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can be present at what will profit them and in- He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing. (42:11)
voke Allah’s name on specific days over live- It is He Who created all the species and gave you
stock He has provided for them. Eat of them and ships and livestock for you to ride. (43:12)
feed those who are poor and in need. (22:27-28) And (He) made the mountains firm, for you and
That is it. If someone honours Allah’s sacred for your livestock to enjoy. (79:32-33)
things, that is better for him in his Lord’s sight. All Then We make grain grow in it, and grapes and
livestock are permitted to you except what has herbs and olives and dates and luxuriant gardens
already been recited to you. Have done with the and orchards and meadows, for you and your
defilement of idols and have done with telling livestock to enjoy. (80:27-32)
lies. (22:30)
We have appointed a rite of sacrifice for every LOCUST
nation so that they may invoke Allah’s name over So We sent down on them floods, locusts, lice,
the livestock He has given them. Your God is frogs and blood, Signs, clear and distinct, but
One God so submit to Him. Give good news to they proved arrogant and were an evildoing peo-
the humble-hearted. (22:34) ple. (7:133)
And there is certainly a lesson for you in your They will emerge from their graves with down-
livestock. We give you to drink from what is in cast eyes, like swarming locusts. (54:7)
their bellies and there are many ways in which
you benefit from them, and some of them you LONGING
eat. (23:21) You were longing for death before you met it.
Have fear of Him Who has supplied you with Now you have seen it with your own eyes.
what you know, supplied you with livestock and (3:143)
children. (26:132-133) Do not direct your eyes longingly to what We
Do they not see how We drive water to barren have given certain of them to enjoy. Do not feel
land and bring forth crops by it which their live- sad concerning them. And take the believers
stock and they themselves both eat? So will they under your wing. (15:88)
not see? (32:27) Do not direct your eyes longingly to what We
And mankind and beasts and livestock are like- have given certain of them to enjoy, the flower of
wise of varying colours. Only those of His ser- the life of this world, so that We can test them by
vants with knowledge have fear of Allah. Allah is it. Your Lord’s provision is better and longer last-
Almighty, Ever-Forgiving. (35:28) ing. (20:131)
Have they not seen how We created for them, by
Our own handiwork, livestock which are under LOSS
their control? (36:71) Those who break Allah’s contract after it has
He created you from a single self, then produced been agreed, and sever what Allah has com-
its mate from it, and sent down livestock to manded to be joined, and cause corruption on
you–eight kinds in pairs. He creates you stage by the earth, it is they who are the lost. (2:27)
stage in your mothers’ wombs in a threefold Then after that you turned away, and were it not
darkness. That is Allah, your Lord. Sovereignty is for Allah's favour to you and His mercy, you
His. There is no god but Him. So what has made would have been among the lost. (2:64)
you deviate? (39:6) Those to whom We have given the Book, who
It is Allah Who has given you livestock, some for recite it in the way it should be recited, such peo-
you to ride and some to eat. (40:79) ple believe in it. As for those who reject it, they
(He is) the Bringer into Being of the heavens and are the losers. (2:121)
the earth: He has given you mates from among We will test you with a certain amount of fear
yourselves, and given mates to the livestock, and hunger and loss of wealth and life and fruits.
in that way multiplying you. Nothing is like Him. But give good news to the steadfast. (2:155)
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