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LIVING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE QUR'AN

PAYING ATTENTION TO AND BEING SENSITIVE
ABOUT AND COMPLIANT TOWARDS THE VERSES
OF GOD
Who hears the Signs of God recited to him and then persists in
his arrogance just as if he had never heard them. Give him the
news of a painful punishment. (Surat al-Jathiyah, 8)
Who could do greater wrong than someone who is reminded of
the Signs of his Lord and then turns away from them, forgetting
all that he has done before? We have placed covers on their hearts,

preventing them from understanding it, and heaviness in their ears.
Though you call them to guidance, they will nonetheless never be
guided. (Surat al-Kahf, 57)
The believers are those whose hearts tremble when God is men-
tioned, whose faith is increased when His Signs are recited to them,
and who put their trust in their Lord. (Surat al-Anfal, 2)

Weeping, they fall to the ground in prostration, and it increases
them in humility. (Surat al-Isra’, 109)
God has sent down the Supreme Discourse, a Book consistent in
its frequent repetitions. The skins of those who fear their Lord
tremble at it and then their skins and hearts yield softly to the
remembrance of God. That is God’s guidance by which He guides
whoever He wills. And no one can guide those whom God mis-
guides. (Surat az-Zumar, 23)

Those are some of the Prophets God has blessed, from the descen-
dants of Adam and from those We carried with Nuh, and from the
descendants of Ibrahim and Isra’il and from those We guided and
chose. When the Signs of the All-Merciful were recited to them they
fell on their faces, weeping, in prostration. (Surah Maryam, 58)
The people who truly do believe in Our Signs are those who fall

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