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When they are told, ‘Do not cause corruption in the land,’ they say, ‘We are only promoters of peace,’ 12 but it is they who are really causing corruption, though they do not realize it.
When We said to the angels, ‘Bow down before Adam,’ they all bowed except for Iblis [Satan]. He refused and acted proudly and became an unbeliever.
Do you admonish others to do good and forget this yourselves? Yet you read the Book. Will you not then understand?
‘Do you dispute with us about God, while He is our Lord and your Lord? We have our actions and you have your actions. We are devoted to Him alone.
Truth is what comes from your Lord; therefore, do not be of those who doubt. 148 Each community has its own direction in which it turns: vie, then, with one another in doing good works.
those who pursue differences in the Scriptures go much too far in dissension.
If God had so willed, He would have afflicted you with hardship.
if they turn away, your duty is only to convey the message.
If a woman fears ill-treatment or indifference on the part of her husband, it shall be no offence for her to seek a reconciliation,
Call on your Lord with humility and in secret—He
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Whenever We sent a prophet to a town, We afflicted its people with suffering and adversity, so that they might humble themselves [before God], 95 and then We changed their hardship into ease until they grew affluent and said, ‘Our fathers had also experienced adversity and prosperity,’ then We seized them suddenly, unawares.
‘Glory be to You, O God!’, while their greeting in it will be: ‘Peace!’ And the close of their call will be, ‘All praise is due to God, the Lord of the Universe!’
It is God who enables you to travel on land and sea. And when you are sailing on ships and rejoicing in the favourable wind, a storm arrives, and the waves surge upon those on board from every side and they think they are encompassed, then they make a fervent appeal to God, saying in all sincerity, ‘If You deliver us from this, we will surely be of the thankful.’
transgressed all bounds.
had He pleased, God could have guided all mankind?
We send down the angels only to bring justice
the jinn We had created before from flaming fire.
Hell is the place to which they are destined, 44 it has seven gates: and each gate has a portion of them allotted to it.
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seven oft-recited verses
We give whatever We will to whoever desires immediate gains; but then We have prepared Hell for him which he will enter, disgraced and rejected.
let him stretch a rope up to the sky; then let him cut it off and see if his plan can help to remove the cause of his anger.
‘Do you imagine that We created you without any purpose
while in their hearts they were convinced of their truth.
Look, therefore, at the signs of God’s mercy; how He resurrects the earth after its death. Truly, the same God will resurrect the dead; for He has power over all things.
He brought down from their strongholds those People of the Book who supported the aggressors and filled their hearts with terror. Some of them you killed and others you took captive. 27 He made you heirs to their lands, and their houses, and their possessions and lands on which you had not set foot before. God has power over all things.
[We have made lawful to you] the daughters of your paternal uncles and aunts, and the daughters of your maternal uncles and aunts, who have migrated with you; and any believing woman who gives herself to the Prophet, provided the Prophet wants to marry her. This applies only to you and not to the rest of the believers.
Believers, do not enter the houses of the Prophet, unless you are invited for a meal. Do not linger until a meal is ready. When you are invited enter and when you have taken your meal, depart. Do not stay on, indulging in conversation. Doing that causes annoyance to the Prophet, though he is too reticent to tell you so, but God is not reticent with the truth. When you ask [the wives of the Prophet] for anything, ask them from behind a curtain. That will be purer for your hearts as well as their hearts. It is not right for you to cause annoyance to the Messenger of God or for you ever to marry
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when they are told, ‘Give to others out of what God has provided for you,’ those who are bent on denying the truth say to the believers, ‘Why should we feed those whom God could feed if He wanted?
Did We create the angels females, to which they were witnesses? 151 No indeed!