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LIVING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE QUR'AN

[My duty] only in transmitting from God and His Messages. As for
him who disobeys God and His Messenger, he will have the Fire
of Hell, remaining in it timelessly, for ever and ever.´ (Surat al-
Jinn, 23)

Say: ‘My Lord has forbidden indecency, both open and hidden, and
wrong action, and unrightful tyranny, and associating anything
with God for which He has sent down no authority, and saying
things about God you do not know.’ (Surat al-A’raf, 33)
He (Salih) said, ‘My people! What do you think? If I were to possess
a Clear Sign from my Lord and He had given me mercy from Him:

who would help me against God if I disobeyed Him? You would
not increase me in anything but loss.’ (Surah Hud, 63)
And when you said, ‘Musa, we will not put up with just one kind of
food so ask your Lord to supply to us some of what the earth pro-
duces–its green vegetables, cucumbers, grains, lentils and onions,’
he said, ‘Do you want to replace what is better with what is inferior?
Go back to Egypt, then you will have what you are asking for.’ Abase-
ment and destitution were stamped upon them. They brought down

anger from God upon themselves. That was because they rejected
God’s Signs and killed the Prophets without any right to do so. That
was because they rebelled and went beyond the limits. (Surat al-
Baqarah, 61)
As for those who disobey God and His Messenger and overstep
His limits, We will admit them into a Fire, remaining in it time-
lessly, for ever. They will have a humiliating punishment. (Surat

an-Nisa’, 14)
When God and His Messenger have decided something it is not for
any man or woman of the believers to have a choice about it. Any-

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