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Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:110) have perfected your religion for you and com-
Allah does not forgive anything being associated pleted My blessing upon you and I am pleased
with Him but He forgives whoever He wills for with Islam as a religion for you. But if anyone is
anything other than that. Anyone who associates forced by hunger, not intending any wrongdoing,
something with Allah has gone very far astray. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (5:3)
(4:116) Allah has promised those who believe and do
You will not be able to be completely fair be- right actions forgiveness and an immense re-
tween your wives, however hard you try. But do ward. (5:9)
not be completely partial so as to leave a wife, as But because of their breaking of their covenant,
it were, suspended in mid-air. And if you make We have cursed them and made their hearts
amends and guard against evil, Allah is Ever- hard. They distort the true meaning of words and
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:129) have forgotten a good portion of what they were
As for those who believe and then return to dis- reminded of. You will never cease to come upon
belief, and then again believe and then return to some act of treachery on their part, except for a
disbelief, and then increase in disbelief, Allah few of them. Yet pardon them, and overlook.
will not forgive them or guide them on any path. Allah loves good-doers. (5:13)
(4:137) The Jews and Christians say, ‘We are Allah’s chil-
Whether you reveal a good act or keep it hidden, dren and His loved ones.’ Say: ‘Why, then, does
or pardon an evil act, Allah is Ever-Pardoning, He punish you for your wrong actions? No, you
All-Powerful. (4:149) are merely human beings among those He has
Those who believe in Allah and His Messengers created. He forgives whoever He wills and He
and do not differentiate between any of them, punishes whoever He wills. The kingdom of the
We will pay them their wages. Allah is Ever- heavens and the earth and everything between
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:152) them belongs to Allah. He is our final destina-
The People of the Book will ask you to bring tion.’ (5:18)
down a Book from heaven to them. They asked But if anyone repents after his wrongdoing and
Musa for even more than that. They said, ‘Let us puts things right, Allah will turn towards him.
see Allah with our own eyes.’ So the lightning- Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (5:39)
bolt struck them down for their wrongdoing. Do you not know that the kingdom of the heav-
Then they adopted the Calf after the Clear Signs ens and earth belongs to Allah? He punishes
had come to them, but We pardoned them for whoever He wills and forgives whoever He wills.
that and gave Musa clear authority. (4:153) Allah has power over all things. (5:40)
Allah will not forgive those who disbelieve and Why do they not turn to Allah and ask for His for-
do wrong or guide them on any path. (4:168) giveness? Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
Forbidden for you are carrion, blood and pork, (5:74)
and what has been consecrated to other than You who believe! Do not kill game while you are
Allah, and animals which have been strangled, in the state of pilgrimage. If one of you kills any
and animals which have been killed by a blow, deliberately, the reprisal for it is a livestock ani-
and animals which have fallen to their death, mal equivalent to what he killed, as judged by
and animals which have been gored, and ani- two just men among you, a sacrifice to reach the
mals which wild beasts have eaten–except those Kaaba, or expiation by feeding the poor, or fast-
you are able to slaughter properly–and animals ing commensurate with that, so that he may taste
which have been sacrificed on altars, and decid- the evil consequences of what he did. Allah has
ing things by means of divining arrows–that is pardoned all that took place in the past; but if
deviance. Today those who disbelieve have de- anyone does it again Allah will take revenge on
spaired of overcoming your religion. So do not him. Allah is Almighty, Exactor of Revenge.
be afraid of them but be afraid of Me. Today I (5:95)
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