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LIVING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE QUR'AN

(Musa said to his people,) ‘And when your Lord announced: “If you
are grateful, I will certainly give you increase, but if you are
ungrateful, My punishment is severe.”’ (Surah Ibrahim, 7)

When you were few and oppressed in the land, afraid that the people
would snatch you away, He gave you refuge and supported you
with His help and provided you with good things so that hopefully
you would be thankful. (Surat al-Anfal, 26)
We have established you firmly on the earth and granted you your
livelihood in it. What little thanks you show! (Surat al-A’raf, 10)

Why should God punish you if you are thankful and believe? God
is All-Thankful, All-Knowing. (Surat an-Nisa’, 147)
We have instructed man to be good to his parents. His mother bore
him with difficulty and with difficulty gave birth to him; and his
bearing and weaning take thirty months. Then when he achieves
his full strength and reaches forty, he says, ‘My Lord, keep me
thankful for the blessing You bestowed on me and on my parents,
and keep me acting rightly, pleasing You. And make my descen-
dants righteous. I have repented to You and I am truly one of the

Muslims.’ (Surat al-Ahqaf, 15)
It is He Who created all the species and gave you ships and livestock
for you to ride, so that you might sit firmly on their backs and
remember your Lord’s blessing while you are seated on them, say-
ing, ‘Glory be to Him Who has subjected this to us. We could never
have done it by ourselves.’ (Surat az-Zukhruf, 12-13)

Mankind! Remember God’s blessing to you. Is there any creator
other than God providing for you from heaven and earth? There is
no god but Him. So how have you been perverted? (Surah Fatir, 3)
… Do not make a mockery of God’s Signs. Remember God’s bless-

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