Page 175 - Living in Accordance with the Qur'an

Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)

It is the people who are safe-guarded from the avarice of their own
selves who are successful. (Surat al-Hashr, 9)
Those of you possessing affluence and ample wealth should not

make oaths that they will not give to their relatives and the very
poor and those who have migrated in the way of God. They should
rather pardon and overlook. Would you not love God to forgive
you? God is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (Surat an-Nur, 22)
They give food, despite their love for it, to the poor and orphans
and captives. (Believers say,) ‘We feed you only out of desire for
the Face of God. We do not want any repayment from you or any

thanks.’ Truly We fear from our Lord a glowering, calamitous Day.´
(Surat al-Insan, 8-10)
It is not devoutness to turn your faces to the East or to the West.
Rather, those with true devoutness are those who believe in God
and the Last Day, the Angels, the Book and the Prophets, and who,
despite their love for it, give away their wealth to their relatives
and to orphans and the very poor, and to travellers and beggars
and to set slaves free, and who perform prayer and give the alms;

those who honour their contracts when they make them, and are
steadfast in poverty and illness and in battle. Those are the people
who are true. They are the people who guard against evil. (Surat al-
Baqarah, 177)
Muhammad is the Messenger of God, and those who are with him
are fierce to the disbelievers, merciful to one another. You see them
bowing and prostrating, seeking God’s good favour and His pleas-

ure…(Surat al-Fath, 29)
What reason could you have for not fighting in the Way of God–
for those men, women and children who are oppressed and say,

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