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DOG If you are in any doubt about what We have sent
If We had wanted to, We would have raised him down to you, then ask those who were reciting
up by them. But he gravitated towards the earth the Book before you. The truth has come to you
and pursued his whims and base desires. His from your Lord, so on no account be one of the
metaphor is that of a dog: if you chase it away, it doubters. (10:94)
lolls out its tongue and pants, and if you leave it Say: ‘Mankind! If you are in any doubt about my
alone, it lolls out its tongue and pants. That is the religion, I do not worship those you worship be-
metaphor of those who deny Our Signs. So tell sides Allah. Rather I worship Allah Who will take
the story so that hopefully they will reflect. you back to Him and I am commanded to be one
(7:176) of the believers.’ (10:104)
You would have supposed them to be awake They (the Messengers) said, ‘We have come to
whereas in fact they were asleep. We moved you with what they had doubts about.’ (15:63)
them to the right and to the left, and, at the en- Is there a sickness in their hearts or do they have
trance, their dog stretched out its paws. If you misgivings or do they fear that Allah and His
had looked down and seen them, you would Messenger will be unjust to them? No, it is sim-
have turned from them and run and have been ply that they are wrongdoers. (24:50)
filled with terror at the sight of them. (18:18) You never recited any Book before it nor did you
They will say, ‘There were three of them, their write one down with your right hand. If you had,
dog being the fourth.’ They will say, ‘There were the purveyors of falsehood would have voiced
five of them, their dog being the sixth,’ guessing their doubts. (29:48)
at the Unseen. And they will say, ‘There were If you could only see when they are terrified, and
seven of them, their dog being the eighth.’ Say: there is no way out, and they are seized from a
‘My Lord knows best their number. Those who nearby place. They will say, ‘We believe in it,’
know about them are very few.’ So do not enter but how can they reach out for it from a distant
into any argument concerning them, except in place when beforehand they had rejected it,
relation to what is clearly known. And do not shooting forth about the Unseen from a distant
seek the opinion of any of them regarding them. place? A barrier will be set up between them and
(18:22) the thing that they desire, just as was done with
their kind before. They too were in a state of crip-
DOUBT pling doubt. (34:51-54)
The truth is from your Lord, so on no account be (The man who believed said to his people,)
among the doubters. (2:147) ‘Yusuf brought you the Clear Signs before, but
It is the truth from your Lord so do not be among you never stopped doubting what he brought to
the doubters. (3:60) you to the extent that when he died, you said,
It is He Who created you from clay and then de- "Allah will never send another Messenger after
creed a fixed term, and another fixed term is spec- him." That is how Allah misguides those who are
ified with Him. Yet you still have doubts! (6:2) unbridled and full of doubt.’ (40:34)
‘Am I to desire someone other than Allah as a He (‘Isa) is a Sign of the Hour. Have no doubt
judge when it is He Who has sent down the Book about it. But follow me. This is a straight path.
to you clarifying everything?’ Those We have (43:61)
given the Book know it has been sent down from (The wicked will be told,) ‘This is the very thing
your Lord with truth, so on no account be among you used to doubt.’ (44:50)
the doubters. (6:114) The believers are only those who have believed
Only those who do not believe in Allah and the in Allah and His Messenger and then have had
Last Day ask you to excuse them. Their hearts are no doubt and have strived with their wealth and
full of doubt and in their doubt they waver to and themselves in the Way of Allah. They are the
fro. (9:45) ones who are true to their word. (49:15)
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