Page 214 - Learning from the Qur'an

THEY ARE UNWORTHY OF TRUST
We did not find many of them worthy of their contract. We found
most of them deviators. (Qur'an, 7:102)
Why is it that, whenever they make a contract, a group of them
disdainfully tosses it aside? No indeed! Most of them have no
faith. (Qur'an, 2:100)
But because of their breaking of their covenant, We have cursed
them and made their hearts hard. They distort the true meaning
of words and have forgotten a good portion of what they were
reminded of. You will never cease to come upon some act of
treachery on their part, except for a few of them. Yet pardon them,
and overlook. Allah loves good-doers. (Qur'an, 5:13)
They respect neither kinship nor treaty where a believer is
concerned. They are the people who overstep the limits. (Qur'an,
9:10)
Those who break Allah's contract after it has been agreed, and
sever what Allah has commanded to be joined, and cause
corruption on the earth, it is they who are the lost. (Qur'an, 2:27)
Those with whom you make a treaty and who then break it every
time. They have not guard against evil. (Qur'an, 8:56)
They have the word, 'Obedience!' on their tongues but when they
leave your presence, a group of them spend the night plotting to
do other than what you say. Allah is recording their nocturnal
plotting. So let them be and put your trust in Allah. Allah suffices
as a Guardian. (Qur'an, 4:81)

THEY ARE AGGRESSIVE AND MERCILESS
No one denies it except for every evil aggressor. (Qur'an, 83:12)
Pharaoh exalted himself arrogantly in the land and divided its
people into camps, oppressing one group of them by slaughtering
their sons and letting their women live. He was one of the
corrupters. (Qur'an, 28:4)

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