Social Rules

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Allah:

commands justice, and goodness, and generosity towards relatives
forbids immorality, and injustice, and oppression.

Fulfill Allah’s covenant when you make a covenant. Do not break your oaths after ratifying them.
Do not be like her who unravels her yarn, breaking it into pieces, after she has spun it strongly. Nor use your oaths as means of deception among you, because one community is more prosperous than another.
Had Allah willed, He would have made you one congregation, but He leaves astray whom He wills, and He guides whom He wills. And you will surely be questioned about what you used to do.
Do not use your oaths to deceive one another, so that a foot may not slip after being firm, and you taste misery because you hindered from Allah’s path, and incur a terrible torment.
And do not exchange Allah’s covenant for a small price.
What you have runs out, but what is with Allah remains. We will reward those who are patient according to the best of their deeds.
Whoever works righteousness, whether male or female, while being a believer, We will grant him a good life—and We will reward them according to the best of what they used to do.
When you read the Quran, seek refuge with Allah from Satan the outcast.
He has no authority over those who believe and trust in their Lord.
His authority is only over those who follow him, and those who associate others with Him.
When We substitute a verse in place of another verse—and Allah knows best what He reveals—they say, “You are an impostor.” But most of them do not know.
Say, “The Holy Spirit has brought it down from your Lord, truthfully, in order to stabi- lize those who believe, and as guidance and good news for those who submit.”
We are well aware that they say, “It is a human being who is teaching him.” But the tongue of him they allude to is foreign, while this is a clear Arabic tongue.
Those who do not believe in Allah’s revelations—Allah will not guide them, and for them is a painful punishment.
It is those who do not believe in Allah’s revelations who fabricate falsehood. These are the liars.

Allah cites the example of a town that was secure and peaceful, with its livelihood coming to it abundantly from every direction.

But then it turned unappreciative of Allah’s blessings, so Allah made it taste the robe of hunger and fear, because of what they used to craft.

A messenger from among them had come to them, but they denounced him, so the punishment seized them in the midst of their wrongdoing.
Eat of the lawful and good things Allah has provided for you, and be thankful for Allah’s blessings, if it is Him that you serve.
He has forbidden you carrion, and blood, and the flesh of swine, and anything conse- crated to other than Allah.

But if anyone is compelled by necessity, without being delib- erate or malicious, then Allah is Merciful.

¹¹⁶ Do not say falsehood “This is lawful, and this is unlawful” to invent lies and attribute them to Allah.

Those who invent lies and attribute them to Allah will not succeed.
1. A brief enjoyment—then they will have a painful punishment.

We have prohibited the Jews what We related to you before. We did not wrong them, but they used to wrong their own selves.

Abraham was an exemplary leader, devoted to Allah, a monotheist, and was not of the polytheists.
Thankful for His blessings. He chose him, and guided him to a straight path.
And We gave him goodness in this world, and in the Hereafter he will be among the righteous.
Then We inspired you: “Follow the religion of Abraham, the Monotheist. He was not an idol-worshiper.”
The Sabbath was decreed only for those who differed about it. Your Lord will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection regarding their differences.
Invite to the way of your Lord with wisdom and good advice, and debate with them in the most dignified manner. Your Lord is aware of those who stray from His path, and He is aware of those who are guided.
If you were to retaliate, retaliate to the same degree as the injury done to you. But if you resort to patience—it is better for the patient.
So be patient. Your patience is solely from Allah. And do not grieve over them, and do not be stressed by their schemes.