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HUD (AS) AND 'AD
And to 'Ad We sent their brother Hud, who said, 'My people, worship Allah!
You have no other god than Him. So will you not guard against evil?' (7:65)
The ruling circle of those of his people who disbelieved said, 'We consider
you a fool and think you are a liar.' (7:66)
He said, 'My people, I am by no means a fool, but rather am a Messenger
from the Lord of all the worlds, transmitting my Lord's Message to you,
and I am a faithful counsellor to you. Or are you astonished that a reminder
should come to you from your Lord by way of a man among you in order to
warn you? Remember when He appointed you successors to the people of Nuh,
and increased you greatly in stature. Remember Allah's blessings, so that
hopefully you will be successful.' (7:67-69)
They said, 'Have you come to us to make us worship Allah alone and abandon
what our fathers used to worship? Then bring us what you have promised
us if you are telling the truth.' (7:70)
He said, 'Punishment and anger have come down on you from your Lord.
Do you argue with me regarding names which you and your forefathers invented
and for which Allah has sent down no authority? Wait, then; I am waiting
with you.' (7:71)
So We rescued him and those with him by mercy from Us, and We cut off
the last remnant of those who denied Our Signs and were not believers.
(7:72)
And to 'Ad We sent their brother Hud. He said, 'My people! Worship Allah.
You have no god apart from Him. You are merely fabricators. My people!
I do not ask you for any wage for it. My wage is the responsibility of
Him Who brought me into being. So will you not use your intellect? My
people! Ask forgiveness of your Lord and then repent to Him. He will send
heaven down to you in abundant rain, and increase you with strength upon
strength. Do not turn away as evildoers.' (11:50-52)
They said, 'Hud, you have not brought us any clear sign. We will not
forsake our gods for what you say. We do not believe you. We only say
that one of our gods has driven you mad.' He said, 'I call on Allah to
be my witness, and you also bear witness, that I am free of all the gods
you have apart from Him. So scheme against me, all of you together, and
then grant me no respite. I have put my trust in Allah, my Lord and your
Lord. There is no creature He does not hold by the forelock. My Lord is
on a Straight Path. If you turn your backs, I have transmitted to you
what I was sent to you with, and my Lord will replace you with another
people, and you will not harm Him at all. My Lord is the Preserver of
everything.' (11:53-57)
When Our command came, We rescued Hud and those who believed along with
him by a mercy from Us. We rescued them from a harsh punishment. (11:58)
That was 'Ad. They denied the Signs of their Lord and disobeyed His Messengers
and followed the command of every obdurate tyrant. (11:59)
They were pursued by a curse in this world and on the Day of Rising.
Yes indeed! 'Ad rejected their Lord, so away with 'Ad, the people of Hud!
(11:60)
(Shu'ayb said,) 'My people! Do not let your breach with me provoke you
into doing wrong so that the same thing happens to you as happened to
the people of Nuh and the people of Hud and the people of Salih; and the
people of Lut are not far distant from you.' (11:89)
The same goes for 'Ad and Thamud and the Companions of the Rass and many
generations in between. (25:38)
'Ad denied the Messengers when their brother Hud said to them, 'Will
you not guard against evil? I am a faithful Messenger to you so have fear
of Allah and obey me. I do not ask you for any wage for it. My wage is
the responsibility of no one but the Lord of all the worlds. Do you build
a tower on every hilltop, just to amuse yourselves, and construct great
fortresses, hoping to live for ever, and when you attack, attack as tyrants
do? So have fear of Allah and obey me. Have fear of Him Who has supplied
you with what you know, supplied you with livestock and children and gardens
and clear springs. I fear for you the punishment of a terrible Day.' They
said, 'It makes no difference to us whether you preach or do not preach.
This is only what the previous peoples did. We are not going to be punished.'
So they denied him and We destroyed them. There is certainly a Sign in
that, yet most of them are not believers. Truly your Lord is the Almighty,
the Most Merciful. (26:123-140)
And 'Ad and Thamud-it must be clear to you from their dwelling places!
Satan made their actions seem good to them and so debarred them from the
Way, even though they were intelligent people. (29:38)
If they turn away, then say, 'I warn you of a lightning-bolt like the
lightning-bolt of 'Ad and of Thamud.' (41:13)
'Ad were arrogant in the land, without any right, saying, 'Who has greater
strength than us?' Did they not see that Allah, Who created them, had
greater strength than them? But they renounced Our Signs. (41:15)
Remember the brother of 'Ad when he warned his people by the sand-dunes-and
warners passed away before and after him-'Worship no one but Allah. I
fear for you the punishment of a terrible Day.' They said, 'Have you come
to us to divert us from our gods? Bring us what you have promised us if
you are telling the truth.' He said, 'All knowledge is with Allah. I only
transmit to you what I have been sent with. But I see that you are a people
who are ignorant.' When they saw it as a storm cloud advancing on their
valleys they said, 'This is a storm cloud which will give us rain.' No,
rather it is what you desired to hasten-a wind containing painful punishment,
destroying everything at its Lord's command! When morning came you could
see nothing but their dwellings. That is how We repay the people of the
evildoers. We established them far more firmly than We have established
you and gave them hearing, sight and hearts. But their hearing, sight
and hearts were of no use to them at all when they renounced Allah's Signs
and what they mocked at engulfed them. (46:21-26)
And also in 'Ad when We unleashed against them the barren wind, which
left nothing it touched without turning it to dust. (51:41-42)
(Or has he not been informed) that He destroyed 'Ad, the earlier people?
(53:50)
'Ad denied the truth. How terrible were My punishment and warnings! (54:18)
We unleashed a howling wind against them on a day of unremitting horror.
It plucked up men like uprooted stumps. (54:19-20)
Thamud and 'Ad denied the Crushing Blow. (69:4)
'Ad were destroyed by a savage howling wind. (69:6)
Allah subjected them to it for seven whole nights and eight whole days
without a break. You could see the people flattened in their homes just
like the hollow stumps of uprooted palms. (69:7)
Do you not see what your Lord did with 'Ad? (89:6)
HUDAYBIYYAH (SEE PEACE OF HUDAYBIYYAH)
HUMBLE
Seek help in steadfastness and prayer. But that is a very hard thing,
except for the humble. (2:45)
Among the people of the Book there are some who believe in Allah and
in what has been sent down to you and what was sent down to them, and
who are humble before Allah. They do not sell Allah's Signs for a paltry
price. Such people will have their reward with their Lord. And Allah is
swift at reckoning. (3:199)
You who believe! If any of you renounce your religion, Allah will bring
forward a people whom He loves and who love Him, humble to the believers,
fierce to the disbelievers, who strive in the Way of Allah and do not
fear the blame of any censurer. That is the unbounded favour of Allah
which He gives to whoever He wills. Allah is Boundless, All-Knowing. (5:54)
We sent Messengers to nations before you, and afflicted those nations
with hardship and distress so that hopefully they would humble themselves.
(6:42)
If only they had humbled themselves when Our violent force came upon
them! However, their hearts were hard and Satan made what they were doing
seem attractive to them. (6:43)
Say: 'Who rescues you from the darkness of the land and sea? You call
on Him humbly and secretly: "If you rescue us from this, we will truly
be among the thankful."' (6:63)
Call on your Lord humbly and secretly. He does not love those who overstep
the limits. (7:55)
We have never sent a Prophet to any city without seizing its people with
hardship and distress so that hopefully they would be humble. (7:94)
They were defeated then and there, transformed into humbled men. (7:119)
Remember your Lord in yourself humbly and fearfully, without loudness
of voice, morning and evening. Do not be one of the unaware. (7:205)
As for those who believe and do right actions and humble themselves before
their Lord, they are the Companions of the Garden remaining in it timelessly,
for ever. (11:23)
On that day they will follow the Summoner who has no crookedness in him
at all. Voices will be humbled before the All-Merciful and nothing but
a whisper will be heard. (20:108)
Faces will be humbled to the Living, the All-Sustaining and anyone weighed
down with wrongdoing will have failed. (20:111)
If We had destroyed them with a punishment before this, they would have
said, 'Our Lord, why did You not send us a Messenger, so we could follow
Your Signs before we were humbled and disgraced?' (20:134)
We responded to him and gave him Yahya, restoring for him his wife's
fertility. They outdid one another in good actions, calling out to Us
in yearning and in awe, and humbling themselves to Us. (21:90)
We have appointed a rite of sacrifice for every nation so that they may
invoke Allah's name over the livestock He has given them. Your God is
One God so submit to Him. Give good news to the humble-hearted, whose
hearts quake at the mention of Allah, and who are steadfast in the face
of all that happens to them, those who perform prayer and give of what
We have provided for them. (22:34-35)
And (it is) so that those who have been given knowledge will know it
is the truth from their Lord and believe in it and their hearts will be
humbled to Him. Allah guides those who believe to a straight path. (22:54)
It is the believers who are successful: those who are humble in their
prayer. (23:1-2)
We seized them with the punishment, but they did not go low before their
Lord; nor will they humble themselves until We open to them a gate to
a harsh punishment in which they will at once be crushed by despair. (23:76-77)
Men and women who are Muslims, men and women who are believers, men and
women who are obedient, men and women who are truthful, men and women
who are steadfast, men and women who are humble, men and women who give
charity, men and women who fast, men and women who guard their chastity,
men and women who remember Allah much: Allah has prepared forgiveness
for them and an immense reward. (33:35)
If We Had sent down this Qur'an onto a mountain, you would have seen
it humbled, crushed to pieces out of fear of Allah. We make such examples
for people so that hopefully they will reflect. (59:21)
HUMILITY
Seek help in steadfastness and prayer. But that is a very hard thing,
except for the humble. (2:45)
Among the people of the Book there are some who believe in Allah and
in what has been sent down to you and what was sent down to them, and
who are humble before Allah. They do not sell Allah's Signs for a paltry
price. Such people will have their reward with their Lord. And Allah is
swift at reckoning. (3:199)
You who believe! If any of you renounce your religion, Allah will bring
forward a people whom He loves and who love Him, humble to the believers,
fierce to the disbelievers, who strive in the Way of Allah and do not
fear the blame of any censurer. That is the unbounded favour of Allah
which He gives to whoever He wills. Allah is Boundless, All-Knowing. (5:54)
Take them (your parents) under your wing, out of mercy, with due humility
and say: 'Lord, show mercy to them as they did in looking after me when
I was small.' (17:24)
Say: 'Believe in it (the Qur'an) or do not believe in it.' Certainly,
when it is recited to them, those who were given knowledge before it fall
on their faces in prostration, saying, 'Glory be to our Lord! The promise
of our Lord is truly fulfilled!' Weeping, they fall to the ground in prostration,
and it increases them in humility. (17:107-109)
We have appointed a rite of sacrifice for every nation so that they may
invoke Allah's name over the livestock He has given them. Your God is
One God so submit to Him. Give good news to the humble-hearted. (22:34)
And (it is) so that those who have been given knowledge will know it
is the truth from their Lord and believe in it and their hearts will be
humbled to Him. Allah guides those who believe to a straight path. (22:54)
The servants of the All-Merciful are those who walk on the earth in humility
and, who, when the ignorant speak to them, say, 'Peace'. (25:63)
Men and women who are Muslims, men and women who are believers, men and
women who are obedient, men and women who are truthful, men and women
who are steadfast, men and women who are humble, men and women who give
charity, men and women who fast, men and women who guard their chastity,
men and women who remember Allah much: Allah has prepared forgiveness
for them and an immense reward. (33:35)
HUNGER
We will test you with a certain amount of fear and hunger and loss of
wealth and life and fruits. But give good news to the steadfast. (2:155)
Forbidden for you are carrion, blood and pork, and what has been consecrated
to other than Allah, and animals which have been strangled, and animals
which have been killed by a blow, and animals which have fallen to their
death, and animals which have been gored, and animals which wild beasts
have eaten-except those you are able to slaughter properly-and animals
which have been sacrificed on altars, and deciding things by means of
divining arrows-that is deviance. Today those who disbelieve have despaired
of overcoming your religion. So do not be afraid of them but be afraid
of Me. Today I have perfected your religion for you and completed My blessing
upon you and I am pleased with Islam as a religion for you. But if anyone
is forced by hunger, not intending any wrongdoing, Allah is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (5:3)
It was not for people of Madina, and the desert arabs around them, to
remain behind the Messenger of Allah nor to prefer themselves to him.
That is because no thirst or weariness or hunger will afflict them in
the Way of Allah, nor will they take a single step to infuriate the disbelievers,
nor secure any gain from the enemy, without a right action being written
down for them because of it. Allah does not let the wage of the good-doers
go to waste. (9:120)
Allah makes an example of a city which was safe and at peace, its provision
coming to it plentifully from every side. Then it showed ingratitude for
Allah's blessings so Allah made it wear the robes of hunger and fear for
what it did. (16:112)
What will convey to you what the steep ascent is? It is freeing a slave
or feeding on a day of hunger an orphaned relative or a poor man in the
dust. (90:12-16)
So let them worship the Lord of this House Who has preserved them from
hunger and secured them from fear. (106: 3-4)
HUNTING
You who believe! Fulfil your contracts. All livestock animals are lawful
for you, except those that are recited to you now; but it is still not
lawful to hunt while you are in the state of pilgrimage. Allah makes whatever
judgements He wills. (5:1)
You who believe! Do not profane the sacred rites of Allah or the sacred
months, or the sacrificial animals, or the ritual garlands, or those heading
for the Sacred House, desiring profit and good pleasure from their Lord.
When your pilgrimage is over, then you may hunt. Do not let hatred for
a people who debar you from the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) incite
you into going beyond the limits. Help each other to goodness and heedfulness.
Do not help each other to wrongdoing and enmity. Have fear of Allah. Allah
is severe in retribution. (5:2)
They will ask you what is lawful for them. Say: 'All good things are
lawful for you, and also what is caught for you by hunting animals which
you have trained as Allah has taught you. Eat what they catch for you,
mentioning Allah's name over it.' And have fear of Allah. Allah is swift
at reckoning. (5:4)
You who believe! Allah will test you with game animals which come within
the reach of your hands and spears, so that Allah will know those who
fear Him in the Unseen. Anyone who oversteps the limits after this will
have a painful punishment. You who believe! Do not kill game while you
are in the state of pilgrimage. If one of you kills any deliberately,
the reprisal for it is a livestock animal equivalent to what he killed,
as judged by two just men among you, a sacrifice to reach the Kaaba, or
expiation by feeding the poor, or fasting commensurate with that, so that
he may taste the evil consequences of what he did. Allah has pardoned
all that took place in the past; but if anyone does it again Allah will
take revenge on him. Allah is Almighty, Exactor of Revenge. Anything you
catch in the sea is lawful for you, and all food from it, for your enjoyment
and that of travellers, but land game is forbidden for you while you are
in the state of pilgrimage. So have fear of Allah, Him to whom you will
be gathered. (5:94-96)
HUSBAND
Divorced women should wait by themselves for three menstrual cycles;
and it is not lawful for them to conceal what Allah has created in their
wombs if they believe in Allah and the Last Day. Their husbands have the
right to take them back within that time, if they desire to be reconciled.
Women possess rights similar to those held over them to be honoured with
fairness; but men have a degree above them. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise.
(2:228)
But if a man divorces his wife a third time, she is not lawful for him
after that until she has married another husband. Then if he divorces
her, there is nothing wrong in the original couple getting back together
provided they think they will remain within Allah's limits. These are
Allah's limits which he has made clear to people who know. (2:230)
When you divorce women and they are near the end of their waiting period,
do not prevent them from marrying their first husbands if they have mutually
agreed to it with correctness and courtesy. This is an admonition for
those of you who believe in Allah and the Last Day. That is better and
purer for you. Allah knows and you do not know. (2:232)
If you fear a breach between a couple, send an arbiter from his people
and an arbiter from her people. If the couple desire to put things right,
Allah will bring about a reconciliation between them. Allah is All-Knowing,
All-Aware. (4:35)
If a woman fears cruelty or aversion on her husband's part, there is
nothing wrong in the couple becoming reconciled. Reconciliation is better.
But people are prone to selfish greed. If you do good and guard against
evil, Allah is aware of what you do. (4:128)
She (Ibrahim's wife) said, 'Woe is me! How can I give birth when I am
an old woman and my husband here is an aged man? This is indeed an astonishing
thing!' (11:72)
Say to the believing women that they should lower their eyes and guard
their chastity and not display their adornments-except for what normally
shows-and draw their head-coverings across their breasts. They should
only display their adornments to their husbands or their fathers or their
husbands' fathers, or their sons or their husbands' sons or their brothers
or their brothers' sons or their sisters' sons or their women or those
they own as slaves or their male attendants who have no sexual desire
or children who still have no awareness of women's private parts. Nor
should they stamp their feet so that their hidden ornaments are known.
Turn to Allah every one of you, believers, so that hopefully you will
have success. (24:31)
Allah has heard the words of the woman who disputes with you about her
husband and lays her complaint before Allah. Allah hears the two of you
talking together. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Seeing. (58:1)
HYPOCRITES (MUNAFIQUN)
Among the people there are some who say, 'We believe in Allah and the
Last Day,' when they are not believers. (2:8)
They think they deceive Allah and those who believe. They deceive no
one but themselves but they are not aware of it. (2:9)
There is a sickness in their hearts and Allah has increased their sickness.
They will have a painful punishment on account of their denial. (2:10)
When they are told, 'Do not cause corruption on the earth,' they say,
'We are only putting things right.' (2:11)
No indeed! They are the corrupters, but they are not aware of it. (2:12)
When they are told, 'Believe in the way that the people believe,' they
say, 'What! Are we to believe in the way that fools believe?' No indeed!
They are the fools, but they do not know it. (2:13)
When they meet those who believe, they say, 'We believe.' But then when
they go apart with their Satans, they say, 'We are really with you. We
were only mocking.' (2:14)
But Allah is mocking them, and drawing them on, as they wander blindly
in their excessive insolence. (2:15)
Those are the people who have sold guidance for misguidance. Their trade
has brought no profit; they are not guided. (2:16)
Their likeness is that of people who light a fire, and then when it has
lit up all around them, Allah removes their light and leaves them in darkness,
unable to see. (2:17)
Deaf, dumb, blind. They will not return. (2:18)
Or that of a storm-cloud in the sky, full of darkness, thunder and lightning.
They put their fingers in their ears against the thunderclaps, fearful
of death. Allah encompasses the disbelievers. (2:19)
The lightning all but takes away their sight. Whenever they have light,
they walk in it but whenever darkness covers them, they halt. If Allah
wished, He could take away their hearing and their sight. Allah has power
over all things. (2:20)
Those who break Allah's contract after it has been agreed, and sever
what Allah has commanded to be joined, and cause corruption on the earth,
it is they who are the lost. (2:27)
Among the people there is someone whose words about the life of this
world excite your admiration, and he calls Allah to witness what is in
his heart, while he is in fact the most hostile of adversaries. (2:204)
When he is told to have fear of Allah, he is seized by pride which drives
him to wrongdoing. Hell will be enough for him! What an evil resting-place!
(2:206)
It is He Who sent down the Book to you from Him: verses containing clear
judgements-they are the core of the Book-and others which are open to
interpretation. Those with deviation in their hearts follow what is open
to interpretation in it, desiring conflict, seeking its inner meaning.
No one knows its inner meaning but Allah. Those firmly rooted in knowledge
say, 'We believe in it. All of it is from our Lord.' But only people of
intelligence pay heed. (3:7)
Then He sent down to you, after the distress, security, restful sleep
overtaking a group of you, whereas another group became prey to anxious
thoughts, thinking other than the truth about Allah-thoughts belonging
to the Time of Ignorance-saying, 'Do we have any say in the affair at
all?' Say, 'The affair belongs entirely to Allah.' They are concealing
things inside themselves which they do not disclose to you, saying, 'If
we had only had a say in the affair, none of us would have been killed
here in this place.' Say, 'Even if you had been inside your homes, those
people for whom killing was decreed would have gone out to their place
of death.' So that Allah might test what is in your breasts and purge
what is in your hearts. Allah knows the contents of your hearts. (3:154)
You who believe! Do not be like those who disbelieve and say of their
brothers, when they are going on journeys or military expeditions, 'If
they had only been with us, they would not have died or been killed,'
so that Allah can make that anguish for them in their hearts. It is Allah
Who gives life and causes to die. Allah sees what you do. (3:156)
What assailed you on the day the two armies met was by Allah's permission,
so that He would know the believers, and so that He would know the hypocrites.
They were told, 'Come and fight in the Way of Allah or at least help defend
us.' They said, 'If we knew how to fight, we would certainly follow you.'
They were closer to disbelief that day than to faith, saying with their
mouths what was not in their hearts. And Allah knows best what they are
hiding. (3:166-167)
They are those who said of their brothers, when they themselves had stayed
behind, 'If they had only obeyed us, they would not have been killed.'
Say, 'Then ward off death from yourselves if you are telling the truth.'
(3:168)
Do you not see those who claim that they believe in what has been sent
down to you and what was sent down before you, still desiring to turn
to a satanic source for judgement in spite of being ordered to reject
it? Satan wants to misguide them far away. (4:60)
When they are told, 'Come to what Allah has sent down and to the Messenger,'
you see the hypocrites turning away from you completely. (4:61)
How will it be when a disaster strikes them because of what they have
done, and then they come to you swearing by Allah: 'We desired nothing
but good and reconciliation'? (4:62)
Allah knows what is in such people's hearts so turn away from them and
warn them and speak to them with words that take effect. (4:63)
We sent no Messenger except to be obeyed by Allah's permission. If only
when they wronged themselves they had come to you and asked Allah's forgiveness
and the Messenger had asked forgiveness for them they would have found
Allah Ever-Returning, Most Merciful. (4:64)
No, by your Lord, they are not believers until they make you their judge
in the disputes that break out between them, and then find no resistance
within themselves to what you decide and submit themselves completely.
(4:65)
If We had directed them to kill themselves or leave their homes, they
would not have done so, except for a very few. But if they had done what
they were urged to do, it would have been better for them and far more
strengthening. (4:66)
Among you there are people who hang back and if you encounter a setback
then they say, 'Allah has blessed me in that I was not there with them.'
(4:72)
But if you meet with favour from Allah they say-as if there were no friendship
between you and them-'Oh! If only I had been with them so that I too might
have won a great victory.' (4:73)
Do you not see those who were told: 'Hold back from fighting but perform
prayer and give the alms'? Then when fighting is prescribed for them,
a group of them fear people as Allah should be feared, or even more than
that. They say, 'Our Lord, why have you prescribed fighting for us? If
only You would give us just a little more time!' Say, 'The enjoyment of
this world is very brief. The hereafter is better for those who guard
against evil. You will not be wronged by so much as the smallest speck.'
(4:77)
Wherever you are, death will catch up with you, even if you are in impregnable
fortresses. If a good thing happens to them, they say, 'This has come
from Allah.' But if a bad thing happens to them, they say, 'This has come
from you.' Say, 'Everything comes from Allah.' What is the matter with
these people that they scarcely understand a single word? (4:78)
Whoever obeys the Messenger has obeyed Allah. If anyone turns away, we
did not send you to them as their keeper. (4:80)
They have the word, 'Obedience!' on their tongues but when they leave
your presence, a group of them spend the night plotting to do other than
what you say. Allah is recording their nocturnal plotting. So let them
be and put your trust in Allah. Allah suffices as a Guardian. (4:81)
Will they not ponder the Qur'an? If it had been from other than Allah,
they would have found many inconsistencies in it. (4:82)
When news of any matter reaches them they spread it about, whether it
is of a reassuring or disquieting nature. If they had only referred it
to the Messenger and those in command among them, those among them able
to discern the truth about it would have had proper knowledge of it. If
it were not for Allah's favour to you and His mercy, all but a very few
of you would have followed Satan. (4:83)
How is it that you have become two parties regarding the hypocrites,
when Allah has returned them to disbelief for what they did? Do you desire
to guide people Allah has misguided? When Allah misguides someone, you
will find no way for him. (4:88)
They would like you to disbelieve as they disbelieve so that you will
all be the same. Do not take any of them as friends until they have migrated
in the Way of Allah. But if they run away then seize them and kill them
wherever you find them. Do not take any of them as either a friend or
helper-except for those who seek shelter with people with whom you have
a treaty, or who come to you greatly perturbed at the prospect of fighting
either you or their own people. If Allah had willed, He could have given
them the upper hand over you and then they would have fought you. If they
keep away from you and do not fight you and submit to you, Allah has not
given you any way against such people. (4:89-90)
You will find others who desire to be safe from you and safe from their
own people. Each time they are returned to dissension they are overwhelmed
by it. If they do not keep away from you or submit to you or refrain from
fighting, seize them and kill them wherever you find them. Over such people
We have given you clear authority. (4:91)
They try to conceal themselves from people, but they cannot conceal themselves
from Allah. He is with them when they spend the night saying things which
are not pleasing to Him. Allah encompasses everything they do. (4:108)
Were it not for Allah's favour to you and His mercy, a group of them
would almost have managed to mislead you. But they mislead no one but
themselves and do not harm you in any way. Allah has sent down the Book
and Wisdom to you and taught you what you did not know before. Allah's
favour to you is indeed immense. (4:113)
There is no good in much of their secret talk, except in the case of
those who enjoin charity, or what is right, or putting things right between
people. If anyone does that, seeking the pleasure of Allah, We will give
him an immense reward. (4:114)
But if anyone opposes the Messenger after the guidance has become clear
to him, and follows other than the path of the believers, We will hand
him over to whatever he has turned to, and We will roast him in Hell.
What an evil destination! (4:115)
As for those who believe and then return to disbelief, and then again
believe and then return to disbelief, and then increase in disbelief,
Allah will not forgive them or guide them on any path. (4:137)
Give news to the hypocrites that they will have a painful punishment.
(4:138)
Do those who take the disbelievers as protectors, rather than the believers,
hope to find power and strength with them? Power and strength belong entirely
to Allah. (4:139)
It has been sent down to you in the Book that when you hear Allah's Signs
being rejected and mocked at by people, you must not sit with them till
they start talking of other things. If you do you are just the same as
them. Allah will gather all the hypocrites and disbelievers into Hell.
(4:140)
Those who anticipate the worst for you say, 'Were we not with you?' whenever
you gain a victory from Allah, but if the disbelievers have a success
they say, 'Did we not have the upper hand over you and yet in spite of
that keep the believers away from you?' Allah will judge between you on
the Day of Rising. Allah will not give the disbelievers any way against
the believers. (4:141)
The hypocrites think they deceive Allah, but He is deceiving them. When
they get up to pray, they get up lazily, showing off to people, and only
remembering Allah a very little. (4:142)
They vacillate between the two-not joining these or joining those. If
Allah misguides someone, you will not find any way for him to go. (4:143)
You who believe! Do not take the disbelievers as friends rather than
the believers. Do you want to give Allah clear proof against you? (4:144)
The hypocrites are in the lowest level of the Fire. You will not find
any one to help them, except those who repent and put things right and
hold fast to Allah and dedicate their religion to Allah alone; they are
with the believers. Allah will give the believers an immense reward. (4:145-146)
O Messenger! Do not be grieved by those who rush headlong into disbelief
among those who say 'We believe' with their tongues when their hearts
contain no faith. And among the Jews are those who listen to lies, listening
to other people who have not come to you, distorting words from their
proper meanings, saying, 'If you are given this, then take it. If you
are not given it, then beware!' If Allah desires misguidance for someone,
you cannot help him against Allah in any way. Those are the people whose
hearts Allah does not want to purify. They will have disgrace in this
world and in the hereafter they will have a terrible punishment. (5:41)
Yet you see those with sickness in their hearts rushing to them, saying,
'We fear the wheel of fate may turn against us.' But it may well be that
Allah will bring about victory or some other contingency from Him. Then
they will deeply regret their secret thoughts. (5:52)
Those who believe say, 'Are these the people who swore by Allah, with
their most earnest oaths, that they were with you?' Their actions have
come to nothing and they now are losers. (5:53)
Do they then seek the judgement of the Time of Ignorance? Who could be
better at giving judgement than Allah for people with certainty? (5:50)
If it had been a case of easy gains and a short journey, they would have
followed you, but the distance was too great for them. They will swear
by Allah: 'Had we been able to, we would have gone out with you.' They
are destroying their own selves. Allah knows that they are lying. (9:42)
Allah pardon you! Why did you excuse them until it was clear to you which
of them were telling the truth and until you knew the liars? (9:43)
Those who believe in Allah and the Last Day do not ask you to excuse
them from striving with their wealth and themselves. Allah knows the people
who guard against evil. (9:44)
Only those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day ask you to excuse
them. Their hearts are full of doubt and in their doubt they waver to
and fro. (9:45)
If they had really desired to go out, they would have made proper preparations
for it, but Allah was averse to their setting out so He held them back
and they were told: 'Stay behind with those who stay behind.' (9:46)
If they had gone out among you, they would have added nothing to you
but confusion. They would have scurried about amongst you seeking to cause
conflict between you, and among you there are some who would have listened
to them. Allah knows the wrongdoers. (9:47)
They have already tried to cause conflict before, and turned things completely
upside down for you, until the truth came and Allah's command prevailed
even though they detested it. (9:48)
Among them are there some who say, 'Give me permission to stay. Do not
put temptation in my way.' Have they not fallen into that very temptation?
Hell hems in the disbelievers. (9:49)
If good happens to you it galls them. If a mishap occurs to you, they
say, 'We made our preparations in advance,' and they turn away rejoicing.
(9:50)
Say: 'Nothing can happen to us except what Allah has ordained for us.
He is Our Master. It is in Allah that the believers should put their trust.'
(9:51)
Say: 'What do you await for us except for one of the two best things?
But what we await for you is for Allah to inflict a punishment on you
either directly from Himself or at our hands. So wait, we are waiting
with you!' (9:52)
Say: 'Whether you give readily or reluctantly, it will not be accepted
from you. You are people who are deviators.' (9:53)
Nothing prevents what they give from being accepted from them but the
fact that they have rejected Allah and His Messenger, and that they only
come to prayer lethargically, and that they only give reluctantly. (9:54)
Do not let their wealth and children impress you. Allah merely wants
to punish them by them during their life in this world and for them to
expire while they are disbelievers. (9:55)
They swear by Allah that they are of your number, but they are not of
your number. Rather, they are people who are scared. (9:56)
If they could find a bolt-hole, cave or burrow, they would turn and scurry
away into it. (9:57)
Among them there are some who find fault with you concerning the alms.
If they are given some of it, they are pleased but if they are not given
any, they are angry. (9:58)
If only they had been pleased with what Allah and His Messenger had given
them and had said, 'Allah is enough for us. Allah will give us of His
bounty as will His Messenger. It is to Allah that we make our plea.' (9:59)
Among them are some who insult the Prophet, saying he is only an ear.
Say, 'An ear of good for you, believing in Allah and believing in the
believers, and a mercy for those among you who believe.' As for those
who insult the Messenger of Allah, they will have a painful punishment.
(9:61)
Do they not know that whoever opposes Allah and His Messenger, will have
the Fire of Hell, remaining in it timelessly, for ever? That is the great
disgrace. (9:63)
The hypocrites are afraid that a sura may be sent down about them, informing
them of what is in their hearts. Say: 'Go on mocking! Allah will expose
everything you are afraid of.' (9:64)
If you ask them they will say, 'We were only joking and playing around.'
Say: 'Would you make a mockery of Allah and of His Signs and of His Messenger?
Do not try to excuse yourselves. You have disbelieved after believing.
If one group of you is pardoned, another group will be punished for being
evildoers.' (9:65-66)
The men and women of the hypocrites are as bad as one another. They command
what is wrong and forbid what is right and keep their fists tightly closed.
They have forgotten Allah, so He has forgotten them. The hypocrites are
deviators. (9:67)
Allah has promised the men and women of the hypocrites and disbelievers
the Fire of Hell, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. It will suffice
them. Allah has cursed them. They will have everlasting punishment. (9:68)
Like those (hypocrites and disbelievers) before you who had greater strength
than you and more wealth and children. They enjoyed their portion; so
enjoy your portion as those before you enjoyed theirs. You have plunged
into defamation as they plunged into it. The actions of such people come
to nothing in this world or the hereafter. They are the lost. (9:69)
O Prophet, strive against the disbelievers and hypocrites and be harsh
with them. Their shelter will be Hell. What an evil destination! (9:73)
They swear by Allah that they said nothing, but they definitely spoke
the word of disbelief and returned to disbelief after their Islam. They
planned something which they did not achieve and they were vindictive
for no other cause than that Allah and His Messenger had enriched them
from His bounty. If they were to repent, it would be better for them.
But if they turn away, Allah will punish them with a painful punishment
in this world and the hereafter, and they will not find any protector
or helper on the earth. (9:74)
Among them there were some who made an agreement with Allah: 'If He gives
us of His bounty we will definitely give charity and be among the righteous.'
But when He does give them of His bounty they are tight-fisted with it
and turn away, so He has punished them by putting hypocrisy in their hearts
until the day they meet Him because they failed Allah in what they promised
Him and because they lied. (9:75-77)
Do they not know that Allah knows their secrets and their private talk,
and that Allah is the Knower of all unseen things? (9:78)
As for the people who find fault with those believers who give charity
spontaneously, and with those who can find nothing to give but their own
effort, and deride them, Allah derides them. They will have a painful
punishment. (9:79)
You can ask forgiveness for them, or not ask forgiveness for them. Even
if you asked forgiveness for them seventy times, Allah still would not
forgive them. That is because they have rejected Allah and His Messenger.
Allah does not guide deviant people. (9:80)
Those who were left behind were glad to stay behind the Messenger of
Allah. They did not want to strive with their wealth and themselves in
the Way of Allah. They said, 'Do not go out to fight in the heat.' Say:
'The Fire of Hell is much hotter, if they only understood.' (9:81)
Let them laugh little and weep much, in repayment for what they have
earned. (9:82)
If Allah returns you to a group of them, and they ask you for permission
to go out, say, 'You will never go out with me, nor will you ever fight
an enemy with me. You were happy to stay behind the first time, so stay
behind with those who are left behind.' (9:83)
Never pray over any of them who die or stand at their graves. They rejected
Allah and His Messenger and died as deviators. (9:84)
Do not let their wealth and their children impress you. Allah merely
wants to punish them by them in this world, and for them to expire while
they are disbelievers. (9:85)
When a sura is sent down saying: 'Believe in Allah and strive together
with His Messenger,' those among them with wealth will ask you to excuse
them, saying, 'Let us remain with those who stay behind.' (9:86)
They are pleased to be with those who stay behind. Their hearts have
been stamped so they do not understand. (9:87)
The desert arabs came with their excuses asking for permission to stay,
and those who lied to Allah and His Messenger stayed behind. A painful
punishment will afflict those among them who disbelieve. (9:90)
There are only grounds against those who ask you for permission to stay
when they are rich. They were pleased to be among those who were left
behind. Allah has sealed up their hearts so they do not know. (9:93)
They will make excuses to you when you return to them. Say: 'Do not make
excuses, we will not believe you. Allah has already informed us about
you. Allah will see your actions, as will His Messenger. Then you will
be returned to the Knower of the Unseen and the Visible, and He will inform
you regarding what you did.' (9:94)
They will swear to you by Allah when you return to them, so that you
leave them alone. Leave them alone, then! They are filth. Their shelter
will be Hell as repayment for what they did. (9:95)
They will swear to you to make you pleased with them, but even if you
are pleased with them, Allah is certainly not pleased with deviant people.
(9:96)
The desert arabs are more obdurate in disbelief and hypocrisy and more
likely not to know the limits which Allah has sent down to His Messenger.
Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (9:97)
Among the desert arabs there are some who regard what they give as an
imposition and are waiting for your fortunes to change. The evil turn
of fortune will be theirs! Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.(9:98)
And among the desert arabs there are some who believe in Allah and the
Last Day and regard what they give as something which will bring them
nearer to Allah and to the prayers of the Messenger. It does indeed bring
them near. Allah will admit them into His mercy. Allah is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (9:99)
Some of the desert Arabs around you are hypocrites and some of the people
of Madina are obdurate in their hypocrisy. You do not know them but We
know them. We will punish them twice over and then they will be returned
to a terrible punishment. (9:101)
But others have acknowledged their wrong actions and mixed a right action
with another which is wrong. It may well be that Allah will turn towards
them. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (9:102)
Take charity from their wealth to purify and cleanse them and pray for
them. Your prayers bring relief to them. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
(9:103)
Do they not know that Allah accepts repentance from His servants and
acknowledges their alms, and that Allah is the Ever-Returning, the Most
Merciful? (9:104)
Say: 'Act, for Allah will see your actions, and so will His Messenger
and the believers. You will be returned to the Knower of the Unseen and
the Visible and He will inform you regarding what you did.' (9:105)
And others are left awaiting Allah's command as to whether He will punish
them or turn to them. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (9:106)
As for those who have set up a mosque, causing harm and out of disbelief,
to create division between the believers, and in readiness for those who
previously made war on Allah and His Messenger, they will swear, 'We only
desired the best.' But Allah bears witness that they are truly liars.
(9:107)
The buildings they have built will not cease to be a bone of contention
in their hearts, until their hearts are cut to shreds. Allah is All-Knowing,
All-Wise. (9:110)
Each time a sura is sent down there are some among them who say, 'Which
of you has this increased in faith?' As for those who believe, it increases
them in faith and they rejoice at it. (9:124)
But as for those with sickness in their hearts, it adds defilement to
their defilement, and they die while they are disbelievers. (9:125)
Do they not see that they are tried once or twice in every year? But
still they do not turn back. They do not pay heed. (9:126)
Each time a sura is sent down, they look at one another, implying, 'Can
anyone see you?' Then they turn away. Allah has turned their hearts away
because they are people who do not understand. (9:127)
Among the people there is one who worships Allah right on the edge. If
good befalls him, he is content with it, but if a trial befalls him, he
reverts to his former ways, losing both this world and the hereafter.
That is indeed sheer loss. (22:11)
He calls on what is far more likely to harm than help. What an evil protector!
What an evil associate! (22:13)
There is a group of you who propagated the lie. Do not suppose it to
be bad for you; rather it is good for you. Every one of them will incur
the evil he has earned and the one who took it on himself to amplify it
will receive a terrible punishment. (24:11)
When the hypocrites and people with sickness in their hearts said, 'What
Allah and His Messenger promised us was mere delusion.' (33:12)
And a group of them said, 'People of Yathrib, Your position is untenable
so return!' some of them asked the Prophet to excuse them, saying, 'Our
houses are exposed,' when they were not exposed; it was merely that they
wanted to run away. (33:13)
If they had been overrun from every side, and had then been asked to
revert to disbelief, they would have done so and hesitated very little
about it. (33:14)
Yet they had previously made a contract with Allah that they would never
turn their backs. Contracts made with Allah will be asked about. (33:15)
Say: 'Flight will not benefit you if you try to run away from death or
being killed. Then you will only enjoy a short respite.' (33:16)
Say: 'Who is going to shield you from Allah if He desires evil for you
or desires mercy for you?' They will find no one to protect or help them
besides Allah. (33:17)
Allah knows the obstructers among you and those who say to their brothers,
'Come to us,' and who only come to fight a very little, and are begrudging
towards you. Then when fear comes, you see them looking at you, their
eyes rolling like people scared to death. But when fear departs they flay
you with sharp tongues, grasping for wealth. Such people have no faith
and Allah will make their actions come to nothing. That is easy for Allah.
(33:18-19)
They think that the Confederates have not departed and if the Confederates
did appear then they would wish they were out in the desert with the Arabs,
asking for news of you. If they were with you they would only fight a
very little. (33:20)
You have an excellent model in the Messenger of Allah, for all who put
their hope in Allah and the Last Day and remember Allah much. (33:21)
So that Allah might recompense the truthful for their truth and punish
the hypocrites, if He wills, or turn towards them. Allah is Ever-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. (33:24)
Do not obey the disbelievers and hypocrites and disregard their abuse
of you. Put your trust in Allah. Allah suffices as a Protector. (33:48)
If the hypocrites and those with sickness in their hearts and the rumour-mongers
in Madina do not desist, We will set you onto them. Then they will only
be your neighbours there a very short time. (33:60)
They are an accursed people. Wherever they are found they should be seized
and mercilessly put to death. (33:61)
This is Allah's pattern with those who passed away before. You will not
find any alteration in Allah's pattern. (33:62)
Those who believe say, 'If only a sura could be sent down.' But when
a straightforward sura is sent down and fighting is mentioned in it, you
see those with sickness in their hearts looking at you with the look of
someone about to faint from fear of death. More fitting for them would
be obedience and honourable words. Once the matter is resolved upon, being
true to Allah would be better for them. (47:20-21)
Is it not likely that, if you did turn away, you would cause corruption
in the earth and sever your ties of kinship? (47:22)
Such are the people Allah has cursed, making them deaf and blinding their
eyes. (47:23)
Will they not then ponder the Qur'an or are there locks upon their hearts?
(47:24)
Those who have turned back in their tracks after the guidance became
clear to them, it was Satan who talked them into it and filled them with
false hopes. (47:25)
That is because they said to those who hate what Allah has sent down,
'We will obey you in part of the affair.' But Allah knows their secrets.
(47:26)
How will it be when the angels take them in death, beating their faces
and their backs? (47:27)
That is because they followed what angers Allah and hated what is pleasing
to Him. So He made their actions come to nothing. (47:28)
Or did those with sickness in their hearts imagine that Allah would not
expose their malevolence? (47:29)
If We wished, We would show them to you and you would know them by their
mark and know them by their ambivalent speech. Allah knows your actions.
(47:30)
We will test you until We know the true fighters among you and those
who are steadfast and test what is reported of you. (47:31)
Those who disbelieve and obstruct the Way of Allah and are entrenched
in hostility towards the Messenger after the guidance has become clear
to them, do not harm Allah in any way and He makes their actions come
to nothing. (47:32)
Those Arabs who remained behind will say to you, 'Our wealth and families
kept us occupied, so ask forgiveness for us.' They say with their tongues
what is not in their hearts. Say: 'Who can control Allah for you in any
way whether He wants harm for you or wants benefit for you?' Allah is
aware of what you do. (48:11)
No, you thought that the Messenger and the believers were not going to
return to their families, and that seemed pleasing to your hearts and
you thought evil thoughts and you were a blighted people. (48:12)
When you go out to get the booty, those who remained behind will say,
'Allow us to follow you,' desiring to alter Allah's words. Say: 'You may
not follow us. That is what Allah said before.' They will say, 'It is
only because you envy us.' No indeed! How little they have understood!
(48:15)
Say to the Arabs who remained behind: 'You will be called up against
a people who possess great force whom you must fight unless they submit.
If you obey, Allah will give you an excellent reward. But if you turn
your backs as you did before, He will punish you with a painful punishment.'
(48:16)
That Day the men and women of the hypocrites will say to those who believe,
'Wait for us so that we can borrow some of your light.' They will be told,
'Go back and look for light!' And a wall will be erected between them
with a gate in it, on the inside of which there will be mercy but before
whose exterior lies the punishment. (57:13)
They (hypocrites) will call out to them, 'Were we not with you?' They
will reply, 'Indeed you were. But you made trouble for yourselves and
hung back and doubted and false hopes deluded you until Allah's command
arrived. The Deluder deluded you about Allah. So today no ransom will
be accepted from you or from those who disbelieved. Your refuge is the
Fire. It is your master. What an evil destination!' (57:14-15)
Do you not see those who were forbidden to confer together secretly returning
to the very thing they were forbidden to do, and conferring together secretly
in wrongdoing and enmity and disobedience to the Messenger? And when they
come to you they greet you with words Allah has never used in greeting
you, and say to themselves 'Why does Allah not punish us for what we say?'
Hell will be enough for them! They will roast in it. What an evil destination!
(58:8)
You who believe! When you confer together secretly, do not do so in wrongdoing
and enmity and disobedience to the Messenger; rather confer together in
goodness and fear of Allah. Have fear of Allah-Him to Whom you will be
gathered. (58:9)
Conferring in secret is from Satan, to cause grief to those who believe;
but it cannot harm them at all, unless by Allah's permission. So let the
believers put their trust in Allah. (58:10)
Do you not see those who have turned to people with whom Allah is angry?
They belong neither to you nor to them. And they swear to falsehood and
do so knowingly. (58:14)
Allah has prepared a terrible punishment for them. How evil is what they
have been doing! (58:15)
They made their oaths into a cloak and barred the Way of Allah, so they
will have a humiliating punishment. (58:16)
Neither their wealth nor their children will help them at all against
Allah. Such people are the Companions of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly,
for ever. (58:17)
On the Day Allah raises up all of them together they will swear to Him
just as they have sworn to you and imagine they have something to stand
upon. No indeed! It is they who are the liars. (58:18)
Satan has gained mastery over them and made them forget the remembrance
of Allah. Such people are the party of Satan. No indeed! It is the party
of Satan who are the losers. (58:19)
Those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, such people will be among the
most abased. (58:20)
You will not find people who believe in Allah and the Last Day having
love for anyone who opposes Allah and His Messenger, though they be their
fathers, their sons, their brothers or their clan. Allah has inscribed
faith upon such people's hearts and will reinforce them with a Spirit
from Him and admit them into Gardens with rivers flowing under them, remaining
in them timelessly, for ever. Allah is pleased with them and they are
pleased with Him. Such people are the party of Allah. Truly it is the
party of Allah who are successful. (58:22)
Did you not see the hypocrites saying to their brothers, those among
the People of the Book who disbelieve, 'If you are driven out we will
leave with you, we will never obey anyone to your detriment. And if you
are fought against we will help you'? Allah bears witness that they are
truly liars. (59:11)
If they are driven out they will not leave with them. If they are fought
against they will not help them. And if they did help them they would
turn their backs, and then they would not be helped. (59:12)
You are a greater cause of terror in their breasts than Allah! That is
because they are people who do not understand. (59:13)
They will not fight against you all together as a group except in fortified
towns or behind high walls. Their hostility towards each other is intense.
They are full of bravado in each other's company. You consider them united
but their hearts are scattered wide. That is because they are people who
do not use their intellect. (59:14)
They are like Satan when he says to a human being, 'Disbelieve,' and
then when he disbelieves, says, 'I wash my hands of you. Truly I fear
Allah, the Lord of all the worlds.' (59:16)
When the hypocrites come to you they say, 'We bear witness that you are
indeed the Messenger of Allah.' Allah knows that you are indeed His Messenger
and Allah bears witness that the hypocrites are certainly liars. (63:1)
They have made their oaths into a cloak and barred the Way of Allah.
What they have done is truly evil. (63:2)
That is because they have believed and then returned to disbelief. So
their hearts have been sealed up and they cannot understand. (63:3)
When you see them, their outward form appeals to you, and if they speak
you listen to what they say. But they are like propped-up planks of wood.
They imagine every cry to be against them. They are the enemy, so beware
of them. Allah fight them! How they are perverted! (63:4)
When they are told, 'Come, and the Messenger of Allah will ask forgiveness
for you,' they turn their heads and you see them turn away in haughty
arrogance. (63:5)
In their case it makes no difference whether you ask forgiveness for
them or do not ask forgiveness for them. Allah will never forgive them.
Allah does not guide deviant people. (63:6)
They are the people who say, 'Do not spend on those who are with the
Messenger of Allah, so that they may go away.' The treasuries of the heavens
and earth belong to Allah. But the hypocrites do not understand this.
(63:7)
They say, 'If we return to Madina, the mightier will drive out the inferior.'
But all might belongs to Allah and to His Messenger and the believers.
But the hypocrites do not know this. (63:8)
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