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any water, then take for yourselves clean earth, they make you their judge in the disputes that
wiping your faces and your hands. Allah is Ever- break out between them, and then find no resist-
Pardoning, Ever-Forgiving. (4:43) ance within themselves to what you decide and
You who believe! When you get up to perform submit themselves completely. (4:65)
prayer, wash your faces and your hands and your How can they make you their judge when they
arms to the elbows, and wipe over your heads, have the Torah with them which contains the
and (wash) your feet to the ankles. If you are in a judgement of Allah? Then even after that they turn
state of major impurity, then purify yourselves. their backs! Such people are certainly not believ-
But if you are ill or on a journey, or have come ers. (5:43)
from the lavatory, or have touched women, and ‘Am I to desire someone other than Allah as a
cannot find any water, then take for yourselves judge when it is He Who has sent down the Book
clean earth, and wipe your faces and your hands to you clarifying everything?’ Those We have
therewith. Allah does not want to make things given the Book know it has been sent down from
difficult for you, but He does want to purify you your Lord with truth, so on no account be among
and to perfect His blessing upon you so that the doubters. (6:114)
hopefully you will be thankful. (5:6) (Shu‘ayb said to his people,) ‘There is a group of
you who believe in what I have been sent with
JOY and a group who do not, so be steadfast until Allah
(Believers are) those who say, ‘Our Lord, give us judges between us. He is the best of judges.’(7:87)
joy in our wives and children and make us a (Shu‘ayb said,) ‘We would be inventing lies
good example for those who guard against evil’; against Allah if we returned to your religion after
(25:74) Allah has saved us from it. We could never return
As for those who believed and did right actions, to it unless Allah our Lord so willed. Our Lord en-
they will be made joyful in a verdant meadow. compasses everything in His knowledge. We have
(30:15) put our trust in Allah. Our Lord, judge between us
The Companions of the Garden are busy enjoy- and our people with truth. You are the best of
ing themselves today, (36:55) judges.’ (7:89)
‘Enter the Garden, you and your wives, delight- Follow what has been revealed to you and be
ing in your joy.’ (43:70) steadfast until Allah’s judgement comes. He is the
So Allah has safeguarded them from the evil of Best of Judges. (10:109)
that Day and has made them meet with radiance Nuh called out to his Lord and said, ‘My Lord, my
and pure joy. (76:11) son is one of my family and Your promise is surely
As for him who is given his Book in his right the truth and You are the Justest of Judges.’ (11:45)
hand, he will be given an easy reckoning and re- When they despaired of him, they went apart to
turn to his family joyfully. (84:7-9) talk alone. The eldest of them (Yusuf’s brothers)
He used to be joyful in his family. (84:13) said, ‘You know full well your father had you
make a covenant with Allah concerning this, and
JUDGE how before you failed him with Yusuf. I will not
Do not devour one another’s property by false leave this land until I have permission from my fa-
means nor offer it to the judges as a bribe, trying ther, or Allah decides about the case on my behalf.
through crime to knowingly usurp a portion of Truly He is the justest Judge of all.’ (12:80)
other people’s property. (2:188) Is Allah not the Justest of Judges? (95:8)
Do you not see those who have been given a
portion of the Book being invited to let Allah's TO JUDGE
Book be the judge between them? But then a The Jews say, ‘The Christians have nothing to
group of them turn away. (3:23) stand on,’ and the Christians say, ‘The Jews have
No, by your Lord, they are not believers until nothing to stand on,’ yet they both recite the
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