Page 264 - Learning from the Qur'an

You who believe! Respond to Allah and to the Messenger when He
calls you to what will bring you to life! Know that Allah intervenes
between a man and his heart and that you will be gathered to Him.
(Qur'an, 8:24)
O Prophet! When women who believe come to you pledging
allegiance to you on the grounds that they will not associate
anything with Allah or steal or fornicate or kill their children or
give a false ascription of paternity—making up lies about their
bodies—or disobey you in respect of anything right, then accept
their pledge and ask forgiveness for them.Allah is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (Qur'an, 60:12)
Those who follow the Messenger, the Unlettered Prophet, whom
they find written down with them in the Torah and the Gospel,
commanding them to do right and forbidding them to do wrong,
making good things lawful for them and bad things forbidden for
them, relieving them of their heavy loads and the chains which
were around them. Those who believe in him and honour him
and help him, and follow the Light that has been sent down with
him, they are the ones who are successful.' (Qur'an, 7:157)
HE IS VERY VALUABLE FOR THE BELIEVERS
The Prophet has closer ties to the believers than their own selves,
and his wives are their mothers. But blood-relations have closer
ties to one another in the Book of Allah than the believers and
emigrants. All the same you should act correctly by your friends;
that is inscribed in the Book. (Qur'an, 33:6)
It was not for people of Madina, and the desert Arabs around
them, to remain behind the Messenger of Allah nor to prefer
themselves to him. That is because no thirst or weariness or hunger
will afflict them in the Way of Allah, nor will they take a single
step to infuriate the unbelievers, nor secure any gain from the
enemy, without a right action being written down for them because
of it. Allah does not let the wage of the good-doers go to waste.
(Qur'an, 9:120)

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