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LIVING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE QUR'AN

Do not diminish people’s goods and do not go about the earth, cor-
rupting it. (Surat ash- Shu`ara’, 183)
(His people said to Qarun,) ‘Seek the abode of the hereafter with

what God has given you, without forgetting your portion of this
world. And do good as God has been good to you. And do not seek
to cause corruption in the earth. God does not love corrupters.’
(Surat al-Qasas, 77)
That abode of the hereafter–We grant it to those who do not seek
to exalt themselves in the earth or to cause corruption in it. The
successful outcome is for those who guard against evil. (Surat al-

Qasas, 83)
We set aside thirty nights for Musa and then completed them with ten,
so the appointed time of his Lord was forty nights in all. Musa said to
his brother Harun, ‘Take my place among my people. Keep order and
do not follow the way of the corrupters.’ (Surat al-A’raf, 142)
Those who disbelieve are the friends and protectors of one another.
If you do not act in this way there will be turmoil in the land and
great corruption. (Surat al-Anfal, 73)

Among them there are some who believe in it and some who do
not. Your Lord best knows the corrupters. (Surah Yunus, 40)
When they had thrown, Musa said, ‘What you have brought is
magic. God will certainly prove it false. God does not uphold the
actions of corrupters.’ (Surah Yunus, 81)

But as for those who break God’s contract after it has been agreed
and sever what God has commanded to be joined, and cause cor-
ruption in the earth, the curse will be upon them. They will have
the Evil Abode. (Surat ar-Ra`d, 25)
As for those who disbelieved and barred access to the way of God,

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