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nothing wrong for you or them at other times in Self-Sustaining. He is not subject to drowsiness
moving around among yourselves from one to or sleep. Everything in the heavens and the earth
another. In this way Allah makes the Signs clear belongs to Him. Who can intercede with Him
to you. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (24:58) except by His permission? He knows what is be-
(Musa said to Pharaoh,) ‘And anyway you can fore them and what is behind them but they can-
only reproach me with this favour because you not grasp any of His knowledge save what He
made the tribe of Israel into slaves!’ (26:22) wills. His Footstool encompasses the heavens
O Prophet! We have made lawful for you: your and the earth and their preservation does not tire
wives to whom you have given dowries and any Him. He is the Most High, the Magnificent.
slavegirls you own from the booty Allah has al- (2:255)
lotted you and the daughters of your paternal un- So We sealed their ears with sleep in the cave for
cles and the daughters of your paternal aunts and a number of years. (18:11)
the daughters of your maternal uncles and the You would have supposed them to be awake
daughters of your maternal aunts who have mi- whereas in fact they were asleep. We moved
grated with you and any believing woman who them to the right and to the left, and, at the en-
gives herself to the Prophet if the Prophet desires trance, their dog stretched out its paws. If you
to marry her: exclusively for you as opposed to had looked down and seen them, you would
the rest of the believers–We know very well what have turned from them and run and have been
We have prescribed for them regarding their filled with terror at the sight of them. (18:18)
wives and any slavegirls they possess–in order It is He Who made the night a cloak for you and
that there be no restriction on you. Allah is Ever- sleep a rest, and He made the day a time for ris-
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (33:50) ing. (25:47)
After that no other women are lawful for you nor Allah takes back people’s selves when their
may you exchange them for other wives, even death arrives and those who have not yet died,
though their beauty might be pleasing to you, while they are asleep. He keeps hold of those
with the exception of any you own as slaves. whose death has been decreed and sends the
Allah is watchful over all things. (33:52) others back for a specified term. There are cer-
They incur no blame in respect of their fathers or tainly Signs in that for people who reflect. (39:42)
their sons or their brothers or their brothers’ or We made your sleep a break. (78:9)
sisters’ sons, or their women or any slaves they
own. Have fear of Allah. Allah is witness of all SLIPPING OF THE FOOT
things. (33:55) But Satan made them slip up by means of it, ex-
Those who divorce their wives by equating them pelling them from where they were. We said, ‘Go
with their mothers, and then wish to go back on down from here as enemies to each other! You
what they said, must set free a slave before the will have residence on the earth and enjoyment
two of them may touch one another. This is what for a time.’ (2:36)
you are enjoined to do. Allah is aware of what Those of you who turned their backs on the day
you do. (58:3) the two armies clashed–it was Satan who made
(Believers are) those who guard their private them slip for what they had done. But Allah has
parts except from their wives and any slaves they pardoned them. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, All-
own, in which case they incur no blame. (70:29- Forbearing. (3:155)
30) Do not make your oaths a means of deceiving
What will convey to you what the steep ascent one another or your foot will slip after it was
is? It is freeing a slave... (90:12-13) firmly placed and you will taste evil for barring
access to the Way of Allah and you will have a
SLEEP terrible punishment. (16:94)
Allah, there is no god but Him, the Living, the
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