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Index of Qur'anic and Biblical verses


Index of Qur'anic and Biblical verses

This page contains a list of every qur'anic and biblical verse referenced on the Islam from inside website, as well as links to the specific articles in which those verses appear. It will be updated as new articles are added to the site.

The Qur'anic verses are listed below in Sura and verse order, the Biblical verses are listed in the sidebar.


Qur'anic verses


Sura 2:1-5
Alif-lam-meem

This is the Book; in it is guidance sure, without doubt, to those who fear Allah

Who believe in the Unseen, are steadfast in prayer, and spend  out of what We have provided for them
And who believe in the Revelation sent to thee, and sent before thy time, and (in their hearts) have the assurance of the Hereafter
They are on (true) guidance, from their Lord, and it is these who will prosper

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 2:1-5 On faith and belief)


Sura 2:30

Behold, thy Lord said to  the angels: "I will create a vicegerent on earth." They said: "Wilt Thou place therein one who will make mischief therein and shed blood? - whilst we do celebrate Thy praises and glorify Thy holy (name)?" He (Allah) said: "I know what ye know not.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 6:151-153 Basic Commandments and the straight path)
(Ashura - sidebar: Vicegerency of Husayn)


Sura 2:31-33
And He taught Adam all the names, then presented them to the angels; then He said: Tell me the names of those if you are right. They said: Glory be to Thee! we have no knowledge but that which Thou hast taught us; surely Thou art the Knowing, the Wise. He said: O Adam! inform them of the names. Then when he had informed them of the names, He said: Did I not say to you that I surely know what is ghaib [hidden] in the heavens and the earth and (that) I know what you manifest and what you hide?

Referenced in the following articles:
(Shards of Knowledge)


Sura 2:37
Then Adam received (some) words from his Lord, so He turned to him mercifully; surely He is Oft-returning (to mercy), the Merciful.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 9:102-106 On Repentance - sidebar: "Origins of repentance")


Sura 2:38
....surely there will come to you a guidance from Me, then whoever follows My guidance, no fear shall come upon them, nor shall they grieve....
Referenced in the following articles:
(What do we know)


Sura 2:51
And remember We divided the sea for you.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Concept of time in the Qur'an)


Sura 2:54

And remember We gave Moses the Scripture and the Criterion.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Concept of time in the Qur'an)


Sura 2:62

those who believe and those who are Jews and the Sabians and the Christians, whoever believes in God and the last day and does abundant good (for others) -  shall have a beautiful reward from their Lord, and not the slightest fear will there be for them, nor shall they grieve.
Referenced in the following articles:
(This Israel)


Sura 2:63

And remember We took your covenant....
Referenced in the following articles:
(Concept of time in the Qur'an)


Sura 2:92,93

...Moses came with piercing knowledge, then in his absence you created the golden calf....And the people were made to imbibe (the love of) the calf into their hearts....
Referenced in the following articles:
(This Israel)


Sura 2:127

And remember Abraham and Isma'il raised the foundations of the House....

Referenced in the following articles:
(Concept of time in the Qur'an)


Sura 2:156

…surely we are God's and to Him we shall surely return.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 39:42 To die/to sleep)


Sura 2:134

That is a people that have passed away; they shall have what they earned and you shall have what you earn.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tawil of Karbala)


Sura 2:158
Behold! Safa and Marwa are among the symbols of God.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 6:151-153 Basic Commandments and the straight path)


Sura 2:169
For he (the evil one) commands you what is ugly and shameful...
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 6:151-153 Basic Commandments and the straight path)


Sura 2:184
....and that you fast is far better for you, if you did but know....
Referenced in the following articles:
(And Fast until the onset of night (Fasting in Ramadan)


Sura 2:186
I answer the prayer of the suppliant when he calls on Me, so they should answer My call and trust in Me that they may walk in the right way.
Referenced in the following articles:
(And Fast until the onset of night (Fasting in Ramadan)


Sura 2:187
...fast until the night....
Referenced in the following articles:
(And Fast until the onset of night (Fasting in Ramadan)


Sura 2:187
Your wives are a garment for you, and you are a garment for them.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Marriage (Nikah) in Islam)


Sura 2:189

You should not enter the houses (secretly) at their backs....enter houses by their doors....
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 11:5 Transparency before God)


Sura 2:255

He knows what is before them and what is behind them, and they cannot comprehend anything out of His knowledge except what He pleases....
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 11:5-6 Transparency before God)


Sura 3:7

And none know its complete interpretation (hermeneutic) but God and those who are profoundly and firmly rooted in knowledge.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Hermeneutics of takfir)


Sura 3:27

Thou makest the night to pass into the day and Thou makest the day to pass into the night, and Thou bringest forth the living from the dead and Thou bringest forth the dead from the living. You give sustenance to whom you please, without measure.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 6:151-153 Basic Commandments and the straight path)


Sura 3:42
O Mary! God hath chosen thee and  purified thee-  chosen thee above the women of all nations.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 5:116-120 On Jesus)


Sura 3:45
Behold! The angels said: "O Mary! God gives thee glad tidings of a word

from Him: his name will be Christ Jesus, the son of Mary, held in honour in this world and the Hereafter and of the company of those nearest to God."
Referenced in the following articles:

(Tafsir 5:116-120 On Jesus)

(What is truth?)


Sura 3:48,49
And He (God) will teach him the Scripture and wisdom, and the Taurat (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel). And will make him a messenger unto the children of Israel....
Referenced in the following articles:

(Jesus - An Islamic Perspective)


Sura 3:59
The similitude of Jesus before Allah is as that of Adam; He created him from dust, then said to him: 'Be' and he was.
Referenced in the following articles:

(Jesus - An Islamic Perspective)


Sura 3:67
...Ibrahim was neither a Jew nor a Christian, but a 'Hanif', a Muslim, one who is not among the idol-worshippers.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 10:105 On being hanif)


Sura 3:157
And if you are slain in the way of Allah or you die, certainly forgiveness from Allah and mercy is better than what they amass.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Martyrdom (Looking towards God)


Sura 3:169
Thou shalt in no wise reckon those who have been slain in the cause of God as dead; nay, they are sustained, alive in the Presence of their Lord, rejoicing for what God of his favor hath granted them.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Commemorating Martyrdom - sidebar: A Martyrdom Fable)


Sura 3:196
Let it not deceive you that those who misbelieve go (arrogantly) to and fro in the land. It is a slight and fading possession….
Referenced in the following articles:
(Power and Hegemony)


Sura 4:1
O mankind! reverence your Guardian-Lord, who created you from a single nafs, created, of like nature, His mate, and from them twain scattered (like seeds) countless men and women;- reverence God, through whom ye demand your mutual (rights), and (reverence) the wombs (That bore you): for God ever watches over you.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 4:1 On the nature of the nafs)
(Marriage (nikah) in Islam)

 

Sura 4:10

Those who eat up the property of orphans, eat up a fire into their own bodies...
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 6:151-153 Basic Commandments and the straight path)


Sura 4:41
We bring forth from every people a witness....
Referenced in the following articles:
(History and Perception)


Sura 4:59
O believers, obey God, and obey the Messenger and those in authority among you. If you should quarrel on anything, refer it to God and the Messenger.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 8:11-18 Battle of Badr - sidebar: "On the qualities of soldiers")


Sura 4:76
Surely the strategy of the Shaitan is weak....

Referenced in the following articles:
(Power and Hegemony)


Sura 4:135-136

O ye who believe! stand out firmly for justice, as witnesses to God, even as against yourselves, or your parents, or your kin, and whether it be (against) rich or poor: for God can best protect both. Follow not the lusts (of your hearts), lest ye swerve, and if ye distort (justice) or decline to do justice, verily God is well-acquainted with all that ye do.

004.136  O ye who believe! Believe in God and His Apostle, and the scripture which He hath sent to His Apostle and the scripture which He sent to those before (him). Any who denieth God, His angels, His Books, His Apostles, and the Day of Judgment, hath gone far, far astray.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 4:135-136 On Justice)


Sura 4:170
The Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, is the apostle of God, and His Word, which He projected unto Mary, and a Spirit proceeding from Him.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Jesus - An Islamic Perspective)


Sura 4:176
God is knower of all things....
Referenced in the following articles:
(What do we know)


Sura 5:54

He loves them and they love Him...for this is Allah's Face, He gives of it to whom He pleases....
Referenced in the following articles:
(A Children's Story)


Sura 5:64
whenever they kindle a fire for war Allah puts it out, and they strive to create mischief (oppression and imbalance) in the land; and Allah does not love the mischief-makers.
Referenced in the following articles:
(This Israel)


Sura 5:66 
And if they had held (to the deep truths) of the Taurat and the Injeel and the (high knowledge) which descended to them they would have been nourished from above them and from beneath their feet....
Referenced in the following articles:
(This Israel)


Sura 5:69 
Surely those who believe and those who are Jews and the Sabians and the Christians whoever believes in Allah and the last day and does good - they shall have no fear nor shall they grieve.
Referenced in the following articles:
(This Israel)


Sura 5:116
 
And behold! God will say: "O Jesus the son of Mary! Didst thou say unto men, worship me and my mother as gods in derogation of God'?" He will say: "Glory to Thee! never could I say what I had no right (to say). Had I said such a thing, thou wouldst indeed have known it. Thou knowest what is in my heart, I know not what is in Thine. For Thou knowest in full all that is hidden.
Referenced in the following articles:

(Tafsir 5:116-120 On Jesus)


Sura 5:117
Never said I to them aught except what Thou didst  command me to say, to wit, 'worship God, my Lord and your Lord'; and I was a witness over them whilst I dwelt amongst them; when Thou didst take me up Thou wast the Watcher over them, and Thou art a witness to all things.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 5:116-120 On Jesus)


Sura 5:118

If Thou dost punish them, they are Thy servants: If Thou dost
forgive them, Thou art the Exalted in power, the Wise.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 5:116-120 On Jesus)


Sura 5:119

God will say: "This is a day on which the truthful will profit
from their truth: theirs are gardens, with rivers flowing  beneath,- their
eternal Home: God well-pleased with them, and they with God: That is the great salvation, (the fulfilment of all desires).

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 5:116-120 On Jesus)

(What is truth
?)


Sura 5:120

To God doth belong the dominion of the heavens and the earth  and all that is therein, and it is He Who hath power over all things.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 5:116-120 On Jesus)


Sura 6:1

Those who have no belief set up rivals to their Lord.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Paradox for a modern age: a god-eat-god world)


Sura 6:2

He it is Who created you from clay, then He decreed a term.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Paradox for a modern age: a god-eat-god world)


Sura 6:10

And certainly apostles before you were mocked at, but that which they mocked at encompassed the scoffers among them.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Danish cartoons and the sacred)


Sura 6:59

God embraces all things in knowledge...And there falls not a leaf but He knows it, nor a grain in the darkness of the earth, nor anything green nor dry but (it is all) in a clear book.

Referenced in the following articles:
(What do we know)
(Tafsir 11:5 Transparency before God)


Sura 6:60

To God doth belong the dominion of the heavens and the earth  and all that is therein, and it is He Who hath power over all things.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 39:42 To die/to sleep)


Sura 6:73

It is He who created the heavens and the earth in true (proportions): the day He saith, "Be," behold! it is. His word is the truth. His will be the dominion the day the trumpet will be blown. He knoweth the unseen as well as that which is open. For He is the Wise, well acquainted (with all things).
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 6:73 On the blowing of the trumpet)


Sura 6:74-79
Lo! Abraham said to his father Azar: "Takest thou idols for gods? For I see thee and thy people in manifest error.
So also did We show Abraham the power and the laws of the heavens and the earth, that he might (with understanding) have certitude.
When the night covered him over, He saw a star: He said: "This is my Lord." But when it set, He said: "I love not those that set."
When he saw the moon rising in splendour, he said: "This is my Lord." But when the moon set, He said: "unless my Lord guide me, I shall surely be among those who go astray."   
When he saw the sun rising in splendour, he said: "This is my Lord; this is the greatest (of all)." But when the sun set, he said: "O my people! I am indeed free from your (guilt) of giving partners to God.
For me, I have set my face, firmly and truly (as a hanif), towards Him Who created the heavens and the earth, and never shall I give partners (commit shirk/polytheism) to God.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 6:74-79 On seeing beyond forms)
(Tafsir 10:105 On being hanif)


Sura 6:98

It is He Who hath produced you from a single nafs: here is a place of sojourn and a place of departure: We detail Our signs for people who understand.
Referenced in the following articles:

(Tafsir 4:1 On the nature of the nafs)


Sura 6:108

We have adorned for each society their acts.
Referenced in the following articles:

(We have adorned for each society their acts)


Sura 6:122
Is He who was dead then We raised him to life and made for him a light by which he walks among the people, like him whose likeness is that of one in utter darkness whence he cannot come forth.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 10:31 The living from the dead)


Sura 6:151

6:151 Say: Come, I will recite unto you that which your Lord hath made a sacred duty for you: That ye ascribe no thing as partner unto Him and that ye do good to parents, and that ye slay not your children because of penury - We provide for you and for them - and that ye draw not nigh to lewd things whether open or concealed. And that ye slay not the life which Allah hath made sacred, save in the course of justice. This He hath command you, in order that ye may discern.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 6:151-153 Basic Commandments and the straight path)


Sura 6:152-153
And come not nigh to the orphan's property, except to improve it, until he attain the age of full strength; give measure and weight with (full) justice;- no burden do We place on any soul, but that which it can bear;- whenever ye speak, speak justly, even if a near relative is concerned; and fulfil the covenant of Allah: thus doth He command you, that ye may remember.
Verily, this is My way, leading straight: follow it: follow not (other) paths: they will scatter you about from His (great) path: thus doth He command you. that ye may be righteous.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 6:151-153 Basic Commandments and the straight path)


Sura 6:162
I have set my face to Him Who created the heavens and the earth, in all exclusivity. My prayer, my sacrifice, my life, and my death are for God, the Lord of the Worlds.... Of this I am commanded, and I am of those who surrender.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 10:105 On being hanif)
(Commemorating Martyrdom)
(On Martyrdom)


Sura 7:34
And for every society there is a term, so when (the conditions of) their term is fulfilled they shall not remain behind, nor shall they go before....

Referenced in the following articles:
(We have adorned for each society their acts)


Sura 7:54
Lo! Your Lord is God Who created the heavens and the earth in six days. Then He ascended the Throne....

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 11:7 Six days of creation)


Sura 7:94-96

Whenever We sent a prophet to a society, We took up its people in suffering and adversity, in order that they might learn humility.

Then We changed their suffering into prosperity, until they grew and multiplied, and began to say: "Our fathers (too) were touched by suffering and affluence" ... Behold! We called them to account of a sudden, while they realised not (their peril).

If the people of those societies had but believed and been conscious of Allah, We should indeed have opened out to them (All kinds of) blessings from heaven and earth; but they rejected (the truth), and We brought them to book for their misdeeds.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 7:94-96 Prosperity and Humility)


Sura 7:129
....It may be that your Lord will weaken your enemy and make you rulers in the land, then He will (test you) and see how you act.
Referenced in the following articles:
(This Israel)


Sura 7:152
(As for) those who took the calf (for worship), surely wrath from their Lord and humiliation shall overtake them, and thus do We recompense the devisers of lies.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 7:152 False religion - the golden calf)


Sura 7:172

When thy Lord drew forth from the Children of Adam all their descendants, and asked them to bear witness concerning themselves (concerning their own souls): "Am I not your Lord (who cherishes and sustains you)?"- They responded: "Yes! To this we bear witness!" (This), lest you say on the Day of Return: "Of this we were ignorant"
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 4:1 On the nature of the nafs)

(Tafsir 6:73 On the blowing of the trumpet - sidebar "On seeing God")
(Tafsir 6:151-153 Basic commandments and the straight path)
(Tafsir 9:102-106 On Repentance)
(Tafsir 39:42 To die/to sleep)
(A Children's Story)
(Concept of time in the Qur'an)


Sura 7:176
...he inclines towards the earth, and follows vain desires....Therefore relate the narrative that they may reflect.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 4:1 On the nature of the nafs)
(Tawil of Karbala)


Sura 7:189
It is He who created you from a single soul, And made its mate of like nature in order that you might dwell with her in love....
Referenced in the following articles:
(Marriage (nikah) in Islam)


Sura 7:205

Remember your Lord within Yourself humbly....
Referenced in the following articles:
(A Children's Story)


Sura 8:11
When He caused calm to fall on you as a security from Him and sent down upon you water from the cloud that He might thereby purify you, and take away from you the uncleanness of the Shaitan, and that He might fortify your hearts and steady (your) footsteps thereby.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 8:11-18 Battle of Badr)


Sura 8:12
Remember thy Lord inspired the angels (with the message): "I am with you: give firmness to the Believers: I will instill fear into the hearts of the Unbelievers: Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 8:11-18 Battle of Badr)

(Concept of time in the Qur'an)


SUra 8:13,14
This is because they acted adversely to Allah and His Messenger; and whoever acts adversely to Allah and His Messenger-- then surely Allah is severe in requiting (evil).
Thus (will it be said): "so taste it: for those who resist Allah, is the penalty of the Fire.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 8:11-18 Battle of Badr)


Sura 8:15,16
O ye who believe! when ye meet the Unbelievers in hostile array, never turn your backs to them.

If any do turn his back to them on such a day - unless it be in a stratagem of war, or to retreat to a troop (of his own)- he draws on himself the wrath of Allah, and his abode is Hell,- an evil refuge (indeed).
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 8:11-18 Battle of Badr)


Sura 8:17,18
It is not ye who slew them; it was Allah: when thou threwest (a handful of dust), it was not thy act, but Allah's: in order that He might test the Believers by a gracious trial from Himself: for Allah is He Who heareth and knoweth (all things).

That, and also because Allah is He Who makes feeble the plans and stratagem of the Unbelievers.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 8:11-18 Battle of Badr)


Sura 8:48
And when Satan made their deeds seem fair to them and said: No-one of mankind can conquer you this day, for I am your protector. But when the armies came in sight of one another, he took flight, saying: Lo! I am guiltless of you. Lo! I see that which ye see not. Lo! I fear Allah. And Allah is severe in punishment.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 8:11-18 Battle of Badr)


Sura 8:63
God made their hearts familiar....
Referenced in the following articles:
(Marriage (nikah) in Islam)


Sura 9:101
And from among those who are round about you of the dwellers of the desert there are hypocrites, and from among the people of Medina (also); they are stubborn in hypocrisy; you do not know them; We know them....
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 9:102-106 On Repentance)


Sura 9:102-106
And others have confessed their faults, they have mingled a good deed and an evil one; (perhaps) Allah will turn to them (mercifully); surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

Take alms out of their property, you would cleanse them and purify them thereby, and pray for them; surely your prayer is a relief to them; and Allah is Hearing, Knowing.

Do they not know that Allah accepts repentance from His servants and takes the alms, and that Allah is the Oft-returning (to mercy), the Merciful?

And say: Work; so Allah will see your work and (so will) His Apostle and the believers; and you shall be brought back to the Knower of the unseen and the seen, then He will inform you of what you did.

And others are made to await Allah's command, whether He chastise them or whether He turn to them (mercifully), and Allah is Knowing, Wise.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 9:102-106 On Repentance)


Sura 10:24
We make clear the communications (only) for a people who reflect.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tawil of Karbala)


Sura 10:26

Those who do what is beautiful will receive the most beautiful and increase.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 6:151-153 Basic commandments and the straight path)

(A Children's Story)


Sura 10:30
There shall every soul become acquainted with what it sent before and they shall be brought back to Allah, their true Patron, and what they devised shall escape from them.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 10:30 On the barzakh)


Sura 10:31
Say: Who gives you sustenance from the heavens and the earth?...Who encompasses the hearing and the sight, And Who brings forth the living from the dead, and brings forth the dead from the living? And Who regulates the systems....
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 10:31 The living from the dead)

(What do we know)
(We have adorned for each society their acts)


Sura 10:32
...and what is there after the Real but error....
Referenced in the following articles:
(What do we know)


Sura 10:39
They deny what their knowledge does not encompass.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Concept of intellect in Islam)


Sura 10:81,82
What (they) have brought is deception; (and) surely God will make it come to nothing....(and) will show the truth to be the truth...though the guilty may be averse (to it)
Referenced in the following articles:
(Rules of political misdirection)


Sura 10:104
Say (O Muhammad): O mankind! if you are in doubt about my religion, then (know that) I do not worship those whom you worship besides Allah but I worship Allah, Who causes you to die, and I am commanded that I should be of the believers.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 10:104 Honoring the Prophet)


Sura 10:105
And that you should keep your course towards the religion uprightly (as a hanif); and you should not be of the mushriks.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 10:105 On being hanif)


Sura 11:5
Now surely they fold up their breasts that they may conceal (their enmity) from Him; now surely, when they use their garments as a covering, He knows what they conceal and what they make public; surely He knows what is in the hearts.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 11:5 Transparency before God)


Sura 11:6
And there is no animal (creature) in the earth but on Allah is the sustenance of it, and He knows its resting place (mustaqarr) and its depository (mustawada)....
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 11:5 Transparency before God)


Sura 11:7
And He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in six days (periods/phases) - and His dominion/throne (extends) on the water - He desires to manifest to you, which of you is best in action.Yet, if you, O Muhammad, tell them: 'You will be raised again after death', those who disbelieve will surely say: This is nothing but open superstition.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 9:102-106 On Repentance)

(Tafsir 11:5 Transparency before God)
(Sura 11:7 Six days of creation)


Sura 11:49-50
These are announcements relating to the unseen which We reveal to you, you did not know them - (neither) you nor your people before this; therefore be patient; surely the end is for those who guard (against evil).

And to Ad (We sent) their brother Hud. He said: O my people! serve Allah, you have no god other than He; you are nothing but forgers (of a destructive path).

Referenced in the following articles:
(Sura 11:49-50 - Hud - messages from the unseen)


Sura 11:56
I put my trust in God, My Lord and your Lord! There is not a moving creature, but He has grasp of its forelock. Verily, it is my Lord that is on a straight Path.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Knowing the Imam - On Imam Ali)


Sura 11:114
This is a word of remembrance to those who remember.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Concept of time in the Qur'an)


Sura 12:53

...(soul that) commands to evil”

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 4:1 On the nature of the nafs)


Sura 13:4
And some plants We have ranked in exellence of produce above others, even though they are watered with one water....
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 10:104 Honoring the Prophet)


Sura 14:22
And the Shaitan (Satan) shall say after the affair is decided: Surely Allah promised you the Promise of truth, and I gave you alluring promises, then failed to keep them to you, and I had no authority over you, except that I called you and you obeyed me, therefore do not blame me but blame yourselves: I cannot be your helper (now) nor can you be my helpers; surely I disbelieved in your associating me with Allah before; surely it is the unjust that shall have the painful punishment.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Power and Hegemony)


Sura 14:24
...its roots are in this earth but (its) branches are in the highest heavens.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 11:49-50 Hud - messages from the unseen)


Sura 14:42
O our Lord! grant me protection and my parents and the believers on the day when (the reality of all things will be exposed) and the reckoning shall come to pass!

And do not think God to be heedless of what the unjust do; He only respites them to a day on which the eyes shall be fixedly open...
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 7:94-96 Prosperity and Humility - sidebar: "Seeking Protection")


Sura 14:43
...running forward with necks oustretched, their heads uplifted (in arrogance) ...their hearts a gaping void.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 7:94-96 Prosperity and Humility)


Sura 14:44,45

And warn people of the day when the chastisement shall come to them, then those who were unjust will say: O our Lord! respite us to a near term, (so) we shall respond to Thy call and follow the apostles. What! did you not swear before (that) there will be no decline (and no judgement) for you!

And you dwell in the places (and in the manner) of those who were unjust to themselves (to their souls), and it is clear to you how We dealt with them and We have made (them) examples to you.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 7:94-96 Prosperity and Humility - sidebar: "Seeking Protection")


Sura 14:46
And they have indeed planned their plan, but their plan is utterly encompassed by Allah, even if their plan is of such (complexity, duration, and power) that the mountains should pass away thereby.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 7:94-96 Prosperity and Humility - sidebar: "Seeking Protection")


Sura 15:85
We created not the heavens and the earth and what is between them but through the Truth (the Real); and the hour will most surely come, so turn away (from the ignorant and heedless) with kindly forgiveness.
Referenced in the following articles:
(What is truth?)


Sura 16:21
Dead are they, not living….
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 10:31 The living from the dead)


Sura 16:81
...and He has given you in the mountains places of retreat....
Referenced in the following articles:
(The ascending pathways)


Sura 16:87-90
....what they used to forge shall depart from them....We will raise up in every people a witness over them from among themselves.... Surely Allah enjoins the doing of justice and the doing of good (to others)...and He admonishes you that you may be deeply mindful.
Referenced in the following articles:
(History and Perception)


Sura 17:7
If you do what is beautiful, you do what is beautiful to your own souls, and if you do what is ugly (asa), it is to them likewise.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 6:151-153 Basic commandments and the straight path)

(A Children's Story)


Sura 17:11,13
Man prays for evil as he prays for good, and man was ever hasty (impatient)...And every man's augury have we fastened on his neck; and we will bring forth for him on the day of resurrection a book offered to him wide open. 'Read your book, you are accountant enough against yourself today.'....He who accepts guidance, accepts it only for his own soul: and he who errs, errs only against it....

Referenced in the following articles:
(Concept of intellect in Islam - sidebar: Intellect and Ego)


Sura 17:32
...opening the road to other evils

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 6:151-153 Basic commandments and the straight path)


Sura 17:82
We reveal of the Qur’an that which is a healing and a mercy to the believers, but it adds only to the perdition of the unjust.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Shards of Knowledge)


Sura 17:100

If you controlled the treasures of the mercy of my Lord, then you would withhold (them) because of greed....

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 11:5 Transparency before God)


Sura 17:105
And with truth have We revealed it, and with truth did it come....

Referenced in the following articles:
(What is truth?)


Sura 18:59
...it is the junction of the two seas....
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 4:1 On the nature of the nafs)


Sura 18:88
...say: As for him who has faith and does wholesome works, his recompense shall be the most beautiful.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 6:151-153 Basic commandments and the straight path)
(A Children's Story)


Sura 19:52
...And We called to him from the blessed side of the mountain....
Referenced in the following articles:
(The ascending pathways)


Sura 19:58,59

These are they on whom Allah bestowed favors, from among the prophets of the seed of Adam, and of those whom We carried with Nuh, and of the seed of Ibrahim and Israel, and of those whom We guided and chose; when the communications of the Beneficent God were recited to them, they fell down in humility and weeping. But there came after them an ugly generation, who neglected prayers and followed power and desire, so they will meet perdition, except such as repent and believe and do good, these shall enter the garden, and they shall not be dealt with unjustly in any way.
Referenced in the following articles:
(This Israel)


Sura 19:88-99
Indeed you have put forth a thing most monstrous! As if the skies are ready to burst, the earth to split asunder and the mountains to fall down in utter ruin.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Ecology, Environment and Islam)


Sura 20:7
...knows the secret, and what is yet more hidden....
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 11:5 Transparency before God)


Sura 20:46
Surely with the two of you, I hear and I see.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 8:11-18 Battle of Badr)


Sura 20:50
Our Lord is He Who gave to everything its creation, then guided it to its goal.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 10:31 The living from the dead)

(What is truth?)


Sura 20:96
He (Samiri) said: I saw what they did not see, so I took a handful (of the dust) from the footsteps of the messenger, then I threw it in the casting (of the calf); thus did my soul (nafs) commend to me.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 7:152 False religion - the golden calf)


Sura 21:18

We cast the truth against the falsehood, so that it demolishes it, and lo! it vanishes away....

Referenced in the following articles:
(What is truth?)


Sura 22:6
God is the Truth (the Real - Al Haqq).

Referenced in the following articles:
(What is truth?)


Sura 22:46

For surely it is not the eyes that grow blind, but it is the hearts (which are in the breasts) that grow blind.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Martyrdom (Looking towards God)


Sura 22:47

...a day whose measure is a thousand years of what you count.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Sura 11:7 - Six days of creation)


Sura 22:58
And (as for) those who fly in Allah's way and are then slain or die, Allah will most certainly grant them a goodly sustenance

Referenced in the following articles:
(Martyrdom (Looking towards God)


Sura 23:50
And We made the son of Mary and his mother as a Sign

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 5:116-120 On Jesus)


Sura 24:21
...follow not the footsteps of Shaitan...he will but command what is shameful and wrong.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 6:151-153 Basic commandments and the straight path)


Sura 24:35
Light upon light – Allah guides to His Light whom He pleases.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 10:31 The living from the dead)


Sura 24:40
...darkness upon darkness...
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 11:5 Transparency before God)


Sura 25:42

Have you seen him who has taken his own caprice to be his god?
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 6:151-153 Basic commandments and the straight path)
(Jesus - An Islamic Perspective)


Sura 25:53-54
And it is He who has made the two seas to flow freely, the one sweet that subdues thirst by its sweetness, and the other salt that burns by its saltiness....And it is He who has created man from the water....

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 4:1 On the nature of the nafs)


Sura 25:63
And the servants of the Merciful are those who walk on the earth in humility....
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 7:94-96 Prosperity and Humility)


Sura 26:50
It will be no harm unto us; for we shall return to our Lord.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 8:11-18 Battle of Badr)


Sura 26:130
And when you impose control over men, you control like tyrants....
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 11:5 Transparency before God)


Sura 28:5
And we wished to show favour unto those who were oppressed in the land, and to make them Imams, and to make them the inheritors.
Referenced in the following articles:
(New year's day (Muharram)


Sura 28:77
Do what is beautiful, as God has done what is beautiful to you.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 6:151-153 Basic commandments and the straight path)

(A Children's Story)


Sura 30:6,7
...they know a manifest side of the life of this world, but of the last world they are utterly heedless and ignorant.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 10:30 On the barzakh)


Sura 30:29
...So direct your countenance to religion as a hanif, in accordance with the predisposition God has given man. Allah's creation can not be altered. This is the true religion.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 10:105 On being hanif)


Sura 31:28
...neither your creation nor your rising is anything but as a single soul.
Referenced in the following articles:
(We have adorned for each society their acts)


Sura 32:5
He regulates the affair from the heaven to the earth….
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 39:42 To die/to sleep)



Sura 33:67
And they shall say: O our Lord! surely we obeyed our leaders and our great men, so they led us astray from the path.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 33:67 Prisoners of thought)


Sura 33:72
We did indeed offer the Trust to the Heavens and the Earth and the Mountains; but they refused to undertake it, being afraid thereof: but man undertook it....
Referenced in the following articles:
(A Children's Story)
(Ecology, Environment and Islam)
(Jesus - An Islamic Perspective)
(Concept of time in the Qur'an)


Sura 34:13
Very few of my servants are grateful.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 7:94-96 Prosperity and Humility)


Sura 34:34
And when We sent a warner to a society, those who led (powerful and) pampered lives of ease in it said: We are surely disbelievers in what you are sent with.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 7:94-96 Prosperity and Humility)


Sura 34:46
...rise up for Allah’s sake in twos and singly....
Referenced in the following articles:
(We have adorned for each society their acts)


Sura 35:40

...the powerful among the unjust speak out words (of promise) only to lead-on and deceive....
Referenced in the following articles:
(Rules of political misdirection)


Sura 36:8

We have put yokes around their necks, right up to their chins, so that their heads are forced up...
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 7:94-96 Prosperity and Humility)


Sura 36:12
We have made everything known through
(recorded everything within) a clarifying imam....
Referenced in the following articles:
(Ashura - sidebar: Vicegerency of Husayn)


Sura 36:36
God created everything in pairs....
Referenced in the following articles:
(Marriage (Nikah) in Islam)


Sura 36:37
And a sign for them is the night: We pull out from it the daytime, and they are in darkness.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 10:31 The living from the dead)


Sura 36:54
Then on that Day, Not a soul will be wronged in the least, And ye shall but be repaid the meeds of your past deeds
Referenced in the following articles:
(Ecology, Environment and Islam)


Sura 36:60-61
Did I not make a covenant with you, Children of Adam, that you should not worship Shaitan - surely he is a clear enemy to you - and that you should worship Me? This is a straight path.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 6:151-153 Basic commandments and the straight path)

(Tafsir 9:102-106 On Repentance - sidebar: "Origins of Repentance")
(Power and Hegemony)


Sura 38:29 
(It is) a Book We have revealed to you abounding in good that they may ponder over its verses, and that those who cultivate understanding may be deeply mindful.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Hermeneutics of takfir)


Sura 38:45-47
 
And remember Our servants Ibrahim (Abraham) and Ishaq (Isaac) and Yaqoub (Jacob), men with power of insight. Surely We purified them by a pure quality, the penetrating consciousness (remembrance) of the final home. And most surely they were with Us, of the elect, the best.
Referenced in the following articles:
(This Israel)


Sura 38:71-72 
Behold, thy Lord said to the angels: "I am about to create man from clay:
When I have fashioned him (in due proportion) and breathed into him of My spirit, fall ye down in obeisance unto him.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 4:1 On the nature of the nafs)

(Ecology, Environment and Islam)
(Jesus - An Islamic Perspective)
(Concept of time in the Qur'an)


Sura 39:9 
Are those who know and those who do not know alike? Only the people of understanding are deeply mindful.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Hermeneutics of takfir)


Sura 39:33 
And he who brings the truth and (he who) accepts it as the truth....
Referenced in the following articles:
(What is truth?)


Sura 39:42
God takes the souls (al-anfus) at the time of their death, and those that die not during their sleep; then He withholds those on whom He has passed the decree of death and sends the others back till an appointed term; most surely there are signs in this for a people who reflect.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 39:42 To die/to sleep)


Sura 39:68,69
The trumpet will be sounded, when all that is in the heavens and the earth will swoon away, except such as it will please God to exempt. Then will a second one be sounded, when, behold, they will be standing and looking on! And the earth shines forth with the light of its Lord.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 6:73 On the blowing of the trumpet)


Sura 40:19
He knows the stealthy looks and that which the breasts conceal.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 11:5 Transparency before God)


Sura 40:63
There came not unto them any signs from the signs of their Lord but they turned away from it.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 7:94-96 Prosperity and Humility)


Sura 41:49

...when evil touches him, he is desperate and loses hope.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 6:151-153 Basic commandments and the straight path)


Sura 41:53
We shall manifest our signs on the horizons and within the souls, until the truth becomes clear to them....
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 39:42 To die/to sleep)
(Knowing the Imam - On Imam Ali - sidebar: "Taqwa")
(What do we know)
(The ascending pathways)


Sura 42:11
Nothing is like Him.
Referenced in the following articles:
(What do we know)


Sura 42:23
Say (to the people, O Prophet): I do not ask of you any reward...but love for my near relatives; and whoever earns good, We give him more of good therein; surely Allah is Forgiving, Grateful.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Ashura)


Sura 42:48

We have not sent you as a watcher over them....
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 11:5 Transparency before God)


Sura 43:4
And verily, it is in the Mother of the Book, in Our Presence, high (in dignity), full of wisdom.
Referenced in the following articles:

(Tafsir 4:135-136 On Justice)

(Ashura - sidebar: Vicegerency of Husayn)
(Concept of time in the Qur'an - sidebar: Non-linear history)


Sura 45:22
...when every soul will be repaid for what it has earned, they shall not be wronged.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 6:151-153 Basic commandments and the straight path)


Sura 45:23
Have you then considered him who takes his mundane desire for his god, and Allah has made him err having knowledge and has set a seal upon his ear and his heart and put a covering upon his eye.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Shards of Knowledge)


Sura 45:28
And you shall see every nation bent down, humbled; every nation shall be called to its book: you shall be recompensed for what you (as a society) did.

Referenced in the following articles:
(History and Perception)
(We have adorned for each society their acts)


Sura 47:17
And those who follow the straight path, He (Allah) increases them in guidance and brings them to taqwa (awareness of God).

Referenced in the following articles:
(Knowing the Imam - On Imam Ali)


Sura 49:12

O you who believe, avoid suspicion...and do not spy on one another, nor let some of you disparage or denounce others....

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 11:5 Transparency before God)


Sura 49:14

Say not that You have iman, rather say that you are Muslim, for iman has not yet entered your hearts.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 4:135-136 On Justice)


Sura 50:16-18
And certainly We created man, and We know what his mind suggests to him, and We are nearer to him than his life-vein. When the two receivers (recorders) receive, sitting on the right and on the left. He utters not a word but there is by him a watcher at hand....And every soul shall have with it a driver and a witness.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 39:42 To die/to sleep)
(Tafsir 11:5 Transparency before God)


Sura 50:22
...But now We have removed from you your veil, so your perception today is piercing....
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 39:42 To die/to sleep)


Sura 50:37
Surely there is a Reminder in that for whoever has a heart, or listens
attentively, while he is witnessing...
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 33:67 Prisoners of thought)


Sura 51:21
And in yourselves - what do you not see?
Referenced in the following articles:
(And Fast until the onset of night (Fasting in Ramadan))


Sura 51:49
And of everything we created a pair, that happily you may remember.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Marriage (Nikah) in Islam)


Sura 53:45
And of everything we created a pair, that happily you may remember.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Marriage (Nikah) in Islam)


Sura 54:45
Their army will be routed and put to flight...

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 8:11-18 Battle of Badr)


Sura 55:29
O people! You are needy unto God; and God alone is He Who is the self-sufficient, the most praised.
Referenced in the following articles:
(And Fast until the night (Fasting in Ramadan))


Sura 56:62
Certainly you have known the first state of being. Why, then, do you not recollect (the higher/deeper reality)?
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 39:42 To die/to sleep)


Sura 57:4
He (Allah) is with you wherever you are.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 2:1-5 On faith and belief)

(Tafsir 8:11-18 Battle of Badr)
(A Children's Story)
(Knowing the Imam - On Imam Ali - sidebar: "Taqwa")


Sura 58:6
On the day when Allah will raise them up all together, then inform them of what they did: Allah has recorded it while they have forgotten it.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 11:5 Transparency before God)


Sura 61:6
And remember Jesus, the Son of Mary, said....
Referenced in the following articles:
(Concept of time in the Qur'an)


Sura 65:12
...the created things encompass nothing of His knowledge, except what He pleases….(God) encompasses everything....
Referenced in the following articles:
(What do we know)


Sura 66:8
O you who believe! turn to God a sincere turning…
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 9:102-106 On Repentance - sidebar: "Origins of Repentance")


Sura 69:13,17

And when the trumpet is blown with a single blast,

And the earth and the mountains are borne away and dissolved like powder.... On that day you shall be exposed to view - no secret of yours shall remain hidden.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 6:73 On the blowing of the trumpet)


Sura 70:4
...a day whose measure is fifty thousand years.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Sura 11:7 - Six days of creation)


Sura 74:1,2
O thou shrouded in thy mantle, Arise and Warn!

Referenced in the following articles:
(Commemorating Martyrdom)
(What do we know)


Sura 75:2
...nafs that blames
(itself)....
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 4:1 On the nature of the nafs)


Sura 78:29

All is recorded in a clear book
....
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 11:5 Transparency before God)


Sura 81:5

And when the wild beasts are gathered up
....
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 11:5 Transparency before God)


Sura 81:23

And he witnesses him (Jibraeel) in the highest horizon
....
Referenced in the following articles:
(The ascending pathways)


Sura 81:27

Verily this is no less than a Message to all the Worlds.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Concept of time in the Qur'an - sidebar: Non linear history)


Sura 82:7
...Then He proportions you, then balances you....

Referenced in the following articles:
(And Fast until the onset of night (Fasting in Ramadan))


Sura 83:13
...tales of the ancients....

Referenced in the following articles:
(Concept of time in the Qur'an)


Sura 83:14,15
What they were busy acquiring has taken posession of their hearts...on that day they shall surely be veiled from their Lord.

Referenced in the following articles:
(Concept of Intellect in Islam - sidebar: Intellect and Ego)


Sura 89:27
...nafs at peace with itself
....
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 4:1 On the nature of the nafs)


Sura 90:12-16
…and what will make you comprehend what the ascending path is? (It is) the setting free of a slave, Or the giving of provision in a day of hunger, To an orphan, Or to the poor man lying in the dust.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Words on a page)


Sura 91:7-10
By the Soul, and the proportion and order given to it; And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right;- Truly he succeeds that purifies it, And he fails that corrupts it!
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 4:1 On the nature of the nafs)


Sura 95:5
Then We sent him to the lowest of the low.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Shards of Knowledge)


Sura 97:1
Surely We sent it down on the Night of (layatul) Decree (qadr). And what can convey to you what laylatul qadr is? That night is better than a thousand months. The angels and the spirit (ruh) descend in it, by the command of their Lord with every decree. (That night is) Peace till the breaking of the dawn.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 39:42 To die/to sleep)
(And Fast until the onset of night (Fasting in Ramadan))


Sura 99:1-4
When the earth is shaken with a (violent) shaking,
And the earth reveals what burdens her,
And man says: What has befallen her?
On that day she shall tell her story....
Referenced in the following articles:
(Ecology, Environment and Islam)


Sura 99:7,8
...whoever has done an atom's weight of good shall see it. And whoever has done an atom's weight of evil shall see it....
Referenced in the following articles:
(Tafsir 6:73 On the blowing of the trumpet)


Sura 102:7

...the eye of certainty.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Knowing an Imam - On Imam Ali)


Sura 112
Say, He is God, the One and Only, The Eternal, Absolute; He begets not, Nor is He begotten; And there is none (no thing) like unto Him.
Referenced in the following articles:
(Jesus - An Islamic Perspective)




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