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Article 2
FROM QUR'AN: THE BOOK OF HUMAN GUIDANCE
( Verses of the Qur'an, Chapter 17: 15-39 )
English translation by T.B. Irving
On Personal Responsibility
* Anyone who submits to guidance will be guided only so far as he himself is
concerned, while anyone who strays away, only strays by himself. No burdened
soul shall bear another's burden.
We have never acted as punishers until We have dispatched some messenger:
yet whenever We want to wipe out some town, We order its high-livers so they act
depraved in it; thus the Sentence about it is proven to be right and We
utterly annihilate it. * How many generations did We destroy since Noah?
Sufficient is it for your Lord to be Informed, Observant of His servants' sins!
Free Choice
* For anyone who wants the fleeting present, We let whatever We wish to flit
past anyone We want it to. Then We set up Hell for him; he will roast in it,
condemned, disgraced.
* Anyone who wants the Hereafter and makes a proper effort to achieve it while he is a believer, will have their effort gratified.
** Each We shall supply, these as well as those, with a gift
from your Lord: your Lord's gift will never be withheld.
* Watch how We have permitted some of them to get ahead of others. The Hereafter
will be greater in [conferring] ranks and even greater in attainment.
The Islamic "DO NOTS":
* Do not place any other deity alongside God, lest you sit back, condemned,
forsaken.
Association Condemned
(III) * Your Lord has decreed that you should worship nothing except Him, and
[show] kindness to your parents; whether either of them or both of them should
attain old age [while they are] still with you, never say to them:
"Naughty!" nor scold either of them. Speak to them in a generous
fashion.
*Protect them carefully from outsiders, and SAY: "My Lord,
show them mercy, just as they cared for me [when I was] a little child!"
* Your Lord is quite Aware of anything that is on your minds; if you behave
honorably, then He will be Forgiving towards those who are attentive.
Charity
* Render your close relative his due, as well as the pauper and the wayfarer.
Yet do not squander [your money] extravagantly; * spendthrifts are the devils'
brethren, and Satan has always been ungrateful towards his Lord.
*Yet if you have to avoid them, seeking some mercy which you may
expect from your Lord, still speak a courteous word to them. * Do not keep your
hand gripping at your throat nor stretch it out as far as it will reach, lest
you sit back blameworthy, destitute. ** Your Lord extends sustenance to anyone
He wishes, and measures it out; He is Informed, Observant about His servants.
Other Moral Legislation
(IV) * Do not kill your children in dread of poverty; We shall provide for both
them and you. Killing them is a serious blunder!
* Do not commit adultery. It is shocking and an evil way [to behave].
* Do not kill any soul whom God has forbidden you to, except through [due
process of] law. We have given his nearest relatives authority for anyone who is
killed unjustly-yet let him not overdo things in killing [the culprit], inasmuch
as he has been so supported.
* Do not approach an orphan's estate before he comes of age unless it is to
improve it.
Responsibility
Fulfill your oaths; any promise will be checked into.
** Give full measure whenever you measure out anything, and weigh with honest
scales; that is better and the finest way of acting.
* Do not worry over something you have no knowledge about: your hearing,
eyesight and vital organs will all be questioned concerning it.
* Do not prance saucily around the earth; you can never tunnel through the earth
nor rival the mountains in height.
* All that is evil with your Lord, to be hated. * Such is some of the wisdom
your Lord has revealed to you.
Do not place any other deity alongside God [Alone] lest you be tossed into Hell,
blamed, rejected.
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