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LIVING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE QUR'AN

KEEPING IN MIND THAT IT IS GOD WHO GRANTS
WISDOM AND PRAYING TO GOD TO BE BESTOWED
WITH WISDOM
We made his (Dawud’s) kingdom strong and gave him wisdom and
decisive speech. (Surah Sad, 20)
(Ibrahim said,) ‘My Lord, give me right judgement and unite me
with the righteous. Make me highly esteemed among the later peo-
ples.’ (Surat ash-Shu`ara’, 83-84)
We made his (Dawud’s) kingdom strong and gave him wisdom and
decisive speech. (Surah Sad, 20)

He gives wisdom to whoever He wills and he who has been given
wisdom has been given great good. But no one pays heed but peo-
ple of intelligence. (Surat al-Baqara, 269)
They are the ones to whom We gave the Book, Judgement and
Prophethood. If these people reject it We have already entrusted it
to a people who did not. (Surat al-An’am, 89)

We gave Luqman wisdom: ‘Give thanks to God. Whoever gives
thanks only does so to his own good. Whoever is ungrateful, God
is Rich Beyond Need, Praiseworthy.’ (Surah Luqman, 12)
That is part of the wisdom your Lord has revealed to you. Do not
set up another god together with God and so be thrown into Hell,
blamed and driven out. (Surat al-Isra’, 39)
(Musa said to Pharaoh,) ‘And so I fled from you when I was in fear

of you but my Lord gave me right judgement and made me one of
the Messengers.’ (Surat ash- Shu`ara’, 21)
And when he (Musa) reached his full strength and maturity, We
gave him judgement and knowledge. That is how We recompense
good-doer. (Surat al-Qasas, 14)

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