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who believe and do right actions, and how few were wrongdoers. (2:51)
they are!’ Dawud realised that We had put him to But those who did wrong substituted words other
the test. He begged forgiveness from his Lord and than those they had been given. So We sent
fell down prone, prostrating, and repented. down a plague from heaven on those who did
(38:24) wrong because they were deviators. (2:59)
Whoever acts rightly, it is to his own good. Then you are the people who are killing one an-
Whoever does evil, it is to his detriment. Your other and expelling a group among you from
Lord does not wrong His servants. (41:46) their homes, ganging up against them in wrong-
(Believers are) those who, when they are doing and enmity. Yet if they are brought to you
wronged, defend themselves. (42:39) as captives, you ransom them, when it was for-
But if people do defend themselves when they bidden for you to expel them in the first place!
are wronged, nothing can be held against them Do you, then, believe in one part of the Book and
for doing that. (42:41) reject the other? What repayment will there be
There are only grounds against those who wrong for any of you who do that except disgrace in this
people and act as tyrants in the earth without any world? And on the Day of Rising, they will be re-
right to do so. Such people will have a painful turned to the harshest of punishments. Allah is
punishment. (42:42) not unaware of what you do. (2:85)
We have not wronged them; it was they who Musa brought you the Clear Signs; then, after he
were wrongdoers. (43:76) left, you adopted the Calf and were wrongdoers.
Allah created the heavens and earth with truth so (2:92)
that every self might be repaid for what it earned But they will never ever long for it because of
and they will not be wronged. (45:22) what they have done. Allah knows the wrongdo-
Everyone will be ranked according to what they ers. (2:95)
did. We will pay them in full for their actions and Who could do greater wrong than someone who
they will not be wronged. (46:19) bars access to the mosques of Allah, preventing
(He will say,) ‘My Word, once given, is not sub- His name from being remembered in them, and
ject to change and I do not wrong My servants.’ goes about destroying them? Such people will
(50:29) never be able to enter them–except in fear. They
O Prophet! When any of you divorce women, di- will have disgrace in this world and in the here-
vorce them during their period of purity and cal- after they will have a terrible punishment. (2:114)
culate their waiting period carefully. And have Remember when Ibrahim was tested by his Lord
fear of Allah, your Lord. Do not evict them from with certain words which he carried out com-
their homes, nor should they leave, unless they pletely. He said, ‘I will make you a model for
commit an outright indecency. Those are Allah’s mankind.’ He asked, ‘And what of my descen-
limits, and anyone who oversteps Allah’s limits dants?’ He said, ‘My contract does not include
has wronged himself. You never know, it may the wrongdoers.’ (2:124)
well be that after that Allah will cause a new sit- Or do they say that Ibrahim and Isma‘il and Ishaq
uation to develop. (65:1) and Ya‘qub and the Tribes were Jews or
Christians? Say, ‘Do you know better or does
WRONG - WRONGDOING - Allah?’ Who could do greater wrong than some-
WRONGDOER one who hides the evidence he has been given
We said, ‘Adam, live in the Garden, you and by Allah? Allah is not unaware of what you do.
your wife, and eat freely from it wherever you (2:140)
will. But do not approach this tree and so be- If you were to bring every Sign to those given the
come wrongdoers.’ (2:35) Book, they still would not follow your direction.
And when We allotted to Musa forty nights. Then You do not follow their direction. They do not
you adopted the Calf when he had gone and you follow each other’s direction. If you followed
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