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you to imprison you or kill you or expel you: they Kaaba, or expiation by feeding the poor, or fast-
were plotting and Allah was plotting, but Allah is ing commensurate with that, so that he may taste
the Best of Plotters. (8:30) the evil consequences of what he did. Allah has
Those who were expelled from their homes with- pardoned all that took place in the past; but if
out any right, merely for saying, ‘Our Lord is anyone does it again Allah will take revenge on
Allah’ (if Allah had not driven some people back him. Allah is Almighty, Exactor of Revenge.
by means of others, monasteries, churches, syna- (5:95)
gogues and mosques, where Allah’s name is
mentioned much, would have been pulled down EXPIATION FOR BREAKING OATHS
and destroyed. Allah will certainly help those Allah does not take you to task for your inadver-
who help Him–Allah is All-Strong, Almighty), tent oaths, but He will take you to task for oaths
(22:40) you make intentionally. The expiation in that
It is He Who expelled those who disbelieved case is to feed ten poor people with the average
among the People of the Book from their homes amount you feed your family, or clothe them, or
to the first gathering-place. You did not think that free a slave. Anyone without the means to do so
they would leave and they thought that their should fast three days. That is the expiation for
fortresses would protect them from Allah. Then breaking oaths when you have sworn them. Keep
Allah came upon them from where they least ex- your oaths. In this way Allah makes His Signs
pected it and cast terror into their hearts. Their clear to you, so that hopefully you will be thank-
houses were pulled down by their own hands ful. (5:89)
and by the hands of the believers. People of in-
sight, take note! (59:2) EXTRAVAGANCE
Keep a close check on orphans until they reach a
EXPIATION marriageable age, then if you perceive that they
We prescribed for them in it: a life for a life, an have sound judgement hand over their property
eye for an eye, a nose for a nose, an ear for an to them. Do not consume it extravagantly and
ear, a tooth for a tooth, and retaliation for precipitately before they come of age. Those
wounds. But if anyone forgoes that as a charity, it who are wealthy should abstain from it alto-
will act as expiation for him. Those who do not gether. Those who are poor should use it sensibly
judge by what Allah has sent down, such people and correctly. When you hand over their prop-
are wrongdoers. (5:45) erty to them ensure that there are witnesses on
Allah does not take you to task for your inadver- their behalf. Allah suffices as a Reckoner. (4:6)
tent oaths, but He will take you to task for oaths Give your relatives their due, and the very poor
you make intentionally. The expiation in that and travellers but do not squander what you
case is to feed ten poor people with the average have. Squanderers are brothers to the Satans, and
amount you feed your family, or clothe them, or Satan was ungrateful to his Lord. (17:26-27)
free a slave. Anyone without the means to do so (Believers are) those who, when they spend, are
should fast three days. That is the expiation for neither extravagant nor mean, but take a stance
breaking oaths when you have sworn them. Keep mid way between the two; (25:67)
your oaths. In this way Allah makes His Signs
clear to you, so that hopefully you will be thank- EXULTATION
ful. (5:89) Those who exult in what they have done and
You who believe! Do not kill game while you are love to be praised for what they have not done
in the state of pilgrimage. If one of you kills any should not suppose that they have escaped the
deliberately, the reprisal for it is a livestock ani- punishment. They will have a painful punish-
mal equivalent to what he killed, as judged by ment. (3:188)
two just men among you, a sacrifice to reach the When they forgot what they had been reminded
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