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her and she confirmed the Words of her Lord and of Allah have gone very far astray. (4:167)
His Book and was one of the obedient. (66:12) You who believe! Do not profane the sacred rites
of Allah or the sacred months, or the sacrificial
OBSCENITY animals, or the ritual garlands, or those heading
And Lut, when he said to his people, ‘Do you for the Sacred House, desiring profit and good
commit an obscenity not perpetrated before you pleasure from their Lord. When your pilgrimage
by anyone in all the worlds? (7:80) is over, then you may hunt. Do not let hatred for
When Lut said to his people, ‘You are commit- a people who debar you from the Sacred Mosque
ting an obscenity not perpetrated before you by (Masjid al-Haram) incite you into going beyond
anyone in all the worlds.’ (29:28) the limits. Help each other to goodness and
heedfulness. Do not help each other to wrongdo-
OBSTRUCT ing and enmity. Have fear of Allah. Allah is se-
Who could do greater wrong than someone who vere in retribution. (5:2)
bars access to the mosques of Allah, preventing Satan wants to stir up enmity and hatred between
His name from being remembered in them, and you by means of wine and gambling, and to
goes about destroying them? Such people will debar you from remembrance of Allah and from
never be able to enter them–except in fear. They prayer. Will you not then give them up? (5:91)
will have disgrace in this world and in the here- The Companions of the Garden will call out to
after they will have a terrible punishment. (2:114) the Companions of the Fire, ‘We have found that
They will ask you about the Sacred Month and what our Lord promised us is true. Have you
fighting in it. Say, ‘Fighting in it is a serious mat- found that what your Lord promised you is true?’
ter; but barring access to the Way of Allah and re- They will say, ‘Yes, we have!’ Between them a
jecting Him and barring access to the Sacred herald will proclaim: ‘May the curse of Allah be
Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) and expelling its peo- on the wrongdoers, those who bar access to the
ple from it are far more serious in the sight of Way of Allah, seeking in it something crooked,
Allah. Discord is worse than killing.’ They will and reject the hereafter.’ (7:44-45)
not stop fighting you until they make you revert Do not lie in wait on every pathway, threatening
from your religion, if they are able. As for any of people, barring those who believe from the Way
you who revert from their religion and die disbe- of Allah, seeking in it something crooked.
liever, their actions will come to nothing in this Remember when you were few and He in-
world and the hereafter. They are the creased your number: see the final fate of the
Companions of the Fire, remaining in it time- corrupters! (7:86)
lessly, for ever. (2:217) But why should Allah not punish them now
Say, ‘People of the Book, why do you bar those when they bar access to the Sacred Mosque
who believe from the Way of Allah, seeking in it (Masjid al-Haram)? They are not its guardians.
something crooked, when you yourselves are Only people who guard against evil can be its
witnesses to it? Allah is not unaware of what you guardians. But most of them do not know that.
do.’ (3:99) (8:34)
Some of them believe in him, and some bar ac- Those who disbelieve spend their wealth barring
cess to him. Hell will suffice as a Searing Blaze! access to the Way of Allah. They will spend it;
(4:55) then they will regret it; then they will be over-
Because of wrongdoing on the part of the Jews, thrown. Those who disbelieve will be gathered
We made forbidden for them some good things into Hell. (8:36)
which had previously been lawful for them; and Do not be like those who left their homes in arro-
because of their obstructing many people from gance, showing off to people and barring them
the Way of Allah. (4:160) from the way of Allah–Allah encompasses what
Those who disbelieve and bar access to the Way they do. (8:47)
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