Peoples of the book - Purification
Peoples of the book:
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. (68) A group of the People of the Book would love to misguide you. They only misguide themselves but they are not aware of it. (69)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al ‘Imran (The Family Of 'Imran, The House Of 'Imran), Surah # 3: Ayah # 68-69)
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. (75) No, the truth is, if people honour their contracts and have fear of Him, Allah loves those who guard against evil. (76)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al ‘Imran (The Family Of 'Imran, The House Of 'Imran), Surah # 3: Ayah # 75-76)
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. (78)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al ‘Imran (The Family Of 'Imran, The House Of 'Imran), Surah # 3: Ayah # 78)
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. (110)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. (111) They will be plunged into abasement wherever they are found, unless they have a treaty with Allah and with the people. They have brought down anger from Allah upon themselves, and they have been plunged into destitution. That was because they rejected Allah’s Signs and killed the Prophets without any right to do so. That was because they disobeyed and went beyond the limits. (112) 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. (113) 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. (114) You will not be denied the reward for any good thing you do. Allah knows those who guard against evil. (115)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al ‘Imran (The Family Of 'Imran, The House Of 'Imran), Surah # 3: Ayah # 110-115)
But because of their (tribe of Israel) breaking of their covenant, We have cursed them and made their hearts hard. They distort the true meaning of words and have forgotten a good portion of what they were reminded of. You will never cease to come upon some act of treachery on their part, except for a few of them. Yet pardon them, and overlook. Allah loves good-doers. (13)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Ma’ida (The Table, The Table Spread), Surah # 5: Ayah # 13)
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. (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. (45)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Ma’ida (The Table, The Table Spread, The Repast), Surah # 5: Ayah # 44)
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. (47)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Ma’ida (The Table, The Table Spread), Surah # 5: Ayah # 47)
You see many of them rushing to wrongdoing and enmity and acquiring ill-gotten gains. What an evil thing they
do! (62) Why do their scholars and rabbis not prohibit them from evil speech and acquiring ill-gotten gains? What
an evil thing they invent! (63) 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 earthcorrupting it. Allah does not love corrupters. (64) 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. (65)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Ma’ida (The Table, The Table Spread), Surah # 5: Ayah # 62-65)
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?’ (59) 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.’ (60)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Ma’ida (The Table, The Table Spread), Surah # 5: Ayah # 59-60)
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Poor:
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. (60)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Tawbah (The Repentance) or Bara’ah (The Disavowal), Surah # 9: Ayah # 60)
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Pray:
When you have completed your rites, remember Allah as you used to remember your forefathers–or even more. There are some people who say, ‘Our Lord, give us good in this world.’ They will have no share in the hereafter. (200) 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.’ (201) They will have a good share from what they have earned.
Allah is swift at reckoning. (202)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Baqarah (The Heifer), Surah # 2: Ayah #200-202)
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.’ (286)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Baqarah (The Heifer), Surah # 2: Ayah #286)
(His servants are) those who say, ‘Our Lord, we believe, so forgive us our wrong actions and safeguard us from
the punishment of the Fire.’ (16)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al ‘Imran (The Family Of 'Imran, The House Of 'Imran), Surah # 3: Ayah # 16)
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. (113)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Tawbah (The Repentance) or Bara’ah (The Disavowal), Surah # 9: Ayah # 113)
He who has purified himself will have success. (14) He who invokes the Name of his Lord and prays. (15)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al A’la (The Most High), Surah # 87: Ayah #14-15)
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Prayer:
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. (277)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Baqarah (The Heifer), Surah # 2: Ayah #277)
(Believers are) those who perform prayer and give of what We have provided for them. (3)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Anfal (The Spoils of War), Surah # 8: Ayah # 3)
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. (22)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Ra’d (The Thunder), Surah # 13: Ayah # 22)
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. (29)
(Holy Quran, Surah Fatir (The Originator of the Creation), Surah # 35: Ayah # 29)
What of him who spends the night hours in prayer, prostrating and standing up, mindful of the hereafter, hoping
for the mercy of his Lord? Say: ‘Are they the same–those who know and those who do not know?’ It is only people of intelligence who pay heed. (9)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Zumar (Crowds), Surah # 39: Ayah # 9)
(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. (38)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Shura (Consultation), Surah # 42: Ayah # 38)
So woe to those who perform prayer, (4) and are forgetful of their prayer, (5) those who show off (6) and deny help to others. (7)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al Ma’un (The Neighborly Assistance), Surah # 107, Ayah #4-7)
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Promise:
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. (27)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Baqarah (The Heifer), Surah # 2: Ayah # 27)
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Prophets:
And remember Our servants Ibrahim, Ishaq and Ya‘qub, men of true strength and inner sight. (45) We purified their sincerity through sincere remembrance of the Abode. (46)
(Holy Quran, Surah Sad, Surah # 38: Ayah # 45-46)
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Psychology:
Do you order people to devoutness and forget yourselves, when you recite the Book? Will you not use your intellect? (44)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al Baqarah (The Heifer), Surah # 2: Ayah # 44)
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. (204) When he leaves you, he goes about the earth corrupting it, destroying crops and animals. Allah does not love corruption. (205) When he is told to have fear of Allah, he is seized by pride which drives him to wrongdoing. Hell will be enough for him! What an evil restingplace! (206) And among the people there are some who give up everything, desiring the good pleasure of Allah. Allah is Ever-Gentle with His servants. (207)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Baqarah (The Heifer), Surah # 2: Ayah #204-207)
You who believe! If you obey those who disbelieve, they will turn you round on your heels and you will be transformed into losers. (149)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al ‘Imran (The Family Of 'Imran, The House Of 'Imran), Surah # 3: Ayah # 149)
Only those who can hear respond. As for the dead, Allah will raise them up, then to Him they will be returned. (36)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-An’am (The Cattle), Surah # 6: Ayah # 36)
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. (119)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-An’am (The Cattle), Surah # 6: Ayah # 119)
To all are degrees (or ranks) according to their deeds: for thy Lord is not unmindful of anything that they do. (132)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-An’am (The Cattle), Surah # 6: Ayah # 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. (146)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-A’araf (The Heights), Surah # 7: Ayah # 146)
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. (34)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Tawbah (The Repentance) or Bara’ah (The Disavowal), Surah # 9: Ayah # 34)
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. (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. (45)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Tawbah (The Repentance) or Bara’ah (The Disavowal), Surah # 9: Ayah # 44-45)
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. (12)
(Holy Quran, Surah Yunus (Jonah), Surah # 10: Ayah # 12)
If We let man taste mercy from Us, and then take it away from him, he is despairing, ungrateful. (9) But if We let him taste blessings after hardship has afflicted him, he says, ‘My troubles have gone away,’ and he is overjoyed, boastful. (10)
(Holy Quran, Surah Hud (The Prophet Hud), Surah # 11: Ayah # 9-10)
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. (34)
(Holy Quran, Surah Ibrahim (The Prophet Abraham), Surah # 14: Ayah # 34)
When harm touches people they call on their Lord, repenting to Him. But then, when He gives them a taste of mercy from Him, a group of them immediately associate others with their Lord. (33) to show ingratitude for what We have given them. ‘Enjoy yourselves–you will soon know.’ (34)
(Holy Quran, Surah Ar-Rum (The Romans, The Byzantines), Surah # 30: Ayah # 33-34)
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.’ (34)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Naml (The Ants), Surah # 27: Ayah # 34)
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.
(Holy Quran, Surah Al ‘Ankabut (The Spider), Surah # 29: Ayah # 63)
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. (24)
(Holy Quran, Surah Sad, Surah # 38: Ayah # 24)
When harm touches man he calls on Us. Then when We grant him a blessing from Us he says, ‘I have only been given this because of my knowledge.’ In fact it is a trial but most of them do not know it. (49)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Zumar (Crowds), Surah # 39: Ayah # 49)
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! (51)
(Holy Quran, Surah Fussilat (Expounded) or HA MIM, Surah # 41: Ayah # 51)
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. (18)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Shura (Consultation), Surah # 42: Ayah # 18)
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. (27)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Shura (Consultation), Surah # 42: Ayah # 27)
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? (23)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Jathiyah (The Kneeling Down), Surah # 45: Ayah # 23)
Truly man was created very impatient; (19) Fretful when evil touches him; (20) And niggardly when good reaches him; (21) Not so those devoted to Prayer; (22)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Ma’arij (The Ways to Ascent), Surah # 70: Ayah # 19-22)
As for man, when his Lord tests him by honouring him and favouring him, he says, ‘My Lord has honoured me!’ (15) But then when He tests him by restricting his provision, he says, ‘My Lord has humiliated me!’ (16) No indeed! You do not honour orphans (17) nor do you urge the feeding of the poor. (18) And ye devour Inheritance all with greed, (19) And you have an insatiable love of wealth. (20)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Fajr (The Dawn), Surah # 89: Ayah #15-20)
Truly man is ungrateful to his Lord. (6) Truly man is ungrateful to his Lord (6) and indeed he bears witness to that. (7) Truly he is fierce in his love of wealth. (8)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al ‘Adiyat (Those That Run), Surah # 100: Ayah # 6-8)
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Purification:
Do not ever stand in it. A mosque founded on performing one’s duty from the first day has a greater right for you to stand in it. In it there are men who love to purify themselves. Allah loves those who purify themselves. (108)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Tawbah (The Repentance) or Bara’ah (The Disavowal), Surah # 9: Ayah # 108)
He who has purified himself will have success. (14) He who invokes the Name of his Lord and prays. (15)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al A’la (The Most High), Surah # 87: Ayah # 14-15)
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. (68) A group of the People of the Book would love to misguide you. They only misguide themselves but they are not aware of it. (69)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al ‘Imran (The Family Of 'Imran, The House Of 'Imran), Surah # 3: Ayah # 68-69)
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. (75) No, the truth is, if people honour their contracts and have fear of Him, Allah loves those who guard against evil. (76)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al ‘Imran (The Family Of 'Imran, The House Of 'Imran), Surah # 3: Ayah # 75-76)
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. (78)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al ‘Imran (The Family Of 'Imran, The House Of 'Imran), Surah # 3: Ayah # 78)
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. (110)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. (111) They will be plunged into abasement wherever they are found, unless they have a treaty with Allah and with the people. They have brought down anger from Allah upon themselves, and they have been plunged into destitution. That was because they rejected Allah’s Signs and killed the Prophets without any right to do so. That was because they disobeyed and went beyond the limits. (112) 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. (113) 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. (114) You will not be denied the reward for any good thing you do. Allah knows those who guard against evil. (115)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al ‘Imran (The Family Of 'Imran, The House Of 'Imran), Surah # 3: Ayah # 110-115)
But because of their (tribe of Israel) breaking of their covenant, We have cursed them and made their hearts hard. They distort the true meaning of words and have forgotten a good portion of what they were reminded of. You will never cease to come upon some act of treachery on their part, except for a few of them. Yet pardon them, and overlook. Allah loves good-doers. (13)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Ma’ida (The Table, The Table Spread), Surah # 5: Ayah # 13)
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. (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. (45)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Ma’ida (The Table, The Table Spread, The Repast), Surah # 5: Ayah # 44)
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. (47)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Ma’ida (The Table, The Table Spread), Surah # 5: Ayah # 47)
You see many of them rushing to wrongdoing and enmity and acquiring ill-gotten gains. What an evil thing they
do! (62) Why do their scholars and rabbis not prohibit them from evil speech and acquiring ill-gotten gains? What
an evil thing they invent! (63) 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 earthcorrupting it. Allah does not love corrupters. (64) 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. (65)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Ma’ida (The Table, The Table Spread), Surah # 5: Ayah # 62-65)
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?’ (59) 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.’ (60)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Ma’ida (The Table, The Table Spread), Surah # 5: Ayah # 59-60)
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Poor:
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. (60)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Tawbah (The Repentance) or Bara’ah (The Disavowal), Surah # 9: Ayah # 60)
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Pray:
When you have completed your rites, remember Allah as you used to remember your forefathers–or even more. There are some people who say, ‘Our Lord, give us good in this world.’ They will have no share in the hereafter. (200) 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.’ (201) They will have a good share from what they have earned.
Allah is swift at reckoning. (202)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Baqarah (The Heifer), Surah # 2: Ayah #200-202)
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.’ (286)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Baqarah (The Heifer), Surah # 2: Ayah #286)
(His servants are) those who say, ‘Our Lord, we believe, so forgive us our wrong actions and safeguard us from
the punishment of the Fire.’ (16)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al ‘Imran (The Family Of 'Imran, The House Of 'Imran), Surah # 3: Ayah # 16)
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. (113)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Tawbah (The Repentance) or Bara’ah (The Disavowal), Surah # 9: Ayah # 113)
He who has purified himself will have success. (14) He who invokes the Name of his Lord and prays. (15)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al A’la (The Most High), Surah # 87: Ayah #14-15)
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Prayer:
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. (277)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Baqarah (The Heifer), Surah # 2: Ayah #277)
(Believers are) those who perform prayer and give of what We have provided for them. (3)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Anfal (The Spoils of War), Surah # 8: Ayah # 3)
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. (22)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Ra’d (The Thunder), Surah # 13: Ayah # 22)
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. (29)
(Holy Quran, Surah Fatir (The Originator of the Creation), Surah # 35: Ayah # 29)
What of him who spends the night hours in prayer, prostrating and standing up, mindful of the hereafter, hoping
for the mercy of his Lord? Say: ‘Are they the same–those who know and those who do not know?’ It is only people of intelligence who pay heed. (9)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Zumar (Crowds), Surah # 39: Ayah # 9)
(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. (38)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Shura (Consultation), Surah # 42: Ayah # 38)
So woe to those who perform prayer, (4) and are forgetful of their prayer, (5) those who show off (6) and deny help to others. (7)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al Ma’un (The Neighborly Assistance), Surah # 107, Ayah #4-7)
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Promise:
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. (27)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Baqarah (The Heifer), Surah # 2: Ayah # 27)
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Prophets:
And remember Our servants Ibrahim, Ishaq and Ya‘qub, men of true strength and inner sight. (45) We purified their sincerity through sincere remembrance of the Abode. (46)
(Holy Quran, Surah Sad, Surah # 38: Ayah # 45-46)
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Psychology:
Do you order people to devoutness and forget yourselves, when you recite the Book? Will you not use your intellect? (44)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al Baqarah (The Heifer), Surah # 2: Ayah # 44)
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. (204) When he leaves you, he goes about the earth corrupting it, destroying crops and animals. Allah does not love corruption. (205) When he is told to have fear of Allah, he is seized by pride which drives him to wrongdoing. Hell will be enough for him! What an evil restingplace! (206) And among the people there are some who give up everything, desiring the good pleasure of Allah. Allah is Ever-Gentle with His servants. (207)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Baqarah (The Heifer), Surah # 2: Ayah #204-207)
You who believe! If you obey those who disbelieve, they will turn you round on your heels and you will be transformed into losers. (149)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al ‘Imran (The Family Of 'Imran, The House Of 'Imran), Surah # 3: Ayah # 149)
Only those who can hear respond. As for the dead, Allah will raise them up, then to Him they will be returned. (36)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-An’am (The Cattle), Surah # 6: Ayah # 36)
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. (119)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-An’am (The Cattle), Surah # 6: Ayah # 119)
To all are degrees (or ranks) according to their deeds: for thy Lord is not unmindful of anything that they do. (132)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-An’am (The Cattle), Surah # 6: Ayah # 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. (146)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-A’araf (The Heights), Surah # 7: Ayah # 146)
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. (34)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Tawbah (The Repentance) or Bara’ah (The Disavowal), Surah # 9: Ayah # 34)
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. (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. (45)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Tawbah (The Repentance) or Bara’ah (The Disavowal), Surah # 9: Ayah # 44-45)
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. (12)
(Holy Quran, Surah Yunus (Jonah), Surah # 10: Ayah # 12)
If We let man taste mercy from Us, and then take it away from him, he is despairing, ungrateful. (9) But if We let him taste blessings after hardship has afflicted him, he says, ‘My troubles have gone away,’ and he is overjoyed, boastful. (10)
(Holy Quran, Surah Hud (The Prophet Hud), Surah # 11: Ayah # 9-10)
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. (34)
(Holy Quran, Surah Ibrahim (The Prophet Abraham), Surah # 14: Ayah # 34)
When harm touches people they call on their Lord, repenting to Him. But then, when He gives them a taste of mercy from Him, a group of them immediately associate others with their Lord. (33) to show ingratitude for what We have given them. ‘Enjoy yourselves–you will soon know.’ (34)
(Holy Quran, Surah Ar-Rum (The Romans, The Byzantines), Surah # 30: Ayah # 33-34)
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.’ (34)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Naml (The Ants), Surah # 27: Ayah # 34)
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.
(Holy Quran, Surah Al ‘Ankabut (The Spider), Surah # 29: Ayah # 63)
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. (24)
(Holy Quran, Surah Sad, Surah # 38: Ayah # 24)
When harm touches man he calls on Us. Then when We grant him a blessing from Us he says, ‘I have only been given this because of my knowledge.’ In fact it is a trial but most of them do not know it. (49)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Zumar (Crowds), Surah # 39: Ayah # 49)
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! (51)
(Holy Quran, Surah Fussilat (Expounded) or HA MIM, Surah # 41: Ayah # 51)
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. (18)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Shura (Consultation), Surah # 42: Ayah # 18)
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. (27)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Shura (Consultation), Surah # 42: Ayah # 27)
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? (23)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Jathiyah (The Kneeling Down), Surah # 45: Ayah # 23)
Truly man was created very impatient; (19) Fretful when evil touches him; (20) And niggardly when good reaches him; (21) Not so those devoted to Prayer; (22)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Ma’arij (The Ways to Ascent), Surah # 70: Ayah # 19-22)
As for man, when his Lord tests him by honouring him and favouring him, he says, ‘My Lord has honoured me!’ (15) But then when He tests him by restricting his provision, he says, ‘My Lord has humiliated me!’ (16) No indeed! You do not honour orphans (17) nor do you urge the feeding of the poor. (18) And ye devour Inheritance all with greed, (19) And you have an insatiable love of wealth. (20)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Fajr (The Dawn), Surah # 89: Ayah #15-20)
Truly man is ungrateful to his Lord. (6) Truly man is ungrateful to his Lord (6) and indeed he bears witness to that. (7) Truly he is fierce in his love of wealth. (8)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al ‘Adiyat (Those That Run), Surah # 100: Ayah # 6-8)
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Purification:
Do not ever stand in it. A mosque founded on performing one’s duty from the first day has a greater right for you to stand in it. In it there are men who love to purify themselves. Allah loves those who purify themselves. (108)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al-Tawbah (The Repentance) or Bara’ah (The Disavowal), Surah # 9: Ayah # 108)
He who has purified himself will have success. (14) He who invokes the Name of his Lord and prays. (15)
(Holy Quran, Surah Al A’la (The Most High), Surah # 87: Ayah # 14-15)
