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LIVING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE QUR'AN
‘Our Lord, take us out of this city whose inhabitants are wrongdoers!
Give us a protector from You! Give us a helper from You!’? (Surat
an-Nisa’, 75)
Do not chase away those who call on their Lord morning and
evening, seeking His Face. Their reckoning is in no way your
responsibility and your reckoning is in no way their responsibility.
Indeed if you did chase them away, you would be among the wrong-
doers. (Surat al-An’am, 52)
You who believe! When women who believe come to you as emi-
grants, submit them to a test. God has best knowledge of their faith.
If you know they are believers, do not return them to the disbe-
lievers. They are not lawful for the disbelievers nor are the disbe-
lievers lawful for them…(Surat al-Mumtahinah, 10)
Hold fast to the rope of God all together, and do not separate.
Remember God’s blessing to you when you were enemies and He
joined your hearts together so that you became brothers by His
blessing. You were on the very brink of a pit of the Fire and He res-
cued you from it. In this way God makes His Signs clear to you, so
that hopefully you will be guided. (Surah Al ‘Imran, 103)
Those who believe and migrate later on and accompany you in
striving, they also are of your number…(Surat al-Anfal, 75)
Your friend is only God and His Messenger and those who believe:
those who perform prayer and give the alms, and bow. (Surat al-
Ma’idah, 55)
But if they repent and perform prayer and give the alms, they are
your brothers in the religion…(Surat at-Tawba, 11)
The men and women of the believers are friends of one another.
They command what is right and forbid what is wrong, and perform
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