Core Work

Pray that you will not give in to temptation

Take your stand daily

good deeds do away with misdeeds

prevent evil with good

fear privation

those who are to their trusts and promises attentive

Stop sinning

exalted and full

let him say 'No' to himself

be broken

Who finds a diligent woman?

Who finds much booty?

But the narrow gate and the road that lead to life are full of trouble. Only a few people find the narrow gate.

But Yeshua said to them, "Strive hard to enter the narrow gate, for I say to you, many shall seek to enter and they shall not be able."

who hates his life in this world

I do not judge as people judge

Others have done the hard labor

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have

The truth has come, and falsehood can neither begin [anything] nor repeat [it].

Except those [poets] who believe and do righteous deeds and remember

And every small and great [thing] is inscribed

Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting

she laughs at the time to come

you see their eyes overflowing with tears because of what they have recognized of the truth

do not approach prayer while you are intoxicated until you know what you are saying or in a state of janabah

Deliver my soul from the wicked

O you who have believed, do not betray

invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind

they desire chastity

distribute the books in your handwriting

it is intended that a man be tried in this world

I only intend reform as much as I am able.

send an arbitrator from his people and an arbitrator from her people

bow not to things made by man

swear not to any oath

there is no oath in me

do not approach immoralities - what is apparent of them and what is concealed. And do not kill the soul

God is not a man that He would lie, neither a son of man to be advised; He says and he does and his word stands for eternities

the sayings that I speak to you are spirit

well nourished in body, bones rich with marrow. the picture of good health, vigorous and fit.

Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished

They did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth

Will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven

Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.

it is sung by children and babies. You are safe and secure from all your enemies; you stop anyone who opposes you.

Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine.

grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

be the ones who abstain

let his flesh become fresh with youth; let him return to the days of his youthful vigor

giving wisdom to little ones

And none rejects Our signs except everyone treacherous and ungrateful.

work in gold and in silver in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber

cast away stones

time to dance

time to heal

time to plant

time to embrace

time to search

time to throw away

Who do I send? And who goes for Us?

choose you this day whom ye will serve;

[The time of] their account has approached for the people, while they are in heedlessness turning away.

No mention comes to them anew from their Lord except that they listen to it while they are at play

the hypocrites are liars

Behold, these wicked ones are prosperous in the world and are strong in power.

No person is charged with more than his capacity

A man cannot serve two masters

And that to your Lord is the finality

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

A time for war, and a time for peace

teach them the Book and wisdom and purify them.

the Book and Wisdom and has taught you that which you did not know.

who is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor

No respecter of persons

the two angels do not teach anyone unless they say, "We are a trial, so do not disbelieve

I will certainly resist him all the days of his life

Moreover, I gave them statutes that were not good and rules by which they could not have life (Ezekiel 20)

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way.

Establish prayer and spend [in His cause] out of what We have provided them, secretly and publicly, [can] expect a profit that will never perish

And do not weaken in pursuit of the enemy. If you should be suffering - so are they suffering as you are suffering

if the fly should steal away from them a [tiny] thing, they could not recover it from him. Weak are the pursuer and pursued.

we do not understand much of what you say, and indeed, we consider you among us as weak. And if not for your family, we would have stoned you

nine family heads causing corruption

weaken the plot of the disbelievers

fight against the disbelievers collectively as they fight against you collectively

And those who have responded to their lord and established prayer and whose affair is [determined by] consultation among themselves, and from what We have provided them, they spend. And those who, when tyranny strikes them, they defend themselves, And the retribution for an evil act is an evil one like it, but whoever pardons and makes reconciliation - his reward is due

Whoever is faithful with little is faithful with much also, and whoever does evil with a little also does evil with much

Moses said to him, "May I follow you on [the condition] that you teach me from what you have been taught of sound judgement"

Your wealth and your children are but a trial

And know that your properties and your children are but a trial

And We gave them of signs that in which there was a clear trial.

And when adversity touches man, he calls upon Us; then when We bestow on him a favor from Us, he says, "I have only been given it because of [my] knowledge." Rather, it is a trial, but most of them do not know.

through this their knowledge they are perishing, and through this power it is consuming

We saved you from retaliation and tried you with a [severe] trial.

Every soul will taste death. And We test you with evil and with good as trial; and to Us you will be returned.

establish prayer and fear Him. And it is He to whom you will be gathered.

But those who hold fast to the Book and establish prayer - indeed, We will not allow to be lost the reward of the reformers

every soul will be put to trial for what it did previously

And if there should come to you guidance from Me - then whoever follows My guidance will neither go astray [in the world] nor suffer [in the Hereafter].

whoever He sends astray - you will never find for them protectors

You will surely be tested in your possessions and in yourselves

When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites

When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do

When therefore you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites

God will strike you, you hypocrite! You sit there and judge me by Moses' Teachings and yet you break those teachings by ordering these men to strike me!

Come near to God, and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners! Purify your hearts, you hypocrites!

seek the means [of nearness] to Him and strive in His cause that you may succeed.

Indeed, this was the clear trial. And We ransomed him with a great sacrifice

O you who have believed, persevere and endure and remain stationed

So pray to your Lord and sacrifice

supplicate earnestly [together] and invoke

My Lord, indeed my bones have weakened, and my head has filled with white, and never have I been in my supplication to You, my Lord, unhappy

those who purify themselves

And whoever purifies himself only purifies himself for [the benefit of] his soul

three times of privacy for you. There is no blame upon you nor upon them beyond these

Evict them from your city! Indeed, they are men who keep themselves pure.

Never will I allow to be lost the work of [any] worker among you, whether male or female; you are of one another. So those who emigrated or were evicted from their homes or were harmed in My cause or fought or were killed - I will surely remove from them their misdeeds

do not invalidate your charities with reminders or injury

And excellent is the reward of [righteous] workers.

And those who harm believing men and believing women for [something] other than what they have earned have certainly born upon themselves a slander and manifest sin.

O you who have believed, if there comes to you a disobedient one with information, investigate, lest you harm a people out of ignorance and become, over what you have done, regretful.

fight in His cause in a row as though they are a [single] structure joined firmly.

between that an [intermediate] way

And they ask you what they should spend. Say, "The excess"

those who spend their wealth in the way

Then He keeps those for which He has decreed death and releases the others for a specified term.

ordered armed struggle to test some of you

fear them not, but fear Me

And he said to a son of man: ‘the awe of God is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding’

neither desiring it or transgressing its limit

We give the people a taste of mercy after adversity has touched them, at once they conspire against Our verses

who is more unjust than one who denies the verses

We have heard. If we willed, we could say [something] like this. This is not but legends of the former peoples.

establish prayer and give zakah

recite what is easy

you train

And whatever good you put forward for yourselves - you will find it

And seek forgiveness

He will be judged with an easy account

repent, establish prayer, and give zakah

believe in the unseen, establish prayer, and spend out of what We have provided for them

establish prayer and give zakah and bow with those who bow

remove from you the impurity

whatever purifies you is the right path

enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong

excellent is the protector, and excellent is the helper

men whom neither commerce nor sale distracts

better than diversion and than a transaction

the best of providers

who is idle and disruptive

maintain yourselves

And for every nation is a messenger

who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to manifest it

[Every] matter [proceeding] from Us. Indeed, We were to send [a messenger]

And establish weight in justice and do not make deficient the balance

Weigh with an even balance

He begins the [process of] creation and then repeats it that He may reward those who have believed and done righteous deeds, in justice

begins creation and then repeats it? Indeed

do not let the hatred of a people prevent you from being just

We have cast among them animosity and hatred until the Day of Resurrection

Be just; that is nearer to righteousness

full measure and weight in justice and do not deprive the people of their due and do not commit abuse on the earth

a community which guides by truth and by it establishes justice.

emigrate for the cause

emigrate therein

who have believed and emigrated and fought

Who took their religion as distraction and amusement and whom the worldly life deluded

And when you call to prayer, they take it in ridicule and amusement. That is because they are a people who do not use reason.

when you are disengaged, then work hard

seek help through patience and prayer, and indeed, it is difficult except for the humbly submissive

And if they seek help of you for the religion, then you must help, except against a people between yourselves and whom is a treaty

Day after day men came to help

And fear a Day when no soul will suffice for another soul at all, and no compensation will be accepted from it, nor will any intercession benefit it, nor will they be aided.

judge between them or turn away from them. And if you turn away from them – never will they harm you at all. And if you judge, judge between them with justice

do not let the hatred of a people prevent you from being just. Be just; that is nearer to righteousness

his power in the muscles of his belly

I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

You clothed me with skin and flesh, and wove me together with bones and tendons. Then you tied my bones together with muscles and covered them with flesh and skin

You clothed me with skin and flesh, and you knit my bones and sinews together.

The man said, "I have remained a day or part of a day." He said, "Rather, you have remained one hundred years. Look at your food and your drink; it has not changed with time.

Encourage the exhausted, and strengthen the feeble.

Set Me as a seal on your arm

The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a garment

Then the earth is changed like clay under a seal

And when he attained his full strength and was [mentally] mature, We bestowed upon him judgement

if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hand, then may another eat what I have sown,

No soul will benefit from its faith as long as it had not believed before or had earned through its faith some good

The soul has been given it's own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.

You are to make an ornament of pure gold and engrave on it as on a seal

You were the seal of full measure, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty

And indeed it is, in the Mother of the Book with Us, exalted and full of wisdom

set a seal upon their hearts and upon their hearing

The spirit is indeed willing, but the body is weak

And do not give the weak-minded your property

the body in all things

All that your hand finds to do, with your power do

Bend your ear and hear the words of the wise and apply your heart to knowledge. Because they are sweet, keep them in your gut, and they will form together upon your lips.

his belly the work of ivory on the blowing of sapphire

Your body is full and slender like a bundle of wheat bound together by lilies.

Verily, We created man in the best stature then We reduced him to the lowest of the low. Save those who believe and do good works, and theirs is a reward unfailing.

the winnowers with winnowing

I have winnowed them

the wind carried him down into a remote place

the runners with ease

Never will fleeing benefit you if you should flee from death or killing; and then [if you did], you would not be given enjoyment [of life] except for a little.

He will let you enjoy a good provision for a specified term and give every doer of favor his favor. But if you turn away, then indeed, I fear for you the punishment of a great Day.

We have certainly created man into hardship. Does he think that never will anyone overcome him?

And [by] He who created the male and female, Indeed, your efforts are diverse.

Indeed, He begins the [process of] creation and then repeats it that He may reward those who have believed and done righteous deeds, in justice. But those who disbelieved will have a drink of scalding water and a painful punishment for what they used to deny.

test what is in your breasts and purify what is in your hearts

Purify My House

And remember the name of your Lord and devote yourself to Him with [complete] devotion.

beautiful in appearance, and skilled in all wisdom, and possessing knowledge, and acquainted with prudence

Prudence shines from the face of the wise. The eyes of the foolish are on the ends of the earth.

not with outward observation

Stop judging by outward appearances

what comes to you of evil, [O man], is from yourself.

order that there not be upon the believers any discomfort

who conceals his violence by outward appearances

And if he sins against you seven times in a day and seven times in the day returns to you and says, 'I am sorry', forgive him

Seven times a day I have praised you for your righteous judgements

And indeed, every time I invited them that You may forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, covered themselves with their garments, persisted, and were arrogant

the hypocrites [think to] deceive

watch at my doors day by day

On the seventh day, they got up at daybreak and marched around the city seven times in the same manner, except that on that day they circled the city seven times.

Boxing

punish them by your hands

fighting was ordained for them

his legs are alabaster pillars set on pedestals of pure gold. His presence is like Lebanon, as majestic as the cedars.

Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!

Behold, you have instructed many, and you would strengthen the hands of the weak

And from the days of John the Immerser until now, the kingdom of the heavens suffers violence, and violent men seize it by force

Stand up like a man, and brace yourself

By pressing on them, indeed, he is drawing you away from distress

Dancing

Come back! Come back, young woman from Shulam! Come back! Come back so that we may look at you! Why do you look at me, the young woman from Shulam, as you look at the dance of Mahanaim?

Dancing for two army camps

How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word. With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.

The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course.

Imagine! His left hand cradling my head, his right arm around my waist!

I have pledged to You what is in my womb, consecrated

And leave the sea in stillness. Indeed, they are an army to be drowned.

Formidable as an army

Lefthandedness

His left hand should be under my head

But as for he who is given his record in his left hand, he will say, "Oh, I wish I had not been given my record

Out of all these people seven hundred choice men were left-handed; each one could sling a stone at a hair and not miss

Ehud made himself a double-edged sword 18 inches long. He strapped it to his right thigh under his clothes

Ambidexterity

Be sharp! Attack on the right, or parry to your left, wherever you point your sword

They were equipped with bows, using both the right hand and the left to sling stones and to shoot arrows from the bow

You should have struck the ground five or six times

let not [your] dissension from me cause you to be struck

Hygeine

My wife says my breath stinks; even my children say I smell bad!

How much more will he accuse those who live in clay houses that have their foundation in the dust

And there will be dust in place of their sweet perfume, and instead of a girdle of their loins, a sawing apron, and instead of plaited hair, baldness, and instead of their dark blue they shall be covered in sackcloth, because their beauty shall be destroyed

he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful

Walking

And do not walk upon the earth exultantly

And the servants of the Most Merciful are those who walk upon the earth easily, and when the ignorant address them, they say peace

The house of Israel has surrounded me with deceit. But Judah still walks with God

Who walks on the wings of the wind

He is the One who has made the earth submissive for you, so walk on its shoulders, and eat out of His provision, and to Him will be the Resurrection.

And be moderate in your walk, and tone down your voice; surely the most repugnant of voices is indeed that of the asses.

It is a cow which is neither old nor virgin, but median between that

Appetite Control

their god is their stomach

gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

And if you [must] turn away from the needy awaiting mercy from your Lord which you expect, then speak to them a gentle word.

O you who have believed, do not consume one another's wealth unjustly but only [in lawful] business by mutual consent.

Your rich commerce led you to violence, and you sinned

save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent

Indeed, those who unjustly consume orphans' wealth in fact consume nothing but fire into their bellies. And they will be burned in a blazing Hell!

those who abide eternally in the Fire and are given to drink scalding water that will sever their intestines

Every time they want to get out of Hellfire from anguish, they will be returned to it

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation

They fulfill vows and fear a Day whose evil will be widespread. And they give food in spite of love for it to the needy, the orphan, and the captive

their tongues assert the lie that they will have the best [from Him]. Assuredly, they will have the Fire

If you refuse to testify in court about something you saw or know has happened, you have sinned and can be punished

inclining to truth, and to establish prayer and to give zakah. And that is the correct religion.

And whoever remains safe from his own greediness, it is such that will prosper.

He has only forbidden you carrion, blood, pig's meat, and animals over which any name other than God's has been invoked. But if anyone is forced to eat such things by hunger, rather than desire or excess, he commits no sin: God is most merciful and forgiving.

Say, "O people of the Book, be not excessive in your faith unjustly, and do not follow the desires of a people who already went astray, misled many and lost the right path.

Have you seen he who has taken as his god his desire

eat and drink, but be not excessive. Indeed, He likes not those who commit excess.

We have made that which is on the earth adornment for it that We may test them [as to] which of them is best in deed.

And you do not urge one another on (offering) food to the indigent. And you eat the heritage with indiscriminate eating, And you love wealth with an ardent love

Indeed, those who committed crimes used to laugh at those who believed.

So Today those who believed are laughing at the disbelievers

If you ridicule us, then we will ridicule you just as you ridicule.

Have you seen the one who denies the Recompense? For that is the one who drives away the orphan

But you do not honor the orphan. And you do not encourage one another to feed the poor.

Indeed, those who do not expect the meeting with Us and are satisfied with the life of this world and feel secure therein and those who are heedless of Our signs. For those their refuge will be the Fire because of what they used to earn.

weighed on the scales and found lacking

The weighing on that Day will be just. As for those whose scale will be heavy with good deeds, only they will be successful. But those whose scale is light, they have doomed themselves for wrongfully denying Our signs

He will say, "Oh, I wish I had sent ahead [some good] for my life."

Every person will reap only what they sowed

Yeshua said to them, My personal food is that I do the will of Him who has sent Me and finish His work

If thou abandon thyself to mirth, and stretch forth thine hand in a quarrel, thou shalt be disgraced.

Yet if there is an angel at their side, a messenger, one out of a thousand, sent to tell them how to be upright, and he is gracious to that person and says to God, "Spare them from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom for them—let their flesh be renewed like a child's; let them be restored as in the days of their youth"—then that person can pray to God and find favor with Him

Nutrition

Clearly, I have no help in myself; common sense has been driven from me

Better to eat vegetables with people you love than to eat the finest meat where there is hate

Please! Try an experiment on your servants — for ten days have them give us only vegetables to eat and water to drink.

Do not make unlawful the wholesome things which God has made lawful for you

I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts

I myself will teach your people and give them prosperity and peace

The mandrakes have given a fragrance, and all our fruits, new ones and old ones, my beloved, I have kept for you upon our gates

Why do you spend money on what is not food, and your wages on what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and you will enjoy the choicest of foods.

Do not treat him harshly, but fear your God.

O mankind, fear your Lord.

mankind was created weak.

If you are wanting worldly life and its attraction, then come on! I'll let you enjoy them and dismiss you in a handsome fashion.

show me what they have created from the earth

Through that water I then created gardens for you, the like of palms and grapevines. You have fruits of varying colours and appearance that grow within them, like figs, pomegranates and apples, of which you eat

The waters nourished it, deep springs made it grow tall; their streams flowed all around its base and sent their channels to all the trees of the field.

So We have brought into being for you therewith gardens of palms and vineyards; in them you have many fruits for you, and of them you eat. And a tree that comes out (Literally: goes out) from At-Tûr of Sayna (Mount Sinai) that grows fats (i.e., oil) and seasoning for (the) eaters.

Limiting-Stress-Elimination

Direct your face

Then is one who walks fallen on his face better guided or one who walks erect on a straight path?

No change

invent for themselves

In whatever form He willed has He assembled you

formidable as an army

He said, "Our Lord is He who gave each thing its form and then guided [it]."

an image formed by the art and imagination of man

I praise you seven times a day for your righteous judgments

what remains of this wrath you wear as an ornament

Do they not see that they are tried every year once or twice but then they do not repent nor do they remember?

you took them in mockery to the point that they made you forget My remembrance, and you used to laugh at them. Indeed, I have rewarded them this Day for their patient endurance - that they are the attainers [of success].

Your vision will return to you humbled while it is fatigued.

As for he who thinks himself without need, To him you give attention.

You made us lifeless twice and gave us life twice, and we have confessed our sins. So is there to an exit any way

Those will be given their reward twice for what they patiently endured and [because] they avert evil through good, and from what We have provided them they spend

When he laid its foundations, it cost him the life of his oldest son

Oh, I wish I had died before this and was in oblivion, forgotten.

wrath brings punishment by the sword

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

Therefore, remove anger from your heart; and keep from harming your body

Most of them are defiantly disobedient. They will not harm you except for [some] annoyance.

Who comprehends the strength of your anger? Your wrath matches the fear it inspires.

They may cry out, but no one answers, because of evil men's pride

Don't desire the night, when people suddenly die

no physical desire

He does not consider those who think of themselves as wise

Even if her labor is in vain, it doesn't really care

It is useless for you to work so hard from early morning until late at night, anxiously working for food to eat;

And He has subjected to you whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth, all together from Him. Surely in that are signs for a people who meditate.

Man should reflect on what he was created from. He is created of spouting water emerging from between the backbone and the ribs.

Another of His signs is this: you see the earth lying desolate, but when We send water down on to it, it stirs and grows. He who gives it life will certainly give life to the dead. He has power over everything.

Sow in righteousness in your own interest, reap in gracious love, break up your own unprepared ground

the righteous children of men who know righteousness endure.

Lo this have I found, said Ecclesiastes, weighing one thing after another, that I might find out the account

Substance got in haste shall be diminished: but that which by little and little is gathered with the hand shall increase.

the Hebrew text literally reads "black am I and beautiful" (שְׁחוֹרָ֤ה אֲנִי֙ וְֽנָאוָ֔ה).

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black;

And We did certainly create man out of clay from an altered black mud

Do not stare at me because I am swarthy

who is among those who eat the flesh of pigs, rats and other unclean things

Aging

Is wisdom only with aged men? discernment only with long life?

And he is as a skin which wears out, and like clothing which a moth eats.

Just as dead flies make perfumed oil stink, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

when the earth has taken on its adornment and is beautified and its people suppose that they have capability over it, there comes to it Our command by night or by day, and We make it as a harvest, as if it had not flourished yesterday

Focus

We will strengthen your arm through your brother

She gathers her strength around her

Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water

For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he

Show that they are as beasts

I'll fall on him unexpectedly when he's tired and powerless, I'll frighten him, all the people will flee, and I'll attack only the king. Then I will bring back to you all the people; and when they have returned, except the one you are seeking, all the people will be at peace

Do not let all kinds of strange teachings lead you from the right way. It is good to receive inner strength from God's grace, and not by obeying rules about foods; those who obey these rules have not been helped by them.

A wise man shall not boast in his wisdom, and the mighty man shall not boast in his might, neither shall the rich man boast in his wealth

Whoever desires the harvest of the Hereafter, We will increase their harvest. And whoever desires only the harvest of this world, We will give them some of it, but they will have no share in the Hereafter.

the harvest of a people who have wronged themselves

Do not invalidate your charities with reminders or injury as does one who spends his wealth only to be seen by the people

Pollution has appeared on land and at sea because of what man's hands have accomplished, so he may let them taste something of what they have earned, in order that they will turn back [in repentance].

Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

My own vineyard I had to neglect

My vineyard is mine; I tend it myself

not to awaken or stir up love until it wants to arise!

there is no flaw in you.

drink your fill of love

Eat and drink in satisfaction for what you used to do.

For love is as strong as death, Jealousy is cruel as Sheol; The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, A very flame of Jehovah

If she is a wall, we will build towers of silver on her. If she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar

Who can withstand jealousy?

Indeed, some assumption is sin. And do not spy or backbite each other. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his brother when dead?

Many of the People of the Scripture wish they could turn you back to disbelief after you have believed, out of envy from themselves after the truth has become clear to them.

Or do they envy people

I wish you were either one or the other

how I wish you would listen to me!

Go, and I wish you well.

O God, how I wish you would kill the wicked!

I wish you would keep silent

I wish you peace and prosperity.

Oh, how I wish you would kiss me passionately

Who brings forth what is hidden within the heavens and the earth and knows what you conceal and what you declare

And none differed over the Scripture except those who were given it - after the clear proofs came to them - out of jealous animosity among themselves.

burden us not with that which we have no ability to bear. And pardon us; and forgive us; and have mercy upon us. You are our protector, so give us victory over the disbelieving people.

Youth

You have abandoned your first love

Let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth

Do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth

Remember the days of your youth

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth

Rejoice in the wife of your youth

Hold not to marriage bonds with disbelieving women, but ask for what you have spent and let them ask for what they have spent

Grey

But Pharaoh disobeyed the Messenger, so we seized him with a ruinous seizure Then how can you fear, if you disbelieve, a Day that will make the children white-haired?

Surely my bones have become brittle, and grey hair has spread across my head, but I have never been disappointed in my prayer to You, my Lord!

Also another phenomenon I saw in regard to the lightnings: how some of the stars arise and become lightnings and cannot part with their new form.

A crown of beauty are grey hairs, In the way of righteousness it is found.

Do not swear by your head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black.

Planning

And no aged person is granted [additional] life nor is his lifespan lessened but that it is in a register. Indeed

Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

You provide a broad path for my feet

You are to differentiate between what's sacred and common

And when he had attained full strength, We brought him wise judgment and knowledge, for thus do We repay those who excel in doing good.

The hypocrites, both men and women, are all the same: they order what is wrong and forbid what is right; they are tight-fisted. They have ignored God, so He has ignored them. The hypocrites are the disobedient ones.

Oh, I wish I had been with them so I could have attained a great attainment.

My Lord, save me from the wrongdoing people.

My Lord, build for me near You a house in Paradise and save me

you would certainly have recognized them by their marks and most certainly you can recognize them by the intent of (their) speech

a changeable man does not reign

the changeable of heart shall be consumed, and they will not wail in passion

you see the believing men and believing women, their light proceeding before them and on their right

The example of His light is like a niche within which is a lamp, the lamp is within glass

For whatever sign We change or eliminate or cause to recede into oblivion, We bring forth a better sign, one that is identical. Do you not know that God has power over all things?

over all things, a Keeper.

You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.

God requireth that which is past.

Look at all who are proud, and bring them down

When they enter a city, they ruin it and render the honored of its people humbled

We did not create the heavens and earth and that between them in play

Grooming

Those people love a fleeting show, and leave a heavy day behind them. We too have created them and strengthened their sinews. Whenever We wish, We will replace them with others like them in exchange.

On the seventh day they must shave off all their hair

Myrrh and Cassia and Storax make all your garments fragrant from The Excellent Temple, and from my presence they have gladdened you

When the day's cool breeze comes up and the shadows lengthen, I will get myself to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense

And make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer. It is to be salted and pure and sacred

You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit!

We repaid them for their injustice. And indeed, We are truthful.

Stretching

He crouches down and stretches like a lion; like a lioness, who dares to provoke him?

He will bend his back to the burden

they prostrated

they prostrated themselves and did Him homage

Then he said, "Blessed be that man by God." And they bowed and prostrated themselves.

And seeing them, he rose up and went to meet them: and worshipped prostrate to the ground

For The Spirit is God, and it is fitting that those who worship him worship in The Spirit and in The Truth.

And you laugh and do not weep. While you are proudly sporting? So prostrate

And the man bowed his head, and prostrated himself before the LORD.

for you do not bow yourselves to another god—for YHWH, whose Name [is] Zealous, is a zealous God.

Zeal for Your house

And recall when We located the House for Abraham: “Do not associate anything with Me, and cleanse My House for the circumambulators and those who stand to pray and those who kneel and prostrate.

Oh, I wish I had not associated with my Lord anyone.

Surely We have made on their necks shackles, so they are up to the chins, so they are stiff-necked. And We have made before them (Literally: between their hands) a barrier and behind them a barrier, then We enveloped them, so they do not behold (the Truth).

Cardio

March forth, whether you are light (being healthy, young and wealthy) or heavy (being ill, old and poor), and strive hard with your wealth and your lives in the Cause

Enactments (Reward for good or punishment for evil) have already passed away before you; so travel in the earth, then look into how was the end of the beliers. This is an evidence for mankind and a guidance and an admonition for the pious. And do not feel feeble nor grieve; and you are the most exalted in case you are believers.

Come away quickly, my beloved. Run like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

They were experts with shields and spears, as fierce looking as lions and as quick as mountain deer

It is said that one's left thigh will be the first to bear the witness

their hands will speak to Us, and their legs will bear witness

Your thighs shelter a paradise of pomegranates with rare spices — henna with nard

Strike your foot to the ground

Moderation

For regulating the human (in our constitution) and rendering the (proper) service to the heavenly, there is nothing like moderation. It is only by this moderation that there is effected an early return (to man's normal state).

And if only they upheld [the law of] the Torah, the Gospel, and what has been revealed to them from their Lord, they would have consumed [provision] from above them and from beneath their feet. Among them are a moderate community

And [they are] those who, when they spend, do so not excessively or sparingly but are ever, between that, [justly] moderate

Then we caused to inherit the Book those We have chosen of Our servants; and among them is he who wrongs himself, and among them is he who is moderate, and among them is he who is foremost in good deeds

He who has done an atom's weight of good will receive his rewards, and he who has done an atom's weight of evil will receive his punishments.

We touch with Our mercy whom We will, and We do not allow to be lost the reward of those who do good.

But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.

the outcome of patience is ease and reward

a soft tongue breaks the bone

For men is a share of what they have earned, and for women is a share of what they have earned.

He that spares his words knows knowledge, and a patient man is wise.

I have been silent: shall I also always be silent and forbear: I have endured like a travailing woman: I will now amaze

Love

Your wives are a place of sowing of seed for you, so come to your place of cultivation however you wish and put forth [righteousness] for yourselves

do not keep them, intending harm, to transgress [against them]. And whoever does that has certainly wronged himself.

my advice will not benefit you - although I wished to advise you

How we wish we had obeyed

Let thy fountain of water be truly thine own; and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Let thy loving hart and thy graceful colt company with thee, and let her be considered thine own, and be with thee at all times; for ravished with her love thou shalt be greatly increased.

He treated Abram well because of her, and Abram acquired flocks and herds, male and female donkeys, male and female slaves, and camels.

And the sons of the Elohim saw the daughters of the adam that they were good

a donkey who carries volumes [of books]

nor [is it] for you to exchange them

Humility

if you have raced with men on foot, and they have wearied you, how will you compete with horses?

Race toward forgiveness

I wish my people could know Of how my Lord has forgiven me and placed me among the honored.

Is it you who produced its tree, or are We the producer?

Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me. They turn, but not to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall

What will you say when He sets over you close allies whom you yourself trained? Will not pangs of anguish grip you, as they do a woman in labor

It is God who creates you weak, then gives you strength, then weakness after strength, together with your grey hair

Because of rebellion, the LORD's people and the daily sacrifice were given over to it.

offer sacrifices day after day

Which is more important? the sacrifice? or the altar which makes the sacrifice holy?

If I have to let him taste from Me health, riches and well-being after difficulty and sickness that afflicted him he will certainly say: This is mine, because I am worthy and deserving of it. I do not think the hour will take place. If it is assumed that the hour will take place then I will have the very best

God rescues the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ears in oppression.

Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.

The only people who(truly) believe in Our signs are those who, when they are reminded of them, fall down prostrating and highly exalt their Lord with praise, and they are not arrogant.

to the right and to the left, prostrating

And it is God who has given you spouses from amongst yourselves and through them He has given you children and grandchildren and provided you with good things. How can they believe in falsehood and deny God's blessings?

Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!

But -- in this let the boaster boast himself, In understanding and knowing Me, For I am

For he was looking for The City which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God

Mankind, what has lured you away from God, your generous Lord, who created you, shaped you, proportioned you, in whatever form He chose?

he represented himself to her as a well-proportioned man.

When she realized that she waited in vain, her hope was lost. She took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.

Consider the works of God, that no man can correct whom he hath despised

Whatever things you have been given for the life of this world are merely temporary gratification and vanity: that which is with God is better and more lasting - will you not use your reason?

So eat of what they catch for you, and mention the name

And eat not up your property among yourselves in vanity, nor seek by it to gain the hearing of the judges that ye may knowingly devour a portion of the property of others wrongfully.

Surely the present life (Literally: the lowly life, i.e., the life of this world) is only playing and diversion; and in case you believe and be pious, He will bring you your rewards and will not ask of you your riches. In case He asks you for them, and so importune you, you would be miserly, and He would bring out your malice.

in malice be children, and in sense be perfect

And you will see every community kneeling down. Every community will be called to its Book (of record). Today you will be recompensed for what you used to do.

your Lord is swift in penalty; but indeed, He is Forgiving and Merciful.

In long-suffering is prosperity

A merciful man is long-suffering

remember thy Lord within thyself humbly and with awe

Come not near to me, for I am holier than thou

Whoever He wants to misguide - He makes his breast tight and constricted as though he were climbing into the sky.

Legacy

But they that are learned shall shine as the brightness of the firmament: and they that instruct many to justice, as stars for all eternity

Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees.

Whoever works righteousness - whether male or female - while he (or she) is a true believer verily, to him We will give a good life (in this world with respect, contentment and lawful provision), and We shall pay them certainly a reward in proportion to the best of what they used to do.

And what will explain to thee the path that is steep? (It is:) freeing the bondman; Or the giving of food in a day of privation to the orphan with claims of relationship, or to the indigent (down) in the dust.

He who sets me at naught and does not receive my teachings is not left without a judge: the Message which I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.

Moses said to his people, "O my people, why do you harm me while you certainly know that I am the messenger

So whoever will see does so for [the benefit of] his soul, and whoever is blind [does harm] against it. And [say], "I am not a guardian over you."

Like a stopped up fountain and a stream of sewage, so is a righteous one that falls down before an evil one.

Because you have let slip from your hand the man I had devoted to destruction, your life will be exchanged for his life, and your people for his people

do not throw [yourselves] with your [own] hands into destruction [by refraining]. And do good

Do not be afraid; from now on, you will be catching men for salvation.

Every time there came to a nation its messenger, they denied him, so We made them follow one another [to destruction]

Charity

Among you are those who truly deserve benefaction; they have been restrained from earning their livelihood because they participated in the war of belief against unbelief

godless men should not rule or lay snares for the people.

Whatever you give for interest to increase within the wealth of people will not increase

Whatever good you put forward for yourselves - you will find it

Kind speech and forgiveness are better than charity followed by injury

Whoever gives [up his right as] charity, it is an expiation for him

The example of those who disbelieve in their Lord is [that] their deeds are like ashes which the wind blows forcefully on a stormy day;

they are unable [to keep] from what they earned a [single] thing. That is what is extreme error.

the believing men and believing women, the obedient men and obedient women, the truthful men and truthful women, the patient men and patient women, the humble men and humble women, the charitable men and charitable women, the fasting men and fasting women, the men who guard their private parts and the women who do so

Except the observers of prayer - Those who are constant in their prayer, And those within whose wealth is a known right For the one who asks, And those who believe in the Day of Recompense Indeed, the punishment of their Lord is not that from which one is safe

what he has forbidden you - refrain from

be persistently standing firm in justice

Indeed, the punishment of their Lord is not that from which one is safe, And those who guard their private parts, Except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they are not to be blamed, But whoever seeks beyond that, then they are the transgressors

And those who are to their trusts and promises attentive, And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer, They will be in gardens, honored.

Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth

seek between

do not promise them secretly

Do not pick out worthless things for donation, which you yourselves would only accept with closed eyes.

pick up your mat

Those who want to come with me must say no to the things they want, pick up

You will never achieve righteousness until you donate some of what you cherish.

And if someone is in hardship, then [let there be] postponement until [a time of] ease. But if you give [from your right as] charity, then it is better for you, if you only knew.

I was eyes for the blind, I was feet for the lame, I was a father to the needy, and I investigated the problems of those I didn't know. I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and snatched the prey from his teeth.

you healed the blind and the leper

One day Elisha went to Shunem, where a rich woman lived. She invited him to a meal, and from then on every time he went to Shunem he would have his meals at her house.

what is the difficult pass? It is the freeing of a slave

Rest

Keep awake and pray that you may not come into the time of trial; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

When their time has come, then they will not remain behind an hour, nor will they precede

Remember when He gave you sleep as a reassurance from Him, and sent down water from the sky to cleanse you, to remove Satan's pollution from you, to make your hearts strong and your feet firm.

Those who will rise early and are late to sit down eating bread, in sorrows, are worthless

And whoever denies the faith - his work has become worthless

You have enjoyed your portion as those before you enjoyed their portion, and you have engaged [in vanities] like that in which they engaged. [It is] those whose deeds have become worthless in this world

Of course, every house is built by someone, and God is really the one who built everything.

One hand full of rest is better than two fists full of labor and striving after wind.

Tomorrow will worry about itself

Don't be frightened by your thoughts or allow your facial expression to show it.

Laziness

they come not to prayer except while they are lazy

The lazy hunter doesn't roast his game, but to a diligent person, his wealth is precious

they do not spend except while they are unwilling

Some people are too lazy to fix a leaky roof — then the house collapses.

And fight against the disbelievers collectively as they fight against you collectively.

Why are ye indolent

How long are you indolent and slack

who withholds his sword from bloodshed

we will not withhold the testimony

the pleasure — taking and indolent shall be in want

Do not be indolent when zeal is required

They all are disappointed with a people that doesn't help them, who give no assistance and no advantage, only disappointment and disgrace.

So woe to those who pray [But] who are heedless of their prayer Those who make show [of their deeds] And withhold [simple] assistance.

Oh, woe to me! I wish I had not taken that one as a friend.

Woe to him who says to wood, Come to life! ' Or to lifeless stone, Wake up!

Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin till they are drunk, so that he can gaze on their naked bodies!

Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots

Woe to the one who says to a father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to a mother, ‘What have you brought to birth?’

Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain

Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, his upper rooms by injustice, making his own people work for nothing, not paying them for their labor.

Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by injustice!

Woe to him who piles up stolen goods and makes himself wealthy by extortion!

Woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up

Woe to the world because of scandals. For it must needs be that scandals come: but nevertheless woe to that man by whom the scandal cometh

It would be to his advantage that he have a millstone hung around his neck and he be thrown into the sea, rather than that he ensnare one of these little ones.

What is this book that leaves nothing small or great except that it has enumerated it?

you recognize in the faces of those who disbelieve disapproval

These men are filthy spots at your festive gatherings meant to foster love; they share your meals without qualm, while caring only for themselves.

However, these people insult anything they don't understand; and what they do understand naturally, without thinking, like animals — by these things they are destroyed!

The hypocrites will call to the believers, "Were we not with you?" They will say, "Yes, but you afflicted yourselves and awaited [misfortune for us] and doubted, and wishful thinking deluded you

These people are grumblers and complainers, they follow their evil passions, their mouths speak grandiosities, and they flatter others to gain advantage.

and the rumour of this having come, the multitude came together, and was confounded, because they were each one hearing them speaking in his proper dialect

those who follow passions want you to digress

So when the Horn is blown, no relationship will there be among them that Day, nor will they ask about one another.

Lust

The True men of old did not dream when they slept, had no anxiety when they awoke, and did not care that their food should be pleasant. Their breathing came deep and silently. The breathing of the true man comes (even) from his heels, while men generally breathe (only) from their throats. When men are defeated in argument, their words come from their gullets as if they were vomiting. Where lusts and desires are deep, the springs of the Heavenly are shallow

It wants to rule you, but you must overcome it.

These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they remained virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among mankind and offered as firstfruits

kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom

no sexual relations and no disobedience and no disputing

I have made a covenant with my eyes not to let them lust

So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

So for their breaking of the covenant We cursed them and made their hearts hard.

Tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

They are grown gross and fat

I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy

And their prayer at the House was not except whistling and handclapping. So taste the punishment for what you disbelieved.

Every time their skins are roasted through We will replace them with other skins so they may taste the punishment

I will come to them from before them and from behind them and on their right and on their left, and You will not find most of them grateful

And none rejects Our signs except everyone treacherous and ungrateful.

And the example of a bad word is like a bad tree, uprooted from the surface of the earth, not having any stability.

We have bestowed upon you clothing to conceal your private parts and as adornment. But the clothing of righteousness — that is best.

O Adam, shall I direct you to the tree of eternity and possession that will not deteriorate?

Do you play the prostitute after their abominations?

He was of the jinn and departed from the command of his Lord

Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil, in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.

Discipline

He openeth also their ear to discipline

Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend anymore

Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.

Behold, God exalteth by His power: who teacheth like him?

He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.

Love is the art of dissolving your ego

By myself I can do nothing

I do nothing for my own pleasure

Do not stir up nor wake the love until she pleases

Wealth and children are [but] adornment of the worldly life. But the enduring good deeds are better to your Lord for reward and better for [one's] hope.

hope of those who inherit eternal life

And they who give what they give while their hearts are fearful because they will be returning to their Lord - It is those who hasten to good deeds, and they outstrip [others] therein.

through painful toil you will eat food

We wish to eat from it and let our hearts be reassured and know that you have been truthful to us and be among its witnesses.

He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the LORD has cursed.

For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?

His eyes were not dim nor his natural vigor diminished

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge

Blessed is the one whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty

A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.

hateful to you disbelief, defiance and disobedience

divining arrows. That is grave disobedience.

But I had no authority over you except that I invited you, and you responded to me. So do not blame me; but blame yourselves. I cannot be called to your aid, nor can you be called to my aid.

Successful indeed are those who purify themselves, remember the Name of their Lord, and pray.

is there any who will remember?

Success is really attained by him who purifies it, and failure is really suffered by him who pollutes it

Surely what you are promised is indeed sincere

We played wedding songs, and you didn't dance, so we played funeral songs, and you didn't mourn

play when the evil spirit from God comes on you

Yet they don’t ask, 'Where is God my Creator, the one who gives songs in the night?'

Men! The excesses you commit will be of harm only to yourselves

the love of most will grow cold

A muddied spring or a polluted well— that's what a righteous person is who compromises with the wicked.

The one that detests discipline hates his soul and the one that hears correction possesses wisdom

And this book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall be attending to it by night and by day, and you shall keep and you shall do all that is written in it, that you will prosper and you will be successful

I will be with your mouth and will teach you what to say

Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh, he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.

A carpenter takes measurements; he marks out an outline of its form; he scrapes it with chisels, and marks it with a compass. He patterns it after the human form, like a well-built human being, and puts it in a shrine.

Do not commit adultery and guard your chastity. No doubt, whoever guards his chastity will certainly enter Paradise.

The bolts of your gates will be iron and bronze, and your strength will equal your days

Wherever he directs him, he brings no good. Is he equal to one who commands justice, while he is on a straight path?

a slave owned by quarreling partners and another belonging exclusively to one man - are they equal in comparison

the blind and deaf, and the seeing and hearing. Are they equal in comparison? Then, will you not remember?

And it is better for you that ye fast, if ye only knew

He will impose blame upon you for [breaking] what you intended of oaths. So its expiation is the feeding of ten needy people from the average of that which you feed your [own] families or clothing them or the freeing of a slave. But whoever cannot find [or afford it] – then a fast of three days [is required]. That is the expiation for oaths when you have sworn. But guard your oaths.

to parents do good and to relatives, orphans, and the needy. And speak to people good [words] and establish prayer and give zakah.

We will not exchange our oath for a price, even if he should be a near relative

The presenter is then to bring a gift from the peace offering as an offering made by fire to the LORD. He is to remove the fat — the entire fat tail near the spine, the fat that covers the internal organs, all of the fat that is inside the internal organs

But there is no blame upon you, if you are troubled by rain or are ill, for putting down your arms, but take precaution.

Would you not fight a people who broke their oaths

they will abrogate and change everything

only attack places that are undefended.

at least defend

only hold positions that cannot be attacked.

My dove, my undefiled, is but one

life is but like rain which We have sent down from the sky that the plants of the earth absorb — [those] from which men and livestock eat — until, when the earth has taken on its adornment and is beautified and its people suppose that they have capability over it, there comes to it Our command by night or by day, and We make it as a harvest, as if it had not flourished yesterday.

As rain in a desert And dew on a thirsty land

The example of what they spend in this worldly life is like that of a wind containing frost which strikes the harvest of a people who have wronged themselves

do not offend

Suppose someone says to God, 'I have endured my punishment; I will offend no more. Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.'

we don't want to offend them

blessed is the one who is not offended by me

These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended

Then is he whom We have promised a good promise which he will obtain like he for whom We provided enjoyment of worldly life [but] then he is, on the Day of Resurrection, among those presented [for punishment in Hell]?

Nocturnal Skills

keeping the lamp burning every night in the sacred tent

Each of them wears a sword. They are experts at fighting, even in the dark.

In the middle of the night I wake up to praise you for your righteous judgments.

spend [part of] the night to their Lord prostrating and standing [in prayer]

Indeed, the hours of the night are more effective for concurrence [of heart and tongue] and more suitable for words.

From the mouths of babies and infants at the breast you established strength because of your foes

every night he would go out and spend the night on the mountain that is called Olivet

Creativity

Does man think that he will be left without purpose? Was he not a drop of emitted semen?

Who else will frustrate the tokens of those that have divining spirits, and prophecies from the heart of man? turning the wise back, and making their counsel foolishness

their killing of the prophets without right and their saying, "Our hearts are wrapped".

If the spirit of him that hath power, ascend upon thee, leave not thy place: because care will make the greatest sins to cease.

Do something to show you have really given up your sins.

Indeed, it is We Who created humankind and fully know what their souls whisper to them, and We are closer to them than their jugular vein

Indeed, man transgresses because he sees himself self-sufficient.

And do not follow the command of the transgressors, who spread corruption throughout the land, never setting things right

And even if We gave them mercy and removed what was upon them of affliction, they would persist in their transgression, wandering blindly.

They do not observe toward a believer any pact of kinship or covenant of protection. And it is they who are the transgressors.

Then they approached one another, blaming each other. They said, "O woe to us; indeed we were transgressors.

Pain Tolerance

Provide a way out

You are to say everything I order you

who is able to build him a house

I have much more to tell you, but now it would be too much for you to bear.

For my sins overwhelm me; like a heavy load, they are too much for me to bear.

Will you be silent and make us suffer more than we can bear?

Satan threatens you with poverty and orders you to immorality

Satan only wants to cause between you animosity and hatred through intoxicants and gambling and to avert you from the remembrance

Indeed, you commit such immorality as no one has preceded you with from among the worlds

And We made them a precedent and an example for the later peoples

Turn your eyes away from me, for they have overcome me

The one overcoming will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son.

Patient in poverty and hardship and during battle. Those are the ones who have been true, and it is those who are the righteous.

We seized them with poverty and hardship that perhaps they might humble themselves

With hardship ease

Restrain anger

Indeed, those who disbelieve - never will their wealth or their children avail them

And when you travel throughout the land, there is no blame upon you for shortening the prayer, [especially] if you fear that those who disbelieve may disrupt [or attack] you. Indeed, the disbelievers are ever to you a clear enemy.

who disbelieved among the People of the Scripture and the polytheists

And whoever is protected from the stinginess of his soul - it is those who will be the successful.

And all the trees said to a bramble: "You reign over us!"

You will sweat all your life to earn a living; you were made out of soil, and you will once again turn into soil.

There is hope, however, for anyone who is among the living; for even a live dog is better than a dead lion.

So his example is like that of the dog: if you chase him, he pants, or if you leave him, he [still] pants. That is the example of the people who denied Our signs. So relate the stories that perhaps they will give thought.

I am worn out and weak, moaning and in distress

My tears have been food for me by day and by night, while they have been saying to me every day, "Where is your God?"

I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.

You shall not fear other gods, nor bow down to them nor serve them nor sacrifice to them

gods which create nothing, while they are created, and possess not for themselves any harm or benefit

We will surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and lives and fruits

gives wealth, in spite of love for it, to relatives, orphans, the needy, the traveler, those who ask [for help], and for freeing slaves; [and who] establishes prayer and gives zakah; [those who] fulfill their promise when they promise; and [those who] are patient in poverty and hardship and during battle

Bring to mind Our servant Job who cried to his Lord, "Satan has afflicted me with weariness and suffering." 'Stamp your foot! Here is cool water for you to wash in and drink'

But as for those with sickness in their hearts, it has increased them only in wickedness upon their wickedness, and they die as disbelievers.

[And We favored you] when your sister went and said, 'Shall I direct you to someone who will be responsible for him?' So We restored you to your mother that she might be content and not grieve. And you killed someone, but We saved you from retaliation and tried you with a [severe] trial.

And your Lord has decreed that you not worship except Him, and to parents, good treatment. Whether one or both of them reach old age [while] with you, say not to them [so much as], "uff," and do not repel them but speak to them a noble word. And lower to them the wing of humility out of mercy and say, "My Lord, have mercy upon them as they brought me up [when I was] small."

And We showed them not a sign except that it was greater than its sister, and We seized them with affliction that perhaps they might return [to faith].

Every time a nation enters, it will curse its sister until, when they have all overtaken one another therein, the last of them will say about the first of them "Our Lord, these had misled us, so give them a double punishment of the Fire. He will say, "For each is double, but you do not know."

wherein you will abide eternally. That is what is the great attainment

He details the signs

A slave does not live in the house forever. A son remains forever.

The one believing in the Son has eternal life, but the one not obeying the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.

But cowards, traitors, perverts, murderers, the immoral, those who practice magic, those who worship idols, and all liars—the place for them is the lake burning with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.

nor will they steal, nor will they commit unlawful sexual intercourse, nor will they kill their children, nor will they bring forth a slander they have invented between their arms and legs, nor will they disobey you in what is right

What they have crafted is but the trick of a magician, and the magician will not succeed wherever he is.

Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.

They were under two of Our righteous servants but betrayed them

And We have not made the keepers of the Fire except angels. And We have not made their number except as a trial for those who disbelieve

those who, when they spend, do so not excessively or sparingly but are ever, between that

And not alike are the two bodies of water. One is fresh and sweet, palatable for drinking, and one is salty and bitter.

most of them do not use reason

That afterwards their children might learn to fight with their enemies, and to be trained up to war

you who call on Yahweh, take no rest

Trade till I come

Because there is no righteousness in their mouths, but evil is within them, and their throats are like opened tombs and their tongues subvert

those who do not believe in the Hereafter is the description of evil

And I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days three hundred and ninety days: and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

We give you drink from what is in their bellies - between excretion and blood - pure milk,

the cattle and the sheep We prohibited to them their fat, except what adheres to their backs or the entrails or what is joined with bone

Have you killed a pure soul for other than [having killed] a soul?

He was created from a fluid

wretched is the resting place. This - so let them taste it - is scalding water

not one of you would have been pure

Because we have prepared our heart to pray to LORD JEHOVAH, God of our fathers, and the holy place is no purer than we are!

Summary:

the life of this world is but amusement and diversion and adornment and boasting to one another and competition in increase of wealth and children

guard your heart, glean from rich fields, and drink water from your own well

only accepts from the righteous

Walk, Stretch, Run. Feed yourself like you would your own children. Train every body part to be ready for whatever, whenever, wherever.

Chronic stress causes the muscles in the body to be in a more or less constant state of guardedness.

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] intoxicated while they are not intoxicated;

I speak to them in parables

And the parable of those who spend their possessions out of a longing to please God, and out of their own inner certainty, is that of a garden on high, fertile ground: a rainstorm smites it, and thereupon it brings forth its fruit twofold; and if no rainstorm smites it, soft rain [falls upon it]. And God sees all that you do

Would one of you like to have a garden of palm trees and grapevines underneath which rivers flow in which he has from every fruit? But he is afflicted with old age and has weak offspring, and it is hit by a whirlwind containing fire and is burned.

Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?

Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

Those who were oppressed will say to those who were arrogant

Indeed, He does not like the arrogant.

I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts.

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.

Yall aint never heard my cries now you wonder why I want you to die

But if I tear down something and then build it again, I prove that I was wrong at first.

Exercise to feel confident and prevent disease. Your desk job is destroying your body and ruining your health.

Or those eighteen upon whom the tower of Shilokha fell and killed them; do you think that they were sinners more so than all the children of men

I beat my body and bring it into submission

Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission is better than offering

be still, to thee shall be his submission, and thou shalt rule over him.

be in the creation

judge concerning that over which they dispute among themselves and then find within themselves no discomfort from what you have judged and submit in submission.

Indeed kings - when they enter a city, they ruin it and render the honored of its people humbled

Satan has made their deeds pleasing to them and averted them from [His] way

Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.

But whoever earns an offense or a sin and then blames it on an innocent [person] has taken upon himself a slander and manifest sin.

My Lord, cause me to enter a sound entrance and to exit a sound exit and grant me from Yourself a supporting authority.

Never would I prostrate to a human whom You created out of clay from an altered black mud.

The enjoyment of this world is little, and the Hereafter is better

My mercy encompasses all things

do not give the weak-minded your property,

justice, mercy, trust

First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may be clean too

will not return it to you unless you are constantly standing over him [demanding it]. That is because they say, "There is no blame upon us concerning the unlearned."

Aaron had stripped them by occasion of the shame of the filth, and had set them naked among their enemies

preached to those souls who were held in Sheol

no injustice to the worlds

O you who have believed, do not consume one another's wealth unjustly but only [in lawful] business by mutual consent. And do not kill yourselves [or one another].

whoever does that in aggression and injustice - then We will drive him into a Fire.

And those whose scales are light - they are the ones who will lose themselves for what injustice they were doing

But he who does of righteous deeds while he is a believer - he will neither fear injustice nor deprivation.

an injustice and a lie

selves were convinced thereof, out of injustice and haughtiness. So see how was the end of the corrupters.

Whichever of the two terms I complete - there is no injustice to me

This Day every soul will be recompensed for what it earned. No injustice today!

Property that comes by evil will decrease

no man shall see as I have seen

judge men, that those who do not see may see, and that those who do see may become blind.