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DISCIPLES
When 'Isa sensed disbelief on their part, he said, 'Who will be my helpers
to Allah?' The disciples said, 'We are Allah's helpers. We believe in
Allah. Bear witness that we are Muslims.' (3:52)
(Remember when Allah said, ''Isa, son of Maryam,) when I inspired the
Disciples to believe in Me and in My Messenger, they said, "We believe.
Bear witness that we are Muslims."' (5:111)
And when the Disciples said, ''Isa son of Maryam! Can your Lord send
down a table to us out of heaven?' He said, 'Have fear of Allah if you
are believers!' (5:112)
They said, 'We want to eat from it and for our hearts to be at peace
and to know that you have told us the truth and to be among those who
witness it.' (5:113)
You who believe! Be helpers of Allah as 'Isa son of Maryam said to the
Disciples, 'Who will be my helpers to Allah?' The Disciples said, 'We
will be the helpers of Allah.' One faction of the tribe of Israel believed
and the other disbelieved. So We supported those who believed against
their enemy and they became victorious. (61:14)
DISCORD (FITNAH)
Kill them wherever you come across them and expel them from where they
expelled you. Corruption is worse than killing. Do not fight them in the
Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) until they fight you there. But if they
do fight you, then kill them. That is how the disbelievers should be repaid.
(2:191)
Fight them until there is no more discord and the religion belongs to
Allah alone. If they cease, there should be no enmity towards any but
wrongdoers. (2:193)
They will ask you about the Sacred Month and fighting in it. Say, 'Fighting
in it is a serious matter; but barring access to the Way of Allah and
rejecting Him and barring access to the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram)
and expelling its people from it are far more serious in the sight of
Allah. Discord is worse than killing.' They will not stop fighting you
until they make you revert from your religion, if they are able. As for
any of you who revert from their religion and die disbeliever, their actions
will come to nothing in this world and the hereafter. They are the Companions
of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (2:217)
You will find others who desire to be safe from you and safe from their
own people. Each time they are returned to dissension they are overwhelmed
by it. If they do not keep away from you or submit to you or refrain from
fighting, seize them and kill them wherever you find them. Over such people
We have given you clear authority. (Qur'an, 4:91)
They thought there would be no testing. They were blind and deaf. Then
Allah turned towards them. Then many of them went blind and deaf again.
Allah sees what they do. (Qur'an, 5:71)
Fight them until there is no more discord and the religion is Allah's
alone. If they stop, Allah sees what they do. (Qur'an, 8:39)
DISCRIMINATION (FURQAN)
Remember when We gave Musa the Book and discrimination so that perhaps
you would be guided. (2:53)
... And He sent down the Torah and the Gospel, previously, as guidance
for mankind, and He has sent down the Furqan (Discrimination). Those who
reject Allah's Signs will have a terrible punishment. Allah is Almighty,
Exactor of Revenge. (3:3-4)
You who believe! If you have fear of Allah, He will give you discrimination
and erase your bad actions from you and forgive you. Allah's favour is
indeed immense. (8:29)
We gave to Musa and Harun the Discrimination and a Shining Light and
a Reminder for the heedful. (21:48)
Blessed be He Who has sent down the Furqan (Discrimination) to His servant
so that he can be a warner to all beings. (25:1)
DISH
They made for him anything he (Sulayman) wished: high arches and statues,
huge dishes like cisterns, great built-in cooking vats. 'Work, family
of Dawud, in thankfulness!' But very few of My servants are thankful.
(34:13)
DISSOLUTE
Would We make those who believe and do right actions the same as those
who cause corruption on the earth? Would We make those who guard against
evil the same as the dissolute? (38:28)
Nuh said, 'My Lord! Do not leave a single one of the disbelievers on
earth! If You leave any they will misguide Your servants and spawn nothing
but more dissolute disbelievers.' (71:26-27)
Those are the dissolute disbelievers. (80:42)
The dissolute will be in a Blazing Fire. (82:14)
No indeed! The book of the dissolute is in Sijjin. (83:7)
DISTANT PLACE
So she (Maryam) conceived him and withdrew with him to a distant place.
(19:22)
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)
They will say, 'We believe in it,' but how can they reach out for it
from a distant place when beforehand they had rejected it, shooting forth
about the Unseen from a distant place? (34:52-53)
DIVER
And some of the Satans dived for him (Sulayman) and did other things
apart from that. And We were watching over them. (21:82)
So We subjected the wind to him (Sulayman) to blow at his command, softly,
wherever he directed. And the Satans, every builder and diver, and others
of them, yoked together in chains. (38:36-38)
DIVERSION
The life of this world is nothing but a game and a diversion. The hereafter
is better for those who guard against evil. So will you not use your intellect?
(6:32)
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)
The Companions of the Fire will call out to the Companions of the Garden,
'Throw down some water to us or some of what Allah has given you as provision.'
They will say, 'Allah has forbidden them to the disbelievers: 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. (7:50-51)
The life of this world is nothing but a game and a diversion. The abode
of the hereafter-that is truly Life if they only knew. (29:64)
The life of this world is merely a game and a diversion. If you believe
and guard against evil, He will pay you your wages and not ask you for
all your wealth. (47:36)
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)
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)
You who believe! Wine and gambling, stone altars and divining arrows
are filth from the handiwork of Satan. Avoid them completely so that hopefully
you will be successful. (5:90)
DIVORCE
If they are determined to divorce, Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
(2:227)
Divorced women should wait by themselves for three menstrual cycles;
and it is not lawful for them to conceal what Allah has created in their
wombs if they believe in Allah and the Last Day. Their husbands have the
right to take them back within that time, if they desire to be reconciled.
Women possess rights similar to those held over them to be honoured with
fairness; but men have a degree above them. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise.
(2:228)
Divorce can be pronounced two times; in which case wives may be retained
with correctness and courtesy or released with good will. It is not lawful
for you to keep anything you have given them unless a couple fear that
they will not remain within Allah's limits. If you fear that they will
not remain within Allah's limits, there is nothing wrong in the wife ransoming
herself with some of what she received. These are Allah's limits, so do
not overstep them. Those who overstep Allah's limits are wrongdoers. (2:229)
But if a man divorces his wife a third time, she is not lawful for him
after that until she has married another husband. Then if he divorces
her, there is nothing wrong in the original couple getting back together
provided they think they will remain within Allah's limits. These are
Allah's limits which he has made clear to people who know. (2:230)
When you divorce women and they are near the end of their waiting period,
then either retain them with correctness and courtesy or release them
with correctness and courtesy. Do not retain them by force, thus overstepping
the limits. Anyone who does that has wronged himself. Do not make a mockery
of Allah's Signs. Remember Allah's blessing to you and the Book and Wisdom
He has sent down to you to admonish you. Have fear of Allah and know that
Allah has knowledge of all things. (2:231)
When you divorce women and they are near the end of their waiting period,
do not prevent them from marrying their first husbands if they have mutually
agreed to it with correctness and courtesy. This is an admonition for
those of you who believe in Allah and the Last Day. That is better and
purer for you. Allah knows and you do not know. (2:232)
There is nothing wrong in your divorcing women before you have touched
them or allotted a dowry to them. But give them a gift-he who is wealthy
according to his means and he who is less well off according to his means-a
gift to be given with correctness and courtesy: a duty for all good-doers.
(2:236)
If you divorce them before you have touched them but have already allotted
them a dowry, they should have half the amount which you allotted, unless
they forgo it or the one in charge of the marriage contract forgoes it.
To forgo it is closer to heedfulness. Do not forget to show generosity
to one another. Allah sees what you do. (2:237)
Divorced women should receive maintenance given with correctness and
courtesy: a duty for all who guard against evil. (2:241)
If you desire to exchange one wife for another and have given your original
wife a large amount, do not take any of it. Would you take it by means
of slander and outright crime? (4:20)
How could you take it when you have been intimate with one another and
they have made a binding contract with you? (4:21)
If you fear a breach between a couple, send an arbiter from his people
and an arbiter from her people. If the couple desire to put things right,
Allah will bring about a reconciliation between them. Allah is All-Knowing,
All-Aware. (4:35)
O Prophet, tell your wives: 'If you desire the life of this world and
its finery, come and I will give you all you need and release you with
kindness. But if you desire Allah and His Messenger and the abode of the
hereafter, Allah has prepared an immense reward for those among you who
are good-doers.' (33:28-29)
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)
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)
After that no other women are lawful for you nor may you exchange them
for other wives, even though their beauty might be pleasing to you, with
the exception of any you own as slaves. Allah is watchful over all things.
(33:52)
Those of you who divorce your wives by equating them with your mothers,
they are not your mothers. Your mothers are only those who gave birth
to you. What you are saying is wrong and a slanderous lie. But Allah is
Ever-Pardoning, Ever-Forgiving. (58:2)
Those who divorce their wives by equating them with their mothers, and
then wish to go back on what they said, must set free a slave before the
two of them may touch one another. This is what you are enjoined to do.
Allah is aware of what you do. (58:3)
O Prophet! When any of you divorce women, divorce them during their period
of purity and calculate their waiting period carefully. And have fear
of Allah, your Lord. Do not evict them from their homes, nor should they
leave, unless they commit an outright indecency. Those are Allah's limits,
and anyone who oversteps Allah's limits has wronged himself. You never
know, it may well be that after that Allah will cause a new situation
to develop. (65:1)
Then when they have reached the end of their waiting period either retain
them with correctness and courtesy or part from them with correctness
and courtesy. Call two upright men from among yourselves as witnesses
and they should carry out the witnessing for Allah. This is admonishment
for all who believe in Allah and the Last Day. Whoever has fear of Allah-He
will give him a way out. (65:2)
In the case of those of your wives who are past the age of menstruation,
if you have any doubt, their waiting period should be three months, and
that also applies to those who have not yet menstruated. The time for
women who are pregnant is when they give birth. Whoever has fear of Allah-He
will make matters easy for him. (65:4)
Let them live where you live, according to your means. Do not put pressure
on them, so as to harass them. If they are pregnant, maintain them until
they give birth. If they are suckling for you, give them their wages and
consult together with correctness and courtesy. But if you make things
difficult for one another, another woman should do the suckling for you.
(65:6)
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)
DIVULGEMENT
He said, 'Adam, tell them their names.' When he had told them their names,
He said, 'Did I not tell you that I know the Unseen of the heavens and
the earth, and I know what you make known and what you hide?' (2:33)
You who believe! Do not take My enemy and your enemy as friends, showing
love for them when they have rejected the truth that has come to you,
driving out the Messenger and yourselves simply because you believe in
Allah your Lord. If you go out to strive in My Way and seeking My pleasure,
keeping secret the love you have for them, I know best what you conceal
and what you make known. Any of you who do that have strayed from the
right way. (60:1)
Do they not know that Allah knows what they keep secret and what they
make public? (2:77)
Everything in the heavens and everything in the earth belongs to Allah.
Whether you divulge what is in yourselves or keep it hidden, Allah will
still call you to account for it. He forgives whoever He wills and He
punishes whoever He wills. Allah has power over all things. (2:284)
Say, 'Whether you conceal what is in your breasts or make it known, Allah
knows it. He knows what is in the heavens and what is on earth. Allah
has power over all things.' (3:29)
The Messenger is only responsible for transmission. Allah knows what
you divulge and what you hide. (5:99)
See how they wrap themselves round trying to conceal their feelings from
Him! No, indeed! When they wrap their garments round themselves, He knows
what they keep secret and what they make public. He knows what their hearts
contain. (11:5)
It makes no difference whether you keep secret what you say or voice
it out loud, whether you hide in the night or go out in the day. (13:10)
(Ibrahim said,) 'Our Lord! You know what we keep hidden and what we divulge.
Nothing is hidden from Allah either on the earth or in heaven.' (14:38)
Allah knows what you keep secret and what you make public. (16:19)
There is no doubt that Allah knows what they keep secret and what they
make public. He does not love people puffed up with pride. (16:23)
Though you speak out loud, He knows your secrets and what is even more
concealed. (20:7)
There is nothing wrong in your entering houses where no one lives and
where there is some service for you. Allah knows what you divulge and
what you conceal. (24:29)
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 hoopoe said,) 'I found both her (Queen of Sheba) and her people
prostrating to the sun instead of Allah. Satan has made their actions
seem good to them and debarred them from the Way so they are not guided
and do not prostrate to Allah, Who brings out what is hidden in the heavens
and the earth, and knows what you conceal and what you divulge.' (27:24-25)
Certainly your Lord knows what their hearts keep hidden and what they
divulge. (27:74)
Your Lord knows what their hearts conceal and what they divulge. (28:69)
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)
So do not let their words distress you. We know what they keep secret
and what they divulge. (36:76)
He knows everything in the heavens and earth. He knows what you keep
secret and what you divulge. Allah knows what the heart contains. (64:4)
The Prophet confided a certain matter to one of his wives, then when
she divulged it Allah disclosed that to him, and he communicated part
of it and withheld part of it. When he told her of it, she said, 'Who
told you of this?' He said, 'The All-Knowing and All-Aware informed me
of it.' (66:3)
Whether you keep your words secret or say them out loud He knows what
the heart contains. (67:13)
DOG
If We had wanted to, We would have raised him up by them. But he gravitated
towards the earth and pursued his whims and base desires. His metaphor
is that of a dog: if you chase it away, it lolls out its tongue and pants,
and if you leave it alone, it lolls out its tongue and pants. That is
the metaphor of those who deny Our Signs. So tell the story so that hopefully
they will reflect. (7:176)
You would have supposed them to be awake whereas in fact they were asleep.
We moved them to the right and to the left, and, at the entrance, their
dog stretched out its paws. If you had looked down and seen them, you
would have turned from them and run and have been filled with terror at
the sight of them. (18:18)
They will say, 'There were three of them, their dog being the fourth.'
They will say, 'There were five of them, their dog being the sixth,' guessing
at the Unseen. And they will say, 'There were seven of them, their dog
being the eighth.' Say: 'My Lord knows best their number. Those who know
about them are very few.' So do not enter into any argument concerning
them, except in relation to what is clearly known. And do not seek the
opinion of any of them regarding them. (18:22)
DOUBT
The truth is from your Lord, so on no account be among the doubters.
(2:147)
It is the truth from your Lord so do not be among the doubters. (3:60)
It is He Who created you from clay and then decreed a fixed term, and
another fixed term is specified with Him. Yet you still have doubts! (6:2)
'Am I to desire someone other than Allah as a judge when it is He Who
has sent down the Book to you clarifying everything?' Those We have given
the Book know it has been sent down from your Lord with truth, so on no
account be among the doubters. (6:114)
Only those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day ask you to excuse
them. Their hearts are full of doubt and in their doubt they waver to
and fro. (9:45)
If you are in any doubt about what We have sent down to you, then ask
those who were reciting the Book before you. The truth has come to you
from your Lord, so on no account be one of the doubters. (10:94)
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)
They (the Messengers) said, 'We have come to you with what they had doubts
about.' (15:63)
Is there a sickness in their hearts or do they have misgivings or do
they fear that Allah and His Messenger will be unjust to them? No, it
is simply that they are wrongdoers. (24:50)
You never recited any Book before it nor did you write one down with
your right hand. If you had, the purveyors of falsehood would have voiced
their doubts. (29:48)
If you could only see when they are terrified, and there is no way out,
and they are seized from a nearby place. They will say, 'We believe in
it,' but how can they reach out for it from a distant place when beforehand
they had rejected it, shooting forth about the Unseen from a distant place?
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. (34:51-54)
(The man who believed said to his people,) 'Yusuf brought you the Clear
Signs before, but you never stopped doubting what he brought to you to
the extent that when he died, you said, "Allah will never send another
Messenger after him." That is how Allah misguides those who are unbridled
and full of doubt.' (40:34)
He ('Isa) is a Sign of the Hour. Have no doubt about it. But follow me.
This is a straight path. (43:61)
(The wicked will be told,) 'This is the very thing you used to doubt.'
(44:50)
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)
They (hypocrites) will call out to them, '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)
We have only appointed angels as masters of the Fire and We have only
specified their number as a trial for those who disbelieve; so that those
who were given the Book might gain in certainty, and those who believe
might increase in their faith, and both those who were given the Book
and the believers might have no doubt; and so that those with sickness
in their hearts and the disbelievers might say, 'What did Allah intend
by this example?' In this way Allah misguides those He wills and guides
those He wills. No one knows the legions of your Lord but Him. This is
nothing but a reminder to all human beings. (74:31)
DOWNCAST
They will emerge from their graves with downcast eyes, like swarming
locusts. (54:7)
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)
Eyes downcast, darkened by debasement, that will be the Day which they
were promised. (70:44)
Some faces on that Day will be downcast. (88:2)
DOWRY (MAHR)
And also (forbidden for you are) married women, except for those you
have taken in war as slaves. This is what Allah has prescribed for you.
Apart from that He has made all other women lawful for you provided you
seek them with your wealth in marriage and not in fornication. When you
consummate your marriage with them give them their prescribed dowry. There
is nothing wrong in any further agreement you might come to after the
dowry has been given. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (4:24)
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)
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)
O Prophet! We have made lawful for you: your wives to whom you have given
dowries and any slavegirls you own from the booty Allah has allotted you
and the daughters of your paternal uncles and the daughters of your paternal
aunts and the daughters of your maternal uncles and the daughters of your
maternal aunts who have migrated with you and any believing woman who
gives herself to the Prophet if the Prophet desires to marry her: exclusively
for you as opposed to the rest of the believers-We know very well what
We have prescribed for them regarding their wives and any slavegirls they
possess-in order that there be no restriction on you. Allah is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (33:50)
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)
DREAM
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.
(8:43)
When Yusuf told his father, 'Father! I saw eleven bright stars, and the
sun and moon as well. I saw them all prostrate in front of me.' He (his
father) said, 'My son, don't tell your brothers your dream lest they devise
some scheme to injure you, Satan is a clear-cut enemy to man.' (12:4-5)
Two servants entered prison along with him. 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)
The King declared, 'I dreamt of seven fat cows which seven thin ones
ate and seven green ears of wheat and seven others which were dry. O counsellors!
Explain my dream to me if you are those who can interpret visions!' (12:43)
They said, 'A jumbled mass of mixed-up dreams! We do not know the meaning
of such things.' (12:44)
The one of them who had been saved then said, remembering after a period,
'I will tell you what it signifies, so send me out.' (12:45)
(One of Yusuf's fellow-prisoners said,) 'O truthful Yusuf, tell us of
seven fat cows which seven thin ones ate and seven green ears of wheat
and seven others which were dry so that I can return to them and let them
know.' (12:46)
He said, 'Sow for seven years in the normal way and leave that which
you harvest in the ear except for a small amount from which you eat. Then
after that seven hard years will arrive in which you can eat from what
you set aside for them, except for a little which you store. Then after
that another year will come in which the people will be helped by rain
in plenty and when they once more will press.' (12:47-49)
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)
DREAM OF WHEAT AND ITS INTERPRETATION
The King declared, 'I dreamt of seven fat cows which seven thin ones
ate and seven green ears of wheat and seven others which were dry. O counsellors!
Explain my dream to me if you are those who can interpret visions!' They
said, 'A jumbled mass of mixed-up dreams! We do not know the meaning of
such things.' The one of them who had been saved then said, remembering
after a period, 'I will tell you what it signifies, so send me out.' 'O
truthful Yusuf, tell us of seven fat cows which seven thin ones ate and
seven green ears of wheat and seven others which were dry so that I can
return to them and let them know.' He said, 'Sow for seven years in the
normal way and leave that which you harvest in the ear except for a small
amount from which you eat. Then after that seven hard years will arrive
in which you can eat from what you set aside for them, except for a little
which you store. Then after that another year will come in which the people
will be helped by rain in plenty and when they once more will press.'
(12:43-49)
DRINKS
They will ask you about alcoholic drinks and gambling. Say, 'There is
great wrong in both of them and also certain benefits for mankind. But
the wrong in them is greater than the benefit.' They will ask you what
they should give away. Say, 'Whatever is surplus to your needs.' In this
way Allah makes the Signs clear to you, so that hopefully you will reflect.
(2:219)
You who believe! Wine and gambling, stone altars and divining arrows
are filth from the handiwork of Satan. Avoid them completely so that hopefully
you will be successful. (5:90)
Satan wants to stir up enmity and hatred between you by means of wine
and gambling, and to debar you from remembrance of Allah and from prayer.
Will you not then give them up? (5:91)
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)
Each and every one of you will return to Him. Allah's promise is true.
He brings creation out of nothing and then regenerates it so that he can
repay with justice those who believed and did right actions. Those who
disbelieved will have a drink of scalding water and a painful punishment
because of their disbelief. (10:4)
And beyond him is Hell where he will be given pus to drink. (14:16)
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)
And from the fruit of the date-palm and the grape-vine you derive both
intoxicants and wholesome provision. There is certainly a Sign in that
for people who use their intellect. (16:67)
Say: 'It is the truth from your Lord; so let whoever wishes believe and
whoever wishes disbelieve.' We have prepared for the wrongdoers a Fire
whose billowing walls of smoke will hem them in. If they call for help,
they will be helped with water like seething molten brass, frying their
faces. What a noxious drink! What an evil repose! (18:29)
Then they will have a boiling brew to drink on top of it. (37:67)
DROP
He created man from a drop of sperm and yet he is an open challenger!
(16:4)
His companion, with whom he was debating, said to him, 'Do you then disbelieve
in Him Who created you from dust, then from a drop of sperm, and then
formed you as a man?' (18:37)
Mankind! If you are in any doubt about the Rising, know that We created
you from dust then from a drop of sperm then from a clot of blood then
from a lump of flesh, formed yet unformed, so We may make things clear
to you. We make whatever We want stay in the womb until a specified time
and then We bring you out as children so that you can reach your full
maturity. Some of you die and some of you revert to the lowest form of
life so that, after having knowledge, they then know nothing at all. And
you see the earth dead and barren; then when We send down water onto it
it quivers and swells and sprouts with luxuriant plants of every kind.
(22:5)
We created man from the purest kind of clay; then made him a drop in
a secure receptacle; then formed the drop into a clot and formed the clot
into a lump and formed the lump into bones and clothed the bones in flesh;
and then brought him into being as another creature. Blessed be Allah,
the Best of Creators! (23:12-14)
Allah created you from dust and then from a drop of sperm and then made
you into pairs. No female becomes pregnant or gives birth except with
His knowledge. And no living thing lives long or has its life cut short
without that being in a Book. That is easy for Allah. (35:11)
Does not man see that We created him from a drop yet there he is, an
open antagonist! (36:77)
It is He Who created you from earth, then from a drop of sperm, then
from a clot of blood, then He brings you out as infants, then so you may
achieve full strength, then so you may become old men-though some of you
may die before that time-so that you may reach a predetermined age and
so that hopefully you will use your intellect. (40:67)
(Has he not been informed) that He created the two sexes-male and female-out
of a sperm-drop when it spurted forth? (53:45-46)
Was he not a drop of ejaculated sperm, then a blood-clot which He created
and shaped, making from it both sexes, male and female? (75:37-39)
We created man from a mingled drop to test him, and We made him hearing
and seeing. (76:2)
From a drop of sperm He created him and proportioned him. (80:19)
DRUNKENNESS
You who believe! Do not approach the prayer when you are drunk, so that
you will know what you are saying, nor in a state of major impurity-unless
you are travelling-until you have washed yourselves completely. If you
are ill or on a journey, or any of you have come from the lavatory or
touched women, and you cannot find any water, then take for yourselves
clean earth, wiping your faces and your hands. Allah is Ever-Pardoning,
Ever-Forgiving. (4:43)
By your life! They were wandering blindly in their drunkenness! (15:72)
And from the fruit of the date-palm and the grape-vine you derive both
intoxicants and wholesome provision. There is certainly a Sign in that
for people who use their intellect. (16:67)
On the day they see it, every nursing woman will be oblivious of the
baby at her breast, and every pregnant woman will abort the contents of
her womb, and you will think people drunk when they are not drunk; it
is just that the punishment of Allah is so severe. (22:2)
DUŽA (SEE CALLING ON; SEE ASKING LORD)
DUMB
Deaf, dumb, blind. They will not return. (2:18)
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)
Those who deny Our Signs are deaf and dumb in utter darkness. Allah misguides
whoever He wills, and puts whoever He wills on a straight path. (6:39)
The worst of beasts in Allah's sight are the deaf and dumb who have no
intellect. (8:22)
Allah makes another metaphor: two men, one of them deaf and dumb, unable
to do anything, a burden on his master, no matter where he directs him
he brings no good, is he the same as someone who commands justice and
is on a straight path? (16:76)
Whoever Allah guides is truly guided. But as for those He leads astray,
you will not find any protectors for them apart from Him. We will gather
them on the Day of Rising, flat on their faces, blind, dumb and deaf.
Their shelter will be Hell. Whenever the Blaze dies down, We will increase
it for them. (17:97)
DUNE
On the Day the earth and mountains shake and the mountains become like
shifting dunes. (73:14)
DUNYA (SEE THE WORLD)
DUST
If you are surprised at their blindness, what could be more surprising
than their words: 'What, when we are turned to dust, shall we then be
created all anew?' These are the people who reject their Lord. Such people
have iron collars round their necks. Such people are the Companions of
the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (13:5)
They say, 'What! When we are bones and crumbled dust, will we then be
raised up as a new creation!' (17:49)
That is their repayment for rejecting Our Signs and saying, 'What, when
we are bones and crumbled dust, will we then be raised up as a new creation?'
(17:98)
His companion, with whom he was debating, said to him, 'Do you then disbelieve
in Him Who created you from dust, then from a drop of sperm, and then
formed you as a man?' (18:37)
(His companion said to the garden owner,) 'Why, when you entered your
garden, did you not say, "It is as Allah wills, there is no strength but
in Allah"? Though you see me with less wealth and children than you possess,
it may well be that my Lord will give me something better than your garden
and send down on it a fireball from the sky so that morning finds it a
shifting heap of dust,' (18:39-40)
Mankind! If you are in any doubt about the Rising, know that We created
you from dust then from a drop of sperm then from a clot of blood then
from a lump of flesh, formed yet unformed, so We may make things clear
to you. We make whatever We want stay in the womb until a specified time
and then We bring you out as children so that you can reach your full
maturity. Some of you die and some of you revert to the lowest form of
life so that, after having knowledge, they then know nothing at all. And
you see the earth dead and barren; then when We send down water onto it
it quivers and swells and sprouts with luxuriant plants of every kind.
(22:5)
(The ruling circle of his people said,) 'Does he promise you that when
you have died and become dust and bones you will be brought forth again?'
(23:35)
They say, 'When we are dead and turned to dust and bones, shall we then
be raised again?' (23:82)
We will advance on the actions they have done and make them scattered
specks of dust. (25:23)
Those who disbelieve say, 'When we and our fathers are turned to dust
will we then be brought forth again?' (27:67)
Among His Signs is that He created you from dust and here you are now,
widespread human beings! (30:20)
Allah created you from dust and then from a drop of sperm and then made
you into pairs. No female becomes pregnant or gives birth except with
His knowledge. And no living thing lives long or has its life cut short
without that being in a Book. That is easy for Allah. (35:11)
(They say,) 'When we are dead and turned to dust and bones will we then
be raised up again alive?' (37:16)
One of them will say, 'I used to have a friend who would say to me, "Are
you one of those who say that it is true: that when we have died and are
turned to dust and bones, we will face a Reckoning?"' (37:51-53)
Nonetheless they are amazed that a warner should have come to them from
among themselves and those who disbelieve say, 'What an extraordinary
thing! When we are dead and turned to dust...? That would be a most unlikely
return!' (50:2-3)
When the earth is convulsed and the mountains are crushed and become
scattered dust in the air. (56:4-6)
Before that they were living in luxury, persisting in immense wrongdoing
and saying, 'When we are dead and turned to dust and bones, shall we then
be raised again or our forefathers, the earlier peoples?' (56:45-48)
We have warned you of an imminent punishment on the Day when a man will
see what he has done, and the disbeliever will say, 'Oh, if only I were
dust!' (78:40)
That Day some faces will be dust-covered, (80:40)
By the charging horses panting hard, striking sparks from their flashing
hooves, raiding at full gallop in the early dawn, leaving a trailing dust-cloud
in their wake, (100:1-4)
DUTY
It is prescribed for you, when death approaches one of you and if he
has some goods to leave, to make a will in favour of his parents and relatives,
correctly and fairly: a duty for all those who guard against evil. (2:180)
Mothers should nurse their children for two full years-those who wish
to complete the full term of nursing. It is the duty of the fathers to
feed and clothe them with correctness and courtesy-no self is charged
with more than it can bear. No mother should be put under pressure in
respect of her child nor any father in respect of his child. The same
duty is incumbent on the heir. If the couple both wish weaning to take
place after mutual agreement and consultation, there is nothing wrong
in their doing that. If you wish to find wet-nurses for your children,
there is nothing wrong in your doing that provided you hand over to them
what you have agreed to give with correctness and courtesy. Have fear
of Allah and know that Allah sees what you do. (2:233)
There is nothing wrong in your divorcing women before you have touched
them or allotted a dowry to them. But give them a gift-he who is wealthy
according to his means and he who is less well off according to his means-a
gift to be given with correctness and courtesy: a duty for all good-doers.
(2:236)
Divorced women should receive maintenance given with correctness and
courtesy: a duty for all who guard against evil. (2:241)
In it are Clear Signs-the place where Ibrahim stood (to pray). All who
enter it are safe. Pilgrimage to the House is a duty owed to Allah by
all mankind-those who can find a way to do it. But if anyone disbelieves,
Allah is Rich Beyond Need of any being. (3:97)
Musa said, 'Pharaoh! I am truly a Messenger from the Lord of all the
worlds, duty bound to say nothing about Allah except the truth. I have
come to you with a Clear Sign from your Lord. So send the tribe of Israel
away with me.' (7:104-105)
Those who believe and have migrated and strived with their wealth and
themselves in the Way of Allah, and those who have given refuge and help,
they are the friends and protectors of one another. But as for those who
believe but have not migrated, you are not in any way responsible for
their protection until they migrate. But if they ask you for help in respect
of the religion, it is your duty to help them, except against people you
have a treaty with. Allah sees what you do. (8:72)
Do not ever stand in it (a mosque set up to create division among the
believers). A mosque founded on performing one's duty from the first day
has a greater right for you to stand in it. In it there are men who love
to purify themselves. Allah loves those who purify themselves. (9:108)
Instruct your family to perform prayer, and be constant in it. We do
not ask you for provision. We provide for you. And the outcome rests on
doing your duty. (20:132)
Before you We sent other Messengers to their people, and they too brought
them the Clear Signs. We took revenge on those who did evil; and it is
Our duty to help the believers. (30:47)
He increases in guidance those who are already guided and gives them
their sense of duty. (47:17)
Mankind! We created you from a male and female, and made you into peoples
and tribes so that you might come to know each other. The noblest among
you in Allah's sight is the one of you who best performs his duty. Allah
is All-Knowing, All-Aware. (49:13)
DWELLINGS
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)
Then, when they reached the Valley of the Ants, an ant said, 'Ants! Enter
your dwellings so that Sulayman and his troops do not crush you unwittingly.'
(27:18)
(A wind) destroying everything at its Lord's command! When morning came
you could see nothing but their dwellings. That is how We repay the people
of the evildoers. (46:25)
DYING
Those of you who die leaving wives behind should make a bequest to their
wives of maintenance for a year without them having to leave their homes.
But if they do leave you are not to blame for anything they do with themselves
with correctness and courtesy. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (2:240)
What do you think about those who left their homes in thousands in fear
of death? Allah said to them, 'Die!' and then brought them back to life.
Allah shows great favour to mankind, but most people are not grateful.
(2:243)
Or the one who passed by a town which had fallen into ruin? He asked,
'How can Allah restore this to life when it has died?' Allah caused him
to die a hundred years then brought him back to life. Then He asked, 'How
long have you been here?' He replied, 'I have been here a day or part
of a day.' He said, 'Not so! You have been here a hundred years. Look
at your food and drink-it has not gone bad-and look at your donkey so
We can make you a Sign for all mankind. Look at the bones-how We raise
them up and clothe them in flesh.' When it had become clear to him, he
said, 'Now I know that Allah has power over all things.' (2:259)
You who believe! Have fear of Allah the way He should be feared and do
not die except as Muslims. (3:102)
There you are, loving them when they do not love you, even though you
believe in all the Books. When they meet you, they say, 'We believe.'
But when they leave they bite their fingers out of rage against you. Say,
'Die in your rage.' Allah knows what your hearts contain. (3:119)
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. (3:144)
No self can die except with Allah's permission, at a predetermined time.
If anyone desires the reward of this world, We will give him some of it.
If anyone desires the reward of the hereafter, We will give him some of
it. We will recompense the thankful. (3:145)
You who believe! Do not be like those who disbelieve and say of their
brothers, when they are going on journeys or military expeditions, 'If
they had only been with us, they would not have died or been killed,'
so that Allah can make that anguish for them in their hearts. It is Allah
Who gives life and causes to die. Allah sees what you do. (3:156)
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)
If you die or you are killed, it is to Allah that you will be gathered.
(3:158)
There is not one of the People of the Book who will not believe in him
before he dies; and on the Day of Rising he will be a witness against
them. (4:159)
Say: 'My prayer and my rites, my living and my dying, are for Allah alone,
the Lord of all the worlds.' (6:162)
He gulps at it but can hardly swallow it down. Death comes at him from
every side but he does not die. And beyond him is relentless punishment.
(14:17)
The pains of labour drove her to the trunk of a date-palm. She (Maryam)
said, 'Oh if only I had died before this time and was something discarded
and forgotten!' (19:23)
Mankind! If you are in any doubt about the Rising, know that We created
you from dust then from a drop of sperm then from a clot of blood then
from a lump of flesh, formed yet unformed, so We may make things clear
to you. We make whatever We want stay in the womb until a specified time
and then We bring you out as children so that you can reach your full
maturity. Some of you die and some of you revert to the lowest form of
life so that, after having knowledge, they then know nothing at all. And
you see the earth dead and barren; then when We send down water onto it
it quivers and swells and sprouts with luxuriant plants of every kind.
(22:5)
(The ruling circle said,) 'What is there but our life in this world?
We die and we live and we will not be raised again.' (23:37)
Put your trust in the Living Who does not die and glorify Him with praise.
He is well aware of the wrong actions of His servants: (25:58)
Then when We decreed that he (Sulayman) should die, nothing divulged
his death to them except the worm which ate his staff; so that when he
fell down it was made clear to the jinn that if they had truly had knowledge
of the Unseen they need not have stayed there suffering humiliating punishment.
(34:14)
Whereas for those who disbelieve there will be the Fire of Hell. They
will not be killed off so that they die and its punishment will not be
lightened for them. That is how We repay every thankless man. (35:36)
You will die and they too will die. (39:30)
Allah takes back people's selves when their death arrives and those who
have not yet died, while they are asleep. He keeps hold of those whose
death has been decreed and sends the others back for a specified term.
There are certainly Signs in that for people who reflect. (39:42)
(The man who believed said,) 'Yusuf brought you the Clear Signs before,
but you never stopped doubting what he brought to you to the extent that
when he died, you said, "Allah will never send another Messenger after
him." That is how Allah misguides those who are unbridled and full of
doubt.' (40:34)
And in the alternation of night and day and the provision Allah sends
down from the sky, bringing the earth to life by it after it has died,
and the varying direction of the winds, there are Signs for people who
use their intellect. (45:5)
They say, 'There is nothing but our existence in this world. We die and
we live and nothing destroys us except for time.' They have no knowledge
of that. They are only conjecturing. (45:24)
He who has fear will be reminded; but the most miserable will shun it,
those who will roast in the Greatest Fire and then neither die nor live
in it. (87:10-13)
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