Page 775 - An Index to the Qur'an

Say: ‘If your fathers or your sons or your brothers Allah has bought from the believers their selves
or your wives or your tribe, or any wealth you and their wealth in return for the Garden. They
have acquired, or any business you fear may fight in the Way of Allah and they kill and are
slump, or any house which pleases you, are killed. It is a promise binding on Him in the
dearer to you than Allah and His Messenger and Torah, the Gospel and the Qur’an and who is
striving in His Way, then wait until Allah brings truer to his contract than Allah? Rejoice then in
about His command. Allah does not guide peo- the bargain you have made. That is the great vic-
ple who are deviators.’ (9:24) tory. (9:111)
Go out to fight, light-armed and heavy-armed, Musa said, ‘Our Lord, You have given Pharaoh
and strive with your wealth and yourselves in the and his ruling circle finery and wealth in the life
Way of Allah. That is better for you if you only of this world, Our Lord, so that they may be mis-
knew. (9:41) guided from Your Way. Our Lord, obliterate their
Those who believe in Allah and the Last Day do wealth and harden their hearts so that they do
not ask you to excuse them from striving with not believe until they see the painful punish-
their wealth and themselves. Allah knows the ment.’ (10:88)
people who guard against evil. (9:44) (Nuh said,) ‘My people! I do not ask you for any
Do not let their wealth and children impress you. wealth for it. My wage is the responsibility of
Allah merely wants to punish them by them dur- Allah alone. I will not chase away those who be-
ing their life in this world and for them to expire lieve. They are surely going to meet their Lord.
while they are disbelievers. (9:55) However, I see you as ignorant people.’ (11:29)
Like those before you who had greater strength They said, ‘Shu‘ayb, do your prayers instruct you
than you and more wealth and children. They that we should abandon what our fathers wor-
enjoyed their portion; so enjoy your portion as shipped or stop doing whatever we want to with
those before you enjoyed theirs. You have our wealth? You are clearly the forbearing, the
plunged into defamation as they plunged into it. rightly-guided!’ (11:87)
The actions of such people come to nothing in Then once again We gave you the upper hand
this world or the hereafter. They are the lost. over them and supplied you with more wealth
(9:69) and children and made you the most numerous
Those who were left behind were glad to stay be- group. (17:6)
hind the Messenger of Allah. They did not want (Allah said to Satan,) ‘Stir up any of them you can
to strive with their wealth and themselves in the with your voice and rally against them your cav-
Way of Allah. They said, ‘Do not go out to fight alry and your infantry and share with them in
in the heat.’ Say: ‘The Fire of Hell is much hotter, their children and their wealth and make them
if they only understood.’ (9:81) promises!’ The promise of Satan is nothing but
Do not let their wealth and their children impress delusion. (17:64)
you. Allah merely wants to punish them by them He was a man of wealth and property and he
in this world, and for them to expire while they said to his companion, debating with him, ‘I
are disbelievers. (9:85) have more wealth than you and more people
But the Messenger and those who believe along under me.’ (18:34)
with him have strived with their wealth and with (His companion said to the garden owner,) ‘Why,
themselves. They are the people who will have when you entered your garden, did you not say, "It
the good things. They are the ones who are suc- is as Allah wills, there is no strength but in Allah"?
cessful. (9:88) Though you see me with less wealth and children
Take charity from their wealth to purify and than you possess, it may well be that my Lord will
cleanse them and pray for them. Your prayers give me something better than your garden and
bring relief to them. Allah is All-Hearing, All- send down on it a fireball from the sky so that
Knowing. (9:103) morning finds it a shifting heap of dust.’(18:39-40)
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