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DEEN (SEE RELIGION)
DEBASEMENT
Those who do good will have the best and more! Neither dust nor debasement
will darken their faces. They are the Companions of the Garden, remaining
in it timelessly, for ever. (10:26)
But as for those who have earned bad actions-a bad action will be repaid
with one the like of it. Debasement will darken them. They will have no
one to protect them from Allah. It is as if their faces were covered by
dark patches of the night. Those are the Companions of the Fire, remaining
in it timelessly, for ever. (10:27)
Their eyes will be downcast, darkened by debasement; for they were called
on to prostrate when they were in full possession of their faculties.
(68:43)
The Day they will emerge swiftly from their graves as if rushing to rally
to the flag, eyes downcast, darkened by debasement, that will be the Day
which they were promised. (70:43-44)
DEBT - LOAN
If someone is in difficult circumstances, there should be a deferral
until things are easier. But making a free gift of it would be better
for you if you only knew. (2:280)
You who believe! When you take on a debt for a specified period, write
it down. A writer should write it down between you justly. No writer should
refuse to write; as Allah has taught him, so he should write. The one
incurring the debt should dictate and should have fear of Allah his Lord
and not reduce it in any way. If the person incurring the debt is incompetent
or weak or unable to dictate, then his guardian should dictate for him
justly. Two men among you should act as witnesses. But if there are not
two men, then a man and two women with whom you are satisfied as witnesses;
then if one of them forgets, the other can remind her. Witnesses should
not refuse when they are called upon. Do not think it too trivial to write
down, whether small or large, with the date that it falls due. Doing that
is more just in Allah's sight and more helpful when bearing witness and
more likely to eliminate any doubt-unless it is an immediate transaction
hand to hand, taken and given without delay. There is nothing wrong in
your not writing that down. Call witnesses when you trade. Neither writer
nor witness should be put under pressure. If you do that, it is deviancy
on your part. Have fear of Allah and Allah will give you knowledge. Allah
has knowledge of all things. (2:282)
If you are on a journey and cannot find a writer, something can be left
as a security. If you leave things on trust with one another the one who
is trusted must deliver up his trust and have fear of Allah his Lord.
Do not conceal testimony. If someone does conceal it, his heart commits
a crime. Allah knows what you do. (2:283)
Allah instructs you regarding your children: A male receives the same
as the share of two females. If there are more than two daughters they
receive two-thirds of what you leave. If she is one on her own she receives
a half. Each of your parents receives a sixth of what you leave if you
have children. If you are childless and your heirs are your parents your
mother receives a third. If you have brothers or sisters your mother receives
a sixth, after any bequest you make or any debts. With regard to your
fathers and your sons, you do not know which of them is going to benefit
you more. These are obligatory shares from Allah. Allah is All-Knowing,
All-Wise. (4:11)
You receive half of what your wives leave if they are childless. If they
have children you receive a quarter of what they leave after any bequest
they make or any debts. They receive a quarter of what you leave if you
are childless. If you have children they receive an eighth of what you
leave after any bequest you make or any debts. If a man or woman has no
direct heirs, but has a brother or sister, each of them receives a sixth.
If there are more than that they share in a third after any bequest you
make or any debts, making sure that no one's rights are prejudiced. This
is an instruction from Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Forbearing. (4:12)
Allah made a covenant with the tribe of Israel and We raised up twelve
leaders from among them. Allah said, 'I am with you. If you perform prayer
and give the alms, and believe in My Messengers and respect and support
them, and make a generous loan to Allah, I will erase your wrong actions
from you and admit you into Gardens with rivers flowing under them. Any
of you who disbelieve after that have gone astray from the right way.'
(5:12)
The alms are for: the poor, the destitute, those who collect it, reconciling
people's hearts, freeing slaves, those in debt, spending in the Way of
Allah, and travellers. It is a legal obligation from Allah. Allah is All-Knowing,
All-Wise. (9:60)
Or do you ask them for a wage so they are weighed down with debt? (52:40)
Who will make a good loan to Allah so that He may multiply it for him?
He will have a generous reward. (57:11)
If you make a generous loan to Allah He will multiply it for you and
forgive you. Allah is All-Thankful, Most Forbearing. (64:17)
Or do you ask them for a wage so they are weighed down with debt? (68:46)
Your Lord knows that you stay up nearly two-thirds of the night-or half
of it, or a third of it-and a group of those with you. Allah determines
the night and day. He knows you will not keep count of it, so He has turned
towards you. Recite as much of the Qur'an as is easy for you. He knows
that some of you are ill and that others are travelling in the land seeking
Allah's bounty, and that others are fighting in the Way of Allah. So recite
as much of it as is easy for you. And perform prayer and give the alms
and lend a generous loan to Allah. Whatever good you send ahead for yourselves
you will find it with Allah as something better and as a greater reward.
And seek forgiveness from Allah. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
(73:20)
DECEIT
They think they deceive Allah and those who believe. They deceive no
one but themselves but they are not aware of it. (2:9)
Do not be deceived by the fact that those who disbelieve move freely
about the earth. (3:196)
The hypocrites think they deceive Allah, but He is deceiving them. When
they get up to pray, they get up lazily, showing off to people, and only
remembering Allah a very little. (4:142)
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)
On the Day the Last Hour arrives, the evildoers will swear they have
not even tarried for an hour. That is the extent to which they are deceived.
(30:55)
No one disputes Allah's Signs except those who disbelieve. Do not let
their free movement about the earth deceive you. (40:4)
DECIDING THINGS BY MEANS OF DIVINING
ARROWS
Forbidden for you are carrion, blood and pork, and what has been consecrated
to other than Allah, and animals which have been strangled, and animals
which have been killed by a blow, and animals which have fallen to their
death, and animals which have been gored, and animals which wild beasts
have eaten-except those you are able to slaughter properly-and animals
which have been sacrificed on altars, and deciding things by means of
divining arrows-that is deviance. Today those who disbelieve have despaired
of overcoming your religion. So do not be afraid of them but be afraid
of Me. Today I have perfected your religion for you and completed My blessing
upon you and I am pleased with Islam as a religion for you. But if anyone
is forced by hunger, not intending any wrongdoing, Allah is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (5:3)
DEFEAT
Allah only did this for it to be good news for you and so that your hearts
might be set at rest by it (help comes from no one but Allah, the Almighty,
the All-Wise) and so that He might cut off a group of those who disbelieve
or crush them and they might be turned back in defeat. (3:126-127)
They were defeated then and there, transformed into humbled men. (7:119)
The Romans have been defeated in the land nearby, but after their defeat
they will themselves be victorious (30:2-3)
DELIGHT
If only the People of the Book had believed and guarded against evil,
We would have erased their evil deeds from them and admitted them into
Gardens of Delight. (5:65)
Their Lord gives them the good news of His mercy and good pleasure and
Gardens where they will enjoy everlasting delight. (9:21)
But as for those who believe and do right actions, their Lord will guide
them by their faith. Rivers will flow under them in Gardens of Delight.
(10:9)
(A voice called out to Maryam,) 'Eat and drink and delight your eyes.
If you should see anyone at all, just say, "I have made a vow of abstinence
to the All-Merciful and today I will not speak to any human being."' (19:26)
(Allah said to Musa,) 'When your sister went and said, "Shall I direct
you to someone who will take care of him?" that was how We returned you
to your mother so that she might delight her eyes and not be grieved.
You killed a man and We rescued you from trouble and tested you with many
trials. You stayed some years among the people of Madyan. Then you arrived
at the pre-ordained time, Musa!' (20:40)
Sovereignty on that Day will be Allah's. He will judge between them.
Those who believe and do right actions will be in Gardens of Delight.
(22:56)
(Ibrahim said,) 'And make me one of the inheritors of the Garden of Delight;'
(26:85)
For those who believe and do right actions there are Gardens of Delight.
(31:8)
No self knows the delight that is hidden away for it in recompense for
what it used to do. (32:17)
They will have preordained provision: sweet fruits and high honour in
Gardens of Delight. (37:41-43)
(Believers will be told,) 'Enter the Garden, you and your wives, delighting
in your joy.' (43:70)
Platters and cups of gold will be passed around among them and they will
have there all that their hearts desire and their eyes find delight in.
You will remain in it timelessly, for ever. (43:71)
What comfort and ease they had delighted in! (44:27)
The people who guard against evil will be in Gardens of Delight. (52:17)
Those are the Ones Brought Near in Gardens of Delight. (56:11-12)
But the truth is that if he is one of Those Brought Near, there is solace
and sweetness and a Garden of Delight. (56:88-89)
The people who guard against evil will have Gardens of Delight with their
Lord. (68:34)
Does each one of them aspire to be admitted into a Garden of Delight?
(70:38)
Seeing them, you see delight and a great kingdom. (76:20)
You will recognise in their faces the radiance of delight. (83:24)
DELUDER
Mankind! Have fear of your Lord and fear a day when no father will be
able to atone for his son, or son for his father, in any way. Allah's
promise is true. So do not let the life of this world delude you and do
not let the Deluder delude you concerning Allah. (31:33)
Mankind! Allah's promise is true. Do not let the life of this world delude
you and do not let the Deluder delude you about Allah. (35:5)
They (hypocrites) will call out to them (the believers), 'Were we not
with you?' They will reply, 'Indeed you were. But you made trouble for
yourselves and hung back and doubted and false hopes deluded you until
Allah's command arrived. The Deluder deluded you about Allah.' (57:14)
DELUSION
That is because they say, 'The Fire will only touch us for a number of
days.' Their inventions have deluded them in their religion. (3:24)
Every self will taste death. You will be paid your wages in full on the
Day of Rising. Anyone who is distanced from the Fire and admitted to the
Garden has triumphed. The life of this world is just the enjoyment of
delusion. (3:185)
He (Satan) makes promises to them and fills them with false hopes. But
what Satan promises them is nothing but delusion. (4:120)
Abandon those who have turned their religion into a game and a diversion
and who have been deluded by the life of this world. Remind by it lest
a person is delivered up to destruction for what he has earned with no
protector or intercessor besides Allah. Were he to offer every kind of
compensation, it would not be accepted from him. Such people are delivered
up to destruction for what they have earned. They will have scalding water
to drink and a painful punishment because they disbelieved. (6:70)
In this way We have appointed as enemies to every Prophet Satans from
both mankind and from the jinn, who inspire each other with delusions
by means of specious words-if your Lord had willed, they would not have
done it, so abandon them and all they fabricate. (6:112)
Company of jinn and men! Did not Messengers come to you from among yourselves
relating My Signs to you and warning you of the encounter of this Day
of yours? They will say, 'We testify against ourselves.' The life of this
world deluded them and they will testify against themselves that they
were disbelievers. (6:130)
(Companions of the Garden will say, 'Disbelievers are) those who took
their religion as a diversion and a game, and were deluded by the life
of this world.' Today We will forget them just as they forgot the encounter
of this Day and denied Our Signs. (7:51)
And when the hypocrites and those with sickness in their hearts said,
'These people have been deluded by their religion.' But those who put
their trust in Allah will find Allah to be Almighty, All-Wise. (8:49)
(Allah said to Satan,) 'Stir up any of them you can with your voice and
rally against them your cavalry and your infantry and share with them
in their children and their wealth and make them promises! The promise
of Satan is nothing but delusion.' (17:64)
Mankind! Have fear of your Lord and fear a day when no father will be
able to atone for his son, or son for his father, in any way. Allah's
promise is true. So do not let the life of this world delude you and do
not let the Deluder delude you concerning Allah. (31:33)
When the hypocrites and people with sickness in their hearts said, 'What
Allah and His Messenger promised us was mere delusion.' (33:12)
Mankind! Allah's promise is true. Do not let the life of this world delude
you and do not let the Deluder delude you about Allah. (35:5)
Say: 'Have you thought about your partner gods, those you call upon besides
Allah? Show me what they have created of the earth; or do they have a
partnership in the heavens?' Have We given them a Book whose Clear Signs
they follow? No indeed! The wrongdoers promise each other nothing but
delusion. (35:40)
No one disputes Allah's Signs except those who disbelieve. Do not let
their free movement about the earth deceive you. (40:4)
They (disbelievers) will be told, 'Today We have forgotten you as you
forgot the meeting of this your Day. Your refuge is the Fire and you have
no helpers. That is because you made a mockery of Allah's Signs and the
life of this world deluded you.' Therefore, today they will not get out
of it. They will not be able to appease Allah. (45:34-35)
They (hypocrites) will call out to them (the believers), 'Were we not
with you?' They will reply, 'Indeed you were. But you made trouble for
yourselves and hung back and doubted and false hopes deluded you until
Allah's command arrived. The Deluder deluded you about Allah.' (57:14)
Know that the life of this world is merely a game and a diversion and
ostentation and a cause of boasting among yourselves and trying to outdo
one another in wealth and children: like the plant-growth after rain which
delights the cultivators, but then it withers and you see it turning yellow,
and then it becomes broken stubble. In the hereafter there is terrible
punishment but also forgiveness from Allah and His good pleasure. The
life of this world is nothing but the enjoyment of delusion. (57:20)
Who is there who could be a force for you, to come to your support, apart
from the All-Merciful? The disbelievers are only living in delusion. (67:20)
O man! What has deluded you in respect of your Noble Lord? (82:6)
DEMAND FOR GRATITUDE
Those who spend their wealth in the Way of Allah, and then do not follow
what they have spent by demands for gratitude or insulting words will
have their reward with their Lord. They will feel no fear and will know
no sorrow. (2:262)
You who believe! Do not nullify your charity by demands for gratitude
or insulting words, like him who spends his wealth, showing off to people
and not believing in Allah and the Last Day. His likeness is that of a
smooth rock coated with soil, which, when heavy rain falls on it, is left
stripped bare. They have no power over anything they have earned. Allah
does not guide disbelieving people. (2:264)
He (Pharaoh) said (to Musa), 'Did we not bring you up among us as a child
and did you not spend many years of your life among us? Yet you did the
deed you did and were ungrateful.' (26:18-19)
(Musa said to Pharaoh,) 'And anyway you can only reproach me with this
favour because you made the tribe of Israel into slaves!' (26:22)
They think they have done you a favour by becoming Muslims! Say: 'Do
not consider your Islam a favour to me. No indeed! It is Allah Who has
favoured you by guiding you to faith if you are telling the truth.' (49:17)
DEMON
A demon of the jinn said, 'I will bring it to you before you get up from
your seat. I am strong and trustworthy enough to do it.' (27:39)
DEPRAVITY
And when Lut he said to his people: 'Do you approach depravity with open
eyes? (27:54)
And (I swear by) the self and what proportioned it and inspired it with
depravity or sense of duty, he who purifies it has succeeded, he who covers
it up has failed. (91:7-10)
DESCENDANT
Remember when Ibrahim was tested by his Lord with certain words which
he carried out completely. He said, 'I will make you a model for mankind.'
He asked, 'And what of my descendants?' He said, 'My contract does not
include the wrongdoers.' (2:124)
(Ibrahim said,) 'Our Lord, make us both Muslims submitted to You, and
our descendants a Muslim community submitted to You. Show us our rites
of worship and turn towards us. You are the Ever-Returning, the Most Merciful.'
(2:128)
Allah chose Adam and Nuh and the family of Ibrahim and the family of
'Imran over all other beings-descendants one of the other. Allah is All-Hearing,
All-Knowing. (3:33-34)
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 some of their forebears, descendants and brothers; We chose them
and guided them to a straight path. (6:87)
Your Lord is the Rich Beyond Need, the Possessor of Mercy. If He wanted,
He could remove you and replace you with anything else He wanted to, just
as He produced you from the descendants of another people. (6:133)
When your Lord took out all their descendants from the loins of the children
of Adam and made them testify against themselves 'Am I not your Lord?'
they said, 'We testify that indeed You are!' Lest you say on the Day of
Rising, 'We knew nothing of this.' (7:172)
(Ibrahim said,) 'My Lord! Make me and my descendants people who perform
prayer. My Lord! Accept my prayer. ' (14:40)
Descendants of those We carried with Nuh. He was a grateful servant.
(17:3)
He (Diabolis) said, 'Do you see this creature you have honoured over
me? If You reprieve me till the Day of Rising, I will be the master of
his descendants except for a very few.' (17:62)
Those are some of the Prophets Allah has blessed, from the descendants
of Adam and from those We carried with Nuh, and from the descendants of
Ibrahim and Isra'il and from those We guided and chose. When the Signs
of the All-Merciful were recited to them they fell on their faces, weeping,
in prostration. (19:58)
We gave him Ishaq and Ya'qub and placed Prophethood and the Book among
his progeny. We gave him his reward in this world and in the hereafter
he will be among the righteous. (29:27)
We rescued him (Nuh) and his family from the terrible plight and made
his descendants the survivors; (37:76-77)
We showered blessings upon him and upon Ishaq. Among their descendants
are good-doers and also people who clearly wrong themselves. (37:113)
We have instructed man to be good to his parents. His mother bore him
with difficulty and with difficulty gave birth to him; and his bearing
and weaning take thirty months. Then when he achieves his full strength
and reaches forty, he says, 'My Lord, keep me thankful for the blessing
You bestowed on me and on my parents, and keep me acting rightly, pleasing
You. And make my descendants righteous. I have repented to You and I am
truly one of the Muslims.' (46:15)
We sent Nuh and Ibrahim and placed Prophethood and the Book among their
descendants. Some of them are guided but many of them are deviators. (57:26)
DESERT
He (Yusuf) raised his parents up onto the throne. The others fell prostrate
in front of him. He said, 'My father, truly this is now the interpretation
of the dream I had. My Lord has made it all come true; and He was kind
to me by letting me out of prison and brought you from the desert when
Satan had caused dissent between me and my brothers. My Lord is kind to
anyone He wills. He is indeed All-Knowing and All-Wise.' (12:100)
But the actions of those who disbelieve are like a mirage in the desert.
A thirsty man thinks it is water but when he reaches it, he finds it to
be nothing at all, but he finds Allah there. He will pay him his account
in full. Allah is swift at reckoning. (24:39)
They think that the Confederates have not departed and if the Confederates
did appear then they would wish they were out in the desert with the Arabs,
asking for news of you. If they were with you they would only fight a
very little. (33:20)
DESERT ARABS
The desert arabs came with their excuses asking for permission to stay,
and those who lied to Allah and His Messenger stayed behind. A painful
punishment will afflict those among them who disbelieve. (9:90)
The desert arabs are more obdurate in disbelief and hypocrisy and more
likely not to know the limits which Allah has sent down to His Messenger.
Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (9:97)
Among the desert arabs there are some who regard what they give as an
imposition and are waiting for your fortunes to change. The evil turn
of fortune will be theirs! Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (9:98)
And among the desert arabs there are some who believe in Allah and the
Last Day and regard what they give as something which will bring them
nearer to Allah and to the prayers of the Messenger. It does indeed bring
them near. Allah will admit them into His mercy. Allah is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (9:99)
Some of the desert Arabs around you are hypocrites and some of the people
of Madina are obdurate in their hypocrisy. You do not know them but We
know them. We will punish them twice over and then they will be returned
to a terrible punishment. (9:101)
It was not for people of Madina, and the desert arabs around them, to
remain behind the Messenger of Allah nor to prefer themselves to him.
That is because no thirst or weariness or hunger will afflict them in
the Way of Allah, nor will they take a single step to infuriate the disbelievers,
nor secure any gain from the enemy, without a right action being written
down for them because of it. Allah does not let the wage of the good-doers
go to waste. (9:120)
They think that the Confederates have not departed and if the Confederates
did appear then they would wish they were out in the desert with the Arabs,
asking for news of you. If they were with you they would only fight a
very little. (33:20)
Those (desert) Arabs who remained behind will say to you, 'Our wealth
and families kept us occupied, so ask forgiveness for us.' They say with
their tongues what is not in their hearts. Say: 'Who can control Allah
for you in any way whether He wants harm for you or wants benefit for
you?' Allah is aware of what you do. (48:11)
Say to the (desert) 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)
The desert Arabs say, 'We believe.' Say: 'You do not believe. Say rather,
"We have become Muslim," for faith has not yet entered into your hearts.
If you obey Allah and His Messenger, He will not undervalue your actions
in any way. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.' (49:14)
DESPAIR
(Ya'qub said,) 'My sons! Seek news of Yusuf and his brother. Do not despair
of solace from Allah. No one despairs of solace from Allah except for
people who are disbelievers.' (12:87)
They (messengers) said (to Ibrahim), 'We bring you good news of the truth,
so do not be among those who despair.' (15:55)
When We bless man, he turns away and draws aside. When evil touches him,
he despairs. (17:83)
Say (from Me): 'My servants, you who have transgressed against yourselves,
do not despair of the mercy of Allah. Truly Allah forgives all wrong actions.
He is the Ever-Forgiving, the Most Merciful.' (39:53)
DESTINATION
And when Ibrahim said, 'My Lord, make this a place of safety and provide
its inhabitants with fruits-all of them who believe in Allah and the Last
Day,' He said, 'I will let anyone who becomes a disbeliever enjoy himself
a little but then I will drive him to the punishment of the Fire. What
an evil destination!' (2:126)
The 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)
Is someone who pursues the pleasure of Allah the same as someone who
incurs displeasure from Allah and whose refuge is Hell? What an evil destination!
(3:162)
The angels ask those they take while they are wronging themselves, 'What
were your circumstances?' They reply, 'We were oppressed on earth.' They
say, 'Was Allah's earth not wide enough for you to have migrated elsewhere
in it?' The shelter of such people will be Hell. What an evil destination!
(4:97)
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)
The Jews and Christians say, 'We are Allah's children and His loved ones.'
Say: 'Why, then, does He punish you for your wrong actions? No, you are
merely human beings among those He has created. He forgives whoever He
wills and He punishes whoever He wills. The kingdom of the heavens and
the earth and everything between them belongs to Allah. He is our final
destination.' (5:18)
Anyone who turns his back on them that day, unless he is withdrawing
to rejoin the fight or withdrawing to support another group, brings Allah's
anger down upon himself. His refuge is Hell. What an evil destination!
(8:16)
O Prophet, strive against the disbelievers and hypocrites and be harsh
with them. Their shelter will be Hell. What an evil destination! (9:73)
They have made others equal to Allah to misguide people from His Way.
Say: 'Enjoy yourselves! Your destination is the Fire!' (14:30)
How many wrongdoing cities I allowed time to and then I seized them.
I am their final destination! (22:48)
When Our Signs are recited to them-Clear Signs-you can detect denial
in the faces of those who disbelieve. They all but assault those who recite
Our Signs to them! Say: 'Shall I inform you of something worse than that?
The Fire which Allah has promised those who disbelieve. What an evil destination!'
(22:72)
The kingdom of the heavens and earth belongs to Allah and Allah is the
final destination. (24:42)
Do not imagine that those who disbelieve are able to escape Allah on
earth. Their shelter will be the Fire. What an evil destination! (24:57)
Say: 'Is that better, or the Garden of Eternal Life which has been promised
to those who guard against evil? That is their recompense and destination.'
(25:15)
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.' (31:14)
No burden-bearer can bear another's burden. If someone weighed down calls
for help to bear his load, none of it will be borne for him, even by his
next of kin. You can only warn those who fear their Lord in the Unseen
and perform prayer. Whoever is purified, is purified for himself alone.
Allah is your final destination. (35:18)
Then their destination will be the Blazing Fire. (37:68)
The Forgiver of wrong action, the Accepter of repentance, the Severe
in retribution, the Possessor of abundance. There is no god but Him. He
is the final destination. (40:3)
So call and go straight as you have been ordered to. Do not follow their
whims and desires but say, 'I believe in a Book sent down by Allah and
I am ordered to be just between you. Allah is our Lord and your Lord.
We have our actions and you have your actions. There is no debate between
us and you. Allah will gather us all together. He is our final destination.'
(42:15)
And so that He might punish the men and women of the hypocrites and the
men and women of the idolaters-those who think bad thoughts about Allah.
They will suffer an evil turn of fate. Allah is angry with them, and has
cursed them and prepared Hell for them. What an evil destination! (48:6)
It is We Who give life and cause to die and We are their final destination.
(50:43)
(Believers will say to the hypocrites,) 'So today no ransom will be accepted
from you or from those who disbelieved. Your refuge is the Fire. It is
your master. What an evil destination!' (57:15)
Do you not see those who were forbidden to confer together secretly returning
to the very thing they were forbidden to do, and conferring together secretly
in wrongdoing and enmity and disobedience to the Messenger? And when they
come to you they greet you with words Allah has never used in greeting
you, and say to themselves 'Why does Allah not punish us for what we say?'
Hell will be enough for them! They will roast in it. What an evil destination!
(58:8)
You have an excellent example in Ibrahim and those with him, when they
said to their people, 'We wash our hands of you and all that you worship
apart from Allah, and we reject you. Between us and you there will be
enmity and hatred for ever unless and until you believe in Allah alone.'
Except for Ibrahim's words to his father: 'I will ask forgiveness for
you but I have no power to help you in any way against Allah.' 'Our Lord,
we have put our trust in You and have repented to You. You are our final
destination.' (60:4)
He created the heavens and the earth with truth and formed you, giving
you the best of forms. And He is your final destination. (64:3)
But as for those who disbelieve and deny Our Signs they are the Companions
of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. What an evil destination!
(64:10)
O Prophet! Strive against the disbelievers and hypocrites and be harsh
with them. Their refuge is Hell. What an evil destination! (66:9)
Those who reject their Lord will have the punishment of Hell. What an
evil destination! (67:6)
DESTINY (SEE PRE-ORDAINED DECREE)
DESTITUTION - DESTITUTE
And when you said, 'Musa, we will not put up with just one kind of food
so ask your Lord to supply to us some of what the earth produces-its green
vegetables, cucumbers, grains, lentils and onions,' he said, 'Do you want
to replace what is better with what is inferior? Go back to Egypt, then
you will have what you are asking for.' Abasement and destitution were
stamped upon them. They brought down anger from Allah upon themselves.
That was because they rejected Allah's Signs and killed the Prophets without
any right to do so. That was because they rebelled and went beyond the
limits. (2:61)
The alms are for: the poor, the destitute, those who collect it, reconciling
people's hearts, freeing slaves, those in debt, spending in the Way of
Allah, and travellers. It is a legal obligation from Allah. Allah is All-Knowing,
All-Wise. (9:60)
And beggars and the destitute received a due share of their wealth. (51:19)
They (owners of the garden) left early, intent on carrying out their
scheme. But when they saw it (the garden), they said, 'We must have lost
our way. No, the truth is we are destitute!' (68:25-27)
(Believers are) those in whose wealth there is a known share for beggars
and the destitute. (70:24-25)
DEVIANCE
You who believe! When you take on a debt for a specified period, write
it down. A writer should write it down between you justly. No writer should
refuse to write; as Allah has taught him, so he should write. The one
incurring the debt should dictate and should have fear of Allah his Lord
and not reduce it in any way. If the person incurring the debt is incompetent
or weak or unable to dictate, then his guardian should dictate for him
justly. Two men among you should act as witnesses. But if there are not
two men, then a man and two women with whom you are satisfied as witnesses;
then if one of them forgets, the other can remind her. Witnesses should
not refuse when they are called upon. Do not think it too trivial to write
down, whether small or large, with the date that it falls due. Doing that
is more just in Allah's sight and more helpful when bearing witness and
more likely to eliminate any doubt-unless it is an immediate transaction
hand to hand, taken and given without delay. There is nothing wrong in
your not writing that down. Call witnesses when you trade. Neither writer
nor witness should be put under pressure. If you do that, it is deviancy
on your part. Have fear of Allah and Allah will give you knowledge. Allah
has knowledge of all things. (2:282)
Forbidden for you are carrion, blood and pork, and what has been consecrated
to other than Allah, and animals which have been strangled, and animals
which have been killed by a blow, and animals which have fallen to their
death, and animals which have been gored, and animals which wild beasts
have eaten-except those you are able to slaughter properly-and animals
which have been sacrificed on altars, and deciding things by means of
divining arrows-that is deviance. Today those who disbelieve have despaired
of overcoming your religion. So do not be afraid of them but be afraid
of Me. Today I have perfected your religion for you and completed My blessing
upon you and I am pleased with Islam as a religion for you. But if anyone
is forced by hunger, not intending any wrongdoing, Allah is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (5:3)
Do not eat anything over which the name of Allah has not been mentioned.
To do so is sheer deviance. The Satans inspire their friends to dispute
with you. If you obeyed them you would then be idolaters. (6:121)
Say: 'I do not find, in what has been revealed to me, any food it is
forbidden to eat except for carrion, flowing blood, and pork-for that
is unclean-or some deviance consecrated to other than Allah. But if anyone
is forced to eat it, without desiring to or going to excess in it, your
Lord is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.' (6:145)
(Our Messengers said to Lut,) 'We will bring down on the inhabitants
of this city a devastating punishment from heaven because of their deviance.'
(29:34)
Know that the Messenger of Allah is among you. If he were to obey you
in many things, you would suffer for it. However, Allah has given you
love of faith and made it pleasing to your hearts, and has made disbelief,
deviance and disobedience hateful to you. People such as these are rightly
guided. (49:7)
DEVIATORS
Allah is not ashamed to make an example of a gnat or of an even smaller
thing. As for those who believe, they know it is the truth from their
Lord. But as for those who disbelieve, they say, 'What does Allah mean
by this example?' He misguides many by it and guides many by it. But He
only misguides the deviators. (2:26)
But those who did wrong substituted words other than those they had been
given. So We sent down a plague from heaven on those who did wrong because
they were deviators. (2:59)
We have sent down Clear Signs to you and no one rejects them except the
deviators. (2:99)
Any who turn away after that are deviators. (3:82)
You are the best nation ever to be produced before mankind. You enjoin
the right, forbid the wrong and believe in Allah. If the People of the
Book were to believe, it would be better for them. Some of them are believers
but most of them are deviators. (3:110)
He (Musa) said, 'My Lord, I have no control over anyone but myself and
my brother, so make a clear distinction between us and this deviant people.'
(5:25)
The people of the Gospel should judge by what Allah sent down in it.
Those who do not judge by what Allah has sent down, such people are deviators.
(5:47)
Judge between them by what Allah has sent down and do not follow their
whims and desires. And beware of them lest they lure you away from some
of what Allah has sent down to you. If they turn their backs, then know
that Allah wants to afflict them with some of their wrong actions. Many
of mankind are deviators. (5:49)
Say: 'People of the Book! Do you resent us for any other reason than
that we believe in Allah and what was sent down to us, and what was sent
down before, and because most of you are deviators?' (5:59)
If they had believed in Allah and the Prophet and what has been sent
down to him, they would not have taken them as friends. But most of them
are deviators. (5:81)
That makes it more likely that they will give their evidence properly
or be afraid that their oaths will be refuted by subsequent oaths. Have
fear of Allah and listen carefully. Allah does not guide deviant people.
(5:108)
The punishment will fall on those who deny Our Signs because they were
deviators. (6:49)
We did not find many of them worthy of their contract. We found most
of them deviators. (7:102)
We wrote about everything for him on the Tablets as an admonition and
making all things clear. 'Seize hold of it vigorously and command your
people to adopt the best in it. I will show you the home of the deviators!'
(7:145)
Ask them about the town which was by the sea when they broke the Sabbath-when
their fish came to them near the surface on their Sabbath day but did
not come on the days which they did not keep the Sabbath. In this way
We put them to the test because they were deviators. (7:163)
Then when they forgot what they had been reminded of, We rescued those
who had forbidden the evil and seized those who did wrong with a harsh
punishment because they were deviators. (7:165)
How indeed! For if they get the upper hand over you, they will respect
neither kinship nor treaty. They please you with their mouths but their
hearts belie their words. Most of them are deviators. (9:8)
Say: 'If your fathers or your sons or your brothers or your wives or
your tribe, or any wealth you have acquired, or any business you fear
may slump, or any house which pleases you, are dearer to you than Allah
and His Messenger and striving in His Way, then wait until Allah brings
about His command. Allah does not guide people who are deviators.' (9:24)
Say: 'Whether you give readily or reluctantly, it will not be accepted
from you. You are people who are deviators.' (9:53)
The men and women of the hypocrites are as bad as one another. They command
what is wrong and forbid what is right and keep their fists tightly closed.
They have forgotten Allah, so He has forgotten them. The hypocrites are
deviators. (9:67)
You can ask forgiveness for them, or not ask forgiveness for them. Even
if you asked forgiveness for them seventy times, Allah still would not
forgive them. That is because they have rejected Allah and His Messenger.
Allah does not guide deviant people. (9:80)
Never pray over any of them who die or stand at their graves. They rejected
Allah and His Messenger and died as deviators. (9:84)
They will swear to you to make you pleased with them, but even if you
are pleased with them, Allah is certainly not pleased with deviant people.
(9:96)
In that way the Word of your Lord is realised against those who are deviators,
in that they do not believe. (10:33)
We gave right judgement and knowledge to Lut and rescued him from the
city which committed disgusting acts. They were evil people who were deviators.
(21:74)
But those who make accusations against chaste women and then do not produce
four witnesses: flog them with eighty lashes and never again accept them
as witnesses. Such people are deviators. (24:4)
Allah has promised those of you who believe and do right actions that
He will make them successors in the land as He made those before them
successors, and will firmly establish for them their religion with which
He is pleased and give them, in place of their fear, security. 'They worship
Me, not associating anything with Me.' Any who disbelieve after that,
such people are deviators. (24:55)
(A voice called out to Musa,) 'Put your hand inside your shirt front.
It will emerge pure white, yet quite unharmed-one of nine Signs to Pharaoh
and his people. They are a people of deviators.' (27:12)
(A voice called out to Musa,) 'Put your hand inside your shirt front.
It will emerge pure white yet quite unharmed. And hug your arms to your
sides to still your fear. These are two proofs from your Lord for Pharaoh
and his ruling circle. They are a deviant people.' (28:32)
Is someone who believes like someone who is a deviator? They are not
the same! (32:18)
But as for those who are deviators, their refuge is the Fire. Every time
that they want to get out, they are put straight back into it again and
they are told, 'Taste the punishment of the Fire, which you denied.' (32:20)
In that way he (Pharaoh) swayed his people and they succumbed to him.
They were a people of deviators. (43:54)
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)
So be steadfast as the Messengers with firm resolve were also steadfast.
And do not seek to hasten it for them. On the Day they see what they were
promised, it will be as if they had only tarried for just one hour of
a single day. It has been transmitted! Will any be destroyed except for
deviant people? (46:35)
You who believe! If a deviator brings you a report, scrutinize it carefully
in case you attack people in ignorance and so come to greatly regret what
you have done. (49:6)
And the people of Nuh before, they were a people of deviators. (51:46)
Has the time not arrived for the hearts of those who believe to yield
to the remembrance of Allah and to the truth He has sent down, so they
are not like those who were given the Book before for whom the time seemed
over long so that their hearts became hard? Many of them are deviators.
(57:16)
We sent Nuh and Ibrahim and placed Prophethood and the Book among their
descendants. Some of them are guided but many of them are deviators. (57:26)
Then We sent Our Messengers following in their footsteps and sent 'Isa
son of Maryam after them, giving him the Gospel. We put compassion and
mercy in the hearts of those who followed him. They invented monasticism-We
did not prescribe it for them-purely out of desire to gain the pleasure
of Allah, but even so they did not observe it as it should have been observed.
To those of them who believed We gave their reward but many of them are
deviators. (57:27)
Whatever palm-trees you cut down, or left standing upright on their roots,
it was done by Allah's permission in order to disgrace the deviators.
(59:5)
Do not be like those who forgot Allah so He made them forget themselves.
Such people are the deviators. (59:19)
Remember when Musa said to his people, 'My people, why do you mistreat
me when you know that I am the Messenger of Allah to you?' So when they
deviated, Allah made their hearts deviate. Allah does not guide people
who are deviators. (61:5)
In their case it makes no difference whether you ask forgiveness for
them or do not ask forgiveness for them. Allah will never forgive them.
Allah does not guide deviant people. (63:6)
(Say: 'It has been revealed to me that a band of the jinn listened and
said,) "Some of us are Muslims and some are deviators. Those who have
become Muslim are those who sought right guidance; the deviators will
be firewood for Hellfire."' (72:14-15) |
