adorned with
gold bracelets and pearls, and where their clothing will be of silk.
(35:33)
• (Believers will be) wearing fine silk and rich brocade, face to face
with one another. (44:53)
• And (Allah) will reward them for their steadfastness with a Garden
and with silk. (76:12)
• They will wear green garments of fine silk and rich brocade. They
will be adorned with silver bracelets. And their Lord will give them
a pure draught to drink. (76:21)
SILVER
• You who believe! Many of the rabbis and monks devour people’s
property under false pretences and bar people from access to the
Way of Allah. As for those who hoard up gold and silver and do
not spend it in the Way of Allah, give them the news of a painful
punishment. (9:34)
• That was the situation when we woke them up so they could
question one another. One of them asked, ‘How long have you
been here?’ They replied, ‘We have been here for a day or part of
a day.’ They said, ‘Your Lord knows best how long you have been
here. Send one of your number into the city with this silver you
have, so he can see which food is purest and bring you some of it
to eat. But he should go about with caution so that no one is
aware of you.’ (18:19)
• They will wear green garments of fine silk and rich brocade. They
will be adorned with silver bracelets. And their Lord will give them
a pure draught to drink. (76:21)
SIN
• That Day no man or jinn will be asked about his sin. (55:39)
• But they denied him and they hamstrung her (the she-camel), so
their Lord crushed them for their sin and flattened them. (91:14)
SINAI (SEE MOUNT SINAI)
SINCERITY (IKHLAS)
• Allah will say, ‘This is the Day when the sincerity of the sincere
will benefit them. They will have Gardens with rivers flowing under
them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever and ever. Allah is
pleased with them and they are pleased with Him. That is the
Great Victory.’ (5:119)
• You who believe! Have fear of Allah and be with the truly sincere.
(9:119)
• He (Satan) said, ‘My Lord, because You misled me, I will make
things on the earth seem good to them and I will mislead them all,
every one of them, except Your servants among them who are
sincere.’ (15:39-40)
• So that Allah might recompense the truthful for their truth and
punish the hypocrites, if He wills, or turn towards them. Allah is
Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:24)
• They used to say, ‘If we had only had a Reminder from the
previous peoples, we would certainly have been sincere servants
of Allah!’ (37:167-169)
• We purified their sincerity through sincere remembrance of the
Abode. (38:46)
• It (booty) is for the poor of the emigrants who were driven from
their homes and wealth desiring the favour and the pleasure of
Allah and supporting Allah and His Messenger. Such people are
the truly sincere. (59:8)
SISTER
• You receive half of what your wives leave if they are childless. If
they have children you receive a quarter of what they leave after
any bequest they make or any debts. They receive a quarter of
what you leave if you are childless. If you have children they
receive an eighth of what you leave after any bequest you make
or any debts. If a man or woman has no direct heirs, but has a
brother or sister, each of them receives a sixth. If there are more
than that they share in a third after any bequest you make or any
debts, making sure that no one’s rights are prejudiced. This is an
instruction from Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Forbearing. (4:12)
• Forbidden for you are: your mothers and your daughters and your
sisters, your maternal aunts and your paternal aunts, your
brothers’ daughters and your sisters’ daughters, your foster
mothers who have suckled you, your foster sisters by suckling,
your wives’ mothers, your stepdaughters who are under your
protection: the daughters of your wives whom you have had
sexual relations with (though if you have not had sexual relations
with them there is nothing blameworthy for you in it then), the
wives of your sons whom you have fathered, and marrying two
sisters at the same time–except for what may have already taken
place. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:23)
• They request from you a ruling. Say: ‘Allah gives you a ruling
about people who die without direct heirs: If a man dies childless
but has a sister she receives half of what he leaves, and he is her
heir if she dies childless. If there are two sisters they receive two-
thirds of what he leaves. If there are brothers and sisters the
males receive the share of two females. Allah makes things clear
to you so you will not go astray. Allah has knowledge of all
things.’ (4:176)
• He will say, ‘Enter the Fire together with the nations of jinn and
men who have passed away before you.’ Each time a nation
enters, it will curse its sister nation, until, when they are all
gathered together in it, the last of them will say to the first, ‘Our
Lord, those are the ones who misguided us, so give them a
double punishment in the Fire.’ He will say, ‘Each will receive
double. But you do not know it.’ (7:38)
• (Allah said,) ‘When your sister went and said, "Shall I direct you to
someone who will take care of him?" that was how We returned
you to your mother so that she might delight her eyes and not be
grieved. You killed a man and We rescued you from trouble and
tested you with many trials. You stayed some years among the
people of Madyan. Then you arrived at the pre-ordained time,
Musa!’ (20:40)
• Say to the believing women that they should lower their eyes and
guard their chastity and not display their adornments–except for
what normally shows–and draw their head-coverings across their
breasts. They should only display their adornments to their
husbands or their fathers or their husbands’ fathers, or their sons
or their husbands’ sons or their brothers or their brothers’ sons or
their sisters’ sons or their women or those they own as slaves or
their male attendants who have no sexual desire or children who
still have no awareness of women’s private parts. Nor should they
stamp their feet so that their hidden ornaments are known. Turn
to Allah every one of you, believers, so that hopefully you will
have success. (24:31)
• She said to his sister, ‘Go after him.’ And she kept an eye on him
from afar and they were not aware. (28:11)
• We first made him refuse all wet-nurses, so she (his sister) said,
‘Shall I show you to a household who will feed him for you and be
good to him?’ (28:12)
SKILL
• (Salih said to his people,) ‘Will you continue hewing houses from
the mountains with exultant skill?’ (26:149)
SKIN
• As for those who reject Our Signs, We will roast them in a Fire.
Every time their skins are burned off, We will replace them with
new skins so that they can taste the punishment. Allah is
Almighty, All-Wise. (4:56)
• Here are two rival groups who disputed concerning their Lord.
Those who disbelieve will have garments of fire cut out for them,
and boiling water poured over their heads, which will melt the
contents of their bellies as well as their skin. (22:19-20)
• When they reach it (the Fire), their hearing, sight and skin will
testify against them concerning what they did. They will ask their
skins, ‘Why did you testify against us?’ and they will reply, ‘Allah
gave us speech as He has given speech to everything. He
created you in the first place and you will be returned to Him. You
did not think to shield yourselves from your hearing, sight and
skin testifying against you and you thought that Allah would never
know much of what you did. (41:20-22)
SLANDER
• If you desire to exchange one wife for another and have given
your original wife a large amount, do not take any of it. Would you
take it by means of slander and outright crime? (4:20)
• Anyone who commits an error or an evil action, and then ascribes
it to someone innocent, bears the weight of slander and clear
wrongdoing. (4:112)
• Why, when you heard it, did you not say, ‘We have no business
speaking about this. Glory be to You! This is a terrible slander!’?
(24:16)
• And those who abuse men and women who are believers, when
they have not merited it, bear the weight of slander and clear
wrongdoing. (33:58)
• (A band of the jinn listened and said,) "The fools among us have
uttered a vile slander against Allah. " (72:4)
SLAUGHTER
• And also (He provides) animals for riding and for haulage and
animals for slaughtering and for wool. Eat what Allah has
provided for you and do not follow in the footsteps of Satan. He is
an outright enemy to you. (6:142)
• What they call on apart from Him are female idols. What they call
on is an arrogant Satan whom Allah has cursed. He (Satan) said,
‘I will take a certain fixed proportion of Your slaves.’ (4:117-118)
• Allah does not take you to task for your inadvertent oaths, but He
will take you to task for oaths you make intentionally. The
expiation in that case is to feed ten poor people with the average
amount you feed your family, or clothe them, or free a slave.
Anyone without the means to do so should fast three days. That
is the expiation for breaking oaths when you have sworn them.
Keep your oaths. In this way Allah makes His Signs clear to you,
so that hopefully you will be thankful. (5:89)
• The alms are for: the poor, the destitute, those who collect it,
reconciling people’s hearts, freeing slaves, those in debt,
spending in the Way of Allah, and travellers. It is a legal obligation
from Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (9:60)
• Some city women said, ‘The governor’s wife solicited her slave.
He’s fired her heart with love. We see that she’s the one to
blame.’ (12:30)
• Marry off those among you who are unmarried and those of your
slaves and slavegirls who are righteous. If they are poor, Allah
will enrich them from His bounty. Allah is All-Encompassing, All-
Knowing. (24:32)
• You who believe! Those you own as slaves and those of you who
have not yet reached puberty should ask your permission to enter
at three times: before the Dawn Prayer, when you have
undressed at noon, and after the Prayer of Night–three times of
nakedness for you. There is nothing wrong for you or them at
other times in moving around among yourselves from one to
another. In this way Allah makes the Signs clear to you. Allah is
All-Knowing, All-Wise. (24:58)
• Prophet! We have made lawful for you: your wives to whom you
have given dowries and any slavegirls you own from the booty
Allah has allotted you and the daughters of your paternal uncles
and the daughters of your paternal aunts and the daughters of
your maternal uncles and the daughters of your maternal aunts
who have migrated with you and any believing woman who gives
herself to the Prophet if the Prophet desires to marry her:
exclusively for you as opposed to the rest of the believers–We
know very well what We have prescribed for them regarding their
wives and any slavegirls they possess–in order that there be no
restriction on you. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:50)
• After that no other women are lawful for you nor may you
exchange them for other wives, even though their beauty might
be pleasing to you, with the exception of any you own as slaves.
Allah is watchful over all things. (33:52)
• (Believers are) those who guard their private parts except from
their wives and any slaves they own, in which case they incur no
blame. (70:29-30)
• What will convey to you what the steep ascent is? It is freeing a
slave... (90:12-13)
SLEEP
• It is He Who made the night a cloak for you and sleep a rest, and
He made the day a time for rising. (25:47)
• Allah takes back people’s selves when their death arrives and
those who have not yet died, while they are asleep. He keeps
hold of those whose death has been decreed and sends the
others back for a specified term. There are certainly Signs in that
for people who reflect. (39:42)
• But Satan made them slip up by means of it, expelling them from
where they were. We said, ‘Go down from here as enemies to
each other! You will have residence on the earth and enjoyment
for a time.’ (2:36)
• Those of you who turned their backs on the day the two armies
clashed–it was Satan who made them slip for what they had done.
But Allah has pardoned them. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, All-
Forbearing. (3:155)
SLOPE
• When you were on the nearer slope, and they were on the further
slope and the caravan was lower down than you. If you had made
an appointment with them you would have broken the
appointment. However, it happened so that Allah could settle a
matter whose result was preordained: so that those who died
would die with clear proof, and those who lived would live with
clear proof. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (8:42)
• When Yajuj and Majuj are let loose and rush down from every
slope, (21:96)
SMOKE
• Say: ‘It is the truth from your Lord; so let whoever wishes believe
and whoever wishes disbelieve.’ We have prepared for the
wrongdoers a Fire whose billowing walls of smoke will hem them
in. If they call for help, they will be helped with water like seething
molten brass, frying their faces. What a noxious drink! What an
evil repose! (18:29)
• He will pursue you with a piercing flame and fiery smoke, and you
will not be helped. (55:35)
SNAKE
• (A voice called out to Musa,) ‘Throw down your staff.’ Then when
he saw it slithering like a snake he turned and fled and did not
turn back again. ‘Have no fear, Musa. In My Presence the
Messengers have no fear.’ (27:10)
• (A voice called out to Musa,) ‘Throw down your staff!’ Then when
he saw it slithering like a snake he turned and fled and did not
turn back again. ‘Musa, approach and have no fear! You are one
of those who are secure.’ (28:31)
SNOUT
SONS
• They say, ‘Allah has a son.’ Glory be to Him! No, everything in the
heavens and earth belongs to Him. Everything is obedient to Him.
(2:116)
• When the angels said, ‘Maryam, your Lord gives you good news
of a Word from Him. His name is the Messiah, ‘Isa, son of
Maryam, of high esteem in this world and the hereafter, and one
of those brought near.’ (3:45)
• If anyone argues with you about him after the knowledge that has
come to you, say, ‘Come then! Let us summon our sons and your
sons, our women and your women, ourselves and yourselves.
Then let us make earnest supplication and call down the curse of
Allah upon the liars.’ (3:61)
• Forbidden for you are: your mothers and your daughters and your
sisters, your maternal aunts and your paternal aunts, your
brothers’ daughters and your sisters’ daughters, your foster
mothers who have suckled you, your foster sisters by suckling,
your wives’ mothers, your stepdaughters who are under your
protection: the daughters of your wives whom you have had
sexual relations with (though if you have not had sexual relations
with them there is nothing blameworthy for you in it then), the
wives of your sons whom you have fathered, and marrying two
sisters at the same time–except for what may have already taken
place. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:23)
• And (We punished them) on account of their disbelief, and their
utterance of a monstrous slander against Maryam, and their
saying, ‘We killed the Messiah, ‘Isa son of Maryam, Messenger of
Allah.’ They did not kill him and they did not crucify him but it was
made to seem so to them. Those who argue about him are in
doubt about it. They have no real knowledge of it, just conjecture.
But they certainly did not kill him. (4:156-157)
• Recite to them the true report of Adam’s two sons when they
offered a sacrifice and it was accepted from one of them but not
accepted from the other. The one said, ‘I shall kill you.’ The other
said, ‘Allah only accepts from people who guard against evil.
(5:27)
• Those who say that the Messiah, son of Maryam, is Allah are
disbelievers. The Messiah said, ‘Tribe of Israel! Worship Allah,
my Lord and your Lord. If anyone associates anything with Allah,
Allah has forbidden him the Garden and his refuge will be the
Fire.’ The wrongdoers will have no helpers. (5:72)
• And when the Disciples said, ‘‘Isa son of Maryam! Can your Lord
send down a table to us out of heaven?’ He said, ‘Have fear of
Allah if you are believers!’ (5:112)
• ‘Isa son of Maryam said, ‘Allah, our Lord, send down a table to us
out of heaven to be a feast for us, for the first and last of us, and
as a Sign from You. Provide for us! You are the Best of
Providers!’ (5:114)
• And when Allah says, ‘‘Isa son of Maryam! Did you say to people,
"Take me and my mother as gods besides Allah?"’ he will say,
‘Glory be to You! It is not for me to say what I have no right to say!
If I had said it, then You would have known it. You know what is
in my self but I do not know what is in Your Self. You are the
Knower of all unseen things.’ (5:116)
• Yet they make the jinn co-partners with Allah when He created
them! And they attribute sons and daughters to Him without any
knowledge. Glory be to Him! He is far above what they describe!
(6:100)
• The Jews say, ‘‘Uzayr is the son of Allah,’ and the Christians say,
‘The Messiah is the son of Allah.’ That is what they say with their
mouths, copying the words of those who disbelieved before. Allah
fight them! How perverted they are! (9:30)
• They have taken their rabbis and monks as lords besides Allah,
and also the Messiah, son of Maryam. Yet they were commanded
to worship only one God. There is no god but Him! Glory be to
Him above anything they associate with Him! (9:31)
• Nuh called out to his Lord and said, ‘My Lord, my son is one of
my family and Your promise is surely the truth and You are the
Justest of Judges.’ (11:45)
• He (Ya‘qub) said, ‘My son, don’t tell your brothers your dream lest
they devise some scheme to injure you, Satan is a clear-cut
enemy to man.’ (12:5)
• (Ya‘qub said,) ‘My sons! Seek news of Yusuf and his brother. Do
not despair of solace from Allah. No one despairs of solace from
Allah except for people who are disbelievers.’ (12:87)
• That is ‘Isa, son of Maryam, the word of truth about which they
are in doubt. (19:34)
• And We made the son of Maryam and his mother a Sign and
gave them shelter on a mountainside where there was a meadow
and a flowing spring. (23:50)
• Say to the believing women that they should lower their eyes and
guard their chastity and not display their adornments–except for
what normally shows–and draw their head-coverings across their
breasts. They should only display their adornments to their
husbands or their fathers or their husbands’ fathers, or their sons
or their husbands’ sons or their brothers or their brothers’ sons or
their sisters’ sons or their women or those they own as slaves or
their male attendants who have no sexual desire or children who
still have no awareness of women’s private parts. Nor should they
stamp their feet so that their hidden ornaments are known. Turn
to Allah every one of you, believers, so that hopefully you will
have success. (24:31)
• When Luqman said to his son, counselling him, ‘My son, do not
associate anything with Allah. Associating others with Him is a
terrible wrong.’ (31:13)
• (On the Day) no good friend will ask about his friend even though
they can see each other. An evildoer will wish he could ransom
himself from the punishment of that Day, by means of his sons,
(70:10-11)
SOOTHSAYER
• Remind them then! For, by the blessing of your Lord, you are
neither a soothsayer nor a madman. (52:29)
SORCERY
SOUND INTELLECT
• Eat and pasture your cattle. Certainly there are Signs in that for
people of sound intellect. (20:54)
SPARK
SPATHE
• (Salih said to his people,) ‘Are you going to be left secure amid
what is here, amid gardens and clear springs, and cultivated
fields and palms with supple spathes?’ (26:146-148)
• And We sent down blessed water from the sky and made
gardens grow by it and grain for harvesting and soaring date-
palms with layered spathes, (50:9-10)
SPECIFIED TERM
• It is He Who created you from clay and then decreed a fixed term,
and another fixed term is specified with Him. Yet you still have
doubts! (6:2)
• Have they not looked into the dominions of the heavens and the
earth and what Allah has created, and seen that it may well be
that their appointed time is near? In what discourse after this will
they believe? (7:185)
• If Allah were to hasten evil for people the way they try to hasten
good, their term would already have been completed for them.
We abandon those who do not expect to meet Us to wander
blindly in their excessive insolence. (10:11)
• And were it not for a prior word from your Lord, and a specified
term, it would inevitably have already taken place. (20:129)
• No nation can advance its appointed time nor can they delay it.
(23:43)
• If Allah were to take mankind to task for what they have earned,
He would not leave a single creature crawling on it, but He is
deferring them until a specified time. Then, when their time
comes, Allah sees His servants! (35:45)
• He created the heavens and the earth with truth. He wraps the
night around the day and wraps the day around the night, and
has made the sun and moon subservient, each one running for a
specified term. Is He not indeed the Almighty, the Endlessly
Forgiving? (39:5)
• Allah takes back people’s selves when their death arrives and
those who have not yet died, while they are asleep. He keeps
hold of those whose death has been decreed and sends the
others back for a specified term. There are certainly Signs in that
for people who reflect. (39:42)
• Allah will not give anyone more time, once their time has come.
Allah is aware of what you do. (63:11)
• (Nuh said to his people,) ‘He will forgive you your wrong actions
and defer you until a specified time. When Allah’s time comes it
cannot be deferred, if you only knew.’ (71:4)
SPECK
• Do you not see those who claim to be purified? No, Allah purifies
whoever He wills. They will not be wronged by so much as the
smallest speck. (4:49)
• Do you not see those who were told: ‘Hold back from fighting but
perform prayer and give the alms’? Then when fighting is
prescribed for them, a group of them fear people as Allah should
be feared, or even more than that. They say, ‘Our Lord, why have
you prescribed fighting for us? If only You would give us just a
little more time!’ Say, ‘The enjoyment of this world is very brief.
The hereafter is better for those who guard against evil. You will
not be wronged by so much as the smallest speck.’ (4:77)
• We will advance on the actions they have done and make them
scattered specks of dust. (25:23)
• He makes night merge into day and day merge into night, and He
has made the sun and moon subservient, each one running until
a specified time. That is Allah, your Lord. The Kingdom is His.
Those you call on besides Him have no power over even the
smallest speck. (35:13)
• (Those who guard against evil are) those who believe in the
Unseen and perform prayer and spend from what We have
provided for them. (2:3)
• They will ask you what they should give away. Say, ‘Any wealth
you give away should go to your parents and relatives and to
orphans and the very poor and travellers.’ Whatever good you do,
Allah knows it. (2:215)
• They will ask you about alcoholic drinks and gambling. Say,
‘There is great wrong in both of them and also certain benefits for
mankind. But the wrong in them is greater than the benefit.’ They
will ask you what they should give away. Say, ‘Whatever is
surplus to your needs.’ In this way Allah makes the Signs clear to
you, so that hopefully you will reflect. (2:219)
• You who believe! Give away some of what We have provided for
you before a Day arrives on which there is no trading, no close
friendship and no intercession. It is the disbelievers who are the
wrongdoers. (2:254)
• The metaphor of those who spend their wealth in the Way of
Allah is that of a grain which produces seven ears; in every ear
there are a hundred grains. Allah gives such multiplied increase
to whoever He wills. Allah is All-Encompassing, All-Knowing.
(2:261)
• Those who spend their wealth in the Way of Allah, and then do
not follow what they have spent by demands for gratitude or
insulting words will have their reward with their Lord. They will
feel no fear and will know no sorrow. (2:262)
• You who believe! Give away some of the good things you have
earned and some of what the earth produces for you. Do not
have recourse to bad things when you give, things you would only
take with your eyes tight shut! Know that Allah is Rich Beyond
Need, Praiseworthy. (2:267)
• Whatever amount you spend or vow you make, Allah knows it.
The wrongdoers have no helpers. (2:270)
• You are not responsible for their guidance, but Allah guides
whoever He wills. Whatever good you give away is to your own
benefit, when you give desiring only the Face of Allah. Whatever
good you give away will be repaid to you in full. You will not be
wronged. (2:272)
• It (charity) is for the poor who are held back in the Way of Allah,
unable to travel in the land. The ignorant consider them rich
because of their reticence. You will know them by their mark.
They do not ask from people insistently. Whatever good you give
away, Allah knows it. (2:273)
• Those who give away their wealth by night and day, secretly and
openly, will have their reward with their Lord. They will feel no
fear and will know no sorrow. (2:274)
• The steadfast, the truthful, the obedient, the givers, and those
who seek forgiveness before dawn. (3:17)
• You will not attain true goodness until you give of what you love.
Whatever you give away, Allah knows it. (3:92)
• (The people who guard against evil are) those who give in times
of both ease and hardship, those who control their rage and
pardon other people–Allah loves the good-doers. (3:134)
• What harm would it have done them to have believed in Allah and
the Last Day and to have given of what Allah has provided for
them? Allah knows everything about them. (4:39)
• The Jews say, ‘Allah’s hand is chained.’ Their hands are chained
and they are cursed for what they say! No! Both His hands are
open wide and He gives however He wills. What has been sent
down to you from your Lord increases many of them in insolence
and disbelief. We have incited enmity and hatred between them
until the Day of Rising. Each time they kindle the fire of war, Allah
extinguishes it. They rush about the earth corrupting it. Allah does
not love corrupters. (5:64)
• (The believers are) those who perform prayer and give of what
We have provided for them. (8:3)
• Arm yourselves against them with all the firepower and cavalry
you can muster, to terrify the enemies of Allah and your enemies,
and others besides them whom you do not know. Allah knows
them. Anything you spend in the Way of Allah will be repaid to
you in full. You will not be wronged. (8:60)
• You who believe! Many of the rabbis and monks devour people’s
property under false pretences and bar people from access to the
Way of Allah. As for those who hoard up gold and silver and do
not spend it in the Way of Allah, give them the news of a painful
punishment. (9:34)
• Nothing prevents what they give from being accepted from them
but the fact that they have rejected Allah and His Messenger, and
that they only come to prayer lethargically, and that they only give
reluctantly. (9:54)
• The alms are for: the poor, the destitute, those who collect it,
reconciling people’s hearts, freeing slaves, those in debt,
spending in the Way of Allah, and travellers. It is a legal obligation
from Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (9:60)
• Nothing is held against the weak and sick nor against those who
find nothing to spend, provided they are true to Allah and His
Messenger–there is no way open against good-doers, Allah is
Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful–nor is anything held against those
who, when they came to you for you to provide them with mounts
and you said, ‘I cannot find anything on which to mount you,’
turned away with their eyes overflowing with tears, overcome by
grief at having nothing to give. (9:91-92)
• Among the desert arabs there are some who regard what they
give as an imposition and are waiting for your fortunes to change.
The evil turn of fortune will be theirs! Allah is All-Hearing, All-
Knowing. (9:98)
• And among the desert arabs there are some who believe in Allah
and the Last Day and regard what they give as something which
will bring them nearer to Allah and to the prayers of the
Messenger. It does indeed bring them near. Allah will admit them
into His mercy. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (9:99)
• Nor will they give away any amount, whether large or small, nor
will they cross any valley, without it being written down for them
so that Allah can recompense them for the best of what they did.
(9:121)
• Those who are steadfast in seeking the face of their Lord, and
perform prayer and give from the provision We have given them,
secretly and openly, and stave off evil with good, it is they who
will have the Ultimate Abode. (13:22)
• Tell My servants who believe that they should perform prayer and
give from what We have provided for them, secretly and openly,
before a Day arrives on which there will be no trading and no
friendship. (14:31)
• They will be given their reward twice over because they have
been steadfast and because they ward off the bad with the good
and give from what we have provided for them. (28:54)
• Their sides eschew their beds as they call on their Lord in fear
and ardent hope. And they give of what We have provided for
them. (32:16)
• Those who recite the Book of Allah and perform prayer and give
of what We have provided for them, secretly and openly, hope for
a transaction which will not prove profitless. (35:29)
• And when they are told, ‘Spend from the provision Allah has
given you,’ those who disbelieve say to those who believe, ‘Why
should we feed someone whom, if He wished, Allah would feed
Himself? You are clearly in error.’ (36:47)
• Here you are then: people who are called upon to spend in the
Way of Allah and then some of you are tight-fisted! But whoever
is tight-fisted is only tight-fisted to himself. Allah is Rich and you
are poor. If you turn away, He will replace you with a people other
than yourselves and they will not be like you. (47:38)
• And how is it with you that you do not give in the Way of Allah,
when the inheritance of the heavens and the earth belongs to
Allah? Those of you who gave and fought before the Victory are
not the same as those who gave and fought afterwards. They are
higher in rank. But to each of them Allah has promised the Best.
Allah is aware of what you do. (57:10)
• They are the people who say, ‘Do not spend on those who are
with the Messenger of Allah, so that they may go away.’ The
treasuries of the heavens and earth belong to Allah. But the
hypocrites do not understand this. (63:7)
• Give from what We have provided for you before death comes to
one of you and he says, ‘My Lord, if only you would give me a
little more time so that I can give charity and be one of the
righteous!’ (63:10)
• So have fear of Allah, as much as you are able to, and listen and
obey and spend for your own benefit. It is the people who are
safe-guarded from the avarice of their own selves who are
successful. (64:16)
• He who has plenty should spend out from his plenty, but he
whose provision is restricted should spend from what Allah has
given him. Allah does not demand from any self more than He
has given it. Allah will appoint after difficulty, ease. (65:7)
SPIDER
SPIRIT (RUH)
• (Your Lord said to the angels,) ‘When I have formed him and
breathed My Spirit into him, fall down in prostration in front of
him!’ (15:29)
• Say: ‘The Purest Spirit has brought it down from your Lord with
truth, to make those who believe firm, and as guidance and good
news for the Muslims.’ (16:102)
• They will ask you about the Spirit. Say: ‘The Spirit is my Lord’s
concern. You have only been given a little knowledge.’ (17:85)
• Mention Maryam in the Book, how she withdrew from her people
to an eastern place, and veiled herself from them. Then We sent
Our Spirit to her and it took on for her the form of a handsome,
well-built man. (19:16-17)
• (Your Lord said to the angels,) ‘When I have formed him and
breathed My Spirit into him, fall down in prostration to him!’ (38:72)
SPOUSE
• Give the good news to those who believe and do right actions
that they will have Gardens with rivers flowing under them. When
they are given fruit there as provision, they will say, ‘This is what
we were given before.’ But they were only given a simulation of it.
They will have there spouses of perfect purity and will remain
there timelessly, for ever. (2:25)
• But as for those who believe and do right actions, We will admit
them into Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in
them timelessly, for ever and ever. In them they will have
spouses of perfect purity and We will admit them into cool,
refreshing shade. (4:57)
• It is He Who created you from a single self and made from him
his spouse so that he might find repose in her. Then when he
covered her she bore a light load and carried it around. Then
when it became heavy they called on Allah, their Lord, ‘If You
grant us a healthy child, we will be among the thankful!’ (7:189)
• Among His Signs is that He created spouses for you of your own
kind so that you might find tranquillity in them. And He has placed
affection and compassion between you. There are certainly Signs
in that for people who reflect. (30:21)
SPRING
• Those who guard against evil will be amid Gardens and Springs.
(15:45)
• They say, ‘We will not believe you until you make a spring gush
out from the earth for us;’ (17:90)
• Have fear of Him Who has supplied you with what you know,
supplied you with livestock and children and gardens and clear
springs. (26:132-134)
• (Salih said,) ‘Are you going to be left secure amid what is here,
amid gardens and clear springs?’ (26:146-147)
• Do you not see that Allah sends down water from the sky and
threads it through the earth to emerge as springs and then by it
brings forth crops of varying colours, which then wither and you
see them turning yellow and then He makes them into broken
stubble? There is a reminder in that for people of intelligence.
(39:21)
• And (We) made the earth burst forth with gushing springs. And
the waters met together in a way which was decreed. (54:12)
• (The inhabitants of the Fire will be) drinking from a boiling spring.
(88:5)
STAKE
• Before them the people of Nuh denied the truth, as did ‘Ad and
Pharaoh of the Stakes. (38:12)
STAMP
• And when you said, ‘Musa, we will not put up with just one kind of
food so ask your Lord to supply to us some of what the earth
produces–its green vegetables, cucumbers, grains, lentils and
onions,’ he said, ‘Do you want to replace what is better with what
is inferior? Go back to Egypt, then you will have what you are
asking for.’ Abasement and destitution were stamped upon them.
They brought down anger from Allah upon themselves. That was
because they rejected Allah’s Signs and killed the Prophets
without any right to do so. That was because they rebelled and
went beyond the limits. (2:61)
• Because of the fact that they broke their covenant, and rejected
Allah’s Signs, and killed the Prophets without any right to do so
and said, ‘Our hearts are uncircumcised,’ Allah has stamped
them with disbelief, so they do not believe except for very few.
(4:155)
• They are pleased to be with those who stay behind. Their hearts
have been stamped so they do not understand. (9:87)
STANDING UP
• We fortified their hearts when they stood up and said, ‘Our Lord is
the Lord of the heavens and the earth and We will not call on any
god apart from Him. We would in that case have uttered an
abomination. (18:14)
• And We located the position of the House for Ibrahim: ‘Do not
associate anything with Me and purify My House for those who
circle it, and those who stand and bow and prostrate.’ (22:26)
STAR
• When night covered him he (Ibrahim) saw a star and said, ‘This is
my Lord!’ Then when it set he said, ‘I do not love what sets.’ (6:76)
• Your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six
days and then settled Himself firmly on the Throne. He covers the
day with the night, each pursuing the other urgently; and the sun
and moon and stars are subservient to His command. Both
creation and command belong to Him. Blessed be Allah, the Lord
of all the worlds. (7:54)
• When Yusuf told his father, ‘Father! I saw eleven bright stars, and
the sun and moon as well. I saw them all prostrate in front of me.’
(12:4)
• He has made night and day subservient to you, and the sun and
moon and stars, all subject to His command. There are certainly
Signs in that for people who use their intellect. (16:12)
• Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The metaphor of
His Light is that of a niche in which is a lamp, the lamp inside a
glass, the glass like a brilliant star, lit from a blessed tree, an olive,
neither of the east nor of the west, its oil all but giving off light
even if no fire touches it. Light upon Light. Allah guides to His
Light whoever He wills and Allah makes metaphors for mankind
and Allah has knowledge of all things. (24:35)
• And glorify Him in the night and when the stars fade out. (52:49)
• And what will convey to you what the Night-Comer is? The
Piercing Star! (86:2-3)
STATE OF PILGRIMAGE (SEE IHRAM)
STATUE
• When he (Ibrahim) said to his father and his people, ‘What are
these statues you are clinging to?’ (21:52)
STEADFASTNESS
• We will test you with a certain amount of fear and hunger and
loss of wealth and life and fruits. But give good news to the
steadfast: (2:155)
• When they came out against Goliath and his troops, they said,
‘Our Lord, pour down steadfastness upon us, and make our feet
firm, and help us against this disbelieving people.’ (2:250)
• They then produced his shirt with false blood on it. He (Yusuf’s
father) said, ‘It is merely that your lower selves have suggested
something to you which you did; but beauty lies in showing
steadfastness. It is Allah alone Who is my Help in face of the
event that you describe.’ (12:18)
• So be steadfast in the face of what they say and glorify your Lord
with praise before the rising of the sun and before its setting. And
glorify Him during part of the night and at both ends of the day, so
that hopefully you will be pleased. (20:130)
• When Talut marched out with the army, he said, ‘Allah will test
you with a river. Anyone who drinks from it is not with me. But
anyone who does not taste it is with me–except for him who
merely scoops up a little in his hand.’ But they drank from it–
except for a few of them. Then when he and those who believed
with him had crossed it, they said, ‘We do not have the strength
to face Goliath and his troops today.’ But those who were sure
that they were going to meet Allah said, ‘How many a small force
has triumphed over a much greater one by Allah’s permission!
Allah is with the steadfast. (2:249)
• The steadfast, the truthful, the obedient, the givers, and those
who seek forgiveness before dawn. (3:17)
• Yes indeed! But if you are steadfast and guard against evil and
they come upon you suddenly, your Lord will reinforce you with
five thousand angels, clearly identified. (3:125)
• Or did you imagine that you were going to enter the Garden
without Allah knowing those among you who had struggled and
knowing the steadfast? (3:142)
• You will be tested in your wealth and in yourselves and you will
hear many abusive words from those given the Book before you
and from those who are idolaters. But if you are steadfast and
guard against evil, that is the most resolute course to take. (3:186)
• Messengers before you were also denied but they were steadfast
in the face of the denial and injury they suffered until Our help
arrived. There is no changing the Words of Allah. And news of
other Messengers has come to you. (6:34)
• Except for those who are steadfast and do right actions. They will
receive forgiveness and a large reward. (11:11)
• They said, ‘Are you Yusuf?’ He said, ‘I am indeed Yusuf, and this
here is my brother. Allah has acted graciously to us. As for those
who fear Allah and are steadfast, Allah does not allow to go to
waste the wage of any people who do good.’ (12:90)
• Those who are steadfast in seeking the face of their Lord, and
perform prayer and give from the provision We have given them,
secretly and openly, and stave off evil with good, it is they who
will have the Ultimate Abode. (13:22)
• ... Angels will enter in to welcome them from every gate: ‘Peace
be upon you because of your steadfastness! How wonderful is
the Ultimate Abode!’ (13:23-24)
• We sent Musa with Our Signs: ‘Bring your people from the
darkness to the light and remind them of the Days of Allah.’ There
are certainly Signs in that for everyone who is steadfast, thankful.
(14:5)
• (Their Messengers said,) ‘And why indeed should we not put our
trust in Allah when He has guided us to our ways? We will be
steadfast however much you harm us. Those who trust put their
trust in Allah.’ (14:12)
• (Believers are) those who are steadfast and put their trust in their
Lord. (16:42)
• What is with you runs out but what is with Allah goes on for ever.
Those who were steadfast will be recompensed according to the
best of what they did. (16:96)
• But to those who migrated after they were persecuted and then
strived and remained steadfast, to them your Lord is All-
Compassionate, Most Merciful. (16:110)
• And Isma‘il and Idris and Dhu’l-Kifl–each one was among the
steadfast. (21:85)
• (Allah will say,) ‘Today I have rewarded them for being steadfast.
They are the ones who are victorious.’ (23:111)
• We never sent any Messengers before you who did not eat food
and walk in the market-place. But We have made some of you a
trial for others to see if you will be steadfast? Your Lord sees
everything. (25:20)
• But those who had been given knowledge said, ‘Woe to you!
Allah’s reward is better for those who believe and act rightly. But
only the steadfast will obtain it.’ (28:80)
• (Believers are) those who are steadfast and put their trust in their
Lord. (29:59)
• Do you not see that ships sail on the sea by Allah’s blessing so
that He can show you something of His Signs? There are
certainly Signs in that for everyone who is steadfast and thankful.
(31:31)
• Men and women who are Muslims, men and women who are
believers, men and women who are obedient, men and women
who are truthful, men and women who are steadfast, men and
women who are humble, men and women who give charity, men
and women who fast, men and women who guard their chastity,
men and women who remember Allah much: Allah has prepared
forgiveness for them and an immense reward. (33:35)
• They said, ‘Our Lord, put more distance between our staging
posts.’ They wronged themselves so We made legends of them
and scattered them without a trace. There are certainly Signs in
that for everyone who is steadfast and thankful. (34:19)
• Say: ‘Servants of Mine who believe! Have fear of your Lord. For
those who do good in this world there is good and Allah’s earth is
spacious. The steadfast will be paid their wages in full without any
reckoning.’ (39:10)
• If they are steadfast, the Fire will still be their residence! If they
ask for favour, no favour will be given. (41:24)
• None will obtain it but those who are truly steadfast. None will
obtain it but those who have great good fortune. (41:35)
• If He wills He makes the wind stop blowing and then they lie
motionless on its back. There are certainly Signs in that for
everyone who is steadfast and thankful. (42:33)
• Be steadfast in the face of what they say and cut yourself off from
them–but courteously. (73:10)
• And (Allah) will reward them for their steadfastness with a Garden
and with silk. (76:12)
• (The steep ascent is) then to be one of those who believe and
urge each other to steadfastness and urge each other to
compassion. (90:17)
STEEP
• But he has not braved the steep ascent. What will convey to you
what the steep ascent is? It is freeing a slave or feeding on a day
of hunger an orphaned relative or a poor man in the dust; then to
be one of those who believe and urge each other to
steadfastness and urge each other to compassion. (90:11-17)
STONE
• If you have doubts about what We have sent down to Our servant,
produce another sura equal to it, and call your witnesses, besides
Allah, if you are telling the truth. If you do not do that–and you will
not do it–then fear the Fire whose fuel is people and stones,
made ready for the disbelievers. (2:23-24)
• You who believe! Wine and gambling, stone altars and divining
arrows are filth from the handiwork of Satan. Avoid them
completely so that hopefully you will be successful. (5:90)
• And they say, ‘Allah, if this is really the truth from You, rain down
stones on us out of heaven or send a painful punishment down
on us.’ (8:32)
• Do you feel secure against Him causing the shore to swallow you
up or sending against you a sudden squall of stones? Then you
will find no one to be your guardian. (17:68)
STORE
• There is nothing that does not have its stores with Us and We
only send it down in a known measure. (15:21)
• We send forth the pollinating winds and send down water from
the sky and give it to you to drink. And it is not you who keep its
stores. (15:22)
• So he (Musa) drew water for them and then withdrew into the
shade and said, ‘My Lord, I am truly in need of any good You
have in store for me.’ (28:24)
• Those who believe and migrate and strive in the Way of Allah can
expect Allah’s mercy. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
(2:218)
• You who believe! Have fear of Allah and seek the means of
drawing near to Him, and strive in His Way, so that hopefully you
will be successful. (5:35)
• Those who believe and have migrated and strived with their
wealth and themselves in the Way of Allah, and those who have
given refuge and help, they are the friends and protectors of one
another. But as for those who believe but have not migrated, you
are not in any way responsible for their protection until they
migrate. But if they ask you for help in respect of the religion, it is
your duty to help them, except against people you have a treaty
with. Allah sees what you do. (8:72)
• Those who believe and have migrated and strived in the Way of
Allah and those who have given refuge and help, they are the
true believers. They will have forgiveness and generous provision.
(8:74)
• Or did you suppose that you would be left without Allah knowing
those of you who have strived and who have not taken anyone as
their intimate friends besides Allah and His Messenger and the
believers? Allah is aware of what you do. (9:16)
• Do you make the giving of water to the pilgrims and looking after
the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) the same as believing in
Allah and the Last Day and striving in the Way of Allah? They are
not equal in the sight of Allah. Allah does not guide wrongdoing
people. (9:19)
• Those who believe and migrate and strive in the Way of Allah
with their wealth and themselves have a higher rank with Allah.
They are the ones who are victorious. (9:20)
• Say: ‘If your fathers or your sons or your brothers or your wives or
your tribe, or any wealth you have acquired, or any business you
fear may slump, or any house which pleases you, are dearer to
you than Allah and His Messenger and striving in His Way, then
wait until Allah brings about His command. Allah does not guide
people who are deviators.’ (9:24)
• Those who believe in Allah and the Last Day do not ask you to
excuse them from striving with their wealth and themselves. Allah
knows the people who guard against evil. (9:44)
• Those who were left behind were glad to stay behind the
Messenger of Allah. They did not want to strive with their wealth
and themselves in the Way of Allah. They said, ‘Do not go out to
fight in the heat.’ Say: ‘The Fire of Hell is much hotter, if they only
understood.’ (9:81)
• But the Messenger and those who believe along with him have
strived with their wealth and with themselves. They are the
people who will have the good things. They are the ones who are
successful. (9:88)
• But to those who migrated after they were persecuted and then
strived and remained steadfast, to them your Lord is All-
Compassionate, Most Merciful. (16:110)
• Strive for Allah with the striving due to Him. He has selected you
and not placed any constraint upon you in the religion–the religion
of your forefather Ibrahim. He named you Muslims before and
also in this, so that the Messenger could be witness against you
and you could be witnesses against all mankind. So perform
prayer and give the alms and hold fast to Allah. He is your
Protector–the Best Protector, the Best Helper. (22:78)
• As for those who strive in Our Way, We will guide them to Our
Paths. Truly Allah is with the good-doers. (29:69)
• The believers are only those who have believed in Allah and His
Messenger and then have had no doubt and have strived with
their wealth and themselves in the Way of Allah. They are the
ones who are true to their word. (49:15)
• It is not right for any human being that Allah should give him the
Book and Judgement and Prophethood, and then that he should
say to people, ‘Be worshippers of me rather than Allah.’ Rather
he will say, ‘Be people of the Lord because of your knowledge of
the Book and because you study.’ (3:79)
• That is how We vary the Signs, so that they say, ‘You have been
studying,’ and so We can make it clear to people who know.
(6:105)
• So you cannot say: ‘The Book was only sent down to the two
groups before us and we were ignorant of their studies.’ (6:156)
• We have not given them any books which they are studying nor
did We send, before you, any warner to them. (34:44)
SUCCESS
• They are the people guided by their Lord. They are the ones who
have success. (2:5)
• They will ask you about the crescent moons. Say, ‘They are set
times for mankind and for the pilgrimage.’ It is not devoutness for
you to enter houses by the back. Rather devoutness is
possessed by those who guard against evil. So come to houses
by their doors and have fear of Allah, so that hopefully you will be
successful. (2:189)
• Let there be a community among you who call to the good, and
enjoin the right, and forbid the wrong. They are the ones who
have success. (3:104)
• You who believe! Do not feed on usury, multiplied and then
remultiplied. Have fear of Allah so that hopefully you will be
successful. (3:130)
• Those who anticipate the worst for you say, ‘Were we not with
you?’ whenever you gain a victory from Allah, but if the
disbelievers have a success they say, ‘Did we not have the upper
hand over you and yet in spite of that keep the believers away
from you?’ Allah will judge between you on the Day of Rising.
Allah will not give the disbelievers any way against the believers.
(4:141)
• You who believe! Have fear of Allah and seek the means of
drawing near to Him, and strive in His Way, so that hopefully you
will be successful. (5:35)
• You who believe! Wine and gambling, stone altars and divining
arrows are filth from the handiwork of Satan. Avoid them
completely so that hopefully you will be successful. (5:90)
• Say: ‘Bad things and good things are not the same, even though
the abundance of the bad things may seem attractive to you.’
Have fear of Allah, people of intelligence, so that hopefully you
will be successful. (5:100)
• Say: ‘My people, do as you are doing, just as I am doing. You will
certainly come to know who will have the best home in the end.
The wrongdoers will certainly not be successful.’ (6:135)
• The weighing that Day will be the truth. As for those whose scales
are heavy, they are the successful. (7:8)
• Or are you astonished that a reminder should come to you from
your Lord by way of a man among you in order to warn you?
Remember when He appointed you successors to the people of
Nuh, and increased you greatly in stature. Remember Allah’s
blessings, so that hopefully you will be successful.’ (7:69)
• (Allah said, ‘Believers are) those who follow the Messenger, the
Ummi, whom they find written down with them in the Torah and
the Gospel, commanding them to do right and forbidding them to
do wrong, making good things lawful for them and bad things
forbidden for them, relieving them of their heavy loads and the
chains which were around them. Those who believe in him and
honour him and help him, and follow the Light that has been sent
down with him, they are the ones who are successful.’ (7:157)
• You who believe! When you meet a troop, stand firm and
remember Allah repeatedly so that hopefully you will be
successful. (8:45)
• But the Messenger and those who believe along with him have
strived with their wealth and with themselves. They are the
people who will have the good things. They are the ones who are
successful. (9:88)
• Say: ‘People who invent lies against Allah will not be successful.’
(10:69)
• Musa said, ‘Do you say to the truth when it comes to you, "This is
magic"? Magicians are not successful.’ (10:77)
• He (Shu‘ayb) said, ‘My people! What do you think? If I do
possess a Clear Sign from my Lord and He has given me His
good provision, I would clearly not want to go behind your backs
and do something I have forbidden you to do. I only want to put
things right as far as I can. My success is with Allah alone. I have
put my trust in Him and I turn to Him.’ (11:88)
• Do not say about what your lying tongues describe: ‘This is lawful
and this is forbidden,’ inventing lies against Allah. Those who
invent lies against Allah are not successful. (16:116)
• You who believe! Bow and prostrate and worship your Lord, and
do good, so that hopefully you will be successful. (22:77)
• Those whose scales are heavy, they are the successful. (23:102)
• Say to the believing women that they should lower their eyes and
guard their chastity and not display their adornments–except for
what normally shows–and draw their head-coverings across their
breasts. They should only display their adornments to their
husbands or their fathers or their husbands’ fathers, or their sons
or their husbands’ sons or their brothers or their brothers’ sons or
their sisters’ sons or other women or those they own as slaves or
their male attendants who have no sexual desire or children who
still have no awareness of women’s private parts. Nor should they
stamp their feet so that their hidden ornaments are known. Turn
to Allah every one of you, believers, so that hopefully you will
have success. (24:31)
• The reply of the believers when they are summoned to Allah and
His Messenger so that he can judge between them, is to say, ‘We
hear and we obey.’ They are ones who are successful. (24:51)
• Musa said, ‘My Lord knows best who has come with guidance
from Him and who will have the best Home in the end. The
wrongdoers will certainly not be successful.’ (28:37)
• But as for those who repent and act rightly, they will hopefully be
successful. (28:67)
• Those who had longed to take his place the day before woke up
saying, ‘Allah expands the provision of any of His servants He
wills or restricts it. If Allah had not shown great kindness to us, we
would have been swallowed up as well. Ah! Truly the disbelievers
are not successful.’ (28:82)
• Give relatives their due, and the poor and travellers. That is best
for those who seek the pleasure of Allah. They are the ones who
are successful. (30:38)
• Such people are following guidance from their Lord. They are the
ones who are successful. (31:5)
• You will not find people who believe in Allah and the Last Day
having love for anyone who opposes Allah and His Messenger,
though they be their fathers, their sons, their brothers or their clan.
Allah has inscribed faith upon such people’s hearts and will
reinforce them with a Spirit from Him and admit them into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them
timelessly, for ever. Allah is pleased with them and they are
pleased with Him. Such people are the party of Allah. Truly it is
the party of Allah who are successful. (58:22)
• Those who were already settled in the abode, and in faith, before
they came, love those who have migrated to them and do not find
in their hearts any need for what they have been given and prefer
them to themselves even if they themselves are needy. It is the
people who are safe-guarded from the avarice of their own selves
who are successful. (59:9)
• Then when the prayer is finished spread through the earth and
seek Allah’s bounty and Allah much so that hopefully you will be
successful. (62:10)
• So have fear of Allah, as much as you are able to, and listen and
obey and spend for your own benefit. It is the people who are
safe-guarded from the avarice of their own selves who are
successful. (64:16)
SUCCESSION - SUCCESSOR
• (Hud said to his people,) ‘Or are you astonished that a reminder
should come to you from your Lord by way of a man among you
in order to warn you? Remember when He appointed you
successors to the people of Nuh, and increased you greatly in
stature. Remember Allah’s blessings, so that hopefully you will be
successful.’ (7:69)
• They said, ‘We suffered harm before you came to us and after
you came to us.’ He (Musa) said, ‘It may well be that your Lord is
going to destroy your enemy and make you the successors in the
land so that He can see how you behave.’ (7:129)
• We set aside thirty nights for Musa and then completed them with
ten, so the appointed time of his Lord was forty nights in all. Musa
said to his brother Harun, ‘Be my successor (khalif) among my
people. Keep order and do not follow the way of the corrupters.’
(7:142)
• But they denied him (Nuh) so We rescued him, and all those with
him, in the Ark and We made them the successors and We
drowned the people who denied Our Signs. See the final fate of
those who were warned! (10:73)
• What is the matter with you that you do not hope for honour from
Allah, when He created you by successive stages? (71:13-14)
• Forbidden for you are: your mothers and your daughters and your
sisters, your maternal aunts and your paternal aunts, your
brothers’ daughters and your sisters’ daughters, your foster
mothers who have suckled you, your foster sisters by suckling,
your wives’ mothers, your stepdaughters who are under your
protection: the daughters of your wives whom you have had
sexual relations with (though if you have not had sexual relations
with them there is nothing blameworthy for you in it then), the
wives of your sons whom you have fathered, and marrying two
sisters at the same time–except for what may have already taken
place. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:23)
• Let them live where you live, according to your means. Do not put
pressure on them, so as to harass them. If they are pregnant,
maintain them until they give birth. If they are suckling for you,
give them their wages and consult together with correctness and
courtesy. But if you make things difficult for one another, another
woman should do the suckling for you. (65:6)
SUMMONING
• Say: ‘This is my way. I call to Allah with inner sight, I and all who
follow me. Glory be to Allah! I am not one of the idolaters!’
(12:108)
• Those to whom We gave the Book rejoice at what has been sent
down to you but some of the parties refuse to acknowledge part
of it. Say: ‘I have only been ordered to worship Allah and not to
associate anything with Him. I summon to Him and to Him I will
return.’ (13:36)
• Has news not reached you of those who came before you, the
peoples of Nuh and ‘Ad and Thamud, and those who came after
them who are known to no one but Allah? Their Messengers
came to them with Clear Signs, but they put their hands to their
mouths, saying, ‘We reject what you have been sent with. We
have grave doubts about what you are calling us to.’ (14:9)
• Their Messengers said, ‘Is there any doubt about Allah, the
Bringer into Being of the heavens and the earth? He summons
you to forgive you for your wrong actions and to defer you until a
specified time.’ They said, ‘You are nothing but human beings like
ourselves who want to debar us from what our fathers
worshipped; so bring us a clear authority.’ (14:10)
• One of them came walking shyly up to him (Musa) and said, ‘My
father invites you so that he can pay you your wage for drawing
water for us.’ When he came to him and told him the whole story
he said, ‘Have no fear, you have escaped from wrongdoing
people.’ (28:25)
• When they are told: ‘Follow what Allah has sent down,’ they say,
‘No, we will follow what we found our fathers doing.’ What! Even if
Satan is calling them to the punishment of the Blazing Fire?
(31:21)
• He (Nuh) said, ‘My Lord, I have called my people night and day
but my calling has only made them more evasive. Indeed, every
time I called them to Your forgiveness, they put their fingers in
their ears, wrapped themselves up in their clothes and were
overweeningly arrogant. Then I called them openly.’ (71:5-8)
SUN
• What about the one who argued with Ibrahim about his Lord, on
the basis that Allah had given him sovereignty? Ibrahim said, ‘My
Lord is He Who gives life and causes to die.’ He said, ‘I too give
life and cause to die.’ Ibrahim said, ‘Allah makes the sun come
from the East. Make it come from the West.’ And the one who
was a disbeliever was dumbfounded. Allah does not guide
wrongdoing people. (2:258)
• Then when he (Ibrahim) saw the sun come up he said, ‘This is my
Lord! This is greater!’ Then when it set he said, ‘My people, I am
free of what you associate with Allah!’ (6:78)
• Your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six
days and then settled Himself firmly on the Throne. He covers the
day with the night, each pursuing the other urgently; and the sun
and moon and stars are subservient to His command. Both
creation and command belong to Him. Blessed be Allah, the Lord
of all the worlds. (7:54)
• When Yusuf told his father, ‘Father! I saw eleven bright stars, and
the sun and moon as well. I saw them all prostrate in front of me.’
(12:4)
• And He has made the sun and moon subservient to you holding
steady to their courses, and He has made the night and day
subservient to you. (14:33)
• He has made night and day subservient to you, and the sun and
moon and stars, all subject to His command. There are certainly
Signs in that for people who use their intellect. (16:12)
• Perform prayer from the time the sun declines until the darkening
of the night, and also the recitation at dawn. The dawn recitation
is certainly witnessed. (17:78)
• You would have seen the sun, when it rose, inclining away from
their cave towards the right, and, when it set, leaving them behind
on the left, while they were lying in an open part of it. That was
one of Allah’s Signs. Whoever Allah guides is truly guided. But if
He misguides someone, you will find no protector for them to
guide them rightly. (18:17)
• So be steadfast in the face of what they say and glorify your Lord
with praise before the rising of the sun and before its setting. And
glorify Him during part of the night and at both ends of the day, so
that hopefully you will be pleased. (20:130)
• It is He Who created night and day and the sun and moon, each
one swimming in a sphere. (21:33)
• (The hoopoe said,) ‘I found both her (Queen of Sheba) and her
people prostrating to the sun instead of Allah. Satan has made
their actions seem good to them and debarred them from the
Way so they are not guided.’ (27:24)
• If you ask them, ‘Who created the heavens and the earth and
made the sun and moon subservient?’ they will say, ‘Allah.’ So
how have they been perverted? (29:61)
• Do you not see that Allah makes night merge into day and day
merge into night, and that He has made the sun and moon
subservient, each one running for a specified time, and that Allah
is aware of what you do? (31:29)
• He makes night merge into day and day merge into night, and He
has made the sun and moon subservient, each one running until
a specified time. That is Allah, your Lord. The Kingdom is His.
Those you call on besides Him have no power over even the
smallest speck. (35:13)
• And the sun runs to its resting place. That is the decree of the
Almighty, the All-Knowing. (36:38)
• It is not for the sun to overtake the moon nor for the night to
outstrip the day; each one is swimming in a sphere. (36:40)
• He created the heavens and the earth with truth. He wraps the
night around the day and wraps the day around the night, and
has made the sun and moon subservient, each one running for a
specified term. Is He not indeed the Almighty, the Endlessly
Forgiving? (39:5)
• Among His Signs are the night and day and the sun and moon.
Do not prostrate to the sun nor to the moon. Prostrate to Allah
Who created them, if you worship Him. (41:37)
• So be patient in the face of what they say and glorify your Lord
with praise before the rising of the sun and before it sets. (50:39)
• The sun and the moon both run with precision. (55:5)
• And (when) the sun and moon are fused together, (75:9)
SUWA
• They have hatched a mighty plot saying, "Do not abandon your
gods. Do not abandon Wadd or Suwa‘ or Yaghuth or Ya‘uq or
Nasr." (71:22-23)
SWEAR
• Those who swear to abstain from sexual relations with their wives
can wait for a period of up to four months. If they then retract their
oath, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (2:226)
• How will it be when a disaster strikes them because of what they
have done, and then they come to you swearing by Allah: ‘We
desired nothing but good and reconciliation’? (4:62)
• Those who believe say, ‘Are these the people who swore by Allah,
with their most earnest oaths, that they were with you?’ Their
actions have come to nothing and they now are losers. (5:53)
• You who believe! When one of you is near to death and makes a
will, two just men from among you should act as witnesses; or, if
you are travelling when the misfortune of death occurs, two men
who are strangers to you. You should detain them after prayer
and, if you are doubtful, they should swear by Allah: ‘We will not
sell it for any price, even to a near relative, and we will not
conceal the testimony of Allah. If we did we would indeed be
wrongdoers.’ If it then comes to light that the two of them have
merited the allegation of wrongdoing, two others who have the
most right to do so should take their place and swear by Allah:
‘Our testimony is truer than their testimony. We have not
committed perjury. If we had we would indeed be wrongdoers.’
That makes it more likely that they will give their evidence
properly or be afraid that their oaths will be refuted by subsequent
oaths. Have fear of Allah and listen carefully. Allah does not guide
deviant people. (5:106-108)
• They will swear to you to make you pleased with them, but even if
you are pleased with them, Allah is certainly not pleased with
deviant people. (9:96)
• As for those who have set up a mosque, causing harm and out of
disbelief, to create division between the believers, and in
readiness for those who previously made war on Allah and His
Messenger, they will swear, ‘We only desired the best.’ But Allah
bears witness that they are truly liars. (9:107)
• They swear by Allah with their most earnest oaths that Allah will
not raise up those who die, when, on the contrary, it is a binding
promise on Him; but most people do not know it. (16:38)
• They have sworn by Allah with their most earnest oaths that if you
give them the command, they will go out. Say: ‘Do not swear.
Honourable obedience is enough. Allah is aware of what you do.’
(24:53)
• They swore by Allah with their most earnest oaths that if a warner
came to them they would be better guided than any other
community. But then when a warner did come to them, it only
increased their aversion. (35:42)
• Do you not see those who have turned to people with whom Allah
is angry? They belong neither to you nor to them. And they swear
to falsehood and do so knowingly. (58:14)
• On the Day Allah raises up all of them together they will swear to
Him just as they have sworn to you and imagine they have
something to stand upon. No indeed! It is they who are the liars.
(58:18)
• No! I swear by the Lord of the Easts and Wests that We have the
power. (70:40)
TABLE
• And when the Disciples said, ‘‘Isa son of Maryam! Can your Lord
send down a table to us out of heaven?’ He said, ‘Have fear of
Allah if you are believers!’ (5:112)
• ‘Isa son of Maryam said, ‘Allah, our Lord, send down a table to us
out of heaven to be a feast for us, for the first and last of us, and
as a Sign from You. Provide for us! You are the Best of
Providers!’ (5:114)
TABLETS
• You who believe! When you go out to fight in the Way of Allah
verify things carefully. Do not say, ‘You are not a believer’, to
someone who greets you as a Muslim, simply out of desire for the
goods of this world. With Allah there is booty in abundance. That
is the way you were before but Allah has been kind to you. So
verify things carefully. Allah is aware of what you do. (4:94)
• When you are with them and leading them in prayer, a group of
them should stand with you, keeping hold of their weapons. When
they prostrate, the others should guard your backs. Then the
other group who have not yet prayed should come and pray with
you. They too should be careful and keep hold of their weapons.
Those who disbelieve would like you to be negligent of your arms
and equipment so that they can swoop down on you once and for
all. There is nothing wrong, if you are bothered by rain or you are
ill, in laying your weapons down; but take every precaution. Allah
has prepared a humiliating punishment for the disbelievers.
(4:102)
• If they incline to peace, you too incline to it, and put your trust in
Allah. He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing. (8:61)
• If they had really desired to go out (to fight), they would have
made proper preparations for it, but Allah was averse to their
setting out so He held them back and they were told: ‘Stay behind
with those who stay behind.’ (9:46)
• Allah has made shaded places for you in what He has created
and He has made shelters for you in the mountains and He has
made shirts for you to protect you from the heat and shirts to
protect you from each other’s violence. In that way He perfects
His blessing on you so that hopefully you will become Muslims.
(16:81)
• We taught him the art of making garments for you to protect you
against each others’ violence. But do you show any thanks?
(21:80)
TALUT
• When Talut marched out with the army, he said, ‘Allah will test
you with a river. Anyone who drinks from it is not with me. But
anyone who does not taste it is with me–except for him who
merely scoops up a little in his hand.’ But they drank from it–
except for a few of them. Then when he and those who believed
with him had crossed it, they said, ‘We do not have the strength
to face Goliath and his troops today.’ But those who were sure
that they were going to meet Allah said, ‘How many a small force
has triumphed over a much greater one by Allah’s permission!
Allah is with the steadfast.’ (2:249)
• When they came out against Goliath and his troops, they said,
‘Our Lord, pour down steadfastness upon us, and make our feet
firm, and help us against this disbelieving people.’ (2:250)
TEAR
• Neither heaven nor earth shed any tears for them (Pharaoh and
his troops) and they were granted no reprieve. (44:29)
• (Has he not been informed) that it is He Who brings about both
laughter and tears? (53:43)
TEST - TRIAL
• We will test you with a certain amount of fear and hunger and
loss of wealth and life and fruits. But give good news to the
steadfast. (2:155)
• When Talut marched out with the army, he said, ‘Allah will test
you with a river. Anyone who drinks from it is not with me. But
anyone who does not taste it is with me–except for him who
merely scoops up a little in his hand.’ But they drank from it–
except for a few of them. Then when he and those who believed
with him had crossed it, they said, ‘We do not have the strength
to face Goliath and his troops today.’ But those who were sure
that they were going to meet Allah said, ‘How many a small force
has triumphed over a much greater one by Allah’s permission!
Allah is with the steadfast.’ (2:249)
• You will be tested in your wealth and in yourselves and you will
hear many abusive words from those given the Book before you
and from those who are idolaters. But if you are steadfast and
guard against evil, that is the most resolute course to take. (3:186)
• And We have sent down the Book to you with truth, confirming
and conserving the previous Books. So judge between them by
what Allah has sent down and do not follow their whims and
desires deviating from the Truth that has come to you. We have
appointed a law and a practice for every one of you. Had Allah
willed, He would have made you a single community, but He
wanted to test you regarding what has come to you. So compete
with each other in doing good. Every one of you will return to
Allah and He will inform you regarding the things about which you
differed. (5:48)
• You who believe! Allah will test you with game animals which
come within the reach of your hands and spears, so that Allah will
know those who fear Him in the Unseen. Anyone who oversteps
the limits after this will have a painful punishment. (5:94)
• Musa chose seventy men from his people for Our appointed time
and when the earthquake seized them he said, ‘My Lord, if You
had willed, You could have destroyed them previously and me as
well. Would you destroy us for what the fools among us did? It
was only a trial from You by which You misguided those You
willed and guided those You willed. You are our Protector so
forgive us and have mercy on us. You are the Best of Forgivers.’
(7:155)
• Ask them about the town which was by the sea when they broke
the Sabbath–when their fish came to them near the surface on
their Sabbath day but did not come on the days which they did
not keep the Sabbath. In this way We put them to the test
because they were deviators. (7:163)
• You did not kill them; it was Allah Who killed them; and you did
not throw, when you threw; it was Allah Who threw: so He might
test the believers with this excellent trial from Him. Allah is All-
Hearing, All-Knowing. (8:17)
• It is He Who created the heavens and the earth in six days when
His Throne was on the water, in order to test which of you has the
best actions. If you say, ‘You will be raised up after death,’ those
who disbelieve will say, ‘This is nothing but downright magic.’
(11:7)
• Do not be like a woman who spoils the thread she has spun by
unravelling it after it is strong, by making your oaths a means of
deceiving one another, merely because one community is bigger
than another. Allah is only testing you by this. He will make clear
to you on the Day of Rising the things about which you differed.
(16:92)
• (Allah said,) ‘When your sister went and said, "Shall I direct you to
someone who will take care of him?" that was how We returned
you to your mother so that she might delight her eyes and not be
grieved. You killed a man and We rescued you from trouble and
tested you with many trials. You stayed some years among the
people of Madyan. Then you arrived at the pre-ordained time,
Musa!’ (20:40)
• Every self will taste death. We test you with both good and evil as
a trial. And you will be returned to Us. (21:35)
• There are Signs in that. We are always putting people to the test.
(23:30)
• We never sent any Messengers before you who did not eat food
and walk in the market-place. But We have made some of you a
trial for others to see if you will be steadfast? Your Lord sees
everything. (25:20)
• They said, ‘We see you, and those with you, as an evil omen.’ He
(Salih) said, ‘No, your evil omen is with Allah; you are merely a
people undergoing a trial.’ (27:47)
• Do people imagine that they will be left to say, ‘We believe,’ and
will not be tested? (29:2)
• We tested those before them so that Allah would know the truthful
and would know the liars. (29:3)
• When they came at you from above you and below you, when
your eyes rolled and your hearts rose to your throats, and you
thought unworthy thoughts about Allah, at that point the believers
were tested and severely shaken. (33:10-11)
• He (Dawud) said, ‘He has wronged you by asking for your ewe to
add to his ewes. Truly many partners are unjust to one another–
except those who believe and do right actions, and how few they
are!’ Dawud realised that We had put him to the test. He begged
forgiveness from his Lord and fell down prone, prostrating, and
repented. (38:24)
• Therefore when you meet those who disbelieve strike their necks.
Then when you have decimated them, tie their bonds tightly and
set them free or ransom them, until the war is finally over. That is
how it is to be. If Allah willed, He could avenge Himself on them.
But it is so that He can test some of you by means of others. As
for those who fight in the Way of Allah, He will not let their actions
go astray. (47:4)
• We will test you until We know the true fighters among you and
those who are steadfast and test what is reported of you. (47:31)
• Those who lower their voices when they are with the Messenger
of Allah are people whose hearts Allah has tested for heedfulness.
They will have forgiveness and an immense reward. (49:3)
• As for man, when his Lord tests him by honouring him and
favouring him, he says, ‘My Lord has honoured me!’ But then
when He tests him by restricting his provision, he says, ‘My Lord
has humiliated me!’ (89:15-16)
TEXT
• If they deny you, Messengers before you were also denied, who
brought the Clear Signs and written texts and the illuminating
Book. (3:184)
• They say, ‘If only he would bring us a Sign from his Lord!’ Have
they not received the Clear Sign of what is written in the earlier
texts? (20:133)
• This is certainly in the earlier texts, the texts of Ibrahim and Musa.
(87:18-19)
• The People of the Book who disbelieve and the idolaters would
not be cut off until the Clear Sign came to them: a Messenger
from Allah reciting purified texts. (98:1-2)
THANKSGIVING
• You who believe! Eat of the good things We have provided for
you and give thanks to Allah if you worship Him alone. (2:172)
• The month of Ramadan is the one in which the Qur’an was sent
down as guidance for mankind, with Clear Signs containing
guidance and discrimination. Any of you who are resident for the
month should fast it. But any of you who are ill or on a journey
should fast a number of other days. Allah desires ease for you;
He does not desire difficulty for you. You should complete the
number of days and proclaim Allah’s greatness for the guidance
He has given you so that hopefully you will be thankful. (2:185)
• Allah helped you at Badr when you were weak so have fear of
Allah, so that hopefully you will be thankful. (3:123)
• Why should Allah punish you if you are thankful and believe?
Allah is All-Thankful, All-Knowing. (4:147)
• You who believe! When you get up to perform prayer, wash your
faces and your hands and your arms to the elbows, and wipe
over your heads, and (wash) your feet to the ankles. If you are in
a state of major impurity, then purify yourselves. But if you are ill
or on a journey, or have come from the lavatory, or have touched
women, and cannot find any water, then take for yourselves clean
earth, and wipe your faces and your hands therewith. Allah does
not want to make things difficult for you, but He does want to
purify you and to perfect His blessing upon you so that hopefully
you will be thankful. (5:6)
• Allah does not take you to task for your inadvertent oaths, but He
will take you to task for oaths you make intentionally. The
expiation in that case is to feed ten poor people with the average
amount you feed your family, or clothe them, or free a slave.
Anyone without the means to do so should fast three days. That
is the expiation for breaking oaths when you have sworn them.
Keep your oaths. In this way Allah makes His Signs clear to you,
so that hopefully you will be thankful. (5:89)
• Say: ‘Who rescues you from the darkness of the land and sea?
You call on Him humbly and secretly: "If you rescue us from this,
we will truly be among the thankful."’ (6:63)
• (Satan said,) ‘Then I will come at them, from in front of them and
behind them, from their right and from their left. You will not find
most of them thankful.’ (7:17)
• Good land yields up its plants by its Lord’s permission, but that
which is bad only yields up scantily. In this way We vary the Signs
for people who are thankful. (7:58)
• He said, ‘Musa, I have chosen you over all mankind for My
Message and My Word. Take what I have given you and be
among the thankful.’ (7:144)
• It is He Who created you from a single self and made from him
his spouse so that he might find repose in her. Then when he
covered her she bore a light load and carried it around. Then
when it became heavy they called on Allah, their Lord, ‘If You
grant us a healthy child, we will be among the thankful!’ (7:189)
• When you were few and oppressed in the land, afraid that the
people would snatch you away, He gave you refuge and
supported you with His help and provided you with good things so
that hopefully you would be thankful. (8:26)
• What will those who invent lies against Allah think on the Day of
Rising? Allah shows favour to mankind but most of them are not
thankful. (10:60)
• We sent Musa with Our Signs: ‘Bring your people from the
darkness to the light and remind them of the Days of Allah.’ There
are certainly Signs in that for everyone who is steadfast, thankful.
(14:5)
• It is He Who made the sea subservient to you so that you can eat
fresh flesh from it and bring out from it ornaments to wear. And
you see the ships cleaving through it so that you can seek His
bounty, and so that hopefully you will show thanks. (16:14)
• So eat from what Allah has provided for you, lawful and good,
and be thankful for the blessing of Allah if it is Him you worship.
(16:114)
• He (Ibrahim) was thankful for His blessings. Allah chose him and
guided him to a straight path. (16:121)
• We taught him the art of making garments for you to protect you
against each others’ violence, but do you show any thanks?
(21:80)
• It is He Who has created hearing, sight and hearts for you. What
little thanks you show! (23:78)
• It is He Who made night and day succeed each other for those
who want to pay heed or to give thanks. (25:62)
• Allah shows favour to mankind but most of them are not thankful.
(27:73)
• But part of His mercy is that He has made both night and day for
you so that you can have your rest and seek His bounty, and so
that hopefully you will be thankful. (28:73)
• Among His Signs is that He sends the winds bearing good news,
to give you a taste of His mercy, and to make the ships run by His
command, and to enable you to seek His bounty so that hopefully
you will be thankful. (30:46)
• Do you not see that ships sail on the sea by Allah’s blessing so
that He can show you something of His Signs? There are
certainly Signs in that for everyone who is steadfast and thankful.
(31:31)
• Then (He) formed him and breathed His Spirit into him and gave
you hearing, sight and hearts. What little thanks you show! (32:9)
• There was also a sign for Saba in their dwelling place: two
gardens–one to the right and one to the left. ‘Eat of your Lord’s
provision and give thanks to Him: a bountiful land and a forgiving
Lord.’ (34:15)
• They said, ‘Our Lord, put more distance between our staging
posts.’ They wronged themselves so We made legends of them
and scattered them without a trace. There are certainly Signs in
that for everyone who is steadfast and thankful. (34:19)
• The two seas are not the same: the one is sweet, refreshing,
delicious to drink, the other salty, bitter to the taste. Yet from both
of them you eat fresh flesh and extract ornaments for yourselves
to wear; and you see ships on them, cleaving through the waves
so that you can seek His bounty and so that hopefully you will be
thankful. (35:12)
• And they have other uses for them, and milk to drink. So will they
not be thankful? (36:73)
• Allah is He Who appointed the night for you so that you might rest
in it, and the day for seeing. Allah pours out His favour on
mankind but most people do not show thanks. (40:61)
• If He wills He makes the wind stop blowing and then they lie
motionless on its back. There are certainly Signs in that for
everyone who is steadfast and thankful. (42:33)
• It is Allah Who has made the sea subservient to you so that the
ships sail on it at His command, enabling you to seek His bounty,
so that hopefully you will be thankful. (45:12)
• Say: ‘It is He Who brought you into being and gave you hearing,
sight and hearts. What little thanks you show!’ (67:23)
THATCHER
• We sent a single Blast against them and they were just like a
thatcher’s reeds. (54:31)
THIEF - STEALING
• As for thieves, both male and female, cut off their hands in
reprisal for what they have done: an object lesson from Allah.
Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (5:38)
• Then when he (Yusuf) had supplied them with their needs, he put
the goblet in his brother’s bag. A herald called out, ‘Caravan! You
are thieves!’ (12:70)
• They said, ‘By Allah, you know we did not come to corrupt the
land and that we are not thieves.’ (12:73)
• They said, ‘If he steals now, his brother stole before.’ But Yusuf
kept it to himself and still did not disclose it to them, saying, ‘The
plight that you are in is worse than that. Allah knows best the
matter you describe.’ (12:77)
THIRST
• It was not for people of Madina, and the desert arabs around
them, to remain behind the Messenger of Allah nor to prefer
themselves to him. That is because no thirst or weariness or
hunger will afflict them in the Way of Allah, nor will they take a
single step to infuriate the disbelievers, nor secure any gain from
the enemy, without a right action being written down for them
because of it. Allah does not let the wage of the good-doers go to
waste. (9:120)
• (We said, Adam,) ‘You will not go thirsty in it or burn in the sun.’
(20:119)
• But the actions of those who disbelieve are like a mirage in the
desert. A thirsty man thinks it is water but when he reaches it, he
finds it to be nothing at all, but he finds Allah there. He will pay
him his account in full. Allah is swift at reckoning. (24:39)
• Then you, you misguided, you deniers will eat from the tree of
Zaqqum, filling your stomachs with it and drink scalding water on
top of it, slurping like thirst-crazed camels. (56:51-55)
• But those of them who are firmly rooted in knowledge, and the
believers, believe in what has been sent down to you and what
was sent down before you: those who perform prayer and give
the alms, and believe in Allah and the Last Day–We will pay such
people an immense wage. (4:162)
THOSE IN COMMAND
• You who believe! Obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those
in command among you. If you have a dispute about something,
refer it back to Allah and the Messenger, if you believe in Allah
and the Last Day. That is the best thing to do and gives the best
result. (4:59)
• Among you there are people who hang back and if you encounter
a setback then they say, ‘Allah has blessed me in that I was not
there with them.’ (4:72)
• But if you meet with favour from Allah they say–as if there were
no friendship between you and them–‘Oh! If only I had been with
them so that I too might have won a great victory.’ (4:73)
• You will find others who desire to be safe from you and safe from
their own people. Each time they are returned to dissension they
are overwhelmed by it. If they do not keep away from you or
submit to you or refrain from fighting, seize them and kill them
wherever you find them. Over such people We have given you
clear authority. (4:91)
• You who believe! When you encounter those who disbelieve
advancing in massed ranks into battle, do not turn your backs on
them. (8:15)
• You who believe! What is the matter with you that when you are
told, ‘Go out and fight in the way of Allah,’ you sink down heavily
to the earth? Are you happier with this world than the hereafter?
Yet the enjoyment of this world is very small compared to that of
the hereafter. (9:38)
• If you do not help him, Allah did help him when those who
disbelieved drove him out and there were two of them in the Cave.
He said to his companion, ‘Do not be despondent, Allah is with
us.’ Then Allah sent down His serenity upon him and reinforced
him with troops you could not see. He made the word of those
who disbelieved undermost. It is the word of Allah which is
uppermost. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (9:40)
• Allah pardon you! Why did you excuse them until it was clear to
you which of them were telling the truth and until you knew the
liars? (9:43)
• Those who believe in Allah and the Last Day do not ask you to
excuse them from striving with their wealth and themselves. Allah
knows the people who guard against evil. (9:44)
• Only those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day ask you
to excuse them. Their hearts are full of doubt and in their doubt
they waver to and fro. (9:45)
• If they had really desired to go out (to fight), they would have
made proper preparations for it, but Allah was averse to their
setting out so He held them back and they were told: ‘Stay behind
with those who stay behind.’ (9:46)
• If they had gone out among you, they would have added nothing
to you but confusion. They would have scurried about amongst
you seeking to cause conflict between you, and among you there
are some who would have listened to them. Allah knows the
wrongdoers. (9:47)
• Say: ‘What do you await for us except for one of the two best
things? But what we await for you is for Allah to inflict a
punishment on you either directly from Himself or at our hands.
So wait, we are waiting with you!’ (9:52)
• Say: ‘Whether you give readily or reluctantly, it will not be
accepted from you. You are people who are deviators.’ (9:53)
• They swear by Allah that they are of your number, but they are
not of your number. Rather, they are people who are scared.
(9:56)
• If they could find a bolt-hole, cave or burrow, they would turn and
scurry away into it. (9:57)
• Those who were left behind were glad to stay behind the
Messenger of Allah. They did not want to strive with their wealth
and themselves in the Way of Allah. They said, ‘Do not go out to
fight in the heat.’ Say: ‘The Fire of Hell is much hotter, if they only
understood.’ (9:81)
• Let them laugh little and weep much, in repayment for what they
have earned. (9:82)
• If Allah returns you to a group of them, and they ask you for
permission to go out, say, ‘You will never go out with me, nor will
you ever fight an enemy with me. You were happy to stay behind
the first time, so stay behind with those who are left behind.’ (9:83)
• Never pray over any of them who die or stand at their graves.
They rejected Allah and His Messenger and died as deviators.
(9:84)
• They will swear to you to make you pleased with them, but even if
you are pleased with them, Allah is certainly not pleased with
deviant people. (9:96)
• When they came at you from above you and below you, when
your eyes rolled and your hearts rose to your throats, and you
thought unworthy thoughts about Allah, at that point the believers
were tested and severely shaken. (33:10-11)
• When the hypocrites and people with sickness in their hearts said,
‘What Allah and His Messenger promised us was mere delusion.’
and a group of them said, ‘People of Yathrib, Your position is
untenable so return!’, some of them asked the Prophet to excuse
them, saying, ‘Our houses are exposed,’ when they were not
exposed; it was merely that they wanted to run away. (33:12-13)
• If they had been overrun from every side, and had then been
asked to revert to disbelief, they would have done so and
hesitated very little about it. (33:14)
• Yet they had previously made a contract with Allah that they
would never turn their backs. Contracts made with Allah will be
asked about. (33:15)
• Say: ‘Flight will not benefit you if you try to run away from death
or being killed. Then you will only enjoy a short respite.’ (33:16)
• Say: ‘Who is going to shield you from Allah if He desires evil for
you or desires mercy for you?’ They will find no one to protect or
help them besides Allah. (33:17)
• Allah knows the obstructers among you and those who say to
their brothers, ‘Come to us,’ and who only come to fight a very
little, and are begrudging towards you. Then when fear comes,
you see them looking at you, their eyes rolling like people scared
to death. But when fear departs they flay you with sharp tongues,
grasping for wealth. Such people have no faith and Allah will
make their actions come to nothing. That is easy for Allah. (33:18-
19)
• They think that the Confederates have not departed and if the
Confederates did appear then they would wish they were out in
the desert with the Arabs, asking for news of you. If they were
with you they would only fight a very little. (33:20)
• Nothing is held against the weak and sick nor against those who
find nothing to spend, provided they are true to Allah and His
Messenger–there is no way open against good-doers, Allah is
Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful–nor is anything held against those
who, when they came to you for you to provide them with mounts
and you said, ‘I cannot find anything on which to mount you,’
turned away with their eyes overflowing with tears, overcome by
grief at having nothing to give. (9:92)
THROAT
• When they came at you from above you and below you, when
your eyes rolled and your hearts rose to your throats, and you
thought unworthy thoughts about Allah, at that point the believers
were tested and severely shaken. (33:10-11)
• And warn them of the Day of Immediacy when hearts rise choking
to the throat. The wrongdoers will have no close friend nor any
intercessor who might be heard. (40:18)
• Why then, when death reaches his throat and you are at that
moment looking on–and We are nearer him than you but you
cannot see–why then, if you are not subject to Our command, do
you not send it back if you are telling the truth? (56:83-87)
THRONE
• He (Yusuf) raised his parents up onto the throne. The others fell
prostrate in front of him. He said, ‘My father, truly this is now the
interpretation of the dream I had. My Lord has made it all come
true; and He was kind to me by letting me out of prison and
brought you from the desert when Satan had caused dissent
between me and my brothers. My Lord is kind to anyone He wills.
He is indeed All-Knowing and All-Wise.’ (12:100)
• (The hoopoe said,) ‘I found a woman ruling over them who has
been given everything. She possesses a mighty throne.’ (27:23)
• Then when she came, she was asked, ‘Is your throne like this?’
She said, ‘It is exactly like it.’ ‘We were given knowledge before
her and were already Muslims,’ (27:42)
THRONE, THE
• Your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six
days and then settled Himself firmly on the Throne. He covers the
day with the night, each pursuing the other urgently; and the sun
and moon and stars are subservient to His command. Both
creation and command belong to Him. Blessed be Allah, the Lord
of all the worlds. (7:54)
• But if they turn away, say, ‘Allah is enough for me. There is no
god but Him. I have put my trust in Him. He is the Lord of the
Mighty Throne.’ (9:129)
• Your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six
days and then established Himself firmly on the Throne. He
directs the whole affair. No one can intercede except with His
permission. That is Allah your Lord, so worship Him. Will you not
pay heed? (10:3)
• It is He Who created the heavens and the earth in six days when
His Throne was on the water, in order to test which of you has the
best actions. If you say, ‘You will be raised up after death,’ those
who disbelieve will say, ‘This is nothing but downright magic.’
(11:7)
• Say: ‘If there had, as you say, been other gods together with Him,
they would have sought a way to the Master of the Throne.’
(17:42)
• (The Qur’an is) a Revelation from Him Who created the earth and
the high heavens, the All-Merciful, established firmly upon the
Throne. (20:4-5)
• If there had been any gods besides Allah in heaven or earth, they
would both be ruined. Glory be to Allah, Lord of the Throne,
beyond what they describe! (21:22)
• Say: ‘Who is the Lord of the Seven Heavens and the Lord of the
Mighty Throne?’ (23:86)
• Exalted be Allah, the King, the Real. There is no god but Him,
Lord of the Noble Throne. (23:116)
• You will see the angels circling round the Throne, glorifying their
Lord with praise. It will be decided between them with truth. And it
will be said: ‘Praise be to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds.’ (39:75)
• Those who bear the Throne, and all those around it, glorify their
Lord with praise and believe in Him and ask forgiveness for those
who believe: ‘Our Lord, You encompass everything in mercy and
knowledge! Forgive those who turn to You and who follow Your
Way and safeguard them from the punishment of the Blazing
Fire.’ (40:7)
• Glory be to the Lord of the heavens and the earth, the Lord of the
Throne, beyond what they describe. (43:82)
• It is He Who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then
established Himself firmly on the Throne. He knows what goes
into the earth and what comes out of it, what comes down from
heaven and what goes up into it. He is with you wherever you
are–Allah sees what you do. (57:4)
• The angels will be gathered round its edge. On that Day, eight will
bear the Throne of their Lord above their heads. (69:17)
• Truly it (the Qur’an) is the speech of a noble Messenger,
possessing great strength, securely placed with the Lord of the
Throne. (81:19-20)
THUNDER
• And when you said, ‘Musa, we will not believe in you until we see
Allah with our own eyes.’ So the thunder-bolt struck you dead
while you were looking. (2:55)
TIGHT-FISTED
• Those who are tight-fisted with the bounty Allah has given them
should not suppose that that is better for them. No indeed, it is
worse for them! What they were tight-fisted with will be hung
around their necks on the Day of Rising. Allah is the inheritor of
the heavens and the earth and Allah is aware of what you do.
(3:180)
• You who believe! Many of the rabbis and monks devour people’s
property under false pretences and bar people from access to the
Way of Allah. As for those who hoard up gold and silver and do
not spend it in the Way of Allah, give them the news of a painful
punishment on the Day it is heated up in the fire of Hell and their
foreheads, sides and backs are branded with it: ‘This is what you
hoarded for yourselves, so taste what you were hoarding!’ (9:34-
35)
• But when He does give them of His bounty they are tight-fisted
with it and turn away. (9:76)
• Do not keep your hand chained to your neck but do not extend it
either to its full extent so that you sit there blamed and destitute.
(17:29)
• If He did ask you for it and put you under pressure, you would be
tight-fisted and it would bring out your malevolence. (47:37)
• Here you are then: people who are called upon to spend in the
Way of Allah and then some of you are tight-fisted! But whoever
is tight-fisted is only tight-fisted to himself. Allah is Rich and you
are poor. If you turn away, He will replace you with a people other
than yourselves and they will not be like you. (47:38)
• (Allah does not love) those who are tight-fisted and tell others to
be tight-fisted. If anyone turns away, Allah is the Rich Beyond
Need, the Praiseworthy. (57:24)
• But no! It is a Raging Blaze stripping away the limbs and scalp,
which calls for all who drew back and turned away, and amassed
and hoarded up. (70:15-18)
• But as for him who is stingy and self-satisfied, and denies the
Good, We will pave his way to Difficulty. His wealth will not help
him when he plummets to the depths. (92:8-11)
• Have you seen him who denies the religion? He is the one who
harshly rebuffs the orphan and does not urge the feeding of the
poor. (107:1-3)
• The steadfast, the truthful, the obedient, the givers, and those
who seek forgiveness before dawn. (3:17)
• The part of the night they spent asleep was small and they would
seek forgiveness before the dawn. (51:17-18)
• We unleashed a sudden squall of stones against all of them,
except the family of Lut, who We rescued before dawn. (54:34)
TIREDNESS
• They will not be affected by any tiredness there and they will
never be made to leave. (15:48)
• When they had gone a distance further on, he (Musa) said to his
servant, ‘Bring us our morning meal. Truly this journey of ours
has made us tired.’ (18:62)
• If they grow arrogant, those who are with your Lord glorify Him
night and day and never grow tired. (41:38)
• Man never tires of praying for the good and if evil touches him, he
despairs and loses hope. (41:49)
TONGUE
• Among them is a group who distort the Book with their tongues so
that you think it is from the Book when it is not from the Book.
They say, ‘It is from Allah,’ but it is not from Allah. They tell a lie
against Allah and they know it. (3:78)
• Some of the Jews distort the true meaning of words, saying, ‘We
hear and disobey,’ and ‘Listen without listening,’ and ‘Listen to
us!’ twisting them with their tongues, disparaging the religion. If
they had said, ‘We hear and we obey,’ and ‘Listen,’ and, ‘Look at
us!’ that would have been better for them and more upright. But
Allah has cursed them for their disbelief. Very few of them believe.
(4:46)
• They have the word, ‘Obedience!’ on their tongues but when they
leave your presence, a group of them spend the night plotting to
do other than what you say. Allah is recording their nocturnal
plotting. So let them be and put your trust in Allah. Allah suffices
as a Guardian. (4:81)
• They allot to Allah what they themselves dislike and their tongues
frame the lie that they will receive the Best. There is no doubt at
all that they will receive the Fire and that they are people who go
to excess. (16:62)
• Do not say about what your lying tongues describe: ‘This is lawful
and this is forbidden,’ inventing lies against Allah. Those who
invent lies against Allah are not successful. (16:116)
• We have made it easy on your tongue so that you can give good
news to those who guard against evil and warn stubbornly hostile
people by it. (19:97)
• (Musa said, ‘O Lord,) loosen the knot in my tongue.’ (20:27)
• ... they will have a terrible punishment on the Day when their
tongues and hands and feet will testify against them about what
they were doing. (24:23-24)
• He (Musa) said, ‘My Lord, I fear they will deny me and that my
breast will be constricted and that my tongue will not be free, so
send Harun as a Messenger as well.’ (26:12-13)
• Allah knows the obstructers among you and those who say to
their brothers, ‘Come to us,’ and who only come to fight a very
little, and are begrudging towards you. Then when fear comes,
you see them looking at you, their eyes rolling like people scared
to death. But when fear departs they flay you with sharp tongues,
grasping for wealth. Such people have no faith and Allah will
make their actions come to nothing. That is easy for Allah. (33:18-
19)
• But before it there was the Book of Musa as a model and a mercy.
And this is a corroborating Book in the Arabic tongue so that you
may warn those who do wrong, and as good news for the good-
doers. (46:12)
• Those Arabs who remained behind will say to you, ‘Our wealth
and families kept us occupied, so ask forgiveness for us.’ They
say with their tongues what is not in their hearts. Say: ‘Who can
control Allah for you in any way whether He wants harm for you
or wants benefit for you?’ Allah is aware of what you do. (48:11)
• If they come upon you, they will be your enemies and stretch out
their hands and tongues against you with evil intent, and they
would dearly love you to disbelieve. (60:2)
• Do not move your tongue trying to hasten it. Its collection and
recitation are Our affair. (75:16-17)
• Have We not given him two eyes, and a tongue and two lips?
(90:8-9)
TORAH
• He has sent down the Book to you with truth, confirming what was
there before it. And He sent down the Torah and the Gospel. (3:3)
• He will teach him (‘Isa) the Book and Wisdom, and the Torah and
the Gospel. (3:48)
• (‘Isa said,) ‘I come confirming the Torah I find already there, and
to make lawful for you some of what was previously forbidden to
you. I have brought you a Sign from your Lord. So have fear of
Allah and obey me.’ (3:50)
• All food was lawful for the tribe of Israel except what Israel made
unlawful for himself before the Torah was sent down. Say, ‘Bring
the Torah and read it out if you are telling the truth.’ (3:93)
• You who have been given the Book! Believe in what We have
sent down confirming what is with you (the Torah and Gospel),
before We obliterate faces, turning them inside out, or We curse
you as We cursed the Companions of the Sabbath. Allah’s
command is always carried out. (4:47)
• How can they make you their judge when they have the Torah
with them which contains the judgement of Allah? Then even
after that they turn their backs! Such people are certainly not
believers. (5:43)
• We sent down the Torah containing guidance and light, and the
Prophets who had submitted themselves gave judgement by it for
the Jews–as did their scholars and their rabbis–by what they had
been allowed to preserve of Allah’s Book to which they were
witnesses. Do not be afraid of people, be afraid of Me. And do not
sell My Signs for a paltry price. Those who do not judge by what
Allah has sent down, such people are disbelievers. (5:44)
• We prescribed for them in it: a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a
nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth, and
retaliation for wounds. But if anyone forgoes that as a charity, it
will act as expiation for him. Those who do not judge by what
Allah has sent down, such people are wrongdoers. (5:45)
• If only they had implemented the Torah and the Gospel and what
was sent down to them from their Lord (the Qur’an), they would
have been fed from above their heads and beneath their feet.
Among them there is a moderate group but what most of them do
is evil. (5:66)
• Say: ‘People of the Book! You have nothing to stand on until you
implement the Torah and the Gospel and what has been sent
down to you from your Lord.’ What has been sent down to you
from your Lord increases many of them in insolence and disbelief.
So do not waste your grief on the people of the disbelievers. (5:68)
• Say: ‘Bring a Book, then, from Allah which guides better than both
of them (the Torah and the Qur’an) and follow it if you are telling
the truth.’ (28:49)
• The metaphor of those who were charged with the Torah but then
have not upheld it, is that of a donkey loaded with weighty tomes.
How evil is the metaphor of those who deny Allah’s Signs! Allah
does not guide wrongdoing people. (62:5)
TOWN
• Remember when We said, ‘Go into this town and eat from it
wherever you like, freely. Enter the gate prostrating and say,
"Relieve us of our burdens!" Your mistakes will be forgiven. We
will grant increase to all good-doers.’ (2:58)
• Or (what about) the one who passed by a town which had fallen
into ruin? He asked, ‘How can Allah restore this to life when it has
died?’ Allah caused him to die a hundred years then brought him
back to life. Then He asked, ‘How long have you been here?’ He
replied, ‘I have been here a day or part of a day.’ He said, ‘Not so!
You have been here a hundred years. Look at your food and
drink–it has not gone bad–and look at your donkey so We can
make you a Sign for all mankind. Look at the bones–how We
raise them up and clothe them in flesh.’ When it had become
clear to him, he said, ‘Now I know that Allah has power over all
things.’ (2:259)
• When they were told: ‘Live in this town and eat of it wherever you
like and say, "Relieve us of our burdens!" and enter the gate
prostrating. Your mistakes will be forgiven you. We will grant
increase to good-doers.’ (7:161)
• Ask them about the town which was by the sea when they broke
the Sabbath–when their fish came to them near the surface on
their Sabbath day but did not come on the days which they did
not keep the Sabbath. In this way We put them to the test
because they were deviators. (7:163)
• ‘As for the wall, it belonged to two young orphans in the town and
there was a treasure underneath it, belonging to them. Their
father was one of the righteous and your Lord wanted them to
come of age and then to unearth their treasure as a mercy from
Him. I did not do it of my own volition. That is the explanation of
the things about which you were not able to restrain yourself.’
(18:82)
TRACE
• They said, ‘Our Lord, put more distance between our staging
posts.’ They wronged themselves so We made legends of them
and scattered them without a trace. There are certainly Signs in
that for everyone who is steadfast and thankful. (34:19)
• Have they not travelled in the earth and seen the final fate of
those before them? They were greater than them in strength and
left far deeper traces on the earth, yet Allah seized them for their
wrong actions and they had no one to protect them from Allah.
(40:21)
• Have they not travelled in the land and seen the final fate of those
before them? They were more numerous than them and greater
in strength and left more and deeper traces on earth, but what
they earned was of no use to them. (40:82)
• Those who practise usury will not rise from the grave except as
someone driven mad by Satan's touch. That is because they say,
‘Trade is the same as usury.’ But Allah has permitted trade and
He has forbidden usury. Whoever is given a warning by his Lord
and then desists, can keep what he received in the past and his
affair is Allah’s concern. But all who return to it will be the
Companions of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever.
(2:275)
• You who believe! When you take on a debt for a specified period,
write it down. A writer should write it down between you justly. No
writer should refuse to write; as Allah has taught him, so he
should write. The one incurring the debt should dictate and
should have fear of Allah his Lord and not reduce it in any way. If
the person incurring the debt is incompetent or weak or unable to
dictate, then his guardian should dictate for him justly. Two men
among you should act as witnesses. But if there are not two men,
then a man and two women with whom you are satisfied as
witnesses; then if one of them forgets, the other can remind her.
Witnesses should not refuse when they are called upon. Do not
think it too trivial to write down, whether small or large, with the
date that it falls due. Doing that is more just in Allah’s sight and
more helpful when bearing witness and more likely to eliminate
any doubt–unless it is an immediate transaction hand to hand,
taken and given without delay. There is nothing wrong in your not
writing that down. Call witnesses when you trade. Neither writer
nor witness should be put under pressure. If you do that, it is
deviancy on your part. Have fear of Allah and Allah will give you
knowledge. Allah has knowledge of all things. (2:282)
• ... there are men who proclaim His glory morning and evening,
not distracted by trade or commerce from the remembrance of
Allah and the performance of prayer and the giving of the alms;
fearing a day when all hearts and eyes will be in turmoil. (24:36-
37)
• But when they see a chance of trade or entertainment they
scatter off to it and leave you standing there. Say: ‘What is with
Allah is better than trade or entertainment. Allah is the Best of
Providers.’ (62:11)
TRANSACTION
• You who believe! When you take on a debt for a specified period,
write it down. A writer should write it down between you justly. No
writer should refuse to write; as Allah has taught him, so he
should write. The one incurring the debt should dictate and
should have fear of Allah his Lord and not reduce it in any way. If
the person incurring the debt is incompetent or weak or unable to
dictate, then his guardian should dictate for him justly. Two men
among you should act as witnesses. But if there are not two men,
then a man and two women with whom you are satisfied as
witnesses; then if one of them forgets, the other can remind her.
Witnesses should not refuse when they are called upon. Do not
think it too trivial to write down, whether small or large, with the
date that it falls due. Doing that is more just in Allah’s sight and
more helpful when bearing witness and more likely to eliminate
any doubt–unless it is an immediate transaction hand to hand,
taken and given without delay. There is nothing wrong in your not
writing that down. Call witnesses when you trade. Neither writer
nor witness should be put under pressure. If you do that, it is
deviancy on your part. Have fear of Allah and Allah will give you
knowledge. Allah has knowledge of all things. (2:282)
• Those who recite the Book of Allah and perform prayer and give
of what We have provided for them, secretly and openly, hope for
a transaction which will not prove profitless. (35:29)
TRANSMISSION
• Obey Allah and obey the Messenger and beware! If you turn your
backs, know that Our Messenger is only responsible for clear
transmission. (5:92)
• (Hud said,) ‘If you turn your backs, I have transmitted to you what
I was sent to you with, and my Lord will replace you with another
people, and you will not harm Him at all. My Lord is the Preserver
of everything.’ (11:57)
• But if they turn their backs, you are only responsible for clear
transmission. (16:82)
• And if you deny it, nations before you also denied the truth. The
Messenger is only responsible for clear transmission. (29:18)
• But if they turn away, We have not sent you to be their guardian.
You are only responsible for transmission. When We let a man
taste mercy from Us he exults in it. But if something bad strikes
him for what he has done he is ungrateful. (42:48)
• Obey Allah and obey the Messenger. But if you turn your backs,
the Messenger is only responsible for clear transmission. (64:12)
• Say: ‘No one can protect me from Allah and I will never find any
refuge apart from Him–only in transmitting from Allah and His
Messages. As for him who disobeys Allah and His Messenger, he
will have the Fire of Hell, remaining in it timelessly, for ever and
ever.’ (72:22-23)
• (It is) so that He may know that they have indeed transmitted the
Messages of their Lord. He encompasses what is in their hands
and has counted the exact number of everything. (72:28)
TRAVEL
• It (the charity) is for the poor who are held back in the Way of
Allah, unable to travel in the land. The ignorant consider them rich
because of their reticence. You will know them by their mark.
They do not ask from people insistently. Whatever good you give
away, Allah knows it. (2:273)
• You who believe! Do not approach the prayer when you are drunk,
so that you will know what you are saying, nor in a state of major
impurity–unless you are travelling–until you have washed
yourselves completely. If you are ill or on a journey, or any of you
have come from the lavatory or touched women, and you cannot
find any water, then take for yourselves clean earth, wiping your
faces and your hands. Allah is Ever-Pardoning, Ever-Forgiving.
(4:43)
• When you are travelling in the land, there is nothing wrong in your
shortening your prayer if you fear that those who disbelieve may
harass you. The disbelievers are your clear-cut enemies. (4:101)
• You who believe! When one of you is near to death and makes a
will, two just men from among you should act as witnesses; or, if
you are travelling when the misfortune of death occurs, two men
who are strangers to you. You should detain them after prayer
and, if you are doubtful, they should swear by Allah: ‘We will not
sell it for any price, even to a near relative, and we will not
conceal the testimony of Allah. If we did we would indeed be
wrongdoers.’ (5:106)
• We sent none before you but men inspired with revelation from
among the people of the cities. Have they not travelled in the land
and seen the final fate of those before them? The abode of the
hereafter is better for those who guard against evil. So will you
not use your intellect? (12:109)
• Or (do those who plot evil actions feel secure) that He will not
seize them on their travels, something they are powerless to
prevent? (16:46)
• (Your Lord revealed to the bees:) ‘Then eat from every kind of
fruit and travel the paths of your Lord, which have been made
easy for you to follow.’ From inside them comes a drink of varying
colours, containing healing for mankind. There is certainly a Sign
in that for people who reflect. (16:69)
• Allah has made your houses places of rest for you and made
houses for you out of cattle hides which are light for you to carry
both when you are travelling and when you are staying in one
place. And from their wool and fur and hair you obtain clothing
and carpets and household utensils for a time. (16:80)
• Say: ‘Travel about the earth and see the final fate of the
evildoers.’ (27:69)
• Say: ‘Travel about the earth and see how He brought creation out
of nothing. Then later Allah will bring about the next existence.
Allah has power over all things.’ (29:20)
• Have they not travelled in the earth and seen the final fate of
those before them? They had greater strength than them and
cultivated the land and inhabited it in far greater numbers than
they do. Their Messengers also came to them with the Clear
Signs. Allah would never have wronged them; but they wronged
themselves. (30:9)
• Say: ‘Travel about the earth and see the final fate of those before.
Most of them were idolaters.’ (30:42)
• Have they not travelled in the land and seen the final fate of those
before them? They were far greater than them in strength. Allah
cannot be withstood in any way, either in the heavens or on earth.
He is All-Knowing, All-Powerful. (35:44)
• Have they not travelled in the earth and seen the final fate of
those before them? They were greater than them in strength and
left far deeper traces on the earth, yet Allah seized them for their
wrong actions and they had no one to protect them from Allah.
(40:21)
• Have they not travelled in the land and seen the final fate of those
before them? They were more numerous than them and greater
in strength and left more and deeper traces on earth, but what
they earned was of no use to them. (40:82)
• Have they not travelled about the earth and seen the final fate of
those before them? Allah destroyed them utterly. And those who
disbelieve will suffer the same fate. (47:10)
• Your Lord knows that you stay up nearly two-thirds of the night–or
half of it, or a third of it–and a group of those with you. Allah
determines the night and day. He knows you will not keep count
of it, so He has turned towards you. Recite as much of the Qur’an
as is easy for you. He knows that some of you are ill and that
others are travelling in the land seeking Allah’s bounty, and that
others are fighting in the Way of Allah. So recite as much of it as
is easy for you. And perform prayer and give the alms and lend a
generous loan to Allah. Whatever good you send ahead for
yourselves you will find it with Allah as something better and as a
greater reward. And seek forgiveness from Allah. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (73:20)
TRAVELER
• They will ask you what they should give away. Say, ‘Any wealth
you give away should go to your parents and relatives and to
orphans and the very poor and travellers.’ Whatever good you do,
Allah knows it. (2:215)
• Worship Allah and do not associate anything with Him. Be good
to your parents and relatives and to orphans and the very poor,
and to neighbours who are related to you and neighbours who
are not related to you, and to companions and travellers and your
slaves. Allah does not love anyone vain or boastful. (4:36)
• Anything you catch in the sea is lawful for you, and all food from it,
for your enjoyment and that of travellers, but land game is
forbidden for you while you are in the state of pilgrimage. So have
fear of Allah, Him to Whom you will be gathered. (5:96)
• Know that when you take any booty a fifth of it belongs to Allah,
and to the Messenger, and to close relatives, orphans, the very
poor and travellers, if you believe in Allah and in what We sent
down to Our servant on the Day of Discrimination, the day the two
groups met–Allah has power over all things. (8:41)
• The alms are for: the poor, the destitute, those who collect it,
reconciling people’s hearts, freeing slaves, those in debt,
spending in the Way of Allah, and travellers. It is a legal obligation
from Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (9:60)
• One of them said, ‘Do not take Yusuf’s life but throw him to the
bottom of the well, so that some travellers may discover him, if
this is something that you have to do.’ (12:10)
• Some travellers came that way and then dispatched their water-
drawer who let his bucket down. He said, ‘Good news for me, I’ve
found a boy!’ They then hid him away among their goods. Allah
knew very well what they were doing. (12:19)
• Give your relatives their due, and the very poor and travellers but
do not squander what you have. (17:26)
• Give relatives their due, and the poor and travellers. That is best
for those who seek the pleasure of Allah. They are the ones who
are successful. (30:38)
• Have you thought about the fire that you light? Is it you who make
the trees that fuel it grow or are We the Grower? We have made
it to be a reminder and a comfort for travellers in the wild. (56:71-
73)
TREACHERY
• We have sent down the Book to you with the truth so that you can
judge between people according to what Allah has shown to you.
But do not be an advocate for the treacherous. (4:105)
• When the waves hang over them like canopies, they call on Allah,
making their religion sincerely His. But then when He delivers
them safely to the land, some of them are ambivalent. None but a
treacherous, thankless man denies Our Signs. (31:32)
TREASURE - TREASURY
• Say: ‘I do not say to you that I possess the treasuries of Allah, nor
do I know the Unseen, nor do I say to you that I am an angel. I
only follow what has been revealed to me.’ Say: ‘Are the blind the
same as those who can see? So will you not reflect?’ (6:50)
• Perhaps you are leaving aside part of what has been revealed to
you and your breast is constricted by this because they say, ‘Why
has treasure not been sent down to him or an angel not
accompanied him?’ You are only a warner and Allah is Guardian
over all things. (11:12)
• (Nuh said to his people,) ‘I do not say to you that I possess the
treasuries of Allah; nor do I know the Unseen; nor do I say that I
am an angel; nor do I say to those who are vile in your eyes that
Allah will not give them any good. Allah knows best what is in
their hearts. If I did, I would certainly be one of the wrongdoers.’
(11:31)
• (He said to Musa,) ‘As for the wall, it belonged to two young
orphans in the town and there was a treasure underneath it,
belonging to them. Their father was one of the righteous and your
Lord wanted them to come of age and then to unearth their
treasure as a mercy from Him. I did not do it of my own volition.
That is the explanation of the things about which you were not
able to restrain yourself.’ (18:82)
• Qarun was one of the people of Musa but he lorded it over them.
We gave him treasures, the keys alone to which were a heavy
weight for a party of strong men. When his people said to him,
‘Do not gloat. Allah does not love people who gloat. Seek the
abode of the hereafter with what Allah has given you, without
forgetting your portion of this world. And do good as Allah has
been good to you. And do not seek to cause corruption in the
earth. Allah does not love corrupters’, he said, ‘I have only been
given it because of knowledge I have.’ Did he not know that
before him Allah had destroyed generations with far greater
strength than his and far more possessions? The evildoers will
not be questioned about their sins. (28:76-78)
• They are the people who say, ‘Do not spend on those who are
with the Messenger of Allah, so that they may go away.’ The
treasuries of the heavens and earth belong to Allah. But the
hypocrites do not understand this. (63:7)
TREATY
• Those who believe and have migrated and strived with their
wealth and themselves in the Way of Allah, and those who have
given refuge and help, they are the friends and protectors of one
another. But as for those who believe but have not migrated, you
are not in any way responsible for their protection until they
migrate. But if they ask you for help in respect of the religion, it is
your duty to help them, except against people you have a treaty
with. Allah sees what you do. (8:72)
• How could any of the idolaters possibly have a treaty with Allah
and with His Messenger, except for those you made a treaty with
at the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram)? As long as they are
straight with you, be straight with them. Allah loves those who
guard against evil. How indeed! For if they get the upper hand
over you, they will respect neither kinship nor treaty. They please
you with their mouths but their hearts belie their words. Most of
them are deviators. (9:7-8)
• If they break their oaths after making their treaty and defame your
religion, then fight the leaders of disbelief–they have no binding
oaths–so that hopefully they will stop. (9:12)
TREE
• We said, ‘Adam, live in the Garden, you and your wife, and eat
freely from it wherever you will. But do not approach this tree and
so become wrongdoers.’ (2:35)
• (Allah said,) ‘Adam, live in the Garden, you and your wife, and eat
of it wherever you like. But do not go near this tree lest you
become wrongdoers.’ (7:19)
• In the earth there are diverse regions side by side and gardens of
grapes and cultivated fields, and palm-trees sharing one root and
others with individual roots, all watered with the same water. And
We make some things better to eat than others. There are Signs
in that for people who use their intellect. (13:4)
• But Satan whispered to him, saying, ‘Adam, shall I show you the
way to the Tree of Everlasting Life and to a kingdom which will
never fade away?’ (20:120)
• He Who created the heavens and the earth and sends down
water for you from the sky by which We make luxuriant gardens
grow–you could never make their trees grow. Is there another
god besides Allah? No indeed, but they are people who equate
others with Him! (27:60)
• If all the trees on earth were pens and all the sea, with seven
more seas besides, was ink Allah’s words still would not run dry.
Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (31:27)
• Say ‘He Who made them in the first place will bring them back to
life. He has total knowledge of each created thing; He Who
produces fire for you from green trees so that you use them to
light your fires.’ (36:79-80)
• The stars and the trees all bow down in prostration. (55:6)
• Is it you who make the trees that fuel it grow or are We the
Grower? (56:72)
• Ask the tribe of Israel how many Clear Signs We gave to them. If
anyone alters Allah’s blessing after it has come to him, Allah is
fierce in retribution. (2:211)
• What do you think about the council of the tribe of Israel after
Musa’s time when they said to one of their Prophets, ‘Give us a
king and we will fight in the Way of Allah!’? He said, ‘Is it not
possible that if fighting were prescribed for you, you would not
fight?’ They said, ‘How could we not fight in the way of Allah when
we have been driven from our homes and children?’ But then
when fighting was prescribed for them, they turned their backs–
except for a few of them. Allah knows the wrongdoers. (2:246)
• He will teach him (‘Isa) the Book and Wisdom, and the Torah and
the Gospel, as a Messenger to the tribe of Israel, saying: ‘I have
brought you a Sign from your Lord. I will create the shape of a
bird out of clay for you and then breathe into it and it will be a bird
by Allah’s permission. I will heal the blind and the leper, and bring
the dead to life, by Allah’s permission. I will tell you what you eat
and what you store up in your homes. There is a Sign for you in
that if you are believers.’ (3:48-49)
• All food was lawful for the tribe of Israel except what Israel made
unlawful for himself before the Torah was sent down. Say, ‘Bring
the Torah and read it out if you are telling the truth.’ (3:93)
• Then Allah sent a crow which scratched at the earth to show him
(one of Adam’s two sons) how to conceal his brother’s corpse. He
said, ‘Woe is me! Can I not even be like this crow and conceal my
brother’s corpse?’ And he became one of those who suffer bitter
remorse on account of that. So We decreed for the tribe of Israel
that if someone kills another person–unless it is in retaliation for
someone else or for causing corruption in the earth–it is as if he
had murdered all mankind. And if anyone gives life to another
person, it is as if he had given life to all mankind. Our
Messengers came to them with Clear Signs but even after that
many of them committed outrages in the earth. (5:31-32)
• Those who say that the Messiah, son of Maryam, is Allah are
disbelievers. The Messiah said, ‘Tribe of Israel! Worship Allah,
my Lord and your Lord. If anyone associates anything with Allah,
Allah has forbidden him the Garden and his refuge will be the
Fire.’ The wrongdoers will have no helpers. (5:72)
• Whenever the plague came down on them they said, ‘Musa, pray
to your Lord for us by the contract He has with you. If you remove
the plague from us, we will definitely believe in you and send the
tribe of Israel away with you.’ (7:134)
• And We bequeathed to the people who had been oppressed the
easternmost part of the land We had blessed, and its
westernmost part as well. The most excellent Word of your Lord
was fulfilled for the tribe of Israel on account of their
steadfastness. And We utterly destroyed what Pharaoh and his
people made and the buildings they constructed. (7:137)
• We conveyed the tribe of Israel across the sea and they came
upon some people who were devoting themselves to some idols
which they had. They said, ‘Musa, give us a god just as these
people have gods.’ He said, ‘You are indeed an ignorant people.’
(7:138)
• We brought the tribe of Israel across the sea and Pharaoh and
his troops pursued them out of tyranny and enmity. Then, when
he was on the point of drowning, he said, ‘I believe that there is
no god but Him in Whom the tribe of Israel believe. I am one of
the Muslims.’ (10:90)
• We settled the tribe of Israel in a noble place and gave them good
things as provision. They did not differ until knowledge came to
them. Your Lord will decide between them on the Day of Rising
regarding the things about which they differed. (10:93)
• We gave Musa the Book and made it guidance for the tribe of
Israel: ‘Do not take anyone besides Me as a guardian.’ (17:2)
• We decreed in the Book for the tribe of Israel: ‘You will twice
cause corruption on the earth and you will rise to a great height.
When the promised first time came, We sent against you servants
of Ours possessing great force, and they ransacked your houses,
rampaging right through them. It was a promise which was
fulfilled. Then once again We gave you the upper hand over them
and supplied you with more wealth and children and made you
the most numerous group. If you do good, you do it to yourselves.
If you do evil, you do it to your detriment. When the next promised
time arrived, it was so that they could injure you and enter the
Temple as they had entered it the first time, and in order to
completely destroy what they had conquered. It may well be that
your Lord will have mercy on you. But if you revert to what you
did, We also will revert. We have made Hell a prison for the
disbelievers.’ (17:4-8)
• We gave Musa nine Clear Signs. Ask the tribe of Israel about
when he came to them and Pharaoh said to him, ‘Musa, I think
you are bewitched.’ (17:101)
• We said to the tribe of Israel after that, ‘Inhabit the land and,
when the promise of the hereafter comes, We will produce you as
a motley crowd.’ (17:104)
• Those are some of the Prophets Allah has blessed, from the
descendants of Adam and from those We carried with Nuh, and
from the descendants of Ibrahim and Isra’il and from those We
guided and chose. When the Signs of the All-Merciful were
recited to them they fell on their faces, weeping, in prostration.
(19:58)
• (Allah said to Musa,) ‘Go to him (Pharaoh) and say, "We are your
Lord’s Messengers so send the tribe of Israel away with us and
do not punish them. We have brought you a Sign from your Lord.
Peace be upon those who follow the guidance."’ (20:47)
• (Allah said to Musa,) ‘Go to Pharaoh and say, "We are the
Messenger of the Lord of all the worlds to tell you to send the
tribe of Israel away with us."’ (26:16-17)
• Is it not indeed a Sign for them that the scholars of the tribe of
Israel have knowledge of it? (26:197)
• Say: ‘What do you think? If it is from Allah and you reject it, when
a witness from the tribe of Israel testifies to its similarity and
believes while you are arrogant...! Allah certainly does not guide
wrongdoing people.’ (46:10)
TRIBES
• Say, ‘We believe in Allah and what has been sent down to us and
what was sent down to Ibrahim and Isma‘il and Ishaq and Ya‘qub
and the Tribes, and what Musa and ‘Isa were given, and what all
the Prophets were given by their Lord. We do not differentiate
between any of them. We are Muslims submitted to Him.’ (2:136)
• Or do they say that Ibrahim and Isma‘il and Ishaq and Ya‘qub and
the Tribes were Jews or Christians? Say, ‘Do you know better or
does Allah?’ Who could do greater wrong than someone who
hides the evidence he has been given by Allah? Allah is not
unaware of what you do. (2:140)
• Say, ‘We believe in Allah and what has been sent down to us and
what was sent down to Ibrahim, Isma‘il and Ishaq and Ya‘qub and
the Tribes, and what Musa and ‘Isa and all the Prophets were
given by their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them.
We are Muslims submitted to Him.’ (3:84)
• Say: ‘If your fathers or your sons or your brothers or your wives or
your tribe, or any wealth you have acquired, or any business you
fear may slump, or any house which pleases you, are dearer to
you than Allah and His Messenger and striving in His Way, then
wait until Allah brings about His command. Allah does not guide
people who are deviators.’ (9:24)
• ‘Did I not make a contract with you, tribe of Adam, not to worship
Satan, who truly is an outright enemy to you, but to worship Me?
That is a straight path.’ (36:60-61)
• Mankind! We created you from a male and female, and made you
into peoples and tribes so that you might come to know each
other. The noblest among you in Allah’s sight is the one of you
who best performs his duty. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware.
(49:13)
TRIBUTE
TROOP
• When Talut marched out with the army, he said, ‘Allah will test
you with a river. Anyone who drinks from it is not with me. But
anyone who does not taste it is with me–except for him who
merely scoops up a little in his hand.’ But they drank from it–
except for a few of them. Then when he and those who believed
with him had crossed it, they said, ‘We do not have the strength
to face Goliath and his troops today.’ But those who were sure
that they were going to meet Allah said, ‘How many a small force
has triumphed over a much greater one by Allah’s permission!
Allah is with the steadfast.’ (2:249)
• When they came out against Goliath and his troops, they said,
‘Our Lord, pour down steadfastness upon us, and make our feet
firm, and help us against this disbelieving people.’ (2:250)
• Know that when you take any booty a fifth of it belongs to Allah,
and to the Messenger, and to close relatives, orphans, the very
poor and travellers, if you believe in Allah and in what We sent
down to Our servant on the Day of Discrimination, the day the two
groups met–Allah has power over all things. (8:41)
• You who believe! When you meet a troop, stand firm and
remember Allah repeatedly so that hopefully you will be
successful. (8:45)
• Then Allah sent down His serenity on His Messenger and on the
believers, and sent down troops you could not see, and punished
those who disbelieved. That is how the disbelievers are repaid.
(9:26)
• If you do not help him, Allah did help him when those who
disbelieved drove him out and there were two of them in the Cave.
He said to his companion, ‘Do not be despondent, Allah is with
us.’ Then Allah sent down His serenity upon him and reinforced
him with troops you could not see. He made the word of those
who disbelieved undermost. It is the word of Allah which is
uppermost. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (9:40)
• We brought the tribe of Israel across the sea and Pharaoh and
his troops pursued them out of tyranny and enmity. Then, when
he was on the point of drowning, he said, ‘I believe that there is
no god but Him in Whom the tribe of Israel believe. I am one of
the Muslims.’ (10:90)
• Say: ‘As for those who are astray, let the All-Merciful prolong their
term until they see what they were promised, whether it be the
punishment or the Hour. Then they will know who is in the worse
position and has the weaker troops.’ (19:75)
• Pharaoh pursued them with his troops and the sea overwhelmed
them utterly. (20:78)
• They will be bundled into it head first, they and the misled, and
every one of Diabolis’s regiments. (26:94-95)
• Then, when they reached the Valley of the Ants, an ant said,
‘Ants! Enter your dwellings so that Sulayman and his troops do
not crush you unwittingly.’ (27:18)
• And (We desired to) establish them firmly in the land and to show
Pharaoh and Haman and their troops the very thing that they
were fearing from them. (28:6)
TRUST
• (A group of the People of the Book say,) ‘Do not trust anyone
except for those who follow your religion.’ Say, ‘Allah’s guidance
is true guidance. But you think it is impossible for anyone to be
given the same as you were given, or to argue with you before
your Lord.’ Say, ‘All favour is in Allah’s Hand and He gives it to
whoever He wills. Allah is All-Encompassing, All-Knowing.’ (3:73)
• They said, ‘Our Father! What is wrong with you that you refuse to
trust us with Yusuf when in truth we only wish him well? (12:11)
• The King said, ‘Bring him to me straight away! So I may draw him
very close to me.’ When he had spoken with him, he declared,
‘Today you are trusted, established in our sight.’ (12:54)
• A demon of the jinn said, ‘I will bring it to you before you get up
from your seat. I am strong and trustworthy enough to do it.’
(27:39)
• One of them said, ‘Hire him, father. The best person to hire is
someone strong and trustworthy.’ (28:26)
(HONOURING) TRUSTS
• Among the People of the Book there are some who, if you entrust
them with a pile of gold, will return it to you. But there are others
among them who, if you entrust them with just a single dinar, will
not return it to you, unless you stay standing over them. That is
because they say, ‘We are under no obligation where the gentiles
are concerned.’ They tell a lie against Allah and they know it.
(3:75)
• Allah commands you to return to their owners the things you hold
on trust and, when you judge between people, to judge with
justice. How excellent is what Allah exhorts you to do! Allah is All-
Hearing, All-Seeing. (4:58)
• You who believe! Do not betray Allah and His Messenger, and do
not knowingly betray your trusts. (8:27)
• (Believers are) those who honour their trusts and their contracts.
(23:8)
• We offered the Trust to the heavens, the earth and the mountains
but they refused to take it on and shrank from it. But man took it
on. He is indeed wrongdoing and ignorant. (33:72)
TUNNEL
TUWA
• (Allah said to Musa,) ‘I am your Lord. Take off your sandals. You
are in the holy valley of Tuwa.’ (20:12)
• Has the story of Musa reached you: when his Lord called out to
him in the holy valley of Tuwa? (79:15-16)
TYRANNY - TYRANT
• They said, ‘There are tyrants in it, Musa. We will not enter it until
they leave. If they leave it, then we will go in.’ (5:22)
• We brought the tribe of Israel across the sea and Pharaoh and
his troops pursued them out of tyranny and enmity. Then, when
he was on the point of drowning, he said, ‘I believe that there is
no god but Him in whom the tribe of Israel believe. I am one of
the Muslims.’ (10:90)
• That was ‘Ad. They denied the Signs of their Lord and disobeyed
His Messengers and followed the command of every obdurate
tyrant. (11:59)
• They asked for Allah’s victory, and every obdurate tyrant failed.
(14:15)
• (Hud said to his people,) ‘Do you build a tower on every hilltop,
just to amuse yourselves, and construct great fortresses, hoping
to live for ever, and when you attack, attack as tyrants do?’
(26:128-130)
• But when he was about to grab the man who was their common
enemy, he said, ‘Musa! Do you want to kill me just as you killed a
person yesterday? You only want to be a tyrant in the land; you
do not want to be a reformer.’ (28:19)
• Do you not see what your Lord did with ‘Ad–Iram of the Columns
whose like was not created in any land–and Thamud who carved
out rocks in the valley-side, and Pharaoh of the Stakes, all of
whom were tyrants in their lands and caused much corruption in
them? (89:6-12)
UMMI
• UNAWARENESS
• Because of the fact that they broke their covenant, and rejected
Allah’s Signs, and killed the Prophets without any right to do so
and said, ‘Our hearts are uncircumcised,’ Allah has stamped
them with disbelief, so they do not believe except for very few.
(4:155)
• They do not measure Allah with His true measure when they say,
‘Allah would not send down anything to a mere human being.’
Say: ‘Who, then, sent down the Book which Musa brought as a
Light and Guidance for the people?’ You put it down on sheets of
paper to display it while concealing much. You were taught things
you did not know, neither you nor your forefathers. Say: ‘Allah!’
Then leave them engrossed in playing their games. (6:91)
• They said, ‘No matter what kind of Sign you bring us to bewitch
us, we will not believe in you.’ (Qur’an, 7:132)
• I will divert from My Signs all those who are arrogant in the earth
without any right. If they see every Sign, they will not believe in it.
If they see the way of right guidance, they will not take it as a way.
But if they see the way of error, they will take that as a way. That
is because they denied Our Signs and paid no attention to them.
(7:146)
• We created many of the jinn and mankind for Hell. They have
hearts they do not understand with. They have eyes they do not
see with. They have ears they do not hear with. Such people are
like cattle. No, they are even further astray! They are the unaware.
(7:179)
• Those are the people whose hearts, hearing and sight Allah has
sealed up. They are the unaware. (16:108)
• (On the Day of Threat, they will be told,) ‘You were heedless of
this so We have stripped you of your covering and today your
sight is sharp.’ (50:22)
• Warn them of the Day of Bitter Regret when the affair will be
resolved. But they take no notice. They have no faith. (19:39)
• And (when) the True Promise is very close, the eyes of those who
disbelieved will be transfixed: ‘Alas for us! We were unmindful of
this! No, rather we were definitely wrongdoers.’ (21:97)
• If you asked them, ‘Who created the heavens and the earth?’
they would say, ‘Allah!’ Say: ‘Praise be to Allah!’ But most of them
do not know. (31:25)
• They say, ‘Our hearts are covered up against what you call us to
and there is a heaviness in our ears. There is a screen between
us and you. So act–we are certainly acting.’ (41:5)
• Have you seen him who takes his whims and desires to be his
god–whom Allah has misguided knowingly, sealing up his hearing
and his heart and placing a blindfold over his eyes? Who then will
guide him after Allah? So will you not pay heed? (45:23)
• Say: ‘Allah gives you life, then causes you to die, and then will
gather you together for the Day of Rising about which there is no
doubt. But most people do not know it.’ (45:26)
UNCLE
• Prophet! We have made lawful for you: your wives to whom you
have given dowries and any slavegirls you own from the booty
Allah has allotted you and the daughters of your paternal uncles
and the daughters of your paternal aunts and the daughters of
your maternal uncles and the daughters of your maternal aunts
who have migrated with you and any believing woman who gives
herself to the Prophet if the Prophet desires to marry her:
exclusively for you as opposed to the rest of the believers–We
know very well what We have prescribed for them regarding their
wives and any slavegirls they possess–in order that there be no
restriction on you. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:50)
UNCLEAN
• Say: ‘I do not find, in what has been revealed to me, any food it is
forbidden to eat except for carrion, flowing blood, and pork–for
that is unclean–or some deviance consecrated to other than Allah.
But if anyone is forced to eat it, without desiring to or going to
excess in it, your Lord is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.’ (6:145)
• You who believe! The idolaters are unclean, so after this year
they should not come near the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram).
If you fear impoverishment, Allah will enrich you from His bounty
if He wills. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (9:28)
UNDERSTANDING
• We said, ‘Hit him (the body of the person you killed) with part of it
(the cow you sacrificed)!’ In that way Allah gives life to the dead
and He shows you His Signs so that hopefully you will understand.
(2:73)
• Do you really hope they will follow you in faith when a group of
them heard Allah’s Word and then, after grasping it, knowingly
distorted it? (2:75)
• When they are told, ‘Follow what Allah has sent down to you,’
They say, ‘We are following what we found our fathers doing.’
What, even though their fathers did not understand a thing and
were not guided! (2:170)
• We created many of the jinn and mankind for Hell. They have
hearts they do not understand with. They have eyes they do not
see with. They have ears they do not hear with. Such people are
like cattle. No, they are even further astray! They are the unaware.
(7:179)
• They are pleased to be with those who stay behind. Their hearts
have been stamped so they do not understand. (9:87)
• Each time a sura is sent down, they look at one another, implying,
‘Can anyone see you?’ Then they turn away. Allah has turned
their hearts away because they are people who do not
understand. (9:127)
• Among them there are some who listen to you. But can you make
the deaf hear even though they cannot understand? (10:42)
• The seven heavens and the earth and everyone in them glorify
Him. There is nothing which does not glorify Him with praise but
you do not understand their glorification. He is All-Forbearing,
Ever-Forgiving. (17:44)
• People will ask you about the Last Hour. Say: ‘Only Allah has
knowledge of it. What will make you understand? It may be that
the Last Hour is very near.’ (33:63)
• You are a greater cause of terror in their breasts than Allah! That
is because they (the hypocrites) are people who do not
understand. (59:13)
• They are the people who say, ‘Do not spend on those who are
with the Messenger of Allah, so that they may go away.’ The
treasuries of the heavens and earth belong to Allah. But the
hypocrites do not understand this. (63:7)
UNGRATEFULNESS
• If We let man taste mercy from Us, and then take it away from
him, he is despairing, ungrateful. (11:9)
• He has given you everything you have asked Him for. If you tried
to number Allah’s blessings, you could never count them. Man is
indeed wrongdoing, ungrateful. (14:34)
• (Musa said to his people,) ‘And when your Lord announced: "If
you are grateful, I will certainly give you increase, but if you are
ungrateful, My punishment is severe."’ (14:7)
• Or do you feel secure against Him taking you back into it another
time and sending a violent storm against you and drowning you
for your ingratitude? Then you will find no one to defend you
against Us. (17:69)
• Allah will defend those who believe. Allah does not love any
thankless traitor. (22:38)
• It is He Who gave you life and then will cause you to die and then
will give you life again. Man is truly ungrateful. (22:66)
• (Pharaoh said to Musa,) ‘Yet you did the deed you did and were
ungrateful.’ (26:19)
• Let them be ungrateful for what We have given them! Let them
enjoy themselves–they will soon know! (29:66)
• When the waves hang over them like canopies, they call on Allah,
making their religion sincerely His. But then when He delivers
them safely to the land, some of them are ambivalent. None but a
treacherous, thankless man denies Our Signs. (31:32)
• That is how We repaid them for their ingratitude. Are any but the
ungrateful repaid like this? (34:17)
• Whereas for those who disbelieve there will be the Fire of Hell.
They will not be killed off so that they die and its punishment will
not be lightened for them. That is how We repay every thankless
man. (35:36)
• But if they turn away, We have not sent you to be their guardian.
You are only responsible for transmission. When We let a man
taste mercy from Us he exults in it. But if something bad strikes
him for what he has done he is ungrateful. (42:48)
UNITY
• Hold fast to the rope of Allah all together, and do not separate.
Remember Allah’s blessing to you when you were enemies and
He joined your hearts together so that you became brothers by
His blessing. You were on the very brink of a pit of the Fire and
He rescued you from it. In this way Allah makes His Signs clear to
you, so that hopefully you will be guided. (3:103)
• Allah loves those who fight in His Way in ranks like well-built walls.
(61:4)
• ... It (the Qur’an) contains guidance for those who guard against
evil: those who believe in the Unseen and perform prayer and
spend from what We have provided for them. (2:2-3)
• He said, ‘Adam, tell them their names.’ When he had told them
their names, He said, ‘Did I not tell you that I know the Unseen of
the heavens and the earth, and I know what you make known and
what you hide?’ (2:33)
• This is news from the Unseen which We reveal to you. You were
not with them when they cast their reeds to see which of them
would be the guardian of Maryam. You were not with them when
they quarrelled. (3:44)
• Allah will only leave the believers in the position you now are in
so that He can sift out the rotten from the good. Allah has not
given you access to the Unseen. But Allah chooses those of His
Messengers whom He wills. So believe in Allah and His
Messengers. If you believe and guard against evil you will have
an immense reward. (3:179)
• You who believe! Allah will test you with game animals which
come within the reach of your hands and spears, so that Allah will
know those who fear Him in the Unseen. Anyone who oversteps
the limits after this will have a painful punishment. (5:94)
• And when Allah says, ‘‘Isa son of Maryam! Did you say to people,
"Take me and my mother as gods besides Allah?"’ he will say,
‘Glory be to You! It is not for me to say what I have no right to say!
If I had said it, then You would have known it. You know what is
in my self but I do not know what is in Your Self. You are the
Knower of all unseen things.’ (5:116)
• Say: ‘I do not say to you that I possess the treasuries of Allah, nor
do I know the Unseen, nor do I say to you that I am an angel. I
only follow what has been revealed to me.’ Say: ‘Are the blind the
same as those who can see? So will you not reflect?’ (6:50)
• It is He Who created the heavens and the earth with truth. The
day He says ‘Be!’ it is. His speech is Truth. The Kingdom will be
His on the Day the Trumpet is blown, the Knower of the Unseen
and the Visible. He is the All-Wise, the All-Aware. (6:73)
• Say: ‘I possess no power to help or harm myself, except as Allah
wills. If I had had knowledge of the Unseen, I would have sought
to gain much good and no evil would have touched me. I am only
a warner and a bringer of good news to people who believe.’
(7:188)
• Do they not know that Allah knows their secrets and their private
talk, and that Allah is the Knower of all unseen things? (9:78)
• They will make excuses to you when you return to them. Say: ‘Do
not make excuses, we will not believe you. Allah has already
informed us about you. Allah will see your actions, as will His
Messenger. Then you will be returned to the Knower of the
Unseen and the Visible, and He will inform you regarding what
you did.’ (9:94)
• Say: ‘Act, for Allah will see your actions, and so will His
Messenger and the believers. You will be returned to the Knower
of the Unseen and the Visible and He will inform you regarding
what you did.’ (9:105)
• They say, ‘Why has a Sign not been sent down to him from his
Lord?’ Say: ‘The Unseen belongs to Allah alone. So wait, I am
waiting with you.’ (10:20)
• (Nuh said to his people,) ‘I do not say to you that I possess the
treasuries of Allah; nor do I know the Unseen; nor do I say that I
am an angel; nor do I say to those who are vile in your eyes that
Allah will not give them any good. Allah knows best what is in
their hearts. If I did, I would certainly be one of the wrongdoers.’
(11:31)
• The Unseen of the heavens and the earth belongs to Allah and
the whole affair will be returned to Him. So worship Him and put
your trust in Him. Your Lord is not unaware of what you do.
(11:123)
• (The eldest of them said,) ‘Return now to your father and say to
him, "Your son stole, father. We can do no more than testify to
what we know and we are not the guardians of the Unseen."’
(12:81)
• This is news of the Unseen which We reveal to you. You were not
with them when they decided what to do and devised their
scheme. (12:102)
• (He is) the Knower of the Unseen and the Visible, the Most Great,
the High-Exalted. (13:9)
• They will say, ‘There were three of them, their dog being the
fourth.’ They will say, ‘There were five of them, their dog being
the sixth,’ guessing at the Unseen. And they will say, ‘There were
seven of them, their dog being the eighth.’ Say: ‘My Lord knows
best their number. Those who know about them are very few.’ So
do not enter into any argument concerning them, except in
relation to what is clearly known. And do not seek the opinion of
any of them regarding them. (18:22)
• Say: ‘Allah knows best how long they stayed. The Unseen of the
heavens and the earth belongs to Him. How perfectly He sees,
how well He hears! They have no protector apart from Him. Nor
does He share His rule with anyone.’ (18:26)
• Say: ‘No one in the heavens and the earth knows the Unseen
except Allah.’ They are not aware of when they will be raised.
(27:65)
• That is the Knower of the Unseen and the Visible, the Almighty,
the Most Merciful. (32:6)
• Those who disbelieve say, ‘The Hour will never come.’ Say: ‘Yes,
by my Lord, it certainly will come!’ He is the Knower of the
Unseen, Whom not even the weight of the smallest particle
eludes, either in the heavens or in the earth; nor is there anything
smaller or larger than that which is not in a Clear Book. (34:3)
• Say: ‘My Lord hurls forth the Truth–the Knower of all unseen
things.’ (34:48)
• They will say, ‘We believe in it,’ but how can they reach out for it
from a distant place when beforehand they had rejected it,
shooting forth about the Unseen from a distant place? (34:52-53)
• You can only warn those who act on the Reminder and fear the
All-Merciful in the Unseen. Give them the good news of
forgiveness and a generous reward. (36:11)
• Allah knows the unseen things of the heavens and the earth.
Allah sees what you do. (49:18)
• (The Garden is for) those who fear the All-Merciful in the Unseen
and come with a contrite heart. (50:33)
• We sent Our Messengers with the Clear Signs and sent down the
Book and the Balance with them so that mankind might establish
justice. And We sent down iron in which there lies great force and
which has many uses for mankind, so that Allah might know
those who help Him and His Messengers in the Unseen. Allah is
All-Strong, Almighty. (57:25)
• Say: ‘Death, from which you are fleeing, will certainly catch up
with you. Then you will be returned to the Knower of the Unseen
and the Visible and He will inform you about what you did.’ (62:8)
• (Allah is) the Knower of the Unseen and the Visible, the Almighty,
the All-Wise. (64:18)
• Those who fear their Lord in the Unseen will have forgiveness
and an immense reward. (67:12)
USURY (RIBA)
• Those who practise usury will not rise from the grave except as
someone driven mad by Satan's touch. That is because they say,
‘Trade is the same as usury.’ But Allah has permitted trade and
He has forbidden usury. Whoever is given a warning by his Lord
and then desists, can keep what he received in the past and his
affair is Allah’s concern. But all who return to it will be the
Companions of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever.
(2:275)
• You who believe! Have fear of Allah and forgo any remaining
usury if you are believers. If you do not, know that it means war
from Allah and His Messenger. But if you repent you may have
your capital, without wronging and without being wronged. (2:278-
279)
• What you give with usurious intent, aiming to get back a greater
amount from people’s wealth, does not become greater with Allah.
But anything you give as alms, seeking the Face of Allah–all who
do that will get back twice as much. (30:39)
UZAYR (AS)
• The Jews say, ‘‘Uzayr is the son of Allah,’ and the Christians say,
‘The Messiah is the son of Allah.’ That is what they say with their
mouths, copying the words of those who disbelieved before. Allah
fight them! How perverted they are! (9:30)
V
VAINGLORY
VALLEY
• Nor will they give away any amount, whether large or small, nor
will they cross any valley, without it being written down for them
so that Allah can recompense them for the best of what they did.
(9:121)
• (Allah said to Musa) ‘I am your Lord. Take off your sandals. You
are in the holy valley of Tuwa.’ (20:12)
• Then, when they reached the Valley of the Ants, an ant said,
‘Ants! Enter your dwellings so that Sulayman and his troops do
not crush you unwittingly.’ (27:18)
• But when he reached it a voice called out to him from the right
hand side of the valley in the part which was full of blessing, from
out of the bush: ‘Musa, I am Allah, the Lord of all the worlds.’
(28:30)
• Has the story of Musa reached you: when his Lord called out to
him in the holy valley of Tuwa? (79:15-16)
• Do you not see what your Lord did with ‘Ad–Iram of the Columns
whose like was not created in any land–and Thamud who carved
out rocks in the valley-side? (89:6-9)
VEGETABLES
• And when you said, ‘Musa, we will not put up with just one kind of
food so ask your Lord to supply to us some of what the earth
produces–its green vegetables, cucumbers, grains, lentils and
onions,’ he said, ‘Do you want to replace what is better with what
is inferior? Go back to Egypt, then you will have what you are
asking for.’ Abasement and destitution were stamped upon them.
They brought down anger from Allah upon themselves. That was
because they rejected Allah’s Signs and killed the Prophets
without any right to do so. That was because they rebelled and
went beyond the limits. (2:61)
VEIL
• Mention Maryam in the Book, how she withdrew from her people
to an eastern place, and veiled herself from them. Then We sent
Our Spirit to her and it took on for her the form of a handsome,
well-built man. (19:16-17)
• No indeed! Rather that Day they will be veiled from their Lord.
(83:15)
VEIN
• We created man and We know what his own self whispers to him.
We are nearer to him than his jugular vein. (50:16)
VICTORIOUS
• So let those who sell the life of this world for the hereafter fight in
the Way of Allah. If someone fights in the Way of Allah, whether
he is killed or is victorious, We will pay him an immense reward.
(4:74)
• Two men among those who were afraid, but whom Allah had
blessed, said, ‘Enter the gate against them! Once you have
entered it, you will be victorious. Put your trust in Allah if you are
believers.’ (5:23)
• As for those who make Allah their friend, and His Messenger and
those who believe: it is the party of Allah who are victorious! (5:56)
• Those who believe and migrate and strive in the Way of Allah
with their wealth and themselves have a higher rank with Allah.
They are the ones who are victorious. (9:20)
• (Allah will say,) ‘Today I have rewarded them for being steadfast.
They are the ones who are victorious.’ (23:111)
• All who obey Allah and His Messenger and have awe of Allah and
fear of Him, they are the ones who are victorious. (24:52)
• In the land nearby, but after their defeat they will themselves be
victorious. (30:3)
• Allah will give security those who guarded against evil in their
victorious Safe Haven. No evil will touch them and they will know
no sorrow. (39:61)
VICTORY
• But if you meet with favour from Allah they say–as if there were
no friendship between you and them–‘Oh! If only I had been with
them so that I too might have won a great victory.’ (4:73)
• Those who anticipate the worst for you say, ‘Were we not with
you?’ whenever you gain a victory from Allah, but if the
disbelievers have a success they say, ‘Did we not have the upper
hand over you and yet in spite of that keep the believers away
from you?’ Allah will judge between you on the Day of Rising.
Allah will not give the disbelievers any way against the believers.
(4:141)
• Yet you see those with sickness in their hearts rushing to them,
saying, ‘We fear the wheel of fate may turn against us.’ But it may
well be that Allah will bring about victory or some other
contingency from Him. Then they will deeply regret their secret
thoughts. (5:52)
• Allah will say, ‘This is the Day when the sincerity of the sincere
will benefit them. They will have Gardens with rivers flowing under
them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever and ever. Allah is
pleased with them and they are pleased with Him. That is the
Great Victory.’ (5:119)
• Those who believe and migrate and strive in the Way of Allah
with their wealth and themselves have a higher rank with Allah.
They are the ones who are victorious. (9:20)
• Allah has promised the men and women of the believers Gardens
with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly, for
ever, and fine dwellings in the Gardens of Eden. And Allah’s good
pleasure is even greater. That is the great victory. (9:72)
• Allah has prepared Gardens for them with rivers flowing under
them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever. That is the great
victory. (9:89)
• Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their wealth
in return for the Garden. They fight in the Way of Allah and they
kill and are killed. It is a promise binding on Him in the Torah, the
Gospel and the Qur’an and who is truer to his contract than Allah?
Rejoice then in the bargain you have made. That is the great
victory. (9:111)
• There is good news for them in the life of this world and in the
hereafter. There is no changing the words of Allah. That is the
great victory! (10:64)
• They asked for Allah’s victory, and every obdurate tyrant failed.
(14:15)
• (Allah will say,) ‘Today I have rewarded them for being steadfast.
They are the ones who are victorious.’ (23:111)
• All who obey Allah and His Messenger and have awe of Allah and
fear of Him, they are the ones who are victorious. (24:52)
• The Romans have been defeated in the land nearby, but after
their defeat they will themselves be victorious in a few years’ time.
The affair is Allah’s from beginning to end. On that day, the
believers will rejoice in Allah’s help. He grants victory to whoever
He wills. He is the Almighty, the Most Merciful. (30:2-5)
• They say, ‘When will this victory come if you are telling the truth?’
(32:28)
• Say: ‘On the Day of Victory the faith of those who disbelieved will
be of no use to them. They will be granted no reprieve.’ (32:29)
• He will put your actions right for you and forgive you your wrong
deeds. All who obey Allah and His Messenger have won a mighty
victory. (33:71)
• Allah will give security those who guarded against evil in their
victorious Safe Haven. No evil will touch them and they will know
no sorrow. (39:61)
• As for those who believed and did right actions, their Lord will
admit them into His mercy. That is the Clear Victory. (45:30)
• Allah has confirmed His Messenger’s vision with truth: ‘You will
enter the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) in safety, Allah
willing, shaving your heads and cutting your hair without any fear.’
He knew what you did not know and ordained, in place of this, an
imminent victory. (48:27)
• And how is it with you that you do not give in the Way of Allah,
when the inheritance of the heavens and the earth belongs to
Allah? Those of you who gave and fought before the Victory are
not the same as those who gave and fought afterwards. They are
higher in rank. But to each of them Allah has promised the Best.
Allah is aware of what you do. (57:10)
• On the Day you see the men and women of the believers, with
their light streaming out in front of them, and to their right: ‘Good
news for you today of Gardens with rivers flowing under them,
remaining in them timelessly, for ever. That is the Great Victory.’
(57:12)
• He will forgive you your wrong actions and admit you into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, and fine dwellings in the
Gardens of Eden. That is the Great Victory. (61:12)
• And other things you love: support from Allah and imminent
victory. Give good news to the believers! (61:13)
• On the Day He gathers you for the Day of Gathering–that is the
Day of Profit and Loss. As for those who believe in Allah and act
rightly, We will erase their bad actions from them and admit them
into Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them
timelessly, for ever and ever. That is the Great Victory! (64:9)
• But those who believe and do right actions will have Gardens with
rivers flowing under them. That is the Great Victory. (85:11)
• When Allah’s help and victory have arrived and you have seen
people entering Allah’s religion in droves, then glorify your Lord’s
praise and ask His forgiveness. He is the Ever-Returning. (110:1-
3)
VIRGIN
• It may be that if he does divorce you, his Lord will give him in
exchange better wives than you: Muslim women, believing
women, obedient women, penitent women, women who worship,
women who fast much–previously married women as well as
virgins. (66:5)
VISION
• The King declared, ‘I dreamt of seven fat cows which seven thin
ones ate and seven green ears of wheat and seven others which
were dry. O counsellors! Explain my dream to me if you are those
who can interpret visions!’ (12:43)
• When We said to you, ‘Surely your Lord encompasses the people
with His knowledge.’ We only appointed the vision We showed
you and the Accursed Tree in the Qur’an as a trial and temptation
for the people. We frighten them, but it only increases them in
their excessive insolence. (17:60)
• Allah has confirmed His Messenger’s vision with truth: ‘You will
enter the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) in safety, Allah
willing, shaving your heads and cutting your hair without any fear.’
He knew what you did not know and ordained, in place of this, an
imminent victory. (48:27)
VOICE
• (Allah said to Satan,) ‘Stir up any of them you can with your voice
and rally against them your cavalry and your infantry and share
with them in their children and their wealth and make them
promises!’ The promise of Satan is nothing but delusion. (17:64)
• A voice called out to her (Maryam) from under her, ‘Do not grieve!
Your Lord has placed a small stream at your feet.’ (19:24)
• (Luqman said to his son,) ‘Be moderate in your tread and lower
your voice. The most hateful of voices is the donkey’s bray.’
(31:19)
• You who believe! Do not raise your voices above the voice of the
Prophet and do not be as loud when speaking to him as you are
when speaking to one another, lest your actions should come to
nothing without your realising it. (49:2)
• Those who lower their voices when they are with the Messenger
of Allah are people whose hearts Allah has tested for heedfulness.
They will have forgiveness and an immense reward. (49:3)
VOW
• Whatever amount you spend or vow you make, Allah knows it.
The wrongdoers have no helpers. (2:270)
• (A voice called out to Maryam,) ‘Eat and drink and delight your
eyes. If you should see anyone at all, just say, "I have made a
vow of abstinence to the All-Merciful and today I will not speak to
any human being."’ (19:26)
• (We said to Ibrahim,) ‘Then they should end their state of self-
neglect and fulfil their vows and circle the Ancient House.’ (22:29)
• They fulfil their vows and fear a Day whose evil will spread far
and wide. (76:7)
W
WADD
• They have hatched a mighty plot saying, "Do not abandon your
gods. Do not abandon Wadd or Suwa‘ or Yaghuth or Ya‘uq or
Nasr." (71:22-23)
WAGE
• (Hud said,) ‘My people! I do not ask you for any wage for it. My
wage is the responsibility of Him Who brought me into being. So
will you not use your intellect?’ (11:51)
• You do not ask them for any wage for it. It is only a reminder to all
beings. (12:104)
• Say: ‘I do not ask you for any wage for it–only that anyone who
wants to should make his way towards his Lord.’ (25:57)
• (Nuh said,) ‘I do not ask you for any wage for it. My wage is the
responsibility of no one but the Lord of all the worlds.’ (26:109)
• (Hud said,) ‘I do not ask you for any wage for it. My wage is the
responsibility of no one but the Lord of all the worlds.’ (26:127)
• (Salih said,) ‘I do not ask you for any wage for it. My wage is the
responsibility of no one but the Lord of all the worlds.’ (26:145)
• (Lut said,) ‘I do not ask you for any wage for it. My wage is the
responsibility of no one but the Lord of all the worlds.’ (26:164)
• (Shu‘ayb said,) ‘I do not ask you for any wage for it. My wage is
the responsibility of no one but the Lord of all the worlds.’ (26:180)
• Say: ‘I have not asked you for any wage–it is all for you. My wage
is the responsibility of Allah alone. He is witness of everything.’
(34:47)
• (A man from the far side of the city said,) ‘Follow those who do
not ask you for any wage and who have received guidance.’
(36:21)
• Say: ‘I do not ask you for any wage for it, nor am I a man of false
pretensions.’ (38:86)
• That is the good news which Allah gives to His servants who
believe and do right actions. Say: ‘I do not ask you for any wage
for this–except for you to love your near of kin. If anyone does a
good action, We will increase the good of it for him. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Ever-Thankful.’ (42:23)
• Or do you ask them for a wage so they are weighed down with
debt? (52:40)
• Let them (the women you divorced) live where you live, according
to your means. Do not put pressure on them, so as to harass
them. If they are pregnant, maintain them until they give birth. If
they are suckling for you, give them their wages and consult
together with correctness and courtesy. But if you make things
difficult for one another, another woman should do the suckling
for you. (65:6)
• Or do you ask them for a wage so they are weighed down with
debt? (68:46)
WAITING PERIOD (FOR WOMEN) (IDDAH)
• When you divorce women and they are near the end of their
waiting period, then either retain them with correctness and
courtesy or release them with correctness and courtesy. Do not
retain them by force, thus overstepping the limits. Anyone who
does that has wronged himself. Do not make a mockery of Allah’s
Signs. Remember Allah’s blessing to you and the Book and
Wisdom He has sent down to you to admonish you. Have fear of
Allah and know that Allah has knowledge of all things. (2:231)
• When you divorce women and they are near the end of their
waiting period, do not prevent them from marrying their first
husbands if they have mutually agreed to it with correctness and
courtesy. This is an admonition for those of you who believe in
Allah and the Last Day. That is better and purer for you. Allah
knows and you do not know. Mothers should nurse their children
for two full years–those who wish to complete the full term of
nursing. It is the duty of the fathers to feed and clothe them with
correctness and courtesy–no self is charged with more than it can
bear. No mother should be put under pressure in respect of her
child nor any father in respect of his child. The same duty is
incumbent on the heir. If the couple both wish weaning to take
place after mutual agreement and consultation, there is nothing
wrong in their doing that. If you wish to find wet-nurses for your
children, there is nothing wrong in your doing that provided you
hand over to them what you have agreed to give with correctness
and courtesy. Have fear of Allah and know that Allah sees what
you do. Those of you who die leaving wives behind: they should
wait by themselves for four months and ten nights. When their
waiting period comes to an end, you are not to blame for anything
they do with themselves with correctness and courtesy. Allah is
aware of what you do. (2:232-234)
• Nor is there anything wrong in any allusion to marriage you make
to a woman, nor for any you keep to yourself. Allah knows that
you will say things to them. But do not make secret arrangements
with them, rather only speak with correctness and courtesy. Do
not finally decide on the marriage contract until the prescribed
period has come to its end. Know that Allah knows what is in your
selves, so beware of Him! And know that Allah is Ever-Forgiving,
All-Forbearing. (2:235)
• You who believe! When you marry believing women and then
divorce them before you have touched them, there is no waiting
period for you to calculate for them, so give them a gift and let
them go with kindness. (33:49)
WALK LIGHTLY
• The servants of the All-Merciful are those who walk lightly on the
earth and, who, when the ignorant speak to them, say, ‘Peace’;
(25:63)
WALL
• Say: ‘It is the truth from your Lord; so let whoever wishes believe
and whoever wishes disbelieve.’ We have prepared for the
wrongdoers a Fire whose billowing walls of smoke will hem them
in. If they call for help, they will be helped with water like seething
molten brass, frying their faces. What a noxious drink! What an
evil repose! (18:29)
• (He said to Musa,) ‘As for the wall, it belonged to two young
orphans in the town and there was a treasure underneath it,
belonging to them. Their father was one of the righteous and your
Lord wanted them to come of age and then to unearth their
treasure as a mercy from Him. I did not do it of my own volition.
That is the explanation of the things about which you were not
able to restrain yourself.’ (18:82)
• That Day the men and women of the hypocrites will say to those
who believe, ‘Wait for us so that we can borrow some of your
light.’ They will be told, ‘Go back and look for light!’ And a wall will
be erected between them with a gate in it, on the inside of which
there will be mercy but before whose exterior lies the punishment.
(57:13)
• They (the hypocrites) will not fight against you all together as a
group except in fortified towns or behind high walls. Their hostility
towards each other is intense. They are full of bravado in each
other’s company. You consider them united but their hearts are
scattered wide. That is because they are people who do not use
their intellect. (59:14)
• Allah loves those who fight in His Way in ranks like well-built walls.
(61:4)
WAR
• If you do not, know that it means war from Allah and His
Messenger. But if you repent you may have your capital, without
wronging and without being wronged. (2:279)
• The reprisal against those who wage war on Allah and His
Messenger, and go about the earth corrupting it, is that they
should be killed or crucified, or have their alternate hands and
feet cut off, or be banished from the land. That will be their
degradation in this world and in the hereafter they will have a
terrible punishment. (5:33)
• The Jews say, ‘Allah’s hand is chained.’ Their hands are chained
and they are cursed for what they say! No! Both His hands are
open wide and He gives however He wills. What has been sent
down to you from your Lord increases many of them in insolence
and disbelief. We have incited enmity and hatred between them
until the Day of Rising. Each time they kindle the fire of war, Allah
extinguishes it. They rush about the earth corrupting it. Allah does
not love corrupters. (5:64)
• As for those who have set up a mosque, causing harm and out of
disbelief, to create division between the believers, and in
readiness for those who previously made war on Allah and His
Messenger, they will swear, ‘We only desired the best.’ But Allah
bears witness that they are truly liars. (9:107)
• Therefore when you meet those who disbelieve strike their necks.
Then when you have decimated them, tie their bonds tightly and
set them free or ransom them, until the war is finally over. That is
how it is to be. If Allah willed, He could avenge Himself on them.
But it is so that He can test some of you by means of others. As
for those who fight in the Way of Allah, He will not let their actions
go astray. (47:4)
WAR OF BADR (SEE BADR)
WARNING - WARNER
• We have sent you with the Truth, bringing good news and giving
warning. Do not ask about the inhabitants of the Blazing Fire.
(2:119)
• Those who practise usury will not rise from the grave except as
someone driven mad by Satan's touch. That is because they say,
‘Trade is the same as usury.’ But Allah has permitted trade and
He has forbidden usury. Whoever is given a warning by his Lord
and then desists, can keep what he received in the past and his
affair is Allah’s concern. But all who return to it will be the
Companions of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever.
(2:275)
• Perhaps you are leaving aside part of what has been revealed to
you and your breast is constricted by this because they say, ‘Why
has treasure not been sent down to him or an angel not
accompanied him?’ You are only a warner and Allah is Guardian
over all things. (11:12)
• Those who disbelieve say, ‘If only a Sign could be sent down to
him from his Lord!’ You are only a warner. Every people has a
guide. (13:7)
• Allah warns you never to repeat the like of it again if you are
believers. (24:17)
• They say, ‘What is the matter with this Messenger, that he eats
food and walks in the market-place? Why has an angel not been
sent down to him so that it can be a warner along with him?’ (25:7)
• Nor were you on the side of the Mount when We called, yet it is a
mercy from your Lord so that you can warn a people to whom no
warner came before, so that hopefully they will pay heed. (28:46)
• They say, ‘Why have no Signs been sent down to him from his
Lord?’ Say: ‘The Signs are with Allah. I am only a clear warner.’
(29:50)
• We only sent you for the whole of mankind, bringing good news
and giving warning. But most of mankind do not know it. (34:28)
• We never sent a warner into any city without the affluent people
in it saying, ‘We reject what you have been sent with.’ (34:34)
• We have not given them any books which they are studying nor
did We send, before you, any warner to them. (34:44)
• We have sent you with the truth bringing good news and giving
warning. There is no community to which a warner has not come.
(35:24)
• They will shout out in it, ‘Our Lord! Take us out! We will act rightly,
differently from the way we used to act!’ Did We not let you live
long enough for anyone who was going to pay heed to pay heed?
And did not the warner come to you? Taste it then! There is no
helper for the wrongdoers. (35:37)
• They swore by Allah with their most earnest oaths that if a warner
came to them they would be better guided than any other
community. But then when a warner did come to them, it only
increased their aversion, (35:42)
• It all but bursts with rage. Each time a group is flung into it its
custodians will question them: ‘Did no warner come to you?’ (67:8)
WAVE
• When the waves hang over them like canopies, they call on Allah,
making their religion sincerely His. But then when He delivers
them safely to the land, some of them are ambivalent. None but a
treacherous, thankless man denies Our Signs. (31:32)
• The two seas are not the same: the one is sweet, refreshing,
delicious to drink, the other salty, bitter to the taste. Yet from both
of them you eat fresh flesh and extract ornaments for yourselves
to wear; and you see ships on them, cleaving through the waves
so that you can seek His bounty and so that hopefully you will be
thankful. (35:12)
WEAKNESS
• You who believe! When you take on a debt for a specified period,
write it down. A writer should write it down between you justly. No
writer should refuse to write; as Allah has taught him, so he
should write. The one incurring the debt should dictate and
should have fear of Allah his Lord and not reduce it in any way. If
the person incurring the debt is incompetent or weak or unable to
dictate, then his guardian should dictate for him justly. Two men
among you should act as witnesses. But if there are not two men,
then a man and two women with whom you are satisfied as
witnesses; then if one of them forgets, the other can remind her.
Witnesses should not refuse when they are called upon. Do not
think it too trivial to write down, whether small or large, with the
date that it falls due. Doing that is more just in Allah’s sight and
more helpful when bearing witness and more likely to eliminate
any doubt–unless it is an immediate transaction hand to hand,
taken and given without delay. There is nothing wrong in your not
writing that down. Call witnesses when you trade. Neither writer
nor witness should be put under pressure. If you do that, it is
deviancy on your part. Have fear of Allah and Allah will give you
knowledge. Allah has knowledge of all things. (2:282)
• Allah helped you at Badr when you were weak so have fear of
Allah, so that hopefully you will be thankful. (3:123)
• Those who disbelieve say, ‘We will never believe in this Qur'an,
nor in what came before it.’ If only you could see when the
wrongdoers, standing in the presence of their Lord, cast
accusations back and forth at one another! Those deemed weak
will say to those deemed great, ‘Were it not for you, we would
have been believers!’ (34:31)
• Those deemed weak will say to those deemed great, ‘No, it was
your scheming night and day when you commanded us to reject
Allah and assign equals to Him.’ But they will show their remorse
when they see the punishment. We will put iron collars round the
necks of those who disbelieve. Will they be repaid for anything
but what they did? (34:33)
WEALTH – WEALTHY
• We will test you with a certain amount of fear and hunger and
loss of wealth and life and fruits. But give good news to the
steadfast. (2:155)
• Those who spend their wealth in the Way of Allah, and then do
not follow what they have spent by demands for gratitude or
insulting words will have their reward with their Lord. They will
feel no fear and will know no sorrow. (2:262)
• As for those who disbelieve, their wealth and children will not help
them against Allah in any way. They are fuel for the Fire. (3:10)
• As for those who disbelieve, their wealth and children will not help
them against Allah in any way. They are the Companions of the
Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (3:116)
• You will be tested in your wealth and in yourselves and you will
hear many abusive words from those given the Book before you
and from those who are idolaters. But if you are steadfast and
guard against evil, that is the most resolute course to take. (3:186)
• And also married women, except for those you have taken in war
as slaves. This is what Allah has prescribed for you. Apart from
that He has made all other women lawful for you provided you
seek them with your wealth in marriage and not in fornication.
When you consummate your marriage with them give them their
prescribed dowry. There is nothing wrong in any further
agreement you might come to after the dowry has been given.
Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (4:24)
• Men have charge of women because Allah has preferred the one
above the other and because they spend their wealth on them.
Right-acting women are obedient (to Allah), guarding the unseen
as Allah has guarded. If there are women whose disobedience
you fear, you may admonish them, refuse to sleep with them, and
then beat them. But if they obey you, do not look for a way to
punish them. Allah is All-High, Most Great. (4:34)
• Know that your wealth and children are a trial and that there is an
immense reward with Allah. (8:28)
• Those who believe and have migrated and strived with their
wealth and themselves in the Way of Allah, and those who have
given refuge and help, they are the friends and protectors of one
another. But as for those who believe but have not migrated, you
are not in any way responsible for their protection until they
migrate. But if they ask you for help in respect of the religion, it is
your duty to help them, except against people you have a treaty
with. Allah sees what you do. (8:72)
• Those who believe and migrate and strive in the Way of Allah
with their wealth and themselves have a higher rank with Allah.
They are the ones who are victorious. (9:20)
• Say: ‘If your fathers or your sons or your brothers or your wives or
your tribe, or any wealth you have acquired, or any business you
fear may slump, or any house which pleases you, are dearer to
you than Allah and His Messenger and striving in His Way, then
wait until Allah brings about His command. Allah does not guide
people who are deviators.’ (9:24)
• Those who believe in Allah and the Last Day do not ask you to
excuse them from striving with their wealth and themselves. Allah
knows the people who guard against evil. (9:44)
• Do not let their wealth and children impress you. Allah merely
wants to punish them by them during their life in this world and for
them to expire while they are disbelievers. (9:55)
• Like those before you who had greater strength than you and
more wealth and children. They enjoyed their portion; so enjoy
your portion as those before you enjoyed theirs. You have
plunged into defamation as they plunged into it. The actions of
such people come to nothing in this world or the hereafter. They
are the lost. (9:69)
• Those who were left behind were glad to stay behind the
Messenger of Allah. They did not want to strive with their wealth
and themselves in the Way of Allah. They said, ‘Do not go out to
fight in the heat.’ Say: ‘The Fire of Hell is much hotter, if they only
understood.’ (9:81)
• Do not let their wealth and their children impress you. Allah
merely wants to punish them by them in this world, and for them
to expire while they are disbelievers. (9:85)
• But the Messenger and those who believe along with him have
strived with their wealth and with themselves. They are the
people who will have the good things. They are the ones who are
successful. (9:88)
• Take charity from their wealth to purify and cleanse them and
pray for them. Your prayers bring relief to them. Allah is All-
Hearing, All-Knowing. (9:103)
• Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their wealth
in return for the Garden. They fight in the Way of Allah and they
kill and are killed. It is a promise binding on Him in the Torah, the
Gospel and the Qur’an and who is truer to his contract than Allah?
Rejoice then in the bargain you have made. That is the great
victory. (9:111)
• Musa said, ‘Our Lord, You have given Pharaoh and his ruling
circle finery and wealth in the life of this world, Our Lord, so that
they may be misguided from Your Way. Our Lord, obliterate their
wealth and harden their hearts so that they do not believe until
they see the painful punishment.’ (10:88)
• (Nuh said,) ‘My people! I do not ask you for any wealth for it. My
wage is the responsibility of Allah alone. I will not chase away
those who believe. They are surely going to meet their Lord.
However, I see you as ignorant people.’ (11:29)
• Then once again We gave you the upper hand over them and
supplied you with more wealth and children and made you the
most numerous group. (17:6)
• (Allah said to Satan,) ‘Stir up any of them you can with your voice
and rally against them your cavalry and your infantry and share
with them in their children and their wealth and make them
promises!’ The promise of Satan is nothing but delusion. (17:64)
• He was a man of wealth and property and he said to his
companion, debating with him, ‘I have more wealth than you and
more people under me.’ (18:34)
• Wealth and sons are the embellishment of the life of this world.
But, in your Lord’s sight, right actions which are lasting bring a
better reward and are a better basis for hope. (18:46)
• Have you seen him who rejects Our Signs and says, ‘I will
certainly be given wealth and children there’? (19:77)
• The Day when neither wealth nor sons will be of any use. (26:88)
• When it reached Sulayman he said, ‘Would you give me wealth
when what Allah has given me is better than what He has given
you? No, rather it is you who delight in your gift.’ (27:36)
• What you give with usurious intent, aiming to get back a greater
amount from people’s wealth, does not become greater with Allah.
But anything you give as alms, seeking the Face of Allah–all who
do that will get back twice as much. (30:39)
• They also said, ‘We have more wealth and children. We are not
going to be punished.’ (34:35)
• It is not your wealth or your children that will bring you near to
Us–only in the case of people who believe and act rightly; such
people will have a double recompense for what they did. They will
be safe from all harm in the High Halls of Paradise. (34:37)
• Those Arabs who remained behind will say to you, ‘Our wealth
and families kept us occupied, so ask forgiveness for us.’ They
say with their tongues what is not in their hearts. Say: ‘Who can
control Allah for you in any way whether He wants harm for you
or wants benefit for you?’ Allah is aware of what you do. (48:11)
• The believers are only those who have believed in Allah and His
Messenger and then have had no doubt and have strived with
their wealth and themselves in the Way of Allah. They are the
ones who are true to their word. (49:15)
• Neither their wealth nor their children will help them at all against
Allah. Such people are the Companions of the Fire, remaining in
it timelessly, for ever. (58:17)
• It is for the poor of the emigrants who were driven from their
homes and wealth desiring the favour and the pleasure of Allah
and supporting Allah and His Messenger. Such people are the
truly sincere. (59:8)
• You who believe! Do not let your wealth or children divert you
from the remembrance of Allah. Whoever does that is lost. (63:9)
• Your wealth and children are a trial. But with Allah there is an
immense reward. (64:15)
• (He who is given his Book in his left hand will say,) ‘My wealth
has been of no use to me.’ (69:28)
• Nuh said, ‘My Lord, they have disobeyed me and followed those
whose wealth and children have only increased them in loss.’
(71:21)
• His wealth will not help him when he plummets to the depths.
(92:11)
• The most heedful will be far removed from it: those who give their
wealth to purify themselves–not to repay someone else for a
favour done–desiring only the Face of their Lord Most High.
(92:17-20)
• He thinks his wealth will make him live for ever. (104:3)
• His wealth has not helped him nor anything he has earned.
(111:2)
WEANING
• Mothers should nurse their children for two full years–those who
wish to complete the full term of nursing. It is the duty of the
fathers to feed and clothe them with correctness and courtesy–no
self is charged with more than it can bear. No mother should be
put under pressure in respect of her child nor any father in
respect of his child. The same duty is incumbent on the heir. If the
couple both wish weaning to take place after mutual agreement
and consultation, there is nothing wrong in their doing that. If you
wish to find wet-nurses for your children, there is nothing wrong in
your doing that provided you hand over to them what you have
agreed to give with correctness and courtesy. Have fear of Allah
and know that Allah sees what you do. (2:233)
WEARINESS
• It was not for people of Madina, and the desert arabs around
them, to remain behind the Messenger of Allah nor to prefer
themselves to him. That is because no thirst or weariness or
hunger will afflict them in the Way of Allah, nor will they take a
single step to infuriate the disbelievers, nor secure any gain from
the enemy, without a right action being written down for them
because of it. Allah does not let the wage of the good-doers go to
waste. (9:120)
• They will say, ‘Praise be to Allah Who has removed all sadness
from us. Truly our Lord is Ever-Forgiving, Ever-Thankful: He Who
has lodged us, out of His favour, in the Abode of Permanence
where no weariness or fatigue affects us.’ (35:34-35)
WEEP
• Let them (those who were left behind) laugh little and weep much,
in repayment for what they have earned. (9:82)
• Those are some of the Prophets Allah has blessed, from the
descendants of Adam and from those We carried with Nuh, and
from the descendants of Ibrahim and Isra’il and from those We
guided and chose. When the Signs of the All-Merciful were
recited to them they fell on their faces, weeping, in prostration.
(19:58)
WEIGHT
• The weighing that Day will be the truth. As for those whose scales
are heavy, they are the successful. As for those whose scales are
light, they are the ones who have lost their own selves because
they wrongfully rejected Our Signs. (7:8-9)
• Give full measure when you measure and weigh with a level
balance. That is better and gives the best result. (17:35)
• Those are the people who reject their Lord’s Signs and the
meeting with Him. Their actions will come to nothing and, on the
Day of Rising, We will not assign them any weight. (18:105)
• Those whose scales are heavy, they are the successful. Those
whose scales are light, they are the losers of their selves,
remaining in Hell timelessly, for ever. (23:102-103)
WELL
• One of them said, ‘Do not take Yusuf’s life but throw him to the
bottom of the well, so that some travellers may discover him, if
this is something that you have to do.’ (12:10)
• But when, in fact, they did go out with him and gathered all
together and agreed to put him at the bottom of the well, We then
revealed to him that: ‘You will inform them of this deed they
perpetrate at a time when they are totally unaware.’ (12:15)
• We first made him (Musa) refuse all wet-nurses, so she (his sister)
said, ‘Shall I show you to a household who will feed him for you
and be good to him?’ (28:12)
• Forbidden for you are: your mothers and your daughters and your
sisters, your maternal aunts and your paternal aunts, your
brothers’ daughters and your sisters’ daughters, your foster
mothers who have suckled you, your foster sisters by suckling,
your wives’ mothers, your stepdaughters who are under your
protection: the daughters of your wives whom you have had
sexual relations with (though if you have not had sexual relations
with them there is nothing blameworthy for you in it then), the
wives of your sons whom you have fathered, and marrying two
sisters at the same time–except for what may have already taken
place. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:23)
• Mothers should nurse their children for two full years–those who
wish to complete the full term of nursing. It is the duty of the
fathers to feed and clothe them with correctness and courtesy–no
self is charged with more than it can bear. No mother should be
put under pressure in respect of her child nor any father in
respect of his child. The same duty is incumbent on the heir. If the
couple both wish weaning to take place after mutual agreement
and consultation, there is nothing wrong in their doing that. If you
wish to find wet-nurses for your children, there is nothing wrong in
your doing that provided you hand over to them what you have
agreed to give with correctness and courtesy. Have fear of Allah
and know that Allah sees what you do. (2:233)
• The Jews and the Christians will never be pleased with you until
you follow their religion. Say, ‘Allah’s guidance is the true
guidance.’ If you were to follow their whims and desires, after the
knowledge that has come to you, you would find no protector or
helper against Allah. (2:120)
• If you were to bring every Sign to those given the Book, they still
would not follow your direction. You do not follow their direction.
They do not follow each other’s direction. If you followed their
whims and desires, after the knowledge that has come to you,
you would then be one of the wrongdoers. (2:145)
• And We have sent down the Book to you with truth, confirming
and conserving the previous Books. So judge between them by
what Allah has sent down and do not follow their whims and
desires deviating from the Truth that has come to you. We have
appointed a law and a practice for every one of you. Had Allah
willed, He would have made you a single community, but He
wanted to test you regarding what has come to you. So compete
with each other in doing good. Every one of you will return to
Allah and He will inform you regarding the things about which you
differed. (5:48)
• Judge between them by what Allah has sent down and do not
follow their whims and desires. And beware of them lest they lure
you away from some of what Allah has sent down to you. If they
turn their backs, then know that Allah wants to afflict them with
some of their wrong actions. Many of mankind are deviators.
(5:49)
• What is the matter with you that you do not eat that over which
the name of Allah has been mentioned, when He has made clear
to you what He has made forbidden for you except when you are
forced to eat it? Many people lead others astray through their
whims and desires without having any knowledge. Your Lord
knows best those who overstep the limits. (6:119)
• Do not let those who have no faith in it and follow their whims and
desires debar you from it or you will be destroyed. (20:16)
• If the truth were to follow their whims and desires, the heavens
and the earth and everyone in them would have been brought to
ruin. No indeed! We have given them their Reminder, but they
have turned away from it. (23:71)
• Have you seen him who has taken his whims and desires to be
his god? Will you then be his guardian? (25:43)
• If they do not respond to you then know that they are merely
following their whims and desires. And who could be further
astray than someone who follows his whims and desires without
any guidance from Allah? Allah does not guide the people of the
wrongdoers. (28:50)
• Have you seen him who takes his whims and desires to be his
god–whom Allah has misguided knowingly, sealing up his hearing
and his heart and placing a blindfold over his eyes? Who then will
guide him after Allah? So will you not pay heed? (45:23)
• Is someone on a clear path from his Lord like those whose bad
actions have been made to seem good to them and who follow
their own desires? (47:14)
• Among them are those who listen to you and then, when they
leave your presence, say to those who have been given
knowledge, ‘What was that he just said?’ They are those whose
hearts Allah has sealed up and who follow their own desires.
(47:16)
• They (the idols) are nothing but names which you yourselves
have given, you and your forefathers. Allah has sent down no
authority for them. They are following nothing but conjecture and
what their own selves desire. And that when guidance has
reached them from their Lord! (53:23)
• They have denied the truth and followed their whims and desires,
but everything has its time. (54:3)
WHIP
WHISPERING OF SATAN
• (Satan said,) ‘I will lead them astray and fill them with false hopes.
I will command them and they will cut off cattle’s ears. I will
command them and they will change Allah’s creation.’ Anyone
who takes Satan as his protector in place of Allah has clearly lost
everything.’ (4:119)
• But Satan whispered to him, saying, ‘Adam, shall I show you the
way to the Tree of Everlasting Life and to a kingdom which will
never fade away?’ (20:120)
• We created man and We know what his own self whispers to him.
We are nearer to him than his jugular vein. (50:16)
• Say: ‘I seek refuge with the Lord of mankind, the King of mankind,
the God of mankind, from the evil of the insidious whisperer who
whispers in people’s breasts.’ (114:1-5)
WHISTLE
WHITE
• On the night of the fast it is lawful for you to have sexual relations
with your wives. They are clothing for you and you for them. Allah
knows that you have been betraying yourselves and He has
turned towards you and excused you. Now you may have sexual
intercourse with them and seek what Allah has written for you.
Eat and drink until you can clearly discern the white thread from
the black thread of the dawn, then fulfil the fast until the night
appears. But do not have sexual intercourse with them while you
are in retreat in the mosques. These are Allah’s limits, so do not
go near them. In this way does Allah make His Signs clear to
people so that hopefully they will guard against evil. (2:187)
• Do not be like those who split up and differed after the Clear
Signs came to them. They will have a terrible punishment on the
Day when faces are whitened and faces are blackened. As for
those whose faces are blackened: ‘What! Did you disbelieve after
having believed? Taste the punishment for your disbelief!’ (3:105-
106)
• As for those whose faces are whitened, they are in Allah’s mercy,
remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (3:107)
• And he (Musa) drew out his hand and there it was, pure white to
those who looked. (7:108)
• And (Zakariyya) said, ‘My Lord, my bones have lost their strength
and my head is crowned with white, but in calling on You, My
Lord, I have never been disappointed.’ (19:4)
• (It was revealed to Musa,) ‘Put your hand under your arm and
press it to your side. It will emerge pure white yet quite unharmed,
another Sign.’ (20:22)
• And he (Musa) drew out his hand and there it was, pure white to
those who looked. (26:33)
• (It was revealed to Musa,) ‘Put your hand inside your shirt front. It
will emerge pure white, yet quite unharmed–one of nine Signs to
Pharaoh and his people. They are a people of deviators.’ (27:12)
• (A voice called out to Musa,) ‘Put your hand inside your shirt front.
It will emerge pure white yet quite unharmed. And hug your arms
to your sides to still your fear. These are two proofs from your
Lord for Pharaoh and his ruling circle. They are a deviant people.’
(28:32)
• Do you not see that Allah sends down water from the sky and by
it We bring forth fruits of varying colours? And in the mountains
there are streaks of white and red, of varying shades, and rocks
of deep jet black. (35:27)
• In Gardens of Delight on couches face to face; (believers will
have) a cup from a flowing spring passing round among them, as
white as driven snow, delicious to those who drink. (37:43-46)
WIFE
• We said, ‘Adam, live in the Garden, you and your wife, and eat
freely from it wherever you will. But do not approach this tree and
so become wrongdoers.’ (2:35)
• Those who swear to abstain from sexual relations with their wives
can wait for a period of up to four months. If they then retract their
oath, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (2:226)
• Those of you who die leaving wives behind: they should wait by
themselves for four months and ten nights. When their waiting
period comes to an end, you are not to blame for anything they
do with themselves with correctness and courtesy. Allah is aware
of what you do. (2:234)
• Say, ‘Shall I tell you of something better than that?’ Those who
guard against evil will have Gardens with their Lord, with rivers
flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever, and
purified wives, and the Pleasure of Allah. Allah sees His servants.
(3:15)
• You receive half of what your wives leave if they are childless. If
they have children you receive a quarter of what they leave after
any bequest they make or any debts. They receive a quarter of
what you leave if you are childless. If you have children they
receive an eighth of what you leave after any bequest you make
or any debts. If a man or woman has no direct heirs, but has a
brother or sister, each of them receives a sixth. If there are more
than that they share in a third after any bequest you make or any
debts, making sure that no one’s rights are prejudiced. This is an
instruction from Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Forbearing. (4:12)
• If you desire to exchange one wife for another and have given
your original wife a large amount, do not take any of it. Would you
take it by means of slander and outright crime? (4:20)
• Forbidden for you are: your mothers and your daughters and your
sisters, your maternal aunts and your paternal aunts, your
brothers’ daughters and your sisters’ daughters, your foster
mothers who have suckled you, your foster sisters by suckling,
your wives’ mothers, your stepdaughters who are under your
protection: the daughters of your wives whom you have had
sexual relations with (though if you have not had sexual relations
with them there is nothing blameworthy for you in it then), the
wives of your sons whom you have fathered, and marrying two
sisters at the same time–except for what may have already taken
place. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:23)
• Say: ‘If your fathers or your sons or your brothers or your wives or
your tribe, or any wealth you have acquired, or any business you
fear may slump, or any house which pleases you, are dearer to
you than Allah and His Messenger and striving in His Way, then
wait until Allah brings about His command. Allah does not guide
people who are deviators.’ (9:24)
• Gardens of Eden which they will enter, and all of their parents,
wives and children who were righteous. Angels will enter in to
welcome them from every gate. (13:23)
• We said, ‘Adam, this is an enemy for you and your wife, so do not
let him (Satan) expel you from the Garden and thus make you
miserable.’ (20:117)
• We responded to him and gave him Yahya, restoring for him his
wife’s fertility. They outdid one another in good actions, calling out
to Us in yearning and in awe, and humbling themselves to Us.
(21:90)
• (Believers are) those who say, ‘Our Lord, give us joy in our wives
and children and make us a good example for those who guard
against evil’; (25:74)
• (Lut said to his people,) ‘Of all beings, do you lie with males,
leaving the wives Allah has created for you? You are a people
who have overstepped the limits.’ (26:165-166)
• Allah has not allotted to any man two hearts within his breast, nor
has He made those of your wives you equate with your mothers
your actual mothers, nor has He made your adopted sons your
actual sons. These are just words coming out of your mouths. But
Allah speaks the truth and He guides to the Way. (33:4)
• The Prophet is closer to the believers than their own selves, and
his wives are their mothers. But blood-relations have closer ties to
one another in the Book of Allah than other believers and the
emigrants, except that you should act in a proper manner towards
your close associates. That is inscribed in the Book. (33:6)
• Prophet, tell your wives: ‘If you desire the life of this world and its
finery, come and I will give you all you need and release you with
kindness.’ (33:28)
• When you said to him whom Allah has blessed and you yourself
have greatly favoured, ‘Keep your wife to yourself and have fear
of Allah,’ while concealing something in yourself which Allah
wished to bring to light, you were fearing people when Allah has
more right to your fear. Then when Zayd divorced her We married
her to you so that there should be no restriction for the believers
regarding the wives of their adopted sons when they have
divorced them. Allah’s command is always carried out. (33:37)
• Prophet! We have made lawful for you: your wives to whom you
have given dowries and any slavegirls you own from the booty
Allah has allotted you and the daughters of your paternal uncles
and the daughters of your paternal aunts and the daughters of
your maternal uncles and the daughters of your maternal aunts
who have migrated with you and any believing woman who gives
herself to the Prophet if the Prophet desires to marry her:
exclusively for you as opposed to the rest of the believers–We
know very well what We have prescribed for them regarding their
wives and any slavegirls they possess–in order that there be no
restriction on you. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:50)
• After that no other women are lawful for you nor may you
exchange them for other wives, even though their beauty might
be pleasing to you, with the exception of any you own as slaves.
Allah is watchful over all things. (33:52)
• Prophet! Tell your wives and daughters and the women of the
believers to draw their outer garments closely round themselves.
This makes it more likely that they will be recognised and not be
harmed. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:59
• (Those who bear the Throne ask forgiveness for the believers,)
‘Our Lord, admit them to the Gardens of Eden You have promised
them, and all of their parents, wives and children who acted
rightly. Truly You are the Almighty, the All-Wise.’ (40:8)
• (Believers will be told,) ‘Enter the Garden, you and your wives,
delighting in your joy.’ (43:70)
• You who believe! Some of your wives and children are an enemy
to you, so be wary of them. But if you pardon and exonerate and
forgive, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (64:14)
• Prophet! Why do you make forbidden what Allah has made lawful
for you, seeking to please your wives? Allah is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (66:1)
• It may be that if he does divorce you, his Lord will give him in
exchange better wives than you: Muslim women, believing
women, obedient women, penitent women, women who worship,
women who fast much–previously married women as well as
virgins. (66:5)
• Allah has made an example for those who disbelieve: the wife of
Nuh and the wife of Lut. They were married to two of Our
servants who were righteous but they betrayed them and were
not helped at all against Allah. They were told, ‘Enter the Fire
along with all who enter it.’ (66:10)
• (On that Day) no good friend will ask about his friend even though
they can see each other. An evildoer will wish he could ransom
himself from the punishment of that Day, by means of his sons, or
his wife or his brother or his family who sheltered him or everyone
else on earth, if that only meant that he could save himself.
(70:10-14)
• (Believers are) those who guard their chastity except from their
wives and any slaves they own, in which case they incur no
blame. (70:29-30)
• When the Deafening Blast comes, the Day a man will flee from
his brother and his mother and his father, and his wife and his
children: on that Day every man among them will have concerns
enough of his own. (80:33-37)
• Ruin to the hands of Abu Lahab and ruin to him! His wealth has
not helped him nor anything he has earned. He will burn in a
Flaming Fire. And so will his wife, the firewood-carrier, with a rope
of twisted fibre round her neck. (111:1-5)
WIND
• The metaphor of what they spend in their life in this world is that
of a wind with an icy bite to it which strikes the crops of a people
who have wronged themselves and destroys them. Allah did not
wrong them; rather it was themselves they were wronging. (3:117)
• The metaphor of those who reject their Lord is that their actions
are like ashes scattered by strong winds on a stormy day. They
have no power at all over anything they have earned. That is
extreme misguidance. (14:18)
• We send forth the pollinating winds and send down water from
the sky and give it to you to drink. And it is not you who keep its
stores. (15:22)
• Make a metaphor for them of the life of this world. It is like water
which We send down from the sky and the plants of the earth
combine with it but then become dry chaff scattered by the winds.
Allah has absolute power over everything. (18:45)
• He Who guides you in the darkness of land and sea and sends
out the winds bringing advance news of His mercy. Is there
another god besides Allah? May Allah be exalted above what
they associate with Him! (27:63)
• Among His Signs is that He sends the winds bearing good news,
to give you a taste of His mercy, and to make the ships run by His
command, and to enable you to seek His bounty so that hopefully
you will be thankful. (30:46)
• But if We send a wind, and they see it turning yellow, still they
persist after that in disbelieving. (30:51)
• You who believe! Remember Allah’s blessing to you when forces
came against you and We sent a wind against them and other
forces you could not see. Allah sees what you do. (33:9)
• It is Allah Who sends the winds which raise the clouds which We
then drive to a dead land and by them bring the earth to life after
it was dead. That is how the Resurrection will be. (35:9)
• If He wills He makes the wind stop blowing and then they lie
motionless on its back. There are certainly Signs in that for
everyone who is steadfast and thankful. (42:33)
• And in the alternation of night and day and the provision Allah
sends down from the sky, bringing the earth to life by it after it has
died, and the varying direction of the winds, there are Signs for
people who use their intellect. (45:5)
WINE
• You who believe! Wine and gambling, stone altars and divining
arrows are filth from the handiwork of Satan. Avoid them
completely so that hopefully you will be successful. Satan wants
to stir up enmity and hatred between you by means of wine and
gambling, and to debar you from remembrance of Allah and from
prayer. Will you not then give them up? (5:90-91)
• Two servants entered prison along with him. One said, ‘I dreamt
that I was pressing grapes.’ The other said, ‘I dreamt I carried
bread upon my head and birds were eating it. Tell us the true
meaning of these dreams. We see that you’re one of the
righteous.’ (12:36)
• (Yusuf said,) ‘My fellow-captives, one of you will serve his lord
with wine, the other of you will be crucified and birds will eat his
head. The thing you asked about is foreordained.’ (12:41)
WING
• And take the believers who follow you under your wing. (26:215)
WISDOM - WISE
• If you backslide after the Clear Signs have come to you, know
that Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (2:209)
• (Allah makes the Signs clear to you, so that hopefully you will
reflect) on this world and the hereafter. They will ask you about
the property of orphans. Say, ‘Managing it in their best interests is
best.’ If you mix your property with theirs, they are your brothers.
Allah knows a squanderer from a good manager. If Allah had
wanted, He could have been hard on you. Allah is Almighty, All-
Wise. (2:220)
• When you divorce women and they are near the end of their
waiting period, then either retain them with correctness and
courtesy or release them with correctness and courtesy. Do not
retain them by force, thus overstepping the limits. Anyone who
does that has wronged himself. Do not make a mockery of Allah’s
Signs. Remember Allah’s blessing to you and the Book and
Wisdom He has sent down to you to admonish you. Have fear of
Allah and know that Allah has knowledge of all things. (2:231)
• Those of you who die leaving wives behind should make a
bequest to their wives of maintenance for a year without them
having to leave their homes. But if they do leave you are not to
blame for anything they do with themselves with correctness and
courtesy. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (2:240)
• When Ibrahim said, ‘My Lord, show me how You bring the dead
to life.’ He asked, ‘Do you not then believe?’ He replied, ‘Indeed I
do! But so that my heart may be at peace.’ He said, ‘Take four
birds and train them to yourself. Then put a part of them on each
mountain and call to them; they will come rushing to you. Know
that Allah is Almighty, All-Wise.’ (2:260)
• He will teach him (‘Isa) the Book and Wisdom, and the Torah and
the Gospel. (3:48)
• That is what We recite to you of the Signs and the wise Reminder.
(3:58)
• Allah only did this for it to be good news for you and so that your
hearts might be set at rest by it (help comes from no one but
Allah, the Almighty, the All-Wise). (3:126)
• And also (forbidden for you are) married women, except for those
you have taken in war as slaves. This is what Allah has
prescribed for you. Apart from that He has made all other women
lawful for you provided you seek them with your wealth in
marriage and not in fornication. When you consummate your
marriage with them give them their prescribed dowry. There is
nothing wrong in any further agreement you might come to after
the dowry has been given. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (4:24)
• Allah desires to make things clear to you and to guide you to the
correct practices of those before you and to turn towards you.
Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (4:26)
• Or do they in fact envy other people for the bounty Allah has
granted them? We gave the family of Ibrahim the Book and
Wisdom, and We gave them an immense kingdom. (4:54)
• As for those who reject Our Signs, We will roast them in a Fire.
Every time their skins are burned off, We will replace them with
new skins so that they can taste the punishment. Allah is
Almighty, All-Wise. (4:56)
• Do not relax in pursuit of the enemy. If you feel pain, they too are
feeling it just as you are, but you hope for something from Allah
which they cannot hope for. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (4:104)
• Were it not for Allah’s favour to you and His mercy, a group of
them would almost have managed to mislead you. But they
mislead no one but themselves and do not harm you in any way.
Allah has sent down the Book and Wisdom to you and taught you
what you did not know before. Allah’s favour to you is indeed
immense. (4:113)
• Mankind! The Messenger has brought you the truth from your
Lord, so it is better for you to believe. But if you disbelieve,
everything in the heavens and the earth belongs to Allah. Allah is
All-Knowing, All-Wise. (4:170)
• As for thieves, both male and female, cut off their hands in
reprisal for what they have done: an object lesson from Allah.
Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (5:38)
• (‘Isa son of Maryam will say,) ‘If You punish them, they are Your
servants. If you forgive them, You are the Almighty, the All-Wise.’
(5:118)
• It is He Who created the heavens and the earth with truth. The
day He says ‘Be!’ it is. His speech is Truth. The Kingdom will be
His on the Day the Trumpet is blown, the Knower of the Unseen
and the Visible. He is the All-Wise, the All-Aware. (6:73)
• This is the argument We gave to Ibrahim against his people. We
raise in rank anyone We will. Your Lord is All-Wise, All-Knowing.
(6:83)
• Allah only did this to give you good news and that so your hearts
would be at rest. Victory comes from no one but Allah. Allah is
Almighty, All-Wise. (8:10)
• And when the hypocrites and those with sickness in their hearts
said, ‘These people have been deluded by their religion.’ But
those who put their trust in Allah will find Allah to be Almighty, All-
Wise. (8:49)
• And (He) unified their (believers’) hearts. Even if you had spent
everything on the earth, you could not have unified their hearts.
But Allah has unified them. He is Almighty, All-Wise. (8:63)
• You who believe! The idolaters are unclean, so after this year
they should not come near the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram).
If you fear impoverishment, Allah will enrich you from His bounty
if He wills. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (9:28)
• If you do not help him, Allah did help him when those who
disbelieved drove him out and there were two of them in the Cave.
He said to his companion, ‘Do not be despondent, Allah is with
us.’ Then Allah sent down His serenity upon him and reinforced
him with troops you could not see. He made the word of those
who disbelieved undermost. It is the word of Allah which is
uppermost. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (9:40)
• The alms are for: the poor, the destitute, those who collect it,
reconciling people’s hearts, freeing slaves, those in debt,
spending in the Way of Allah, and travellers. It is a legal obligation
from Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (9:60)
• The men and women of the believers are friends of one another.
They command what is right and forbid what is wrong, and
perform prayer and give the alms, and obey Allah and His
Messenger. They are the people on whom Allah will have mercy.
Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (9:71)
• Alif Lam Ra. Those are the Signs of the Wise Book. (10:1)
• Alif Lam Ra. A Book whose verses are perfectly constructed, and
then demarcated, coming directly from One who is All-Wise, All-
Aware. (11:1)
• (Yusuf's father said,) ‘Accordingly your Lord will pick you out and
teach you the true meaning of events and perfectly fulfil His
blessing on you as well as on the family of Ya‘qub as He fulfilled it
perfectly before upon your forebears, Ibrahim and Ishaq. Most
certainly your Lord is Knowing, Wise.’ (12:6)
• He (Yusuf) raised his parents up onto the throne. The others fell
prostrate in front of him. He said, ‘My father, truly this is now the
interpretation of the dream I had. My Lord has made it all come
true; and He was kind to me by letting me out of prison and
brought you from the desert when Satan had caused dissent
between me and my brothers. My Lord is kind to anyone He wills.
He is indeed All-Knowing and All-Wise. (12:100)
• We have not sent any Messenger except with the language of his
people so he can make things clear to them. Allah misguides
anyone He wills and guides anyone He wills. He is the Almighty,
the All-Wise. (14:4)
• Call to the way of your Lord with wisdom and fair admonition, and
argue with them in the kindest way. Your Lord knows best who is
misguided from His way. And He knows best who are guided.
(16:125)
• That is part of the wisdom your Lord has revealed to you. Do not
set up another god together with Allah and so be thrown into Hell,
blamed and driven out. (17:39)
• Were it not for Allah's favour to you and His mercy... and that
Allah is Ever-Returning, All-Wise. (24:10)
• Allah makes the Signs clear to you and Allah is All-Knowing, All-
Wise. (24:18)
• You who believe! Those you own as slaves and those of you who
have not yet reached puberty should ask your permission to enter
at three times: before the Dawn Prayer, when you have
undressed at noon, and after the Prayer of Night–three times of
nakedness for you. There is nothing wrong for you or them at
other times in moving around among yourselves from one to
another. In this way Allah makes the Signs clear to you. Allah is
All-Knowing, All-Wise. (24:58)
• Once your children have reached puberty, they should ask your
permission to enter as those before them also asked permission.
In this way Allah makes His Signs clear to you. Allah is All-
Knowing, All-Wise. (24:59)
• You receive the Qur’an directly from One who is All-Wise, All-
Knowing. (27:6)
• For those who believe and do right actions there are Gardens of
Delight, to remain in them timelessly, for ever. Allah’s promise is
true. He is the Almighty, the All-Wise. (31:8-9)
• If all the trees on earth were pens and all the sea, with seven
more seas besides, was ink Allah’s words still would not run dry.
Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (31:27)
• Prophet! Have fear of Allah and do not obey the disbelievers and
hypocrites. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (33:1)
• And remember the Signs of Allah and the wise words which are
recited in your rooms. Allah is All-Pervading, All-Aware. (33:34)
• And when ‘Isa came with the Clear Signs, he said, ‘I have come
to you with Wisdom and to clarify for you some of the things
about which you have differed. Therefore have fear of Allah and
obey me. (43:63)
• The revelation of the Book is from Allah, the Almighty, the All-
Wise. (45:2)
• The revelation of the Book is from Allah, the Almighty, the All-
Wise. (46:2)
• It is He Who sent down serenity into the hearts of the believers
thereby increasing their faith with more faith–the legions of the
heavens and the earth belong to Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-
Wise. (48:4)
• The legions of the heavens and the earth belong to Allah. Allah is
Almighty, All-Wise. (48:7)
• And (He has rewarded the believers) with much booty which they
will take. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (48:19)
• They said, ‘That is what your Lord says. He is the All-Wise, the
All-Knowing.’ (51:30)
• (Ibrahim said,) ‘Our Lord, do not make us a target for those who
disbelieve and forgive us. Our Lord, You are the Almighty, the All-
Wise.’ (60:5)
• The Knower of the Unseen and the Visible, the Almighty, the All-
Wise. (64:18)
• Allah has made the expiation of your oaths obligatory for you.
Allah is your Master–He is the All-Knowing, the All-Wise. (66:2)
• But you will not will unless Allah wills. Allah is All-Knowing, All-
Wise. (76:30)
WITNESS
• If you have doubts about what We have sent down to Our servant,
produce another sura equal to it, and call your witnesses, besides
Allah, if you are telling the truth. (2:23)
• And when We made a covenant with you not to shed your blood
and not to expel one another from your homes, you agreed and
were all witnesses. (2:84)
• Among the people there is someone whose words about the life
of this world excite your admiration, and he calls Allah to witness
what is in his heart, while he is in fact the most hostile of
adversaries. (2:204)
• You who believe! When you take on a debt for a specified period,
write it down. A writer should write it down between you justly. No
writer should refuse to write; as Allah has taught him, so he
should write. The one incurring the debt should dictate and
should have fear of Allah, his Lord and not reduce it in any way. If
the person incurring the debt is incompetent or weak or unable to
dictate, then his guardian should dictate for him justly. Two men
among you should act as witnesses. But if there are not two men,
then a man and two women with whom you are satisfied as
witnesses; then if one of them forgets, the other can remind her.
Witnesses should not refuse when they are called upon. Do not
think it too trivial to write down, whether small or large, with the
date that it falls due. Doing that is more just in Allah’s sight and
more helpful when bearing witness and more likely to eliminate
any doubt–unless it is an immediate transaction hand to hand,
taken and given without delay. There is nothing wrong in your not
writing that down. Call witnesses when you trade. Neither writer
nor witness should be put under pressure. If you do that, it is
deviancy on your part. Have fear of Allah and Allah will give you
knowledge. Allah has knowledge of all things. (2:282)
• Allah bears witness that there is no god but Him, as do the angels
and the people of knowledge, upholding justice. There is no god
but Him, the Almighty, the All-Wise. (3:18)
• How can Allah guide a people who have disbelieved after having
believed? They bore witness that the Messenger was true and
that the Clear Signs had come to them. Allah does not guide
people who are wrongdoers. (3:86)
• Say, ‘People of the Book, why do you reject Allah’s Signs when
Allah is witness of everything you do?’ (3:98)
• Say, ‘People of the Book, why do you bar those who believe from
the Way of Allah, seeking in it something crooked, when you
yourselves are witnesses to it? Allah is not unaware of what you
do.’ (3:99)
• Any good thing that happens to you comes from Allah. Any bad
thing that happens to you comes from yourself. We have sent you
to mankind as a Messenger. Allah suffices as a Witness. (4:79)
• There is not one of the People of the Book who will not believe in
him before he dies; and on the Day of Rising he will be a witness
against them. (4:159)
• But Allah bears witness to what He has sent down to you. He has
sent it down with His knowledge. The angels bear witness as well.
And Allah suffices as a Witness. (4:166)
• You who believe! Show integrity for the sake of Allah, bearing
witness with justice. Do not let hatred for a people incite you into
not being just. Be just. That is closer to heedfulness. Have fear of
Allah. Allah is aware of what you do. (5:8)
• We sent down the Torah containing guidance and light, and the
Prophets who had submitted themselves gave judgement by it for
the Jews–as did their scholars and their rabbis–by what they had
been allowed to preserve of Allah’s Book to which they were
witnesses. Do not be afraid of people, be afraid of Me. And do not
sell My Signs for a paltry price. Those who do not judge by what
Allah has sent down, such people are disbelievers. (5:44)
• When they listen to what has been sent down to the Messenger,
you see their eyes overflowing with tears because of what they
recognise of the truth. They say, ‘Our Lord, we believe! So write
us down among the witnesses.’ (5:83)
• You who believe! When one of you is near to death and makes a
will, two just men from among you should act as witnesses; or, if
you are travelling when the misfortune of death occurs, two men
who are strangers to you. You should detain them after prayer
and, if you are doubtful, they should swear by Allah: ‘We will not
sell it for any price, even to a near relative, and we will not
conceal the testimony of Allah. If we did we would indeed be
wrongdoers.’ (5:106)
• They (the Disciples) said, ‘We want to eat from it and for our
hearts to be at peace and to know that you have told us the truth
and to be among those who witness it.’ (5:113)
• (‘Isa said,) ‘I said to them nothing but what You ordered me to say:
"Worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord." I was a witness against
them as long as I remained among them, but when You took me
back to You, You were the One watching over them. You are
Witness of all things.’ (5:117)
• And a pair of camels and a pair of cattle–Say: ‘Is it the two males
He has made forbidden, or the two females, or what the wombs of
the two females contain? Were you then witnesses when Allah
gave you this instruction?’ Who could do greater wrong than
someone who invents lies against Allah thus leading people
astray without any knowledge? Allah does not guide the people of
the wrongdoers. (6:144)
• As for those who have set up a mosque, causing harm and out of
disbelief, to create division between the believers, and in
readiness for those who previously made war on Allah and His
Messenger, they will swear, ‘We only desired the best.’ But Allah
bears witness that they are truly liars. (9:107)
• But as for those who have clear evidence from their Lord followed
up by a witness from Him–and before it the Book of Musa came
as a model and a mercy–such people believe in it. Any faction
which rejects it is promised the Fire. Be in no doubt about it. It is
the Truth from your Lord. But most people have no faith. (11:17)
• Who could do greater wrong than those who invent lies against
Allah? Such people will be arrayed before their Lord and the
witnesses will say, ‘Those are the ones who lied against their
Lord.’ Yes indeed! Allah’s curse is on the wrongdoers. (11:18)
• We only say that one of our gods has driven you mad.’ He said, ‘I
call on Allah to be my witness, and you also bear witness, that I
am free of all the gods you have apart from Him.’ (11:54)
• He (Yusuf) said, ‘It was she who tried to seduce me.’ A witness
from her people then declared, ‘If his shirt is torn in front, she
speaks the truth and he has clearly told a shameless lie.’ (12:26)
• Those who disbelieve say, ‘You are not a Messenger.’ Say: ‘Allah
is a sufficient witness between you and me, and anyone else who
has knowledge of the Book.’ (13:43)
• Perform prayer from the time the sun declines until the darkening
of the night, and also the recitation at dawn. The dawn recitation
is certainly witnessed. (17:78)
• I did not make them witnesses of the creation of the heavens and
the earth nor of their own creation. I would not take as assistants
those who lead astray! (18:51)
• They said, ‘Bring him before the people’s eyes so they can be
witnesses.’ (21:61)
• And Dawud and Sulayman when they gave judgement about the
field, when the people’s sheep strayed into it at night. We were
Witness to their judgement. (21:78)
• As for those who believe and those who are Jews and the
Sabaeans and the Christians, Magians and idolaters, Allah will
distinguish between them on the Day of Rising. Allah is witness of
all things. (22:17)
• Strive for Allah with the striving due to Him. He has selected you
and not placed any constraint upon you in the religion–the religion
of your forefather Ibrahim. He named you Muslims before and
also in this, so that the Messenger could be witness against you
and you could be witnesses against all mankind. So perform
prayer and give the alms and hold fast to Allah. He is your
Protector–the Best Protector, the Best Helper. (22:78)
• But those who make accusations against chaste women and then
do not produce four witnesses: flog them with eighty lashes and
never again accept them as witnesses. Such people are deviators.
(24:4)
• Why did they not produce four witnesses to it? Since they did not
bring four witnesses, in Allah’s sight, they are liars. (24:13)
• (Believers are) those who do not bear false witness and who,
when they pass by worthless talk, pass by with dignity; (25:72)
• You were not on the western side when We gave Musa the
command. You were not a witness. (28:44)
• We will drag out a witness from each nation and will say,
‘Produce your evidence!’ They will know then that the truth is with
Allah and that what they invented has forsaken them. (28:75)
• Say: ‘I have not asked you for any wage–it is all for you. My wage
is the responsibility of Allah alone. He is witness of everything.’
(34:47)
• Today We seal up their mouths and their hands speak to us, and
their feet bear witness to what they have earned. (36:65)
• And the earth will shine with the Pure Light of its Lord; the Book
will be put in place; the Prophets and witnesses will be brought; it
will be decided between them with the truth; and they will not be
wronged. (39:69)
• They have designated the angels as female, those who are in the
presence of the All-Merciful! Were they present to witness their
creation? Their testimony will be recorded and they will be asked
about it! (43:19)
• Or do they say, ‘He has invented it’? Say: ‘If I have invented it,
then you possess no power to help me against Allah in any way.
He knows best what you hold forth about. He is witness enough
between me and you. He is the Ever-Forgiving, the Most
Merciful.’ (46:8)
• Say: ‘What do you think? If it is from Allah and you reject it, when
a witness from the tribe of Israel testifies to its similarity and
believes while you are arrogant...! Allah certainly does not guide
wrongdoing people.’ (46:10)
• Every self will come together with a driver and a witness. (50:21)
• On the Day Allah raises up all of them together, He will inform
them of what they did. Allah has recorded it while they have
forgotten it. Allah is a Witness of all things. (58:6)
• Did you not see the hypocrites saying to their brothers, those
among the People of the Book who disbelieve, ‘If you are driven
out we will leave with you, we will never obey anyone to your
detriment. And if you are fought against we will help you’? Allah
bears witness that they are truly liars. (59:11)
• When the hypocrites come to you they say, ‘We bear witness that
you are indeed the Messenger of Allah.’ Allah knows that you are
indeed His Messenger and Allah bears witness that the
hypocrites are certainly liars. (63:1)
• Then when they have reached the end of their waiting period
either retain them with correctness and courtesy or part from
them with correctness and courtesy. Call two upright men from
among yourselves as witnesses and they should carry out the
witnessing for Allah. This is admonishment for all who believe in
Allah and the Last Day. Whoever has fear of Allah–He will give
him a way out. (65:2)
• Him to Whom the Kingdom of the heavens and the earth belongs.
Allah is Witness of all things. (85:9)
• They (brothers of Yusuf) said, ‘If a wolf does come and eat him
up when together we make up a powerful group in that case we
would truly be in loss!’ (12:14)
WOMB
• Remember when the wife of ‘Imran said, ‘My Lord, I have pledged
to You what is in my womb, devoting it to Your service. Please
accept my prayer. You are the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.’ (3:35)
• Allah knows what every female bears and every shrinking of the
womb and every swelling. Everything has its measure with Him.
(13:8)
• On the day they see it, every nursing woman will be oblivious of
the baby at her breast, and every pregnant woman will abort the
contents of her womb, and you will think people drunk when they
are not drunk; it is just that the punishment of Allah is so severe.
(22:2)
• Mankind! If you are in any doubt about the Rising, know that We
created you from dust then from a drop of sperm then from a clot
of blood then from a lump of flesh, formed yet unformed, so We
may make things clear to you. We make whatever We want stay
in the womb until a specified time and then We bring you out as
children so that you can reach your full maturity. Some of you die
and some of you revert to the lowest form of life so that, after
having knowledge, they then know nothing at all. And you see the
earth dead and barren; then when We send down water onto it it
quivers and swells and sprouts with luxuriant plants of every kind.
(22:5)
• Truly Allah has knowledge of the Hour and sends down abundant
rain and knows what is in the womb. And no self knows what it
will earn tomorrow and no self knows in what land it will die. Allah
is All-Knowing, All-Aware. (31:34)
• He created you from a single self, then produced its mate from it,
and sent down livestock to you–eight kinds in pairs. He creates
you stage by stage in your mothers’ wombs in a threefold
darkness. That is Allah, your Lord. Sovereignty is His. There is no
god but Him. So what has made you deviate? (39:6)
WOMEN
• We said, ‘Adam, live in the Garden, you and your wife, and eat
freely from it wherever you will. But do not approach this tree and
so become wrongdoers.’ (2:35)
• On the night of the fast it is lawful for you to have sexual relations
with your wives. They are clothing for you and you for them. Allah
knows that you have been betraying yourselves and He has
turned towards you and excused you. Now you may have sexual
intercourse with them and seek what Allah has written for you.
Eat and drink until you can clearly discern the white thread from
the black thread of the dawn, then fulfil the fast until the night
appears. But do not have sexual intercourse with them while you
are in retreat in the mosques. These are Allah’s limits, so do not
go near them. In this way does Allah make His Signs clear to
people so that hopefully they will guard against evil. (2:187)
• Your women are fertile fields for you, so come to your fertile fields
however you like. Send good ahead for yourselves and have fear
of Allah. Know that you are going to meet Him. And give good
news to the believers. (2:223)
• Those who swear to abstain from sexual relations with their wives
can wait for a period of up to four months. If they then retract their
oath, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. If they are
determined to divorce, Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (2:226-
227)
• But if a man divorces his wife a third time, she is not lawful for
him after that until she has married another husband. Then if he
divorces her, there is nothing wrong in the original couple getting
back together provided they think they will remain within Allah’s
limits. These are Allah’s limits which he has made clear to people
who know. (2:230)
• When you divorce women and they are near the end of their
waiting period, then either retain them with correctness and
courtesy or release them with correctness and courtesy. Do not
retain them by force, thus overstepping the limits. Anyone who
does that has wronged himself. Do not make a mockery of Allah’s
Signs. Remember Allah’s blessing to you and the Book and
Wisdom He has sent down to you to admonish you. Have fear of
Allah and know that Allah has knowledge of all things. (2:231)
• When you divorce women and they are near the end of their
waiting period, do not prevent them from marrying their first
husbands if they have mutually agreed to it with correctness and
courtesy. This is an admonition for those of you who believe in
Allah and the Last Day. That is better and purer for you. Allah
knows and you do not know. (2:232)
• Mothers should nurse their children for two full years–those who
wish to complete the full term of nursing. It is the duty of the
fathers to feed and clothe them with correctness and courtesy–no
self is charged with more than it can bear. No mother should be
put under pressure in respect of her child nor any father in
respect of his child. The same duty is incumbent on the heir. If the
couple both wish weaning to take place after mutual agreement
and consultation, there is nothing wrong in their doing that. If you
wish to find wet-nurses for your children, there is nothing wrong in
your doing that provided you hand over to them what you have
agreed to give with correctness and courtesy. Have fear of Allah
and know that Allah sees what you do. (2:233)
• Those of you who die leaving wives behind: they should wait by
themselves for four months and ten nights. When their waiting
perio comes to an end, you are not to blame for anything they do
with themselves with correctness and courtesy. Allah is aware of
what you do. (2:234)
• If you divorce them before you have touched them but have
already allotted them a dowry, they should have half the amount
which you allotted, unless they forgo it or the one in charge of the
marriage contract forgoes it. To forgo it is closer to heedfulness.
Do not forget to show generosity to one another. Allah sees what
you do. (2:237)
• Remember when the wife of ‘Imran said, ‘My Lord, I have pledged
to You what is in my womb, devoting it to Your service. Please
accept my prayer. You are the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.’ (3:35)
• When she gave birth, she said, ‘My Lord! I have given birth to a
girl’–and Allah knew very well what she had given birth to, male
and female are not the same–‘and I have named her Maryam and
placed her and her children in Your safekeeping from the
accursed Satan.’ (3:36)
• Her Lord accepted her with approval and made her grow in health
and beauty. And Zakariyya became her guardian. Every time
Zakariyya visited her in the Upper Room, he found food with her.
He said, ‘Maryam, how did you come by this?’ She said, ‘It is from
Allah. Allah provides for whoever He wills without any reckoning.’
(3:37)
• And when the angels said, ‘Maryam, Allah has chosen you and
purified you. He has chosen you over all other women.’ (3:42)
• This is news from the Unseen which We reveal to you. You were
not with them when they cast their reeds to see which of them
would be the guardian of Maryam. You were not with them when
they quarrelled. (3:44)
• She (Maryam) said, ‘My Lord! How can I have a son when no
man has ever touched me?’ He said, ‘It will be so.’ Allah creates
whatever He wills. When He decides on something, He just says
to it, ‘Be!’ and it is. (3:47)
• If anyone argues with you about him after the knowledge that has
come to you, say, ‘Come then! Let us summon our sons and your
sons, our women and your women, ourselves and yourselves.
Then let us make earnest supplication and call down the curse of
Allah upon the liars.’ (3:61)
• mankind! Have fear of your Lord Who created you from a single
self and created its mate from it and then disseminated many
men and women from the two of them. Have fear of Allah in
Whose name you make demands on one another and also in
respect of your families. Allah watches over you continually. (4:1)
• Give women their dowry as an outright gift. But if they are happy
to give you some of it, make use of it with pleasure and goodwill.
(4:4)
• Men receive a share of what their parents and relatives leave and
women receive a share of what their parents and relatives leave,
a fixed share, no matter whether it is a little or a lot. (4:7)
• You receive half of what your wives leave if they are childless. If
they have children you receive a quarter of what they leave after
any bequest they make or any debts. They receive a quarter of
what you leave if you are childless. If you have children they
receive an eighth of what you leave after any bequest you make
or any debts. If a man or woman has no direct heirs, but has a
brother or sister, each of them receives a sixth. If there are more
than that they share in a third after any bequest you make or any
debts, making sure that no one’s rights are prejudiced. This is an
instruction from Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Forbearing. (4:12)
• You who believe! It is not lawful for you to inherit women by force.
Nor may you treat them harshly so that you can make off with
part of what you have given them, unless they commit an act of
flagrant indecency. Live together with them correctly and
courteously. If you dislike them, it may well be that you dislike
something in which Allah has placed a lot of good. (4:19)
• If you desire to exchange one wife for another and have given
your original wife a large amount, do not take any of it. Would you
take it by means of slander and outright crime? How could you
take it when you have been intimate with one another and they
have made a binding contract with you? (4:20-21)
• Forbidden for you are: your mothers and your daughters and your
sisters, your maternal aunts and your paternal aunts, your
brothers’ daughters and your sisters’ daughters, your foster
mothers who have suckled you, your foster sisters by suckling,
your wives’ mothers, your stepdaughters who are under your
protection: the daughters of your wives whom you have had
sexual relations with (though if you have not had sexual relations
with them there is nothing blameworthy for you in it then), the
wives of your sons whom you have fathered, and marrying two
sisters at the same time–except for what may have already taken
place. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. And also married
women, except for those you have taken in war as slaves. This is
what Allah has prescribed for you. Apart from that He has made
all other women lawful for you provided you seek them with your
wealth in marriage and not in fornication. When you consummate
your marriage with them give them their prescribed dowry. There
is nothing wrong in any further agreement you might come to
after the dowry has been given. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.
(4:23-24)
• If any of you do not have the means to marry free women who
are believers, you may marry slavegirls who are believers. Allah
knows best about your faith; you are all the same in that respect.
Marry them with their owners’ permission and give them their
dowries correctly and courteously as married women, not in
fornication or taking them as lovers. When they are married, if
they commit fornication they should receive half the punishment
of free women. This is for those of you who are afraid of
committing fornication. But being patient is better for you. Allah is
Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:25)
• Do not covet what Allah has given to some of you in preference to
others–men have a portion of what they acquire and women have
a portion of what they acquire; but ask Allah for His bounty. Allah
has knowledge of all things. (4:32)
• Men have charge of women because Allah has preferred the one
above the other and because they spend their wealth on them.
Right-acting women are obedient (to Allah), guarding the unseen
as Allah has guarded. If there are women whose disobedience
you fear, you may admonish them, refuse to sleep with them, and
then beat them. But if they obey you, do not look for a way to
punish them. Allah is All-High, Most Great. (4:34)
• You who believe! Do not approach the prayer when you are drunk,
so that you will know what you are saying, nor in a state of major
impurity–unless you are travelling–until you have washed
yourselves completely. If you are ill or on a journey, or any of you
have come from the lavatory or touched women, and you cannot
find any water, then take for yourselves clean earth, wiping your
faces and your hands. Allah is Ever-Pardoning, Ever-Forgiving.
(4:43)
• What reason could you have for not fighting in the Way of Allah–
for those men, women and children who are oppressed and say,
‘Our Lord, take us out of this city whose inhabitants are
wrongdoers! Give us a protector from You! Give us a helper from
You!’? (4:75)
• The angels ask those they take while they are wronging
themselves, ‘What were your circumstances?’ They reply, ‘We
were oppressed on earth.’ They say, ‘Was Allah’s earth not wide
enough for you to have migrated elsewhere in it?’ The shelter of
such people will be Hell. What an evil destination! Except for
those men, women and children who really are oppressed and do
not have any other possibility and are not guided to any way.
(4:97-98)
• As for thieves, both male and female, cut off their hands in
reprisal for what they have done: an object lesson from Allah.
Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (5:38)
• Yet they make the jinn co-partners with Allah when He created
them! And they attribute sons and daughters to Him without any
knowledge. Glory be to Him! He is far above what they describe!
(6:100)
• (Lut said to his people,) ‘You come with lust to men instead of
women. You are indeed a depraved people.’ (7:81)
• The ruling circle of Pharaoh’s people said, ‘Are you going to leave
Musa and his people to cause corruption in the earth and
abandon you and your gods?’ He said, ‘We will kill their sons and
let their women live. We have absolute power over them!’ (7:127)
• Say: ‘If your fathers or your sons or your brothers or your wives or
your tribe, or any wealth you have acquired, or any business you
fear may slump, or any house which pleases you, are dearer to
you than Allah and His Messenger and striving in His Way, then
wait until Allah brings about His command. Allah does not guide
people who are deviators.’ (9:24)
• The men and women of the hypocrites are as bad as one another.
They command what is wrong and forbid what is right and keep
their fists tightly closed. They have forgotten Allah, so He has
forgotten them. The hypocrites are deviators. (9:67)
• Allah has promised the men and women of the hypocrites and
disbelievers the Fire of Hell, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. It
will suffice them. Allah has cursed them. They will have
everlasting punishment. (9:68)
• The men and women of the believers are friends of one another.
They command what is right and forbid what is wrong, and
perform prayer and give the alms, and obey Allah and His
Messenger. They are the people on whom Allah will have mercy.
Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (9:71)
• Allah has promised the men and women of the believers Gardens
with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly, for
ever, and fine dwellings in the Gardens of Eden. And Allah’s good
pleasure is even greater. That is the great victory. (9:72)
• His (Ibrahim’s) wife was standing there and she laughed out loud.
So We gave her the good news of Ishaq, and beyond Ishaq,
Ya‘qub. She said, ‘Woe is me! How can I give birth when I am an
old woman and my husband here is an aged man? This is indeed
an astonishing thing!’ (11:71-72)
• The Egyptian who had bought him (Yusuf) told his wife, ‘Look
after him with honour and respect. It’s possible he will be of use
to us or perhaps we might adopt him as a son.’ And thus We
established Yusuf in the land to teach him the true meaning of
events. Allah is in control of His affair. However, most of mankind
do not know. (12:21)
• The woman whose house it was solicited him (Yusuf). She barred
the doors and said, ‘Come over here!’ He said, ‘Allah is my refuge!
He is My lord and has been good to me with where I live. Those
who do wrong will surely not succeed.’ She wanted him and he
would have wanted her, had he not seen the Clear Proof of his
Lord. That happened so We might avert from him all evil and lust.
He was Our chosen servant. They raced to the door. She tore his
shirt at the back. They met her husband by the door. She said,
‘How should a man whose intention was to harm your family be
punished for what he did except with prison or painful
punishment?’ He said, ‘It was she who tried to seduce me.’ A
witness from her people then declared, ‘If his shirt is torn in front,
she speaks the truth and he has clearly told a shameless lie. If his
shirt is torn at the back, then she has lied and he has clearly told
the simple truth.’ He saw the shirt torn at the back and said, ‘The
source of this is women’s deviousness. Without a doubt your
guile is very great. Yusuf, ignore all this, and you, my wife, should
ask forgiveness for your evil act. There is no doubt that you are in
the wrong.’ Some city women said, ‘The governor’s wife solicited
her slave. He’s fired her heart with love. We see that she’s the
one to blame.’ But when she heard of their malicious talk, she
sent for them and made a sumptuous meal and then she gave a
knife to each of them. She said (to Yusuf), ‘Go out to them.’ When
they saw him, they were amazed by him and cut their hands.
They said, ‘Allah preserve us! This is no man. What can this be
but a noble angel here!’ She said, ‘You see! It’s him you blamed
me for. I tried seducing him but he refused. If he does not do what
I order him, he will be put in prison and brought low.’ (12:23-32)
• He (Yusuf) raised his parents up onto the throne. The others fell
prostrate in front of him. He said, ‘My father, truly this is now the
interpretation of the dream I had. My Lord has made it all come
true; and He was kind to me by letting me out of prison and
brought you from the desert when Satan had caused dissent
between me and my brothers. My Lord is kind to anyone He wills.
He is indeed All-Knowing and All-Wise.’ (12:100)
• Allah knows what every female bears and every shrinking of the
womb and every swelling. Everything has its measure with Him.
(13:8)
• Gardens of Eden which they will enter, and all of their parents,
wives and children who were righteous. Angels will enter in to
welcome them from every gate. (13:23)
• When one of them is given the good news of a baby girl, his face
darkens and he is furious. (16:58)
• Allah has given you wives from among yourselves, and given you
children and grandchildren from your wives, and provided good
things for you. So why do they believe in falsehood and reject the
blessings of Allah? (16:72)
• Your Lord has decreed that you should worship none but Him,
and that you should show kindness to your parents. Whether one
or both of them reach old age with you, do not say ‘Ugh!’ to them
out of irritation and do not be harsh with them but speak to them
with gentleness and generosity. (17:23)
• Mention Maryam in the Book, how she withdrew from her people
to an eastern place, and veiled herself from them. Then We sent
Our Spirit to her and it took on for her the form of a handsome,
well-built man. She said, ‘I seek refuge from you with the All-
Merciful if you guard against evil.’ He said, ‘I am only your Lord’s
messenger so that He can give you a pure boy.’ She said, ‘How
can I have a boy when no man has touched me and I am not an
unchaste woman?’ He said, ‘It will be so! Your Lord says, "That is
easy for Me. It is so that We can make him a Sign for mankind
and a mercy from Us." It is a matter already decreed.’ So she
conceived him and withdrew with him to a distant place. The
pains of labour drove her to the trunk of a date-palm. She said,
‘Oh if only I had died before this time and was something
discarded and forgotten!’ (19:16-23)
• She (Maryam) brought him to her people, carrying him. They said,
‘Maryam! You have done an unthinkable thing! Sister of Harun,
your father was not an evil man nor was your mother an unchaste
woman!’ She pointed towards him. They said, ‘How can a baby in
the cradle speak?’ (19:27-29)
• (Allah said to Musa,) ‘When your sister went and said, "Shall I
direct you to someone who will take care of him?" that was how
We returned you to your mother so that she might delight her
eyes and not be grieved. You killed a man and We rescued you
from trouble and tested you with many trials. You stayed some
years among the people of Madyan. Then you arrived at the pre-
ordained time, Musa!’ (20:40)
• We said, ‘Adam, this is an enemy for you and your wife, so do not
let him expel you from the Garden and thus make you miserable.’
(20:117)
• So the two of them ate from it and their private parts were
disclosed to them and they started stitching together the leaves of
the Garden to cover themselves. Adam disobeyed his Lord and
became misled. (20:121)
• And We made the son of Maryam and his mother a Sign and
gave them shelter on a mountainside where there was a meadow
and a flowing spring. (23:50)
• A man who has fornicated may only marry a woman who has
fornicated or a woman of the idolaters. A woman who has
fornicated may only marry a man who has fornicated or a man of
the idolaters. Doing such a thing is forbidden for the believers.
(24:3)
• But those who make accusations against chaste women and then
do not produce four witnesses: flog them with eighty lashes and
never again accept them as witnesses. Such people are deviators.
(24:4)
• Those who make an accusation against their wives and have no
witnesses except themselves, such people should testify four
times by Allah that they are telling the truth and a fifth time that
Allah’s curse will be upon them if they are lying. And the
punishment is removed from her if she testifies four times by
Allah that he is lying and a fifth time that Allah’s anger will be
upon her if he is telling the truth. (24:6-9)
• Corrupt women are for corrupt men and corrupt men are for
corrupt women, good women are for good men and good men
are for good women. The latter are innocent of what they say.
They will have forgiveness and generous provision. (24:26)
• Say to the believing women that they should lower their eyes and
guard their chastity and not display their adornments–except for
what normally shows–and draw their head-coverings across their
breasts. They should only display their adornments to their
husbands or their fathers or their husbands’ fathers, or their sons
or their husbands’ sons or their brothers or their brothers’ sons or
their sisters’ sons or their women or those they own as slaves or
their male attendants who have no sexual desire or children who
still have no awareness of women’s private parts. Nor should they
stamp their feet so that their hidden ornaments are known. Turn
to Allah every one of you, believers, so that hopefully you will
have success. (24:31)
• Marry off those among you who are unmarried and those of your
slaves and slavegirls who are righteous. If they are poor, Allah
will enrich them from His bounty. Allah is All-Encompassing, All-
Knowing. (24:32)
• (Believers are) those who say, ‘Our Lord, give us joy in our wives
and children and make us a good example for those who guard
against evil’. (25:74)
• (Lut said to his people,) ‘Of all beings, do you lie with males,
leaving the wives Allah has created for you? You are a people
who have overstepped the limits.’ (26:165-166)
• Then when she came, she was asked, ‘Is your throne like this?’
She said, ‘It is exactly like it.’ ‘We were given knowledge before
her and were already Muslims, but what she worshipped besides
Allah impeded her. She was from an unbelieving people.’ She
was told: ‘Enter the courtyard,’ but when she saw it she supposed
it to be a pool and bared her legs. He (Sulayman) said, ‘It is a
courtyard paved with glass.’ She said, ‘My Lord, I have wronged
myself but I have submitted with Sulayman to the Lord of all the
worlds.’ (27:42-44)
• (Lut said to his people,) ‘Do you come with lust to men instead of
women? You are a people who are deeply ignorant.’ (27:55)
• Allah has not allotted to any man two hearts within his breast, nor
has He made those of your wives you equate with your mothers
your actual mothers, nor has He made your adopted sons your
actual sons. These are just words coming out of your mouths. But
Allah speaks the truth and He guides to the Way. (33:4)
• The Prophet is closer to the believers than their own selves, and
his wives are their mothers. But blood-relations have closer ties to
one another in the Book of Allah than other believers and the
emigrants, except that you should act in a proper manner towards
your close associates. That is inscribed in the Book. (33:6)
• Prophet, tell your wives: ‘If you desire the life of this world and its
finery, come and I will give you all you need and release you with
kindness. But if you desire Allah and His Messenger and the
abode of the hereafter, Allah has prepared an immense reward
for those among you who are good-doers.’ (33:28-29)
• Wives of the Prophet! You are not like other women provided you
guard against evil. Do not be too soft-spoken in your speech lest
someone with sickness in his heart becomes desirous. Speak
correct and courteous words. Remain in your houses and do not
display your beauty as it was previously displayed in the Time of
Ignorance. Perform prayer and give the alms and obey Allah and
His Messenger. Allah desires to remove all impurity from you,
People of the House, and to purify you completely. And
remember the Signs of Allah and the wise words which are
recited in your rooms. Allah is All-Pervading, All-Aware. (33:32-34)
• Men and women who are Muslims, men and women who are
believers, men and women who are obedient, men and women
who are truthful, men and women who are steadfast, men and
women who are humble, men and women who give charity, men
and women who fast, men and women who guard their chastity,
men and women who remember Allah much: Allah has prepared
forgiveness for them and an immense reward. (33:35)
• When you said to him whom Allah has blessed and you yourself
have greatly favoured, ‘Keep your wife to yourself and have fear
of Allah,’ while concealing something in yourself which Allah
wished to bring to light, you were fearing people when Allah has
more right to your fear. Then when Zayd divorced her We married
her to you so that there should be no restriction for the believers
regarding the wives of their adopted sons when they have
divorced them. Allah’s command is always carried out. (33:37)
• You who believe! When you marry believing women and then
divorce them before you have touched them, there is no waiting
period for you to calculate for them, so give them a gift and let
them go with kindness. (33:49)
• Prophet! We have made lawful for you: your wives to whom you
have given dowries and any slavegirls you own from the booty
Allah has allotted you and the daughters of your paternal uncles
and the daughters of your paternal aunts and the daughters of
your maternal uncles and the daughters of your maternal aunts
who have migrated with you and any believing woman who gives
herself to the Prophet if the Prophet desires to marry her:
exclusively for you as opposed to the rest of the believers–We
know very well what We have prescribed for them regarding their
wives and any slavegirls they possess–in order that there be no
restriction on you. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:50)
• You may refrain from any of them you will and keep close to you
any of them you will. And if you desire any you have left alone,
there is nothing wrong in that. This makes it more likely they will
be comforted and not be grieved, and all of them will be content
with what you give them. Allah knows what is in your hearts. Allah
is All-Knowing, All-Forbearing. (33:51)
• After that no other women are lawful for you nor may you
exchange them for other wives, even though their beauty might
be pleasing to you, with the exception of any you own as slaves.
Allah is watchful over all things. (33:52)
• Prophet! Tell your wives and daughters and the women of the
believers to draw their outer garments closely round themselves.
This makes it more likely that they will be recognised and not be
harmed. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:59)
• This was so that Allah might punish the men and women of the
hypocrites, and the men and women of the idolaters, and turn
towards the men and women of the believers. Allah is Ever-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:73)
• Allah created you from dust and then from a drop of sperm and
then made you into pairs. No female becomes pregnant or gives
birth except with His knowledge. And no living thing lives long or
has its life cut short without that being in a Book. That is easy for
Allah. (35:11)
• He created you from a single self, then produced its mate from it,
and sent down livestock to you–eight kinds in pairs. He creates
you stage by stage in your mothers’ wombs in a threefold
darkness. That is Allah, your Lord. Sovereignty is His. There is no
god but Him. So what has made you deviate? (39:6)
• (Angels ask forgiveness for believers,) ‘Our Lord, admit them to
the Gardens of Eden You have promised them, and all of their
parents, wives and children who acted rightly. Truly You are the
Almighty, the All-Wise.’ (40:8)
• When any of them is given the good news of the very thing which
he himself has ascribed to the All-Merciful, his face darkens and
he is furious. ‘What! Someone brought up among pretty trinkets
who cannot produce a cogent argument!’ (43:17-18)
• But what of him who says to his parents, ‘Fie on you! Do you
promise me that I will be resurrected when generations before me
have passed away?’ They both call on Allah for help: ‘Woe to you!
Believe! Allah’s promise is true.’ But he says, ‘This is nothing but
the myths of previous peoples.’ (46:17)
• (It is) so that He may admit the men and women of the believers
into Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them
timelessly, for ever, and erase their bad actions from them; and in
Allah’s sight that is a mighty victory. And so that He might punish
the men and women of the hypocrites and the men and women of
the idolaters–those who think bad thoughts about Allah. They will
suffer an evil turn of fate. Allah is angry with them, and has
cursed them and prepared Hell for them. What an evil destination!
(48:5-6)
• You who believe! People should not ridicule others who may be
better than themselves; nor should any women ridicule other
women who may be better than themselves. And do not find fault
with one another or insult each other with derogatory nicknames.
How evil it is to have a name for evil conduct after coming to faith!
Those people who do not turn from it are wrongdoers. (49:11)
• Mankind! We created you from a male and female, and made you
into peoples and tribes so that you might come to know each
other. The noblest among you in Allah’s sight is the one of you
who best performs his duty. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware.
(49:13)
• His (Ibrahim’s) wife came up with a shriek and struck her face
and said, ‘What, and me a barren old woman!’ (51:29)
• On the Day you see the men and women of the believers, with
their light streaming out in front of them, and to their right: ‘Good
news for you today of Gardens with rivers flowing under them,
remaining in them timelessly, for ever. That is the Great Victory.’
(57:12)
• The men and women who give charity and make a good loan to
Allah will have it increased for them and they will have a
generous reward. (57:18)
• Then when they have reached the end of their waiting period
either retain them with correctness and courtesy or part from
them with correctness and courtesy. Call two upright men from
among yourselves as witnesses and they should carry out the
witnessing for Allah. This is admonishment for all who believe in
Allah and the Last Day. Whoever has fear of Allah–He will give
him a way out. (65:2)
• In the case of those of your wives who are past the age of
menstruation, if you have any doubt, their waiting period should
be three months, and that also applies to those who have not yet
menstruated. The time for women who are pregnant is when they
give birth. Whoever has fear of Allah–He will make matters easy
for him. (65:4)
• Let them live where you live, according to your means. Do not put
pressure on them, so as to harass them. If they are pregnant,
maintain them until they give birth. If they are suckling for you,
give them their wages and consult together with correctness and
courtesy. But if you make things difficult for one another, another
woman should do the suckling for you. (65:6)
• He who has plenty should spend out from his plenty, but he
whose provision is restricted should spend from what Allah has
given him. Allah does not demand from any self more than He
has given it. Allah will appoint after difficulty, ease. (65:7)
• Prophet! Why do you make forbidden what Allah has made lawful
for you, seeking to please your wives? Allah is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (66:1)
• If the two of you (Prophet’s wives) would only turn to Allah, for
your hearts clearly deviated... But if you support one another
against him, Allah is his Protector and so are Gabriel and every
right-acting man of the believers and, furthermore, the angels too
will come to his support. (66:4)
• It may be that if he does divorce you, his Lord will give him in
exchange better wives than you: Muslim women, believing
women, obedient women, penitent women, women who worship,
women who fast much–previously married women as well as
virgins. (66:5)
• Allah has made an example for those who disbelieve: the wife of
Nuh and the wife of Lut. They were married to two of Our
servants who were righteous but they betrayed them and were
not helped at all against Allah. They were told, ‘Enter the Fire
along with all who enter it.’ (66:10)
• Allah has made an example for those who believe: the wife of
Pharaoh when she said, ‘My Lord, build a house in the Garden for
me in Your presence and rescue me from Pharaoh and his deeds
and rescue me from this wrongdoing people.’ (66:11)
• (Nuh said,) ‘My Lord! Forgive me and my parents and all who
enter my house as believers, and all the men and women of the
believers. But do not increase the wrongdoers except in ruin!’
(71:28)
• And (there are) nubile maidens of similar age (for those who
guard against evil). (78:33)
• Those who persecute men and women of the believers, and then
do not repent, will have the punishment of Hell, will have the
punishment of the Burning. (85:10)
• And (say: ‘I seek refuge with the Lord of Daybreak) from the evil
of women who blow on knots.’ (113:4)
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• Allah has made your houses places of rest for you and made
houses for you out of cattle hides which are light for you to carry
both when you are travelling and when you are staying in one
place. And from their wool and fur and hair you obtain clothing
and carpets and household utensils for a time. (16:80)
• On the Day the sky is like molten brass and the mountains like
tufts of coloured wool. (70:8-9)
• It is the Day when mankind will be like scattered moths and the
mountains like tufts of coloured wool. (101:4-5)
• Then you are the people who are killing one another and
expelling a group among you from their homes, ganging up
against them in wrongdoing and enmity. Yet if they are brought to
you as captives, you ransom them, when it was forbidden for you
to expel them in the first place! Do you, then, believe in one part
of the Book and reject the other? What repayment will there be
for any of you who do that except disgrace in this world? And on
the Day of Rising, they will be returned to the harshest of
punishments. Allah is not unaware of what you do. (2:85)
• Those are the people who trade the hereafter for this world. The
punishment will not be lightened for them. They will not be helped.
(2:86)
• And there are others who say, ‘Our Lord, give us good in this
world, and good in the hereafter, and safeguard us from the
punishment of the Fire.’ (2:201)
• Among the people there is someone whose words about the life
of this world excite your admiration, and he calls Allah to witness
what is in his heart, while he is in fact the most hostile of
adversaries. (2:204)
• They will ask you about the Sacred Month and fighting in it. Say,
‘Fighting in it is a serious matter; but barring access to the Way of
Allah and rejecting Him and barring access to the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram) and expelling its people from it are far more
serious in the sight of Allah. Discord is worse than killing.’ They
will not stop fighting you until they make you revert from your
religion, if they are able. As for any of you who revert from their
religion and die disbelievers, their actions will come to nothing in
this world and the hereafter. They are the Companions of the Fire,
remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (2:217)
• They will ask you about alcoholic drinks and gambling. Say,
‘There is great wrong in both of them and also certain benefits for
mankind. But the wrong in them is greater than the benefit.’ They
will ask you what they should give away. Say, ‘Whatever is
surplus to your needs.’ In this way Allah makes the Signs clear to
you, so that hopefully you will reflect on this world and the
hereafter. They will ask you about the property of orphans. Say,
‘Managing it in their best interests is best.’ If you mix your
property with theirs, they are your brothers. Allah knows a
squanderer from a good manager. If Allah had wanted, He could
have been hard on you. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (2:219-220)
• When the angels said, ‘Maryam, your Lord gives you good news
of a Word from Him. His name is the Messiah, ‘Isa, son of
Maryam, of high esteem in this world and the hereafter, and one
of those brought near.’ (3:45)
• (Allah said,) ‘As for those who disbelieve, I will punish them with a
harsh punishment in this world and the hereafter. They will have
no helpers.’ (3:56)
• The metaphor of what they spend in their life in this world is that
of a wind with an icy bite to it which strikes the crops of a people
who have wronged themselves and destroys them. Allah did not
wrong them; rather it was themselves they were wronging. (3:117)
• So Allah gave them the reward of this world and the best reward
of the hereafter. Allah loves good-doers. (3:148)
• Every self will taste death. You will be paid your wages in full on
the Day of Rising. Anyone who is distanced from the Fire and
admitted to the Garden has triumphed. The life of this world is just
the enjoyment of delusion. (3:185)
• So let those who sell the life of this world for the hereafter fight in
the Way of Allah. If someone fights in the Way of Allah, whether
he is killed or is victorious, We will pay him an immense reward.
(4:74)
• Do you not see those who were told: ‘Hold back from fighting but
perform prayer and give the alms’? Then when fighting is
prescribed for them, a group of them fear people as Allah should
be feared, or even more than that. They say, ‘Our Lord, why have
you prescribed fighting for us? If only You would give us just a
little more time!’ Say, ‘The enjoyment of this world is very brief.
The hereafter is better for those who guard against evil. You will
not be wronged by so much as the smallest speck.’ (4:77)
• You who believe! When you go out to fight in the Way of Allah
verify things carefully. Do not say, ‘You are not a believer’, to
someone who greets you as a Muslim, simply out of desire for the
goods of this world. With Allah there is booty in abundance. That
is the way you were before but Allah has been kind to you. So
verify things carefully. Allah is aware of what you do. (4:94)
• Here you are arguing on their behalf in this world, but who will
argue with Allah on their behalf on the Day of Rising? Who will
act as guardian for them then? (4:109)
• If anyone desires the reward of this world, the reward of both this
world and hereafter is with Allah. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Seeing.
(4:134)
• The reprisal against those who wage war on Allah and His
Messenger, and go about the earth corrupting it, is that they
should be killed or crucified, or have their alternate hands and
feet cut off, or be banished from the land. That will be their
degradation in this world and in the hereafter they will have a
terrible punishment. (5:33)
• The life of this world is nothing but a game and a diversion. The
hereafter is better for those who guard against evil. So will you
not use your intellect? (6:32)
• Abandon those who have turned their religion into a game and a
diversion and who have been deluded by the life of this world.
Remind by it lest a person is delivered up to destruction for what
he has earned with no protector or intercessor besides Allah.
Were he to offer every kind of compensation, it would not be
accepted from him. Such people are delivered up to destruction
for what they have earned. They will have scalding water to drink
and a painful punishment because they disbelieved. (6:70)
• Company of jinn and men! Did not Messengers come to you from
among yourselves relating My Signs to you and warning you of
the encounter of this Day of yours? They will say, ‘We testify
against ourselves.’ The life of this world deluded them and they
will testify against themselves that they were disbelievers. (6:130)
• Say: ‘Who has forbidden the fine clothing Allah has produced for
His servants and the good kinds of provision?’ Say: ‘On the Day
of Rising such things will be exclusively for those who believed
during their life in this world.’ In this way We make the Signs clear
for people who know. (7:32)
• As for those who adopted the Calf, anger from their Lord will
overtake them together with abasement in the life of this world.
That is how we repay the purveyors of falsehood. (7:152)
• (Musa said,) ‘Prescribe good for us in this world and the hereafter.
We have truly turned to You.’ He said, ‘As for My punishment, I
strike with it anyone I will. My mercy extends to all things but I will
prescribe it for those who guard against evil and give the alms,
and those who believe in Our Signs.’ (7:156)
• You who believe! What is the matter with you that when you are
told, ‘Go out and fight in the way of Allah,’ you sink down heavily
to the earth? Are you happier with this world than the hereafter?
Yet the enjoyment of this world is very small compared to that of
the hereafter. (9:38)
• Do not let their wealth and children impress you. Allah merely
wants to punish them by them during their life in this world and for
them to expire while they are disbelievers. (9:55)
• Like those before you who had greater strength than you and
more wealth and children. They enjoyed their portion; so enjoy
your portion as those before you enjoyed theirs. You have
plunged into defamation as they plunged into it. The actions of
such people come to nothing in this world or the hereafter. They
are the lost. (9:69)
• They swear by Allah that they said nothing, but they definitely
spoke the word of disbelief and returned to disbelief after their
Islam. They planned something which they did not achieve and
they were vindictive for no other cause than that Allah and His
Messenger had enriched them from His bounty. If they were to
repent, it would be better for them. But if they turn away, Allah will
punish them with a painful punishment in this world and the
hereafter, and they will not find any protector or helper on the
earth. (9:74)
• Do not let their wealth and their children impress you. Allah
merely wants to punish them by them in this world, and for them
to expire while they are disbelievers. (9:85)
• As for those who do not expect to meet Us and are content with
the life of this world and at rest in it, and those who are heedless
of Our Signs, their shelter will be the Fire because of what they
earned. (10:7-8)
• Those who believe and have done their duty, there is good news
for them in the life of this world and in the hereafter. There is no
changing the words of Allah. That is the great victory! (10:63-64)
• There is the enjoyment of this world. Then they will return to Us.
Then We will let them taste the terrible punishment because they
disbelieved. (10:70)
• Musa said, ‘Our Lord, You have given Pharaoh and his ruling
circle finery and wealth in the life of this world, Our Lord, so that
they may be misguided from Your Way. Our Lord, obliterate their
wealth and harden their hearts so that they do not believe until
they see the painful punishment.’ (10:88)
• How is it that there has never been a city that believed, whose
faith then brought it benefit, except the people of Yunus? When
they believed We removed from them the punishment of disgrace
in the life of this world and We let them have enjoyment for a time.
(10:98)
• As for those who desire the life of this world and its finery, We will
give them full payment in it for their actions. They will not be
deprived here of their due. (11:15).
• They will receive punishment in the life of this world and the
punishment of the hereafter is harsher still. They have no
defender against Allah. (13:34)
• Those who prefer the life of this world to the hereafter, and bar
access to the way of Allah, seeking in it something crooked; they
are greatly misguided. (14:3)
• Allah makes those who believe firm with the Firm Word in the life
of this world and the hereafter. But Allah misguides the
wrongdoers. Allah does whatever He wills. (14:27)
• He (Satan) said, ‘My Lord, because You misled me, I will make
things on the earth seem good to them and I will mislead them all,
every one of them.’ (15:39)
• When those who have fear of Allah are asked, ‘What has your
Lord sent down?’ their reply is, ‘Good!’ There is good in this world
for those who do good, and the abode of the hereafter is even
better. How wonderful is the abode of those who guard against
evil. (16:30)
• As for those who migrate for Allah’s sake after being wronged,
We shall give them good lodging in this world, and the reward of
the hereafter is greater still if they only knew. (16:41)
• That is because they prefer the life of this world to the hereafter
and because Allah does not guide disbelieving people. (16:107)
• Those who are blind in this world will be blind in the hereafter and
even further off the Path. (17:72)
• Make a metaphor for them of the life of this world. It is like water
which We send down from the sky and the plants of the earth
combine with it but then become dry chaff scattered by the winds.
Allah has absolute power over everything. (18:45)
• Wealth and sons are the embellishment of the life of this world.
But, in your Lord’s sight, right actions which are lasting bring a
better reward and are a better basis for hope. (18:46)
• They (magicians) said (to Pharaoh), ‘We will never prefer you to
the Clear Signs which have come to us nor to Him Who brought
us into being. Decide on any judgment you like. Your jurisdiction
only covers the life of this world.’ (20:72)
• Among the people there is one who worships Allah right on the
edge. If good befalls him, he is content with it, but if a trial befalls
him, he reverts to his former ways, losing both this world and the
hereafter. That is indeed sheer loss. (22:11)
• Anyone who thinks that Allah will not help him in this world and
the hereafter should stretch a rope up to the ceiling and then cut
(it) off. Let him see whether his stratagem gets rid of what
enrages him! (22:15)
• Were it not for Allah’s favour to you and His mercy, both in this
world and the hereafter, a terrible punishment would have
afflicted you for your plunging headlong into it. (24:14)
• People who love to see filth being spread about concerning those
who believe will have a painful punishment both in this world and
the hereafter. Allah knows and you do not know. (24:19)
• Those who accuse chaste believing women, unaware (of the evil),
are cursed both in this world and the hereafter, and they will have
a terrible punishment. (24:23)
• Anything you have been given is only the enjoyment of the life of
this world and its finery. What is with Allah is better and longer
lasting. So will you not use your intellect? (28:60)
• He went out among his people in his finery. Those who desired
the life of this world said, ‘Oh! If only we had the same as Qarun
has been given! What immense good fortune he possesses.’
(28:79)
• We gave him Ishaq and Ya‘qub and placed Prophethood and the
Book among his progeny. We gave him his reward in this world
and in the hereafter he will be among the righteous. (29:27)
• The life of this world is nothing but a game and a diversion. The
abode of the hereafter–that is truly Life if they only knew. (29:64)
• They know an outward aspect of the life of this world but are
heedless of the hereafter. (30:7)
• (We have instructed man concerning his parents:) ‘But if they try
to make you associate something with Me about which you have
no knowledge, do not obey them. Keep company with them
correctly and courteously in this world but follow the Way of him
who turns to Me. Then you will return to Me and I will inform you
about the things you did.’ (31:15)
• Mankind! Have fear of your Lord and fear a day when no father
will be able to atone for his son, or son for his father, in any way.
Allah’s promise is true. So do not let the life of this world delude
you and do not let the Deluder delude you concerning Allah.
(31:33)
• Prophet, tell your wives: ‘If you desire the life of this world and its
finery, come and I will give you all you need and release you with
kindness.’ (33:28)
• As for those who abuse Allah and His Messenger, Allah’s curse is
on them in this world and the hereafter. He has prepared a
humiliating punishment for them. (33:57)
• Mankind! Allah’s promise is true. Do not let the life of this world
delude you and do not let the Deluder delude you about Allah.
(35:5)
• Say: ‘Servants of Mine who believe! Have fear of your Lord. For
those who do good in this world there is good and Allah’s earth is
spacious. The steadfast will be paid their wages in full without any
reckoning.’ (39:10)
• So Allah made them taste disgrace in the life of this world and the
punishment of the hereafter is far worse if they only knew. (39:26)
• (The man who believed said,) ‘My people! The life of this world is
only fleeting enjoyment. It is the hereafter which is the abode of
permanence.’ (40:39)
• (The man who believed said,) ‘There is no question that what you
call me to has no foundation either in this world or the hereafter,
that our return is to Allah, and that the profligate will be
Companions of the Fire.’ (40:43)
• Whatever you have been given is only the enjoyment of the life of
this world. What is with Allah is better and longer lasting for those
who believe and trust in their Lord. (42:36)
• Is it, then, they who allocate the mercy of your Lord? We have
allocated their livelihood among them in the life of this world and
raised some of them above others in rank so that some of them
are subservient to others. But the mercy of your Lord is better
than anything they amass. (43:32)
• They say, ‘There is nothing but our existence in this world. We die
and we live and nothing destroys us except for time.’ They have
no knowledge of that. They are only conjecturing. (45:24)
• Know that the life of this world is merely a game and a diversion
and ostentation and a cause of boasting among yourselves and
trying to outdo one another in wealth and children: like the plant-
growth after rain which delights the cultivators, but then it withers
and you see it turning yellow, and then it becomes broken stubble.
In the hereafter there is terrible punishment but also forgiveness
from Allah and His good pleasure. The life of this world is nothing
but the enjoyment of delusion. (57:20)
• As for him who overstepped the bounds and preferred the life of
this world, the Blazing Fire will be his refuge. (79:37-39)
• Yet still you prefer the life of this world when the hereafter is
better and longer lasting. (87:16-17)
• The Last will be better for you than the First. (93:4)
WORM
• Mankind! Worship your Lord, Who created you and those before
you, so that hopefully you will guard against evil. (2:21)
• You who believe! Eat of the good things We have provided for
you and give thanks to Allah if you worship Him alone. (2:172)
• (‘Isa will say,) ‘Allah is my Lord and your Lord so worship Him.
That is a straight path.’ (3:51)
• Say: ‘Shall I tell you of a reward with Allah far worse than that:
that of those whom Allah has cursed and with whom He is angry–
turning some of them into monkeys and into pigs–and who
worshipped false gods? Such people are in a worse situation and
further from the right way.’ (5:60)
• Those who say that the Messiah, son of Maryam, is Allah are
disbelievers. The Messiah said, ‘Tribe of Israel! Worship Allah,
my Lord and your Lord. If anyone associates anything with Allah,
Allah has forbidden him the Garden and his refuge will be the
Fire.’ The wrongdoers will have no helpers. (5:72)
• (‘Isa will say,) ‘I said to them nothing but what You ordered me to
say: "Worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord." I was a witness
against them as long as I remained among them, but when You
took me back to You, You were the One watching over them. You
are Witness of all things. (5:117)
• Say: ‘I am forbidden to worship those you call upon besides
Allah.’ Say: ‘I do not follow your whims and desires. If I did I
would go astray and not be among the guided.’ (6:56)
• That is Allah, your Lord. There is no god but Him, the Creator of
everything. So worship Him. He is responsible for everything.
(6:102)
• We sent Nuh to his people and he said, ‘My people, worship Allah!
You have no other god than Him. I fear for you the punishment of
a dreadful Day.’ (7:59)
• And to ‘Ad We sent their brother Hud, who said, ‘My people,
worship Allah! You have no other god than Him. So will you not
guard against evil?’ (7:65)
• And to Thamud We sent their brother Salih, who said, ‘My people,
worship Allah! You have no other god than Him. A Clear Sign has
come to you from your Lord. This is the She-Camel of Allah as a
Sign for you. Leave her alone to eat on Allah’s earth and do not
harm her in any way or a painful punishment will afflict you.’ (7:73)
• They have taken their rabbis and monks as lords besides Allah,
and also the Messiah, son of Maryam. Yet they were commanded
to worship only one God. There is no god but Him! Glory be to
Him above anything they associate with Him! (9:31)
• Those who repent, those who worship, those who praise, those
who fast, those who bow, those who prostrate, those who
command the right, those who forbid the wrong, those who
preserve the limits of Allah: give good news to the believers.
(9:112)
• Your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six
days and then established Himself firmly on the Throne. He
directs the whole affair. No one can intercede except with His
permission. That is Allah your Lord, so worship Him. Will you not
pay heed? (10:3)
• They worship, instead of Allah, what can neither harm them nor
help them, saying, ‘These are our intercessors with Allah.’ Say:
‘Would you inform Allah of something about which He does not
know either in the heavens or on the earth?’ May He be glorified
and exalted above what they associate with Him! (10:18)
• The Unseen of the heavens and the earth belongs to Allah and
the whole affair will be returned to Him. So worship Him and put
your trust in Him. Your Lord is not unaware of what you do.
(11:123)
• What you serve apart from Him are only names which you and
your forefathers have made up. There is no mandate for them
from Allah. Allah alone is qualified to judge. His order is to
worship none but Him. That is in truth the straight and upright
religion, but most of mankind simply do not know. (12:40)
• Those to whom We gave the Book rejoice at what has been sent
down to you but some of the parties refuse to acknowledge part
of it. Say: ‘I have only been ordered to worship Allah and not to
associate anything with Him. I summon to Him and to Him I will
return.’ (13:36)
• Their Messengers said, ‘Is there any doubt about Allah, the
Bringer into Being of the heavens and the earth? He summons
you to forgive you for your wrong actions and to defer you until a
specified time.’ They said, ‘You are nothing but human beings like
ourselves who want to debar us from what our fathers
worshipped; so bring us a clear authority.’ (14:10)
• When Ibrahim said, ‘My Lord! Make this land a place of safety
and keep me and my sons from worshipping idols.’ (14:35)
• And worship your Lord until what is Certain comes to you. (15:99)
• The idolaters say, ‘If Allah had willed we would not have
worshipped anything apart from Him, neither we nor our fathers,
nor would we have forbidden anything without His say.’ Those
before them said the same. Are the Messengers responsible for
anything but clear transmission? (16:35)
• Allah has given you wives from among yourselves, and given you
children and grandchildren from your wives, and provided good
things for you. So why do they believe in falsehood and reject the
blessings of Allah, and worship, instead of Allah, things that have
no control over their provision from the heavens or earth in any
way, and are themselves completely impotent? (16:72-73)
• So eat from what Allah has provided for you, lawful and good,
and be thankful for the blessing of Allah if it is Him you worship.
(16:114)
• Your Lord has decreed that you should worship none but Him,
and that you should show kindness to your parents. Whether one
or both of them reach old age with you, do not say ‘Ugh!’ to them
out of irritation and do not be harsh with them but speak to them
with gentleness and generosity. (17:23)
• Among the people there is one who worships Allah right on the
edge. If good befalls him, he is content with it, but if a trial befalls
him, he reverts to his former ways, losing both this world and the
hereafter. That is indeed sheer loss. (22:11)
• You who believe! Bow and prostrate and worship your Lord, and
do good, so that hopefully you will be successful. (22:77)
• We sent Nuh to his people and he said, ‘My people, worship Allah.
You have no god other than Him. So will you not guard against
evil?’ (23:23)
• Allah has promised those of you who believe and do right actions
that He will make them successors in the land as He made those
before them successors, and will firmly establish for them their
religion with which He is pleased and give them, in place of their
fear, security. ‘They worship Me, not associating anything with
Me.’ Any who disbelieve after that, such people are deviators.
(24:55)
• Recite to them the story of Ibrahim when he said to his father and
his people, ‘What do you worship?’ They said, ‘We worship idols
and will continue to cling to them.’ (26:69-71)
• ‘I have simply been ordered to worship the Lord of this land which
He has declared sacred–everything belongs to Him–and I have
been ordered to be one of the Muslims.’ (27:91)
• Those against whom the Word has been justly carried out will say,
‘Our Lord, those people we misled, we only misled them as we
too were misled. We declare our innocence to You. It was not us
they were worshipping!’ (28:63)
• And Ibrahim, when he said to his people, ‘Worship Allah and have
fear of Him. That is better for you if you only knew. Instead of
Allah you worship only idols. You are inventing a lie. Those you
worship besides Allah have no power to provide for you. So seek
your provision from Allah and worship Him and give thanks to Him.
It is to Him you will be returned.’ (29:16-17)
• On the Day We gather them all together and then say to the
angels, ‘Was it you whom these people were worshipping?’ they
will say, ‘Glory be to You! You are our Protector, not them. No,
they were worshipping the jinn. They mostly had faith in them.’
(34:40-41)
WORTHLESS TALK
• (Believers are) those who turn away from worthless talk. (23:3)
• (Believers are) those who do not bear false witness and who,
when they pass by worthless talk, pass by with dignity. (25:72)
• When they hear worthless talk they turn away from it and say,
‘We have our actions and you have your actions. Peace be upon
you. We do not desire the company of the ignorant.’ (28:55)
WRETCHED
• As for those who are wretched, they will be in the Fire, where
they will sigh and gasp. (11:106)
• I have warned you of a Fire which rages, in which only the most
wretched will roast. (92:14-15)
WRITER
• You who believe! When you take on a debt for a specified period,
write it down. A writer should write it down between you justly. No
writer should refuse to write; as Allah has taught him, so he
should write. The one incurring the debt should dictate and
should have fear of Allah his Lord and not reduce it in any way. If
the person incurring the debt is incompetent or weak or unable to
dictate, then his guardian should dictate for him justly. Two men
among you should act as witnesses. But if there are not two men,
then a man and two women with whom you are satisfied as
witnesses; then if one of them forgets, the other can remind her.
Witnesses should not refuse when they are called upon. Do not
think it too trivial to write down, whether small or large, with the
date that it falls due. Doing that is more just in Allah’s sight and
more helpful when bearing witness and more likely to eliminate
any doubt–unless it is an immediate transaction hand to hand,
taken and given without delay. There is nothing wrong in your not
writing that down. Call witnesses when you trade. Neither writer
nor witness should be put under pressure. If you do that, it is
deviancy on your part. Have fear of Allah and Allah will give you
knowledge. Allah has knowledge of all things. (2:282)
(TO) WRONG
• And when Musa said to his people, ‘My people, You wronged
yourselves by adopting the Calf so turn towards your Maker and
kill yourselves. That is the best thing for you in your Maker’s
sight.’ And He turned towards you. He is the Ever-Returning, the
Most Merciful. (2:54)
• And We shaded you with clouds and sent down manna and
quails to you: ‘Eat of the good things We have provided for you.’
They did not wrong Us; rather it was themselves they were
wronging. (2:57)
• When you divorce women and they are near the end of their
waiting period, then either retain them with correctness and
courtesy or release them with correctness and courtesy. Do not
retain them by force, thus overstepping the limits. Anyone who
does that has wronged himself. Do not make a mockery of Allah’s
Signs. Remember Allah’s blessing to you and the Book and
Wisdom He has sent down to you to admonish you. Have fear of
Allah and know that Allah has knowledge of all things. (2:231)
• If you do not, know that it means war from Allah and His
Messenger. But if you repent you may have your capital, without
wronging and without being wronged. (2:279)
• The metaphor of what they spend in their life in this world is that
of a wind with an icy bite to it which strikes the crops of a people
who have wronged themselves and destroys them. Allah did not
wrong them; rather it was themselves they were wronging. (3:117)
• That is on account of what you did. Allah does not wrong His
servants. (3:182)
• The angels ask those they take while they are wronging
themselves, ‘What were your circumstances?’ They reply, ‘We
were oppressed on earth.’ They say, ‘Was Allah’s earth not wide
enough for you to have migrated elsewhere in it?’ The shelter of
such people will be Hell. What an evil destination! (4:97)
• Anyone who does evil or wrongs himself and then asks Allah’s
forgiveness will find Allah Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:110)
• Allah does not like evil words being voiced out loud, except in the
case of someone who has been wronged. Allah is All-Hearing,
All-Knowing. (4:148)
• They said, ‘Our Lord, we have wronged ourselves. If you do not
forgive us and have mercy on us, we will be among the lost.’
(7:23)
• (Angels will say to the disbelievers,) ‘That is for what you did.
Allah does not wrong His servants.’ (8:51)
• There have been twelve months with Allah in the Book of Allah,
from the day He first created the heavens and earth. Four of them
are forbidden. That is the True Religion. So do not wrong one
another during them. However, fight the idolaters totally just as
they fight you totally, and know that Allah is with those who guard
against evil. (9:36)
• Has the news of those who came before them not reached them,
the people of Nuh and ‘Ad and Thamud, and the people of
Ibrahim and the inhabitants of Madyan and the overturned cities?
Their Messengers brought them the Clear Signs. Allah did not
wrong them; rather they wronged themselves. (9:70)
• Allah does not wrong people in any way; rather it is people who
wrong themselves. (10:44)
• Warn mankind of the Day when the punishment will reach them.
Those who did wrong will say, ‘Our Lord, reprieve us for a short
time. We will respond to Your call and follow the Messengers.’
‘But did you not swear to Me before that you would never meet
your downfall, even though you inhabited the houses of those
who had wronged themselves and it was made clear to you how
We had dealt with them and We gave you many examples?’
(14:44-45)
• What are they waiting for but the angels to come to them or your
Lord's command to come? That is like what those before them did.
Allah did not wrong them; rather they wronged themselves.
(16:33)
• As for those who migrate for Allah’s sake after being wronged,
We shall give them good lodging in this world, and the reward of
the hereafter is greater still if they only knew. (16:41)
• On that Day every self will come to argue for itself and every self
will be paid in full for what it did. They will not be wronged.
(16:111)
• The Book will be set in place and you will see the evildoers fearful
of what is in it. They will say, ‘Alas for us! What is this Book which
does not pass over any action, small or great, without recording
it?’ They will find there everything they did and your Lord will not
wrong anyone at all. (18:49)
• ‘That is for what you did before. Allah does not wrong His
servants.’ (22:10)
• Do you not see how they ramble on in every style and say things
which they do not do, except those who believe and do right
actions and remember Allah repeatedly and defend themselves
after they have been wronged? Those who do wrong will soon
know the kind of reversal they will receive! (26:225-227)
• She (Queen of Sheba) was told: ‘Enter the courtyard,’ but when
she saw it she supposed it to be a pool and bared her legs. He
said, ‘It is a courtyard paved with glass.’ She said, ‘My Lord, I
have wronged myself but I have submitted with Sulayman to the
Lord of all the worlds.’ (27:44)
• Have they not travelled in the earth and seen the final fate of
those before them? They had greater strength than them and
cultivated the land and inhabited it in far greater numbers than
they do. Their Messengers also came to them with the Clear
Signs. Allah would never have wronged them; but they wronged
themselves. (30:9)
• They said, ‘Our Lord, put more distance between our staging
posts.’ They wronged themselves so We made legends of them
and scattered them without a trace. There are certainly Signs in
that for everyone who is steadfast and thankful. (34:19)
• Then We made Our chosen servants inherit the Book. But some
of them wrong themselves; some are ambivalent; and some
outdo each other in good by Allah’s permission. That is the great
favour. (35:32)
• Today no self will be wronged in any way. You will only be repaid
for what you did. (36:54)
• He (Dawud) said, ‘He has wronged you by asking for your ewe to
add to his ewes. Truly many partners are unjust to one another–
except those who believe and do right actions, and how few they
are!’ Dawud realised that We had put him to the test. He begged
forgiveness from his Lord and fell down prone, prostrating, and
repented. (38:24)
• Allah created the heavens and earth with truth so that every self
might be repaid for what it earned and they will not be wronged.
(45:22)
• (He will say,) ‘My Word, once given, is not subject to change and
I do not wrong My servants.’ (50:29)
• We said, ‘Adam, live in the Garden, you and your wife, and eat
freely from it wherever you will. But do not approach this tree and
so become wrongdoers.’ (2:35)
• And when We allotted to Musa forty nights. Then you adopted the
Calf when he had gone and you were wrongdoers. (2:51)
• But those who did wrong substituted words other than those they
had been given. So We sent down a plague from heaven on
those who did wrong because they were deviators. (2:59)
• Then you are the people who are killing one another and
expelling a group among you from their homes, ganging up
against them in wrongdoing and enmity. Yet if they are brought to
you as captives, you ransom them, when it was forbidden for you
to expel them in the first place! Do you, then, believe in one part
of the Book and reject the other? What repayment will there be
for any of you who do that except disgrace in this world? And on
the Day of Rising, they will be returned to the harshest of
punishments. Allah is not unaware of what you do. (2:85)
• Musa brought you the Clear Signs; then, after he left, you
adopted the Calf and were wrongdoers. (2:92)
• But they will never ever long for it because of what they have
done. Allah knows the wrongdoers. (2:95)
• Or do they say that Ibrahim and Isma‘il and Ishaq and Ya‘qub and
the Tribes were Jews or Christians? Say, ‘Do you know better or
does Allah?’ Who could do greater wrong than someone who
hides the evidence he has been given by Allah? Allah is not
unaware of what you do. (2:140)
• If you were to bring every Sign to those given the Book, they still
would not follow your direction. You do not follow their direction.
They do not follow each other’s direction. If you followed their
whims and desires, after the knowledge that has come to you,
you would then be one of the wrongdoers. (2:145)
• Wherever you come from, turn your face to the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram). Wherever you are, turn your faces towards it
so that people will have no argument against you–except for
those among them who do wrong and then you should not fear
them but rather fear Me–and so that I can complete My blessing
to you so that hopefully you will be guided. (2:150)
• They will ask you about alcoholic drinks and gambling. Say,
‘There is great wrong in both of them and also certain benefits for
mankind. But the wrong in them is greater than the benefit.’ They
will ask you what they should give away. Say, ‘Whatever is
surplus to your needs.’ In this way Allah makes the Signs clear to
you, so that hopefully you will reflect. (2:219)
• But if a man divorces his wife a third time, she is not lawful for
him after that until she has married another husband. Then if he
divorces her, there is nothing wrong in the original couple getting
back together provided they think they will remain within Allah’s
limits. These are Allah’s limits which he has made clear to people
who know. (2:230)
• What do you think about the council of the tribe of Israel after
Musa’s time when they said to one of their Prophets, ‘Give us a
king and we will fight in the Way of Allah!’? He said, ‘Is it not
possible that if fighting were prescribed for you, you would not
fight?’ They said, ‘How could we not fight in the way of Allah when
we have been driven from our homes and children?’ But then
when fighting was prescribed for them, they turned their backs–
except for a few of them. Allah knows the wrongdoers. (2:246)
• You who believe! Give away some of what We have provided for
you before a Day arrives on which there is no trading, no close
friendship and no intercession. It is the disbelievers who are the
wrongdoers. (2:254)
• What about the one who argued with Ibrahim about his Lord, on
the basis that Allah had given him sovereignty? Ibrahim said, ‘My
Lord is He Who gives life and causes to die.’ He said, ‘I too give
life and cause to die.’ Ibrahim said, ‘Allah makes the sun come
from the East. Make it come from the West.’ And the one who
was a disbeliever was dumbfounded. Allah does not guide
wrongdoing people. (2:258)
• Whatever amount you spend or vow you make, Allah knows it.
The wrongdoers have no helpers. (2:270)
• As for those who disbelieve, their wealth and children will not help
them against Allah in any way. They are fuel for the Fire, as was
the case with the people of Pharaoh and those before them. They
denied Our Signs so Allah seized them for their wrong actions.
Allah is fierce in retribution. (3:10-11)
• As for those who believe and do right actions, We will pay them
their wages in full. Allah does not love wrongdoers. (3:57)
• How can Allah guide a people who have disbelieved after having
believed? They bore witness that the Messenger was true and
that the Clear Signs had come to them. Allah does not guide
people who are wrongdoers. (3:86)
• So any who, after this, invent a lie against Allah are indeed
wrongdoers. (3:94)
• You have no part in the affair. Either He will turn towards them or
He will punish them, for they are wrongdoers. (3:128)
• If you avoid the serious wrong actions you have been forbidden,
We will erase your bad actions from you and admit you by a Gate
of Honour. (4:31)
• What reason could you have for not fighting in the Way of Allah–
for those men, women and children who are oppressed and say,
‘Our Lord, take us out of this city whose inhabitants are
wrongdoers! Give us a protector from You! Give us a helper from
You!’? (4:75)
• Anyone who commits an error or an evil action, and then ascribes
it to someone innocent, bears the weight of slander and clear
wrongdoing. (4:112)
• Allah will not forgive those who disbelieve and do wrong or guide
them on any path. (4:168)
• You who believe! Do not profane the sacred rites of Allah or the
sacred months, or the sacrificial animals, or the ritual garlands, or
those heading for the Sacred House, desiring profit and good
pleasure from their Lord. When your pilgrimage is over, then you
may hunt. Do not let hatred for a people who debar you from the
Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) incite you into going beyond
the limits. Help each other to goodness and heedfulness. Do not
help each other to wrongdoing and enmity. Have fear of Allah.
Allah is severe in retribution. (5:2)
• Forbidden for you are carrion, blood and pork, and what has been
consecrated to other than Allah, and animals which have been
strangled, and animals which have been killed by a blow, and
animals which have fallen to their death, and animals which have
been gored, and animals which wild beasts have eaten–except
those you are able to slaughter properly–and animals which have
been sacrificed on altars, and deciding things by means of
divining arrows–that is deviance. Today those who disbelieve
have despaired of overcoming your religion. So do not be afraid
of them but be afraid of Me. Today I have perfected your religion
for you and completed My blessing upon you and I am pleased
with Islam as a religion for you. But if anyone is forced by hunger,
not intending any wrongdoing, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. (5:3)
• (One of Adam’s two sons said to the other,) ‘I want you to take on
both my wrongdoing and your wrongdoing and so become one of
the Companions of the Fire. That is the repayment of the
wrongdoers.’ (5:29)
• We prescribed for them in it: a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a
nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth, and
retaliation for wounds. But if anyone forgoes that as a charity, it
will act as expiation for him. Those who do not judge by what
Allah has sent down, such people are wrongdoers. (5:45)
• Judge between them by what Allah has sent down and do not
follow their whims and desires. And beware of them lest they lure
you away from some of what Allah has sent down to you. If they
turn their backs, then know that Allah wants to afflict them with
some of their wrong actions. Many of mankind are deviators.
(5:49)
• You who believe! Do not take the Jews and Christians as your
friends; they are the friends of one another. Any of you who takes
them as friends is one of them. Allah does not guide wrongdoing
people. (5:51)
• Those who say that the Messiah, son of Maryam, is Allah are
disbelievers. The Messiah said, ‘Tribe of Israel! Worship Allah,
my Lord and your Lord. If anyone associates anything with Allah,
Allah has forbidden him the Garden and his refuge will be the
Fire.’ The wrongdoers will have no helpers. (5:72)
• If it then comes to light that the two of them have merited the
allegation of wrongdoing, two others who have the most right to
do so should take their place and swear by Allah: ‘Our testimony
is truer than their testimony. We have not committed perjury. If we
had we would indeed be wrongdoers.’ (5:107)
• We know that what they say distresses you. It is not that they are
calling you a liar; the wrongdoers are just denying Allah’s Signs.
(6:33)
• So the last remnant of the people who did wrong was cut off.
Praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds! (6:45)
• Say: ‘What do you think? If Allah’s punishment were to come
upon you suddenly by night or openly by day, would any but the
wrongdoing people be destroyed?’ (6:47)
• Do not chase away those who call on their Lord morning and
evening, seeking His Face. Their reckoning is in no way your
responsibility and your reckoning is in no way their responsibility.
Indeed if you did chase them away, you would be among the
wrongdoers. (6:52)
• Say: ‘If I did have in my possession what you are in such haste to
bring about, the affair between me and you would have been
decided. Allah has greatest knowledge of the wrongdoers.’ (6:58)
• And a pair of camels and a pair of cattle–Say: ‘Is it the two males
He has made forbidden, or the two females, or what the wombs of
the two females contain? Were you then witnesses when Allah
gave you this instruction?’ Who could do greater wrong than
someone who invents lies against Allah thus leading people
astray without any knowledge? Allah does not guide the people of
the wrongdoers. (6:144)
• Nor can you say: ‘If the Book had been sent down to us, We
would have been better guided than they were.’ For a Clear Sign
has come to you from your Lord, and guidance and mercy. Who
could do greater wrong than someone who denies Allah’s Signs
and turns away from them? We will repay those who turn away
from Our Signs with the worst kind of punishment because they
turned away. (6:157)
• And their only utterance, when Our violent force came down upon
them, was the cry: ‘Truly we have been wrongdoers!’ (7:5)
• (Allah said,) ‘Adam, live in the Garden, you and your wife, and eat
of it wherever you like. But do not go near this tree lest you
become wrongdoers.’ (7:19)
• When they turn their eyes towards the Companions of the Fire,
they will say, ‘Our Lord, do not place us with the people of the
wrongdoers!’ (7:47)
• Is it not clear to those who have inherited the earth after these
people that, if We wanted to, We could strike them for their wrong
actions, sealing up their hearts so that they cannot hear? (7:100)
• But those of them who did wrong substituted words other than
those they had been given. So We sent a plague on them from
heaven for their wrongdoing. (7:162)
• Then when they forgot what they had been reminded of, We
rescued those who had forbidden the evil and seized those who
did wrong with a harsh punishment because they were deviators.
(7:165)
• Be fearful of trials which will not afflict solely those among you
who do wrong. Know that Allah is severe in retribution. (8:25)
• Such was the case with Pharaoh’s people and those before them.
They denied their Lord’s Signs so We destroyed them for their
wrong actions. We drowned Pharaoh’s people. All of them were
wrongdoers. (8:54)
• Do you make the giving of water to the pilgrims and looking after
the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) the same as believing in
Allah and the Last Day and striving in the Way of Allah? They are
not equal in the sight of Allah. Allah does not guide wrongdoing
people. (9:19)
• You who believe, do not befriend your fathers and brothers if they
prefer disbelief to faith. Those among you who do befriend them
are wrongdoers. (Quru’an, 9:23)
• If they had gone out among you, they would have added nothing
to you but confusion. They would have scurried about amongst
you seeking to cause conflict between you, and among you there
are some who would have listened to them. Allah knows the
wrongdoers. (9:47)
• No, the fact is that they have denied something which their
knowledge does not embrace and the meaning of which has not
yet reached them. In the same way those before them also
denied the truth. See the final fate of the wrongdoers! (10:39)
• They said, ‘We have put our trust in Allah. Our Lord, do not make
us a target for this wrongdoing people.’ (10:85)
• (Say:) ‘Do not call on something besides Allah which can neither
help nor harm you. If you do, you will then be wrongdoers.’
(10:106)
• Who could do greater wrong than those who invent lies against
Allah? Such people will be arrayed before their Lord and the
witnesses will say, ‘Those are the ones who lied against their
Lord.’ Yes indeed! Allah’s curse is on the wrongdoers. (11:18)
• (It was revealed to Nuh:) ‘Build the Ark under Our supervision and
as We reveal and do not address Me concerning the wrongdoers.
They shall be drowned.’ (11:37)
• The Great Blast seized hold of those who did wrong and morning
found them lying flattened in their homes. (11:67)
• Such is the iron grip of your Lord when He seizes the cities which
do wrong. His grip is painful, violent. (11:102)
• Do not rely on those who do wrong thus causing the Fire to afflict
you, for you have no protector besides Allah; then you will not be
helped. (11:113)
• Would that there had been more people with a vestige of good
among the generations of those who came before you, who
forbade corruption in the earth, other than the few among them
whom We saved. Those who did wrong gladly pursued the life of
luxury that they were given and were evildoers. (11:116)
• The woman whose house it was solicited him. She barred the
doors and said, ‘Come over here!’ He (Yusuf) said, ‘Allah is my
refuge! He is My lord and has been good to me with where I live.
Those who do wrong will surely not succeed.’ (12:23)
• He said, ‘Allah forbid that we should take anyone but him with
whom our goods were found. In that case we would clearly be
wrongdoers.’ (12:79)
• When the affair is decided Satan will say, ‘Allah made you a
promise, a promise of truth, and I made you a promise but broke
my promise. I had no authority over you, except that I called you
and you responded to me. Do not, therefore, blame me but blame
yourselves. I cannot come to your aid nor you to mine. I reject the
way you associated me with Allah before.’ The wrongdoers will
have a painful punishment. (14:22)
• Allah makes those who believe firm with the Firm Word in the life
of this world and the hereafter. But Allah misguides the
wrongdoers. Allah does whatever He wills. (14:27)
• He has given you everything you have asked Him for. If you tried
to number Allah’s blessings, you could never count them. Man is
indeed wrongdoing, ungrateful. (14:34)
• When those who did wrong see the punishment, it will not be
lightened for them. They will be granted no reprieve. (16:85)
• We know how they listen when they listen to you, and when they
confer together secretly, and when the wrongdoers say, ‘You are
only following a man who is bewitched!’ (17:47)
• Do they not see that Allah, Who created the heavens and earth,
has the power to create the like of them, and has appointed fixed
terms for them of which there is no doubt? But the wrongdoers
still spurn anything but disbelief. (17:99)
• The Companions of the Cave said, ‘These people of ours have
taken gods apart from Him. Why do they not produce a clear
authority concerning them? Who could do greater wrong than
someone who invents a lie against Allah?’ (18:15)
• Say: ‘It is the truth from your Lord; so let whoever wishes believe
and whoever wishes disbelieve.’ We have prepared for the
wrongdoers a Fire whose billowing walls of smoke will hem them
in. If they call for help, they will be helped with water like seething
molten brass, frying their faces. What a noxious drink! What an
evil repose! (18:29)
• Those cities: We destroyed them when they did wrong and fixed
a promised time for their destruction. (18:59)
• How clear will be their hearing, how perfect their sight, on the Day
they come to Us; whereas today the wrongdoers are clearly
misguided. (19:38)
• Then We will rescue those who guarded against evil and We will
leave the wrongdoers in it on their knees. (19:72)
• We seized each one of them for their wrong actions. Against
some We sent a sudden squall of stones; some of them were
seized by the Great Blast; some We caused the earth to swallow
up; and some We drowned. Allah did not wrong them; rather they
wronged themselves. (20:40)
• They said, ‘Who has done this to our gods? He is definitely one of
the wrongdoers!’ (21:59)
• When Yajuj and Majuj are let loose and rush down from every
slope, and the True Promise is very close, the eyes of those who
disbelieved will be transfixed: ‘Alas for us! We were unmindful of
this! No, rather we were definitely wrongdoers.’ (21:96-97)
• Those who disbelieve and bar access to the Way of Allah and to
the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) which We have appointed
for all mankind–equally for those who live near it and those who
come from far away–those who desire to profane it with
wrongdoing, We will let them taste a painful punishment. (22:25)
• (It is) so that He can make what Satan insinuates a trial for those
with sickness in their hearts and for those whose hearts are hard–
the wrongdoers are entrenched in hostility. (22:53)
• When you and those with you are settled in the Ship, then say:
"Praise be to Allah Who has rescued us from the people of the
wrongdoers!" (23:28)
• Say: ‘My Lord, if You let me see what they have been promised,
do not then, my Lord, put me among the wrongdoing people!’
(23:93-94)
• They will say, ‘Our Lord, our miserable destiny overpowered us.
We were misguided people. Our Lord, remove us from it! Then if
we revert again, we will definitely be wrongdoers.’ (23:106-107)
• (They say,) ‘Why has treasure not been showered down on him?
Why does he not have a garden to give him food?’ The
wrongdoers say, ‘You are merely following a man who is
bewitched.’ (25:8)
• So now they have disowned you for what you said, and they
cannot avert it or give you any help. As for anyone among you
who has done wrong, We will make him suffer great punishment.
(25:19)
• Put your trust in the Living Who does not die and glorify Him with
praise. He is well aware of the wrong actions of His servants.
(25:58)
• (We said,) ‘Throw down your staff.’ Then when he saw it slithering
like a snake he turned and fled and did not turn back again. ‘Have
no fear, Musa. In My Presence the Messengers have no fear–
except for one who did wrong and if he then changes evil into
good, I am Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (27:10-11)
• These are the ruins of their houses because of the wrong they did.
There is certainly a Sign in that for people with knowledge. (27:52)
• The Word will be carried out against them for the wrong they did
and they will not speak. (27:85)
• So he (Musa) left there fearful and on his guard, saying, ‘My Lord,
rescue me from the people of the wrongdoers!’ (28:21)
• One of them came walking shyly up to him and said, ‘My father
invites you so that he can pay you your wage for drawing water
for us.’ When he (Musa) came to him and told him the whole story
he said, ‘Have no fear, you have escaped from wrongdoing
people.’ (28:25)
• Musa said, ‘My Lord knows best who has come with guidance
from Him and who will have the best Home in the end. The
wrongdoers will certainly not be successful.’ (28:37)
• So We seized him and his troops and flung them into the sea.
See the final fate of the wrongdoers! (28:40)
• If they do not respond to you then know that they are merely
following their whims and desires. And who could be further
astray than someone who follows his whims and desires without
any guidance from Allah? Allah does not guide the people of the
wrongdoers. (28:50)
• Your Lord would never destroy any cities without first sending to
the chief of them a Messenger to recite Our Signs to them. We
would never destroy any cities unless their inhabitants were
wrongdoers. (28:59)
• We sent Nuh to his people and he remained among them for fifty
short of a thousand years; yet the Flood engulfed them while they
were wrongdoers. (29:14)
• When Our messengers came with the good news to Ibrahim, they
said, ‘We are going to destroy the people of this city. Truly its
inhabitants are wrongdoers.’ (29:31)
• Only argue with the People of the Book in the kindest way–except
in the case of those of them who do wrong–saying, ‘We believe in
what has been sent down to us and what was sent down to you.
Our God and your God are one and we submit to Him.’ (29:46)
• On that Day the excuses of those who did wrong will not help
them nor will they be able to appease Allah. (30:57)
• He will put your actions right for you and forgive you your wrong
deeds. All who obey Allah and His Messenger have won a mighty
victory. (33:71)
• We offered the Trust to the heavens, the earth and the mountains
but they refused to take it on and shrank from it. But man took it
on. He is indeed wrongdoing and ignorant. (33:72)
• Those who disbelieve say, ‘We will never believe in this Qur'an,
nor in what came before it.’ If only you could see when the
wrongdoers, standing in the presence of their Lord, cast
accusations back and forth at one another! Those deemed weak
will say to those deemed great, ‘Were it not for you, we would
have been believers!’ (34:31)
• Say: ‘Have you thought about your partner gods, those you call
upon besides Allah? Show me what they have created of the
earth; or do they have a partnership in the heavens?’ Have We
given them a Book whose Clear Signs they follow? No indeed!
The wrongdoers promise each other nothing but delusion. (35:40)
• Assemble those who did wrong together with their associates and
what they worshipped. (37:22)
• Is someone who tries to shield himself with his face from the
worst of the torment on the Day of Rising...? The wrongdoers will
be told, ‘Taste what you have earned.’ (39:24)
• Who could do greater wrong than those who lie about Allah and
deny the truth when it comes to them? Do the disbelievers not
have a dwelling place in Hell? (39:32)
• If those who did wrong owned everything on earth, and the same
again with it, they would offer it as a ransom to save themselves
from the evil of the punishment on the Day of Rising. What
confronts them from Allah will be something they did not reckon
with. (39:47)
• The evil deeds they earned caught up with them. And the evil
deeds which the wrongdoers among these people earn will also
catch up with them and they can do nothing to prevent it. (39:51)
• And warn them of the Day of Immediacy when hearts rise choking
to the throat. The wrongdoers will have no close friend nor any
intercessor who might be heard. (40:18)
• Have they not travelled in the earth and seen the final fate of
those before them? They were greater than them in strength and
left far deeper traces on the earth, yet Allah seized them for their
wrong actions and they had no one to protect them from Allah.
(40:21)
• The Day when the excuses of the wrongdoers will not help them.
The curse will be on them and they will have the most evil Home.
(40:52)
• If Allah had willed, He would have made them a single nation. But
He admits whoever He wills into His mercy and the wrongdoers
have no protector and no helper. (42:8)
• Or do they have partners who have laid down a religion for them
for which Allah has not given any authority? Were it not for the
prior Word of Decision, the judgement between them would
already have been made. The wrongdoers will have a painful
punishment. (42:21)
• You will see the wrongdoers afraid of what they have earned,
when it is about to land right on top of them, whereas those who
believe and do right actions will be in the lush Meadows of the
Gardens. They will have whatever they wish for with their Lord.
That is the great favour. (42:22)
• You will see them as they are exposed to it, abject in their
abasement, glancing around them furtively. Those who believe
will say, ‘Truly the losers are those who lose themselves and their
families on the Day of Rising.’ The wrongdoers are in an
everlasting punishment. (42:45)
• It will not benefit you today, since you did wrong, that you share
equally in the punishment. (43:39)
• They will not help you in any way against Allah. The wrongdoers
are protectors of one another but Allah is the Protector of those
who guard against evil. (45:19)
• Say: ‘What do you think? If it is from Allah and you reject it, when
a witness from the tribe of Israel testifies to its similarity and
believes while you are arrogant...! Allah certainly does not guide
wrongdoing people.’ (46:10)
• But before it there was the Book of Musa as a model and a mercy.
And this is a corroborating Book in the Arabic tongue so that you
may warn those who do wrong, and as good news for the good-
doers. (46:12)
• Know then that there is no god except Allah and ask forgiveness
for your wrongdoing, and for the men and women who believe.
Allah knows both your activity and your repose. (47:19)
• You who believe! People should not ridicule others who may be
better than themselves; nor should any women ridicule other
women who may be better than themselves. And do not find fault
with one another or insult each other with derogatory nicknames.
How evil it is to have a name for evil conduct after coming to faith!
Those people who do not turn from it are wrongdoers. (49:11)
• Those who do wrong will have their due, the same as that of their
friends. So they should not hurry Me! (51:59)
• They will pass round there (in the Gardens of Paradise) a drinking
cup to one another with no foolish talk and no wrong action in it.
(52:23)
• And those who do wrong will have a punishment besides that but
most of them do not know it. (52:47)
• The final fate of both of them is that they will be timelessly, for
ever in the Fire. That is the repayment of the wrongdoers. (59:17)
• Allah merely forbids you from taking as friends those who have
fought you in the religion and driven you from your homes and
who supported your expulsion. Any who take them as friends are
wrongdoers. (60:9)
• He will forgive you your wrong actions and admit you into
Gardens with rivers flowing under them, and fine dwellings in the
Gardens of Eden. That is the Great Victory. (61:12)
• But they will never ever wish for it because of what they have
done. Allah knows the wrongdoers. (62:7)
• Allah has made an example for those who believe: the wife of
Pharaoh when she said, ‘My Lord, build a house in the Garden for
me in Your presence and rescue me from Pharaoh and his deeds
and rescue me from this wrongdoing people.’ (66:11)
• Then they will acknowledge their wrong actions. Away with the
Companions of the Blaze! (67:11)
• (Nuh said, ‘My Lord,) they have misguided many people. Do not
increase the wrongdoers in anything but misguidance!’ (71:24)
• (Nuh said,) ‘My Lord! Forgive me and my parents and all who
enter my house as believers, and all the men and women of the
believers. But do not increase the wrongdoers except in ruin!’
(71:28)
• Ibrahim directed his sons to this, as did Ya‘qub: ‘My sons! Allah
has chosen this religion for you, so do not die except as Muslims.’
(2:132)
• Or were you present when death came to Ya‘qub and he said to
his sons, ‘What will you worship when I have gone?’ They said,
‘We will worship your God, the God of your forefathers, Ibrahim,
Isma‘il and Ishaq–one God. We are Muslims submitted to Him.’
(2:133)
• Say, ‘We believe in Allah and what has been sent down to us and
what was sent down to Ibrahim and Isma‘il and Ishaq and Ya‘qub
and the Tribes, and what Musa and ‘Isa were given, and what all
the Prophets were given by their Lord. We do not differentiate
between any of them. We are Muslims submitted to Him.’ (2:136)
• Or do they say that Ibrahim and Isma‘il and Ishaq and Ya‘qub and
the Tribes were Jews or Christians? Say, ‘Do you know better or
does Allah?’ Who could do greater wrong than someone who
hides the evidence he has been given by Allah? Allah is not
unaware of what you do. (2:140)
• Say, ‘We believe in Allah and what has been sent down to us and
what was sent down to Ibrahim, Isma‘il and Ishaq and Ya‘qub and
the Tribes, and what Musa and ‘Isa and all the Prophets were
given by their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them.
We are Muslims submitted to Him.’ (3:84)
• His wife was standing there and she laughed out loud. So We
gave her the good news of Ishaq, and beyond Ishaq, Ya‘qub.
(11:71)
• (Zakariyya said, ‘My Lord,) I fear my relatives when I am gone
and my wife is barren, so give me an heir from You to be my
inheritor and the inheritor of the family of Ya‘qub, and make him,
my Lord, pleasing to You.’ (19:5-6)
• Those are some of the Prophets Allah has blessed, from the
descendants of Adam and from those We carried with Nuh, and
from the descendants of Ibrahim and Isra’il (Ya‘qub) and from
those We guided and chose. When the Signs of the All-Merciful
were recited to them they fell on their faces, weeping, in
prostration. (19:58)
• We gave him Ishaq and Ya‘qub and placed Prophethood and the
Book among his progeny. We gave him his reward in this world
and in the hereafter he will be among the righteous. (29:27)
• And in addition to that We gave him Ishaq and Ya‘qub and made
both of them righteous. We made them leaders, guiding by Our
command, and revealed to them how to do good actions and
perform prayer and give the alms, and they worshipped Us.
(21:72-73)
YA‘UQ
• They have hatched a mighty plot saying, "Do not abandon your
gods. Do not abandon Wadd or Suwa‘ or Yaghuth or Ya‘uq or
Nasr." (71:22-23)
YAGHUTH
• They have hatched a mighty plot saying, "Do not abandon your
gods. Do not abandon Wadd or Suwa‘ or Yaghuth or Ya‘uq or
Nasr." (71:22-23)
• Then and there Zakariyya called on his Lord and said, ‘O Lord,
grant me by Your favour an upright child. You are the Hearer of
Prayer.’ The angels called out to him while he was standing in
prayer in the Upper Room: ‘Allah gives you the good news of
Yahya, who will come to confirm a Word from Allah, and will be a
leader and a celibate, a Prophet and one of the righteous.’ (3:38-
39)
• And Zakariyya, Yahya, ‘Isa and Ilyas. All of them were among the
righteous. (6:85)
• (We said,) ‘Yahya, take hold of the Book with vigour.’ We gave
him judgement while still a child, and tenderness and purity from
Us–he guarded against evil–and devotion to his parents–he was
not insolent or disobedient. Peace be upon him the day he was
born, and the day he dies, and the day he is raised up again alive.
(19:12-15)
• We responded to him and gave him Yahya, restoring for him his
wife’s fertility. They outdid one another in good actions, calling out
to Us in yearning and in awe, and humbling themselves to Us.
(21:90)
YAJUJ AND MAJUJ (GOG AND MAGOG)
• When Yajuj and Majuj are let loose and rush down from every
slope, and the True Promise is very close, the eyes of those who
disbelieved will be transfixed: ‘Alas for us! We were unmindful of
this! No, rather we were definitely wrongdoers.’ (21:96-97)
YATHRIB
YOUTH
• Yunus too was one of the Messengers. When he ran away to the
fully laden ship and cast lots and lost. Then the fish devoured him
and he was to blame. Had it not been that he was a man who
glorified Allah, he would have remained inside its belly until the
Day they are raised again. So We cast him up onto the beach
and he was sick; and We caused a gourd tree to grow over him.
We sent him to a hundred thousand or even more. They believed
and so We gave them enjoyment for a time. (37:139-148)
• He said, ‘My son, don’t tell your brothers your dream lest they
devise some scheme to injure you, Satan is a clear-cut enemy to
man. Accordingly your Lord will pick you out and teach you the
true meaning of events and perfectly fulfil His blessing on you as
well as on the family of Ya‘qub as He fulfilled it perfectly before
upon your forebears, Ibrahim and Ishaq. Most certainly your Lord
is Knowing, Wise.’ (12:5-6)
• In Yusuf and his brothers there are Signs for every one of those
who wants to ask. (12:7)
• When they declared, ‘Why! Yusuf and his brother are dearer to
our father than we are although we constitute a powerful group.
Our father is clearly making a mistake. Kill Yusuf or expel him to
some land so that your father will look to you alone and then you
can be people who do right.’ (12:8-9)
• One of them said, ‘Do not take Yusuf’s life but throw him to the
bottom of the well, so that some travellers may discover him, if
this is something that you have to do.’ (12:10)
• They said, ‘Our Father! What is wrong with you that you refuse to
trust us with Yusuf when in truth we only wish him well? Why
don’t you send him out with us tomorrow so he can enjoy himself
and play about? All of us will make sure that he is safe.’ (12:11-12)
• He said, ‘It grieves me to let him go with you I fear a wolf might
come and eat him up while you are heedless, not attending him.’
(12:13)
• They said, ‘If a wolf does come and eat him up when together we
make up a powerful group in that case we would truly be in loss!’
(12:14)
• But when, in fact, they did go out with him and gathered all
together and agreed to put him at the bottom of the well, We then
revealed to him that: ‘You will inform them of this deed they
perpetrate at a time when they are totally unaware.’ (12:15)
• That night they came back to their father in tears, saying, ‘Father,
we went out to run a race and left Yusuf together with our things
and then a wolf appeared and ate him up but you are never going
to believe us now, not even though we really tell the truth.’ (12:16-
17)
• They then produced his shirt with false blood on it. He said, ‘It is
merely that your lower selves have suggested something to you
which you did; but beauty lies in showing steadfastness. It is Allah
alone Who is my Help in face of the event that you describe.’
(12:18)
• Some travellers came that way and then dispatched their water-
drawer who let his bucket down. He said, ‘Good news for me, I’ve
found a boy!’ They then hid him away among their goods. Allah
knew very well what they were doing. (12:19)
• They sold him for a pittance, a few small coins, considering him to
be of little worth. (12:20)
• The Egyptian who had bought him told his wife, ‘Look after him
with honour and respect. It’s possible he will be of use to us or
perhaps we might adopt him as a son.’ And thus We established
Yusuf in the land to teach him the true meaning of events. Allah is
in control of His affair. However, most of mankind do not know.
(12:21)
• The woman whose house it was solicited him. She barred the
doors and said, ‘Come over here!’ He said, ‘Allah is my refuge!
He is My lord and has been good to me with where I live. Those
who do wrong will surely not succeed.’ (12:23)
• She wanted him and he would have wanted her, had he not seen
the Clear Proof of his Lord. That happened so We might avert
from him all evil and lust. He was Our chosen servant. (12:24)
• They raced to the door. She tore his shirt at the back. They met
her husband by the door. She said, ‘How should a man whose
intention was to harm your family be punished for what he did
except with prison or painful punishment?’ (12:25)
• He said, ‘It was she who tried to seduce me.’ A witness from her
people then declared, ‘If his shirt is torn in front, she speaks the
truth and he has clearly told a shameless lie. If his shirt is torn at
the back, then she has lied and he has clearly told the simple
truth.’ (12:26-27)
• He saw the shirt torn at the back and said, ‘The source of this is
women’s deviousness. Without a doubt your guile is very great.
Yusuf, ignore all this, and you, my wife, should ask forgiveness
for your evil act. There is no doubt that you are in the wrong.’
Some city women said, ‘The governor’s wife solicited her slave.
He’s fired her heart with love. We see that she’s the one to
blame.’ But when she heard of their malicious talk, she sent for
them and made a sumptuous meal and then she gave a knife to
each of them. She said, ‘Go out to them.’ When they saw him,
they were amazed by him and cut their hands. They said, ‘Allah
preserve us! This is no man. What can this be but a noble angel
here!’ She said, ‘You see! It’s him you blamed me for. I tried
seducing him but he refused. If he does not do what I order him,
he will be put in prison and brought low.’ He said, ‘My Lord, the
prison is preferable to me than what they call on me to do. Unless
You turn their guile away from me, it may well be that I will fall for
them and so become a man of ignorance.’ His Lord replied to him
and turned away from him their female guile and deviousness. He
is the One Who Hears, the One Who Knows. Then, after they had
seen the Signs, they thought that they should still imprison him for
a time. Two servants entered prison along with him. One said, ‘I
dreamt that I was pressing grapes.’ The other said, ‘I dreamt I
carried bread upon my head and birds were eating it. Tell us the
true meaning of these dreams. We see that you’re one of the
righteous.’ He said, ‘No meal to feed you will arrive before I have
informed you what they mean. That is part of what my Lord taught
me. For I have left the religion of a people who clearly have no
faith in Allah and who refuse to acknowledge the truth of the
world to come. I hold fast to the creed of my forebears Ibrahim
and Ishaq and Ya‘qub. We don’t associate anything with Allah.
And that is how Allah has favoured us and all mankind, but most
do not give thanks. My fellow-prisoners, are many lords better, or
Allah, the only One, the Conqueror? What you serve apart from
Him are only names which you and your forefathers have made
up. There is no mandate for them from Allah. Allah alone is
qualified to judge. His order is to worship none but Him. That is in
truth the straight and upright religion, but most of mankind simply
do not know. My fellow-captives, one of you will serve his lord
with wine, the other of you will be crucified and birds will eat his
head. The thing you asked about is foreordained.’ He said to the
one of them he knew was saved, ‘Please mention me when you
are with your lord,’ but Satan made him forget to remind his lord,
and so he stayed in prison for several years. The King declared, ‘I
dreamt of seven fat cows which seven thin ones ate and seven
green ears of wheat and seven others which were dry. O
counsellors! Explain my dream to me if you are those who can
interpret visions!’ (12:28-43)
• (Yusuf said,) ‘I do not say my self was free from blame. The self
indeed commands to evil acts–except for those my Lord has
mercy on. My Lord, He is Forgiving, Merciful.’ The King said,
‘Bring him to me straight away! So I may draw him very close to
me.’ When he had spoken with him, he declared, ‘Today you are
trusted, established in our sight.’ He said, ‘Entrust the country's
stores to me. In truth I am a knowing guardian.’ And thus We
established Yusuf in the land so he could live in any place he
pleased. We grant Our grace to anyone We will and We do not
allow to go to waste the wage of any people who do good. But the
wages of the hereafter are the best for people who believe and
fear their Lord. The brothers of Yusuf came into his presence and
he knew them but they did not know him. Then, having supplied
their needs, he said to them, ‘Bring me your brother, your father’s
youngest son. Do you not see that I dispense full measure and
am the most hospitable of hosts? But if you do not bring him here
to me, your measure from me then will be denied and you will not
come near to me at all.’ They said, ‘We will request our father for
him. That is something we will surely do.’ He told his serving men,
‘Put back their goods into their saddlebags for them to find when
they arrive back to their families so that perhaps they will return
again.’ Then when they got back to their father’s house, they said,
‘Father! Our measure has been denied. Please send our brother
with us so we may obtain our measure. We will take care of him.’
He said, ‘How will my trusting him to your care be different from
entrusting his brother before? The Best of Guardians, however, is
Allah. He is the Most Merciful of the merciful.’ Then when they
opened up their saddlebags and found their merchandise
returned to them, they said, ‘Our father! What more could we ask!
Here is our merchandise returned to us. We can provide our
families with food, and guard our brother and get an extra load.
That is an easy measure to obtain.’ He said, ‘I will not send him
out with you until you make a covenant with Allah to bring him
home unless you are overwhelmed.’ When they had made their
covenant, he said, ‘Allah is Guardian over what we say.’ He said,
‘My sons! You must not enter through a single gate. Go in
through different gates. But I cannot save you from Allah at all, for
judgement comes from no one but Allah. In Him I put my trust,
and let all those who put their trust, put it in Him alone.’ (12:53-67)
• But when they entered as their father said, it did not save them
from Allah at all, yet a need in Ya‘qub’s soul was satisfied. He
had knowledge which We had taught him, but most of mankind
simply do not know. Then when they entered into Yusuf’s
presence, he drew his brother close to him and said, ‘I am your
brother. Do not be distressed concerning all the things they used
to do.’ Then when he had supplied them with their needs, he put
the goblet in his brother’s bag. A herald called out, ‘Caravan! You
are thieves!’ They turned to them and said, ‘What are you
missing?’ They said, ‘We’re missing the goblet of the king. The
man who brings it will get a camel’s load. Regarding that I stand
as guarantor.’ They said, ‘By Allah, you know we did not come to
corrupt the land and that we are not thieves.’ They said, ‘What is
the reparation for it if it in fact transpires that you are liars?’ They
said, ‘Its reparation shall be him in the saddlebags of whom it is
discovered. With us that is how wrongdoers are repaid.’ He
started with their bags before his brother’s and then produced it
from his brother’s bag. In that way We devised a cunning scheme
for Yusuf. He could not have held his brother according to the
statutes of the King–only because Allah had willed it so. We raise
the rank of anyone We will. Over everyone with knowledge is a
Knower. They said, ‘If he steals now, his brother stole before.’ But
Yusuf kept it to himself and still did not disclose it to them, saying,
‘The plight that you are in is worse than that. Allah knows best the
matter you describe.’ They said, ‘Your Eminence! He has an old
and venerable father, so take one of us instead of him. We see
without a doubt that you are of the people who do good.’ He said,
‘Allah forbid that we should take anyone but him with whom our
goods were found. In that case we would clearly be wrongdoers.’
When they despaired of him, they went apart to talk alone. The
eldest of them said, ‘You know full well your father had you make
a covenant with Allah concerning this, and how before you failed
him with Yusuf. I will not leave this land until I have permission
from my father, or Allah decides about the case on my behalf.
Truly He is the justest Judge of all. Return now to your father and
say to him, "Your son stole, father. We can do no more than
testify to what we know and we are not the guardians of the
Unseen. Ask questions of the town in which we were and of the
caravan in which we came for we are surely telling you the truth."’
(12:68-82)
• And when the caravan went on its way, their father said, ‘I can
smell Yusuf’s scent! You probably think I have become senile.’
They said, ‘By Allah! Your mind is still astray.’ But when the
bringer of the good news came, he cast it on his face and sight
returned. He said, ‘Did I not say to you before, I know things from
Allah you do not know?’ They said, ‘Our father, may we be
forgiven for all the many wrongs that we have done. We were
indeed greatly mistaken men.’ He said, ‘I will ask my Lord to
pardon you. He is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.’ Then when they
entered into Yusuf’s presence, he drew his parents close to him
and said, ‘Enter Egypt safe and sound, if Allah wills.’ He raised
his parents up onto the throne. The others fell prostrate in front of
him. He said, ‘My father, truly this is now the interpretation of the
dream I had. My Lord has made it all come true; and He was kind
to me by letting me out of prison and brought you from the desert
when Satan had caused dissent between me and my brothers.
My Lord is kind to anyone He wills. He is indeed All-Knowing and
All-Wise. My Lord, You have granted power to me on earth and
taught me the true meaning of events. Originator of the heavens
and earth, You are my Friend in this world and the Next. So take
me as a Muslim at my death and join me to the people who are
righteous.’ This is news of the Unseen which We reveal to you.
You were not with them when they decided what to do and
devised their scheme. But most people, for all your eagerness,
are not believers. You do not ask them for any wage for it. It is
only a reminder to all beings. (12:94-104)
• (The man who believed said, ‘My people!) Yusuf brought you the
Clear Signs before, but you never stopped doubting what he
brought to you to the extent that when he died, you said, "Allah
will never send another Messenger after him." That is how Allah
misguides those who are unbridled and full of doubt.’ (40:34)
Z
ZABUR (PSALMS)
ZAKARIYYA (AS)
• Her Lord accepted her with approval and made her grow in health
and beauty. And Zakariyya became her guardian. Every time
Zakariyya visited her in the Upper Room, he found food with her.
He said, ‘Maryam, how did you come by this?’ She said, ‘It is from
Allah. Allah provides for whoever He wills without any reckoning.’
Then and there Zakariyya called on his Lord and said, ‘O Lord,
grant me by Your favour an upright child. You are the Hearer of
Prayer.’ The angels called out to him while he was standing in
prayer in the Upper Room: ‘Allah gives you the good news of
Yahya, who will come to confirm a Word from Allah, and will be a
leader and a celibate, a Prophet and one of the righteous.’ He
said, ‘My Lord, how can I possibly have a son when I have
reached old age and my wife is barren?’ He said, ‘It will be so.
Allah does whatever He wills.’ He said, ‘My Lord, appoint a Sign
for me.’ He said, ‘Your Sign is that you will not speak to people for
three days, except by gesture. Remember your Lord much and
glorify Him in the evening and after dawn.’ (3:37-41)
• And Zakariyya, Yahya, ‘Isa and Ilyas. All of them were among the
righteous. (6:85)
• And Zakariyya when he called out to his Lord, ‘My Lord, do not
leave me on my own, though You are the Best of Inheritors.’
(21:89)
ZAQQUM
• They will eat from it and fill their bellies with it. (37:66)
ZAYD
• When you said to him whom Allah has blessed and you yourself
have greatly favoured, ‘Keep your wife to yourself and have fear
of Allah,’ while concealing something in yourself which Allah
wished to bring to light, you were fearing people when Allah has
more right to your fear. Then when Zayd divorced her We married
her to you so that there should be no restriction for the believers
regarding the wives of their adopted sons when they have
divorced them. Allah’s command is always carried out. (33:37)
WRONGDOER)
• THE DECEPTION
• OF EVOLUTION
• Yet this propaganda cannot conceal the truth. The fact that the
theory of evolution is the greatest deception in the history of
science has been expressed more and more in the scientific
world over the last 20-30 years. Research carried out after the
1980s in particular has revealed that the claims of Darwinism are
totally unfounded, something that has been stated by a large
number of scientists. In the United States in particular, many
scientists from such different fields as biology, biochemistry and
paleontology recognize the invalidity of Darwinism and employ
the concept of intelligent design to account for the origin of life.
This "intelligent design" is a scientific expression of the fact that
Allah created all living things.
• The theory of evolution posits that all living species evolved from
a single living cell that emerged on the primitive Earth 3.8 billion
years ago. How a single cell could generate millions of complex
living species and, if such an evolution really occurred, why
traces of it cannot be observed in the fossil record are some of
the questions that the theory cannot answer. However, first and
foremost, we need to ask: How did this "first cell" originate?
• Inconclusive Efforts
• The first evolutionist who took up the subject of the origin of life in
the twentieth century was the renowned Russian biologist
Alexander Oparin. With various theses he advanced in the 1930s,
he tried to prove that a living cell could originate by coincidence.
These studies, however, were doomed to failure, and Oparin had
to make the following confession:
• Barely a few years had passed before it was revealed that this
experiment, which was then presented as an important step in the
name of evolution, was invalid, for the atmosphere used in the
experiment was very different from the real Earth conditions.3
• The conditions required for the formation of a cell are too great in
quantity to be explained away by coincidences. The probability of
proteins, the building blocks of a cell, being synthesized
coincidentally, is 1 in 10950 for an average protein made up of
500 amino acids. In mathematics, a probability smaller than 1
over 1050 is considered to be impossible in practical terms.
• The DNA molecule, which is located in the nucleus of a cell and
which stores genetic information, is an incredible databank. If the
information coded in DNA were written down, it would make a
giant library consisting of an estimated 900 volumes of
encyclopedias consisting of 500 pages each.
• Natural selection holds that those living things that are stronger
and more suited to the natural conditions of their habitats will
survive in the struggle for life. For example, in a deer herd under
the threat of attack by wild animals, those that can run faster will
survive. Therefore, the deer herd will be comprised of faster and
stronger individuals. However, unquestionably, this mechanism
will not cause deer to evolve and transform themselves into
another living species, for instance, horses.
• Lamarck's Impact
• Today, the model that stands for evolution in the world is Neo-
Darwinism. The theory maintains that millions of living beings
formed as a result of a process whereby numerous complex
organs of these organisms (e.g., ears, eyes, lungs, and wings)
underwent "mutations," that is, genetic disorders. Yet, there is an
outright scientific fact that totally undermines this theory:
Mutations do not cause living beings to develop; on the contrary,
they are always harmful.
• The reason for this is very simple: DNA has a very complex
structure, and random effects can only harm it. The American
geneticist B.G. Ranganathan explains this as follows:
• Intermediate Forms
• This means that in the fossil record, all living species suddenly
emerge as fully formed, without any intermediate forms in
between. This is just the opposite of Darwin's assumptions. Also,
this is very strong evidence that all living things are created. The
only explanation of a living species emerging suddenly and
complete in every detail without any evolutionary ancestor is that
it was created. This fact is admitted also by the widely known
evolutionist biologist Douglas Futuyma:
• Creation and evolution, between them, exhaust the possible
explanations for the origin of living things. Organisms either
appeared on the earth fully developed or they did not. If they did
not, they must have developed from pre-existing species by some
process of modification. If they did appear in a fully developed
state, they must indeed have been created by some omnipotent
intelligence.12
Australopithecus
Homo habilis
Homo erectus
Homo sapiens
• We then move right off the register of objective truth into those
fields of presumed biological science, like extrasensory
perception or the interpretation of man's fossil history, where to
the faithful [evolutionist] anything is possible – and where the
ardent believer [in evolution] is sometimes able to believe several
contradictory things at the same time.18
• Darwinian Formula!
• Besides all the technical evidence we have dealt with so far, let
us now for once, examine what kind of a superstition the
evolutionists have with an example so simple as to be understood
even by children:
• The brain is insulated from light. That means that its inside is
completely dark, and that no light reaches the place where it is
located. Thus, the "center of vision" is never touched by light and
may even be the darkest place you have ever known. However,
you observe a luminous, bright world in this pitch darkness.
• The image formed in the eye is so sharp and distinct that even
the technology of the twentieth century has not been able to
attain it. For instance, look at the book you are reading, your
hands with which you are holding it, and then lift your head and
look around you. Have you ever seen such a sharp and distinct
image as this one at any other place? Even the most developed
television screen produced by the greatest television producer in
the world cannot provide such a sharp image for you. This is a
three-dimensional, colored, and extremely sharp image. For more
than 100 years, thousands of engineers have been trying to
achieve this sharpness. Factories, huge premises were
established, much research has been done, plans and designs
have been made for this purpose. Again, look at a TV screen and
the book you hold in your hands. You will see that there is a big
difference in sharpness and distinction. Moreover, the TV screen
shows you a two-dimensional image, whereas with your eyes,
you watch a three-dimensional perspective with depth.
• Everyone who reads this explicit and scientific fact should ponder
on Almighty Allah, and fear and seek refuge in Him, for He
squeezes the entire universe in a pitch-dark place of a few cubic
centimeters in a three-dimensional, colored, shadowy, and
luminous form.
• A Materialist Faith
• Interestingly enough, they also confess this fact from time to time.
A well-known geneticist and an outspoken evolutionist, Richard C.
Lewontin from Harvard University, confesses that he is "first and
foremost a materialist and then a scientist":
• Anyone who does not look at the origin of living beings with a
materialist prejudice will see this evident truth: All living beings
are works of a Creator, Who is All-Powerful, All-Wise, and All-
Knowing. This Creator is Allah, Who created the whole universe
from non-existence, designed it in the most perfect form, and
fashioned all living beings.
• He said: "You throw." And when they threw, they cast a spell
on the people's eyes and caused them to feel great fear of
them. They produced an extremely powerful magic. (Qur'an,
7: 116)
• As we can see, when people realized that a spell had been cast
upon them and that what they saw was just an illusion, Pharaoh's
magicians lost all credibility. In the present day too, unless those
who, under the influence of a similar spell, believe in these
ridiculous claims under their scientific disguise and spend their
lives defending them, abandon their superstitious beliefs, they
also will be humiliated when the full truth emerges and the spell is
broken. In fact, Malcolm Muggeridge, an atheist philosopher and
supporter of evolution, admitted he was worried by just that
prospect:
• That future is not far off: On the contrary, people will soon see
that "chance" is not a deity, and will look back on the theory of
evolution as the worst deceit and the most terrible spell in the
world. That spell is already rapidly beginning to be lifted from the
shoulders of people all over the world. Many people who see its
true face are wondering with amazement how they could ever
have been taken in by it.
• (Qur'an, 2: 32)
• NOTES