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you are believers. I
am not set over you as
your keeper."
They said, "Jethro, do your prayers
instruct you that we should abandon what our fathers worshipped or
stop doing whatever we want to with our wealth? Yet you are such a
lenient, normal person!"
He said, "My people! What do you think? If I do possess a Clear Sign
from my Lord and He has given me His good provision, I do not want
to oppose you in what way I am forbidding you. I only want to put
things right as far as I can. My success is with God alone. I have put
my trust in Him and I turn to Him." (Qur'an, 11:84-88)
When we examine what he says, we see that the Prophet Jethro
(pbuh) invited the people to believe in God and to adopt high moral