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LIVING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE QUR'AN

greatly regret what you have done. (Surat al-Hujurat, 6)
You who believe! Avoid most suspicion. Indeed some suspicion is
a crime. And do not spy and do not backbite one another. Would

any of you like to eat his brother’s dead flesh? No, you would hate
it. And have fear of God. God is Ever-Returning, Most Merciful.
(Surat al-Hujurat, 12)
Why, when you heard it, did you not, as men and women of the
believers, instinctively think good thoughts and say, ‘This is obvi-
ously a lie’? Why did they not produce four witnesses to it? Since
they did not bring four witnesses, in God’s Sight, they are liars. Were

it not for God’s favour to you and His mercy, both in this world
and the hereafter, a terrible punishment would have afflicted you
for your plunging headlong into it. You were bandying it about on
your tongues, your mouths uttering something about which you
had no knowledge. You considered it to be a trivial matter, but, in
God’s Sight, it is immense. Why, when you heard it, did you not
say, ‘We have no business speaking about this. Glory be to You!
This is a terrible slander!’? God warns you never to repeat the like
of it again if you are believers. (Surat an-Nur, 12-17)

Woe to every faultfinding backbiter who has amassed wealth and
hoarded it!. (Surat al-Humazah, 1)
And so that He might punish the men and women of the hypocrites
and the men and women of the idolaters–those who think bad
thoughts about God. (Surat al-Fath, 6)

REFRAINING FROM BEING QUARRELSOME
AND ENGAGING IN DISPUTES WITH BELIEVERS
Among people there is one who argues about God without knowl-
edge or guidance or any light-giving Book. (Surat al-Hajj, 8)

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