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LIVING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE QUR'AN

does indeed bring them near. God will admit them into His mercy.
God is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (Surat at-Tawba, 99)

HELPING EACH OTHER ON GOOD DEEDS AND PIETY
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)
(Musa said,) ‘Assign me a helper from my family, my brother Harun.
Strengthen my back by him and let him share in my task, so that we
can glorify You much and remember You much.’ (Surah Ta Ha, 29-34)

COMPETING IN ACTS OF CHARITY, AND PRAYING
TO GOD FOR BEING AN EXEMPLAR OF PIETY
Each person faces a particular direction so race each other to the
good. Wherever you are, God will bring you all together. Truly God
has power over all things. (Surat al-Baqarah, 148)

They believe in God and the Last Day, and enjoin the right and for-
bid the wrong, and compete in doing good. They are among the
righteous. (Surah Al ‘Imran, 114)
Then We made Our chosen servants inherit the Book. But some of
them wrong themselves; some are ambivalent; and some outdo each
other in good by God’s permission. That is the great favour. (Surah
Fatir, 32)
We responded to him and gave him Yahya, restoring for him his

wife’s fertility. They outdid one another in good actions, calling out
to Us in yearning and in awe, and humbling themselves to Us. (Surat
al-Anbiya’, 90)
Such people are truly racing towards good things, and they are the
first to reach them. (Surat al-Mu’minun, 61)

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