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Remember when We said, 'Go into this town and eat from it wherever you
like, freely. Enter the gate prostrating and say, "Relieve us of our burdens!"
Your mistakes will be forgiven. We will grant increase to all good-doers.'
(2:58)
Or (what about) the one who passed by a town which had fallen into ruin?
He asked, 'How can Allah restore this to life when it has died?' Allah
caused him to die a hundred years then brought him back to life. Then
He asked, 'How long have you been here?' He replied, 'I have been here
a day or part of a day.' He said, 'Not so! You have been here a hundred
years. Look at your food and drink-it has not gone bad-and look at your
donkey so We can make you a Sign for all mankind. Look at the bones-how
We raise them up and clothe them in flesh.' When it had become clear to
him, he said, 'Now I know that Allah has power over all things.' (2:259)
When they were told: 'Live in this town and eat of it wherever you like
and say, "Relieve us of our burdens!" and enter the gate prostrating.
Your mistakes will be forgiven you. We will grant increase to good-doers.'
(7:161)
Ask them about the town which was by the sea when they broke the Sabbath-when
their fish came to them near the surface on their Sabbath day but did
not come on the days which they did not keep the Sabbath. In this way
We put them to the test because they were deviators. (7:163)
So they went on until they reached the inhabitants of a town. They asked
them for food but they refused them hospitality. They found there a wall
about to fall down and he built it up. Musa said, 'If you had wanted,
you could have taken a wage for doing that.' (18:77)
'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)
If We had wished We could have sent a warner to every town. (25:51)
They will not fight against you all together as a group except in fortified
towns or behind high walls. Their hostility towards each other is intense.
They are full of bravado in each other's company. You consider them united
but their hearts are scattered wide. That is because they are people who
do not use their intellect. (59:14)
TRACE
How many generations We have destroyed before them! Do you see a trace
of any one of them or hear even a whisper of them? (19:98)
They said, 'Our Lord, put more distance between our staging posts.' They
wronged themselves so We made legends of them and scattered them without
a trace. There are certainly Signs in that for everyone who is steadfast
and thankful. (34:19)
Have they not travelled in the earth and seen the final fate of those
before them? They were greater than them in strength and left far deeper
traces on the earth, yet Allah seized them for their wrong actions and
they had no one to protect them from Allah. (40:21)
Have they not travelled in the land and seen the final fate of those
before them? They were more numerous than them and greater in strength
and left more and deeper traces on earth, but what they earned was of
no use to them. (40:82)
Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and those who are with him are fierce
to the disbelievers, merciful to one another. You see them bowing and
prostrating, seeking Allah's good favour and His pleasure. Their mark
is on their faces, the traces of prostration. That is their likeness in
the Torah. And their likeness in the Gospel is that of a seed which puts
up a shoot and makes it strong so that it thickens and grows up straight
upon its stalk, filling the sowers with delight-so that by them He may
infuriate the disbelievers. Allah has promised those of them who believe
and do right actions forgiveness and an immense reward. (48:29)
TRADE
Those who practise usury will not rise from the grave except as someone
driven mad by Satan's touch. That is because they say, 'Trade is the same
as usury.' But Allah has permitted trade and He has forbidden usury. Whoever
is given a warning by his Lord and then desists, can keep what he received
in the past and his affair is Allah's concern. But all who return to it
will be the Companions of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, for ever.
(2:275)
You who believe! When you take on a debt for a specified period, write
it down. A writer should write it down between you justly. No writer should
refuse to write; as Allah has taught him, so he should write. The one
incurring the debt should dictate and should have fear of Allah his Lord
and not reduce it in any way. If the person incurring the debt is incompetent
or weak or unable to dictate, then his guardian should dictate for him
justly. Two men among you should act as witnesses. But if there are not
two men, then a man and two women with whom you are satisfied as witnesses;
then if one of them forgets, the other can remind her. Witnesses should
not refuse when they are called upon. Do not think it too trivial to write
down, whether small or large, with the date that it falls due. Doing that
is more just in Allah's sight and more helpful when bearing witness and
more likely to eliminate any doubt-unless it is an immediate transaction
hand to hand, taken and given without delay. There is nothing wrong in
your not writing that down. Call witnesses when you trade. Neither writer
nor witness should be put under pressure. If you do that, it is deviancy
on your part. Have fear of Allah and Allah will give you knowledge. Allah
has knowledge of all things. (2:282)
You who believe! Do not consume one another's property by false means,
but only by means of mutually agreed trade. And do not kill yourselves.
Allah is Most Merciful to you. (4:29)
... 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)
But when they see a chance of trade or entertainment they scatter off
to it and leave you standing there. Say: 'What is with Allah is better
than trade or entertainment. Allah is the Best of Providers.' (62:11)
TRANSACTION
You who believe! When you take on a debt for a specified period, write
it down. A writer should write it down between you justly. No writer should
refuse to write; as Allah has taught him, so he should write. The one
incurring the debt should dictate and should have fear of Allah his Lord
and not reduce it in any way. If the person incurring the debt is incompetent
or weak or unable to dictate, then his guardian should dictate for him
justly. Two men among you should act as witnesses. But if there are not
two men, then a man and two women with whom you are satisfied as witnesses;
then if one of them forgets, the other can remind her. Witnesses should
not refuse when they are called upon. Do not think it too trivial to write
down, whether small or large, with the date that it falls due. Doing that
is more just in Allah's sight and more helpful when bearing witness and
more likely to eliminate any doubt-unless it is an immediate transaction
hand to hand, taken and given without delay. There is nothing wrong in
your not writing that down. Call witnesses when you trade. Neither writer
nor witness should be put under pressure. If you do that, it is deviancy
on your part. Have fear of Allah and Allah will give you knowledge. Allah
has knowledge of all things. (2:282)
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)
You who believe! Shall I direct you to a transaction which will save
you from a painful punishment? (61:10)
TRANSMISSION
If they argue with you, say, 'I have submitted myself completely to Allah,
and so have all who follow me.' Say to those given the Book and those
who have no Book, 'Have you become Muslim?' If they become Muslim, they
have been guided. If they turn away, you are only responsible for transmission.
Allah sees His servants. (3:20)
O Messenger! Transmit what has been sent down to you from your Lord.
If you do not do it you will not have transmitted His Message. Allah will
protect you from people. Allah does not guide the people of the disbelievers.
(5:67)
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)
The Messenger is only responsible for transmission. Allah knows what
you divulge and what you hide. (5:99)
He (Nuh) said, 'My people, I am not in error at all but rather am a Messenger
from the Lord of all the worlds, transmitting my Lord's Message to you
and giving you good counsel, and I know from Allah what you do not know.'
(7:61-62)
He (Hud) said, 'My people, I am by no means a fool, but rather am a Messenger
from the Lord of all the worlds, transmitting my Lord's Message to you,
and I am a faithful counsellor to you.' (7:67-68)
He (Salih) turned away from them and said, 'My people, I transmitted
my Lord's message to you and gave you good counsel. However, you do not
like good counsellors!' (7:79)
So he (Shu'ayb) turned away from them and said, 'My people, I transmitted
My Lord's message to you and gave you good counsel. Why should I grieve
for a disbelieving people?' (7:93)
(Hud said,) 'If you turn your backs, I have transmitted to you what I
was sent to you with, and my Lord will replace you with another people,
and you will not harm Him at all. My Lord is the Preserver of everything.'
(11:57)
Whether We show you something of what We have promised them or We take
you back to Us, your responsibility is transmission and the Reckoning
is Ours. (13:40)
The idolaters say, 'If Allah had willed we would not have worshipped
anything apart from Him, neither we nor our fathers, nor would we have
forbidden anything without His say.' Those before them said the same.
Are the Messengers responsible for anything but clear transmission? (16:35)
But if they turn their backs, you are only responsible for clear transmission.
(16:82)
And if you deny it, nations before you also denied the truth. The Messenger
is only responsible for clear transmission. (29:18)
They (messengers) said, 'Our Lord knows we have been sent as Messengers
to you. We are only responsible for clear transmission.' (36:16-17)
But if they turn away, We have not sent you to be their guardian. You
are only responsible for transmission. When We let a man taste mercy from
Us he exults in it. But if something bad strikes him for what he has done
he is ungrateful. (42:48)
He said, 'All knowledge is with Allah. I only transmit to you what I
have been sent with. But I see that you are a people who are ignorant.'
(46:23)
So be steadfast as the Messengers with firm resolve were also steadfast.
And do not seek to hasten it for them. On the Day they see what they were
promised, it will be as if they had only tarried for just one hour of
a single day. It has been transmitted! Will any be destroyed except for
deviant people? (46:35)
Obey Allah and obey the Messenger. But if you turn your backs, the Messenger
is only responsible for clear transmission. (64:12)
Say: 'No one can protect me from Allah and I will never find any refuge
apart from Him-only in transmitting from Allah and His Messages. As for
him who disobeys Allah and His Messenger, he will have the Fire of Hell,
remaining in it timelessly, for ever and ever.' (72:22-23)
(It is) 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. (72:28)
TRAVEL
It (the 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)
Whole societies have passed away before your time, so travel about the
earth and see the final fate of the deniers. (3:137)
You who believe! Do not approach the prayer when you are drunk, so that
you will know what you are saying, nor in a state of major impurity-unless
you are travelling-until you have washed yourselves completely. If you
are ill or on a journey, or any of you have come from the lavatory or
touched women, and you cannot find any water, then take for yourselves
clean earth, wiping your faces and your hands. Allah is Ever-Pardoning,
Ever-Forgiving. (4:43)
When you are 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)
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)
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)
We sent none before you but men inspired with revelation from among the
people of the cities. Have they not travelled in the land and seen the
final fate of those before them? The abode of the hereafter is better
for those who guard against evil. So will you not use your intellect?
(12:109)
(Messengers said to Lut,) 'Travel with your family in the dead of night,
following behind with them in front of you. None of you must look back.
Go where you are ordered to.' (15:65)
We sent a Messenger among every people saying: 'Worship Allah and keep
clear of all false gods.' Among them were some whom Allah guided but others
received the misguidance they deserved. Travel about the earth and see
the final fate of the deniers. (16:36)
Or (do those who plot evil actions feel secure) that He will not seize
them on their travels, something they are powerless to prevent? (16:46)
(Your Lord revealed to the bees:) 'Then eat from every kind of fruit
and travel the paths of your Lord, which have been made easy for you to
follow.' From inside them comes a drink of varying colours, containing
healing for mankind. There is certainly a Sign in that for people who
reflect. (16:69)
Allah has made your houses places of rest for you and made houses for
you out of cattle hides which are light for you to carry both when you
are travelling and when you are staying in one place. And from their wool
and fur and hair you obtain clothing and carpets and household utensils
for a time. (16:80)
We revealed to Musa, 'Travel with My servants by night. Strike a dry
path for them through the sea. Have no fear of being overtaken and do
not be afraid.' (20:77)
Have they not travelled about the earth and do they not have hearts to
understand with or ears to hear with? It is not their eyes which are blind
but the hearts in their breasts which are blind. (22:46)
We revealed to Musa: 'Travel with Our servants by night. You will certainly
be pursued.' (26:52)
Say: 'Travel about the earth and see the final fate of the evildoers.'
(27:69)
Say: 'Travel about the earth and see how He brought creation out of nothing.
Then later Allah will bring about the next existence. Allah has power
over all things.' (29:20)
Have they not travelled in the earth and seen the final fate of those
before them? They had greater strength than them and cultivated the land
and inhabited it in far greater numbers than they do. Their Messengers
also came to them with the Clear Signs. Allah would never have wronged
them; but they wronged themselves. (30:9)
Say: 'Travel about the earth and see the final fate of those before.
Most of them were idolaters.' (30:42)
We placed between them and the cities We had blessed other clearly conspicuous
cities, making them measured stages on the way: 'Travel between them in
safety by night and day.' (34:18)
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)
Have they not travelled in the earth and seen the final fate of those
before them? They were greater than them in strength and left far deeper
traces on the earth, yet Allah seized them for their wrong actions and
they had no one to protect them from Allah. (40:21)
Have they not travelled in the land and seen the final fate of those
before them? They were more numerous than them and greater in strength
and left more and deeper traces on earth, but what they earned was of
no use to them. (40:82)
Have they not travelled about the earth and seen the final fate of those
before them? Allah destroyed them utterly. And those who disbelieve will
suffer the same fate. (47:10)
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)
TRAVELLER
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)
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)
Anything you catch in the sea is lawful for you, and all food from it,
for your enjoyment and that of travellers, but land game is forbidden
for you while you are in the state of pilgrimage. So have fear of Allah,
Him to Whom you will be gathered. (5:96)
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)
One of them said, 'Do not take Yusuf's life but throw him to the bottom
of the well, so that some travellers may discover him, if this is something
that you have to do.' (12:10)
Some travellers came that way and then dispatched their water-drawer
who let his bucket down. He said, 'Good news for me, I've found a boy!'
They then hid him away among their goods. Allah knew very well what they
were doing. (12:19)
Give your relatives their due, and the very poor and travellers but do
not squander what you have. (17:26)
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)
Have you thought about the fire that you light? Is it you who make the
trees that fuel it grow or are We the Grower? We have made it to be a
reminder and a comfort for travellers in the wild. (56:71-73)
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)
TREACHERY
We have sent down the Book to you with the truth so that you can judge
between people according to what Allah has shown to you. But do not be
an advocate for the treacherous. (4:105)
But because of their breaking of their covenant, We have cursed them
and made their hearts hard. They distort the true meaning of words and
have forgotten a good portion of what they were reminded of. You will
never cease to come upon some act of treachery on their part, except for
a few of them. Yet pardon them, and overlook. Allah loves good-doers.
(5:13)
If you fear treachery on the part of a people, revoke your treaty with
them mutually. Allah does not love treacherous people. (8:58)
When the waves hang over them like canopies, they call on Allah, making
their religion sincerely His. But then when He delivers them safely to
the land, some of them are ambivalent. None but a treacherous, thankless
man denies Our Signs. (31:32)
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