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LIVING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE QUR'AN

you have asked permission and greeted their inhabitants. That is
better for you, so that hopefully you will pay heed. If you find no
one in the house, enter not until permission is given to you: if you
are asked to go back, go back: that makes for greater purity for

yourselves: and God knows well all that you do. (Surat an-Nur,
27-28)

BEING CONSCIENTIOUS ABOUT SLEEP; NOT
SLEEPING MORE THAN NEEDED

The part of the night they spent asleep was small. (Surat adh-
Dhariyat, 11)

EAGERLY OBEYING GOD, HIS COMMANDMENTS
AND MESSENGERS

You who believe! Obey God and His Messenger. And do not turn
away from him when you are able to hear. (Surat al-Anfal, 20)
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. Anyone who disobeys God and His Messenger is clearly mis-
guided. (Surat al-Ahzab, 36)

We sent no Messenger except to be obeyed by God’s permission.
If only when they wronged themselves they had come to you and
asked God’s forgiveness and the Messenger had asked forgiveness
for them they would have found God Ever-Returning, Most Mer-
ciful. (Surat an-Nisa’, 64)
Whoever obeys the Messenger has obeyed God. If anyone turns
away, we did not send you to them as their keeper. (Surat an-Nisa’,
80)

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