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LEGION
It is He Who sent down serenity into the hearts of the believers thereby
increasing their faith with more faith-the legions of the heavens and
the earth belong to Allah. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (48:4)
The legions of the heavens and the earth belong to Allah. Allah is Almighty,
All-Wise. (48:7)
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)
Has the story reached you of the legions? (85:17)
LENTIL
And when you said, 'Musa, we will not put up with just one kind of food
so ask your Lord to supply to us some of what the earth produces-its green
vegetables, cucumbers, grains, lentils and onions,' he said, 'Do you want
to replace what is better with what is inferior? Go back to Egypt, then
you will have what you are asking for.' Abasement and destitution were
stamped upon them. They brought down anger from Allah upon themselves.
That was because they rejected Allah's Signs and killed the Prophets without
any right to do so. That was because they rebelled and went beyond the
limits. (2:61)
LEPER
He will teach him ('Isa) the Book and Wisdom, and the Torah and the Gospel,
as a Messenger to the tribe of Israel, saying: 'I have brought you a Sign
from your Lord. I will create the shape of a bird out of clay for you
and then breathe into it and it will be a bird by Allah's permission.
I will heal the blind and the leper, and bring the dead to life, by Allah's
permission. I will tell you what you eat and what you store up in your
homes. There is a Sign for you in that if you are believers.' (3:48-49)
Remember when Allah said, ''Isa, son of Maryam, remember My blessing
to you and to your mother when I reinforced you with the Purest Spirit
so that you could speak to people in the cradle and when you were fully
grown; and when I taught you the Book and Wisdom, and the Torah and the
Gospel; and when you created a bird-shape out of clay by My permission,
and then breathed into it and it became a bird by My permission; and healed
the blind and the leper by My permission; and when you brought forth the
dead by My permission; and when I held back the tribe of Israel from you,
when you brought them the Clear Signs and those of them who disbelieved
said, "This is nothing but downright magic";' (5:110)
LESSON
As for thieves, both male and female, cut off their hands in reprisal
for what they have done: an object lesson from Allah. Allah is Almighty,
All-Wise. (5:38)
And there is certainly a lesson for you in your livestock. We give you
to drink from what is in their bellies and there are many ways in which
you benefit from them, and some of them you eat. (23:21)
Allah revolves night and day. There is surely a lesson in that for people
with inner sight. (24:44)
LIE
Among them is a group who distort the Book with their tongues so that
you think it is from the Book when it is not from the Book. They say,
'It is from Allah,' but it is not from Allah. They tell a lie against
Allah and they know it. (3:78)
So any who, after this, invent a lie against Allah are indeed wrongdoers.
(3:94)
Who could do greater wrong than someone who invents lies against Allah
or denies His Signs? The wrongdoers are certainly not successful. (6:21)
Who could do greater wrong than someone who invents lies against Allah
or denies His Signs, or who says, 'It has been revealed to me,' when nothing
has been revealed to him, or someone who says, 'I will send down the same
as Allah has sent down'? If you could only see the wrongdoers in the throes
of death when the angels are stretching out their hands, saying, 'Disgorge
your own selves! Today you will be repaid with the punishment of humiliation
for saying something other than the truth about Allah, and being arrogant
about His Signs.' (6:93)
Those who kill their children foolishly without any knowledge and make
what Allah has provided for them forbidden, inventing lies against Allah,
such people are lost. They are misguided. They are not guided. (6:140)
And a pair of camels and a pair of cattle-Say: 'Is it the two males He
has made forbidden, or the two females, or what the wombs of the two females
contain? Were you then witnesses when Allah gave you this instruction?'
Who could do greater wrong than someone who invents lies against Allah
thus leading people astray without any knowledge? Allah does not guide
the people of the wrongdoers. (6:144)
Who could do greater wrong than someone who invents lies against Allah
or denies His Signs? Such people's portion of the Book will catch up with
them so that when Our messengers come to them to take them in death, saying,
'Where are those you called upon besides Allah?' they will say, 'They
have forsaken us,' testifying against themselves that they were disbelievers.
(7:37)
(Shu'ayb said,) 'We would be inventing lies against Allah if we returned
to your religion after Allah has saved us from it. We could never return
to it unless Allah our Lord so willed. Our Lord encompasses everything
in His knowledge. We have put our trust in Allah. Our Lord, judge between
us and our people with truth. You are the best of judges.' (7:89)
Who could do greater wrong than someone who invents lies against Allah
or denies His Signs? Evildoers are certainly not successful. (10:17)
Say: 'What do you think about the things Allah has sent down to you as
provision which you have then designated as lawful and forbidden?' Say:
'Has Allah given you authority to do this or are you inventing lies against
Allah?' (10:59)
What will those who invent lies against Allah think on the Day of Rising?
Allah shows favour to mankind but most of them are not thankful. (10:60)
Say: 'People who invent lies against Allah will not be successful.' (10:69)
Who could do greater wrong than those who invent lies against Allah?
Such people will be arrayed before their Lord and the witnesses will say,
'Those are the ones who lied against their Lord.' Yes indeed! Allah's
curse is on the wrongdoers. (11:18)
Those who do not believe in Allah's Signs are merely inventing lies.
It is they who are the liars. (16:105)
Do not say about what your lying tongues describe: 'This is lawful and
this is forbidden,' inventing lies against Allah. Those who invent lies
against Allah are not successful. (16:116)
(The Companions of the Cave said,) 'These people of ours have taken gods
apart from Him. Why do they not produce a clear authority concerning them?
Who could do greater wrong than someone who invents a lie against Allah?'
(18:15)
That is it. If someone honours Allah's sacred things, that is better
for him in his Lord's sight. All livestock are permitted to you except
what has already been recited to you. Have done with the defilement of
idols and have done with telling lies. (22:30)
(The ruling circle of his people said,) 'What is he but a man who has
invented a lie against Allah? We do not believe in him.' (23:38)
There is a group of you who propagated the lie. Do not suppose it to
be bad for you; rather it is good for you. Every one of them will incur
the evil he has earned and the one who took it on himself to amplify it
will receive a terrible punishment. (24:11)
Why, when you heard it, did you not, as men and women of the believers,
instinctively think good thoughts and say, 'This is obviously a lie'?
(24:12)
Those who disbelieve say, 'This is nothing but a lie he has invented
and other people have helped him to do it. They have brought injustice
and falsehood.' (25:4)
(Ibrahim said to his people,) 'Instead of Allah you worship only idols.
You are inventing a lie. Those you worship besides Allah have no power
to provide for you. So seek your provision from Allah and worship Him
and give thanks to Him. It is to Him you will be returned.' (29:17)
Who could do greater wrong than someone who invents lies against Allah
or denies the truth when it comes to him? Is there not shelter in Hell
for the disbelievers? (29:68)
(Those who disbelieve say,) 'Has he invented a lie against Allah or is
he possessed?' No indeed! Those who do not believe in the hereafter are
in punishment and deeply misguided. (34:8)
When Our Clear Signs are recited to them, they say, 'This is nothing
but a man who wants to debar you from what your fathers used to worship.'
They say, 'This is nothing but an invented lie.' Those who disbelieve
say to the truth when it comes to them, 'This is nothing but downright
magic.' (34:43)
Or do they ask, 'Has he invented a lie about Allah?' If Allah willed,
He could seal up your heart. By His Words Allah wipes out the false and
confirms the truth. He knows what the heart contains. (42:24)
Woe to every wicked liar. (45:7)
O Prophet! When women who believe come to you pledging allegiance to
you on the grounds that they will not associate anything with Allah or
steal or fornicate or kill their children or give a false ascription of
paternity-making up lies about their bodies-or disobey you in respect
of anything right, then accept their pledge and ask forgiveness for them.
Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (60:12)
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)
LIGHT
Allah is the Protector of those who believe. He brings them out of the
darkness into the light. But those who disbelieve have false gods as protectors.
They take them from the light into the darkness. Those are the Companions
of the Fire remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (2:257)
Mankind! A clear proof has come to you from your Lord. We have sent down
a Clear Light to you. (4:174)
People of the Book! Our Messenger has come to you, making clear to you
much of the Book that you have kept concealed, and passing over a lot.
A Light has come to you from Allah and a Clear Book. (5:15)
By it, Allah guides those who follow what pleases Him to the ways of
Peace. He will bring them from the darkness to the light by His permission,
and guide them to a straight path. (5:16)
We sent down the Torah containing guidance and light, and the Prophets
who had submitted themselves gave judgement by it for the Jews-as did
their scholars and their rabbis-by what they had been allowed to preserve
of Allah's Book to which they were witnesses. Do not be afraid of people,
be afraid of Me. And do not sell My Signs for a paltry price. Those who
do not judge by what Allah has sent down, such people are disbelievers.
(5:44)
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)
Praise belongs to Allah Who created the heavens and the earth and appointed
darkness and light. Then those who disbelieve make others equal to their
Lord! (6:1)
They do not measure Allah with His true measure when they say, 'Allah
would not send down anything to a mere human being.' Say: 'Who, then,
sent down the Book which Musa brought as a Light and Guidance for the
people?' You put it down on sheets of paper to display it while concealing
much. You were taught things you did not know, neither you nor your forefathers.
Say: 'Allah!' Then leave them engrossed in playing their games. (6:91)
Is someone who was dead and whom We brought to life, supplying him with
a light by which to walk among people, the same as someone who is in utter
darkness, unable to emerge from it? That is how what they were doing is
made to seem attractive to the disbelievers. (6:122)
(Allah said, 'Believers are) those who follow the Messenger, the Ummi,
whom they find written down with them in the Torah and the Gospel, commanding
them to do right and forbidding them to do wrong, making good things lawful
for them and bad things forbidden for them, relieving them of their heavy
loads and the chains which were around them. Those who believe in him
and honour him and help him, and follow the Light that has been sent down
with him, they are the ones who are successful.' (7:157)
They desire to extinguish Allah's Light with their mouths. But Allah
refuses to do other than perfect His Light, even though the disbelievers
detest it. (9:32)
It is He Who appointed the sun to give radiance, and the moon to give
light, assigning it phases so you would know the number of years and the
reckoning of time. Allah did not create these things except with truth.
We make the Signs clear for people who know. (10:5)
They want you to hasten the bad rather than the good when examples of
punishment are there before them in the past. Your Lord has forgiveness
for people for their wrongdoing; but your Lord is also severe in retribution.
(13:6)
Alif Lam Ra. This is a Book We have sent down to you so that you can
bring mankind from the darkness to the light, by the permission of their
Lord, to the Path of the Almighty, the Praiseworthy. (14:1)
We sent Musa with Our Signs: 'Bring your people from the darkness to
the light and remind them of the Days of Allah.' There are certainly Signs
in that for everyone who is steadfast, thankful. (14:5)
Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The metaphor of His
Light is that of a niche in which is a lamp, the lamp inside a glass,
the glass like a brilliant star, lit from a blessed tree, an olive, neither
of the east nor of the west, its oil all but giving off light even if
no fire touches it. Light upon Light. Allah guides to His Light whoever
He wills and Allah makes metaphors for mankind and Allah has knowledge
of all things. (24:35)
Or they are like the darkness of a fathomless sea which is covered by
waves above which are waves above which are clouds, layers of darkness,
one upon the other. If he puts out his hand, he can scarcely see it. Those
Allah gives no light to, they have no light. (24:40)
It is He Who calls down blessing on you, as do His angels, to bring you
out of the darkness into the light. He is Most Merciful to the believers.
(33:43)
O Prophet! We have sent you as a witness, and a bringer of good news
and a warner, and a caller to Allah by His permission and a light-giving
lamp. (33:45-46)
And the earth will shine with the Pure Light of its Lord; the Book will
be put in place; the Prophets and witnesses will be brought; it will be
decided between them with the truth; and they will not be wronged. (39:69)
Accordingly We have revealed to you a Spirit by Our command. You had
no idea of what the Book was, nor faith. Nonetheless We have made it a
Light by which We guide those of Our servants We will. Truly you are guiding
to a Straight Path. (42:52)
It is He Who sends down Clear Signs to His servant to bring you out of
the darkness to the light. Allah is All-Gentle with you, Most Merciful.
(57:9)
On the Day you see the men and women of the believers, with their light
streaming out in front of them, and to their right: 'Good news for you
today of Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly,
for ever. That is the Great Victory.' (57:12)
That Day the men and women of the hypocrites will say to those who believe,
'Wait for us so that we can borrow some of your light.' They will be told,
'Go back and look for light!' And a wall will be erected between them
with a gate in it, on the inside of which there will be mercy but before
whose exterior lies the punishment. (57:13)
Those who believe in Allah and His Messengers-such people are the truly
sincere-and the martyrs who are with their Lord will receive their wages
and their light. But those who disbelieve and deny Our Signs, will be
Companions of the Blazing Fire. (57:19)
You who believe! Have fear of Allah and believe in His Messenger. He
will give you a double portion of His mercy and grant you a Light by which
to walk and forgive you. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (57:28)
So believe in Allah and His Messenger and in the Light We have sent down.
Allah is aware of what you do. (64:8)
(Allah has sent down) a Messenger reciting Allah's Clear Signs to you
to bring those who believe and do right actions out of the darkness into
the Light. Whoever believes in Allah and acts rightly, We will admit him
into Gardens with rivers flowing under them remaining in them timelessly,
for ever and ever. Allah has provided for him excellently! (65:11)
You who believe! Repent to Allah. It may be that your Lord will erase
your bad actions from you and admit you into Gardens with rivers flowing
under them on the Day when Allah will not disgrace the Prophet and those
who believed along with him. Their light will stream out ahead of them
and on their right. They will say, 'Our Lord, perfect our light for us
and forgive us! You have power over all things.' (66:8)
Do you not see how He created seven heavens in layers, and placed the
moon as a light in them and made the sun a blazing lamp? (71:15-16)
LIGHTNING
Or (their likeness is) that of a storm-cloud in the sky, full of darkness,
thunder and lightning. They put their fingers in their ears against the
thunderclaps, fearful of death. Allah encompasses the disbelievers. (2:19)
The lightning all but takes away their sight. Whenever they have light,
they walk in it but whenever darkness covers them, they halt. If Allah
wished, He could take away their hearing and their sight. Allah has power
over all things. (2:20)
The People of the Book will ask you to bring down a Book from heaven
to them. They asked Musa for even more than that. They said, 'Let us see
Allah with our own eyes.' So the lightning-bolt struck them down for their
wrongdoing. Then they adopted the Calf after the Clear Signs had come
to them, but We pardoned them for that and gave Musa clear authority.
(4:153)
It is He Who shows you the lightning, striking fear and bringing hope;
it is He Who heaps up the heavy clouds. (13:12)
Do you not see that Allah propels the clouds then makes them coalesce
then heaps them up, and then you see the rain come pouring out of the
middle of them? And He sends down mountains from the sky with hail inside
them, striking with it anyone He wills and averting it from anyone He
wills. The brightness of His lightning almost blinds the sight. (24:43)
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)
If they turn away, then say, 'I warn you of a lightning-bolt like the
lightning-bolt of 'Ad and of Thamud.' (41:13)
As for Thamud, We guided them, but they preferred blindness to guidance.
So the lightning-bolt of the punishment of humiliation seized them on
account of what they earned. (41:17)
LIKENESS
Their likeness is that of people who light a fire, and then when it has
lit up all around them, Allah removes their light. (2:17)
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)
You who believe! Do not nullify your charity by demands for gratitude
or insulting words, like him who spends his wealth, showing off to people
and not believing in Allah and the Last Day. His likeness is that of a
smooth rock coated with soil, which, when heavy rain falls on it, is left
stripped bare. They have no power over anything they have earned. Allah
does not guide disbelieving people. (2:264)
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. (3:59)
The likeness of the two groups is that of the blind and deaf and the
seeing and hearing. Are they the same as one another? So will you not
pay heed? (11:24)
Those who do not believe in the akhira have an evil likeness. Allah's
is the Highest Likeness. He is the Almighty, the All-Wise. (16:60)
Look how they make likenesses of you and go astray. They are unable to
find their way. (17:48)
They bring you no similitude but We bring you the truth and the best
of explanations (as against it). (25:33)
He makes likenesses of Us and forgets his own creation, saying, 'Who
will give life to bones when they are decayed?' (36:78)
Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and those who are with him are fierce
to the disbelievers, merciful to one another. You see them bowing and
prostrating, seeking Allah's good favour and His pleasure. Their mark
is on their faces, the traces of prostration. That is their likeness in
the Torah. And their likeness in the Gospel is that of a seed which puts
up a shoot and makes it strong so that it thickens and grows up straight
upon its stalk, filling the sowers with delight-so that by them He may
infuriate the disbelievers. Allah has promised those of them who believe
and do right actions forgiveness and an immense reward. (48:29)
LINING
They will be reclining on couches lined with rich brocade, the fruits
of the Gardens hanging close to hand. (55:54)
LION
What is the matter with them that they run from the Reminder like panicked
donkeys, fleeing from a lion? (74:49-51)
LIP
The Fire will sear their faces, making them grimace horribly in it, their
lips drawn back from their teeth. (23:104)
Have We not given him two eyes, and a tongue and two lips and shown him
the two highways? (90:8-10)
LITTLE BY LITTLE
We have divided up the Qur'an, so you can recite it to mankind at intervals,
and We have sent it down little by little. (17:106)
It is We Who have sent the Qur'an down to you little by little. (76:23)
LIVELIHOOD
We have established you firmly on the earth and granted you your livelihood
in it. What little thanks you show! (7:10)
And We put livelihoods in it both for you and for those you do not provide
for. (15:20)
Is it, then, they who allocate the mercy of your Lord? We have allocated
their livelihood among them in the life of this world and raised some
of them above others in rank so that some of them are subservient to others.
But the mercy of your Lord is better than anything they amass. (43:32)
We made the day for earning a living. (78:11)
LIVESTOCK
To mankind the love of worldly appetites is painted in glowing colours:
women and children, and heaped-up mounds of gold and silver, and horses
with fine markings, and livestock and fertile farmland. All that is merely
the enjoyment of the life of this world. The best homecoming is in the
presence of Allah. (3:14)
You who believe! Fulfil your contracts. All livestock animals are lawful
for you, except those that are recited to you now; but it is still not
lawful to hunt while you are in the state of pilgrimage. Allah makes whatever
judgements He wills. (5:1)
You who believe! Do not kill game while you are in the state of pilgrimage.
If one of you kills any deliberately, the reprisal for it is a livestock
animal equivalent to what he killed, as judged by two just men among you,
a sacrifice to reach the Kaaba, or expiation by feeding the poor, or fasting
commensurate with that, so that he may taste the evil consequences of
what he did. Allah has pardoned all that took place in the past; but if
anyone does it again Allah will take revenge on him. Allah is Almighty,
Exactor of Revenge. (5:95)
They assign to Allah a share of the crops and livestock He has created,
saying, 'This is for Allah,'-as they allege-'and this is for our idols.'
Their idols' share does not reach Allah whereas Allah's share reaches
their idols! What an evil judgement they make! (6:136)
And He created livestock. There is warmth for you in them, and various
uses and some you eat. (16:5)
Announce the Pilgrimage to mankind. They will come to you on foot and
on every sort of lean animal, coming by every distant road so that they
can be present at what will profit them and invoke Allah's name on specific
days over livestock He has provided for them. Eat of them and feed those
who are poor and in need. (22:27-28)
That is it. If someone honours Allah's sacred things, that is better
for him in his Lord's sight. All livestock are permitted to you except
what has already been recited to you. Have done with the defilement of
idols and have done with telling lies. (22:30)
We have appointed a rite of sacrifice for every nation so that they may
invoke Allah's name over the livestock He has given them. Your God is
One God so submit to Him. Give good news to the humble-hearted. (22:34)
And there is certainly a lesson for you in your livestock. We give you
to drink from what is in their bellies and there are many ways in which
you benefit from them, and some of them you eat. (23:21)
Have fear of Him Who has supplied you with what you know, supplied you
with livestock and children. (26:132-133)
Do they not see how We drive water to barren land and bring forth crops
by it which their livestock and they themselves both eat? So will they
not see? (32:27)
And mankind and beasts and livestock are likewise of varying colours.
Only those of His servants with knowledge have fear of Allah. Allah is
Almighty, Ever-Forgiving. (35:28)
Have they not seen how We created for them, by Our own handiwork, livestock
which are under their control? (36:71)
He created you from a single self, then produced its mate from it, and
sent down livestock to you-eight kinds in pairs. He creates you stage
by stage in your mothers' wombs in a threefold darkness. That is Allah,
your Lord. Sovereignty is His. There is no god but Him. So what has made
you deviate? (39:6)
It is Allah Who has given you livestock, some for you to ride and some
to eat. (40:79)
(He is) the Bringer into Being of the heavens and the earth: He has given
you mates from among yourselves, and given mates to the livestock, in
that way multiplying you. Nothing is like Him. He is the All-Hearing,
the All-Seeing. (42:11)
It is He Who created all the species and gave you ships and livestock
for you to ride. (43:12)
And (He) made the mountains firm, for you and for your livestock to enjoy.
(79:32-33)
Then We make grain grow in it, and grapes and herbs and olives and dates
and luxuriant gardens and orchards and meadows, for you and your livestock
to enjoy. (80:27-32)
LOCUST
So We sent down on them floods, locusts, lice, frogs and blood, Signs,
clear and distinct, but they proved arrogant and were an evildoing people.
(7:133)
They will emerge from their graves with downcast eyes, like swarming
locusts. (54:7)
LONGING
You were longing for death before you met it. Now you have seen it with
your own eyes. (3:143)
Do not direct your eyes longingly to what We have given certain of them
to enjoy. Do not feel sad concerning them. And take the believers under
your wing. (15:88)
Do not direct your eyes longingly to what We have given certain of them
to enjoy, the flower of the life of this world, so that We can test them
by it. Your Lord's provision is better and longer lasting. (20:131)
LOSS
Those who break Allah's contract after it has been agreed, and sever
what Allah has commanded to be joined, and cause corruption on the earth,
it is they who are the lost. (2:27)
Then after that you turned away, and were it not for Allah's favour to
you and His mercy, you would have been among the lost. (2:64)
Those to whom We have given the Book, who recite it in the way it should
be recited, such people believe in it. As for those who reject it, they
are the losers. (2:121)
We will test you with a certain amount of fear and hunger and loss of
wealth and life and fruits. But give good news to the steadfast. (2:155)
You who believe! If you obey those who disbelieve, they will turn you
round on your heels and you will be transformed into losers. (3:149)
(Satan said,) 'I will lead them astray and fill them with false hopes.
I will command them and they will cut off cattle's ears. I will command
them and they will change Allah's creation.' Anyone who takes Satan as
his protector in place of Allah has clearly lost everything. (4:119)
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)
So his lower self persuaded him to kill his brother, and he killed him
and became one of the lost. (5:30)
Those who believe say, 'Are these the people who swore by Allah, with
their most earnest oaths, that they were with you?' Their actions have
come to nothing and they now are losers. (5:53)
Say: 'To whom does everything in the heavens and earth belong?' Say:
'To Allah.' He has made mercy incumbent on Himself. He will gather you
to the Day of Rising about which there is no doubt. As for those who have
lost their own selves, they have no faith. (6:12)
Those We have given the Book recognise it as they recognise their own
children. As for those who have lost their own selves, they have no faith.
(6:20)
Those who deny the meeting with Allah have lost, so that, when the Hour
comes upon them suddenly, they will say, 'Alas for what we neglected there!'
They will bear their burdens on their backs. How evil is what they bear!
(6:31)
Those who kill their children foolishly without any knowledge and make
what Allah has provided for them forbidden, inventing lies against Allah,
such people are lost. They are misguided. They are not guided. (6:140)
As for those whose scales are light, they are the ones who have lost
their own selves because they wrongfully rejected Our Signs. (7:9)
They said, 'Our Lord, we have wronged ourselves. If you do not forgive
us and have mercy on us, we will be among the lost.' (7:23)
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)
The ruling circle of those of his people who disbelieved said, 'If you
follow Shu'ayb, you will definitely be lost.' (7:90)
As for those who denied Shu'ayb, it was as if they had never lived there.
It was the people who denied Shu'ayb who were the lost. (7:92)
Do they feel secure against Allah's devising? No one feels secure against
Allah's devising except for those who are lost. (7:99)
When they took full stock of what they had done and saw they had been
misled, they said, 'If our Lord does not have mercy on us and forgive
us, we will certainly be among the lost.' (7:149)
Whoever Allah guides is truly guided; but those He misguides are the
lost. (7:178)
(It is) so that Allah can sift the bad out from the good, and pile the
bad on top of one another, heaping them all together, and tip them into
Hell. They are the lost. (8:37)
Like those before you who had greater strength than you and more wealth
and children. They enjoyed their portion; so enjoy your portion as those
before you enjoyed theirs. You have plunged into defamation as they plunged
into it. The actions of such people come to nothing in this world or the
hereafter. They are the lost. (9:69)
On the day We gather them together-when it will seem if they had tarried
no more than an hour of a single day-they will recognise one another.
Those who denied the meeting with Allah will have lost. They were not
guided. (10:45)
And on no account be among those who deny Allah's Signs and so become
one of the lost. (10:95)
Those are the people who have lost their own selves. What they invented
has abandoned them. (11:21)
Without question they will be the greatest losers in the hereafter. (11:22)
He (Nuh) said, 'My Lord, I seek refuge with You from asking You for anything
about which I have no knowledge. If You do not forgive me and have mercy
on me, I will be among the lost.' (11:47)
He (Salih) said, 'My people! What do you think? If I were to possess
a Clear Sign from my Lord and He had given me mercy from Him: who would
help me against Allah if I disobeyed Him? You would not increase me in
anything but loss.' (11:63)
We send down in the Qur'an that which is a healing and a mercy to the
believers, but it only increases the wrongdoers in loss. (17:82)
Both gardens yielded their crops and did not suffer any loss, and We
made a river flow right through the middle of them. (18:33)
Say: 'Shall I inform you of the greatest losers in their actions?' (18:103)
They desired to trap him but We made them the losers. (21:70)
Among the people there is one who worships Allah right on the edge. If
good befalls him, he is content with it, but if a trial befalls him, he
reverts to his former ways, losing both this world and the hereafter.
That is indeed sheer loss. (22:11)
If you were to obey a human being like yourselves, you would, in that
case, definitely be the losers. (23:34)
Those whose scales are light, they are the losers of their selves, remaining
in Hell timelessly, for ever. (23:103)
Say: 'Allah is a sufficient witness between me and you.' He knows everything
in the heavens and the earth. Those who believe in falsehood and reject
Allah, they are the losers. (29:52)
It is He Who made you representatives on the earth. So whoever disbelieves,
his disbelief is against himself. In Allah's sight, the disbelief of the
disbelievers only increases their loathsomeness; the disbelief of the
disbelievers only increases their loss. (35:39)
Say: 'It is Allah I worship, making my religion sincerely His, so worship
anything you will apart from Him!' Say: 'The real losers are those who
lose themselves and their families on the Day of Rising.' Is not that
clear loss? (39:14-15)
The keys of the heavens and earth belong to Him. It is those who reject
Allah's Signs who are the losers. (39:63)
It has been revealed to you and those before you: 'If you associate others
with Allah, your actions will come to nothing and you will be among the
losers.' (39:65)
We sent Messengers before you. Some of them We have told you about and
others We have not told you about. No Messenger can bring a Sign except
with Allah's permission. But when Allah's command comes the matter will
be decided with truth and then and there the liars will be lost. (40:78)
But when they saw Our violent force their faith was of no use to them.
That is the pattern Allah has always followed with His servants. Then
and there the disbelievers were lost. (40:85)
(Skins of the enemies of Allah will say,) 'It is that thought you had
about your Lord that has destroyed you so now you find yourselves among
the lost.' (41:23)
We have assigned close comrades to them who have made what is before
them and behind them seem good to them. And the statement about the nations,
both of jinn and men, who passed away before them has proved true of them
as well. Certainly they were lost. (41:25)
You will see them as they are exposed to it, abject in their abasement,
glancing around them furtively. Those who believe will say, 'Truly the
losers are those who lose themselves and their families on the Day of
Rising.' The wrongdoers are in an everlasting punishment. (42:45)
The kingdom of the heavens and earth belongs to Allah and, on the Day
that the Hour arrives, that Day the liars will be lost. (45:27)
Those are people of whom the statement about the nations, both of jinn
and men, who passed away before them, has also proved true; truly they
were the lost. (46:18)
Satan has gained mastery over them and made them forget the remembrance
of Allah. Such people are the party of Satan. No indeed! It is the party
of Satan who are the losers. (58:19)
You who believe! Do not let your wealth or children divert you from the
remembrance of Allah. Whoever does that is lost. (63:9)
On the Day He gathers you for the Day of Gathering-that is the Day of
Profit and Loss. As for those who believe in Allah and act rightly, We
will erase their bad actions from them and admit them into Gardens with
rivers flowing under them, remaining in them timelessly, for ever and
ever. That is the Great Victory! (64:9)
They tasted the evil consequences of what they did and the end of their
affair was total loss. (65:9)
Nuh said, 'My Lord, they have disobeyed me and followed those whose wealth
and children have only increased them in loss.' (71:21)
By the Late Afternoon, truly man is in loss-except for those who believe
and do right actions and urge each other to the truth and urge each other
to steadfastness. (103:1-3)
LOT (SEE LUT (AS))
LOTE TREE
But they turned away so We unleashed against them the flood from the
great dam and exchanged their two gardens for two others containing bitter-tasting
plants and tamarisk and a few lote trees. (34:16)
He saw him again another time by the Lote-tree of the Final Limit, beside
which is the Garden of Refuge, when that which covered the Lote-tree covered
it. (53:13-16)
LOUSE
So We sent down on them floods, locusts, lice, frogs and blood, Signs,
clear and distinct, but they proved arrogant and were an evildoing people.
(7:133)
LOVE
Some people set up equals to Allah, loving them as they should love Allah.
But those who believe have greater love for Allah. If only you could see
those who do wrong at the time when they see the punishment, and that
truly all strength belongs to Allah, and that Allah is severe in punishment.
(2:165)
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)
Some city women said, 'The governor's wife solicited her slave. He's
fired her heart with love. We see that she's the one to blame.' (12:30)
As for those who believe and do right actions, the All-Merciful will
bestow His love on them. (19:96)
He said, 'Your request has been granted, Musa. We were gracious to you
another time when We revealed to your mother: "Place him into the box
and throw it into the sea and the sea will wash it up on the shore, where
an enemy of Mine and his will pick it up." I showered you with love from
Me so that you would be brought up under My supervision.' (20:36-39)
He (Sulayman) said, 'Truly do I love the love of good, with a view to
the glory of my Lord until the sun disappeared behind its veil.' (38:32)
That is the good news which Allah gives to His servants who believe and
do right actions. Say: 'I do not ask you for any wage for this-except
for you to love your near of kin. If anyone does a good action, We will
increase the good of it for him. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Ever-Thankful.'
(42:23)
You will not find people who believe in Allah and the Last Day having
love for anyone who opposes Allah and His Messenger, though they be their
fathers, their sons, their brothers or their clan .Allah has inscribed
faith upon such people's hearts and will reinforce them with a Spirit
from Him and admit them into Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining
in them timelessly, for ever. Allah is pleased with them and they are
pleased with Him. Such people are the party of Allah. Truly it is the
party of Allah who are successful. (58:22)
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)
It may well be that Allah will restore the love between you and those
of them who are now your enemies. Allah is All-Powerful. Allah is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (60:7)
They give food, despite their love for it, to the poor and orphans and
captives: (76:8)
Truly he is fierce in his love of wealth. (100:8)
LUQMAN (AS)
We gave Luqman wisdom: 'Give thanks to Allah. Whoever gives thanks only
does so to his own good. Whoever is ungrateful, Allah is Rich Beyond Need,
Praiseworthy.' When Luqman said to his son, counselling him, 'My son,
do not associate anything with Allah. Associating others with Him is a
terrible wrong.' (31:12-13)
(Luqman said,) 'My son, even if something weighs as little as a mustard-seed
and is inside a rock or anywhere else in the heavens or earth, Allah will
bring it out. Allah is All-Pervading, All-Aware. My son, perform prayer
and command what is right and forbid what is wrong and be steadfast in
the face of all that happens to you. That is certainly the most resolute
course to follow. Do not avert your face from people out of haughtiness
and do not strut about arrogantly on the earth. Allah does not love anyone
who is vain or boastful. Be moderate in your tread and lower your voice.
The most hateful of voices is the donkey's bray.' (31:16-19)
LUT (AS) (LOT)
And Isma'il, al-Yasa', Yunus and Lut. All of them We favoured over all
beings. (6:86)
And Lut, when he said to his people, 'Do you commit an obscenity not
perpetrated before you by anyone in all the worlds? You come with lust
to men instead of women. You are indeed a depraved people.' The only answer
of his people was to say, 'Expel them from your city! They are people
who keep themselves pure!' So We rescued him and his family-except for
his wife. She was one of those who stayed behind. We rained down a rain
upon them. See the final fate of the evildoers! (7:80-84)
When he (Ibrahim) saw that their hands were not reaching for it, he suspected
them and felt afraid of them. They said, 'Have no fear! We have been sent
to the people of Lut.' (11:70)
When the feeling of fear left Ibrahim, and the good news reached him,
he disputed with Us about the people of Lut. (11:74)
When Our messengers came to Lut, he was distressed for them, and very
concerned for them, and said, 'This is a dreadful day.' His people came
running to him excitedly-they were long used to committing evil acts.
He said, 'My people, here are my daughters. They are purer for you. So
have fear of Allah and do not shame me with my guests. Is there not one
rightly-guided man among you?' They said, 'You know we have no claim on
your daughters. You know very well what it is we want.' He said, 'If only
I had the strength to combat you or could take refuge in some powerful
support!' They said, 'Lut, we are messengers from your Lord. They will
not be able to get at you. Set out with your family-except for your wife-in
the middle of the night and none of you should look back. What strikes
them will strike her as well. Their promised appointment is the morning.
Is the morning not close at hand?' When Our command came, We turned their
cities upside down and rained down on them stones of hard baked clay,
piled on top of one another in layers, each one earmarked by your Lord.
And they are never far from the wrongdoers. (11:77-83)
(Shu'ayb said,) 'My people! Do not let your breach with me provoke you
into doing wrong so that the same thing happens to you as happened to
the people of Nuh and the people of Hud and the people of Salih; and the
people of Lut are not far distant from you.' (11:89)
(Lut said,) 'Have fear of Allah and do not dishonour me.' They said,
'Did we not forbid you to play host to anyone at all?' He said, 'Here
are my daughters if you are determined to do something.' By your life!
They were wandering blindly in their drunkenness! So the Great Blast seized
hold of them at the break of day. We turned the place completely upside
down and rained down on them stones of hard-baked clay. There are certainly
Signs in that for the discerning. They were beside a road which still
exists. There is certainly a Sign in that for the believers. (15:69-77)
We gave right judgement and knowledge to Lut and rescued him from the
city which committed disgusting acts. They were evil people who were deviators.
We admitted him into Our mercy. He was one of the righteous. (21:74-75)
He (Lut) said, 'These are my guests so do not put me to shame.' (15:68)
The people of Lut denied the Messengers, when their brother Lut said
to them, 'Will you not guard against evil? I am a faithful Messenger to
you. So have fear of Allah and obey me. I do not ask you for any wage
for it. My wage is the responsibility of no one but the Lord of all the
worlds. Of all beings, do you lie with males, leaving the wives Allah
has created for you? You are a people who have overstepped the limits.'
They said, 'Lut, if you do not desist you will be expelled.' He said,
'I am someone who detests the deed you perpetrate. My Lord, rescue me
and my family from what they are doing.' Therefore We rescued him and
all his family-except for an old woman who remained behind. Then We utterly
destroyed the rest and made a Rain come pouring down upon them. How evil
is the rain of those who are warned! There is certainly a Sign in that,
yet most of them are not believers. Truly your Lord is the Almighty, the
Most Merciful. (26:160-175)
And when Lut said to his people: 'Do you approach depravity with open
eyes? Do you come with lust to men instead of women? You are a people
who are deeply ignorant.' The only response of his people was to say:
'Drive the the family of Lut out of your city! They are people who keep
themselves pure!' So We rescued him and his family-except for his wife.
We ordained her to be one of those who stayed behind. We rained down a
rain upon them. How evil is the rain of those who are warned! Say: 'Praise
be to Allah and peace be upon His servants whom He has chosen.' Is Allah
better, or what you associate with Him? (27:54-59)
He (Ibrahim) said, 'You have adopted idols apart from Allah as tokens
of mutual affection in this world. But then on the Day of Rising you will
reject one another and curse one another. The Fire will be your shelter.
You will have no helpers.' And Lut believed in him. He said, 'I am leaving
this place to follow the pleasure of my Lord. He is the Almighty, the
All Wise.' We gave him Ishaq and Ya'qub and placed Prophethood and the
Book among his progeny. We gave him his reward in this world and in the
hereafter he will be among the righteous. When Lut said to his people,
'You are committing an obscenity not perpetrated before you by anyone
in all the worlds. Do you lie with men and waylay them on the road and
commit depravities within your gatherings?'. The only answer of his people
was to say, 'Bring us Allah's punishment if you are telling the truth.'
He said, 'My Lord, help me against the people of corruption!' 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.'
He said, 'Lut is in it.' They said, 'We know very well who is in it. We
are going to rescue him and his family-except for his wife. She will be
one of those who stay behind.' When Our Messengers came to Lut, he was
distressed on their account, feeling incapable of protecting them. They
said, 'Do not fear and do not grieve. We are going to rescue you and your
family-except for your wife; she will be one of those who stay behind.
We will bring down on the inhabitants of this city a devastating punishment
from heaven because of their deviance.' We have left a Clear Sign of them
behind for people who use their intellect. (29:25-35)
And Lut was one of the Messengers. When We rescued him and all his family-except
an old woman among those who stayed behind. Then We utterly destroyed
the rest. And you pass by them in the daytime and at night. So will you
not use your intellect? (37:133-138)
And Thamud and the people of Lut and the Companions of the Thicket. Those
too were Confederates. (38:13)
And 'Ad and Pharaoh and the brothers of Lut. (50:13)
The people of Lut denied the warnings. We unleashed a sudden squall of
stones against all of them, except the family of Lut, who We rescued before
dawn. It was a blessing direct from Our presence. That is how We recompense
those who give thanks. He warned them of Our onslaught but they dismissed
the warnings. They even wanted to seduce his guests! So We put out their
eyes: 'Taste My punishment and warnings!' Early morning brought them enduring
punishment: 'Taste My punishment and warnings!' (54:33-39)
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