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LIVING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE QUR'AN

and guide you? Did He not find you impoverished and enrich you?
(Surat ad-Dhuha, 5-8)
You who believe! The idolaters are unclean, so after this year they

should not come near the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram). If you
fear impoverishment, God will enrich you from His bounty if He
wills. God is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (Surat at-Tawba, 28)
They swear by God that they said nothing, but they definitely spoke
the word of disbelief and returned to disbelief after their Islam. They
planned something which they did not achieve and they were vin-
dictive for no other cause than that God and His Messenger had

enriched them from His bounty. If they were to repent, it would be
better for them. But if they turn away, God will punish them with a
painful punishment in this world and the hereafter, and they will
not find any protector or helper on the earth. (Surat at-Tawba, 74)
We made his (Dawud’s) kingdom strong and gave him wisdom
and decisive speech. (Surah Sad, 20)
... God gives kingship to anyone He wills. God is All-Encompass-
ing, All-Knowing. (Surat al-Baqarah, 247)

And with God’s permission they routed them. Dawud killed Goliath
and God gave him kingship and wisdom and taught him whatever
He willed… (Surat al-Baqarah, 251)
Say, ‘O God! Master of the Kingdom! You give sovereignty to who-
ever You will You take sovereignty from whoever You will. You

exalt whoever You will You abase whoever You will. All good is in
Your hands. You have power over all things. (Surah Al ‘Imran, 26)
Or do they in fact envy other people for the bounty God has granted
them? We gave the family of Ibrahim the Book and Wisdom, and
We gave them an immense kingdom. (Surat an-Nisa’, 54)

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