Page 169 - Learning from the Qur'an

Say: 'People of the Book! do not go to extremes in your religion,
asserting other than the truth, and do not follow the whims and
desires of people who were misguided previously and have
misguided many others, and are far from the right way.' (Qur'an,
5:77)
People of the Book! Do not go to excess in your religion. Say
nothing but the truth about Allah. The Messiah, 'Isa son of
Maryam, was only the Messenger of Allah and His Word, which
He cast into Maryam, and a Spirit from Him. So believe in Allah
and His Messengers. Do not say, 'Three.' It is better that you stop.
Allah is only One God. He is too Glorious to have a son! Everything
in the heavens and in the earth belongs to Him. Allah suffices as
a Guardian. (Qur'an, 4:171)
If only they had implemented the Torah and the Gospel and what
was sent down to them from their Lord (the Qur'an), they would
have been fed from above their heads and beneath their feet.
Among them there is a moderate group but what most of them
do is evil. (Qur'an, 5:66)

THEY GUARD THEIR CHASTITY
Say to the believers that they should lower their eyes and guard
their chastity. That is purer for them. Allah is aware of what they
do. Say to the believing women that they should lower their eyes
and guard their chastity and not display their adornments—except
for what normally shows–and draw their head-coverings across
their breasts. They should only display their adornments to their
husbands or their fathers or their husbands' fathers, or their sons
or their husbands' sons or their brothers or their brothers' sons or
their sisters' sons or their women or those they own as slaves or
their male attendants who have no sexual desire or children who
still have no awareness of women's private parts. Nor should they
stamp their feet so that their hidden ornaments are known. Turn
to Allah every one of you, believers, so that hopefully you will
have success. (Qur'an, 24:30-31)

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