Page 166 - Learning from the Qur'an

It is He Who produces gardens, both cultivated and wild, and
palm-trees and crops of diverse kinds, and olives and
pomegranates, both similar and dissimilar. Eat of their fruits when
they bear fruit and pay their due on the day of their harvest, and
do not be profligate. He does not love the profligate. (Qur'an,
6:141)
Give your relatives their due, and the very poor and travellers
but do not squander what you have. Squanderers are brothers to
the satans, and satan was ungrateful to his Lord. (Qur'an, 17:26-
27)
Do not keep your hand chained to your neck but do not extend it
either to its full extent so that you sit there blamed and destitute.
(Qur'an, 17:29)
Those who, when they spend, are neither extravagant nor mean,
but take a stance mid way between the two; (Qur'an, 25:67)

THEY PROTECT THE DESTITUTE
They give food, despite their love for it, to the poor and orphans
and captives: (Qur'an, 76:8)
Those in whose wealth there is a known share for beggars and the
destitute; (Qur'an, 70:24-25)

THEY MARRY IN COMPLIANCE
WITH THE COMMANDS OF THE QUR'AN
A man who has fornicated may only marry a woman who has
fornicated or a woman of the idolaters. A woman who has
fornicated may only marry a man who has fornicated or a man of
the idolaters. Doing such a thing is forbidden for the believers.
(Qur'an, 24:3)
Corrupt women are for corrupt men and corrupt men are for
corrupt women, Good women are for good men and good men
are for good women. The latter are innocent of what they say. They
will have forgiveness and generous provision. (Qur'an, 24:26)

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