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OATH
Do not, by your oaths, make Allah a pretext to avoid good action and
guarding against evil and putting things right between people. Allah is
All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (2:224)
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)
Those who swear to abstain from sexual relations with their wives can
wait for a period of up to four months. If they then retract their oath,
Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (2:226)
Those who sell Allah's contract and their own oaths for a paltry price,
such people will have no portion in the hereafter and on the Day of Rising
Allah will not speak to them or look at them or purify them. They will
have a painful punishment. (3:77)
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)
Allah does not take you to task for your inadvertent oaths, but He will
take you to task for oaths you make intentionally. The expiation in that
case is to feed ten poor people with the average amount you feed your
family, or clothe them, or free a slave. Anyone without the means to do
so should fast three days. That is the expiation for breaking oaths when
you have sworn them. Keep your oaths. In this way Allah makes His Signs
clear to you, so that hopefully you will be thankful. (5:89)
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.' If it then comes to light that the two of them have merited
the allegation of wrongdoing, two others who have the most right to do
so should take their place and swear by Allah: 'Our testimony is truer
than their testimony. We have not committed perjury. If we had we would
indeed be wrongdoers.' That makes it more likely that they will give their
evidence properly or be afraid that their oaths will be refuted by subsequent
oaths. Have fear of Allah and listen carefully. Allah does not guide deviant
people. (5:106-108)
They have sworn by Allah with their most earnest oaths that if a Sign
comes to them they will believe in it. Say: 'The Signs are in Allah's
control alone.' What will make you realise that even if a Sign did come,
they would still not believe? (6:109)
If they break their oaths after making their treaty and defame your religion,
then fight the leaders of disbelief-they have no binding oaths-so that
hopefully they will stop. (9:12)
Will you not fight a people who have broken their oaths and resolved
to expel the Messenger, and who initiated hostilities against you in the
first place? Is it them you fear? Allah has more right to your fear if
you are believers. (9:13)
They swear by Allah with their most earnest oaths that Allah will not
raise up those who die, when, on the contrary, it is a binding promise
on Him; but most people do not know it. (16:38)
Be true to Allah's contract when you have agreed to it, and do not break
your oaths once they are confirmed and you have made Allah your guarantee.
Allah knows what you do. (16:91)
Do not be like a woman who spoils the thread she has spun by unravelling
it after it is strong, by making your oaths a means of deceiving one another,
merely because one community is bigger than another. Allah is only testing
you by this. He will make clear to you on the Day of Rising the things
about which you differed. (16:92)
Do not make your oaths a means of deceiving one another or your foot
will slip after it was firmly placed and you will taste evil for barring
access to the Way of Allah and you will have a terrible punishment. (16:94)
They have sworn by Allah with their most earnest oaths that if you give
them the command, they will go out. Say: 'Do not swear. Honourable obedience
is enough. Allah is aware of what you do.' (24:53)
They swore by Allah with their most earnest oaths that if a warner came
to them they would be better guided than any other community. But then
when a warner did come to them, it only increased their aversion. (35:42)
And I swear by the falling of the stars-and that is a mighty oath if
you only knew. (56:75-76)
They made their oaths into a cloak and barred the Way of Allah, so they
will have a humiliating punishment. (58:16)
They have made their oaths into a cloak and barred the Way of Allah.
What they have done is truly evil. (63:2)
Allah has made the expiation of your oaths obligatory for you. Allah
is your Master-He is the All-Knowing, the All-Wise. (66:2)
But do not obey any vile swearer of oaths, (68:10)
Or do you have oaths which bind Us, extending to the Day of Rising, that
you will have whatever you decide? (68:39)
Is there not in that an oath for the intelligent? (89:5)
OBDURATE
The desert arabs are more obdurate in disbelief and hypocrisy and more
likely not to know the limits which Allah has sent down to His Messenger.
Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (9:97)
Some of the desert Arabs around you are hypocrites and some of the people
of Madina are obdurate in their hypocrisy. You do not know them but We
know them. We will punish them twice over and then they will be returned
to a terrible punishment. (9:101)
That was 'Ad. They denied the Signs of their Lord and disobeyed His Messengers
and followed the command of every obdurate tyrant. (11:59)
They asked for Allah's victory, and every obdurate tyrant failed. (14:15)
(The Guards of Hell will be told,) 'Hurl into Hell every obdurate disbeliever.'
(50:24)
No indeed! He is obdurate about Our Signs. (74:16)
OBEDIENCE / DISOBEDIENCE TO THE MESSENGERS,
AND THE OBLIGATION OF THE MESSENGERS
Say, 'Obey Allah and the Messenger.' Then if they turn away, Allah does
not love the disbelievers. (3:32)
Allah fulfilled His promise to you when you were slaughtering them by
His permission. But then you faltered, disputing the command, and disobeyed
after He showed you what you love. Among you are those who want this world
and among you are those who want the hereafter. Then He turned you from
them in order to test you-but He has pardoned you. Allah shows favour
to the believers. (3:152)
Allah showed great kindness to the believers when He sent a Messenger
to them from among themselves to recite His Signs to them and purify them
and teach them the Book and Wisdom, even though before that they were
clearly misguided. (3:164)
These are Allah's limits. As for those who obey Allah and His Messenger,
We will admit them into Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining
in them timelessly, for ever. That is the Great Victory. (4:13)
As for those who disobey Allah and His Messenger and overstep His limits,
We will admit them into a Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever.
They will have a humiliating punishment. (4:14)
Some of the Jews distort the true meaning of words, saying, 'We hear
and disobey,' and 'Listen without listening,' and 'Listen to us!' twisting
them with their tongues, disparaging the religion. If they had said, 'We
hear and we obey,' and 'Listen,' and, 'Look at us!' that would have been
better for them and more upright. But Allah has cursed them for their
disbelief. Very few of them believe. (4:46)
You who believe! Obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those in command
among you. If you have a dispute about something, refer it back to Allah
and the Messenger, if you believe in Allah and the Last Day. That is the
best thing to do and gives the best result. (4:59)
We sent no Messenger except to be obeyed by Allah's permission. If only
when they wronged themselves they had come to you and asked Allah's forgiveness
and the Messenger had asked forgiveness for them they would have found
Allah Ever-Returning, Most Merciful. (4:64)
No, by your Lord, they are not believers until they make you their judge
in the disputes that break out between them, and then find no resistance
within themselves to what you decide and submit themselves completely.
(4:65)
Whoever obeys the Messenger has obeyed Allah. If anyone turns away, we
did not send you to them as their keeper. (4:80)
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)
But if anyone opposes the Messenger after the guidance has become clear
to him, and follows other than the path of the believers, We will hand
him over to whatever he has turned to, and We will roast him in Hell.
What an evil destination! (4:115)
Obey Allah and obey the Messenger and beware! If you turn your backs,
know that Our Messenger is only responsible for clear transmission. (5:92)
Children of Adam! If Messengers come to you from among yourselves, recounting
My Signs to you, those who guard against evil and put things right, will
feel no fear and will know no sorrow. (7:35)
(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 will ask you about booty. Say: 'Booty belongs to Allah and the Messenger.
So have fear of Allah and put things right between you. Obey Allah and
His Messenger if you are believers.' (8:1)
You who believe! Obey Allah and His Messenger. And do not turn away from
him when you are able to hear. (8:20)
Obey Allah and His Messenger and do not quarrel among yourselves lest
you lose heart and your momentum disappear. And be steadfast. Allah is
with the steadfast. (8:46)
Do they not know that whoever opposes Allah and His Messenger, will have
the Fire of Hell, remaining in it timelessly, for ever? That is the great
disgrace. (9:63)
The men and women of the believers are friends of one another. They command
what is right and forbid what is wrong, and perform prayer and give the
alms, and obey Allah and His Messenger. They are the people on whom Allah
will have mercy. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (9:71)
It was not for people of Madina, and the desert arabs around them, to
remain behind the Messenger of Allah nor to prefer themselves to him.
That is because no thirst or weariness or hunger will afflict them in
the Way of Allah, nor will they take a single step to infuriate the disbelievers,
nor secure any gain from the enemy, without a right action being written
down for them because of it. Allah does not let the wage of the good-doers
go to waste. (9:120)
Harun had earlier said to them, 'My people! It is just a trial for you.
Your Lord is the All-Merciful, so follow me and obey my command!' (20:90)
They say, 'We believe in Allah and in the Messenger and we obey.' Then
after that a group of them turn away. Such people are not believers. (24:47)
The reply of the believers when they are summoned to Allah and His Messenger
so that he can judge between them, is to say, 'We hear and we obey.' They
are ones who are successful. (24:51)
All who obey Allah and His Messenger and have awe of Allah and fear of
Him, they are the ones who are victorious. (24:52)
They have sworn by Allah with their most earnest oaths that if you give
them the command, they will go out. Say: 'Do not swear. Honourable obedience
is enough. Allah is aware of what you do.' (24:53)
Say: 'Obey Allah and obey the Messenger. Then if they turn away he is
only responsible for what he is charged with and you are responsible for
what you are charged with. If you obey him, you will be guided.' The Messenger
is only responsible for clear transmission. (24:54)
Perform prayer and give the alms and obey the Messenger so that hopefully
mercy will be shown to you. (24:56)
The believers are those who believe in Allah and His Messenger and who,
when they are with him on a matter of common concern, do not leave until
they have asked him for permission. Those people who ask you for permission
are the ones who truly believe in Allah and His Messenger. If they ask
your permission to attend to their own affairs, give permission to any
of them you please; and ask Allah's forgiveness for them. Allah is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (24:62)
Do not make the Messenger's summoning of you the same as your summoning
of one another. Allah knows those of you who sneak away. Those who oppose
his command should beware of a testing trial coming to them or a painful
punishment striking them. (24:63)
(Nuh said,) 'So have fear of Allah and obey me.' (26:108, 26:110)
(Hud said,) 'So have fear of Allah and obey me.' (26:126, 26:131)
(Salih said,) 'So have fear of Allah and obey me.' (26:144)
(Salih said,) 'So have fear of Allah and obey me. Do not obey the orders
of the profligate.' (26:150-151)
(Lut said,) 'So have fear of Allah and obey me.' (26:163)
(Shu'ayb said,) 'So have fear of Allah and obey me.' (26:179)
You have an excellent model in the Messenger of Allah, for all who put
their hope in Allah and the Last Day and remember Allah much. (33:21)
When Allah and His Messenger have decided something it is not for any
man or woman of the believers to have a choice about it. Anyone who disobeys
Allah and His Messenger is clearly misguided. (33:36)
They will say on the Day their faces are rolled over in the Fire, 'If
only we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger!' (33:66)
He will put your actions right for you and forgive you your wrong deeds.
All who obey Allah and His Messenger have won a mighty victory. (33:71)
You who believe! Obey Allah and obey the Messenger. Do not make your
actions of no worth. (47:33)
Those who pledge you their allegiance pledge allegiance to Allah. Allah's
hand is over their hands. He who breaks his pledge only breaks it against
himself. But as for him who fulfils the contract he has made with Allah,
We will pay him an immense reward. (48:10)
The desert Arabs say, 'We believe.' Say: 'You do not believe. Say rather,
"We have become Muslim," for faith has not yet entered into your hearts.
If you obey Allah and His Messenger, He will not undervalue your actions
in any way. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.' (49:14)
Those who oppose Allah and His Messenger will be subdued and overcome
as those before them were also subdued and overcome. We have sent down
Clear Signs. The disbelievers will have a humiliating punishment. (58:5)
Do you not see those who were forbidden to confer together secretly returning
to the very thing they were forbidden to do, and conferring together secretly
in wrongdoing and enmity and disobedience to the Messenger? And when they
come to you they greet you with words Allah has never used in greeting
you, and say to themselves 'Why does Allah not punish us for what we say?'
Hell will be enough for them! They will roast in it. What an evil destination!
(58:8)
Are you afraid to give gifts of charity before your private consultation?
If you do not and Allah turns to you, at least perform prayer and give
the alms, and obey Allah and His Messenger. Allah is aware of what you
do. (58:13)
Those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, such people will be among the
most abased. (58:20)
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)
That is because they were entrenched in hostility towards Allah and His
Messenger. If anyone is hostile towards Allah, Allah is Severe in Retribution.
(59:4)
It is He Who raised up among the unlettered people a Messenger from them
to recite His Signs to them and purify them and teach them the Book and
Wisdom, even though before that they were clearly misguided. (62:2)
Obey Allah and obey the Messenger. But if you turn your backs, the Messenger
is only responsible for clear transmission. (64:12)
So have fear of Allah, as much as you are able to, and listen and obey
and spend for your own benefit. It is the people who are safe-guarded
from the avarice of their own selves who are successful. (64:16)
(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)
OBEDIENCE TO ALLAH
They say, 'Allah has a son.' Glory be to Him! No, everything in the heavens
and earth belongs to Him. Everything is obedient to Him. (2:116)
Say, 'Do you argue with us about Allah when He is our Lord and your Lord?
We have our actions and you have your actions. We act for Him alone.'
(2:139)
Safeguard the prayer-especially the middle one. Stand in obedience to
Allah. (2:238)
The steadfast, the truthful, the obedient, the givers, and those who
seek forgiveness before dawn. (3:17)
(The angels said,) 'Maryam, obey your Lord and prostrate and bow with
those who bow.' (3:43)
Men have charge of women because Allah has preferred the one above the
other and because they spend their wealth on them. Right-acting women
are obedient (to Allah), guarding the unseen as Allah has guarded. If
there are women whose disobedience you fear, you may admonish them, refuse
to sleep with them, and then beat them. But if they obey you, do not look
for a way to punish them. Allah is All-High, Most Great. (4:34)
Everyone in the heavens and earth belongs to Him. All are submissive
to Him. (30:26)
But those of you who are obedient to Allah and His Messenger and act
rightly will be given their reward twice over; and We have prepared generous
provision for them. (33:31)
Men and women who are Muslims, men and women who are believers, men and
women who are obedient, men and women who are truthful, men and women
who are steadfast, men and women who are humble, men and women who give
charity, men and women who fast, men and women who guard their chastity,
men and women who remember Allah much: Allah has prepared forgiveness
for them and an immense reward. (33:35)
It may be that if he does divorce you, his Lord will give him in exchange
better wives than you: Muslim women, believing women, obedient women,
penitent women, women who worship, women who fast much-previously married
women as well as virgins. (66:5)
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)
OBSCENITY
And Lut, when he said to his people, 'Do you commit an obscenity not
perpetrated before you by anyone in all the worlds? (7:80)
When Lut said to his people, 'You are committing an obscenity not perpetrated
before you by anyone in all the worlds.' (29:28)
OBSTRUCT
Who could do greater wrong than someone who bars access to the mosques
of Allah, preventing His name from being remembered in them, and goes
about destroying them? Such people will never be able to enter them-except
in fear. They will have disgrace in this world and in the hereafter they
will have a terrible punishment. (2:114)
They will ask you about the Sacred Month and fighting in it. Say, 'Fighting
in it is a serious matter; but barring access to the Way of Allah and
rejecting Him and barring access to the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram)
and expelling its people from it are far more serious in the sight of
Allah. Discord is worse than killing.' They will not stop fighting you
until they make you revert from your religion, if they are able. As for
any of you who revert from their religion and die disbeliever, their actions
will come to nothing in this world and the hereafter. They are the Companions
of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. (2:217)
Say, 'People of the Book, why do you bar those who believe from the Way
of Allah, seeking in it something crooked, when you yourselves are witnesses
to it? Allah is not unaware of what you do.' (3:99)
Some of them believe in him, and some bar access to him. Hell will suffice
as a Searing Blaze! (4:55)
Because of wrongdoing on the part of the Jews, We made forbidden for
them some good things which had previously been lawful for them; and because
of their obstructing many people from the Way of Allah. (4:160)
Those who disbelieve and bar access to the Way of Allah have gone very
far astray. (4:167)
You who believe! Do not profane the sacred rites of Allah or the sacred
months, or the sacrificial animals, or the ritual garlands, or those heading
for the Sacred House, desiring profit and good pleasure from their Lord.
When your pilgrimage is over, then you may hunt. Do not let hatred for
a people who debar you from the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) incite
you into going beyond the limits. Help each other to goodness and heedfulness.
Do not help each other to wrongdoing and enmity. Have fear of Allah. Allah
is severe in retribution. (5:2)
Satan wants to stir up enmity and hatred between you by means of wine
and gambling, and to debar you from remembrance of Allah and from prayer.
Will you not then give them up? (5:91)
The Companions of the Garden will call out to the Companions of the Fire,
'We have found that what our Lord promised us is true. Have you found
that what your Lord promised you is true?' They will say, 'Yes, we have!'
Between them a herald will proclaim: 'May the curse of Allah be on the
wrongdoers, those who bar access to the Way of Allah, seeking in it something
crooked, and reject the hereafter.' (7:44-45)
Do not lie in wait on every pathway, threatening people, barring those
who believe from the Way of Allah, seeking in it something crooked. Remember
when you were few and He increased your number: see the final fate of
the corrupters! (7:86)
But why should Allah not punish them now when they bar access to the
Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram)? They are not its guardians. Only people
who guard against evil can be its guardians. But most of them do not know
that. (8:34)
Those who disbelieve spend their wealth barring access to the Way of
Allah. They will spend it; then they will regret it; then they will be
overthrown. Those who disbelieve will be gathered into Hell. (8:36)
Do not be like those who left their homes in arrogance, showing off to
people and barring them from the way of Allah-Allah encompasses what they
do. (8:47)
They have sold Allah's Signs for a paltry price, and they have barred
access to His Way. What they have done is truly evil. (9:9)
You who believe! Many of the rabbis and monks devour people's property
under false pretences and bar people from access to the Way of Allah.
As for those who hoard up gold and silver and do not spend it in the Way
of Allah, give them the news of a painful punishment. (9:34)
... Allah's curse is on the wrongdoers, those who bar access to the way
of Allah seeking in it something crooked and reject the hereafter. (11:18-19)
The woman whose house it was solicited him (Yusuf). She barred the doors
and said, 'Come over here!' He said, 'Allah is my refuge! He is My lord
and has been good to me with where I live. Those who do wrong will surely
not succeed.' (12:23)
What then of Him Who is standing over every self seeing everything it
does? Yet still they associate others with Allah! Say: 'Name them! Or
would you inform Him of something in the earth He does not know, or are
they words which are simply guesswork on your part?' However, the plotting
of those who disbelieve seems good to them and they bar the way. Anyone
misguided by Allah has no guide. (13:33)
(Woe to) those who prefer the life of this world to the hereafter, and
bar access to the way of Allah, seeking in it something crooked; they
are greatly misguided. (14:3)
Their Messengers said, 'Is there any doubt about Allah, the Bringer into
Being of the heavens and the earth? He summons you to forgive you for
your wrong actions and to defer you until a specified time.' They said,
'You are nothing but human beings like ourselves who want to debar us
from what our fathers worshipped; so bring us a clear authority.' (14:10)
As for those who disbelieved and barred access to the way of Allah, We
will heap punishment on top of their punishment because of the corruption
they brought about. (16:88)
Do not make your oaths a means of deceiving one another or your foot
will slip after it was firmly placed and you will taste evil for barring
access to the Way of Allah and you will have a terrible punishment. (16:94)
Do not let those who have no faith in it and follow their whims and desires
debar you from it or you will be destroyed. (20:16)
Those who disbelieve and bar access to the Way of Allah and to the Sacred
Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) which We have appointed for all mankind-equally
for those who live near it and those who come from far away-those who
desire to profane it with wrongdoing, We will let them taste a painful
punishment. (22:25)
They are debarred from hearing it. (26:212)
(The hoopoe said,) 'I found both her and her people prostrating to the
sun instead of Allah. Satan has made their actions seem good to them and
debarred them from the Way so they are not guided.' (27:24)
Do not let them debar you from Allah's Signs after they have been sent
down to you. Call people to your Lord and on no account be one of the
idolaters. (28:87)
And 'Ad and Thamud-it must be clear to you from their dwelling places!
Satan made their actions seem good to them and so debarred them from the
Way, even though they were intelligent people. (29:38)
Allah knows the obstructers among you and those who say to their brothers,
'Come to us,' and who only come to fight a very little, (33:18)
Those deemed great will say to those deemed weak, 'Did we debar you from
the guidance when it came to you? No, it is you who were evildoers.' (34:32)
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)
Pharaoh said, 'Haman, build me a tower so that perhaps I may gain means
of access, access to the heavens, so that I can look on Musa's God. Truly
I think he is a liar.' That is how Pharaoh's evil actions were made attractive
to him and he debarred others from the Path. Pharaoh's scheming led to
nothing but ruin. (40:36-37)
They debar them from the path, yet they still think they are guided.
(43:37)
Do not let Satan bar your way. He truly is an outright enemy to you.
(43:62)
As for those who disbelieve and bar others from the Way of Allah, Allah
will make their actions go astray. (47:1)
Those who disbelieve and obstruct the Way of Allah and are entrenched
in hostility towards the Messenger after the guidance has become clear
to them, do not harm Allah in any way and He makes their actions come
to nothing. (47:32)
Those who disbelieve and obstruct the Way of Allah, and then die disbeliever,
Allah will not forgive them. (47:34)
They are those who disbelieved and debarred you from the Sacred Mosque
(Masjid al-Haram) and prevented the sacrifice from reaching its proper
place, and had it not been for some men and women who are believers, whom
you did not know and might trample underfoot, and so unknowingly incur
blame on their account-so that Allah might admit into His mercy those
He wills-and had those among them who disbelieve been clearly distinguishable,
We would have punished them with a painful punishment. (48:25)
They made their oaths into a cloak and barred the Way of Allah, so they
will have a humiliating punishment. (58:16)
They have made their oaths into a cloak and barred the Way of Allah.
What they have done is truly evil. (63:2)
OFFSPRING
(Ibrahim said,) 'Our Lord! I have settled some of my offspring by Your
Sacred House in an uncultivated valley. Our Lord! Let them perform prayer!
Make the hearts of mankind incline towards them and provide them with
fruits, so that hopefully they will be thankful.' (14:37)
When We said to the angels, 'Prostrate yourselves to Adam,' they prostrated
with the exception of Diabolis. He was one of the jinn and wantonly deviated
from his Lord's command. Do you take him and his offspring as protectors
apart from Me when they are your enemy? How evil is the exchange the wrongdoers
make! (18:50)
And We will unite those who believed with their offspring, who followed
them in faith, and We will not undervalue their own actions in any way.
Every man is in pledge for what he earned. (52:21)
OIL
By means of it (water) We produce gardens of dates and grapes for you,
in which there are many fruits for you and from which you eat, and a tree
springing forth from Mount Sinai yielding oil and a seasoning to those
who eat. (23:19-20)
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)
When heaven is split apart and goes red like dregs of oil. (55:37)
OLD AGE
Would any of you like to have a garden of dates and grapes, with rivers
flowing underneath and containing all kinds of fruits, then to be stricken
with old age and have children who are weak, and then for a fierce whirlwind
containing fire to come and strike it so that it goes up in flames? In
this way Allah makes His Signs clear to you, so that hopefully you will
reflect. (2:266)
He said, 'My Lord, how can I possibly have a son when I have reached
old age and my wife is barren?' He said, 'It will be so. Allah does whatever
He wills.' (3:40)
She said, 'Woe is me! How can I give birth when I am an old woman and
my husband here is an aged man? This is indeed an astonishing thing!'
(11:72)
They said, 'Your Eminence! He has an old and venerable father, so take
one of us instead of him. We see without a doubt that you are of the people
who do good.' (12:78)
(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)
He (Ibrahim) said, 'Do you bring me this good news despite the fact of
old age having reached me? What kind of good news are you bringing me?'
(15:54)
Allah created you and then will take you back again. And some of you
revert to the lowest form of life so that after having knowledge, you
know nothing at all. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Powerful. (16:70)
Your Lord has decreed that you should worship none but Him, and that
you should show kindness to your parents. Whether one or both of them
reach old age with you, do not say 'Ugh!' to them out of irritation and
do not be harsh with them but speak to them with gentleness and generosity.
(17:23)
Remembering your Lord's mercy to His servant Zakariyya, when he called
on his Lord in secret and said, 'My Lord, my bones have lost their strength
and my head is crowned with white, but in calling on You, My Lord, I have
never been disappointed.' (19:2-4)
He (Zakariyya) said, 'My Lord! How can I have a boy when my wife is barren
and I have reached advanced old age?' (19:8)
Mankind! If you are in any doubt about the Rising, know that We created
you from dust then from a drop of sperm then from a clot of blood then
from a lump of flesh, formed yet unformed, so We may make things clear
to you. We make whatever We want stay in the womb until a specified time
and then We bring you out as children so that you can reach your full
maturity. Some of you die and some of you revert to the lowest form of
life so that, after having knowledge, they then know nothing at all. And
you see the earth dead and barren; then when We send down water onto it
it quivers and swells and sprouts with luxuriant plants of every kind.
(22:5)
When he (Musa) arrived at the water of Madyan, he found a crowd of people
drawing water there. Standing apart from them, he found two women, holding
back their sheep. He said, 'What are you two doing here?' They said, 'We
cannot draw water until the shepherds have driven off their sheep. You
see our father is a very old man.' (28:23)
It is Allah Who created you from a weak beginning then after weakness
gave you strength then after strength ordained weakness and grey hair.
He creates whatever He wills. He is All-Knowing, All-Powerful. (30:54)
When We rescued him (Lut) and all his family-except an old woman among
those who stayed behind. (37:134-135)
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)
His wife came up with a shriek and struck her face and said, 'What, and
me a barren old woman!' (51:29)
OLD WOMAN
She (Ibrahim's wife) said, 'Woe is me! How can I give birth when I am
an old woman and my husband here is an aged man? This is indeed an astonishing
thing!' (11:72)
Therefore We rescued him (Lut) and all his family-except for an old woman
who remained behind. (26:170-171)
OLIVE
It is He Who sends down water from the sky from which We bring forth
growth of every kind, and from that We bring forth the green shoots and
from them We bring forth close-packed seeds, and from the spathes of the
date palm date clusters hanging down, and gardens of grapes and olives
and pomegranates, both similar and dissimilar. Look at their fruits as
they bear fruit and ripen. There are Signs in that for people who believe.
(6:99)
It is He Who produces gardens, both cultivated and wild, and palm-trees
and crops of diverse kinds, and olives and pomegranates, both similar
and dissimilar. Eat of their fruits when they bear fruit and pay their
due on the day of their harvest, and do not be profligate. He does not
love the profligate. (6:141)
And by it He makes crops grow for you and olives and dates and grapes
and fruit of every kind. There is certainly a Sign in that for people
who reflect. (16:11)
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)
Then We make grain grow in it, and grapes and herbs and olives and dates,
(80:27-29)
By the fig and the olive. (95:1)
ON FOOT
If you are afraid, then perform prayer on foot or mounted. But when you
are safe, remember Allah in the way He taught you when previously you
did not know. (2:239)
Announce the Pilgrimage to mankind. They will come to you on foot and
on every sort of lean animal, coming by every distant road. (22:27)
ONENESS OF ALLAH (TAWHID)
Your God is One God. There is no god but Him, the All-Merciful, the Most
Merciful. (2:163)
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)
Allah, there is no god but Him, the Living, the Self-Sustaining. (3:2)
It is He Who forms you in the womb however He wills. There is no god
but Him, the Almighty, the All-Wise. (3:6)
Allah bears witness that there is no god but Him, as do the angels and
the people of knowledge, upholding justice. There is no god but Him, the
Almighty, the All-Wise. (3:18)
Allah, there is no god but Him. He will gather you to the Day of Rising
about which there is no doubt. And whose speech could be truer than Allah's?
(4:87)
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. (5:73)
That is Allah, your Lord. There is no god but Him, the Creator of everything.
So worship Him. He is responsible for everything. (6:102)
Follow what has been revealed to you from your Lord-there is no god but
Him-and turn away from the idolaters. (6:106)
Say: 'Mankind! I am the Messenger of Allah to you all, of Him to Whom
the kingdom of the heavens and earth belongs. There is no god but Him.
He gives life and causes to die.' So believe in Allah and His Messenger,
the Ummi, who believes in Allah and His words, and follow him so that
hopefully you will be guided.' (7:158)
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! (9:31)
But if they turn away, say, 'Allah is enough for me. There is no god
but Him. I have put my trust in Him. He is the Lord of the Mighty Throne.'
(9:129)
We brought the tribe of Israel across the sea and Pharaoh and his troops
pursued them out of tyranny and enmity. Then, when he was on the point
of drowning, he said, 'I believe that there is no god but Him in whom
the tribe of Israel believe. I am one of the Muslims.' (10:90)
If they do not respond to you then know that it has been sent down with
Allah's knowledge and that there is no god but Him. So will you not become
Muslims? (11:14)
And to 'Ad We sent their brother Hud. He said, 'My people! Worship Allah.
You have no god apart from Him. You are merely fabricators.' (11:50)
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)
And to Madyan their brother Shu'ayb. He said, 'My people, worship Allah!
You have no god apart from Him. Do not give short measure and short weight.
I see you prospering and I fear for you the punishment of an all-encompassing
Day.' (11:84)
In the same way We have sent you among a nation before which other nations
passed away, to recite to them what We have revealed to you. Yet they
still reject the All-Merciful. Say: 'He is my Lord; there is no god but
Him. I put my trust in Him and I turn to Him.' (13:30)
He sends down angels with the Spirit of His command to any of His servants
He wills: 'Give warning that there is no god but Me, so have fear of Me!'
(16:2)
Say: 'If there had, as you say, been other gods together with Him, they
would have sought a way to the Master of the Throne.' (17:42)
Allah, there is no god but Him. The Most Beautiful Names are His. (20:8)
(A voice called out to Musa,) 'I am Allah. There is no god but Me, so
worship Me and perform prayer to remember Me.' (20:14)
(Musa said,) 'Your god is Allah alone, there is no god but Him. He encompasses
all things in His knowledge.' (20:98)
We sent no Messenger before you without revealing to him: 'There is no
god but Me, so worship Me.' (21:25)
And Dhu'n-Nun when he left in anger and thought We would not punish him.
He called out in the pitch darkness: 'There is no god but You! Glory be
to You! Truly I have been one of the wrongdoers.' (21:87)
We sent Nuh to his people and he said, 'My people, worship Allah. You
have no god other than Him. So will you not guard against evil?' (23:23)
And (We) sent a Messenger to them from themselves: 'Worship Allah. You
have no god other than Him! So will you not guard against evil?' (23:32)
Allah has no son and there is no other god accompanying Him, for then
each god would have gone off with what he created and one of them would
have been exalted above the other. Glory be to Allah above what they describe.
(23:91)
Exalted be Allah, the King, the Real. There is no god but Him, Lord of
the Noble Throne. (23:116)
(The hoopoe said,) 'Allah-there is no god but Him-the Lord of the Mighty
Throne.' (27:26)
He is Allah. There is no god but Him. Praise be to Him in this world
and the hereafter. Judgement belongs to Him. You will be returned to Him.
(28:70)
Do not call on any other god along with Allah. There is no god but Him.
All things are passing except His Face. Judgement belongs to Him. You
will be returned to Him. (28:88)
Mankind! Remember Allah's blessing to you. Is there any creator other
than Allah providing for you from heaven and earth? There is no god but
Him. So how have you been perverted? (35:3)
Your God is One: Lord of the heavens and the earth and everything between
them; Lord of the Easts. (37:4-5)
When they were told, 'There is no god but Allah,' they were arrogant.
(37:35)
Say: 'I am only a warner. There is no god except Allah, the One, the
All-Conquering.' (38:65)
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)
The Forgiver of wrong action, the Accepter of repentance, the Severe
in retribution, the Possessor of abundance. There is no god but Him. He
is the final destination. (40:3)
That is Allah, your Lord, the Creator of everything. There is no god
but Him-so how have you been perverted? (40:62)
He is the Living-there is no god but Him-so call on Him, making your
religion sincerely His. Praise be to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds.
(40:65)
It is He Who is God in heaven and God on earth. He is the All-Wise, the
All-Knowing. (43:84)
There is no god but Him-He gives life and causes to die-your Lord and
the Lord of your forefathers, the previous peoples. (44:8)
Know then that there is no god except Allah and ask forgiveness for your
wrongdoing, and for the men and women who believe. Allah knows both your
activity and your repose. (47:19)
He is Allah-there is no god but Him. He is the Knower of the Unseen and
the Visible. He is the All-Merciful, the Most Merciful. (59:22)
He is Allah-there is no god but Him. He is the King, the Most Pure, the
Perfect Peace, the Trustworthy, the Safeguarder, the Almighty, the Compeller,
the Supremely Great. Glory be to Allah above all they associate with Him.
(59:23)
Allah-there is no god but Him. So let the believers put their trust in
Allah. (64:13)
Lord of the East and West-there is no god but Him-so take Him as your
Guardian. (73:9)
Say: 'He is Allah, Absolute Oneness.' (112:1)
ONION
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)
ORNAMENT
After he left, Musa's people adopted a calf made from their ornaments,
a form which made a lowing sound. Did they not see that it could not speak
to them or guide them to any way? They adopted it and so they were wrongdoers.
(7:148)
It is He Who made the sea subservient to you so that you can eat fresh
flesh from it and bring out from it ornaments to wear. And you see the
ships cleaving through it so that you can seek His bounty, and so that
hopefully you will show thanks. (16:14)
The two seas are not the same: the one is sweet, refreshing, delicious
to drink, the other salty, bitter to the taste. Yet from both of them
you eat fresh flesh and extract ornaments for yourselves to wear; and
you see ships on them, cleaving through the waves so that you can seek
His bounty and so that hopefully you will be thankful. (35:12)
Were it not that mankind might all become one community, We would have
given those who reject the All-Merciful silver roofs to their houses and
silver stairways to ascend and silver doors to their houses and silver
couches on which to recline, and gold ornaments. All that is merely the
trappings of the life of this world. But the hereafter with your Lord
is for those who guard against evil. (43:33-35)
ORPHAN
Remember when We made a covenant with the tribe of Israel: 'Worship none
but Allah and be good to your parents and to relatives and orphans and
the very poor. And speak good words to people. And perform prayer and
give the alms.' But then you turned away-except a few of you-you turned
aside. (2:83)
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)
They will ask you what they should give away. Say, 'Any wealth you give
away should go to your parents and relatives and to orphans and the very
poor and travellers.' Whatever good you do, Allah knows it. (2:215)
... In this way Allah makes the Signs clear to you, so that hopefully
you will reflect on this world and the hereafter. They will ask you about
the property of orphans. Say, 'Managing it in their best interests is
best.' If you mix your property with theirs, they are your brothers. Allah
knows a squanderer from a good manager. If Allah had wanted, He could
have been hard on you. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (2:219-220)
Give orphans their property, and do not substitute bad things for good.
Do not assimilate their property into your own. Doing that is a serious
crime. (4:2)
If you are afraid of not behaving justly towards orphans, then marry
other permissible women, two, three or four. But if you are afraid of
not treating them equally, then only one, or those you own as slaves.
That makes it more likely that you will not be unfair. (4:3)
Keep a close check on orphans until they reach a marriageable age, then
if you perceive that they have sound judgement hand over their property
to them. Do not consume it extravagantly and precipitately before they
come of age. Those who are wealthy should abstain from it altogether.
Those who are poor should use it sensibly and correctly. When you hand
over their property to them ensure that there are witnesses on their behalf.
Allah suffices as a Reckoner. (4:6)
If other relatives or orphans or poor people attend the sharing-out,
provide for them out of it and speak to them correctly and courteously.
(4:8)
People who consume the property of orphans wrongfully consume nothing
in their bellies except fire. They will roast in a Searing Blaze. (4:10)
Worship Allah and do not associate anything with Him. Be good to your
parents and relatives and to orphans and the very poor, and to neighbours
who are related to you and neighbours who are not related to you, and
to companions and travellers and your slaves. Allah does not love anyone
vain or boastful. (4:36)
They request from you a ruling concerning women. Say, 'Allah gives you
a ruling about them; and also what is recited to you in the Book about
orphan girls to whom you do not give the inheritance they are owed, while
at the same time desiring to marry them; and also about young children
who are denied their rights: that you should act justly with respect to
orphans.' Whatever good you do, Allah knows it. (4:127)
And (He instructs) that you do not go near the property of orphans before
they reach maturity-except in a good way; that you give full measure and
full weight with justice-We impose on no self any more than it can bear;
that you are equitable when you speak-even if a near relative is concerned;
and that you fulfil Allah's contract. That is what He instructs you to
do, so that hopefully you will pay heed. (6:152)
Know that when you take any booty a fifth of it belongs to Allah, and
to the Messenger, and to close relatives, orphans, the very poor and travellers,
if you believe in Allah and in what We sent down to Our servant on the
Day of Discrimination, the day the two groups met-Allah has power over
all things. (8:41)
Do not go near the property of orphans before they reach maturity, except
in a good way. Fulfil your contracts. Contracts will be asked about. (17:34)
(He said to Musa,) 'As for the wall, it belonged to two young orphans
in the town and there was a treasure underneath it, belonging to them.
Their father was one of the righteous and your Lord wanted them to come
of age and then to unearth their treasure as a mercy from Him. I did not
do it of my own volition. That is the explanation of the things about
which you were not able to restrain yourself.' (18:82)
Whatever booty Allah gives to His Messenger from city dwellers belongs
to Allah and to the Messenger and to near relatives and orphans and the
very poor and travellers, so that it does not become something which merely
revolves between the rich among you. Whatever the Messenger gives you
you should accept and whatever he forbids you you should forgo. Have fear
of Allah-Allah is severe in retribution. (59:7)
They give food, despite their love for it, to the poor and orphans and
captives. (76:8)
No indeed! You do not honour orphans. (89:17)
What will convey to you what the steep ascent is? It is freeing a slave
or feeding on a day of hunger an orphaned relative or a poor man in the
dust; (90:12-16)
Did He not find you orphaned and shelter you? (93:6)
So as for orphans, do not oppress them. (93:9)
He is the one who harshly rebuffs the orphan. (107:2)
OVERCOMING
When Satan made their actions appear good to them, saying, 'No one will
overcome you today for I am at your side.' But when the two parties came
in sight of one another, he turned right round on his heels saying, 'I
wash my hands of you. I see what you do not see. I fear Allah. Allah is
severe in retribution.' (8:48)
O Prophet! Spur on the believers to fight. If there are twenty of you
who are steadfast, they will overcome two hundred; and if there are a
hundred of you, they will overcome a thousand of those who disbelieve,
because they are people who do not understand. (8:65)
Now Allah has made it lighter on you, knowing there is weakness in you.
If there are a hundred of you who are steadfast, they will overcome two
hundred; and if there are a thousand of you, they will overcome two thousand
with Allah's permission. Allah is with the steadfast. (8:66)
(Salih said,) 'My people! Here is the she-camel of Allah as a Sign for
you. So leave her alone to eat on Allah's earth and do not inflict any
harm on her or you will be overcome by an imminent punishment.' (11:64)
Those who oppose Allah and His Messenger will be subdued and overcome
as those before them were also subdued and overcome. We have sent down
Clear Signs. The disbelievers will have a humiliating punishment. (58:5)
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