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ALMS (ZAKAH)
Perform prayer and give the alms and bow with those who bow. (2:43)
Remember when We made a covenant with the tribe of Israel: 'Worship none
but Allah and be good to your parents and to relatives and orphans and
the very poor. And speak good words to people. And perform prayer and
give the alms.' But then you turned away-except a few of you-you turned
aside. (2:83)
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)
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)
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)
Allah made a covenant with the tribe of Israel and We raised up twelve
leaders from among them. Allah said, 'I am with you. If you perform prayer
and give the alms, and believe in My Messengers and respect and support
them, and make a generous loan to Allah, I will erase your wrong actions
from you and admit you into Gardens with rivers flowing under them. Any
of you who disbelieve after that have gone astray from the right way.'
(5:12)
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)
The mosques of Allah should only be maintained by those who believe in
Allah and the Last Day and perform prayer and give the alms, and fear
no one but Allah. They are the ones most likely to be guided. (9:18)
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)
Do they not know that Allah accepts repentance from His servants and
acknowledges their alms, and that Allah is the Ever-Returning, the Most
Merciful? (9:104)
'Isa said, 'He has made me blessed wherever I am and directed me to perform
prayer and give the alms as long as I live.' (19:31)
He (Isma'il) used to command his people to perform prayer and give the
alms and he was pleasing to his Lord. (19:55)
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)
(Believers are) those who, if We establish them firmly on the earth,
will perform prayer and give the alms, and command what is right and forbid
what is wrong. The end result of all affairs is with Allah. (22:41)
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)
(Believers are) those who give the alms. (23:4)
... 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)
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. (33:33)
Say: 'I am only a human being like yourselves. It is revealed to me that
your god is One God. So be straight with Him and ask His forgiveness.'
Woe to those who associate others with Him: those who do not give the
alms and reject the hereafter. (41:6-7)
Are you afraid to give gifts of charity before your private consultation?
If you do not and Allah turns to you, at least perform prayer and give
the alms, and obey Allah and His Messenger. Allah is aware of what you
do. (58:13)
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)
And Isma'il, al-Yasa', Yunus and Lut. All of them We favoured over all
beings. (6:86)
Remember Our servants Isma'il, Al-Yasa' and Dhu'l-Kifl; each of them
was among the best of men. (38:48)
ANCESTORS
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)
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)
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.
(2:200)
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, 'Have you come to us to make us worship Allah alone and abandon
what our fathers used to worship? Then bring us what you have promised
us if you are telling the truth.' (7:70)
He (Nuh) said, 'Punishment and anger have come down on you from your
Lord. Do you argue with me regarding names which you and your forefathers
invented and for which Allah has sent down no authority? Wait, then; I
am waiting with you.' (7:71)
Then We gave them good in exchange for evil until they increased in number
and said, 'Our forefathers too underwent both hardship and ease.' Then
We seized them suddenly when they were not expecting it. (7:95)
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?' (7:173)
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)
They said, 'Salih, we had great hopes in you before this happened. Do
you forbid us to worship what our fathers worshipped? We have grave doubts
about what you are calling us to.' (11:62)
They said, 'Shu'ayb, do your prayers instruct you that we should abandon
what our fathers worshipped or stop doing whatever we want to with our
wealth? You are clearly the forbearing, the rightly-guided!' (11:87)
So be in no doubt about what these people worship. They only worship
as their forebears worshipped previously. We will pay them their portion
in full, with no rebate! (11:109)
(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)
They have no knowledge of this, neither they nor their fathers. It is
a monstrous utterance which has issued from their mouths. What they say
is nothing but a lie. (18:5)
No indeed! We have given these people enjoyment, as We did their fathers,
until life seemed long and good to them. Do they not see how We come to
the land eroding it from its extremities? Or are they the victors? (21:44)
They said, 'We found our fathers worshipping them.' (21:53)
He (Ibrahim) said, 'You and your fathers are clearly misguided.' (21:54)
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)
They found their fathers misguided. (37:69)
(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)
There is no god but Him-He gives life and causes to die-your Lord and
the Lord of your forefathers, the previous peoples. (44:8)
(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
When your Lord said to the angels, 'I am putting an overlord on the earth,'
they said, 'Why put on it one who will cause corruption on it and shed
blood when we glorify You with praise and proclaim Your purity?' He said,
'I know what you do not know.' (2:30)
He taught Adam the names of all things. Then He arrayed them before the
angels and said, 'Tell me the names of these if you are telling the truth.'
(2:31)
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)
(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)
They follow what the Satans recited in the reign of Sulayman. Sulayman
did not disbelieve, but the Satans did, teaching people sorcery and what
had been sent down to Harut and Marut, the two angels in Babylon, who
taught no one without first saying to him, 'We are merely a trial and
temptation, so do not disbelieve.' People learned from them how to separate
a man and his wife but they cannot harm anyone by it, except with Allah's
permission. They have learned what will harm them and will not benefit
them. They know that any who deal in it will have no share in the hereafter.
What an evil thing they have sold themselves for if they only knew! (2:102)
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)
The angels called out to him while he (Zakariyya) 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.' (3:39)
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)
He would never command you to take the angels and Prophets as Lords.
Would He command you to disbelieve after being Muslim? (3:80)
The repayment of such people is that Allah's curse is on them and that
of the angels and of all mankind. (3:87)
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)
The Messiah would never disdain to be a servant to Allah nor would the
angels near to Him. If any do disdain to worship Him, and grow arrogant,
He will in any case gather them all to Him. (4:172)
They say, 'Why has an angel not been sent down to him?' If We were to
send down an angel, that would be the end of the affair and they would
have no reprieve. (6:8)
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)
Who could do greater wrong than someone who invents lies against Allah
or denies His Signs, or who says, 'It has been revealed to me,' when nothing
has been revealed to him, or someone who says, 'I will send down the same
as Allah has sent down'? If you could only see the wrongdoers in the throes
of death when the angels are stretching out their hands, saying, 'Disgorge
your own selves! Today you will be repaid with the punishment of humiliation
for saying something other than the truth about Allah, and being arrogant
about His Signs.' (6:93)
Even if We sent down angels to them, and the dead spoke to them, and
We gathered together everything in front of them right before their eyes,
they would still not believe unless Allah willed. The truth is that most
of them are ignorant. (6:111)
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)
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.'
(8:9)
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!' (8:12)
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)
(Nuh said,) '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)
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)
The thunder glorifies His praise, as do the angels, out of fear of Him.
He discharges the thunderbolts, striking with them anyone He wills. Yet
still they argue about Allah when He is inexorable in His power! (13:13)
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)
When your Lord said to the angels, 'I am creating a human being out of
dried clay formed from fetid black mud.' (15:28)
Then the angels prostrated all together, every one of them. (15:30)
He sends down angels with the Spirit of His command to any of His servants
He wills: 'Give warning that there is no god but Me, so have fear of Me!'
(16:2)
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)
Everything in the heavens and every creature on the earth prostrates
to Allah, as do the angels. They are not puffed up with pride. (16:49)
Has your Lord honoured you with sons and Himself taken the angels as
daughters? It is truly something terrible that you say! (17:40)
When We said to the angels, 'Prostrate yourselves to Adam!' they prostrated,
except for Diabolis. He said 'What! Am I to prostrate to one You have
created out of clay?' (17:61)
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)
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)
When We said to the angels, 'Prostrate yourselves to Adam!' they prostrated,
with the exception of Diabolis who disdained to do it. (20:116)
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)
Allah chooses Messengers from the angels and from mankind. Allah is All-Hearing,
All-Seeing. (22:75)
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)
It is He Who calls down blessing on you, as do His angels, to bring you
out of the darkness into the light. He is Most Merciful to the believers.
(33:43)
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)
Praise be to Allah, the Bringer into Being of the heavens and earth,
He Who made the angels messengers, with wings-two, three or four. He adds
to creation in any way He wills. Allah has power over all things. (35:1)
They cannot eavesdrop on the Highest Assembly (of angels) and they are
stoned from every side. (37:8)
Or did We create the angels female, with them as witnesses? (37:150)
(Say:) 'I knew nothing of the Highest Assembly (of angels) when they
debated.' (38:69)
Your Lord said to the angels, 'I am going to create a human being out
of clay.' (38:71)
So the angels prostrated, all of them together. (38:73)
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)
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.' (41:14)
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)
And how many angels there are in the heavens whose intercession is of
no benefit at all until Allah has authorised those He wills and is pleased
with them! (53:26)
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)
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 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)
In it the angels and the Spirit descend by their Lord's authority with
every ordinance. (97:4)
ANGER
Guide us on the Straight Path, the Path of those You have blessed, not
of those with anger on them, nor of the misguided. (1:5-7)
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)
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. (3:112)
Is someone who pursues the pleasure of Allah the same as someone who
incurs displeasure from Allah and whose refuge is Hell? What an evil destination!
(3:162)
As for anyone who kills a believer deliberately, his repayment is Hell,
remaining in it timelessly, for ever. Allah is angry with him and has
cursed him, and has prepared for him a terrible punishment. (4:93)
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)
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)
He said, 'Punishment and anger have come down on you from your Lord.
Do you argue with me regarding names which you and your forefathers invented
and for which Allah has sent down no authority? Wait, then; I am waiting
with you.' (7:71)
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)
When Musa's anger abated he picked up the Tablets and in their inscription
was guidance and mercy for all of them who feared their Lord. (7:154)
Anyone who turns his back on them that day, unless he is withdrawing
to rejoin the fight or withdrawing to support another group, brings Allah's
anger down upon himself. His refuge is Hell. What an evil destination!
(8:16)
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)
Those who reject Allah after having believed-except for someone forced
to do it whose heart remains at rest in its faith-but as for those whose
breasts become dilated with disbelief, anger from Allah will come down
on them. They will have a terrible punishment. (16:106)
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)
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)
And Dhu'n-Nun when he left in anger and thought We would not punish him.
He called out in the pitch darkness: 'There is no god but You! Glory be
to You! Truly I have been one of the wrongdoers.' (21:87)
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)
Those who disbelieved will be addressed: 'Allah's hatred of you, when
you were called to faith but then chose disbelief, is even greater than
your hatred of yourselves.' (40:10)
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)
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)
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)
When he leaves you, he goes about the earth corrupting it, destroying
crops and animals. Allah does not love corruption. (2:205)
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)
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)
Allah has made the Kaaba, the Sacred House, a special institution for
mankind, and also the sacred months and the sacrificial animals and the
ritual garlands. That is so you will know that Allah knows what is in
the heavens and in the earth and that Allah has knowledge of all things.
(5:97)
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)
They say, 'What is in the wombs of these animals is exclusively for our
men and forbidden for our wives. But if it is stillborn, they can share
in it.' He will repay them for their false depiction. He is All-Wise,
All-Knowing. (6:139)
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 made forbidden for the Jews every animal with an undivided hoof, and
in respect of cattle and sheep, We made their fat forbidden for them,
except what is attached to their backs or guts or mixed up with bone.
That is how We repaid them for their insolence. And We certainly speak
the truth. (6:146)
The worst of animals in the sight of Allah are those who disbelieve and
do not believe. (8:55)
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)
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)
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)
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)
We have appointed the sacrificial animals for you as one of the sacred
rites of Allah. There is good in them for you, so invoke Allah's name
over them, as they stand in rows. And then when they collapse on their
sides, eat of them and feed both those who ask and those who are too shy
to ask. In this way We have subjected them to you so that hopefully you
will be thankful. (22:36)
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 (animal) 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. (23:27)
Allah created every animal from water. Some of them go on their bellies,
some of them on two legs, and some on four. Allah creates whatever He
wills. Allah has power over all things. (24:45)
It is He Who sends out the winds, bringing advance news of His mercy.
And We send down from heaven pure water so that by it We can bring a dead
land to life and give drink to many of the animals and people We created.
(25:48-49)
ANSAR (SUPPORTERS)
The forerunners-the first of the Migrants (Muhajirun) and the Supporters
(Ansar)-and those who have followed them in doing good: Allah is pleased
with them and they are pleased with Him. He has prepared Gardens for them
with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever
and ever. That is the great victory. (9:100)
Allah has turned towards the Prophet, and the Migrants (Muhajirun) and
the Supporters (Ansar), those who followed him at the 'time of difficulty',
after the hearts of a group of them had almost deviated. Then He turned
towards them-He is All-Gentle, Most Merciful to them. (9:117)
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)
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