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ORNAMENTS IN THE QUR'AN

ALLAH GIVES ORNAMENTS AS AN EXAMPLE
He sends down water from the sky and river-beds fill up and flow
according to their size, and the floodwater carries with it an increasing
layer of foam; a similar kind of foam comes from what you heat up in
the fire, when you desire to make jewellery or other things. That is
how Allah depicts the true and the false. As for the foam, it is quickly
swept away. But as for that which is of use to people, it remains behind
in the ground. That is a metaphor which Allah has made. (Surat ar-
Ra'd, 17)

WEARING ADORNMENTS AT PLACES OF PRAYER
Children of Adam! Wear fine clothing at every place of worship and
eat and drink but do not be profligate. He does not love the profligate.
(Surat al-A'raf, 31)

ADORNMENTS ARE PERMISSIBLE
Say: 'Who has prohibited the embellishment of Allah which He has
brought forth for His servants and the good provisions?' Say: 'These
are for the believers in the life of this world, purely (theirs) on the res-
urrection day; thus do We make the communications clear for a people
who know.' (Surat al-A'raf, 32)

THOSE WHO WORSHIPPED THE CALF
MADE FROM ORNAMENTS
After he left, Musa's people adopted a calf made from their orna-
ments, a form which made a lowing sound. Did they not see that it
could not speak to them or guide them to any way? They adopted it
and so they were wrongdoers. (Surat al-A'raf, 148)