It is not righteousness that ye turn your face towards the east or
the west, but righteousness is [in] him who believeth in God and the
Last Day, and the Angels, and the Scripture, and the Prophets, and
who giveth wealth for the love of God to his kinsfolk and to orphans
and the needy and the son of the road and them that ask and for the
freeing of slaves, and who is instant in prayer, and giveth the alms;
and those who fulfil their covenant when they covenant, and the patient
in adversity and affliction and in time of violence, these are they who
are true, and these are they who fear God.--ii. 172.
Say: We believe in God, and what hath been sent down to thee, and what
was sent down to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the
tribes, and what was given to Moses, and to Jesus, and the prophets
from their Lord,--we make no distinction between any of them,--and to
Him are we resigned: and whoso desireth other than Resignation [Islām]
for a religion, it shall certainly not be accepted from him, and in the
life to come he shall be among the losers.--iii. 78, 79.
Observe the prayers, and the middle prayer, and stand instant before
God. And if ye fear, then afoot or mounted; but when ye are safe
remember God, how he taught you what ye did not know.--ii. 239, 240.
When the call to prayer soundeth on the Day of Congregation (Friday),
then hasten to remember God, and abandon business; that is better for
you if ye only knew: and when prayer is done, disperse in the land and
seek of the bounty of God.--lxii. 9, 10.
Turn thy face towards the Sacred Mosque; wherever ye be, turn your
faces thitherwards.--ii. 139.
Give alms on the path of God, and let not your hands cast you into
destruction; but do good, for God loveth those who do good; and
accomplish the pilgrimage and the visit to God: but if ye be besieged,
then [send] what is easiest as an offering.--ii. 191.
They will ask thee what it is they must give in alms. Say: Let what
good ye give be for parents, and kinsfolk, and the orphan, and the
needy, and the son of the road; and what good ye do, verily God knoweth
it.--ii. 211.
They will ask thee what they shall expend in alms; say, The
surplus.--ii. 216.
If ye give alms openly, it is well; but if ye conceal it, and give it
to the poor, it is better for you, and will take away from you some of
your sins: and God knoweth what ye do.--ii. 273.
O ye who believe, make not your alms of no effect by taunts and
vexation, like him who spendeth what he hath to be seen of men, and
believeth not in God and the Last Day: for his likeness is as the
likeness of a stone with earth upon it, and a heavy rain falleth upon
it and leaveth it bare; they accomplish nothing with what they earn,
for God guideth not the people that disbelieve. And the likeness of
those who expend their wealth for the sake of pleasing God and for the
certainty of their souls is as the likeness of a garden on a hill: a
heavy rain falleth on it and it bringeth forth its fruit twofold; and
if no heavy rain falleth on it, then the dew falleth; and God seeth
what ye do.--ii. 266, 267.
Kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms which vexation
followeth; and God is rich and ruthful.--ii. 265.
O ye who believe, there is prescribed for you the fast as it was
prescribed for those before you; maybe ye will fear God for a certain
number of days, but he amongst you who is sick or on a journey may
fast a [like] number of other days. And for those who are able to
fast [and do not], the expiation is feeding a poor man; but he who
voluntarily doeth a good act, it is better for him; and to fast
is better for you, if ye only knew. The month of Ramadān, wherein
the Korān was sent down for guidance to men, and for proofs of the
guidance, and the distinguishing [of good and evil]; whoso amongst you
seeth this month, let him fast it; but he who is sick or on a journey,
a [like] number of other days:--God wisheth for you what is easy, and
wisheth not for you what is difficult--that ye may fulfil the number,
and magnify God, in that He hath guided you;--and maybe ye will be
thankful.--ii. 179-181.
Proclaim among the people a Pilgrimage: let them come to thee on foot
and on every fleet camel, coming by every deep pass, to be present
at its benefits to them, and to make mention of God’s name at the
appointed days over the beasts with which He hath provided them: then
eat thereof, and feed the poor and needy; then let them end the neglect
of their persons, and pay their vows, and make the circuit of the
ancient House.--xxii. 28-30.
He only shall visit the Mosques of God who believeth in God and the
Last Day, and is instant in prayer, and payeth the alms, and feareth
God only.--ix. 18.
Do ye place the giving drink to the pilgrims, and the visiting of the
Sacred Mosque, on the same level with him who believeth in God and the
Last Day, and fighteth on the path of God? They are not equal in the
sight of God.--ix. 19.
Fight in the path of God with those who fight with you;--but exceed
not; verily God loveth not those who exceed.--And kill them wheresoever
ye find them, and thrust them out from whence they thrust you out;
for dissent is worse than slaughter; but fight them not at the Sacred
Mosque, unless they fight you there: but if they fight you, then kill
them: such is the reward of the infidels! But if they desist, then
verily God is forgiving and merciful.--But fight them till there be no
dissent, and the worship be only to God;--but, if they desist, then let
there be no hostility save against the transgressors.--ii. 186-189.
They will ask thee of the sacred month, and fighting therein; say,
Fighting therein is a great sin; but turning people away from God’s
path, and disbelief in Him and in the Sacred Mosque, and turning His
people out therefrom, is a greater in God’s sight, and dissent is a
greater sin than slaughter.--ii. 214.
Forbidden to you is that which dieth of itself, and blood, and the
flesh of swine, and that which is dedicated to other than God, and what
is strangled, and what is killed by a blow, or by falling, and what
is gored, and what wild beasts have preyed on--except what ye kill in
time--and what is sacrificed to idols; and to divide by [the divination
of] arrows, that is transgression in you.--v. 4.
Make not God the butt of your oaths, that ye will be pious and fear
God, and make peace among men, for God heareth and knoweth.--ii. 224.
O ye who believe, verily wine and gambling and statues and divining
arrows are only an abomination of the devil’s making: avoid them then;
haply ye may prosper.--v. 92.