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LIVING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE QUR'AN

Say: ‘I do not ask you for any wage for it–only that anyone who
wants to should make his way towards his Lord.’ (Surat al-
Furqan, 57)

(Nuh said,) ‘I do not ask you for any wage for it. My wage is the
responsibility of no one but the Lord of all the worlds.’ (Surat ash-
Shu`ara’, 109)
That is the good news which God gives to His servants who
believe and do right actions. Say: ‘I do not ask you for any wage
for this–except for you to love your near of kin. If anyone does
a good action, We will increase the good of it for him. God is

Ever-Forgiving, Ever-Thankful.’ (Surat ash-Shura, 23)

REFRAINING FROM COERCION AND COMPULSION
WHERE RELIGION IS CONCERNED
There is no compulsion where the religion is concerned. Right
guidance has become clearly distinct from error. (Surat al-
Baqarah, 256)

Say: ‘Disbelievers! I do not worship what you worship and you
do not worship what I worship. Nor will I worship what you wor-
ship nor will you worship what I worship. You have your religion
and I have my religion.’ (Surat al-Kafirun, 1-5)

PRESERVING ONE’S CHASTITY
(Believers are) those who guard their chastity–except from their
wives or those they own as slaves, in which case they are not
blameworthy. (Surat al-Mu’minun, 5-6)
(Believers are) those who guard their private parts except from

their wives and any slaves they own, in which case they incur no
blame. (Surat al-Ma`arij, 29)

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