Page 532 - An Index to the Qur'an

P reflect. Your companion is not possessed. He is
only a warner come to you ahead of a terrible
PAGES punishment.’ (34:46)
Allah created you from dust and then from a drop
Even if We were to send down a book to you on
of sperm and then made you into pairs. No fe-
parchment pages and they were actually to touch
male becomes pregnant or gives birth except
it with their own hands, those who disbelieve
with His knowledge. And no living thing lives
would still say, ‘This is nothing but downright
long or has its life cut short without that being in
magic.’ (6:7)
a Book. That is easy for Allah. (35:11)
That Day We will fold up heaven like folding up
Glory be to Him Who created all the pairs: from
the pages of a book. As We originated the first
what the earth produces and from themselves
creation so We will regenerate it. It is a promise
and from things unknown to them. (36:36)
binding on Us. That is what We will do. (21:104)
He created you from a single self, then produced
(The Qur’an is) inscribed on Honoured Pages,
its mate from it, and sent down livestock to
(80:13)
you–eight kinds in pairs. He creates you stage by
When the Pages are opened up. (81:10)
stage in your mothers’ wombs in a threefold
PAIR darkness. That is Allah, your Lord. Sovereignty is
His. There is no god but Him. So what has made
There are eight in pairs: A pair of sheep and a
you deviate? (39:6)
pair of goats–Say: ‘Is it the two males He has
And We created all things in pairs so that hope-
made forbidden, or the two females, or what the
fully you would pay heed. (51:49)
wombs of the two females contain? Tell me with
We have created you in pairs. (78:8)
knowledge if you are being truthful.’ (6:143)
And a pair of camels and a pair of cattle–Say: ‘Is
PALACE
it the two males He has made forbidden, or the
(Salih said to his people,) ‘Remember when He
two females, or what the wombs of the two fe-
appointed you successors to ‘Ad and settled you
males contain? Were you then witnesses when
in the land. You built palaces on its plains and
Allah gave you this instruction?’ Who could do
carved out houses from the mountains.
greater wrong than someone who invents lies
Remember Allah’s blessings and do not go about
against Allah thus leading people astray without
the earth, corrupting it.’ (7:74)
any knowledge? Allah does not guide the people
How many wrongdoing cities We destroyed, and
of the wrongdoers. (6:144)
now all their roofs and walls are fallen in; how
So when Our command came, and water bub-
many abandoned wells and stuccoed palaces!
bled up from the earth, We said (to Nuh), ‘Load
(22:45)
into it a pair of every species, and your
Blessed be He Who, if He wishes, will grant you
family–except for those against whom the Word
better than that: Gardens with rivers flowing
was preordained–and all who believe.’ But those
under them; and He will grant you Palaces.
who believed with him were only few. (11:40)
(25:10)
We revealed to him (Nuh): ‘Build the Ship under
Our supervision and as We reveal. When Our
PALTRY
command comes and water bubbles up from the
Believe in what I have sent down, confirming
earth, load into it a pair of every species, and
what is with you. Do not be the first to reject it
your family–except for those among them against
and do not sell My Signs for a paltry price. Have
whom the word has already gone ahead. And do
fear of Me alone. (2:41)
not address Me concerning those who do wrong.
Woe to those who write the Book with their own
They shall be drowned.’ (23:27)
hands and then say ‘This is from Allah’ to sell it
Say: ‘I exhort you to do one thing alone: to stand
for a paltry price. Woe to them for what their
before Allah in pairs and on your own and then
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