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has made forbidden for you’: that you do not asso- and gardens of grapes and cultivated fields, and
ciate anything with Him; that you are good to your palm-trees sharing one root and others with indi-
parents; that you do not kill your children because vidual roots, all watered with the same water.
of poverty–We will provide for you and them; that And We make some things better to eat than oth-
you do not approach indecency–outward or in- ers. There are Signs in that for people who use
ward; that you do not kill any person Allah has their intellect. (13:4)
made inviolate–except with the right to do so. Is he who knows that what has been sent down
That is what He instructs you to do so that hope- to you from your Lord is the truth like him who is
fully you will use your intellect. (6:151) blind? It is only people of intelligence who pay
An evil generation has succeeded them, inherit- heed. (13:19)
ing the Book, taking the goods of this lower This is a communication to be transmitted to
world, and saying, ‘We will be forgiven.’ But if mankind so that they may be warned by it and so
similar goods come to them again they still take that they will know that He is One God and so
them. Has not a covenant been made with them that people of intelligence will pay heed. (14:52)
in the Book, that they should only say the truth He has made night and day subservient to you,
about Allah and have they not studied what is in and the sun and moon and stars, all subject to
it? The Final Abode is better for those who guard His command. There are certainly Signs in that
against evil. Will you not use your intellect? for people who use their intellect. (16:12)
(7:169) And from the fruit of the date-palm and the
The worst of beasts in Allah’s sight are the deaf grape-vine you derive both intoxicants and
and dumb who have no intellect. (8:22) wholesome provision. There is certainly a Sign in
Say: ‘Had Allah so wished, I would not have re- that for people who use their intellect. (16:67)
cited it to you nor would He have made it known Eat and pasture your cattle. Certainly there are
to you. I lived among you for many years before Signs in that for people of sound intellect. (20:54)
it came. Will you not use your intellect?’ (10:16) Are they not guided by the many generations We
No self can believe except with Allah’s permis- have destroyed before them, among whose
sion. He places a blight on those who do not use dwelling places they walk about? There are Signs
their intellect. (10:100) in that for people of sound intellect. (20:128)
(Hud said,) ‘My people! I do not ask you for any We have sent down to you a Book containing
wage for it. My wage is the responsibility of Him your Reminder. So will you not use your intel-
Who brought me into being. So will you not use lect? (21:10)
your intellect?’ (11:51) Shame on you and what you worship besides
We have sent it down as an Arabic Qur’an so Allah! Will you not use your intellect?’ (21:67)
that hopefully you will use your intellect. (12:2) It is He Who gives life and causes to die and His
We sent none before you but men inspired with is the alternation of the night and day. So will you
revelation from among the people of the cities. not use your intellect? (23:80)
Have they not travelled in the land and seen the There is no objection to the blind, no objection
final fate of those before them? The abode of the to the lame, no objection to the sick; nor to your-
hereafter is better for those who guard against selves if you eat in your own houses or your fa-
evil. So will you not use your intellect? (12:109) thers’ houses or your mothers’ houses or your
There is instruction in their stories for people of brothers’ houses or your sisters’ houses or the
intelligence. This is not a narration which has houses of your paternal uncles or paternal aunts
been invented but confirmation of all that came or the houses of your maternal uncles or mater-
before, a clarification of everything, and a guid- nal aunts or places to which you own the keys or
ance and a mercy for people who believe. those of your friends. There is nothing wrong in
(12:111) your eating together or eating separately. And
In the earth there are diverse regions side by side when you enter houses greet one another with a
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