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BABYLON
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)
BACK
Those who deny the meeting with Allah have lost, so that, when the Hour
comes upon them suddenly, they will say, 'Alas for what we neglected there!'
They will bear their burdens on their backs. How evil is what they bear!
(6:31)
They say, 'These animals and crops are sacrosanct. No one may eat them
except those we wish',- as they allege-and animals on whose backs it is
forbidden to ride, and animals over which they do not mention Allah's
name, inventing falsehood against Him. He will repay them for the things
they have invented. (6:138)
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)
On the Day it is heated up in the fire of Hell and their foreheads, sides
and backs are branded with it (and they are told): 'This is what you hoarded
for yourselves, so taste what you were hoarding!' (9:35)
If those who disbelieve only knew of the time when they will not be able
to keep the Fire away from their faces or their backs! And they will receive
no help! (21:39)
It is He Who created all the species and gave you ships and livestock
for you to ride, so that you might sit firmly on their backs and remember
your Lord's blessing while you are seated on them, saying, 'Glory be to
Him Who has subjected this to us. We could never have done it by ourselves.'
(43:12-13)
Say to the Arabs who remained behind: 'You will be called up against
a people who possess great force whom you must fight unless they submit.
If you obey, Allah will give you an excellent reward. But if you turn
your backs as you did before, He will punish you with a painful punishment.'
(48:16)
There is no constraint on the blind, nor on the lame, nor on the sick.
We will admit all who obey Allah and His Messenger into Gardens with rivers
flowing under them. But We will punish with a painful punishment anyone
who turns his back. (48:17)
Then he drew back and was proud. (74:23)
But he denied it and disobeyed, and then he hastily backed away. (79:21-22)
BACKBITING
You who believe! Avoid most suspicion. Indeed some suspicion is a crime.
And do not spy and do not backbite one another. Would any of you like
to eat his brother's dead flesh? No, you would hate it. And have fear
of Allah. Allah is Ever-Returning, Most Merciful. (49:12)
(Do not obey) any backbiter, slandermonger. (68:11)
Woe to every faultfinding backbiter. (104:1)
BADR (WAR OF BADR)
There was a sign for you in the two parties which met face to face, one
party fighting in the Way of Allah and the other disbelievers. You saw
them as twice their number with your own eyes. Allah reinforces with His
help whoever He wills. There is instruction in that for people of insight.
(3:13)
Remember when you left your family early in the day to instal the believers
in their battle stations. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. And remember
when two of your clans were on the point of losing heart and Allah was
their Protector. Let the believers put their trust in Allah. Allah helped
you at Badr when you were weak so have fear of Allah, so that hopefully
you will be thankful. And when you said to the believers, 'Is it not enough
for you that your Lord reinforced you with three thousand angels, sent
down?' Yes indeed! But if you are steadfast and guard against evil and
they come upon you suddenly, your Lord will reinforce you with five thousand
angels, clearly identified. Allah only did this for it to be good news
for you and so that your hearts might be set at rest by it (help comes
from no one but Allah, the Almighty, the All-Wise) and so that He might
cut off a group of those who disbelieve or crush them and they might be
turned back in defeat. (3:121-127)
(Believers are) those to whom people said, 'The people have gathered
against you, so fear them.' But that merely increased their faith and
they said, 'Allah is enough for us and the Best of Guardians.' (3:173)
So they returned with blessings and bounty from Allah and no evil touched
them. They pursued the pleasure of Allah. Allah's favour is indeed immense.
(3:174)
When Allah promised you that one of the two parties would be yours and
you would have liked it to have been the unarmed one, whereas Allah desired
to verify the Truth by His words and to cut off the last remnant of the
disbelievers. This was so that He might verify the Truth and nullify the
false, even though the evildoers hate that. Remember when you called on
your Lord for help and He responded to you: 'I will reinforce you with
a thousand angels riding rank after rank.' Allah only did this to give
you good news and that so your hearts would be at rest. Victory comes
from no one but Allah. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. And when He overcame
you with sleep, making you feel secure, and sent you down water from heaven
to purify you and remove the taint of Satan from you, and to fortify your
hearts and make your feet firm. And when your Lord revealed to the angels,
'I am with you so make those who believe firm. I will cast terror into
the hearts of those who disbelieve, so strike their necks and strike all
their finger joints!' (8:7-12)
If it was a decisive victory you were seeking, that victory has clearly
been won. If you desist, it will be better for you; but if you return,
We also will return. Your troops will not help you at all, however many
they are. Allah is with the believers. (8:19)
When you were on the nearer slope, and they were on the further slope
and the caravan was lower down than you. If you had made an appointment
with them you would have broken the appointment. However, it happened
so that Allah could settle a matter whose result was preordained: so that
those who died would die with clear proof, and those who lived would live
with clear proof. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. Remember when Allah
showed them to you in your dream as only a few. If He had shown you them
as many, you would have lost heart and quarrelled about the matter; but
Allah saved you. He knows what your hearts contain. Remember when Allah
made you see them as few when you met them, and also made you seem few
in their eyes. This was so that Allah could settle a matter whose result
was preordained. All matters return to Allah. (8:42-44)
It is not fitting for a Prophet to take captives until he has thoroughly
subdued the land. You desire the goods of this world, whereas Allah desires
the hereafter. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (8:67)
But if they mean to betray you, they have already previously betrayed
Allah, so He has given you power over them. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.
(8:71)
BAKKA
The first House established for mankind was that at Bakka, a place of
blessing and a guidance for all beings. (3:96)
BALANCE
We will set up the Just Balance on the Day of Rising and no self will
be wronged in any way. Even if it is no more than the weight of a grain
of mustard-seed, We will produce it. We are sufficient as a Reckoner.
(21:47)
Weigh with a level balance. (26:182)
As for him whose balance is heavy, he will have a most pleasant life.
But as for him whose balance is light, his motherland is Hawiya. (101:6-9)
BARRENNESS
He (Zakariyya) said, 'My Lord, how can I possibly have a son when I have
reached old age and my wife is barren?' He said, 'It will be so. Allah
does whatever He wills.' (3:40)
(Zakariyya said,) 'I fear my relatives when I am gone and my wife is
barren, so give me an heir from You.' (19:5)
He (Zakariyya) said, 'My Lord! How can I have a boy when my wife is barren
and I have reached advanced old age?' (19:8)
Or He gives them both sons and daughters; and He makes whoever He wishes
barren. Truly He is All-Knowing, All-Powerful. (42:50)
His (Ibrahim's) wife came up with a shriek and struck her face and said,
'What, and me a barren old woman!' (51:29)
BARRIER
They said, 'Dhu'l-Qarnayn! Yajuj and Majuj are causing corruption in
the land. Can we, therefore, pay tribute to you in return for your constructing
a barrier between us and them?' (18:94)
He (Dhu'l-Qarnayn) said, 'The power my Lord has granted me is better
than that. Just give me a strong helping hand and I will build a solid
barrier between you and them.' (18:95)
It is He Who has unloosed both seas-the one sweet and refreshing, the
other salty and bitter-and put a dividing line between them, an uncrossable
barrier. (25:53)
He Who made the earth a stable dwelling place and appointed rivers flowing
through its midst and placed firmly embedded mountains on it and set a
barrier between the two seas. Is there another god besides Allah? No indeed,
but most of them do not know it! (27:61)
A barrier will be set up between them and the thing that they desire,
just as was done with their kind before. They too were in a state of crippling
doubt. (34:54)
We have placed a barrier in front of them and a barrier behind them,
blindfolding them so that they cannot see. (36:9)
He has let loose the two seas, converging together, with a barrier between
them they do not break through. (55:19-20)
BATTLE
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)
Remember when you left your family early in the day to instal the believers
in their battle stations. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (3:121)
You who believe, be steadfast; be supreme in steadfastness; be firm on
the battlefield; and have fear of Allah; so that hopefully you will be
successful. (3:200)
You who believe! When you encounter those who disbelieve advancing in
massed ranks into battle, do not turn your backs on them. (8:15)
So do not obey the disbelievers but use this (the Qur'an) to battle against
them with all your might. (25:52)
BATTLE OF THE TRENCH
You who believe! Remember Allah's blessing to you when forces came against
you and We sent a wind against them and other forces you could not see.
Allah sees what you do. (33:9)
When they came at you from above you and below you, when your eyes rolled
and your hearts rose to your throats, and you thought unworthy thoughts
about Allah, at that point the believers were tested and severely shaken.
(33:10-11)
When the hypocrites and people with sickness in their hearts said, 'What
Allah and His Messenger promised us was mere delusion.' (33:12)
And a group of them said, 'People of Yathrib, Your position is untenable
so return!' some of them asked the Prophet to excuse them, saying, 'Our
houses are exposed,' when they were not exposed; it was merely that they
wanted to run away. (33:13)
If they had been overrun from every side, and had then been asked to
revert to disbelief, they would have done so and hesitated very little
about it. (33:14)
Yet they had previously made a contract with Allah that they would never
turn their backs. Contracts made with Allah will be asked about. (33:15)
Say: 'Flight will not benefit you if you try to run away from death or
being killed. Then you will only enjoy a short respite.' (33:16)
Say: 'Who is going to shield you from Allah if He desires evil for you
or desires mercy for you?' They will find no one to protect or help them
besides Allah. (33:17)
Allah knows the obstructers among you and those who say to their brothers,
'Come to us,' and who only come to fight a very little, and are begrudging
towards you. Then when fear comes, you see them looking at you, their
eyes rolling like people scared to death. But when fear departs they flay
you with sharp tongues, grasping for wealth. Such people have no faith
and Allah will make their actions come to nothing. That is easy for Allah.
(33:18-19)
They think that the Confederates have not departed and if the Confederates
did appear then they would wish they were out in the desert with the Arabs,
asking for news of you. If they were with you they would only fight a
very little. (33:20)
You have an excellent model in the Messenger of Allah, for all who put
their hope in Allah and the Last Day and remember Allah much. (33:21)
When the believers saw the Confederates they said: 'This is what Allah
and His Messenger promised us. Allah and His Messenger told us the truth.'
It only increased them in faith and in submission. (33:22)
Among the believers there are men who have been true to the contract
they made with Allah. Some of them have fulfilled their pact by death
and some are still waiting to do so, not having changed in any way at
all. (33:23)
So that Allah might recompense the truthful for their truth and punish
the hypocrites, if He wills, or turn towards them. Allah is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (33:24)
Allah sent back those who disbelieved in their rage without their achieving
any good at all. Allah made it unnecessary for the believers to fight.
Allah is Most Strong, Almighty. (33:25)
BATTLE OF UHUD
Remember when you left your family early in the day to instal the believers
in their battle stations. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. And remember
when two of your clans were on the point of losing heart and Allah was
their Protector. Let the believers put their trust in Allah. (3:121-122)
If you have received a wound, they have already received a similar wound.
We deal out such days to people turn by turn, so that Allah will know
those who believe and can gather martyrs from among you-Allah does not
love wrongdoers-and so that Allah can purge those who believe and wipe
out the disbelievers. Or did you imagine that you were going to enter
the Garden without Allah knowing those among you who had struggled and
knowing the steadfast? You were longing for death before you met it. Now
you have seen it with your own eyes. Muhammad is only a Messenger and
he has been preceded by other Messengers. If he were to die or be killed,
would you turn on your heels? Those who turn on their heels do not harm
Allah in any way. Allah will recompense the thankful. (3:140-144)
Those of you who turned their backs on the day the two armies clashed-it
was Satan who made them slip for what they had done. But Allah has pardoned
them. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, All-Forbearing. (3:155)
If you are killed in the Way of Allah or if you die, forgiveness and
mercy from Allah are better than anything you can acquire. (3:157)
Why is it that when a calamity happens to you, when you have already
inflicted twice as much, you say, 'How could this possibly happen?' Say,
'It has come from your own selves.' Allah has power over all things. (3:165)
What assailed you on the day the two armies met was by Allah's permission,
so that He would know the believers, and so that He would know the hypocrites.
They were told, 'Come and fight in the Way of Allah or at least help defend
us.' They said, 'If we knew how to fight, we would certainly follow you.'
* They were closer to disbelief that day than to faith, saying with their
mouths what was not in their hearts. And Allah knows best what they are
hiding. They are those who said of their brothers, when they themselves
had stayed behind, 'If they had only obeyed us, they would not have been
killed.' Say, 'Then ward off death from yourselves if you are telling
the truth.' (3:166-168)
BEAST
The likeness of those who disbelieve is that of the beast which, call
out to it as one may, can hear nothing but a shout and a cry. Deaf-dumb-blind.
They do not use their intellect. (2:171)
Do you not see that everyone in the heavens and everyone on the earth
prostrates to Allah, and the sun and moon and stars and the mountains,
trees and beasts and many of mankind? But many of them inevitably merit
punishment. Those Allah humiliates will have no one to honour them. Allah
does whatever He wills. (22:18)
When the wild beasts are all herded together... (81:5)
BEAST OF THE EARTH (DABBATUL ARDH)
When the Word is justly carried out against them, We will produce a Beast
from the earth which will speak to them. Truly mankind had no certainty
about Our Signs. (27:82)
BED
Their sides eschew their beds as they call on their Lord in fear and
ardent hope. And they give of what We have provided for them. (32:16)
BEE
Your Lord revealed to the bees: 'Build dwellings in the mountains and
the trees, and also in the structures which men erect. Then eat from every
kind of fruit and travel the paths of your Lord, which have been made
easy for you to follow.' From inside them comes a drink of varying colours,
containing healing for mankind. There is certainly a Sign in that for
people who reflect. (16:68-69)
BELIEVERS (MU'MINUN)
(Believers are) those who are aware that they will meet their Lord and
that they will return to Him. (2:46)
Say, 'Anyone who is the enemy of Gabriel should know that it was he who
brought it down upon your heart, by Allah's authority, confirming what
came before, and as guidance and good news for the believers.' (2:97)
Or did you suppose that you would enter the Garden without facing the
same as those who came before you? Poverty and illness afflicted them
and they were shaken o the point that the Messenger and those who believed
with him said, 'When is Allah's help coming?' Be assured that Allah's
help is very near. (2:214)
The Messenger believes in what has been sent down to him from his Lord,
and so do the believers. Each one believes in Allah and His angels and
His Books and His Messengers. We do not differentiate between any of His
Messengers. They say, 'We hear and we obey. Forgive us, our Lord! You
are our journey's end.' (2:285)
The believers should not take disbelievers as friends rather than believers.
Anyone who does that has nothing to do with Allah at all-unless it is
because you are afraid of them. Allah advises you to be afraid of Him.
Allah is the final destination. (3:28)
The people with the strongest claim to Ibrahim are those who followed
him and this Prophet and those who believe. Allah is the Protector of
the believers. (3:68)
Remember when you left your family early in the day to instal the believers
in their battle stations. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (3:121)
And remember when two of your clans were on the point of losing heart
and Allah was their Protector. Let the believers put their trust in Allah.
(3:122)
Allah showed great kindness to the believers when He sent a Messenger
to them from among themselves to recite His Signs to them and purify them
and teach them the Book and Wisdom, even though before that they were
clearly misguided. (3:164)
What assailed you on the day the two armies met was by Allah's permission,
so that He would know the believers. (3:166)
(Those killed in the way of Allah are) rejoicing in blessings and favour
from Allah and that Allah does not let the wage of the believers go to
waste. (3:171)
That was only Satan who intimidated his adherents. But do not fear them-fear
Me if you are believers. (3:175)
Allah will only leave the believers in the position you now are in so
that He can sift out the rotten from the good. Allah has not given you
access to the Unseen. But Allah chooses those of His Messengers whom He
wills. So believe in Allah and His Messengers. If you believe and guard
against evil you will have an immense reward. (3:179)
If any of you do not have the means to marry free women who are believers,
you may marry slavegirls who are believers. Allah knows best about your
faith; you are all the same in that respect. Marry them with their owners'
permission and give them their dowries correctly and courteously as married
women, not in fornication or taking them as lovers. When they are married,
if they commit fornication they should receive half the punishment of
free women. This is for those of you who are afraid of committing fornication.
But being patient is better for you. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
(4:25)
So fight in the way of Allah-you are only answerable for yourself-and
spur on the believers. It may well be that Allah will curb the force of
those who disbelieve. Allah has greater force and greater power to punish.
(4:84)
A believer should never kill another believer unless it is by mistake.
Anyone who kills a believer by mistake should free a believing slave and
pay blood-money to his family unless they forgo it as a charity. If he
is from a people who are your enemies and is a believer, you should free
a believing slave. If he is from a people you have a treaty with, blood
money should be paid to his family and you should free a believing slave.
Anyone who cannot find the means should fast two consecutive months. This
is a concession from Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (4:92)
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)
You who believe! When you go out to fight in the Way of Allah verify
things carefully. Do not say, 'You are not a believer', to someone who
greets you as a Muslim, simply out of desire for the goods of this world.
With Allah there is booty in abundance. That is the way you were before
but Allah has been kind to you. So verify things carefully. Allah is aware
of what you do. (4:94)
Those believers who stay behind-other than those forced to by necessity-are
not the same as those who strive in the Way of Allah, sacrificing their
wealth and themselves. Allah has given those who strive with their wealth
and themselves a higher rank than those who stay behind. Allah has promised
the Best to both, but Allah has preferred those who strive over those
who stay behind by an immense reward. (4:95)
When you have finished prayer remember Allah standing, sitting and lying
on your sides. When you are safe again perform prayer in the normal way.
The prayer is prescribed for the believers at specific times. (4:103)
But if anyone opposes the Messenger after the guidance has become clear
to him, and follows other than the path of the believers, We will hand
him over to whatever he has turned to, and We will roast him in Hell.
What an evil destination! (4:115)
Do those who take the disbelievers as protectors, rather than the believers,
hope to find power and strength with them? Power and strength belong entirely
to Allah. (4:139)
Those who anticipate the worst for you say, 'Were we not with you?' whenever
you gain a victory from Allah, but if the disbelievers have a success
they say, 'Did we not have the upper hand over you and yet in spite of
that keep the believers away from you?' Allah will judge between you on
the Day of Rising. Allah will not give the disbelievers any way against
the believers. (4:141)
You who believe! Do not take the disbelievers as friends rather than
the believers. Do you want to give Allah clear proof against you? (4:144)
The hypocrites are in the lowest level of the Fire. You will not find
any one to help them, except those who repent and put things right and
hold fast to Allah and dedicate their religion to Allah alone; they are
with the believers. Allah will give the believers an immense reward. (4:145-146)
But those of them who are firmly rooted in knowledge, and the believers,
believe in what has been sent down to you and what was sent down before
you: those who perform prayer and give the alms, and believe in Allah
and the Last Day-We will pay such people an immense wage. (4:162)
Today all good things have been made lawful for you. And the food of
those given the Book is also lawful for you and your food is lawful for
them. So are chaste women from among the believers and chaste women of
those given the Book before you, once you have given them their dowries
in marriage, not in fornication or taking them as lovers. But as for anyone
who rejects faith, his actions will come to nothing and in the hereafter
he will be among the losers. (5:5)
You who believe! If any of you renounce your religion, Allah will bring
forward a people whom He loves and who love Him, humble to the believers,
fierce to the disbelievers, who strive in the Way of Allah and do not
fear the blame of any censurer. That is the unbounded favour of Allah
which He gives to whoever He wills. Allah is Boundless, All-Knowing. (5:54)
Your friend is only Allah and His Messenger and those who believe: those
who perform prayer and give the alms, and bow. (5:55)
You will find that the people most hostile to those who believe are the
Jews and the idolaters. You will find the people most affectionate to
those who believe are those who say, 'We are Christians.' That is because
some of them are priests and monks and because they are not arrogant.
(5:82)
It is a Book sent down to you-so let there be no constriction in your
breast because of it-so that you can give warning by it and as a reminder
to the believers. (7:2)
They will ask you about booty. Say: 'Booty belongs to Allah and the Messenger.
So have fear of Allah and put things right between you. Obey Allah and
His Messenger if you are believers.' (8:1)
The believers are those whose hearts tremble when Allah is mentioned,
whose faith is increased when His Signs are recited to them, and who put
their trust in their Lord; those who perform prayer and give of what We
have provided for them. (8:2-3)
They are in truth the believers. They have high ranks with their Lord
and forgiveness and generous provision. (8:4)
Just as your Lord brought you out from your house with truth, even though
a group of the believers disliked it. (8:5)
You did not kill them; it was Allah Who killed them; and you did not
throw, when you threw; it was Allah Who threw: so He might test the believers
with this excellent trial from Him. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
(8:17)
If it was a decisive victory you were seeking, that victory has clearly
been won. If you desist, it will be better for you; but if you return,
We also will return. Your troops will not help you at all, however many
they are. Allah is with the believers. (8:19)
If they intend to deceive you, Allah is enough for you. It is He Who
supported you with His help and with the believers. (8:62)
O Prophet! Allah is enough for you, and for the believers who follow
you. (8:64)
O Prophet! Spur on the believers to fight. If there are twenty of you
who are steadfast, they will overcome two hundred; and if there are a
hundred of you, they will overcome a thousand of those who disbelieve,
because they are people who do not understand. (8:65)
Those who believe and have migrated and strived in the Way of Allah and
those who have given refuge and help, they are the true believers. They
will have forgiveness and generous provision. (8:74)
They respect neither kinship nor treaty where a believer is concerned.
They are the people who overstep the limits. (9:10)
Or did you suppose that you would be left without Allah knowing those
of you who have strived and who have not taken anyone as their intimate
friends besides Allah and His Messenger and the believers? Allah is aware
of what you do. (9:16)
Then Allah sent down His serenity on His Messenger and on the believers,
and sent down troops you could not see, and punished those who disbelieved.
That is how the disbelievers are repaid. (9:26)
Say: 'Nothing can happen to us except what Allah has ordained for us.
He is Our Master. It is in Allah that the believers should put their trust.'
(9:51)
Among them are some who insult the Prophet, saying he is only an ear.
Say, 'An ear of good for you, believing in Allah and believing in the
believers, and a mercy for those among you who believe.' As for those
who insult the Messenger of Allah, they will have a painful punishment.
(9:61)
They swear to you by Allah in order to please you, but it would be more
fitting for them to please Allah and His Messenger if they are believers.
(9:62)
The men and women of the believers are friends of one another. They command
what is right and forbid what is wrong, and perform prayer and give the
alms, and obey Allah and His Messenger. They are the people on whom Allah
will have mercy. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (9:71)
Allah has promised the men and women of the believers Gardens with rivers
flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever, and fine dwellings
in the Gardens of Eden. And Allah's good pleasure is even greater. That
is the great victory. (9:72)
As for the people who find fault with those believers who give charity
spontaneously, and with those who can find nothing to give but their own
effort, and deride them, Allah derides them. They will have a painful
punishment. (9:79)
But the Messenger and those who believe along with him have strived with
their wealth and with themselves. They are the people who will have the
good things. They are the ones who are successful. (9:88)
Say: 'Act, for Allah will see your actions, and so will His Messenger
and the believers. You will be returned to the Knower of the Unseen and
the Visible and He will inform you regarding what you did.' (9:105)
As for those who have set up a mosque, causing harm and out of disbelief,
to create division between the believers, and in readiness for those who
previously made war on Allah and His Messenger, they will swear, 'We only
desired the best.' But Allah bears witness that they are truly liars.
(9:107)
Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their wealth in
return for the Garden. They fight in the Way of Allah and they kill and
are killed. It is a promise binding on Him in the Torah, the Gospel and
the Qur'an and who is truer to his contract than Allah? Rejoice then in
the bargain you have made. That is the great victory. (9:111)
Those who repent, those who worship, those who praise, those who fast,
those who bow, those who prostrate, those who command the right, those
who forbid the wrong, those who preserve the limits of Allah: give good
news to the believers. (9:112)
It is not necessary for the believers to go out all together. If a party
from each group of them were to go out so they could increase their knowledge
of the religion they would be able to notify their people when they returned
to them so that hopefully they would take warning! (9:122)
A Messenger has come to you from among yourselves. Your suffering is
distressing to him; he is deeply concerned for you; he is gentle and merciful
to the believers. (9:128)
Mankind! Admonition has come to you from your Lord and also healing for
what is in the breasts and guidance and mercy for the believers. (10:57)
We revealed to Musa and his brother: 'Settle your people in houses in
Egypt and make your houses places of worship and perform prayer and give
good news to the believers.' (10:87)
If your Lord had willed, all the people on the earth would have believed.
Do you think you can force people to be believers? (10:99)
Then We will rescue Our Messengers and those who believe as well. It
is incumbent upon Us to rescue the believers. (10:103)
Say: 'Mankind! If you are in any doubt about my religion, I do not worship
those you worship besides Allah. Rather I worship Allah Who will take
you back to Him and I am commanded to be one of the believers.' (10:104)
(Shu'ayb said,) 'What endures with Allah is better for you if you are
believers. I am not set over you as your keeper.' (11:86)
We have given you all this news about the Messengers so We can make your
heart firm by means of it. The truth has come to you in this and an admonishment
and reminder to the believers. (11:120)
Their Messengers said to them, 'We are nothing but human beings like
yourselves. But Allah shows favour to any of His servants He wills. It
is not for us to bring you an authority except by Allah's permission.
So let the believers put their trust in Allah.' (14:11)
(Ibrahim said,) 'Our Lord! Forgive me and my parents and the believers
on the Day the Reckoning takes place.' (14:41)
Do not direct your eyes longingly to what We have given certain of them
to enjoy. Do not feel sad concerning them. And take the believers under
your wing. (15:88)
Anyone who acts rightly, male or female, being a believer, We will give
them a good life and We will recompense them according to the best of
what they did. (16:97)
This Qur'an guides to the most upright Way and gives good news to the
believers who do right actions that they will have a large reward. (17:9)
But as for anyone who desires the hereafter, and strives for it with
the striving it deserves, being a believer, the striving of such people
will be gratefully acknowledged. (17:19)
We send down in the Qur'an that which is a healing and a mercy to the
believers, but it only increases the wrongdoers in loss. (17:82)
It is straight, to warn of violent force direct from Him, and to give
the good news to the believers, those who do right actions, that for them
there is an excellent reward. (18:2)
(He said to Musa,) 'As for the boy, his parents were believers and we
feared that he would darken their days with excessive insolence and disbelief.'
(18:80)
But anyone who does right actions, being a believer, need fear no wrong
or any belittlement. (20:112)
As for anyone who does right actions and is a believer, his striving
certainly does not go unthanked. We are writing it down on his behalf.
(21:94)
It is the believers who are successful. (23:1)
A woman and a man who commit fornication: flog both of them with one
hundred lashes and do not let compassion for either of them possess you
where Allah's religion is concerned, if you believe in Allah and the Last
Day. A number of believers should witness their punishment. (24:2)
A man who has fornicated may only marry a woman who has fornicated or
a woman of the idolaters. A woman who has fornicated may only marry a
man who has fornicated or a man of the idolaters. Doing such a thing is
forbidden for the believers. (24:3)
Why, when you heard it, did you not, as men and women of the believers,
instinctively think good thoughts and say, 'This is obviously a lie'?
(24:12)
Those who accuse chaste believing women, unaware (of the evil), are cursed
both in this world and the hereafter, and they will have a terrible punishment.
(24:23)
Say to the believers that they should lower their eyes and guard their
chastity. That is purer for them. Allah is aware of what they do. (24:30)
Say to the believing women that they should lower their eyes and guard
their chastity and not display their adornments-except for what normally
shows-and draw their head-coverings across their breasts. They should
only display their adornments to their husbands or their fathers or their
husbands' fathers, or their sons or their husbands' sons or their brothers
or their brothers' sons or their sisters' sons or their women or those
they own as slaves or their male attendants who have no sexual desire
or children who still have no awareness of women's private parts. Nor
should they stamp their feet so that their hidden ornaments are known.
Turn to Allah every one of you, believers, so that hopefully you will
have success. (24:31)
The reply of the believers when they are summoned to Allah and His Messenger
so that he can judge between them, is to say, 'We hear and we obey.' They
are ones who are successful. (24:51)
The believers are those who believe in Allah and His Messenger and who,
when they are with him on a matter of common concern, do not leave until
they have asked him for permission. Those people who ask you for permission
are the ones who truly believe in Allah and His Messenger. If they ask
your permission to attend to their own affairs, give permission to any
of them you please; and ask Allah's forgiveness for them. Allah is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (24:62)
(Nuh said,) 'I am not going to chase away the believers.' (26:114)
Warn your near relatives and take the believers who follow you under
your wing. (26:214-215)
It is guidance and good news for the believers. (27:2)
Certainly it is guidance and a mercy for the believers. (27:77)
Musa's mother felt a great emptiness in her heart and she almost gave
him away; only We fortified her heart so that she would be one of the
believers. (28:10)
If a disaster had struck them because of what they had already done,
they would have said, 'Our Lord, why did You not send us a Messenger so
that we could have followed Your Signs and been believers?' (28:47)
The Romans have been defeated in the land nearby, but after their defeat
they will themselves be victorious in a few years' time. The affair is
Allah's from beginning to end. On that day, the believers will rejoice
in Allah's help. He grants victory to whoever He wills. He is the Almighty,
the Most Merciful. (30:2-5)
The Prophet is closer to the believers than their own selves, and his
wives are their mothers. But blood-relations have closer ties to one another
in the Book of Allah than other believers and the emigrants, except that
you should act in a proper manner towards your close associates. That
is inscribed in the Book. (33:6)
When the believers saw the Confederates they said: 'This is what Allah
and His Messenger promised us. Allah and His Messenger told us the truth.'
It only increased them in faith and in submission. (33:22)
Among the believers there are men who have been true to the contract
they made with Allah. Some of them have fulfilled their pact by death
and some are still waiting to do so, not having changed in any way at
all. (33:23)
Allah sent back those who disbelieved in their rage without their achieving
any good at all. Allah made it unnecessary for the believers to fight.
Allah is Most Strong, Almighty. (33:25)
Men and women who are Muslims, men and women who are believers, men and
women who are obedient, men and women who are truthful, men and women
who are steadfast, men and women who are humble, men and women who give
charity, men and women who fast, men and women who guard their chastity,
men and women who remember Allah much: Allah has prepared forgiveness
for them and an immense reward. (33:35)
When Allah and His Messenger have decided something it is not for any
man or woman of the believers to have a choice about it. Anyone who disobeys
Allah and His Messenger is clearly misguided. (33:36)
When you said to him whom Allah has blessed and you yourself have greatly
favoured, 'Keep your wife to yourself and have fear of Allah,' while concealing
something in yourself which Allah wished to bring to light, you were fearing
people when Allah has more right to your fear. Then when Zayd divorced
her We married her to you so that there should be no restriction for the
believers regarding the wives of their adopted sons when they have divorced
them. Allah's command is always carried out. (33:37)
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)
Give good news to the believers that they will receive immense favour
from Allah. (33:47)
You who believe! When you marry believing women and then divorce them
before you have touched them, there is no waiting period for you to calculate
for them, so give them a gift and let them go with kindness. (33:49)
And those who abuse men and women who are believers, when they have not
merited it, bear the weight of slander and clear wrongdoing. (33:58)
O Prophet! Tell your wives and daughters and the women of the believers
to draw their outer garments closely round themselves. This makes it more
likely that they will be recognised and not be harmed. Allah is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (33:59)
This was so that Allah might punish the men and women of the hypocrites,
and the men and women of the idolaters, and turn towards the men and women
of the believers. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:73)
He (Ilyas) truly was one of Our servants who are believers. (37:132)
A man among Pharaoh's people who believed, but kept his faith concealed,
said, 'Are you going to kill a man for saying "My Lord is Allah" when
he has brought you Clear Signs from your Lord? If he is telling a lie,
be it on his own head. But if he is telling the truth, then some of what
he is promising you will certainly happen to you. Allah does not guide
any unbridled inveterate liar.' (40:28)
Whoever does an evil act will only be repaid with its equivalent. But
whoever acts rightly, male or female, being a believer, such a person
will enter the Garden, provided for in it without any reckoning. (40:40)
In the heavens and earth there are certainly Signs for the believers.
(45:3)
Know then that there is no god except Allah and ask forgiveness for your
wrongdoing, and for the men and women who believe. Allah knows both your
activity and your repose. (47:19)
It is He Who sent down serenity into the hearts of the believers thereby
increasing their faith with more faith-the legions of the heavens and
the earth belong to Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise-so that He may
admit the men and women of the believers into Gardens with rivers flowing
under them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever, and erase their bad
actions from them; and in Allah's sight that is a mighty victory. (48:4-5)
Allah was pleased with the believers when they pledged allegiance to
you under the tree. He knew what was in their hearts, and sent down serenity
to them and has rewarded them with an imminent victory. (48:18)
Allah has promised you much booty which you will take, and has hastened
this for you and held people's hands back from you, so that it might be
a Sign to the believers, and so that He might guide you to a straight
path. (48:20)
They are those who disbelieved and debarred you from the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram) and prevented the sacrifice from reaching its proper
place, and had it not been for some men and women who are believers, whom
you did not know and might trample underfoot, and so unknowingly incur
blame on their account-so that Allah might admit into His mercy those
He wills-and had those among them who disbelieve been clearly distinguishable,
We would have punished them with a painful punishment. (48:25)
Those who disbelieve filled their hearts with fanatical rage-the fanatical
rage of the Time of Ignorance-and Allah sent down serenity to His Messenger
and to the believers, and bound them to the expression of heedfulness
which they had most right to and were most entitled to. Allah has knowledge
of all things. (48:26)
If two parties of the believers fight, make peace between them. But if
one of them attacks the other unjustly, fight the attackers until they
revert to Allah's command. If they revert, make peace between them with
justice, and be even-handed. Allah loves those who are even-handed. (49:9)
The believers are brothers, so make peace between your brothers and have
fear of Allah so that hopefully you will gain mercy. (49:10)
The believers are only those who have believed in Allah and His Messenger
and then have had no doubt and have strived with their wealth and themselves
in the Way of Allah. They are the ones who are true to their word. (49:15)
We brought out all the believers who were there. (51:35)
And remind them, for truly the believers benefit from being reminded.
(51:55)
On the Day you see the men and women of the believers, with their light
streaming out in front of them, and to their right: 'Good news for you
today of Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly,
for ever. That is the Great Victory.' (57:12)
Conferring in secret is from Satan, to cause grief to those who believe;
but it cannot harm them at all, unless by Allah's permission. So let the
believers put their trust in Allah. (58:10)
It is He Who expelled those who disbelieved among the People of the Book
from their homes to the first gathering-place. You did not think that
they would leave and they thought that their fortresses would protect
them from Allah. Then Allah came upon them from where they least expected
it and cast terror into their hearts. Their houses were pulled down by
their own hands and by the hands of the believers. People of insight,
take note! (59:2)
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)
You who believe! When women who believe come to you as emigrants, submit
them to a test. Allah has best knowledge of their faith. If you know they
are believers, do not return them to the disbelievers. They are not lawful
for the disbelievers nor are the disbelievers lawful for them. Give the
disbelievers whatever dowry they paid. And there is nothing wrong in your
marrying them provided you pay them their due. Do not hold to any marriage
ties with women who disbelieve. Ask for what you paid and let them ask
for what they paid. That is Allah's judgement. Allah will judge between
them. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (60:10)
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)
And (He will give you) other things you love: support from Allah and
imminent victory. Give good news to the believers! (61:13)
They say, 'If we return to Madina, the mightier will drive out the inferior.'
But all might belongs to Allah and to His Messenger and the believers.
But the hypocrites do not know this. (63:8)
Allah-there is no god but Him. So let the believers put their trust in
Allah. (64:13)
If the two of you would only turn to Allah, for your hearts clearly deviated...
But if you support one another against him, Allah is his Protector and
so are Gabriel and every right-acting man of the believers and, furthermore,
the angels too will come to his support. (66:4)
It may be that if he does divorce you, his Lord will give him in exchange
better wives than you: Muslim women, believing women, obedient women,
penitent women, women who worship, women who fast much-previously married
women as well as virgins. (66:5)
(Nuh said,) 'My Lord! Forgive me and my parents and all who enter my
house as believers, and all the men and women of the believers. But do
not increase the wrongdoers except in ruin!' (71:28)
Cursed be the Companions of the Pit-the fire well stocked with fuel-when
they were seated right beside it witnessing what they did to the believers.
The only reason they punished them was because they believed in Allah,
the Almighty, the All-Praiseworthy-Him to Whom the Kingdom of the heavens
and the earth belongs. Allah is Witness of all things. (85:4-9)
Those who persecute men and women of the believers, and then do not repent,
will have the punishment of Hell, will have the punishment of the Burning.
(85:10)
BELLY
Those who conceal what Allah has sent down of the Book and sell it cheap,
take nothing into their bellies but the Fire. On the Day of Rising Allah
will not speak to them or purify them. They will have a painful punishment.
(2:174)
There is instruction for you in cattle. From the contents of their bellies,
from between the dung and blood, We give you pure milk to drink, easy
for drinkers to swallow. (16:66)
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)
Had it not been that he was a man who glorified Allah, he would have
remained inside its belly until the Day they are raised again. (37:143-144)
BETRAYAL
On the night of the fast it is lawful for you to have sexual relations
with your wives. They are clothing for you and you for them. Allah knows
that you have been betraying yourselves and He has turned towards you
and excused you. Now you may have sexual intercourse with them and seek
what Allah has written for you. Eat and drink until you can clearly discern
the white thread from the black thread of the dawn, then fulfil the fast
until the night appears. But do not have sexual intercourse with them
while you are in retreat in the mosques. These are Allah's limits, so
do not go near them. In this way does Allah make His Signs clear to people
so that hopefully they will guard against evil. (2:187)
Do not argue on behalf of those who betray themselves. Allah does not
love any evildoing traitors. (4:107)
You who believe! Do not betray Allah and His Messenger, and do not knowingly
betray your trusts. (8:27)
But if they mean to betray you, they have already previously betrayed
Allah, so He has given you power over them. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.
(8:71)
(Yusuf said,) 'In this way he may know at last that I did not dishonour
him behind his back and that Allah most surely does not guide the deviousness
of the dishonourable.' (12:52)
Allah has made an example for those who disbelieve: the wife of Nuh and
the wife of Lut. They were married to two of Our servants who were righteous
but they betrayed them and were not helped at all against Allah. They
were told, 'Enter the Fire along with all who enter it.' (66:10)
BEWITCHED
We know how they listen when they listen to you, and when they confer
together secretly, and when the wrongdoers say, 'You are only following
a man who is bewitched!' (17:47)
We gave Musa nine Clear Signs. Ask the tribe of Israel about when he
came to them and Pharaoh said to him, 'Musa, I think you are bewitched.'
(17:101)
(They say,) 'Why has treasure not been showered down on him? Why does
he not have a garden to give him food?' The wrongdoers say, 'You are merely
following a man who is bewitched.' (25:8)
They said, 'You are merely someone bewitched.' (26:153)
BIRD
When Ibrahim said, 'My Lord, show me how You bring the dead to life.'
He asked, 'Do you not then believe?' He replied, 'Indeed I do! But so
that my heart may be at peace.' He said, 'Take four birds and train them
to yourself. Then put a part of them on each mountain and call to them;
they will come rushing to you. Know that Allah is Almighty, All-Wise.'
(2:260)
He ('Isa) will teach him the Book and Wisdom, and the Torah and the Gospel,
as a Messenger to the tribe of Israel, saying: 'I have brought you a Sign
from your Lord. I will create the shape of a bird out of clay for you
and then breathe into it and it will be a bird by Allah's permission.
I will heal the blind and the leper, and bring the dead to life, by Allah's
permission. I will tell you what you eat and what you store up in your
homes. There is a Sign for you in that if you are believers. (3:48-49)
Remember when Allah said, ''Isa, son of Maryam, remember My blessing
to you and to your mother when I reinforced you with the Purest Spirit
so that you could speak to people in the cradle and when you were fully
grown; and when I taught you the Book and Wisdom, and the Torah and the
Gospel; and when you created a bird-shape out of clay by My permission,
and then breathed into it and it became a bird by My permission; and healed
the blind and the leper by My permission; and when you brought forth the
dead by My permission; and when I held back the tribe of Israel from you,
when you brought them the Clear Signs and those of them who disbelieved
said, "This is nothing but downright magic";' (5:110)
There is no creature crawling on the earth or flying creature, flying
on its wings, who are not communities just like yourselves-We have not
omitted anything from the Book-then they will be gathered to their Lord.
(6:38)
Two servants entered prison along with him (Yusuf). One said, 'I dreamt
that I was pressing grapes.' The other said, 'I dreamt I carried bread
upon my head and birds were eating it. Tell us the true meaning of these
dreams. We see that you're one of the righteous.' (12:36)
(Yusuf said,) 'My fellow-captives, one of you will serve his lord with
wine, the other of you will be crucified and birds will eat his head.
The thing you asked about is foreordained.' (12:41)
Do they not see the birds suspended in mid-air up in the sky? Nothing
holds them there except Allah. There are certainly Signs in that for people
who believe. (16:79)
We gave Sulayman understanding of it. We gave each of them judgement
and knowledge. We subjected the mountains to Dawud, glorifying, and the
birds as well. This is something We are well able to do. (21:79)
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)
Do you not see that everyone in the heavens and earth glorifies Allah,
as do the birds with their outspread wings? Each one knows its prayer
and glorification. Allah knows what they do. (24:41)
Sulayman was Dawud's heir. He said, 'Mankind! We have been taught the
speech of birds and we have been given everything. This is indeed clear
favour.' (27:16)
Sulayman's troops, made up of jinn and men and birds, were assembled
for him, paraded in tight ranks. (27:17)
He (Sulayman) inspected the birds and said, 'How is it that I do not
see the hoopoe? Or is it absent without leave?' (27:20)
We gave Dawud great favour from Us: 'O mountains and birds! Echo with
him in his praise!' And We made iron malleable for him. (34:10)
And also the birds, flocking together, all of them turned to Him. (38:19)
Have they not looked at the birds above them, with wings outspread and
folded back? Nothing holds them up but the All-Merciful. He sees all things.
(67:19)
Did He not bring all their schemes to nothing, unleashing upon them flock
after flock of birds, bombarding them with stones of hard-baked clay,
making them like stripped wheat-stalks eaten bare? (105:2-5)
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