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Give your relatives their due, and the very poor uries of Allah, nor do I know the Unseen, nor do
and travellers but do not squander what you I say to you that I am an angel. I only follow what
have. (17:26) has been revealed to me.’ Say: ‘Are the blind the
Give relatives their due, and the poor and trav- same as those who can see? So will you not re-
ellers. That is best for those who seek the pleas- flect?’ (6:50)
ure of Allah. They are the ones who are Perhaps you are leaving aside part of what has
successful. (30:38) been revealed to you and your breast is con-
Have you thought about the fire that you light? Is stricted by this because they say, ‘Why has treas-
it you who make the trees that fuel it grow or are ure not been sent down to him or an angel not
We the Grower? We have made it to be a re- accompanied him?’ You are only a warner and
minder and a comfort for travellers in the wild. Allah is Guardian over all things. (11:12)
(56:71-73) (Nuh said to his people,) ‘I do not say to you that
Whatever booty Allah gives to His Messenger I possess the treasuries of Allah; nor do I know
from city dwellers belongs to Allah and to the the Unseen; nor do I say that I am an angel; nor
Messenger and to near relatives and orphans and do I say to those who are vile in your eyes that
the very poor and travellers, so that it does not Allah will not give them any good. Allah knows
become something which merely revolves be- best what is in their hearts. If I did, I would cer-
tween the rich among you. Whatever the tainly be one of the wrongdoers.’ (11:31)
Messenger gives you you should accept and (He said to Musa,) ‘As for the wall, it belonged to
whatever he forbids you you should forgo. Have two young orphans in the town and there was a
fear of Allah–Allah is severe in retribution. (59:7) treasure underneath it, belonging to them. Their
father was one of the righteous and your Lord
TREACHERY wanted them to come of age and then to unearth
We have sent down the Book to you with the their treasure as a mercy from Him. I did not do it
truth so that you can judge between people ac- of my own volition. That is the explanation of the
cording to what Allah has shown to you. But do things about which you were not able to restrain
not be an advocate for the treacherous. (4:105) yourself.’ (18:82)
But because of their breaking of their covenant, (Disbelievers say,) ‘Why has treasure not been
We have cursed them and made their hearts showered down on him? Why does he not have a
hard. They distort the true meaning of words and garden to give him food?’ The wrongdoers say,
have forgotten a good portion of what they were ‘You are merely following a man who is be-
reminded of. You will never cease to come upon witched.’ (25:8)
some act of treachery on their part, except for a We expelled them (Pharaoh and his troops) from
few of them. Yet pardon them, and overlook. gardens and springs, from treasures and a splen-
Allah loves good-doers. (5:13) did situation. (26:57-58)
If you fear treachery on the part of a people, re- Qarun was one of the people of Musa but he
voke your treaty with them mutually. Allah does lorded it over them. We gave him treasures, the
not love treacherous people. (8:58) keys alone to which were a heavy weight for a
When the waves hang over them like canopies, party of strong men. When his people said to
they call on Allah, making their religion sincerely him, ‘Do not gloat. Allah does not love people
His. But then when He delivers them safely to the who gloat. Seek the abode of the hereafter with
land, some of them are ambivalent. None but a what Allah has given you, without forgetting
treacherous, thankless man denies Our Signs. your portion of this world. And do good as Allah
(31:32) has been good to you. And do not seek to cause
corruption in the earth. Allah does not love cor-
TREASURE - TREASURY rupters’, he said, ‘I have only been given it be-
Say: ‘I do not say to you that I possess the treas- cause of knowledge I have.’ Did he not know
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