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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)
We gave Musa the Book and sent a succession of Messengers after him.
We gave 'Isa, son of Maryam, the Clear Signs and reinforced him with the
Purest Spirit. Why then, whenever a Messenger came to you with something
your lower selves did not desire, did you grow arrogant, and deny some
of them and murder others? (2:87)
What they call on apart from Him are female idols. What they call on
is an arrogant Satan. (4:117)
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)
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 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)
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)
He said, 'Descend from Heaven. It is not for you to be arrogant in it.
So get out! You are one of the abased.' (7:13)
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 Companions of the Heights will call out to men they recognise by
their mark, saying, 'What you amassed was of no use to you, nor was your
arrogance.' (7:48)
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)
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)
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)
Do not be like those who left their homes in arrogance, showing off to
people and barring them from the way of Allah-Allah encompasses what they
do. (8:47)
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)
('Isa said,) 'And (He directed me) to show devotion to my mother. He
has not made me insolent or arrogant.' (19:32)
Everyone in the heavens and the earth belongs to Him. Those in His presence
do not consider themselves too great to worship Him and do not grow tired
of it. (21:19)
Among people there is one who argues about Allah without knowledge or
guidance or any light-giving Book, turning away arrogantly, to misguide
people from the Way of Allah. He will be disgraced in this world and on
the Day of Rising We will make him taste the punishment of the Burning.
(22:8-9)
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)
And they repudiated them wrongly and haughtily, in spite of their own
certainty about them. See the final fate of the corrupters. (27:14)
Pharaoh exalted himself arrogantly in the land and divided its people
into camps, oppressing one group of them by slaughtering their sons and
letting their women live. He was one of the corrupters. (28:4)
He and his troops were arrogant in the land without any right. They thought
that they would not return to Us. (28:39)
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)
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)
When Our Signs are recited to such a person, he turns away arrogantly
as if he had not heard, as if there was a great weight in his ears. So
give him news of a painful punishment. (31:7)
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)
Those deemed great will say to those deemed weak, 'Did we debar you from
the guidance when it came to you? No, it is you who were evildoers.' (34:32)
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)
So the angels prostrated (to Adam), all of them together, except for
Diabolis who was arrogant and was one of the disbelievers. (38:73-74)
'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)
We rescued the tribe of Israel from the humiliating punishment, from
Pharaoh-he was haughty, one of the profligate. (44:30-31)
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 as for those who disbelieved: 'Were My Signs not recited to you and
yet you proved arrogant; you were a people of evildoers?' (45:31)
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)
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ASKING
LORD (DUŽA)
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)
They said, 'Ask your Lord to make it clear to us what it should be like.'
He said, 'He says it should be a cow, not old or virgin, but somewhere
between the two. So do as you have been told.' (2:68)
They said, 'Ask your Lord to make it clear to us what colour it should
be.' He said, 'He says it should be a yellow cow, a pleasure to all who
look.' (2:69)
They said, 'Ask your Lord to make it clear to us what it should be like.
Cows are all much the same to us. Then, if Allah wills, we will be guided.'
(2:70)
ASSOCIATING
PARTNERS WITH ALLAH (SHIRK)
Some people set up equals to Allah, loving them as they should love Allah.
But those who believe have greater love for Allah. If only you could see
those who do wrong at the time when they see the punishment, and that
truly all strength belongs to Allah, and that Allah is severe in punishment.
(2:165)
Say, 'People of the Book! Come to a proposition which is the same for
us and you-that we should worship none but Allah and not associate any
partners with Him and not take one another as lords besides Allah.' If
they turn away, say, 'Bear witness that we are Muslims.' (3:64)
We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve because they
have associated others with Allah for which He has not sent down any authority.
Their shelter will be the Fire. How evil is the abode of the wrongdoers!
(3:151)
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)
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: 'What thing is greatest as a witness?' Say: 'Allah. He is Witness
between me and you. This Qur'an has been revealed to me so that I may
warn you by it, and anyone else it reaches. Do you then bear witness that
there are other gods together with Allah?' Say: 'I do not bear witness.'
Say: 'He is only One God, and I am free of all you associate with Him.'
(6:19)
It is Him you call on and, if He wills, He will deliver you from whatever
it was that made you call on Him; and you will forget what you associated
with Him. (6:41)
Say: 'Allah rescues you from it, and from every plight. Then you associate
others with Him.' (6:64)
Then when he saw the sun come up he (Ibrahim) 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)
(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)
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)
You have come to Us all alone just as We created you at first, leaving
behind you everything We bestowed on you. We do not see your intercessors
accompanying you, those you claimed were your partners with Allah. The
link between you is cut. Those you made such claims for have forsaken
you. (6:94)
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)
They assign to Allah a share of the crops and livestock He has created,
saying, 'This is for Allah,'-as they allege-'and this is for our idols.'
Their idols' share does not reach Allah whereas Allah's share reaches
their idols! What an evil judgement they make! (6:136)
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)
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)
Then when He granted them a healthy, upright child, they associated what
He had given them with Him. But Allah is far above what they associate
with Him! (7:190)
Do they make things into partner-gods which cannot create anything and
are themselves created? (7:191)
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)
(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)
Most of them do not believe in Allah without associating others with
Him. (12:106)
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)
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)
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)
Allah's command is coming, so do not try to hasten it. Glory be to Him!
He is exalted above anything they associate with Him. 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!' He created the
heavens and the earth with truth. He is exalted above anything they associate
with Him. (16:1-3)
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)
But when He removes the harm from you, a group of you associate others
with their Lord. (16:54)
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)
The fruits of his labour were completely destroyed and he woke up wringing
his hands in grief, rueing everything that he had spent on it. It was
a ruin with all its trellises fallen in. He said, 'Oh, if only I had not
associated anyone with my Lord!' (18:42)
On the Day He says, 'Call My partner-gods, those for whom you made such
claims,' they will call on them but they will not respond to them. We
will place between them an unbridgeable gulf. (18:52)
Say: 'I am only a human being like yourselves. It is revealed to me that
your god is One God. So let him who hopes to meet his Lord act rightly
and not associate anyone in the worship of his Lord.' (18:110)
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)
Be people of pure natural belief in Allah, not associating anything else
with Him. As for anyone who associates others with Allah, it is as though
he had fallen from the sky and the birds had seized him and carried him
away or the wind had dropped him in a distant place. (22:31)
those who do not associate anything with their Lord, (23:59)
Knower of the Unseen and the Visible! May He be exalted above all they
associate with Him! (23:92)
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)
Say: 'Praise be to Allah and peace be upon His servants whom He has chosen.'
Is Allah better, or what you associate with Him? (27:59)
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)
They will be told, 'Call on your partner-gods!' They will call on them
but they will not respond to them. They will see the punishment. Oh if
only they had been guided! (28:64)
Your Lord creates and chooses whatever He wills. The choice is not theirs.
Glory be to Allah! He is exalted above anything they associate with Him!
(28:68)
On the Day when He summons them He will say, 'Where are they, those you
claimed to be My associates?' (28:74)
We have instructed man to honour his parents, but if they endeavour to
make you associate with Me something about which you have no knowledge,
do not obey them. It is to Me you will return and I will inform you about
the things you did. (29:8)
When they embark in ships, they call on Allah, making their religion
sincerely His, but then when He delivers them safely to the land, they
associate others with Him. (29:65)
None of their partner-gods will intercede for them. They will reject
their partner-gods. (30:13)
He has made an example for you from among yourselves. Are any of the
slaves you own partners with you in what We have provided for you so that
you are equal in respect of it, you fearing them the same as one another?
In that way We make Our Signs clear for people who use their intellect.
(30:28)
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. (30:33)
Or have We sent down some authority to them, which advocates associating
others with Him? (30:35)
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)
We have instructed man concerning his parents. Bearing him caused his
mother great debility and the period of his weaning was two years: 'Give
thanks to Me and to your parents. I am your final destination. 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.' (31:14-15)
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: 'Show me those you have joined to Him as associates. No indeed!
He is Allah, the Almighty, the All-Wise.' (34:27)
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)
Allah has made a metaphor for them of a man owned by several partners
in dispute with one another and another man wholly owned by a single man.
Are they the same? Praise be to Allah! The fact is that most of them do
not know. (39:29)
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 when Allah alone is called upon you disbelieve, but if
others are associated with Him, you believe. Judgement belongs to Allah,
the All-High, the All-Great. (40:12)
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)
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)
Knowledge of the Hour is referred to Him. And no fruit emerges from its
husk, nor does any female get pregnant or give birth, without His knowledge.
On the Day He calls out to them: 'Where are My associates?' they will
say, 'We declare to you that none of us is a witness.' (41:47)
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)
He is Allah-there is no god but Him. He is the King, the Most Pure, the
Perfect Peace, the Trustworthy, the Safeguarder, the Almighty, the Compeller,
the Supremely Great. Glory be to Allah above all they associate with Him.
(59:23)
O Prophet! When women who believe come to you pledging allegiance to
you on the grounds that they will not associate anything with Allah or
steal or fornicate or kill their children or give a false ascription of
paternity-making up lies about their bodies-or disobey you in respect
of anything right, then accept their pledge and ask forgiveness for them.
Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (60:12)
Or do they have Divine partners? Then let them produce their partners
if they are telling the truth! (68:41)
(Say,) 'It leads to right guidance so we believe in it and will not associate
anyone with our Lord.' (72:2)
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)
If only they had humbled themselves when Our violent force came upon
them! However, their hearts were hard and Satan made what they were doing
seem attractive to them. (6:43)
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 someone who was dead and whom We brought to life, supplying him with
a light by which to walk among people, the same as someone who is in utter
darkness, unable to emerge from it? That is how what they were doing is
made to seem attractive to the disbelievers. (6:122)
Restrain yourself patiently with those who call on their Lord morning
and evening, desiring His face. Do not turn your eyes from them, desiring
the attractions of this world. And do not obey someone whose heart We
have made neglectful of Our remembrance and who follows his own whims
and desires and whose life has transgressed all bounds. (18:28)
Pharaoh said, 'Haman, build me a tower so that perhaps I may gain means
of access, access to the heavens, so that I can look on Musa's God. Truly
I think he is a liar.' That is how Pharaoh's evil actions were made attractive
to him and he debarred others from the Path. Pharaoh's scheming led to
nothing but ruin. (40:36-37)
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)
Or have We sent down some authority to them, which advocates associating
others with Him? (30:35)
AVARICE
Satan promises you poverty and commands you to avarice. Allah promises
you forgiveness from Him and abundance. Allah is All-Encompassing, All-Knowing.
(2:268)
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
We responded to him (Zakariyya) 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)
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)
AYYUB
(AS) (JOB)
We have revealed to you as We revealed to Nuh and the Prophets who came
after him. And We revealed to Ibrahim and Isma'il and Ishaq and Ya'qub
and the Tribes, and 'Isa and Ayyub and Yunus and Harun and Sulayman. And
We gave Dawud the Zabur. (4:163)
We gave him Ishaq and Ya'qub, each of whom We guided. And before him
We had guided Nuh. And among his descendants were Dawud and Sulayman,
and Ayyub, Yusuf, Musa and Harun. That is how We recompense the good-doers.
(6:84)
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 Our servant Ayyub when he called on his Lord: 'Satan has afflicted
me with exhaustion and suffering.' 'Stamp your foot! Here is a cool bath
and water to drink.' We gave him back his family and the same again with
them as a mercy from Us and a reminder for people of intellect. 'Take
a bundle of rushes in your hand and strike with that but do not break
your oath.' We found him steadfast. What an excellent servant! He truly
turned to his Lord. (38:41-44)
AZAR
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)
AZRAEL
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