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LANGUAGE His name from being remembered in them, and
We have not sent any Messenger except with the goes about destroying them? Such people will
language of his people so he can make things never be able to enter them–except in fear. They
clear to them. Allah misguides anyone He wills will have disgrace in this world and in the here-
and guides anyone He wills. He is the Almighty, after they will have a terrible punishment. (2:114)
the All-Wise. (14:4) And when Ibrahim said, ‘My Lord, make this a
We know that they say, ‘It is only a human being place of safety and provide its inhabitants with
who is teaching him.’ The language of him they al- fruits–all of them who believe in Allah and the
lude to is a foreign one whereas this is in clear and Last Day,’ He said, ‘I will let anyone who disbe-
lucid Arabic. (16:103) lieves enjoy himself a little but then I will drive
Among His Signs is the creation of the heavens and him to the punishment of the Fire. What an evil
earth and the variety of your languages and destination!’ (2:126)
colours. There are certainly Signs in that for every Who would deliberately renounce the religion of
being. (30:22) Ibrahim except someone who reveals himself to
If We had made it a Qur’an in a foreign tongue be a fool? We chose him in this world and in the
they would have said, ‘Why have its Signs not hereafter he will be one of the righteous. (2:130)
been made plain? What! A foreign language for an It is not devoutness to turn your faces to the East
Arab? ’Say: ‘It is guidance and healing for people or to the West. Rather, those with true devoutness
who believe. Those who do not believe have heav- are those who believe in Allah and the Last Day,
iness in their ears and for them it is blindness. Such the Angels, the Book and the Prophets, and who,
people are being called from a very distant place.’ despite their love for it, give away their wealth to
(41:44) their relatives and to orphans and the very poor,
and to travellers and beggars and to set slaves
LASH free, and who perform prayer and give the alms;
A woman and a man who commit fornication: flog those who honour their contracts when they
both of them with one hundred lashes and do not make them, and are steadfast in poverty and ill-
let compassion for either of them possess you ness and in battle. Those are the people who are
where Allah’s religion is concerned, if you believe true. They are the people who guard against evil.
in Allah and the Last Day. A number of believers (2:177)
should witness their punishment. (24:2) Divorced women should wait by themselves for
But those who make accusations against chaste three menstrual cycles; and it is not lawful for
women and then do not produce four witnesses: them to conceal what Allah has created in their
flog them with eighty lashes and never again ac- wombs if they believe in Allah and the Last Day.
cept them as witnesses. Such people are deviators. Their husbands have the right to take them back
(24:4) within that time, if they desire to be reconciled.
Women possess rights similar to those held over
LAST DAY, THE (QIYAMAH) them to be honoured with fairness; but men have
Among the people there are some who say, ‘We a degree above them. Allah is Almighty, All-
believe in Allah and the Last Day,’ when they are Wise. (2:228)
not believers. (2:8) When you divorce women and they are near the
Those with faith, those who are Jews, and the end of their waiting period, do not prevent them
Christians and Sabaeans, all who believe in Allah from marrying their first husbands if they have
and the Last Day and act rightly, will have their mutually agreed to it with correctness and cour-
reward with their Lord. They will feel no fear and tesy. This is an admonition for those of you who
will know no sorrow. (2:62) believe in Allah and the Last Day. That is better
Who could do greater wrong than someone who and purer for you. Allah knows and you do not
bars access to the mosques of Allah, preventing know. (2:232)
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