Page 293 - Learning from the Qur'an

BELIEVERS ACT ACCORDING
TO THEIR CONSCIENCES, EVEN THOUGH
IT IS AGAINST THEIR DESIRES
They give food, despite their love for it, to the poor and orphans
and captives: (Qur'an, 76:8)
Those who were already settled in the abode (Madina), and in
faith, before they came, love those who have migrated to them
and do not find in their hearts any need for what they have been
given and prefer them to themselves even if they themselves are
needy.It is the people who are safe-guarded from the avarice of
their own selves who are successful. (Qur'an, 59:9)

WHEN THEY COMMIT AN ERROR, THEY
APPEAL TO THEIR CONSCIENCES AND ASK
FORGIVENESS AND DO NOT INSIST ON IT
Those who, when they act indecently or wrong themselves,
remember Allah and ask forgiveness for their bad actions (and
who can forgive bad actions except Allah?) and do not knowingly
persist in what they were doing. (Qur'an, 3:135)
And (He) also (turned) towards the three who were left behind, so
that when the earth became narrow for them, for all its great
breadth, and their own selves became constricted for them and
they realised that there was no refuge from Allah except in Him,
He turned to them so that they might turn to Him. Allah is the
Ever-Returning, the Most Merciful. (Qur'an, 9:118)
Anyone who does evil or wrongs himself and then asks Allah's
forgiveness will find Allah Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (Qur'an,
4:110)

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