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LIVING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE QUR'AN

... Help each other to goodness and heedfulness. Do not help each
other to wrongdoing and enmity. Have fear of God. God is severe

in retribution. (Surat al-Ma’idah, 2)
(Hud said,) ‘My people! Ask forgiveness of your Lord and then
repent to Him. He will send heaven down to you in abundant rain,
and increase you with strength upon strength. Do not turn away as
evildoers.’ (Surah Hud, 52)

REFRAINING FROM SQUANDERING MONEY OR
WEALTH
Children of Adam! Wear fine clothing in every mosque and eat and
drink but do not be profligate. He does not love the profligate.
(Surat al-A’raf, 31)

Give your relatives their due, and the very poor and travellers but
do not squander what you have. (Surat al-Isra’, 26)
Do not keep your hand chained to your neck but do not extend it
either to its full extent so that you sit there blamed and destitute.
(Surat al-Isra’, 29)
(Believers are) those who, when they spend, are neither extravagant
nor mean, but take a stance mid way between the two. (Surat al-
Furqan, 67)

It is He Who produces gardens, both cultivated and wild, and palm-
trees and crops of diverse kinds, and olives and pomegranates, both
similar and dissimilar. Eat of their fruits when they bear fruit and
pay their due on the day of their harvest, and do not be profligate.
He does not love the profligate. (Surat al-An’am, 141)

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