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pleasure, keeping secret the love you have for comes a disbeliever enjoy himself a little but
them, I know best what you conceal and what then I will drive him to the punishment of the
you make known. Any of you who do that have Fire. What an evil destination!’ (2:126)
strayed from the right way. (60:1) We will test you with a certain amount of fear
Allah merely forbids you from taking as friends and hunger and loss of wealth and life and fruits.
those who have fought you in the religion and But give good news to the steadfast. (2:155)
driven you from your homes and who supported Would any of you like to have a garden of dates
your expulsion. Any who take them as friends are and grapes, with rivers flowing underneath and
wrongdoers. (60:9) containing all kinds of fruits, then to be stricken
You who believe! Do not make friends of people with old age and have children who are weak,
with whom Allah is angry, who have despaired and then for a fierce whirlwind containing fire to
of the hereafter as the disbelievers have de- come and strike it so that it goes up in flames? In
spaired of the inhabitants of the graves. (60:13) this way Allah makes His Signs clear to you, so
Say: ‘You Jews, if you claim to be the friends of that hopefully you will reflect. (2:266)
Allah to the exclusion of all other people, then It is He Who sends down water from the sky from
wish for death if you are telling the truth.’ (62:6) which We bring forth growth of every kind, and
Therefore here today he has no friend. (69:35) from that We bring forth the green shoots and
(On the Day) no good friend will ask about his from them We bring forth close-packed seeds,
friend. (70:10) and from the spathes of the date palm date clus-
ters hanging down, and gardens of grapes and
FROG olives and pomegranates, both similar and dis-
So We sent down on them floods, locusts, lice, similar. Look at their fruits as they bear fruit and
frogs and blood, Signs, clear and distinct, but ripen. There are Signs in that for people who be-
they proved arrogant and were an evildoing peo- lieve. (6:99)
ple. (7:133) It is He Who produces gardens, both cultivated
and wild, and palm-trees and crops of diverse
FROWN kinds, and olives and pomegranates, both similar
Then he frowned and glowered. (74:22) and dissimilar. Eat of their fruits when they bear
fruit and pay their due on the day of their harvest,
FRUIT and do not be profligate. He does not love the
It is He Who made the earth a couch for you, and profligate. (6:141)
the sky a dome. He sends down water from the It is He Who sends out the winds, bringing ad-
sky and by it brings forth fruits for your provision. vance news of His mercy, so that when they have
Do not, then, knowingly make others equal to lifted up the heavy clouds, We dispatch them to a
Allah. (2:22) dead land and send down water to it, by means
Give the good news to those who believe and do of which We bring forth all kinds of fruit. In the
right actions that they will have Gardens with same way We will bring forth the dead, so that
rivers flowing under them. When they are given hopefully you will pay heed. (7:57)
fruit there as provision, they will say, ‘This is We seized Pharaoh’s people with years of
what we were given before.’ But they were only drought and scarcity of fruits so that hopefully
given a simulation of it. They will have there they would pay heed. (7:130)
spouses of perfect purity and will remain there It is He Who stretched out the earth and placed
timelessly, for ever. (2:25) firmly embedded mountains and rivers in it and
And when Ibrahim said, ‘My Lord, make this a made two types of every kind of fruit. He covers
place of safety and provide its inhabitants with over day with night. There are Signs in that for
fruits–all of them who believe in Allah and the people who reflect. (13:3)
Last Day,’ He said, ‘I will let anyone who be- It bears fruit regularly by its Lord’s permission.
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