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oaths that if you give them the command, they No indeed! He is obdurate about Our Signs.
will go out. Say: ‘Do not swear. Honourable obe- (74:16)
dience is enough. Allah is aware of what you do.’
(24:53) OBEDIENCE / DISOBEDIENCE
They swore by Allah with their most earnest TO THE MESSENGERS, AND THE
oaths that if a warner came to them they would OBLIGATION OF THE MESSENGERS
be better guided than any other community. But Say, ‘Obey Allah and the Messenger.’ Then if
then when a warner did come to them, it only in- they turn away, Allah does not love the disbeliev-
creased their aversion. (35:42) ers. (3:32)
And I swear by the falling of the stars–and that is Allah fulfilled His promise to you when you were
a mighty oath if you only knew. (56:75-76) slaughtering them by His permission. But then
They made their oaths into a cloak and barred you faltered, disputing the command, and dis-
the Way of Allah, so they will have a humiliating obeyed after He showed you what you love.
punishment. (58:16) Among you are those who want this world and
They have made their oaths into a cloak and among you are those who want the hereafter.
barred the Way of Allah. What they have done is Then He turned you from them in order to test
truly evil. (63:2) you–but He has pardoned you. Allah shows
Allah has made the expiation of your oaths oblig- favour to the believers. (3:152)
atory for you. Allah is your Master–He is the All- Allah showed great kindness to the believers
Knowing, the All-Wise. (66:2) when He sent a Messenger to them from among
But do not obey any vile swearer of oaths, themselves to recite His Signs to them and purify
(68:10) them and teach them the Book and Wisdom,
Or do you have oaths which bind Us, extending even though before that they were clearly mis-
to the Day of Rising, that you will have whatever guided. (3:164)
you decide? (68:39) These are Allah’s limits. As for those who obey
Is there not in that an oath for the intelligent? Allah and His Messenger, We will admit them
(89:5) into Gardens with rivers flowing under them, re-
maining in them timelessly, for ever. That is the
OBDURATE Great Victory. (4:13)
The desert arabs are more obdurate in disbelief As for those who disobey Allah and His
and hypocrisy and more likely not to know the Messenger and overstep His limits, We will
limits which Allah has sent down to His admit them into a Fire, remaining in it timelessly,
Messenger. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. for ever. They will have a humiliating punish-
(9:97) ment. (4:14)
Some of the desert Arabs around you are hyp- Some of the Jews distort the true meaning of
ocrites and some of the people of Madina are ob- words, saying, ‘We hear and disobey,’ and ‘Listen
durate in their hypocrisy. You do not know them without listening,’ and ‘Listen to us!’ twisting
but We know them. We will punish them twice them with their tongues, disparaging the religion.
over and then they will be returned to a terrible If they had said, ‘We hear and we obey,’ and
punishment. (9:101) ‘Listen,’ and, ‘Look at us!’ that would have been
That was ‘Ad. They denied the Signs of their Lord better for them and more upright. But Allah has
and disobeyed His Messengers and followed the cursed them for their disbelief. Very few of them
command of every obdurate tyrant. (11:59) believe. (4:46)
They asked for Allah’s victory, and every obdu- You who believe! Obey Allah and obey the
rate tyrant failed. (14:15) Messenger and those in command among you. If
(The Guards of Hell will be told,) ‘Hurl into Hell you have a dispute about something, refer it back
every obdurate disbeliever.’ (50:24) to Allah and the Messenger, if you believe in
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