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hearts were hard and Satan made what they were AVARICE
doing seem attractive to them. (6:43) Satan promises you poverty and commands you
Do not curse those they call upon besides Allah, to avarice. Allah promises you forgiveness from
in case that makes them curse Allah in animosity, Him and abundance. Allah is All-Encompassing,
without knowledge. In this way We make the ac- All-Knowing. (2:268)
tions of every nation seem attractive to them. Then Those who were already settled in the abode,
they will return to their Lord, and He will inform and in faith, before they came, love those who
them about what they did. (6:108) have migrated to them and do not find in their
Is someone who was dead and whom We brought hearts any need for what they have been given
to life, supplying him with a light by which to walk and prefer them to themselves even if they them-
among people, the same as someone who is in selves are needy. It is the people who are safe-
utter darkness, unable to emerge from it? That is guarded from the avarice of their own selves who
how what they were doing is made to seem attrac- are successful. (59:9)
tive to the disbelievers. (6:122) So have fear of Allah, as much as you are able to,
Restrain yourself patiently with those who call on and listen and obey and spend for your own ben-
their Lord morning and evening, desiring His face. efit. It is the people who are safe-guarded from
Do not turn your eyes from them, desiring the at- the avarice of their own selves who are success-
tractions of this world. And do not obey someone ful. (64:16)
whose heart We have made neglectful of Our re-
membrance and who follows his own whims and AWE
desires and whose life has transgressed all bounds.
We responded to him (Zakariyya) and gave him
(18:28)
Yahya, restoring for him his wife’s fertility. They
Pharaoh said, ‘Haman, build me a tower so that
outdid one another in good actions, calling out
perhaps I may gain means of access, access to the
to Us in yearning and in awe, and humbling
heavens, so that I can look on Musa’s God. Truly I
themselves to Us. (21:90)
think he is a liar.’That is how Pharaoh’s evil actions
All who obey Allah and His Messenger and have
were made attractive to him and he debarred oth-
awe of Allah and fear of Him, they are the ones
ers from the Path. Pharaoh’s scheming led to noth-
who are victorious. (24:52)
ing but ruin. (40:36-37)
AYYUB (AS) (JOB)
AUTHORITY We have revealed to you as We revealed to Nuh
The People of the Book will ask you to bring down and the Prophets who came after him. And We
a Book from heaven to them. They asked Musa for revealed to Ibrahim and Isma‘il and Ishaq and
even more than that. They said, ‘Let us see Allah Ya‘qub and the Tribes, and ‘Isa and Ayyub and
with our own eyes.’ So the lightning-bolt struck Yunus and Harun and Sulayman. And We gave
them down for their wrongdoing. Then they Dawud the Zabur. (4:163)
adopted the Calf after the Clear Signs had come to We gave him Ishaq and Ya‘qub, each of whom
them, but We pardoned them for that and gave We guided. And before him We had guided Nuh.
Musa clear authority. (4:153) And among his descendants were Dawud and
Say: ‘My Lord has forbidden indecency, both open Sulayman, and Ayyub, Yusuf, Musa and Harun.
and hidden, and wrong action, and unrightful That is how We recompense the good-doers.
tyranny, and associating anything with Allah for (6:84)
which He has sent down no authority, and saying And Ayyub when he called out to his Lord,
things about Allah you do not know.’ (7:33) ‘Great harm has afflicted me and You are the
Or have We sent down some authority to them, Most Merciful of the merciful.’ (21:83)
which advocates associating others with Him? Remember Our servant Ayyub when he called
(30:35) on his Lord: ‘Satan has afflicted me with exhaus-
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