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POET
Furthermore they say, 'A muddled jumble of dreams!' and, 'He has invented
it!' and, 'He is a poet!' and, 'Let him bring us a Sign like those sent
to previous peoples.' (21:5)
And as for poets, it is the misled who follow them. (26:224)
They said, 'Are we to forsake our gods for a mad poet?' (37:36)
Or do they say, 'He is a poet and We are waiting for something bad to
happen to him'? (52:30)
It is not the word of a poet-how little faith you have! (69:41)
POLL TAX (JIZYA)
Fight those of the people who were given the Book who do not believe
in Allah and the Last Day and who do not make forbidden what Allah and
His Messenger have made forbidden and do not take as their religion the
religion of Truth, until they pay the poll tax with their own hands in
a state of complete abasement. (9:29)
POMEGRANATE
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)
PONDER (TAFAKKUR)
Will they not ponder the Qur'an? If it had been from other than Allah,
they would have found many inconsistencies in it. (4:82)
Do they not ponder these words? Has anything come to them that did not
come to their ancestors, the previous peoples? (23:68)
It is a Book We have sent down to you, full of blessing, so let people
of intelligence ponder its Signs and take heed. (38:29)
Will they not then ponder the Qur'an or are there locks upon their hearts?
(47:24)
POOR
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)
(Fasting is prescribed) for a specified number of days. But any of you
who are ill or on a journey should fast a number of other days. For those
who can (scarcely) afford it, making up for it means feeding a poor man.
And if someone does good of his own accord, it is better for him. But
that you should fast is better for you, if you only knew. (2:184)
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)
If you make your charity public, that is good. But if you conceal it
and give it to the poor, that is better for you, and We will erase some
of your bad actions from you. Allah is aware of what you do. (2:271)
It (charity) is for the poor who are held back in the Way of Allah, unable
to travel in the land. The ignorant consider them rich because of their
reticence. You will know them by their mark. They do not ask from people
insistently. Whatever good you give away, Allah knows it. (2:273)
Allah has heard the words of those who say, 'Allah is poor and we are
rich.' We will write down what they said and their killing of the Prophets
without any right to do so and We will say, 'Taste the punishment of the
Burning.' (3:181)
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 (of
what one leaves), provide for them out of it and speak to them correctly
and courteously. (4:8)
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)
You who believe! Be upholders of justice, bearing witness for Allah alone,
even against yourselves or your parents and relatives. Whether they are
rich or poor, Allah is well able to look after them. Do not follow your
own desires and deviate from the truth. If you twist or turn away, Allah
is aware of what you do. (4:135)
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! 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)
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)
The alms are for: the poor, the destitute, those who collect it, reconciling
people's hearts, freeing slaves, those in debt, spending in the Way of
Allah, and travellers. It is a legal obligation from Allah. Allah is All-Knowing,
All-Wise. (9:60)
Give your relatives their due, and the very poor and travellers but do
not squander what you have. (17:26)
Do not kill your children out of fear of being poor. We will provide
for them and you. Killing them is a terrible mistake. (17:31)
(He said to Musa,) 'As for the boat, it belonged to some poor people
who worked on the sea. I wanted to damage it because a king was coming
behind them, commandeering every boat.' (18:79)
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)
We have appointed the sacrificial animals for you as one of the sacred
rites of Allah. There is good in them for you, so invoke Allah's name
over them, as they stand in rows. And then when they collapse on their
sides, eat of them and feed both those who ask and those who are too shy
to ask. In this way We have subjected them to you so that hopefully you
will be thankful. (22:36)
Those of you possessing affluence and ample wealth should not make oaths
that they will not give to their relatives and the very poor and those
who have migrated in the way of Allah. They should rather pardon and overlook.
Would you not love Allah to forgive you? Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most
Merciful. (24:22)
Marry off those among you who are unmarried and those of your slaves
and slavegirls who are righteous. If they are poor, Allah will enrich
them from His bounty. Allah is All-Encompassing, All-Knowing. (24:32)
Give relatives their due, and the poor and travellers. That is best for
those who seek the pleasure of Allah. They are the ones who are successful.
(30:38)
Mankind! You are the poor in need of Allah whereas Allah is the Rich
Beyond Need, the Praiseworthy. (35:15)
Here you are then: people who are called upon to spend in the Way of
Allah and then some of you are tight-fisted! But whoever is tight-fisted
is only tight-fisted to himself. Allah is Rich and you are poor. If you
turn away, He will replace you with a people other than yourselves and
they will not be like you. (47:38)
Anyone who cannot find the means must fast for two consecutive months
before the two of them may touch one another again. And anyone who is
unable to do that must feed sixty poor people. That is to affirm your
faith in Allah and His Messenger. These are Allah's limits. The disbelievers
will have a painful punishment. (58:4)
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)
It (the booty) is for the poor of the emigrants who were driven from
their homes and wealth desiring the favour and the pleasure of Allah and
supporting Allah and His Messenger. Such people are the truly sincere.
(59:8)
So they set off, quietly saying to one another, 'Do not let any poor
man into it today while you are there.' (68:23-24)
He used not to believe in Allah the Magnificent, nor did he urge the
feeding of the poor. (69:33-34)
They will say, 'We were not among those who performed prayer and we did
not feed the poor.' (74:43-44)
They give food, despite their love for it, to the poor and orphans and
captives. (76:8)
No indeed! You do not honour orphans nor do you urge the feeding of the
poor; (89:17-18)
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)
He is the one who harshly rebuffs the orphan and does not urge the feeding
of the poor. (107:2-3)
PORK
He has only forbidden you carrion, blood and pork and what has been consecrated
to other than Allah. But anyone who is forced to eat it-without desiring
it or going to excess in it-commits no crime. Allah is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (2:173)
Forbidden for you are carrion, blood and pork, and what has been consecrated
to other than Allah, and animals which have been strangled, and animals
which have been killed by a blow, and animals which have fallen to their
death, and animals which have been gored, and animals which wild beasts
have eaten-except those you are able to slaughter properly-and animals
which have been sacrificed on altars, and deciding things by means of
divining arrows-that is deviance. Today those who disbelieve have despaired
of overcoming your religion. So do not be afraid of them but be afraid
of Me. Today I have perfected your religion for you and completed My blessing
upon you and I am pleased with Islam as a religion for you. But if anyone
is forced by hunger, not intending any wrongdoing, Allah is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (5:3)
Say: 'I do not find, in what has been revealed to me, any food it is
forbidden to eat except for carrion, flowing blood, and pork-for that
is unclean-or some deviance consecrated to other than Allah. But if anyone
is forced to eat it, without desiring to or going to excess in it, your
Lord is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.' (6:145)
He has forbidden you carrion, blood and pork and anything consecrated
to other than Allah. But if someone is forced to eat it, without desiring
to or going to excess in it, your Lord is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
(16:115)
POVERTY
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)
Or did you suppose that you would enter the Garden without facing the
same as those who came before you? Poverty and illness afflicted them
and they were shaken to the point that the Messenger and those who believed
with him said, 'When is Allah's help coming?' Be assured that Allah's
help is very near. (2:214)
Satan promises you poverty and commands you to avarice. Allah promises
you forgiveness from Him and abundance. Allah is All-Encompassing, All-Knowing.
(2:268)
Say: 'Come and I will recite to you what your Lord has made forbidden
for you': that you do not associate anything with Him; that you are good
to your parents; that you do not kill your children because of poverty-We
will provide for you and them; that you do not approach indecency-outward
or inward; that you do not kill any person Allah has made inviolate-except
with the right to do so. That is what He instructs you to do so that hopefully
you will use your intellect. (6:151)
POWERLESSNESS
What you are promised will come about and you can do nothing to prevent
it. (6:134)
Do not imagine that those who disbelieve have got ahead. They are quite
powerless. (8:59)
An announcement to those idolaters you have a general treaty with that
Allah and His Messenger are free of them: 'You may travel about in the
land for four months and know that you cannot thwart Allah and that Allah
will humiliate the disbelievers.'(9:1-2)
A proclamation from Allah and His Messenger to mankind on the day of
the greater pilgrimage: 'Allah is free of the idolaters, as is His Messenger.
If you repent, it will be better for you. But if you turn your backs,
know that you cannot thwart Allah.' Give those who disbelieve the news
of a painful punishment. (9:3)
They will ask you to tell them if this is true. Say: 'Yes indeed, by
my Lord, it certainly is true and you can do nothing to prevent it.'(10:53)
They were not able to thwart Allah on earth, and had no protectors besides
Allah. The punishment will be doubled for them. They were unable to hear
and could not see. (11:20)
He (Nuh) said, 'Allah will bring it to you if He wills and you will not
be able to prevent it.' (11:33)
Or that He will not seize them on their travels, something they are powerless
to prevent. (16:46)
Do not imagine that those who disbelieve are able to escape Allah on
earth. Their shelter will be the Fire. What an evil destination! (24:57)
Have they not travelled in the land and seen the final fate of those
before them? They were far greater than them in strength. Allah cannot
be withstood in any way, either in the heavens or on earth. He is All-Knowing,
All-Powerful. (35:44)
The evil deeds they earned caught up with them. And the evil deeds which
the wrongdoers among these people earn will also catch up with them and
they can do nothing to prevent it. (39:51)
You will not be able to thwart Him on the earth and you have no protector
or helper besides Allah. (42:31)
(A group of jinn said to their people,) 'Those who do not respond to
Allah's caller cannot thwart Allah on earth and have no protectors apart
from Him. Such people are clearly misguided.' (46:32)
(Say: 'It has been revealed to me that a band of the jinn listened and
said,) "We realised we would never thwart Allah on earth and would never
thwart Him by flight."' (72:12)
PRAISE
Praise be to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds. (1:1)
When your Lord said to the angels, 'I am putting an overlord on the earth,'
they said, 'Why put on it one who will cause corruption on it and shed
blood when we glorify You with praise and proclaim Your purity?' He said,
'I know what you do not know.' (2:30)
You who believe! Give away some of the good things you have earned and
some of what the earth produces for you. Do not have recourse to bad things
when you give, things you would only take with your eyes tight shut! Know
that Allah is Rich Beyond Need, Praiseworthy. (2:267)
Those who exult in what they have done and love to be praised for what
they have not done should not suppose that they have escaped the punishment.
They will have a painful punishment. (3:188)
What is in the heavens and in the earth belongs to Allah. We have instructed
those given the Book before you and you yourselves, to have fear of Allah,
but if you disbelieve, what is in the heavens and in the earth belongs
to Allah. Allah is Rich Beyond Need, Praiseworthy. (4:131)
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)
So the last remnant of the people who did wrong was cut off. Praise belongs
to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds! (6:45)
We will strip away any rancour in their hearts. Rivers will flow under
them and they will say, 'Praise be to Allah Who has guided us to this!
We would not have been guided, had Allah not guided us. The Messengers
of our Lord came with the Truth.' It will be proclaimed to them: 'This
is your Garden which you have inherited for what you did.' (7:43)
Those who are in the presence of your Lord do not consider themselves
too great to worship Him. They glorify His praise and they prostrate to
Him. (7:206)
Those who repent, those who worship, those who praise, those who fast,
those who bow, those who prostrate, those who command the right, those
who forbid the wrong, those who preserve the limits of Allah: give good
news to the believers. (9:112)
Their call there is: 'Glory be to You, O Allah!' Their greeting there
is: 'Peace!' The end of their call is: 'Praise be to Allah, the Lord of
all the worlds!' (10:10)
They said, 'Are you astonished at Allah's command? May Allah's mercy
and His blessings be upon you, People of the House! He is Praiseworthy,
All-Glorious.' (11:73)
The thunder glorifies His praise, as do the angels, out of fear of Him.
He discharges the thunderbolts, striking with them anyone He wills. Yet
still they argue about Allah when He is inexorable in His power! (13:13)
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)
Musa said, 'If you were to be ungrateful, you and everyone on the earth,
Allah is Rich Beyond Need, Praiseworthy.' (14:8)
(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)
So glorify your Lord with praise and be one of the prostrators. (15:98)
Allah does make a metaphor: an owned slave possessing no power over anything,
and someone We have given plentiful provision who gives out from it secretly
and openly. Are they the same? Praise be to Allah! They are not! But most
people do not know it. (16:75)
The seven heavens and the earth and everyone in them glorify Him. There
is nothing which does not glorify Him with praise but you do not understand
their glorification. He is All-Forbearing, Ever-Forgiving. (17:44)
On the Day He calls you, you will respond by praising Him and think that
you have only tarried a very short time. (17:52)
And stay awake for prayer during part of the night as a supererogatory
action for yourself. It may well be that your Lord will raise you to a
Praiseworthy Station. (17:79)
And say: 'Praise be to Allah Who has had no son and Who has no partner
in His Kingdom and Who needs no one to protect Him from abasement.' And
proclaim His Greatness repeatedly! (17:111)
Praise belongs to Allah Who has sent down the Book to His servant and
has put no crookedness in it. (18:1)
So be steadfast in the face of what they say and glorify your Lord with
praise before the rising of the sun and before its setting. And glorify
Him during part of the night and at both ends of the day, so that hopefully
you will be pleased. (20:130)
They have been guided to speak good words and guided to the praiseworthy
path. (22:24)
Everything in the heavens and everything in the earth belongs to Him.
Allah is the Rich Beyond Need, the Praiseworthy. (22:64)
When you and those with you are settled in the Ship, then say: "Praise
be to Allah Who has rescued us from the people of the wrongdoers!" (23:28)
Put your trust in the Living Who does not die and glorify Him with praise.
He is well aware of the wrong actions of His servants. (25:58)
We gave knowledge to Dawud and Sulayman who said, 'Praise be to Allah
Who has favoured us over many of His servants who are believers.' (27:15)
Say: 'Praise be to Allah and peace be upon His servants whom He has chosen.'
Is Allah better, or what you associate with Him? (27:59)
Say: 'Praise be to Allah. He will show you His Signs and you will recognise
them. Your Lord is not unaware of what you do.' (27:93)
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)
If you ask them, 'Who sends down water from the sky, bringing the earth
back to life again after it was dead?' they will say, 'Allah.' Say: 'Praise
be to Allah.' But most of them do not use their intellect. (29:63)
Praise be to Him in the heavens and the earth, in the afternoon and when
you reach midday. (30:18)
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.' (31:12)
If you asked them, 'Who created the heavens and the earth?' they would
say, 'Allah!' Say: 'Praise be to Allah!' But most of them do not know.
(31:25)
Everything in the heavens and earth belongs to Allah. Allah is the Rich
Beyond Need, the Praiseworthy. (31:26)
The people who truly do believe in Our Signs are those who fall to the
ground prostrating when they are reminded of them, and glorify their Lord
with praise, and are not arrogant. (32:15)
Praise be to Allah, to Whom everything in the heavens and everything
in the earth belongs, and praise be to Him in the hereafter. He is the
All-Wise, the All-Aware. (34:1)
Those who have been given knowledge see that what has been sent down
to you from your Lord is the truth and that it guides to the Path of the
Almighty, the Praiseworthy. (34:6)
We gave Dawud great favour from Us: 'O mountains and birds! Echo with
him in his praise!' And We made iron malleable for him. (34:10)
Praise be to Allah, the Bringer into Being of the heavens and earth,
He Who made the angels messengers, with wings-two, three or four. He adds
to creation in any way He wills. Allah has power over all things. (35:1)
Mankind! You are the poor in need of Allah whereas Allah is the Rich
Beyond Need, the Praiseworthy. (35:15)
They will say, 'Praise be to Allah Who has removed all sadness from us.
Truly our Lord is Ever-Forgiving, Ever-Thankful.' (35:34)
And praise be to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds! (37:182)
Allah has made a metaphor for them of a man owned by several partners
in dispute with one another and another man wholly owned by a single man.
Are they the same? Praise be to Allah! The fact is that most of them do
not know. (39:29)
They will say, 'Praise be to Allah Who has fulfilled His promise to us
and made us the inheritors of this land, letting us settle in the Garden
wherever we want. How excellent is the wage of those who work!' (39:74)
You will see the angels circling round the Throne, glorifying their Lord
with praise. It will be decided between them with truth. And it will be
said: 'Praise be to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds.' (39:75)
Those who bear the Throne, and all those around it, glorify their Lord
with praise and believe in Him and ask forgiveness for those who believe:
'Our Lord, You encompass everything in mercy and knowledge! Forgive those
who turn to You and who follow Your Way and safeguard them from the punishment
of the Blazing Fire.' (40:7)
So remain steadfast. Allah's promise is true. Ask forgiveness for your
wrong action and glorify your Lord with praise in the evening and the
early morning. (40:55)
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)
Falsehood cannot reach it from before it or behind it-it (the Qur'an)
is a revelation from One who is All-Wise, Praiseworthy. (41:42)
The heavens are all but rent asunder from above when the angels glorify
their Lord with praise and ask forgiveness for those who are on the earth.
Allah is the Ever-Forgiving, the Most Merciful. (42:5)
It is He Who sends down abundant rain, after they have lost all hope,
and unfolds His mercy. He is the Protector, the Praiseworthy. (42:28)
All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the heavens and the Lord of
the earth, Lord of all the worlds. (45:36)
So be patient in the face of what they say and glorify your Lord with
praise before the rising of the sun and before it sets. (50:39)
So wait steadfastly for the judgement of your Lord-you are certainly
before Our eyes. And glorify and praise your Lord when you get up. (52:48)
(Allah does not love) those who are tight-fisted and tell others to be
tight-fisted. If anyone turns away, Allah is the Rich Beyond Need, the
Praiseworthy. (57:24)
There is an excellent example in them for you to follow, that is for
those whose hope is in Allah and the Last Day. But if anyone turns away,
Allah is the Rich Beyond Need, the Praiseworthy. (60:6)
Everything in the heavens and everything on earth glorifies Allah. Sovereignty
and praise belong to Him. He has power over all things. (64:1)
That is because their Messengers brought them the Clear Signs but they
said, 'Are human beings going to guide us?' So they disbelieved and turned
away. But Allah is completely independent of them. Allah is Rich Beyond
Need, Praiseworthy. (64:6)
The only reason they punished them was because they believed in Allah,
the Almighty, the All-Praiseworthy. (85:8)
When Allah's help and victory have arrived and you have seen people entering
Allah's religion in droves, then glorify your Lord's praise and ask His
forgiveness. He is the Ever-Returning. (110:1-3)
PRAYER
(Those who guard against evil are) those who believe in the Unseen and
perform prayer and spend from what We have provided for them. (2:3)
Perform prayer and give the alms and bow with those who bow. (2:43)
Seek help in steadfastness and prayer. But that is a very hard thing,
except for the humble. (2:45)
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)
Perform prayer and give the alms. Any good you send ahead for yourselves,
you will find with Allah. Certainly Allah sees what you do. (2:110)
And when We made the House (Kaaba) a place of return, a sanctuary for
mankind: They took the place where Ibrahim stood (to pray) as a place
of prayer. We contracted with Ibrahim and Isma'il: 'Purify My House for
those who circle it, and those who stay there, and those who bow and who
prostrate.' (2:125)
You who believe! Seek help in steadfastness and prayer. Allah is with
the steadfast. (2:153)
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)
Safeguard the prayer-especially the middle one. Stand in obedience to
Allah. (2:238)
Those who believe and do right actions and perform prayer and give the
alms, will have their reward with their Lord. They will feel no fear and
will know no sorrow. (2:277)
The angels called out to him while he (Zakariyya) was standing in prayer
in the Upper Room: 'Allah gives you the good news of Yahya, who will come
to confirm a Word from Allah, and will be a leader and a celibate, a Prophet
and one of the righteous.' (3:39)
You who believe! Do not approach the prayer when you are drunk, so that
you will know what you are saying, nor in a state of major impurity-unless
you are travelling-until you have washed yourselves completely. If you
are ill or on a journey, or any of you have come from the lavatory or
touched women, and you cannot find any water then take for yourselves
clean earth, wiping your faces and your hands. Allah is Ever-Pardoning,
Ever-Forgiving. (4:43)
Do you not see those who were told: 'Hold back from fighting but perform
prayer and give the alms'? Then when fighting is prescribed for them,
a group of them fear people as Allah should be feared, or even more than
that. They say, 'Our Lord, why have you prescribed fighting for us? If
only You would give us just a little more time!' Say, 'The enjoyment of
this world is very brief. The hereafter is better for those who guard
against evil. You will not be wronged by so much as the smallest speck.'
(4:77)
When you are travelling in the land, there is nothing wrong in your shortening
your prayer if you fear that those who disbelieve may harass you. The
disbelievers are your clear-cut enemies. (4:101)
When you are with them and leading them in prayer, a group of them should
stand with you, keeping hold of their weapons. When they prostrate, the
others should guard your backs. Then the other group who have not yet
prayed should come and pray with you. They too should be careful and keep
hold of their weapons. Those who disbelieve would like you to be negligent
of your arms and equipment so that they can swoop down on you once and
for all. There is nothing wrong, if you are bothered by rain or you are
ill, in laying your weapons down; but take every precaution. Allah has
prepared a humiliating punishment for the disbelievers. (4:102)
When you have finished prayer remember Allah standing, sitting and lying
on your sides. When you are safe again perform prayer in the normal way.
The prayer is prescribed for the believers at specific times. (4:103)
The hypocrites think they deceive Allah, but He is deceiving them. When
they get up to pray, they get up lazily, showing off to people, and only
remembering Allah a very little. (4:142)
But those of them who are firmly rooted in knowledge, and the believers,
believe in what has been sent down to you and what was sent down before
you: those who perform prayer and give the alms, and believe in Allah
and the Last Day-We will pay such people an immense wage. (4:162)
You who believe! When you get up to perform prayer, wash your faces and
your hands and your arms to the elbows, and wipe over your heads, and
(wash) your feet to the ankles. If you are in a state of major impurity,
then purify yourselves. But if you are ill or on a journey, or have come
from the lavatory, or have touched women, and cannot find any water, then
then take for yourselves clean earth, and wipe your faces and your hands
therewith. Allah does not want to make things difficult for you, but He
does want to purify you and to perfect His blessing upon you so that hopefully
you will be thankful. (5:6)
Allah made a covenant with the tribe of Israel and We raised up twelve
leaders from among them. Allah said, 'I am with you. If you perform prayer
and give the alms, and believe in My Messengers and respect and support
them, and make a generous loan to Allah, I will erase your wrong actions
from you and admit you into Gardens with rivers flowing under them. Any
of you who disbelieve after that have gone astray from the right way.'
(5:12)
Your friend is only Allah and His Messenger and those who believe: those
who perform prayer and give the alms, and bow. (5:55)
When you call to prayer they make a mockery and a game of it. That is
because they are people who do not use their intellect. (5:58)
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)
You who believe! When one of you is near to death and makes a will, two
just men from among you should act as witnesses; or, if you are travelling
when the misfortune of death occurs, two men who are strangers to you.
You should detain them after prayer and, if you are doubtful, they should
swear by Allah: 'We will not sell it for any price, even to a near relative,
and we will not conceal the testimony of Allah. If we did we would indeed
be wrongdoers.' (5:106)
(Say:) 'And (We are commanded) to perform prayer and guard against evil
of Him. It is He to Whom you will be gathered.' (6:72)
This is a Book We have sent down and blessed, confirming what came before
it, so that you can warn the Mother of Cities and the people around it.
Those who believe in the hereafter believe in it and safeguard their prayer.
(6:92)
Say: 'My prayer and my rites, my living and my dying, are for Allah alone,
the Lord of all the worlds.' (6:162)
Whenever the plague came down on them they said, 'Musa, pray to your
Lord for us by the contract He has with you. If you remove the plague
from us, we will definitely believe in you and send the tribe of Israel
away with you.' (7:134)
As for those who hold fast to the Book and perform prayer, We will not
let the wage of the righteous be wasted. (7:170)
(Believers are) those who perform prayer and give of what We have provided
for them. (8:3)
Their prayer at the House is nothing but whistling and clapping. So taste
the punishment because you disbelieved! (8:35)
Then, when the sacred months are over, kill the idolaters wherever you
find them, and seize them and besiege them and lie in wait for them on
every road. If they repent and perform prayer and give the alms, let them
go on their way. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (9:5)
But if they repent and perform prayer and give the alms, they are your
brothers in the religion. We make the Signs clear for people who have
knowledge. (9:11)
The mosques of Allah should only be maintained by those who believe in
Allah and the Last Day and perform prayer and give the alms, and fear
no one but Allah. They are the ones most likely to be guided. (9:18)
Nothing prevents what they give from being accepted from them but the
fact that they have rejected Allah and His Messenger, and that they only
come to prayer lethargically, and that they only give reluctantly. (9:54)
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)
Never pray over any of them who die or stand at their graves. They rejected
Allah and His Messenger and died as deviators. (9:84)
And among the desert arabs there are some who believe in Allah and the
Last Day and regard what they give as something which will bring them
nearer to Allah and to the prayers of the Messenger. It does indeed bring
them near. Allah will admit them into His mercy. Allah is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (9:99)
Take charity from their wealth to purify and cleanse them and pray for
them. Your prayers bring relief to them. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
(9:103)
We revealed to Musa and his brother: 'Settle your people in houses in
Egypt and make your houses places of worship and perform prayer and give
good news to the believers.' (10:87)
They said, 'Shu'ayb, do your prayers instruct you that we should abandon
what our fathers worshipped or stop doing whatever we want to with our
wealth? You are clearly the forbearing, the rightly-guided!' (11:87)
Perform prayer at each end of the day and in the first part of the night.
Good actions eradicate bad actions. This is a reminder for people who
pay heed. (11:114)
Those who are steadfast in seeking the face of their Lord, and perform
prayer and give from the provision We have given them, secretly and openly,
and stave off evil with good, it is they who will have the Ultimate Abode.
(13:22)
Tell My servants who believe that they should perform prayer and give
from what We have provided for them, secretly and openly, before a Day
arrives on which there will be no trading and no friendship. (14:31)
(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)
(Ibrahim said,) 'My Lord! Make me and my descendants people who perform
prayer. My Lord! Accept my prayer.' (14:40)
Man prays for evil just as he prays for good. Man is prone to be impetuous.
(17:11)
Perform prayer from the time the sun declines until the darkening of
the night, and also the recitation at dawn. The dawn recitation is certainly
witnessed. (17:78)
And stay awake for prayer during part of the night as a supererogatory
action for yourself. It may well be that your Lord will raise you to a
Praiseworthy Station. (17:79)
Say: 'Call on Allah or call on the All-Merciful, whichever you call upon,
the Most Beautiful Names are His.' Do not be too loud in your prayer or
too quiet in it, but try to find a way between the two. (17:110)
('Isa said,) 'He has made me blessed wherever I am and directed me to
perform prayer and give the alms as long as I live.' (19:31)
He used to command his people to perform prayer and give the alms and
he was pleasing to his Lord. (19:55)
An evil generation succeeded them who neglected the prayer and followed
their appetites. They will plunge into the Valley of Evil. (19:59)
(Allah said,) 'I am Allah. There is no god but Me, so worship Me and
perform prayer to remember Me.' (20:14)
Instruct your family to perform prayer, and be constant in it. We do
not ask you for provision. We provide for you. And the outcome rests on
doing your duty. (20:132)
We made them leaders, guiding by Our command, and revealed to them how
to do good actions and perform prayer and give the alms, and they worshipped
Us. (21:73)
... Give good news to the humble-hearted, whose hearts quake at the mention
of Allah, and who are steadfast in the face of all that happens to them,
those who perform prayer and give of what We have provided for them. (22:34-35)
... Allah will certainly help those who help Him-Allah is All-Strong,
Almighty-those who, if We establish them firmly on the earth, will perform
prayer and give the alms, and command what is right and forbid what is
wrong. The end result of all affairs is with Allah. (22:40-41)
Strive for Allah with the striving due to Him. He has selected you and
not placed any constraint upon you in the religion-the religion of your
forefather Ibrahim. He named you Muslims before and also in this, so that
the Messenger could be witness against you and you could be witnesses
against all mankind. So perform prayer and give the alms and hold fast
to Allah. He is your Protector-the Best Protector, the Best Helper. (22:78)
(Believers are) those who are humble in their prayer. (23:2)
(Believers are) those who safeguard their prayer. (23:9)
... there are men who proclaim His glory morning and evening, not distracted
by trade or commerce from the remembrance of Allah and the performance
of prayer and the giving of the alms; fearing a day when all hearts and
eyes will be in turmoil. (24:36-37)
Do you not see that everyone in the heavens and earth glorifies Allah,
as do the birds with their outspread wings? Each one knows its prayer
and glorification. Allah knows what they do. (24:41)
Perform prayer and give the alms and obey the Messenger so that hopefully
mercy will be shown to you. (24:56)
You who believe! Those you own as slaves and those of you who have not
yet reached puberty should ask your permission to enter at three times:
before the Dawn Prayer, when you have undressed at noon, and after the
Prayer of Night-three times of nakedness for you. There is nothing wrong
for you or them at other times in moving around among yourselves from
one to another. In this way Allah makes the Signs clear to you. Allah
is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (24:58)
It is guidance and good news for the believers, those who perform prayer
and give the alms and are certain about the hereafter. (27:2-3)
Recite what has been revealed to you of the Book and perform prayer.
Prayer precludes indecency and wrongdoing. And remembrance of Allah is
greater still. Allah knows what you do. (29:45)
So set your face firmly towards the Religion, as a pure natural believer,
Allah's natural pattern on which He made mankind. There is no changing
Allah's creation. That is the true Religion-but most people do not know
it-turning towards Him. Have fear of Him and perform prayer. Do not be
among the idolaters. (30:30-31)
(The good-doers are) those who perform prayer and give the alms and are
certain of the hereafter. (31:4)
(Luqman said,) '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.' (31:17)
Remain in your houses and do not display your beauty as it was previously
displayed in the Time of Ignorance. Perform prayer and give the alms and
obey Allah and His Messenger. Allah desires to remove all impurity from
you, People of the House, and to purify you completely. (33:33)
No burden-bearer can bear another's burden. If someone weighed down calls
for help to bear his load, none of it will be borne for him, even by his
next of kin. You can only warn those who fear their Lord in the Unseen
and perform prayer. Whoever is purified, is purified for himself alone.
Allah is your final destination. (35:18)
Those who recite the Book of Allah and perform prayer and give of what
We have provided for them, secretly and openly, hope for a transaction
which will not prove profitless. (35:29)
When We grant blessing to a man, he turns away and draws aside but when
any evil touches him, he is full of endless prayers! (41:51)
(What is with Allah is better for) those who respond to their Lord and
perform prayer, and manage their affairs by mutual consultation and give
of what We have provided for them. (42:38)
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)
You who believe! When you are called to prayer on the Day of Friday,
hasten to the remembrance of Allah and abandon trade. That is better for
you if you only knew. (62:9)
Then when the prayer is finished spread through the earth and seek Allah's
bounty and remember Allah much so that hopefully you will be successful.
(62:10)
Truly man was created headstrong-desperate when bad things happen, begrudging
when good things come-except for those who perform prayer and are constant
in it. (70:20-23)
Those who safeguard their prayer; such people will be in Gardens, highly
honoured. (70:34-35)
Your Lord knows that you stay up nearly two-thirds of the night-or half
of it, or a third of it-and a group of those with you. Allah determines
the night and day. He knows you will not keep count of it, so He has turned
towards you. Recite as much of the Qur'an as is easy for you. He knows
that some of you are ill and that others are travelling in the land seeking
Allah's bounty, and that others are fighting in the Way of Allah. So recite
as much of it as is easy for you. And perform prayer and give the alms
and lend a generous loan to Allah. Whatever good you send ahead for yourselves
you will find it with Allah as something better and as a greater reward.
And seek forgiveness from Allah. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
(73:20)
They will say, 'We were not among those who performed prayer.' (74:43)
He neither affirmed the truth nor did he perform prayer. (75:31)
He who has purified himself will have success, he who invokes the Name
of his Lord and prays. (87:14-15)
Have you seen him who prevents a servant when he goes to pray? (96:9-10)
They were only ordered to worship Allah, making their religion sincerely
His as people of pure natural belief, and to perform prayer and give the
alms-that is the religion of the correct. (98:5)
So woe to those who perform prayer, and are forgetful of their prayer.
(107:4-5)
So pray to your Lord and sacrifice. (108:2)
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)
(The servants of the All-Merciful are) those who pass the night prostrating
and standing before their Lord; (25:64)
PRAYER DURING THE BATTLE
When you are travelling in the land, there is nothing wrong in your shortening
your prayer if you fear that those who disbelieve may harass you. The
disbelievers are your clear-cut enemies. (4:101)
When you are with them and leading them in prayer, a group of them should
stand with you, keeping hold of their weapons. When they prostrate, the
others should guard your backs. Then the other group who have not yet
prayed should come and pray with you. They too should be careful and keep
hold of their weapons. Those who disbelieve would like you to be negligent
of your arms and equipment so that they can swoop down on you once and
for all. There is nothing wrong, if you are bothered by rain or you are
ill, in laying your weapons down; but take every precaution. Allah has
prepared a humiliating punishment for the disbelievers. (4:102)
When you have finished prayer remember Allah standing, sitting and lying
on your sides. When you are safe again perform prayer in the normal way.
The prayer is prescribed for the believers at specific times. (4:103)
PRAYER OF NIGHT
You who believe! Those you own as slaves and those of you who have not
yet reached puberty should ask your permission to enter at three times:
before the Dawn Prayer, when you have undressed at noon, and after the
Prayer of Night-three times of nakedness for you. There is nothing wrong
for you or them at other times in moving around among yourselves from
one to another. In this way Allah makes the Signs clear to you. Allah
is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (24:58)
PRECAUTION
You who believe! Take all necessary precautions, then go out to fight
in separate groups or go out as one body. (4:71)
When you are with them and leading them in prayer, a group of them should
stand with you, keeping hold of their weapons. When they prostrate, the
others should guard your backs. Then the other group who have not yet
prayed should come and pray with you. They too should be careful and keep
hold of their weapons. Those who disbelieve would like you to be negligent
of your arms and equipment so that they can swoop down on you once and
for all. There is nothing wrong, if you are bothered by rain or you are
ill, in laying your weapons down; but take every precaution. Allah has
prepared a humiliating punishment for the disbelievers. (4:102)
PREGNANCY
It is He Who created you from a single self and made from him his spouse
so that he might find repose in her. Then when he covered her she bore
a light load and carried it around. Then when it became heavy they called
on Allah, their Lord, 'If You grant us a healthy child, we will be among
the thankful!' (7:189)
Allah knows what every female bears and every shrinking of the womb and
every swelling. Everything has its measure with Him. (13:8)
So she (Maryam) conceived him and withdrew with him to a distant place.
(19:22)
On the day they see it, every nursing woman will be oblivious of the
baby at her breast, and every pregnant woman will abort the contents of
her womb, and you will think people drunk when they are not drunk; it
is just that the punishment of Allah is so severe. (22:2)
We have instructed man concerning his parents. Bearing him caused his
mother great debility and the period of his weaning was two years: 'Give
thanks to Me and to your parents. I am your final destination.' (31:14)
Allah created you from dust and then from a drop of sperm and then made
you into pairs. No female becomes pregnant or gives birth except with
His knowledge. And no living thing lives long or has its life cut short
without that being in a Book. That is easy for Allah. (35:11)
Knowledge of the Hour is referred to Him. And no fruit emerges from its
husk, nor does any female get pregnant or give birth, without His knowledge.
On the Day He calls out to them: 'Where are My associates?' they will
say, 'We declare to you that none of us is a witness.' (41:47)
We have instructed man to be good to his parents. His mother bore him
with difficulty and with difficulty gave birth to him; and his bearing
and weaning take thirty months. Then when he achieves his full strength
and reaches forty, he says, 'My Lord, keep me thankful for the blessing
You bestowed on me and on my parents, and keep me acting rightly, pleasing
You. And make my descendants righteous. I have repented to You and I am
truly one of the Muslims.' (46:15)
In the case of those of your wives who are past the age of menstruation,
if you have any doubt, their waiting period should be three months, and
that also applies to those who have not yet menstruated. The time for
women who are pregnant is when they give birth. Whoever has fear of Allah-He
will make matters easy for him. (65:4)
Let them (the women you divorce) live where you live, according to your
means. Do not put pressure on them, so as to harass them. If they are
pregnant, maintain them until they give birth. If they are suckling for
you, give them their wages and consult together with correctness and courtesy.
But if you make things difficult for one another, another woman should
do the suckling for you. (65:6)
PRE-ORDAINED DECREE (I. E. DESTINY)
No self can die except with Allah's permission, at a predetermined time.
If anyone desires the reward of this world, We will give him some of it.
If anyone desires the reward of the hereafter, We will give him some of
it. We will recompense the thankful. (3:145)
Then He sent down to you, after the distress, security, restful sleep
overtaking a group of you, whereas another group became prey to anxious
thoughts, thinking other than the truth about Allah-thoughts belonging
to the Time of Ignorance- saying, 'Do we have any say in the affair at
all?' Say, 'The affair belongs entirely to Allah.' They are concealing
things inside themselves which they do not disclose to you, saying, 'If
we had only had a say in the affair, none of us would have been killed
here in this place.' Say, 'Even if you had been inside your homes, those
people for whom killing was decreed would have gone out to their place
of death.' So that Allah might test what is in your breasts and purge
what is in your hearts. Allah knows the contents of your hearts. (3:154)
It is He Who created you from clay and then decreed a fixed term, and
another fixed term is specified with Him. Yet you still have doubts! (6:2)
If their turning away is hard on you, then go down a tunnel deep into
the earth, if you can, or climb up a ladder into heaven, and bring them
a Sign. If Allah had wanted to He would have gathered them all to guidance.
So do not be among the ignorant. (6:35)
Every nation has an appointed time. When their time comes, they cannot
delay it a single hour or bring it forward. (7:34)
Were it not for a prior decree which had already proceeded from Allah,
a terrible punishment would have afflicted you on account of what you
took. (8:68)
Say: 'Nothing can happen to us except what Allah has ordained for us.
He is Our Master. It is in Allah that the believers should put their trust.'
(9:51)
Mankind was only one community but then they differed, and had it not
been for a prior Word from your Lord, they would already have been judged
in respect of the differences between them. (10:19)
Say: 'I possess no power to harm or help myself except as Allah wills.
Every nation has an appointed time. When their appointed time comes, they
cannot delay it a single hour or bring it forward.' (10:49)
There is no creature on the earth which is not dependent upon Allah for
its provision. He knows where it lives and where it dies. They are all
in a Clear Book. (11:6)
If We postpone the punishment for them for a limited time, they will
say, 'What is holding it back?' No, indeed! The day it reaches them it
will not be averted from them and the things they mocked at will encompass
them. (11:8)
(It was revealed to Nuh:) 'Build the Ark under Our supervision and as
We reveal and do not address Me concerning the wrongdoers. They shall
be drowned.' (11:37)
(Hud said,) 'I have put my trust in Allah, my Lord and your Lord. There
is no creature He does not hold by the forelock. My Lord is on a Straight
Path.' (11:56)
As for those who are wretched, they will be in the Fire, where they will
sigh and gasp, remaining in it timelessly, for ever, as long as the heavens
and earth endure, except as your Lord wills. Your Lord is the Doer of
what He wills. As for those who are glad, they will be in the Garden,
remaining in it timelessly, for ever, as long as the heavens and earth
endure, except as your Lord wills: an uninterrupted gift. (11:106-108)
We gave Musa the Book and people differed concerning it and had it not
been for a prior Word from your Lord, it would already have been decided
between them. They are indeed in grave doubt about it. (11:110)
Everyone has a succession of angels in front of him and behind him, guarding
him by Allah's command. Allah never changes a people's state until they
change what is in themselves. When Allah desires evil for a people, there
is no averting it. They have no protector apart from Him. (13:11)
Even if there was a Qur'an which moved mountains, or split the earth
open or spoke to the dead...! On the contrary! The affair is Allah's altogether.
Do those who believe not know that if Allah had wanted to He could have
guided all mankind? Those who disbelieve will not cease to be struck by
disaster for what they have done-or a disaster will happen close to their
homes-until Allah's promise is fulfilled. Allah will not fail to keep
His promise. Messengers before you were mocked. I gave those who disbelieved
a little more time and then I seized them. How terrible was My retribution!
(13:31-32)
We sent Messengers before you and gave them wives and children. Nor was
any Messenger able to bring a Sign except by Allah's permission. There
is a prescribed limit to every term. (13:38)
Allah erases whatever He wills or endorses it. The Master Copy of the
Book is in His Hands. (13:39)
We did not destroy any city without it having a set time. (15:4)
If Allah were to punish people for their wrong actions, not a single
creature would be left upon the earth, but He defers them till a predetermined
time. When their specified time arrives, they cannot delay it for a single
hour nor can they bring it forward. (16:61)
There is no city We will not destroy before the Day of Rising, or punish
with a terrible punishment. That is inscribed in the Book. (17:58)
(Allah said,) 'When your sister went and said, "Shall I direct you to
someone who will take care of him?" that was how We returned you to your
mother so that she might delight her eyes and not be grieved. You killed
a man and We rescued you from trouble and tested you with many trials.
You stayed some years among the people of Madyan. Then you arrived at
the pre-ordained time, Musa!' (20:40)
And were it not for a prior word from your Lord, and a specified term,
it would inevitably have already taken place. (20:129)
No nation can advance its appointed time nor can they delay it. (23:43)
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)
Certainly your Lord knows what their hearts keep hidden and what they
divulge. (27:74)
Certainly there is no hidden thing in either heaven or earth which is
not in a Clear Book. (27:75)
They ask you to hasten the punishment. If it were not for a stipulated
term, the punishment would have come to them already. It will come upon
them suddenly when they are not expecting it. (29:53)
Truly Allah has knowledge of the Hour and sends down abundant rain and
knows what is in the womb. And no self knows what it will earn tomorrow
and no self knows in what land it will die. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware.
(31:34)
He directs the whole affair from heaven to earth. Then it will again
ascend to Him on a Day whose length is a thousand years by the way you
measure. (32:5)
There is no restriction on the Prophet regarding anything Allah allots
to him. This was Allah's pattern with those who passed away before-and
Allah's command is a pre-ordained decree. (33:38)
Those who disbelieve say, 'The Hour will never come.' Say: 'Yes, by my
Lord, it certainly will come!' He is the Knower of the Unseen, Whom not
even the weight of the smallest particle eludes, either in the heavens
or in the earth; nor is there anything smaller or larger than that which
is not in a Clear Book. (34:3)
Say: 'You have a promised appointment on a Day which you cannot delay
or advance a single hour.' (34:30)
Allah created you from dust and then from a drop of sperm and then made
you into pairs. No female becomes pregnant or gives birth except with
His knowledge. And no living thing lives long or has its life cut short
without that being in a Book. That is easy for Allah. (35:11)
If Allah were to take mankind to task for what they have earned, He would
not leave a single creature crawling on it, but He is deferring them until
a specified time. Then, when their time comes, Allah sees His servants!
(35:45)
We gave Musa the Book but there was disagreement about it. And had it
not been for a prior Word from your Lord, the judgement between them would
already have been made. They are indeed in grave doubt about it. (41:45)
Knowledge of the Hour is referred to Him. And no fruit emerges from its
husk, nor does any female get pregnant or give birth, without His knowledge.
On the Day He calls out to them: 'Where are My associates?' they will
say, 'We declare to you that none of us is a witness.' (41:47)
They only split up after knowledge came to them, tyrannising one another.
And were it not for a prior decree from your Lord for a specified term,
the judgement between them would already have been made. Those who inherited
the Book after them are indeed in grave doubt about it. (42:14)
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)
We destroyed those of your kind in the past. But is there any rememberer
there? Everything they did is in the Books. Everything is recorded, big
or small. (54:51-53)
Nothing occurs, either in the earth or in yourselves, without its being
in a Book before We make it happen. That is something easy for Allah.
(57:22)
If Allah had not prescribed banishment for them, He would have punished
them in this world. But in the hereafter they will have the punishment
of the Fire. (59:3)
No misfortune occurs except by Allah's permission. Whoever believes in
Allah-He will guide his heart. Allah has knowledge of all things. (64:11)
... Whoever has fear of Allah-He will give him a way out and provide
for him from where he does not expect. Whoever puts his trust in Allah-He
will be enough for him. Allah always achieves His aim. Allah has appointed
a measure for all things. (65:2-3)
(Nuh said to his people:) 'He will forgive you your wrong actions and
defer you until a specified time. When Allah's time comes it cannot be
deferred, if you only knew.' (71:4)
Say: 'I do not know whether what you are promised is close or whether
my Lord will appoint a longer time before it.' (72:25)
He is the Knower of the Unseen, and does not divulge His Unseen to anyone-except
a Messenger with whom He is well pleased, and then He posts sentinels
before him and behind him, so that He may know that they have indeed transmitted
the Messages of their Lord. He encompasses what is in their hands and
has counted the exact number of everything. (72:26-28)
PRESERVED TABLET, THE (SEE LAWH MAHFUZ)
PREVIOUSLY MARRIED
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)
PRIEST
You will find that the people most hostile to those who believe are the
Jews and the idolaters. You will find the people most affectionate to
those who believe are those who say, 'We are Christians.' That is because
some of them are priests and monks and because they are not arrogant.
(5:82)
PRISON - PRISONER
O Prophet! Say to those you are holding prisoner, 'If Allah knows of
any good in your hearts, He will give you something better than what has
been taken from you and forgive you.' Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
But if they mean to betray you, they have already previously betrayed
Allah, so He has given you power over them. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.
(8:70-71)
They raced to the door. She tore his (Yusuf's) shirt at the back. They
met her husband by the door. She said, 'How should a man whose intention
was to harm your family be punished for what he did except with prison
or painful punishment?' (12:25)
She (the governor's wife) said, 'You see! It's him you blamed me for.
I tried seducing him but he refused. If he does not do what I order him,
he will be put in prison and brought low.' (12:32)
He (Yusuf) said, 'My Lord, the prison is preferable to me than what they
call on me to do. Unless You turn their guile away from me, it may well
be that I will fall for them and so become a man of ignorance.' (12:33)
Then, after they had seen the Signs, they thought that they should still
imprison him for a time. (12:35)
Two servants entered prison along with him (Yusuf). One said, 'I dreamt
that I was pressing grapes.' The other said, 'I dreamt I carried bread
upon my head and birds were eating it. Tell us the true meaning of these
dreams. We see that you're one of the righteous.' (12:36)
(Yusuf said,) 'My fellow-prisoners, are many lords better, or Allah,
the only One, the Conqueror?' (12:39)
He said to the one of them he knew was saved, 'Please mention me when
you are with your lord,' but Satan made him forget to remind his lord,
and so he stayed in prison for several years. (12:42)
He (Yusuf) raised his parents up onto the throne. The others fell prostrate
in front of him. He said, 'My father, truly this is now the interpretation
of the dream I had. My Lord has made it all come true; and He was kind
to me by letting me out of prison and brought you from the desert when
Satan had caused dissent between me and my brothers. My Lord is kind to
anyone He wills. He is indeed All-Knowing and All-Wise.' (12:100)
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