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ILLITERATE
Some of them are illiterate, knowing nothing of the Book but wishful
thinking. They only speculate. (2:78)
ILLNESS
It is not devoutness to turn your faces to the East or to the West. Rather,
those with true devoutness are those who believe in Allah and the Last
Day, the Angels, the Book and the Prophets, and who, despite their love
for it, give away their wealth to their relatives and to orphans and the
very poor, and to travellers and beggars and to set slaves free, and who
perform prayer and give the alms; those who honour their contracts when
they make them, and are steadfast in poverty and illness and in battle.
Those are the people who are true. They are the people who guard against
evil. (2:177)
(Fasting is prescribed) for a specified number of days. But any of you
who are ill or on a journey should fast a number of other days. For those
who can (scarcely) afford it, making up for it means feeding a poor man.
And if someone does good of his own accord, it is better for him. But
that you should fast is better for you, if you only knew. (2:184)
The month of Ramadan is the one in which the Qur'an was sent down as
guidance for mankind, with Clear Signs containing guidance and discrimination.
Any of you who are resident for the month should fast it. But any of you
who are ill or on a journey should fast a number of other days. Allah
desires ease for you; He does not desire difficulty for you. You should
complete the number of days and proclaim Allah's greatness for the guidance
He has given you so that hopefully you will be thankful. (2:185)
Perform the pilgrimage and the pious visit for Allah. If you are forcibly
prevented, make whatever sacrifice is feasible. But do not shave your
heads until the sacrificial animal has reached the place of sacrifice.
If any of you are ill or have a head injury, the expiation is fasting
or charity or sacrifice when you are safe and well again. And if you are
secure, then he who takes advantage of a pious visit before the pilgrimage
should make whatever sacrifice is feasible. For any one who cannot, there
is three days' fast on pilgrimage and seven on your return-that is ten
in all. That is for anyone whose family does not live near the Sacred
Mosque (Masjid al-Haram). Have fear of Allah and know that Allah is fierce
in retribution. (2:196)
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)
When you are with them and leading them in prayer, a group of them should
stand with you, keeping hold of their weapons. When they prostrate, the
others should guard your backs. Then the other group who have not yet
prayed should come and pray with you. They too should be careful and keep
hold of their weapons. Those who disbelieve would like you to be negligent
of your arms and equipment so that they can swoop down on you once and
for all. There is nothing wrong, if you are bothered by rain or you are
ill, in laying your weapons down; but take every precaution. Allah has
prepared a humiliating punishment for the disbelievers. (4:102)
You who believe! When you get up to perform prayer, wash your faces and
your hands and your arms to the elbows, and wipe over your heads, and
(wash) your feet to the ankles. If you are in a state of major impurity,
then purify yourselves. But if you are ill or on a journey, or have come
from the lavatory, or have touched women, and cannot find any water, then
take for yourselves clean earth, and wipe your faces and your hands therewith.
Allah does not want to make things difficult for you, but He does want
to purify you and to perfect His blessing upon you so that hopefully you
will be thankful. (5:6)
(Ibrahim said,) 'and when I am ill, it is He Who heals me.' (26:80)
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)
ILYAS (AS)
And Zakariyya, Yahya, 'Isa and Ilyas. All of them were among the righteous.
(6:85)
Ilyas was one of the Messengers. (37:123)
'Peace be upon Ilyas!' (37:130)
IMMORTAL
We did not give them (Messengers) bodies which did not eat food, nor
were they immortal. (21:8)
We did not give any human being before you immortality. And if you die,
will they then be immortal? (21:34)
(Hud said to his people,) 'Do you build a tower on every hilltop, just
to amuse yourselves, and construct great fortresses, hoping to live for
ever?' (26:128-129)
IMPUDENCE
(They said,) 'Has the Reminder been given to him of all of us? No indeed!
He is an impudent liar.' (54:25)
'They will know tomorrow who the impudent liar is.' (54:26)
IMPURITY
They will ask you about menstruation. Say, 'It is an impurity, so keep
apart from women during menstruation and do not approach them until they
have purified themselves. But once they have purified themselves, then
go to them in the way that Allah has enjoined on you.' Allah loves those
who turn back from wrongdoing and He loves those who purify themselves.
(2:222)
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)
You who believe! When you get up to perform prayer, wash your faces and
your hands and your arms to the elbows, and wipe over your heads, and
(wash) your feet to the ankles. If you are in a state of major impurity,
then purify yourselves. But if you are ill or on a journey, or have come
from the lavatory, or have touched women, and cannot find any water, then
take for yourselves clean earth, and wipe your faces and your hands therewith.
Allah does not want to make things difficult for you, but He does want
to purify you and to perfect His blessing upon you so that hopefully you
will be thankful. (5:6)
Remain in your houses and do not display your beauty as it was previously
displayed in the Time of Ignorance. Perform prayer and give the alms and
obey Allah and His Messenger. Allah desires to remove all impurity from
you, People of the House, and to purify you completely. (33:33)
IMRAN
Allah chose Adam and Nuh and the family of Ibrahim and the family of
'Imran over all other beings. (3:33)
Remember when the wife of 'Imran said, 'My Lord, I have pledged to You
what is in my womb, devoting it to Your service. Please accept my prayer.
You are the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.' (3:35)
And Maryam, the daughter of 'Imran, who guarded her chastity-We breathed
Our Spirit into her and she confirmed the Words of her Lord and His Book
and was one of the obedient. (66:12)
INJIL (SEE THE GOSPEL)
INCONSISTENCY
Will they not ponder the Qur'an? If it had been from other than Allah,
they would have found many inconsistencies in it. (4:82)
INDECENCY
Allah commands justice and doing good and giving to relatives. And He
forbids indecency and doing wrong and tyranny. He warns you so that hopefully
you will pay heed. (16:90)
You who believe! Do not follow in the footsteps of Satan. Anyone who
follows in Satan's footsteps should know that he commands indecency and
wrongdoing. Were it not for Allah's favour to you and His mercy, not one
of you would ever have been purified. But Allah purifies whoever He wills.
Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (24:21)
Recite what has been revealed to you of the Book and perform prayer.
Prayer precludes indecency and wrongdoing. And remembrance of Allah is
greater still. Allah knows what you do. (29:45)
To whoever avoids the major wrong actions and indecencies-except for
minor lapses-truly your Lord is vast in forgiveness. He has most knowledge
of you when He first produced you from the earth, and when you were embryos
in your mothers' wombs. So do not claim purity for yourselves. He knows
best those who guard against evil. (53:32)
INFANT
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 watever 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)
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)
INHABITANT
We have sent you with the Truth, bringing good news and giving warning.
Do not ask about the inhabitants of the Blazing Fire. (2:119)
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)
What reason could you have for not fighting in the Way of Allah-for those
men, women and children who are oppressed and say, 'Our Lord, take us
out of this city whose inhabitants are wrongdoers! Give us a protector
from You! Give us a helper from You!'? (4:75)
Has the news of those who came before them not reached them the people
of Nuh and 'Ad and Thamud, and the people of Ibrahim and the inhabitants
of Madyan and the overturned cities? Their Messengers brought them the
Clear Signs. Allah did not wrong them; rather they wronged themselves.
(9:70)
To Thamud We sent their brother Salih. He said, 'My people, worship Allah!
You have no god apart from Him. He brought you into being from the earth
and made you its inhabitants. So ask His forgiveness and then repent to
Him. My Lord is Close and Quick to Respond.' (11:61)
Your Lord would never have destroyed the cities wrongfully as long as
their inhabitants were putting things right. (11:117)
So they went on until they reached the inhabitants of a town. They asked
them for food but they refused them hospitality. They found there a wall
about to fall down and he built it up. Musa said, 'If you had wanted,
you could have taken a wage for doing that.' (18:77)
You who believe! Do not enter houses other than your own until you have
asked permission and greeted their inhabitants. That is better for you,
so that hopefully you will pay heed. (24:27)
She (Queen of Sheba) said, 'When kings enter a city, they lay waste to
it and make its mightiest inhabitants the most abased. That is what they
too will do.' (27:34)
He (Musa) entered the city at a time when its inhabitants were unaware
and found two men fighting there-one from his party and the other from
his enemy. The one from his party asked for his support against the other
from his enemy. So Musa hit him, dealing him a fatal blow. He said, 'This
is part of Satan's handiwork. He truly is an outright and misleading enemy.'
(28:15)
Your Lord would never destroy any cities without first sending to the
chief of them a Messenger to recite Our Signs to them. We would never
destroy any cities unless their inhabitants were wrongdoers. (28:59)
When Our messengers came with the good news to Ibrahim, they said, 'We
are going to destroy the people of this city. Truly its inhabitants are
wrongdoers.' (29:31)
(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)
Make an example for them of the inhabitants of the city when the Messengers
came to it. (36:13)
You who believe! Do not make friends of people with whom Allah is angry,
who have despaired of the hereafter as the disbelievers have despaired
of the inhabitants of the graves. (60:13)
INHERIT - BEQUEATH
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)
But if someone fears bias or wrongdoing on the part of the person making
the will, and puts things right between the people involved, in that case
he has not committed any crime. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
(2:182)
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)
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)
You who believe! When one of you is near to death and makes a will, two
just men from among you should act as witnesses; or, if you are travelling
when the misfortune of death occurs, two men who are strangers to you.
You should detain them after prayer and, if you are doubtful, they should
swear by Allah: 'We will not sell it for any price, even to a near relative,
and we will not conceal the testimony of Allah. If we did we would indeed
be wrongdoers.' (5:106)
It is We Who give life and cause to die and We are the Inheritor. (15:23)
It is We Who will inherit the earth and all those on it. They will be
returned to Us. (19:40)
That is the Garden which We will bequeath to those of Our servants who
guard against evil. (19:63)
We wrote down in the Zabur, after the Reminder came: 'It is My servants
who are righteous who will inherit the earth.' (21:105)
Such people are the inheritors who will inherit Firdaws, remaining in
it timelessly, for ever. (23:10-11)
How many cities We have destroyed which lived in insolent ingratitude!
There are their houses, never again inhabited after them, except a little.
It was We Who were their Heir. (28:58)
Did they bequeath this to each other? Indeed they are an unbridled people.
(51:53)
INK
Say: 'If all the sea was ink to write down the Words of my Lord, it would
run out long before the Words of my Lord ran out,' even if We were to
bring the same amount of ink again. (18:109)
INSHA'ALLAH (SEE "IF ALLAH WILLS")
INSIGHT
When Talut marched out with the army, he said, 'Allah will test you with
a river. Anyone who drinks from it is not with me. But anyone who does
not taste it is with me-except for him who merely scoops up a little in
his hand.' But they drank from it-except for a few of them. Then when
he and those who believed with him had crossed it, they said, 'We do not
have the strength to face Goliath and his troops today.' But those who
were sure that they were going to meet Allah said, 'How many a small force
has triumphed over a much greater one by Allah's permission! Allah is
with the steadfast.' (2:249)
There was a sign for you in the two parties which met face to face, one
party fighting in the Way of Allah and the other disbelievers. You saw
them as twice their number with your own eyes. Allah reinforces with His
help whoever He wills. There is instruction in that for people of insight.
(3:13)
When news of any matter reaches them they spread it about, whether it
is of a reassuring or disquieting nature. If they had only referred it
to the Messenger and those in command among them, those among them able
to discern the truth about it would have had proper knowledge of it. If
it were not for Allah's favour to you and His mercy, all but a very few
of you would have followed Satan. (4:83)
'Clear insights have come to you from your Lord. Whoever sees clearly,
does so to his own benefit. Whoever is blind, it is to his own detriment.
I am not here as your keeper.' (6:104)
If you do not bring them a Sign, they say, 'Why have you not come up
with one?' Say, 'I follow only what has been revealed to me from my Lord.'
This is clear insight from your Lord, and guidance and mercy, for people
who believe. (7:203)
Say: 'This is my way. I call to Allah with inner sight, I and all who
follow me. Glory be to Allah! I am not one of the idolaters!' (12:108)
Allah revolves night and day. There is surely a lesson in that for people
with inner sight. (24:44)
And remember Our servants Ibrahim, Ishaq and Ya'qub, men of true strength
and inner sight. (38:45)
This is clear insight for mankind and guidance and mercy for people with
certainty. (45:20)
It is He Who expelled those who disbelieved among the People of the Book
from their homes to the first gathering-place. You did not think that
they would leave and they thought that their fortresses would protect
them from Allah. Then Allah came upon them from where they least expected
it and cast terror into their hearts. Their houses were pulled down by
their own hands and by the hands of the believers. People of insight,
take note! (59:2)
INSOLENCE
But Allah is mocking them, and drawing them on, as they wander blindly
in their excessive insolence. (2:15)
The Jews say, 'Allah's hand is chained.' Their hands are chained and
they are cursed for what they say! No! Both His hands are open wide and
He gives however He wills. What has been sent down to you from your Lord
increases many of them in insolence and disbelief. We have incited enmity
and hatred between them until the Day of Rising. Each time they kindle
the fire of war, Allah extinguishes it. They rush about the earth corrupting
it. Allah does not love corrupters. (5:64)
Say: 'People of the Book! You have nothing to stand on until you implement
the Torah and the Gospel and what has been sent down to you from your
Lord.' What has been sent down to you from your Lord increases many of
them in insolence and disbelief. So do not waste your grief on the people
of the disbelievers. (5:68)
We will overturn their hearts and sight, just as when they did not believe
in it at first, and We will abandon them to wander blindly in their excessive
insolence. (6:110)
We made forbidden for the Jews every animal with an undivided hoof, and
in respect of cattle and sheep, We made their fat forbidden for them,
except what is attached to their backs or guts or mixed up with bone.
That is how We repaid them for their insolence. And We certainly speak
the truth. (6:146)
If Allah misguides people, no one can guide them. We will abandon them
to wander blindly in their excessive insolence. (7:186)
If Allah were to hasten evil for people the way they try to hasten good,
their term would already have been completed for them. We abandon those
who do not expect to meet Us to wander blindly in their excessive insolence.
(10:11)
When We said to you, 'Surely your Lord encompasses the people with His
knowledge.' We only appointed the vision We showed you and the Accursed
Tree in the Qur'an as a trial and temptation for the people. We frighten
them, but it only increases them in their excessive insolence. (17:60)
(He said to Musa,) 'As for the boy, his parents were believers and we
feared that he would darken their days with excessive insolence and disbelief.'
(18:80)
Then We will drag out from every sect the one among them most insolent
towards the All-Merciful. (19:69)
If We did have mercy on them and removed the harm afflicting them, they
would still obstinately persist in wandering blindly in their excessive
insolence. (23:75)
Those who do not expect to meet Us say, 'Why have angels not been sent
down to us? Why do we not see our Lord?' They have become arrogant about
themselves and are excessively insolent. (25:21)
Who is there who could provide for you if He withholds His provision?
Yet still they obstinately persist in insolence and evasion. (67:21)
INSPIRATION
(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)
On that Day it (the earth) will impart all its news because your Lord
has inspired it. (99:4-5)
INTELLECT - INTELLIGENCE
Do you order people to devoutness and forget yourselves, when you recite
the Book? Will you not use your intellect? (2:44)
When they meet those who believe, they say, 'We believe.' But when they
go apart with one another, they say, 'Why do you speak to them about what
Allah has disclosed to you, so they can use it as an argument against
you before your Lord? Will you not use your intellect?' (2:76)
In the creation of the heavens and earth, and the alternation of the
night and day, and the ships which sail the seas to people's benefit,
and the water which Allah sends down from the sky-by which He brings the
earth to life when it was dead and scatters about in it creatures of every
kind-and the varying direction of the winds, and the clouds subservient
between heaven and earth, there are Signs for people who use their intellect.
(2:164)
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)
There is life for you in retaliation, people of intelligence, so that
hopefully you will guard against evil. (2:179)
The pilgrimage takes place during certain well-known months. If anyone
undertakes the obligation of pilgrimage in them, there must be no sexual
intercourse, no wrongdoing, nor any quarrelling during pilgrimage. Whatever
good you do, Allah knows it. Take provision; but the best provision is
fear of Allah. So have fear of Me, people of intelligence! (2:197)
In this way Allah makes His Signs clear to you, so that hopefully you
will use your intellect. (2:242)
He gives wisdom to whoever He wills and he who has been given wisdom
has been given great good. But no one pays heed but people of intelligence.
(2:269)
It is He Who sent down the Book to you from Him: verses containing clear
judgements-they are the core of the Book-and others which are open to
interpretation. Those with deviation in their hearts follow what is open
to interpretation in it, desiring conflict, seeking its inner meaning.
No one knows its inner meaning but Allah. Those firmly rooted in knowledge
say, 'We believe in it. All of it is from our Lord.' But only people of
intelligence pay heed. (3:7)
(Say,) 'People of the Book! Why do you argue concerning Ibrahim when
the Torah and Gospel were only sent down after him? Why do you not use
your intellect?' (3:65)
You who believe! Do not take any outside yourselves as intimates. They
will do anything to harm you. They love what causes you distress. Hatred
has appeared out of their mouths, but what their breasts hide is far worse.
We have made the Signs clear to you if you use your intellect. (3:118)
When you call to prayer they make a mockery and a game of it. That is
because they are people who do not use their intellect. (5:58)
Say: 'Bad things and good things are not the same, even though the abundance
of the bad things may seem attractive to you.' Have fear of Allah, people
of intelligence, so that hopefully you will be successful. (5:100)
Allah did not institute any such thing as bahira or sa'iba or wasila
or hami. Those who disbelieved invented lies against Allah. Most of them
do not use their intellect. (5:103)
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)
Say: 'Come and I will recite to you what your Lord has made forbidden
for you': that you do not associate anything with Him; that you are good
to your parents; that you do not kill your children because of poverty-We
will provide for you and them; that you do not approach indecency-outward
or inward; that you do not kill any person Allah has made inviolate-except
with the right to do so. That is what He instructs you to do so that hopefully
you will use your intellect. (6:151)
An evil generation has succeeded them, inheriting the Book, taking the
goods of this lower world, and saying, 'We will be forgiven.' But if similar
goods come to them again they still take them. Has not a covenant been
made with them in the Book, that they should only say the truth about
Allah and have they not studied what is in it? The Final Abode is better
for those who guard against evil. Will you not use your intellect? (7:169)
The worst of beasts in Allah's sight are the deaf and dumb who have no
intellect. (8:22)
Say: 'Had Allah so wished, I would not have recited it to you nor would
He have made it known to you. I lived among you for many years before
it came. Will you not use your intellect?' (10:16)
No self can believe except with Allah's permission. He places a blight
on those who do not use their intellect. (10:100)
(Hud said,) 'My people! I do not ask you for any wage for it. My wage
is the responsibility of Him Who brought me into being. So will you not
use your intellect?' (11:51)
We have sent it down as an Arabic Qur'an so that hopefully you will use
your intellect. (12:2)
We sent none before you but men inspired with revelation from among the
people of the cities. Have they not travelled in the land and seen the
final fate of those before them? The abode of the hereafter is better
for those who guard against evil. So will you not use your intellect?
(12:109)
There is instruction in their stories for people of intelligence. This
is not a narration which has been invented but confirmation of all that
came before, a clarification of everything, and a guidance and a mercy
for people who believe. (12:111)
In the earth there are diverse regions side by side and gardens of grapes
and cultivated fields, and palm-trees sharing one root and others with
individual roots, all watered with the same water. And We make some things
better to eat than others. There are Signs in that for people who use
their intellect. (13:4)
Is he who knows that what has been sent down to you from your Lord is
the truth like him who is blind? It is only people of intelligence who
pay heed. (13:19)
This is a communication to be transmitted to mankind so that they may
be warned by it and so that they will know that He is One God and so that
people of intelligence will pay heed. (14:52)
He has made night and day subservient to you, and the sun and moon and
stars, all subject to His command. There are certainly Signs in that for
people who use their intellect. (16:12)
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)
Eat and pasture your cattle. Certainly there are Signs in that for people
of sound intellect. (20:54)
Are they not guided by the many generations We have destroyed before
them, among whose dwelling places they walk about? There are Signs in
that for people of sound intellect. (20:128)
We have sent down to you a Book containing your Reminder. So will you
not use your intellect? (21:10)
Shame on you and what you worship besides Allah! Will you not use your
intellect?' (21:67)
It is He Who gives life and causes to die and His is the alternation
of the night and day. So will you not use your intellect? (23:80)
There is no objection to the blind, no objection to the lame, no objection
to the sick; nor to yourselves if you eat in your own houses or your fathers'
houses or your mothers' houses or your brothers' houses or your sisters'
houses or the houses of your paternal uncles or paternal aunts or the
houses of your maternal uncles or maternal aunts or places to which you
own the keys or those of your friends. There is nothing wrong in your
eating together or eating separately. And when you enter houses greet
one another with a greeting from Allah, blessed and good. In this way
Allah makes the Signs clear to you so that hopefully you will use your
intellect. (24:61)
He (Musa) said, 'The Lord of the East and the West and everything between
them if you used your intellect.' (26:28)
Anything you have been given is only the enjoyment of the life of this
world and its finery. What is with Allah is better and longer lasting.
So will you not use your intellect? (28:60)
We have left a Clear Sign of them behind for people who use their intellect.
(29:35)
If you ask them, 'Who sends down water from the sky, bringing the earth
back to life again after it was dead?' they will say, 'Allah.' Say: 'Praise
be to Allah.' But most of them do not use their intellect. (29:63)
Among His Signs is that He shows you lightning, a source of fear and
eager hope, and sends down water from the sky, bringing the dead earth
back to life by it. There are certainly Signs in that for people who use
their intellect. (30:24)
He has made an example for you from among yourselves. Are any of the
slaves you own partners with you in what We have provided for you so that
you are equal in respect of it, you fearing them the same as one another?
In that way We make Our Signs clear for people who use their intellect.
(30:28)
He has led huge numbers of you into error. Why did you not use your intellect?
(36:62)
When We grant long life to people, We return them to their primal state.
So will you not use your intellect? (36:68)
And you pass by them in the daytime and at night. So will you not use
your intellect? (37:137-138)
It is a Book We have sent down to you, full of blessing, so let people
of intelligence ponder its Signs and take heed. (38:29)
We gave him back his family and the same again with them as a mercy from
Us and a reminder for people of intellect. (38:43)
What of him who spends the night hours in prayer, prostrating and standing
up, mindful of the hereafter, hoping for the mercy of his Lord? Say: 'Are
they the same-those who know and those who do not know?' It is only people
of intelligence who pay heed. (39:9)
Those who listen well to what is said and follow the best of it, they
are the ones whom Allah has guided, they are the people of intelligence.
(39:18)
Do you not see that Allah sends down water from the sky and threads it
through the earth to emerge as springs and then by it brings forth crops
of varying colours, which then wither and you see them turning yellow
and then He makes them into broken stubble? There is a reminder in that
for people of intelligence. (39:21)
We gave Musa the guidance and bequeathed the Book to the tribe of Israel,
as guidance and a reminder for people of intelligence. (40:53-54)
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)
We have made it an Arabic Qur'an so that hopefully you will use your
intellect. (43:3)
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)
As for those who call out to you from outside your private quarters,
most of them do not use their intellect. (49:4)
Is it their intellects that direct them to say this or is it that they
are an unbridled people? (52:32)
Know that Allah brings the earth to life after it was dead. We have made
the Signs clear to you so that hopefully you will use your intellect.
(57:17)
They will not fight against you all together as a group except in fortified
towns or behind high walls. Their hostility towards each other is intense.
They are full of bravado in each other's company. You consider them united
but their hearts are scattered wide. That is because they are people who
do not use their intellect. (59:14)
Allah has prepared a terrible punishment for them. So have fear of Allah,
people of intelligence-those who believe-Allah has sent down a reminder
to you. (65:10)
They will say, 'If only we had really listened and used our intellect,
we would not have been Companions of the Blaze.' (67:10)
By the dawn and ten nights, and the even and odd, and the night when
it travels on, is there not in that an oath for the intelligent? (89:1-5)
INTENTION
Allah will not take you to task for inadvertent statements in your oaths,
but He will take you to task for the intention your hearts have made.
Allah is Ever-Forgiving, All-Forbearing. (2:225)
INTERCESSION
Have fear of a Day when no self will be able to compensate for another
in any way. No intercession will be accepted from it, no ransom taken
from it, and they will not be helped. (2:48, 2:123)
You who believe! Give away some of what We have provided for you before
a Day arrives on which there is no trading, no close friendship and no
intercession. It is the disbelievers who are the wrongdoers. (2:254)
Allah, there is no god but Him, the Living, the Self-Sustaining. He is
not subject to drowsiness or sleep. Everything in the heavens and the
earth belongs to Him. Who can intercede with Him except by His permission?
He knows what is before them and what is behind them but they cannot grasp
any of His knowledge save what He wills. His Footstool encompasses the
heavens and the earth and their preservation does not tire Him. He is
the Most High, the Magnificent. (2:255)
Warn by it those who fear they will be gathered to their Lord, having
no protector or intercessor apart from Him, so that hopefully they will
guard against evil. (6:51)
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)
'You have come to Us all alone just as We created you at first, leaving
behind you everything We bestowed on you. We do not see your intercessors
accompanying you, those you claimed were your partners with Allah. The
link between you is cut. Those you made such claims for have forsaken
you.' (6:94)
What are they waiting for but its fulfilment? The Day its fulfilment
occurs, those who forgot it before will say, 'The Messengers of our Lord
came with the Truth. Are there any intercessors to intercede for us, or
can we be sent back so that we can do something other than what we did?'
They have lost their own selves and what they invented has forsaken them.
(7:53)
Your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six days
and then established Himself firmly on the Throne. He directs the whole
affair. No one can intercede except with His permission. That is Allah
your Lord, so worship Him. Will you not pay heed? (10:3)
They worship, instead of Allah, what can neither harm them nor help them,
saying, 'These are our intercessors with Allah.' Say: 'Would you inform
Allah of something about which He does not know either in the heavens
or on the earth?' May He be glorified and exalted above what they associate
with Him! (10:18)
They have no right of intercession. None do but those who have a contract
with the All-Merciful. (19:87)
On that Day intercession will not be of any use except for him whom the
All-Merciful has authorised and with whose speech He is well-pleased.
(20:109)
He knows what is in front of them and what is behind them. They only
intercede on behalf of those with whom He is pleased, and even they are
apprehensive out of fear of Him. (21:28)
(They will say,) 'And now we have no one to intercede for us.' (26:100)
None of their partner-gods will intercede for them. They will reject
their partner-gods. (30:13)
Allah is He Who created the heavens and the earth and everything between
them in six days and then established Himself firmly upon the Throne.
You have no protector or intercessor apart from Him. So will you not pay
heed? (32:4)
Intercession with Him will be of no benefit except from someone who has
His permission. So that when the terror has left their hearts they will
say, 'What did your Lord say?' They will say, 'The truth. He is the All-High,
the Most Great.' (34:23)
(A man from the far side of the city said,) 'Am I to take as gods instead
of Him those whose intercession, if the All-Merciful desires harm for
me, will not help me at all and cannot save me?' (36:23)
Or have they adopted intercessors besides Allah? Say: 'Even though they
do not control a thing and have no awareness?' Say: 'Intercession is entirely
Allah's affair. The kingdom of the heavens and earth is His. Then you
will be returned to Him.' (39:43-44)
And warn them of the Day of Immediacy when hearts rise choking to the
throat. The wrongdoers will have no close friend nor any intercessor who
might be heard. (40:18)
Those you call upon apart from Him possess no power of intercession-only
those who bore witness to the truth and have full knowledge. (43:86)
And how many angels there are in the heavens whose intercession is of
no benefit at all until Allah has authorised those He wills and is pleased
with them! (53:26)
The intercession of the interceders will not help them. (74:48)
INTERPRETATION
It is He Who sent down the Book to you from Him: verses containing clear
judgements-they are the core of the Book-and others which are open to
interpretation. Those with deviation in their hearts follow what is open
to interpretation in it, desiring conflict, seeking its inner meaning.
No one knows its inner meaning but Allah. Those firmly rooted in knowledge
say, 'We believe in it. All of it is from our Lord.' But only people of
intelligence pay heed. (3:7)
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)
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)
INTIMATE
You who believe! Do not take any outside yourselves as intimates. They
will do anything to harm you. They love what causes you distress. Hatred
has appeared out of their mouths, but what their breasts hide is far worse.
We have made the Signs clear to you if you use your intellect. (3:118)
Or did you suppose that you would be left without Allah knowing those
of you who have strived and who have not taken anyone as their intimate
friends besides Allah and His Messenger and the believers? Allah is aware
of what you do. (9:16)
IRAM
(Do you not see what your Lord did with) Iram of the Columns? (89:7)
IRON
Such is the iron grip of your Lord when He seizes the cities which do
wrong. His grip is painful, violent. (11:102)
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)
Say: 'It would not matter if you were rock or iron or indeed any created
thing that you think is harder still!' They will say, 'Who will bring
us back again?' Say: 'He Who brought you into being in the first place.'
They will shake their heads at you and ask, 'When will it happen?' Say:
'It may well be that it is very near.' (17:50-51)
(Dhu'l-Qarnayn said,) 'Bring me ingots of iron!' Then, when he had made
it level between the two high mountain-sides, he said, 'Blow!' and when
he had made it a red hot fire, he said, 'Bring me molten brass to pour
over it.' (18:96)
And (in hell) they will be beaten with cudgels made of iron. (22:21)
We gave Dawud great favour from Us: 'O mountains and birds! Echo with
him in his praise!' And We made iron malleable for him. (34:10)
Those deemed weak will say to those deemed great, 'No, it was your scheming
night and day when you commanded us to reject Allah and assign equals
to Him.' But they will show their remorse when they see the punishment.
We will put iron collars round the necks of those who disbelieve. Will
they be repaid for anything but what they did? (34:33)
We have put iron collars round their necks reaching up to the chin, so
that their heads are forced back. (36:8)
We sent Our Messengers with the Clear Signs and sent down the Book and
the Balance with them so that mankind might establish justice. And We
sent down iron in which there lies great force and which has many uses
for mankind, so that Allah might know those who help Him and His Messengers
in the Unseen. Allah is All-Strong, Almighty. (57:25)
IRRIGATION
He (Musa) said, 'He says it should be a cow not trained to plough or
irrigate the fields-completely sound, without a blemish on it.' They said,
'Now you have brought the truth.' So they sacrificed it-but they almost
did not do it. (2:71)
'ISA (AS) (JESUS)
We gave Musa the Book and sent a succession of Messengers after him.
We gave 'Isa, son of Maryam, the Clear Signs and reinforced him with the
Purest Spirit. Why then, whenever a Messenger came to you with something
your lower selves did not desire, did you grow arrogant, and deny some
of them and murder others? (2:87)
Say, 'We believe in Allah and what has been sent down to us and what
was sent down to Ibrahim and Isma'il and Ishaq and Ya'qub and the Tribes,
and what Musa and 'Isa were given, and what all the Prophets were given
by their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. We are Muslims
submitted to Him.' (2:136)
These Messengers: We favoured some of them over others. Allah spoke directly
to some of them and raised up some of them in rank. We gave Clear Signs
to 'Isa, son of Maryam, and reinforced him with the Purest Spirit. If
Allah had willed, those who came after them would not have fought each
other after the Clear Signs came to them, but they differed. Among them
there are those who believe and among them there are those who disbelieve.
If Allah had willed, they would not have fought each other. But Allah
does whatever He desires. (2:253)
When the angels said, 'Maryam, your Lord gives you good news of a Word
from Him. His name is the Messiah, 'Isa, son of Maryam, of high esteem
in this world and the hereafter, and one of those brought near. He will
speak to people in the cradle, and also when fully grown, and will be
one of the righteous,' she said, 'My Lord! How can I have a son when no
man has ever touched me?' He said, 'It will be so.' Allah creates whatever
He wills. When He decides on something, He just says to it, 'Be!' and
it is. He will teach him the Book and Wisdom, and the Torah and the Gospel,
as a Messenger to the tribe of Israel, saying: 'I have brought you a Sign
from your Lord. I will create the shape of a bird out of clay for you
and then breathe into it and it will be a bird by Allah's permission.
I will heal the blind and the leper, and bring the dead to life, by Allah's
permission. I will tell you what you eat and what you store up in your
homes. There is a Sign for you in that if you are believers. I come confirming
the Torah I find already there, and to make lawful for you some of what
was previously forbidden to you. I have brought you a Sign from your Lord.
So have fear of Allah and obey me. Allah is my Lord and your Lord so worship
Him. That is a straight path.' 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.
Our Lord, we believe in what You have sent down and have followed the
Messenger, so write us down among the witnesses.' They plotted and Allah
plotted. But Allah is the best of plotters. When Allah said, ''Isa, I
will take you back and raise you up to Me and purify you of those who
disbelieve. And I will place the people who follow you above those who
disbelieve until the Day of Rising. Then you will all return to Me, and
I will judge between you regarding the things about which you differed.'
(3:45-55)
The likeness of 'Isa in Allah's sight is the same as Adam. He created
him from earth and then He said to him, 'Be!' and he was. It is the truth
from your Lord so do not be among the doubters. (3:59-60)
Say, 'We believe in Allah and what has been sent down to us and what
was sent down to Ibrahim, Isma'il and Ishaq and Ya'qub and the Tribes,
and what Musa and 'Isa and all the Prophets were given by their Lord.
We do not differentiate between any of them. We are Muslims submitted
to Him.' (3:84)
Because of the fact that they broke their covenant, and rejected Allah's
Signs, and killed the Prophets without any right to do so and said, 'Our
hearts are uncircumcised,' Allah has stamped them with disbelief, so they
do not believe except for very few. And on account of their disbelief,
and their utterance of a monstrous slander against Maryam, and their saying,
'We killed the Messiah, 'Isa son of Maryam, Messenger of Allah.' They
did not kill him and they did not crucify him but it was made to seem
so to them. Those who argue about him are in doubt about it. They have
no real knowledge of it, just conjecture. But they certainly did not kill
him. Allah raised him up to Himself. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. 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. (4:155-159)
We have revealed to you as We revealed to Nuh and the Prophets who came
after him. And We revealed to Ibrahim and Isma'il and Ishaq and Ya'qub
and the Tribes, and 'Isa and Ayyub and Yunus and Harun and Sulayman. And
We gave Dawud the Zabur. (4:163)
People of the Book! Do not go to excess in your religion. Say nothing
but the truth about Allah. The Messiah, 'Isa son of Maryam, was only the
Messenger of Allah and His Word, which He cast into Maryam, and a Spirit
from Him. So believe in Allah and His Messengers. Do not say, 'Three.'
It is better that you stop. Allah is only One God. He is too Glorious
to have a son! Everything in the heavens and in the earth belongs to Him.
Allah suffices as a Guardian. The Messiah would never disdain to be a
servant to Allah nor would the angels near to Him. If any do disdain to
worship Him, and grow arrogant, He will in any case gather them all to
Him. (4:171-172)
Those who say, 'Allah is the Messiah, son of Maryam,' are disbelievers.
Say: 'Who possesses any power at all over Allah if He desires to destroy
the Messiah, son of Maryam, and his mother, and everyone else on earth?'
The kingdom of the heavens and the earth and everything between them belongs
to Allah. He creates whatever He wills. Allah has power over all things.
(5:17)
And We sent 'Isa son of Maryam following in their footsteps, confirming
the Torah that came before him. We gave him the Gospel containing guidance
and light, confirming the Torah that came before it, and as guidance and
admonition for those who guard against evil. (5:46)
Those who say that the Messiah, son of Maryam, is Allah are disbelievers.
The Messiah said, 'Tribe of Israel! Worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord.
If anyone associates anything with Allah, Allah has forbidden him the
Garden and his refuge will be the Fire.' The wrongdoers will have no helpers.
Those who say that Allah is the third of three are disbelievers. There
is no god but One God. If they do not stop saying what they say, a painful
punishment will afflict those among them who disbelieve. Why do they not
turn to Allah and ask for His forgiveness? Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. The Messiah, the son of Maryam, was only a Messenger, before
whom other Messengers came and went. His mother was a woman of truth.
Both of them ate food. See how We make the Signs clear to them! Then see
how they are perverted! (5:72-75)
Those among the tribe of Israel who disbelieved were cursed on the tongue
of Dawud and that of 'Isa, son of Maryam. That is because they rebelled
and overstepped the limits. (5:78)
Remember when Allah said, ''Isa, son of Maryam, remember My blessing
to you and to your mother when I reinforced you with the Purest Spirit
so that you could speak to people in the cradle and when you were fully
grown; and when I taught you the Book and Wisdom, and the Torah and the
Gospel; and when you created a bird-shape out of clay by My permission,
and then breathed into it and it became a bird by My permission; and healed
the blind and the leper by My permission; and when you brought forth the
dead by My permission; and when I held back the tribe of Israel from you,
when you brought them the Clear Signs and those of them who disbelieved
said, "This is nothing but downright magic"; and when I inspired the Disciples
to believe in Me and in My Messenger, they said, "We believe. Bear witness
that we are Muslims."' 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!' 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.' 'Isa son of Maryam said, 'Allah,
our Lord, send down a table to us out of heaven to be a feast for us,
for the first and last of us, and as a Sign from You. Provide for us!
You are the Best of Providers!' Allah said, 'I will send it down to you
but if anyone among you disbelieves after that, I will punish him with
a punishment the like of which I will not inflict on anyone else in all
the worlds!' And when Allah says, ''Isa son of Maryam! Did you say to
people, "Take me and my mother as gods besides Allah?"' he will say, 'Glory
be to You! It is not for me to say what I have no right to say! If I had
said it, then You would have known it. You know what is in my self but
I do not know what is in Your Self. You are the Knower of all unseen things.
I said to them nothing but what You ordered me to say: "Worship Allah,
my Lord and your Lord." I was a witness against them as long as I remained
among them, but when You took me back to You, You were the One watching
over them. You are Witness of all things. If You punish them, they are
Your servants. If you forgive them, You are the Almighty, the All-Wise.'
(5:110-118)
And Zakariyya, Yahya, 'Isa and Ilyas. All of them were among the righteous.
(6:85)
The Jews say, ''Uzayr is the son of Allah,' and the Christians say, 'The
Messiah is the son of Allah.' That is what they say with their mouths,
copying the words of those who disbelieved before. Allah fight them! How
perverted they are! They have taken their rabbis and monks as lords besides
Allah, and also the Messiah, son of Maryam. Yet they were commanded to
worship only one God. There is no god but Him! Glory be to Him above anything
they associate with Him! (9:30-31)
Mention Maryam in the Book, how she withdrew from her people to an eastern
place, and veiled herself from them. Then We sent Our Spirit to her and
it took on for her the form of a handsome, well-built man. She said, 'I
seek refuge from you with the All-Merciful if you guard against evil.'
He said, 'I am only your Lord's messenger so that He can give you a pure
boy.' She said, 'How can I have a boy when no man has touched me and I
am not an unchaste woman?' He said, 'It will be so! Your Lord says, "That
is easy for Me. It is so that We can make him a Sign for mankind and a
mercy from Us." It is a matter already decreed.' So she conceived him
and withdrew with him to a distant place. The pains of labour drove her
to the trunk of a date-palm. She said, 'Oh if only I had died before this
time and was something discarded and forgotten!' A voice called out to
her from under her, 'Do not grieve! Your Lord has placed a small stream
at your feet. Shake the trunk of the palm towards you and fresh, ripe
dates will drop down onto you. 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."' She
brought him to her people, carrying him. They said, 'Maryam! You have
done an unthinkable thing! Sister of Harun, your father was not an evil
man nor was your mother an unchaste woman!' She pointed towards him. They
said, 'How can a baby in the cradle speak?' He said, 'I am the servant
of Allah, He has given me the Book and made me a Prophet. He has made
me blessed wherever I am and directed me to perform prayer and give the
alms as long as I live, and to show devotion to my mother. He has not
made me insolent or arrogant. Peace be upon me the day I was born, and
the day I die and the day I am raised up again alive.' That is 'Isa, son
of Maryam, the word of truth about which they are in doubt. It is not
fitting for Allah to have a son. Glory be to Him! When He decides on something,
He just says to it, 'Be!' and it is. (19:16-35)
And We made the son of Maryam and his mother a Sign and gave them shelter
on a mountainside where there was a meadow and a flowing spring. (23:50)
When We made a covenant with all the Prophets-with you and with Nuh and
Ibrahim and Musa and 'Isa son of Maryam-We made a binding covenant with
them. (33:7)
He has laid down the same religion for you as He enjoined on Nuh: that
which We have revealed to you and which We enjoined on Ibrahim, Musa and
'Isa: 'Establish the religion and do not make divisions in it.' What you
call the idolaters to follow is very hard for them. Allah chooses for
Himself anyone He wills and guides to Himself those who turn to Him. (42:13)
When an example is made of the son of Maryam your people laugh uproariously.
They retort, 'Who is better then, our gods or him?' They only say this
to you for argument's sake. They are indeed a disputatious people. He
is only a servant on whom We bestowed Our blessing and whom We made an
example for the tribe of Israel. If We wished We could appoint angels
in exchange for you to succeed you on the earth. He is a Sign of the Hour.
Have no doubt about it. But follow me. This is a straight path. Do not
let Satan bar your way. He truly is an outright enemy to you. And when
'Isa came with the Clear Signs, he said, 'I have come to you with Wisdom
and to clarify for you some of the things about which you have differed.
Therefore have fear of Allah and obey me. Allah is my Lord and your Lord
so worship Him. This is a straight path.' The various factions among them
differed. Woe then to those who did wrong on account of the punishment
of a painful Day! (43:57-65)
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)
And when 'Isa son of Maryam said, 'Tribe of Israel, I am the Messenger
of Allah to you, confirming the Torah which came before me and giving
you the good news of a Messenger after me whose name is Ahmad.' When he
brought them the Clear Signs, they said, 'This is downright magic.' (61:6)
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)
ISHAQ (AS)
Or were you present when death came to Ya'qub and he said to his sons,
'What will you worship when I have gone?' They said, 'We will worship
your God, the God of your forefathers, Ibrahim, Isma'il and Ishaq-one
God. We are Muslims submitted to Him.' (2:133)
Say, 'We believe in Allah and what has been sent down to us and what
was sent down to Ibrahim and Isma'il and Ishaq and Ya'qub and the Tribes,
and what Musa and 'Isa were given, and what all the Prophets were given
by their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. We are Muslims
submitted to Him.' (2:136)
Say, 'We believe in Allah and what has been sent down to us and what
was sent down to Ibrahim, Isma'il and Ishaq and Ya'qub and the Tribes,
and what Musa and 'Isa and all the Prophets were given by their Lord.
We do not differentiate between any of them. We are Muslims submitted
to Him.' (3:84)
We have revealed to you as We revealed to Nuh and the Prophets who came
after him. And We revealed to Ibrahim and Isma'il and Ishaq and Ya'qub
and the Tribes, and 'Isa and Ayyub and Yunus and Harun and Sulayman. And
We gave Dawud the Zabur. (4:163)
His wife was standing there and she laughed out loud. So We gave her
the good news of Ishaq, and beyond Ishaq, Ya'qub. (11:71)
(Ya'qub said to Yusuf,) 'Accordingly your Lord will pick you out and
teach you the true meaning of events and perfectly fulfil His blessing
on you as well as on the family of Ya'qub as He fulfilled it perfectly
before upon your forebears, Ibrahim and Ishaq. Most certainly your Lord
is Knowing, Wise.' (12:6)
(Yusuf said,) 'I hold fast to the creed of my forebears Ibrahim and Ishaq
and Ya'qub. We don't associate anything with Allah. And that is how Allah
has favoured us and all mankind, but most do not give thanks.' (12:38)
(Ibrahim said,) 'Praise be to Allah Who, despite my old age, has given
me Isma'il and Ishaq. My Lord is the Hearer of Prayer.' (14:39)
And in addition to that We gave him Ishaq and Ya'qub and made both of
them righteous. (21:72)
We gave him the good news of Ishaq, a Prophet, one of the righteous.
(37:112)
ISLAM
You who believe! Enter Islam totally. Do not follow in the footsteps
of Satan. He is an outright enemy to you. (2:208)
The religion with Allah is Islam. Those given the Book only differed
after knowledge had come to them, envying one another. As for those who
reject Allah's Signs, Allah is swift at reckoning. (3:19)
If anyone desires anything other than Islam as a religion, it will not
be accepted from him, and in the hereafter he will be among the losers.
(3:85)
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)
When Allah desires to guide someone, He expands his breast to Islam.
When He desires to misguide someone, He makes his breast narrow and constricted
as if he were climbing up into the sky. That is how Allah defiles those
who have no faith. (6:125)
They swear by Allah that they said nothing, but they definitely spoke
the word of disbelief and returned to disbelief after their Islam. They
planned something which they did not achieve and they were vindictive
for no other cause than that Allah and His Messenger had enriched them
from His bounty. If they were to repent, it would be better for them.
But if they turn away, Allah will punish them with a painful punishment
in this world and the hereafter, and they will not find any protector
or helper on the earth. (9:74)
Is he whose breast is opened to Islam, and who is therefore illuminated
by his Lord...? Woe to those whose hearts are hardened against the remembrance
of Allah! Such people are clearly misguided. (39:22)
Who could do greater wrong than someone who invents a lie against Allah
when he has been called to Islam? Allah does not guide wrongdoing people.
(61:7)
ISMA'IL (AS)
And when We made the House (Kaaba) a place of return, a sanctuary for
mankind: They took the place where Ibrahim stood (to pray) as a place
of prayer. We contracted with Ibrahim and Isma'il: 'Purify My House for
those who circle it, and those who stay there, and those who bow and who
prostrate.' (2:125)
And when Ibrahim built the foundations of the House with Isma'il: 'Our
Lord, accept this from us! You are the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.'
(2:127)
Or were you present when death came to Ya'qub and he said to his sons,
'What will you worship when I have gone?' They said, 'We will worship
your God, the God of your forefathers, Ibrahim, Isma'il and Ishaq-one
God. We are Muslims submitted to Him.' (2:133)
Say, 'We believe in Allah and what has been sent down to us and what
was sent down to Ibrahim and Isma'il and Ishaq and Ya'qub and the Tribes,
and what Musa and 'Isa were given, and what all the Prophets were given
by their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. We are Muslims
submitted to Him.' (2:136)
Or do they say that Ibrahim and Isma'il and Ishaq and Ya'qub and the
Tribes were Jews or Christians? Say, 'Do you know better or does Allah?'
Who could do greater wrong than someone who hides the evidence he has
been given by Allah? Allah is not unaware of what you do. (2:140)
Say, 'We believe in Allah and what has been sent down to us and what
was sent down to Ibrahim, Isma'il and Ishaq and Ya'qub and the Tribes,
and what Musa and 'Isa and all the Prophets were given by their Lord.
We do not differentiate between any of them. We are Muslims submitted
to Him.' (3:84)
We have revealed to you as We revealed to Nuh and the Prophets who came
after him. And We revealed to Ibrahim and Isma'il and Ishaq and Ya'qub
and the Tribes, and 'Isa and Ayyub and Yunus and Harun and Sulayman. And
We gave Dawud the Zabur. (4:163)
And Isma'il, al-Yasa', Yunus and Lut. All of them We favoured over all
beings. (6:86)
(Ibrahim said,) 'Praise be to Allah Who, despite my old age, has given
me Isma'il and Ishaq. My Lord is the Hearer of Prayer.' (14:39)
Mention Isma'il in the Book. He was true to his promise and was a Messenger
and a Prophet. He used to command his people to perform prayer and give
the alms and he was pleasing to his Lord. (19:54-55)
And Isma'il and Idris and Dhu'l-Kifl-each one was among the steadfast.
(21:85)
Remember Our servants Isma'il, Al-Yasa' and Dhu'l-Kifl; each of them
was among the best of men. (38:48)
ISRAEL
All food was lawful for the tribe of Israel except what Israel made unlawful
for himself before the Torah was sent down. Say, 'Bring the Torah and
read it out if you are telling the truth.' (3:93)
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)
ITIKAAF
On the night of the fast it is lawful for you to have sexual relations
with your wives. They are clothing for you and you for them. Allah knows
that you have been betraying yourselves and He has turned towards you
and excused you. Now you may have sexual intercourse with them and seek
what Allah has written for you. Eat and drink until you can clearly discern
the white thread from the black thread of the dawn, then fulfil the fast
until the night appears. But do not have sexual intercourse with them
while you are in retreat in the mosques. These are Allah's limits, so
do not go near them. In this way does Allah make His Signs clear to people
so that hopefully they will guard against evil. (Qur'an, 2:187)
The angels called out to him while he (Zakariyya) was standing in prayer
in the Upper Room: 'Allah gives you the good news of Yahya, who will come
to confirm a Word from Allah, and will be a leader and a celibate, a Prophet
and one of the righteous.' (Qur'an, 3:39)
They are not all the same. There is a community among the People of the
Book who are upright. They recite Allah's Signs throughout the night,
and they prostrate. (Qur'an, 3:113)
"IT IS AS ALLAH WILLS" (MASHA'LLAH)
(His companion said to him,) '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,' (18:39)
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