The Quran

“During the month of Ramadhan the Qur’ān was sent down as guidance to the people with clear signs of the true guidance, and as the Criterion (between right and wrong). So those of you who live to see that month should fast it, and whoever is sick or on a journey should fast the same number of other days instead. Allah wants ease and not hardship for you so that you may complete the number of days required, magnify Allah for what He has guided you to, and give thanks to Him.”

“Believers! Fasting is enjoined upon you, as it was enjoined upon those before you, that you become God-fearing.”

“Ask them: ‘Whose is the earth and who are those who are in it? Tell us if you know.’ They will surely say: ‘Allah’s.’ Say: ‘Then why do you not take heed?’ Ask them: ‘Who is the Lord of the seven heavens, the Lord of the Great Throne?’ They will surely say: ‘Allah.’ Say: ‘Will you not, then, fear (Allah).’ Ask them: ‘Say, if you indeed know, then to whom belongs the dominion over all things; He Who grants asylum, but against Whom no asylum is available?’ They will surely say: (To Allah) ‘Whence are you then deluded?’”

“It is He Who has endowed with the faculties of hearing and sight and Who has given you hearts (to think). Scarcely do you give thanks. It is He Who has dispersed you all around the earth, and it is unto Him that you shall all be mustered. It is He Who gives life and causes death, and He holds mastery over the alternation of night and day. Do you not understand this?”

“Are you asking them for something? What Allah has given you is the best. He is the best of Providers. You are calling them to Straight Way, but those who do not believe in the Hereafter are ever prone to deviate from the Right Way.”

“Were the truth to follow their desires, the order of the heavens and the earth and those who dwell in them would have fallen into ruin. Nay, the fact is that We have brought something that is conducive to their honour, and they are turning away from that which will bring them honour.”

“Or is it that they were unaware of their Messenger and were therefore repelled by him for he was a stranger to them? Or do they say that there is madness in him? Nay, he has brought them the truth and it is the truth that most of them disdain.”

“Did they never ponder over this Word (of God)? Or has he (the Messenger) brought something the like of which did not come to their forefathers of yore?”

(Al-Qur’ān – 23:68)

“Nay, their hearts are ignorant of all this; and their deeds too vary from the way. They will persist in these deeds until We seize with Our chastisement those of them who are given to luxuriant ways. They will then begin to groan.”

(Al-Qur’ān – 23:63-64)

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