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punishment), abject in their abasement, glancing ing to relatives. And He forbids indecency and
around them furtively. Those who believe will doing wrong and tyranny. He warns you so that
say, ‘Truly the losers are those who lose them- hopefully you will pay heed. (16:90)
selves and their families on the Day of Rising.’ Whoever acts rightly, it is to his own good.
The wrongdoers are in an everlasting punish- Whoever does evil, it is to his detriment. Your
ment. (42:45) Lord does not wrong His servants. (41:46)
Allah, the Everlasting Sustainer of all. (112:2) Whoever acts rightly, it is to his own good.
Whoever does evil, it is to his detriment. Then
EVIL you will be returned to your Lord. (45:15)
He (Satan) only commands you to do evil and in- (Believers are) those who avoid major wrong ac-
decent acts and to say about Allah what you do tions and indecencies and who, when they are
not know. (2:169) angered, then forgive. (42:37)
What they call on apart from Him are female The repayment of a bad action is one equivalent
idols. What they call on is an arrogant Satan to it. But if someone pardons and puts things
whom Allah has cursed. He said, ‘I will take a right, his reward is with Allah. Certainly He does
certain fixed proportion of Your servants. I will not love wrongdoers. But if people do defend
lead them astray and fill them with false hopes. I themselves when they are wronged, nothing can
will command them and they will cut off cattle’s be held against them for doing that. There are
ears. I will command them and they will change only grounds against those who wrong people
Allah’s creation.’ Anyone who takes Satan as his and act as tyrants in the earth without any right to
protector in place of Allah has clearly lost every- do so. Such people will have a painful punish-
thing. (4:117-119) ment. (42:40-42)
On the Day We gather them all together: Any good thing that happens to you comes from
‘Company of jinn, you gained many followers Allah. Any bad thing that happens to you comes
among mankind.’ And their friends among from yourself. We have sent you to mankind as a
mankind will say, ‘Our Lord, we benefited from Messenger. Allah suffices as a Witness. (4:79)
one another, and now we have reached the term Those who join forces for good will receive a re-
which You determined for us.’ He will say, ‘The ward for it. Those who join forces for evil will be
Fire is your home. You will be in it timelessly, for answerable for it. Allah oversees all things. (4:85)
ever, except as Allah wills. Your Lord is All-Wise, You who believe! Do not profane the sacred rites
All-Knowing.’ (6:128) of Allah or the sacred months, or the sacrificial
You who believe! Do not follow in the footsteps animals, or the ritual garlands, or those heading
of Satan. Anyone who follows in Satan’s foot- for the Sacred House, desiring profit and good
steps should know that he commands indecency pleasure from their Lord. When your pilgrimage
and wrongdoing. Were it not for Allah’s favour to is over, then you may hunt. Do not let hatred for
you and His mercy, not one of you would ever a people who debar you from the Sacred Mosque
have been purified. But Allah purifies whoever (Masjid al-Haram) incite you into going beyond
He wills. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. the limits. Help each other to goodness and
(24:21) heedfulness. Do not help each other to wrongdo-
(Yusuf said,) ‘I do not say my self was free from ing and enmity. Have fear of Allah. Allah is se-
blame. The self indeed commands to evil vere in retribution. (5:2)
acts–except for those my Lord has mercy on. My But as for those who have earned bad actions–a
Lord, He is Forgiving, Merciful.’ (12:53) bad action will be repaid with one the like of it.
We created man and We know what his own self Debasement will darken them. They will have no
whispers to him. We are nearer to him than his one to protect them from Allah. It is as if their
jugular vein. (50:16) faces were covered by dark patches of the night.
Allah commands justice and doing good and giv- Those are the Companions of the Fire, remaining
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