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LIVING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE QUR'AN

Remember God’s blessing to you and the covenant He made with
you when you said, ‘We hear and we obey.’ Have fear of God. God
knows what the heart contains. (Surat al-Ma’idah, 7)

(Hud said,) ‘Or are you astonished that a reminder should come to
you from your Lord by way of a man among you in order to warn
you? Remember when He appointed you successors to the people of
Nuh, and increased you greatly in stature. Remember God’s bless-
ings, so that hopefully you will be successful.’ (Surat al-A’raf, 69)
That is because God would never change a blessing He has con-
ferred on a people until they had changed what was in themselves.

God is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (Surat al-Anfal, 53)
If you tried to number God’s blessings, you could never count
them. God is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (Surat an-Nahl, 18)
God has made shaded places for you in what He has created and He
has made shelters for you in the mountains and He has made shirts
for you to protect you from the heat and shirts to protect you from
each other’s violence. In that way He perfects His blessing on you
so that hopefully you will become Muslims. (Surat an-Nahl, 81)

Do you not see that God has subjected to you everything in the
heavens and earth and has showered His blessings upon you, both
outwardly and inwardly? Yet there are people who argue about God
without knowledge or guidance or any illuminating Book. (Surah
Luqman, 20)

Do you not see that ships sail on the sea by God’s blessing so that He
can show you something of His Signs? There are certainly Signs in
that for everyone who is steadfast and thankful. (Surah Luqman, 31)

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