Page 135 - Learning from the Qur'an

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. (Qur'an, 9:41)
Whoever strives does it entirely for himself. Allah is Rich Beyond
Need of any being. (Qur'an, 29:6)

HARDSHIPS NEVER CAUSE
THEM TO ABANDON THEIR FAITH
Those who did good and guard against evil, among those who
responded to Allah and the Messenger after the wound had been
inflicted will have an immense reward: those to whom people
said, 'The people have gathered against you, so fear them.' But
that merely increased their faith and they said, 'Allah is enough
for us and the Best of Guardians.' (Qur'an, 3:172-173)
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 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. (Qur'an,
2:177)

THEY CONVEY ALLAH'S MESSAGE
He (Nuh) said, 'My Lord, I have called my people night and day
but my calling has only made them more evasive. Indeed, every
time I called them to Your forgiveness, they put their fingers in
their ears, wrapped themselves up in their clothes and were
overweeningly arrogant. Then I called them openly. Then I
addressed them publicly and addressed them privately. (Qur'an,
71:5-9)

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