Page 34 - Learning from the Qur'an

To pray in fear and ardent hope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .467
The sort of prayer Allah is pleased with . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .467
Not to pray to Allah
only for the life of this world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .468
To seek help from Allah
in steadfastness and prayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468
To pray for and give salutation to the Prophets . . . . . . . . 468
To worship at night, too . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
To ask forgiveness from Allah
and turn to Allah in repentance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
To ask forgiveness for the believers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
To ask forgiveness immediately
after making a mistake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
To forgive those who turn to Allah in repentance . . . . . . 470
Not to ask forgiveness for the unbelievers . . . . . . . . . . . . 470
Not to knowingly repeat the mistake
once it is made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470
To pray and ask forgiveness
when people are seen
entering Allah's religion in droves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
To remember Allah
when faced with enemy troops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
To be steadfast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
To be patient towards those who do not believe . . . . . . . 471
To restrain one's self patiently with the believers . . . . . . 472
To be supreme in steadfastness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472
Not to dispute over something
of which there is no knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472
Not to be a swearer of oaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472
Not to break oaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
Not to deviate from the truth
using oaths as excuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
Not to make oaths a means of
deceiving one another . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
The penance for oaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
The oath taken for abstention from one's wife . . . . . . . . . 474
To be just . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474
To be just even against
one's parents and relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474
Not to be incited into being unjust
due to one's personal hatred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474
To bear true witnesses among the believers . . . . . . . . . . . 474
To be just towards those
who do not fight the believers in the religion . . . . . . . . . . 475

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