Page 463 - Learning from the Qur'an

TO EAT OF THE GOOD THINGS
OF LAWFUL FOOD
You who believe! Eat of the good things We have provided for
you and give thanks to Allah if you worship Him alone. (Qur'an,
2:172)
NOT TO SELL ALLAH'S
CONTRACT FOR SELF-INTEREST
Do not sell Allah's contract for a paltry price. What is with Allah
is better for you if you only knew. (Qur'an, 16:95)

NOT TO SAY ANYTHING
THAT ONE WILL NOT DO
Do you order people to devoutness and forget yourselves, when
you recite the Book? Will you not use your intellect? (Qur'an, 2:44)
You who believe! Why do you say what you do not do? It is deeply
abhorrent to Allah that you should say what you do not do.
(Qur'an, 61:2-3)

TO HONOUR TRUSTS
Those, who honour their trusts and their contracts. (Qur'an, 23:8)
You who believe! Do not betray Allah and His Messenger, and do
not knowingly betray your trusts. (Qur'an, 8:27)
We offered the Trust to the heavens, the earth and the mountains
but they refused to take it on and shrank from it. But man took it
on. He is indeed wrongdoing and ignorant. (Qur'an, 33:72)
Among the People of the Book there are some who, if you entrust
them with a pile of gold, will return it to you. But there are others
among them who, if you entrust them with just a single dinar, will
not return it to you, unless you stay standing over them. That is
because they say, 'We are under no obligation where the gentiles
are concerned.' They tell a lie against Allah and they know it. No,
the truth is if people honour their contracts and have fear of Him,
Allah loves those who guard against evil. (Qur'an, 3:75-76)

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