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LIVING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE QUR'AN

(Prophets are) those who conveyed God’s Message and had fear of
Him, fearing no one except God. God suffices as a Reckoner. (Surat
al-Ahzab, 39)

TRUSTING NOT IN ONE’S POWER
AND MEANS BUT GOD
God has helped you on many occasions, including the Day of
Hunayn when your great numbers delighted you but did not help
you in any way, and the earth seemed narrow to you for all its great
breadth, and you turned your backs. Then God sent down His
serenity on His Messenger and on the believers, and sent down
troops you could not see, and punished those who disbelieved. That
is how the disbelievers are repaid. (Surat at-Tawba, 25-26)

If God helps you, no one can vanquish you. If He forsakes you,
who can help you after that? So the believers should put their trust
in God. (Surah Al ‘Imran, 160)
If you do not help him, God did help him when those who disbe-
lieved drove him out and there were two of them in the Cave. He

said to his companion, ‘Do not be despondent, God is with us.’
Then God sent down His serenity upon him and reinforced him
with troops you could not see. He made the word of those who dis-
believed undermost. It is the word of God which is uppermost. God
is Almighty, All-Wise. (Surat at-Tawba, 40)
And when the two hosts came into sight of one another, Musa’s
companions said, ‘We will surely be overtaken!’ He (Musa) said,
‘Never! My Lord is with me and He will guide me.’ (Surat ash-
Shu`ara’, 61-62)

(His companion said to the garden owner,) ‘Why, when you entered
your garden, did you not say, “It is as God wills, there is no strength

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