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a journey, or any of you have come from the lava- ing to relatives. And He forbids indecency and
tory or touched women, and you cannot find any doing wrong and tyranny. He warns you so that
water, then take for yourselves clean earth, wiping hopefully you will pay heed. (16:90)
your faces and your hands. Allah is Ever- You who believe! Do not follow in the footsteps
Pardoning, Ever-Forgiving. (4:43) of Satan. Anyone who follows in Satan’s foot-
You who believe! When you get up to perform steps should know that he commands indecency
prayer, wash your faces and your hands and your and wrongdoing. Were it not for Allah’s favour to
arms to the elbows, and wipe over your heads, and you and His mercy, not one of you would ever
(wash) your feet to the ankles. If you are in a state of have been purified. But Allah purifies whoever
major impurity, then purify yourselves. But if you He wills. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
are ill or on a journey, or have come from the lava- (24:21)
tory, or have touched women, and cannot find any Recite what has been revealed to you of the Book
water, then take for yourselves clean earth, and and perform prayer. Prayer precludes indecency
wipe your faces and your hands therewith. Allah and wrongdoing. And remembrance of Allah is
does not want to make things difficult for you, but greater still. Allah knows what you do. (29:45)
He does want to purify you and to perfect His To whoever avoids the major wrong actions and
blessing upon you so that hopefully you will be indecencies–except for minor lapses–truly your
thankful. (5:6) Lord is vast in forgiveness. He has most knowl-
Remain in your houses and do not display your edge of you when He first produced you from the
beauty as it was previously displayed in the Time of earth, and when you were embryos in your
Ignorance. Perform prayer and give the alms and mothers’ wombs. So do not claim purity for your-
obey Allah and His Messenger. Allah desires to re- selves. He knows best those who guard against
move all impurity from you, People of the House, evil. (53:32)
and to purify you completely. (33:33)
INFANT
IMRAN Mankind! If you are in any doubt about the
Allah chose Adam and Nuh and the family of Rising, know that We created you from dust then
Ibrahim and the family of ‘Imran over all other be- from a drop of sperm then from a clot of blood
ings. (3:33) then from a lump of flesh, formed yet unformed,
Remember when the wife of ‘Imran said, ‘My Lord, so We may make things clear to you. We make
I have pledged to You what is in my womb, devot- watever We want stay in the womb until a speci-
ing it to Your service. Please accept my prayer. You fied time and then We bring you out as children
are the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.’ (3:35) so that you can reach your full maturity. Some of
And Maryam, the daughter of ‘Imran, who guarded you die and some of you revert to the lowest
her chastity–We breathed Our Spirit into her and form of life so that, after having knowledge, they
she confirmed the Words of her Lord and His Book then know nothing at all. And you see the earth
and was one of the obedient. (66:12) dead and barren; then when We send down
water onto it it quivers and swells and sprouts
INJIL (SEE THE GOSPEL) with luxuriant plants of every kind. (22:5)
It is He Who created you from earth, then from a
INCONSISTENCY drop of sperm, then from a clot of blood, then He
Will they not ponder the Qur’an? If it had been brings you out as infants, then so you may
from other than Allah, they would have found achieve full strength, then so you may become
many inconsistencies in it. (4:82) old men–though some of you may die before that
time–so that you may reach a predetermined age
INDECENCY and so that hopefully you will use your intellect.
Allah commands justice and doing good and giv- (40:67)
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