Think! Maybe It Is for Your Good

By Selma Cook

Remember when you were very young and loved to play in the kitchen with all the gadgets? Very likely, your mother would let you play with some things but not with others. Years passed and when you got older you wanted to try different things and go ...

(1) (1) O Prophet, fear Allāh and do not obey the disbelievers and the hypocrites. Indeed, Allāh is ever Knowing and Wise.

(2) (2) And follow that which is revealed to you from your Lord. Indeed Allāh is ever, of what you do, Aware.

(3) (3) And rely upon Allāh; and sufficient is Allāh as ...

(105) (105) The people of Noah denied the messengers[1054]

[1054]- See footnote to 25:37.

(106) (106) When their brother Noah said to them, "Will you not fear Allāh?

(107) (107) Indeed, I am to you a trustworthy messenger.

(108) (108) So fear Allāh and obey me.

(109) (109) And I do not ask ...

(1) (1) [This is] a sūrah which We have sent down and made [that within it] obligatory and revealed therein verses of clear evidence that you might remember.

(2) (2) The [unmarried] woman or [unmarried] man found guilty of sexual intercourse[972] - lash each one of them with a hundred ...

(1) (1) Certainly will the believers have succeeded:

(2) (2) They who are during their prayer humbly intent

(3) (3) And they who turn away from ill speech

(4) (4) And they who are observant of zakāh

(5) (5) And they who guard their private parts

(6) (6) Except from their wives or those their ...

(1) (1) O mankind, fear your Lord. Indeed, the convulsion of the [final] Hour is a terrible thing.

(2) (2) On the Day you see it every nursing mother will be distracted from that [child] she was nursing, and every pregnant woman will abort her pregnancy, and you will see the people [appearing] ...

(83) (83) [Allāh said], "And what made you hasten from your people, O Moses?"

(84) (84) He said, "They are close upon my tracks, and I hastened to You, my Lord, that You be pleased."

(85) (85) [Allāh] said, "But indeed, We have tried your people after you [departed], and the Sāmirī[847] has ...

(51) (51) I did not make them witness to the creation of the heavens and the earth or to the creation of themselves, and I would not have taken the misguiders as assistants.

(52) (52) And [warn of] the Day when He will say, "Call My 'partners' whom you claimed," and they will invoke them, but ...

(61) (61) And [mention] when We said to the angels, "Prostrate to Adam," and they prostrated, except for Iblees.[759] He said, "Should I prostrate to one You created from clay?"

[759]- See footnote to 2:34.

(62) (62) [Iblees] said, "Do You see this one whom You have honored above me? If You ...

(1) (1) Alif, Lām, Rā.[668] These are the verses of the Book and a clear Qur’ān [i.e., recitation].

[668]- See footnote to 2:1.

(2) (2) Perhaps those who disbelieve will wish[669] that they had been Muslims.

[669]- On the Day of Judgement or at the time of death.

(3) (3) Let them eat and ...

(1) (1) Alif, Lām, Rā.[510] These are the verses of the wise[511] Book.

[510]- See footnote to 2:1. [511]- The adjective "wise" expresses the qualities of will, purpose, discrimination and precision.

(2) (2) Have the people been amazed that We revealed [revelation] to a man from among them, ...