Page 288 - General Knowledge from the Qur'an

286 GENERAL KNOWLEDGE FROM THE QUR'AN

In houses which Allah has permitted to be built and in which His
name is remembered, there are men who proclaim His glory morning
and evening, (Surat an-Nur, 36)
There is no objection to the blind, no objection to the lame, no objec-
tion to the sick nor to yourselves if you eat in your own houses or your
fathers' houses or your mothers' houses or your brothers' houses or
your sisters' houses or the houses of your paternal uncles or paternal
aunts or the houses of your maternal uncles or maternal aunts or
places to which you own the keys or those of your friends. There is
nothing wrong in your eating together or eating separately. And when
you enter houses greet one another with a greeting from Allah, blessed
and good. In this way Allah makes the Signs clear to you so that hope-
fully you will use your intellect. (Surat an-Nur, 61)
Will you continue hewing houses from the mountains with exultant
skill? (Surat ash-Shu'ara', 149)

PLACES EMPHASIZED IN THE QUR'AN

The Place Where The Two Seas Converge
He has let loose the two seas, converging together, with a barrier be-
tween them they do not break through. (Surat ar-Rahman, 19-20)
The Place Where The Sun Sets
Until he reached the setting of the sun and found it setting in a
muddy spring and found a people by it. We said, 'Dhu'l-Qarnayn! You
can either punish them or else you can treat them with gentleness.'
(Surat al-Kahf, 86)

The Place Where The Sun Rises
Until he reached the rising of the sun and found it rising on a people
to whom We had not given any shelter from it. (Surat al-Kahf, 90)

The Place Between The Two Mountains
Until he arrived between the two mountains where he found a peo-
ple scarcely able to understand speech. (Surat al-Kahf, 93)
The Eastern Place Where Maryam Withdrew
Mention Maryam in the Book, how she withdrew from her people to
an eastern place, (Surah Maryam, 16)