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WADD
They have hatched a mighty plot saying, "Do not abandon your gods. Do
not abandon Wadd or Suwa' or Yaghuth or Ya'uq or Nasr." (71:22-23)
WAGE
They are the ones Allah has guided, so be guided by their guidance. Say,
'I do not ask you for any wage for it. It is simply a reminder to all
beings.' (6:90)
(Hud said,) 'My people! I do not ask you for any wage for it. My wage
is the responsibility of Him Who brought me into being. So will you not
use your intellect?' (11:51)
You do not ask them for any wage for it. It is only a reminder to all
beings. (12:104)
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)
Say: 'I do not ask you for any wage for it-only that anyone who wants
to should make his way towards his Lord.' (25:57)
(Nuh said,) 'I do not ask you for any wage for it. My wage is the responsibility
of no one but the Lord of all the worlds.' (26:109)
(Hud said,) 'I do not ask you for any wage for it. My wage is the responsibility
of no one but the Lord of all the worlds.' (26:127)
(Salih said,) 'I do not ask you for any wage for it. My wage is the responsibility
of no one but the Lord of all the worlds.' (26:145)
(Lut said,) 'I do not ask you for any wage for it. My wage is the responsibility
of no one but the Lord of all the worlds.' (26:164)
(Shu'ayb said,) 'I do not ask you for any wage for it. My wage is the
responsibility of no one but the Lord of all the worlds.' (26:180)
Say: 'I have not asked you for any wage-it is all for you. My wage is
the responsibility of Allah alone. He is witness of everything.' (34:47)
(A man from the far side of the city said,) 'Follow those who do not
ask you for any wage and who have received guidance.' (36:21)
Say: 'I do not ask you for any wage for it, nor am I a man of false pretensions.'
(38:86)
That is the good news which Allah gives to His servants who believe and
do right actions. Say: 'I do not ask you for any wage for this-except
for you to love your near of kin. If anyone does a good action, We will
increase the good of it for him. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Ever-Thankful.'
(42:23)
Or do you ask them for a wage so they are weighed down with debt? (52:40)
Let them (the women you divorced) 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)
Or do you ask them for a wage so they are weighed down with debt? (68:46)
WAITING PERIOD (FOR WOMEN) (IDDAH)
Divorced women should wait by themselves for three menstrual cycles;
and it is not lawful for them to conceal what Allah has created in their
wombs if they believe in Allah and the Last Day. Their husbands have the
right to take them back within that time, if they desire to be reconciled.
Women possess rights similar to those held over them to be honoured with
fairness; but men have a degree above them. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise.
(2:228)
When you divorce women and they are near the end of their waiting period,
then either retain them with correctness and courtesy or release them
with correctness and courtesy. Do not retain them by force, thus overstepping
the limits. Anyone who does that has wronged himself. Do not make a mockery
of Allah's Signs. Remember Allah's blessing to you and the Book and Wisdom
He has sent down to you to admonish you. Have fear of Allah and know that
Allah has knowledge of all things. (2:231)
When you divorce women and they are near the end of their waiting period,
do not prevent them from marrying their first husbands if they have mutually
agreed to it with correctness and courtesy. This is an admonition for
those of you who believe in Allah and the Last Day. That is better and
purer for you. Allah knows and you do not know. Mothers should nurse their
children for two full years-those who wish to complete the full term of
nursing. It is the duty of the fathers to feed and clothe them with correctness
and courtesy-no self is charged with more than it can bear. No mother
should be put under pressure in respect of her child nor any father in
respect of his child. The same duty is incumbent on the heir. If the couple
both wish weaning to take place after mutual agreement and consultation,
there is nothing wrong in their doing that. If you wish to find wet-nurses
for your children, there is nothing wrong in your doing that provided
you hand over to them what you have agreed to give with correctness and
courtesy. Have fear of Allah and know that Allah sees what you do. Those
of you who die leaving wives behind: they should wait by themselves for
four months and ten nights. When their waiting period comes to an end,
you are not to blame for anything they do with themselves with correctness
and courtesy. Allah is aware of what you do. (2:232-234)
Nor is there anything wrong in any allusion to marriage you make to a
woman, nor for any you keep to yourself. Allah knows that you will say
things to them. But do not make secret arrangements with them, rather
only speak with correctness and courtesy. Do not finally decide on the
marriage contract until the prescribed period has come to its end. Know
that Allah knows what is in your selves, so beware of Him! And know that
Allah is Ever-Forgiving, All-Forbearing. (2:235)
Those of you who die leaving wives behind should make a bequest to their
wives of maintenance for a year without them having to leave their homes.
But if they do leave you are not to blame for anything they do with themselves
with correctness and courtesy. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (2:240)
You who believe! When you marry believing women and then divorce them
before you have touched them, there is no waiting period for you to calculate
for them, so give them a gift and let them go with kindness. (33:49)
O Prophet! When any of you divorce women, divorce them during their period
of purity and calculate their waiting period carefully. And have fear
of Allah, your Lord. Do not evict them from their homes, nor should they
leave, unless they commit an outright indecency. Those are Allah's limits,
and anyone who oversteps Allah's limits has wronged himself. You never
know, it may well be that after that Allah will cause a new situation
to develop. Then when they have reached the end of their waiting period
either retain them with correctness and courtesy or part from them with
correctness and courtesy. Call two upright men from among yourselves as
witnesses and they should carry out the witnessing for Allah. This is
admonishment for all who believe in Allah and the Last Day. 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. 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. That is Allah's command
which He has sent down to you. Whoever has fear of Allah-He will erase
his bad actions from him and greatly increase his reward. Let them 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. He who
has plenty should spend out from his plenty, but he whose provision is
restricted should spend from what Allah has given him. Allah does not
demand from any self more than He has given it. Allah will appoint after
difficulty, ease. (65:1-7)
WALK LIGHTLY
The servants of the All-Merciful are those who walk lightly on the earth
and, who, when the ignorant speak to them, say, 'Peace'; (25:63)
WALL
There will be a dividing wall between them and on the ramparts there
will be men who recognise everyone by their mark. They will call out to
the people of the Garden: 'Peace be upon you!' They will not enter it
for all their ardent desire to do so. (7:46)
Accordingly We made them chance upon them unexpectedly so they might
know that Allah's promise is true and that there is no doubt about the
Hour. When they were arguing among themselves about the matter, they said,
'Wall up their cave, their Lord knows best about them.' But those who
got the better of the argument concerning them said, 'We will build a
place of worship over them.' (18:21)
Say: 'It is the truth from your Lord; so let whoever wishes believe and
whoever wishes disbelieve.' We have prepared for the wrongdoers a Fire
whose billowing walls of smoke will hem them in. If they call for help,
they will be helped with water like seething molten brass, frying their
faces. What a noxious drink! What an evil repose! (18:29)
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)
(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)
How many wrongdoing cities We destroyed, and now all their roofs and
walls are fallen in; how many abandoned wells and stuccoed palaces! (22:45)
That Day the men and women of the hypocrites will say to those who believe,
'Wait for us so that we can borrow some of your light.' They will be told,
'Go back and look for light!' And a wall will be erected between them
with a gate in it, on the inside of which there will be mercy but before
whose exterior lies the punishment. (57:13)
They (the hypocrites) will not fight against you all together as a group
except in fortified towns or behind high walls. Their hostility towards
each other is intense. They are full of bravado in each other's company.
You consider them united but their hearts are scattered wide. That is
because they are people who do not use their intellect. (59:14)
Allah loves those who fight in His Way in ranks like well-built walls.
(61:4)
WAR
If you do not, know that it means war from Allah and His Messenger. But
if you repent you may have your capital, without wronging and without
being wronged. (2:279)
The reprisal against those who wage war on Allah and His Messenger, and
go about the earth corrupting it, is that they should be killed or crucified,
or have their alternate hands and feet cut off, or be banished from the
land. That will be their degradation in this world and in the hereafter
they will have a terrible punishment. (5:33)
The Jews say, 'Allah's hand is chained.' Their hands are chained and
they are cursed for what they say! No! Both His hands are open wide and
He gives however He wills. What has been sent down to you from your Lord
increases many of them in insolence and disbelief. We have incited enmity
and hatred between them until the Day of Rising. Each time they kindle
the fire of war, Allah extinguishes it. They rush about the earth corrupting
it. Allah does not love corrupters. (5:64)
So if you come upon such people in war, make a harsh example of them
to deter those coming after them so that hopefully they will pay heed.
(8:57)
As for those who have set up a mosque, causing harm and out of disbelief,
to create division between the believers, and in readiness for those who
previously made war on Allah and His Messenger, they will swear, 'We only
desired the best.' But Allah bears witness that they are truly liars.
(9:107)
Therefore when you meet those who disbelieve strike their necks. Then
when you have decimated them, tie their bonds tightly and set them free
or ransom them, until the war is finally over. That is how it is to be.
If Allah willed, He could avenge Himself on them. But it is so that He
can test some of you by means of others. As for those who fight in the
Way of Allah, He will not let their actions go astray. (47:4)
WAR OF BADR (SEE BADR)
WARNING - WARNER
We made it an exemplary punishment for those there then, and those coming
afterwards, and a warning to those who guard against evil. (2:66)
We have sent you with the Truth, bringing good news and giving warning.
Do not ask about the inhabitants of the Blazing Fire. (2:119)
Mankind was a single community. Then Allah sent out Prophets bringing
good news and giving warning, and with them He sent down the Book with
truth to decide between people regarding their differences. Only those
who were given it differed about it, after the Clear Signs had come to
them, envying one another. Then, by His permission, Allah guided those
who believed to the truth of that about which they had differed. Allah
guides whoever He wills to a straight path. (2:213)
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)
Allah knows what is in such people's hearts so turn away from them and
warn them and speak to them with words that take effect. (4:63)
Messengers bringing good news and giving warning, so that people will
have no argument against Allah after the coming of the Messengers. Allah
is Almighty, All-Wise. (4:165)
People of the Book! Our Messenger has come to you, making things clear
to you, after a period with no Messengers, lest you should say, 'No one
came to us bringing good news or warning.' Someone has come to you bringing
good news and a warning. Allah has power over all things. (5:19)
It is a Book sent down to you-so let there be no constriction in your
breast because of it-so that you can give warning by it and as a reminder
to the believers. (7:2)
Have they not reflected? Their companion is not mad. He is only a clear
warner. (7:184)
Say: 'I possess no power to help or harm myself, except as Allah wills.
If I had had knowledge of the Unseen, I would have sought to gain much
good and no evil would have touched me. I am only a warner and a bringer
of good news to people who believe.' (7:188)
Perhaps you are leaving aside part of what has been revealed to you and
your breast is constricted by this because they say, 'Why has treasure
not been sent down to him or an angel not accompanied him?' You are only
a warner and Allah is Guardian over all things. (11:12)
Those who disbelieve say, 'If only a Sign could be sent down to him from
his Lord!' You are only a warner. Every people has a guide. (13:7)
This is a communication to be transmitted to mankind so that they may
be warned by it and so that they will know that He is One God and so that
people of intelligence will pay heed. (14:52)
Say: 'I am indeed a clear warner.' (15:89)
Allah commands justice and doing good and giving to relatives. And He
forbids indecency and doing wrong and tyranny. He warns you so that hopefully
you will pay heed. (16:90)
We only send the Messengers to bring good news and to give warning. Those
who disbelieve use fallacious arguments to deny the truth. They make a
mockery of My Signs and also of the warning they were given. (18:56)
Say: 'Mankind, I am only a clear warner to you.' (22:49)
Allah warns you never to repeat the like of it again if you are believers.
(24:17)
Blessed be He Who has sent down the Furqan (Discrimination) to His servant
so that he can be a warner to all beings; (25:1)
They say, 'What is the matter with this Messenger, that he eats food
and walks in the market-place? Why has an angel not been sent down to
him so that it can be a warner along with him?' (25:7)
If We had wished We could have sent a warner to every town. (25:51)
(Nuh said,) 'I am only a clear warner.' (26:115)
The Faithful Spirit brought it down to your heart so you would be one
of the Warners. (26:193-194)
We have never destroyed a city without giving it prior warning. (26:208)
(Say:) 'And (I have been ordered) to recite the Qur'an.' Whoever is guided
is only guided to his own good; if someone is misguided just say, 'I am
only a warner.' (27:92)
Nor were you on the side of the Mount when We called, yet it is a mercy
from your Lord so that you can warn a people to whom no warner came before,
so that hopefully they will pay heed. (28:46)
They say, 'Why have no Signs been sent down to him from his Lord?' Say:
'The Signs are with Allah. I am only a clear warner.' (29:50)
Or do they say, 'He has invented it'? No indeed! It is the truth from
your Lord to warn a people to whom, before you, no warner came, so that
hopefully they will be guided. (32:3)
O Prophet! We have sent you as a witness, and a bringer of good news
and a warner, (33:45)
We only sent you for the whole of mankind, bringing good news and giving
warning. But most of mankind do not know it. (34:28)
We never sent a warner into any city without the affluent people in it
saying, 'We reject what you have been sent with.' (34:34)
We have not given them any books which they are studying nor did We send,
before you, any warner to them. (34:44)
Say: 'I exhort you to do one thing alone: to stand before Allah in pairs
and on your own and then reflect. Your companion is not possessed. He
is only a warner come to you ahead of a terrible punishment.' (34:46)
You are only a warner. (35:23)
We have sent you with the truth bringing good news and giving warning.
There is no community to which a warner has not come. (35:24)
They will shout out in it, 'Our Lord! Take us out! We will act rightly,
differently from the way we used to act!' Did We not let you live long
enough for anyone who was going to pay heed to pay heed? And did not the
warner come to you? Taste it then! There is no helper for the wrongdoers.
(35:37)
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)
Most of the earlier peoples went astray before them though We sent warners
to them. (37:71-72)
They are surprised that a warner should come to them from among themselves.
The disbelievers say, 'This is a lying magician.' (38:4)
Say: 'I am only a warner. There is no god except Allah, the One, the
All-Conquering,' (38:65)
(Say:) 'It is only revealed to me that I am a clear warner.' (38:70)
A Book whose verses have been demarcated for people who know as an Arabic
Qur'an, bringing good news and giving warning; but most of them have turned
away and do not hear. (41:3-4)
Say: 'I am nothing new among the Messengers. I have no idea what will
be done with me or you. I only follow what has been revealed to me. I
am only a clear warner.' (46:9)
Remember the brother of 'Ad when he warned his people by the sand-dunes-and
warners passed away before and after him-'Worship no one but Allah. I
fear for you the punishment of a terrible Day.' (46:21)
We have sent you bearing witness, bringing good news and giving warning.
(48:8)
Nonetheless they are amazed that a warner should have come to them from
among themselves and those who disbelieve say, 'What an extraordinary
thing! (50:2)
This is a warning like the warnings of old. (53:56)
It all but bursts with rage. Each time a group is flung into it its custodians
will question them: 'Did no warner come to you?' (67:8)
They will say, 'Yes indeed, a warner did come to us but we denied him
and said, "Allah has sent nothing down. You are just greatly misguided."'
(67:9)
Say: 'The knowledge is with Allah alone and I am only a clear warner.'
(67:26)
He (Nuh) said, 'My people, I am a clear warner to you.' (71:2)
You are only the warner of those who fear it. (79:45)
WASWAS (SEE WHISPERING OF SATAN)
WAVE
It is He Who conveys you on both land and sea so that when some of you
are on a boat, running before a fair wind, rejoicing at it, and then a
violent squall comes upon them and the waves come at them from every side
and they realise there is no way of escape, they call on Allah, making
their religion sincerely His: 'If You rescue us from this, we will truly
be among the thankful.' (10:22)
It sailed with them through mountainous waves, and Nuh called out to
his son, who had kept himself apart, 'My son! Come on board with us. Do
not stay with the disbelievers!' (11:42)
He (Nuh's son) said, 'I will take refuge on a mountain; It will protect
me from the flood.' He said, 'There is no protection from Allah's command
today except for those He has mercy on.' The waves surged in between them
and he was among the drowned. (11:43)
We will abandon them, that Day, to pound against each other in surging
waves and the Trumpet will be blown and We will gather them all together.
(18:99)
Or they (the actions of those who disbelieve) are like the darkness of
a fathomless sea which is covered by waves above which are waves above
which are clouds, layers of darkness, one upon the other. If he puts out
his hand, he can scarcely see it. Those Allah gives no light to, they
have no light. (24:40)
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)
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)
WEAKNESS
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)
Allah helped you at Badr when you were weak so have fear of Allah, so
that hopefully you will be thankful. (3:123)
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)
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)
Those who disbelieve say, 'We will never believe in this Qur'an, nor
in what came before it.' If only you could see when the wrongdoers, standing
in the presence of their Lord, cast accusations back and forth at one
another! Those deemed weak will say to those deemed great, 'Were it not
for you, we would have been believers!' (34:31)
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)
Those deemed weak will say to those deemed great, 'No, it was your scheming
night and day when you commanded us to reject Allah and assign equals
to Him.' But they will show their remorse when they see the punishment.
We will put iron collars round the necks of those who disbelieve. Will
they be repaid for anything but what they did? (34:33)
WEALTH - WEALTHY
We will test you with a certain amount of fear and hunger and loss of
wealth and life and fruits. But give good news to the steadfast. (2:155)
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)
There is nothing wrong in your divorcing women before you have touched
them or allotted a dowry to them. But give them a gift-he who is wealthy
according to his means and he who is less well off according to his means-a
gift to be given with correctness and courtesy: a duty for all good-doers.
(2:236)
Their Prophet said to them, 'Allah has appointed Talut to be your king.'
They said, 'How can he have kingship over us when we have much more right
to kingship than he does? He has not even got much wealth!' He said, 'Allah
has chosen him over you and favoured him greatly in knowledge and physical
strength. Allah gives kingship to anyone He wills. Allah is All-Encompassing,
All-Knowing.' (2:247)
The metaphor of those who spend their wealth in the Way of Allah is that
of a grain which produces seven ears; in every ear there are a hundred
grains. Allah gives such multiplied increase to whoever He wills. Allah
is All-Encompassing, All-Knowing. (2:261)
Those who spend their wealth in the Way of Allah, and then do not follow
what they have spent by demands for gratitude or insulting words will
have their reward with their Lord. They will feel no fear and will know
no sorrow. (2:262)
You who believe! Do not nullify your charity by demands for gratitude
or insulting words, like him who spends his wealth, showing off to people
and not believing in Allah and the Last Day. His likeness is that of a
smooth rock coated with soil, which, when heavy rain falls on it, is left
stripped bare. They have no power over anything they have earned. Allah
does not guide disbelieving people. (2:264)
The metaphor of those who spend their wealth, desiring the pleasure of
Allah and firmness for themselves, is that of a garden on a hillside.
When heavy rain falls on it, it doubles its produce; and if heavy rain
does not fall, there is dew. Allah sees what you do. (2:265)
Those who give away their wealth by night and day, secretly and openly,
will have their reward with their Lord. They will feel no fear and will
know no sorrow. (2:274)
As for those who disbelieve, their wealth and children will not help
them against Allah in any way. They are fuel for the Fire. (3:10)
As for those who disbelieve, their wealth and children will not help
them against Allah in any way. They are the Companions of the Fire, remaining
in it timelessly, for ever. (3:116)
You will be tested in your wealth and in yourselves and you will hear
many abusive words from those given the Book before you and from those
who are idolaters. But if you are steadfast and guard against evil, that
is the most resolute course to take. (3:186)
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)
And also married women, except for those you have taken in war as slaves.
This is what Allah has prescribed for you. Apart from that He has made
all other women lawful for you provided you seek them with your wealth
in marriage and not in fornication. When you consummate your marriage
with them give them their prescribed dowry. There is nothing wrong in
any further agreement you might come to after the dowry has been given.
Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (4:24)
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)
As for those who are tight-fisted and direct others to be tight-fisted,
and hide the bounty Allah has given them, We have prepared a humiliating
punishment for those who disbelieve, and also for those who spend their
wealth to show off to people, not believing in Allah and the Last Day.
Anyone who has made Satan his comrade, what an evil comrade he is! (4:37-38)
Those believers who stay behind-other than those forced to by necessity-are
not the same as those who strive in the Way of Allah, sacrificing their
wealth and themselves. Allah has given those who strive with their wealth
and themselves a higher rank than those who stay behind. Allah has promised
the Best to both, but Allah has preferred those who strive over those
who stay behind by an immense reward. (4:95)
And because of their practising usury when they were forbidden to do
it, and because of their consuming people's wealth by wrongful means,
We have prepared for the disbelievers among them a painful punishment.
(4:161)
Know that your wealth and children are a trial and that there is an immense
reward with Allah. (8:28)
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)
Those who believe and have migrated and strived with their wealth and
themselves in the Way of Allah, and those who have given refuge and help,
they are the friends and protectors of one another. But as for those who
believe but have not migrated, you are not in any way responsible for
their protection until they migrate. But if they ask you for help in respect
of the religion, it is your duty to help them, except against people you
have a treaty with. Allah sees what you do. (8:72)
Those who believe and migrate and strive in the Way of Allah with their
wealth and themselves have a higher rank with Allah. They are the ones
who are victorious. (9:20)
Say: 'If your fathers or your sons or your brothers or your wives or
your tribe, or any wealth you have acquired, or any business you fear
may slump, or any house which pleases you, are dearer to you than Allah
and His Messenger and striving in His Way, then wait until Allah brings
about His command. Allah does not guide people who are deviators.' (9:24)
Go out to fight, light-armed and heavy-armed, and strive with your wealth
and yourselves in the Way of Allah. That is better for you if you only
knew. (9:41)
Those who believe in Allah and the Last Day do not ask you to excuse
them from striving with their wealth and themselves. Allah knows the people
who guard against evil. (9:44)
Do not let their wealth and children impress you. Allah merely wants
to punish them by them during their life in this world and for them to
expire while they are disbelievers. (9:55)
Like those before you who had greater strength than you and more wealth
and children. They enjoyed their portion; so enjoy your portion as those
before you enjoyed theirs. You have plunged into defamation as they plunged
into it. The actions of such people come to nothing in this world or the
hereafter. They are the lost. (9:69)
Those who were left behind were glad to stay behind the Messenger of
Allah. They did not want to strive with their wealth and themselves in
the Way of Allah. They said, 'Do not go out to fight in the heat.' Say:
'The Fire of Hell is much hotter, if they only understood.' (9:81)
Do not let their wealth and their children impress you. Allah merely
wants to punish them by them in this world, and for them to expire while
they are disbelievers. (9:85)
But the Messenger and those who believe along with him have strived with
their wealth and with themselves. They are the people who will have the
good things. They are the ones who are successful. (9:88)
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)
Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their wealth in
return for the Garden. They fight in the Way of Allah and they kill and
are killed. It is a promise binding on Him in the Torah, the Gospel and
the Qur'an and who is truer to his contract than Allah? Rejoice then in
the bargain you have made. That is the great victory. (9:111)
Musa said, 'Our Lord, You have given Pharaoh and his ruling circle finery
and wealth in the life of this world, Our Lord, so that they may be misguided
from Your Way. Our Lord, obliterate their wealth and harden their hearts
so that they do not believe until they see the painful punishment.' (10:88)
(Nuh said,) 'My people! I do not ask you for any wealth for it. My wage
is the responsibility of Allah alone. I will not chase away those who
believe. They are surely going to meet their Lord. However, I see you
as ignorant people.' (11:29)
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)
Then once again We gave you the upper hand over them and supplied you
with more wealth and children and made you the most numerous group. (17:6)
(Allah said to Satan,) 'Stir up any of them you can with your voice and
rally against them your cavalry and your infantry and share with them
in their children and their wealth and make them promises!' The promise
of Satan is nothing but delusion. (17:64)
He was a man of wealth and property and he said to his companion, debating
with him, 'I have more wealth than you and more people under me.' (18:34)
(His companion said to the garden owner,) 'Why, when you entered your
garden, did you not say, "It is as Allah wills, there is no strength but
in Allah"? Though you see me with less wealth and children than you possess,
it may well be that my Lord will give me something better than your garden
and send down on it a fireball from the sky so that morning finds it a
shifting heap of dust.' (18:39-40)
Wealth and sons are the embellishment of the life of this world. But,
in your Lord's sight, right actions which are lasting bring a better reward
and are a better basis for hope. (18:46)
Have you seen him who rejects Our Signs and says, 'I will certainly be
given wealth and children there'? (19:77)
Do they imagine that, in the wealth and children We extend to them, We
are hastening to them with good things? No indeed, but they have no awareness!
(23:55-56)
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)
Those who cannot find the means to marry should be abstinent until Allah
enriches them from His bounty. If any slaves you own want to make a contract
to free themselves, write it for them if you know of good in them and
give them some of the wealth Allah has given you. Do not force your slavegirls
to prostitute themselves if they desire to be virtuous women out of your
desire for the goods of this world. If anyone forces them, then after
they have been forced, Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (24:33)
The Day when neither wealth nor sons will be of any use. (26:88)
When it reached Sulayman he said, 'Would you give me wealth when what
Allah has given me is better than what He has given you? No, rather it
is you who delight in your gift.' (27:36)
What you give with usurious intent, aiming to get back a greater amount
from people's wealth, does not become greater with Allah. But anything
you give as alms, seeking the Face of Allah-all who do that will get back
twice as much. (30:39)
He bequeathed their land, their houses and their wealth to you, and another
land you had not yet trodden on. Allah has power over all things. (33:27)
They also said, 'We have more wealth and children. We are not going to
be punished.' (34:35)
It is not your wealth or your children that will bring you near to Us-only
in the case of people who believe and act rightly; such people will have
a double recompense for what they did. They will be safe from all harm
in the High Halls of Paradise. (34:37)
The life of this world is merely a game and a diversion. If you believe
and guard against evil, He will pay you your wages and not ask you for
all your wealth. (47:36)
Those Arabs who remained behind will say to you, 'Our wealth and families
kept us occupied, so ask forgiveness for us.' They say with their tongues
what is not in their hearts. Say: 'Who can control Allah for you in any
way whether He wants harm for you or wants benefit for you?' Allah is
aware of what you do. (48:11)
The believers are only those who have believed in Allah and His Messenger
and then have had no doubt and have strived with their wealth and themselves
in the Way of Allah. They are the ones who are true to their word. (49:15)
And beggars and the destitute received a due share of their wealth. (51:19)
Know that the life of this world is merely a game and a diversion and
ostentation and a cause of boasting among yourselves and trying to outdo
one another in wealth and children: like the plant-growth after rain which
delights the cultivators, but then it withers and you see it turning yellow,
and then it becomes broken stubble. In the hereafter there is terrible
punishment but also forgiveness from Allah and His good pleasure. The
life of this world is nothing but the enjoyment of delusion. (57:20)
Neither their wealth nor their children will help them at all against
Allah. Such people are the Companions of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly,
for ever. (58:17)
It 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)
It is to believe in Allah and His Messenger and strive in the Way of
Allah with your wealth and your selves. That is better for you if you
only knew. (61:11)
You who believe! Do not let your wealth or children divert you from the
remembrance of Allah. Whoever does that is lost. (63:9)
Your wealth and children are a trial. But with Allah there is an immense
reward. (64:15)
But do not obey any vile swearer of oaths, any backbiter, slandermonger,
impeder of good, evil aggressor, gross, coarse and furthermore, despicable,
simply because he possesses wealth and sons. (68:10-14)
(He who is given his Book in his left hand will say,) 'My wealth has
been of no use to me.' (69:28)
(Believers are) those in whose wealth there is a known share for beggars
and the destitute. (70:24-25)
He will send heaven down on you in abundant rain and reinforce you with
more wealth and sons, and grant you gardens and grant you waterways. (71:11-12)
Nuh said, 'My Lord, they have disobeyed me and followed those whose wealth
and children have only increased them in loss.' (71:21)
Leave the person I created on his own to Me alone, him to whom I have
given great wealth, (74:11-12)
And you have an insatiable love of wealth. (89:20)
He says, 'I have consumed vast quantities of wealth.' (90:6)
His wealth will not help him when he plummets to the depths. (92:11)
The most heedful will be far removed from it: those who give their wealth
to purify themselves-not to repay someone else for a favour done-desiring
only the Face of their Lord Most High. (92:17-20)
Truly he is fierce in his love of wealth. (100:8)
Woe to every faultfinding backbiter who has amassed wealth and hoarded
it! (104:1-2)
He thinks his wealth will make him live for ever. (104:3)
His wealth has not helped him nor anything he has earned. (111:2)
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