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As for those who believe and do right actions, You who believe! Do not profane the sacred rites
We will pay them their wages in full. Allah does of Allah or the sacred months, or the sacrificial
not love wrongdoers. (3:57) animals, or the ritual garlands, or those heading
How can Allah guide a people who have disbe- for the Sacred House, desiring profit and good
lieved after having believed? They bore witness pleasure from their Lord. When your pilgrimage
that the Messenger was true and that the Clear is over, then you may hunt. Do not let hatred for
Signs had come to them. Allah does not guide a people who debar you from the Sacred Mosque
people who are wrongdoers. (3:86) (Masjid al-Haram) incite you into going beyond
So any who, after this, invent a lie against Allah the limits. Help each other to goodness and
are indeed wrongdoers. (3:94) heedfulness. Do not help each other to wrongdo-
You have no part in the affair. Either He will turn ing and enmity. Have fear of Allah. Allah is se-
towards them or He will punish them, for they vere in retribution. (5:2)
are wrongdoers. (3:128) Forbidden for you are carrion, blood and pork,
If you have received a wound, they have already and what has been consecrated to other than
received a similar wound. We deal out such days Allah, and animals which have been strangled,
to people turn by turn, so that Allah will know and animals which have been killed by a blow,
those who believe and can gather martyrs from and animals which have fallen to their death,
among you–Allah does not love wrongdoers. and animals which have been gored, and ani-
(3:140) mals which wild beasts have eaten–except those
We will cast terror into the hearts of those who you are able to slaughter properly–and animals
disbelieve because they have associated others which have been sacrificed on altars, and decid-
with Allah for which He has not sent down any ing things by means of divining arrows–that is
authority. Their shelter will be the Fire. How evil deviance. Today those who disbelieve have de-
is the abode of the wrongdoers! (3:151) spaired of overcoming your religion. So do not
(People with intelligence remember Allah:) ‘Our be afraid of them but be afraid of Me. Today I
Lord, those You cast into the Fire, You have in- have perfected your religion for you and com-
deed disgraced. The wrongdoers will have no pleted My blessing upon you and I am pleased
helpers.’ (3:192) with Islam as a religion for you. But if anyone is
As for anyone who does that out of enmity and forced by hunger, not intending any wrongdoing,
wrongdoing, We will roast him in a Fire. That is Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (5:3)
an easy matter for Allah. (4:30) (One of Adam’s two sons said to the other,) ‘I
If you avoid the serious wrong actions you have want you to take on both my wrongdoing and
been forbidden, We will erase your bad actions your wrongdoing and so become one of the
from you and admit you by a Gate of Honour. Companions of the Fire. That is the repayment of
(4:31) the wrongdoers.’ (5:29)
What reason could you have for not fighting in We prescribed for them in it: a life for a life, an
the Way of Allah–for those men, women and eye for an eye, a nose for a nose, an ear for an
children who are oppressed and say, ‘Our Lord, ear, a tooth for a tooth, and retaliation for
take us out of this city whose inhabitants are wounds. But if anyone forgoes that as a charity, it
wrongdoers! Give us a protector from You! Give will act as expiation for him. Those who do not
us a helper from You!’? (4:75) judge by what Allah has sent down, such people
Anyone who commits an error or an evil action, are wrongdoers. (5:45)
and then ascribes it to someone innocent, bears Judge between them by what Allah has sent
the weight of slander and clear wrongdoing. down and do not follow their whims and desires.
(4:112) And beware of them lest they lure you away from
Allah will not forgive those who disbelieve and some of what Allah has sent down to you. If they
do wrong or guide them on any path. (4:168) turn their backs, then know that Allah wants to
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