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LIVING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE QUR'AN

... Do not make a mockery of God’s Signs. Remember God’s bless-
ing to you and the Book and Wisdom He has sent down to you to
admonish you. Have fear of God and know that God has knowledge
of all things. (Surat al-Baqarah, 231)

Never does a new reminder come to them from their Lord but they
listen to it playful amusement. (Surat al-Anbiya’, 2)
Surely this [Qur’an] is a decisive word, it’s not a joke. (Surat at-
Tariq, 13-14)
We never created the heavens and the earth and all that is between

just for fun. (Surat al-Anbiya’, 16)
(Companions of the Garden will say, ‘Disbelievers are) those who
took their religion as a diversion and a game, and were deluded by
the life of this world.’ Today We will forget them just as they forgot
the encounter of this Day and denied Our Signs. (Surat al-A’raf, 51)
We did not create the heavens and the earth and whatever is
between them for play. (Surat ad-Dukhan, 38)

When you call to prayer they make a mockery and a game of it.
That is because they are people who do not use their intellect.
(Surat al-Ma’idah, 58)
If We had desired to have some amusement, We would have
derived it from Our Presence, if such had been Our will. (Surat al-
Anbiya’, 17)

LEAVING ANY PLACE WHERE THERE ARE THOSE
WHO EXPRESSIVELY REJECT THE VERSES OF
GOD AND MAKE LIGHT OF RELIGION
When you see people engrossed in mockery of Our Signs, turn from
them until they start to talk of other things. And if Satan should

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