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and (wash) your feet to the ankles. If you are in a and safeguard their prayer. (6:92)
state of major impurity, then purify yourselves. Say: ‘My prayer and my rites, my living and my
But if you are ill or on a journey, or have come dying, are for Allah alone, the Lord of all the
from the lavatory, or have touched women, and worlds.’ (6:162)
cannot find any water, then then take for your- Whenever the plague came down on them they
selves clean earth, and wipe your faces and your said, ‘Musa, pray to your Lord for us by the con-
hands therewith. Allah does not want to make tract He has with you. If you remove the plague
things difficult for you, but He does want to pu- from us, we will definitely believe in you and
rify you and to perfect His blessing upon you so send the tribe of Israel away with you.’ (7:134)
that hopefully you will be thankful. (5:6) As for those who hold fast to the Book and per-
Allah made a covenant with the tribe of Israel form prayer, We will not let the wage of the right-
and We raised up twelve leaders from among eous be wasted. (7:170)
them. Allah said, ‘I am with you. If you perform (Believers are) those who perform prayer and
prayer and give the alms, and believe in My give of what We have provided for them. (8:3)
Messengers and respect and support them, and Their prayer at the House is nothing but whistling
make a generous loan to Allah, I will erase your and clapping. So taste the punishment because
wrong actions from you and admit you into you disbelieved! (8:35)
Gardens with rivers flowing under them. Any of Then, when the sacred months are over, kill the
you who disbelieve after that have gone astray idolaters wherever you find them, and seize
from the right way.’ (5:12) them and besiege them and lie in wait for them
Your friend is only Allah and His Messenger and on every road. If they repent and perform prayer
those who believe: those who perform prayer and give the alms, let them go on their way. Allah
and give the alms, and bow. (5:55) is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (9:5)
When you call to prayer they make a mockery But if they repent and perform prayer and give
and a game of it. That is because they are people the alms, they are your brothers in the religion.
who do not use their intellect. (5:58) We make the Signs clear for people who have
Satan wants to stir up enmity and hatred between knowledge. (9:11)
you by means of wine and gambling, and to The mosques of Allah should only be maintained
debar you from remembrance of Allah and from by those who believe in Allah and the Last Day
prayer. Will you not then give them up? (5:91) and perform prayer and give the alms, and fear
You who believe! When one of you is near to no one but Allah. They are the ones most likely
death and makes a will, two just men from to be guided. (9:18)
among you should act as witnesses; or, if you are Nothing prevents what they give from being ac-
travelling when the misfortune of death occurs, cepted from them but the fact that they have re-
two men who are strangers to you. You should jected Allah and His Messenger, and that they
detain them after prayer and, if you are doubtful, only come to prayer lethargically, and that they
they should swear by Allah: ‘We will not sell it only give reluctantly. (9:54)
for any price, even to a near relative, and we will The men and women of the believers are friends
not conceal the testimony of Allah. If we did we of one another. They command what is right and
would indeed be wrongdoers.’ (5:106) forbid what is wrong, and perform prayer and
(Say:) ‘And (We are commanded) to perform give the alms, and obey Allah and His
prayer and guard against evil of Him. It is He to Messenger. They are the people on whom Allah
Whom you will be gathered.’ (6:72) will have mercy. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise.
This is a Book We have sent down and blessed, (9:71)
confirming what came before it, so that you can Never pray over any of them who die or stand at
warn the Mother of Cities and the people around their graves. They rejected Allah and His
it. Those who believe in the hereafter believe in it Messenger and died as deviators. (9:84)
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