Daily Summaries from the Quran: Portion 5

A daily collection of snippets and highlights from the Quran. I started collecting these for every single night of Ramadan to send a Christian friend who’s interested in the Quran but struggles to find time to read it. So I thought to share these online for others who might also benefit.

4.69 And whoever obeys God and the Messenger will be in the company of those blessed by God: the prophets, the people of truth, the martyrs, and the righteous — how excellent are they as company!

4.79 Whatever good befalls you is from God, and whatever evil befalls you is (a consequence) from your ownself. We have sent you (O Muhammad) a messenger to all mankind. And God is sufficient as a witness.

4.82 Do they not then reflect on the Quran? Had it been from anyone other than God, they would have found within it much contradiction

4.86 When you are greeted with a greeting, respond with an even better greeting or at least return it equally. Certainly God keeps careful account of everything.

4.103 When you have completed the prayer, remember God standing, sitting, and lying on your side. Verily the prayer is enjoined upon the believers at specified times.

4.110 Whoever does a wrong or wrongs himself and then seeks God’s forgiveness will certainly find God All-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

4.113 God has revealed to you the Book and wisdom and taught you what you never knew. The favour of God upon you has ever been great!

4.116 God does not forgive associating others with Him in worship (idolatry) but forgives anything other than that for whoever He wills. Whoever ascribes partners with God has indeed gone far, far astray.

4.122 Those who believe and do good, We will soon admit them into Gardens under which rivers flow, to stay there for eternity. Such is the promise of God in truth, and who is more truthful in statement than God himself?

This verse of the Quran is at the entrance of the law faculty of Harvard describing this as the one of the greatest expressions of justice in history:

4.135 O you who believe, stand firmly for justice as witnesses to God, even if it be against your ownselves, your parents, your kin, and whether be he rich or poor, for God is a better protector to both. Follow not your personal inclination, lest you deviate from justice.

4.136 O you believe! Believe in Allah, His Messenger, the book He has revealed to His Messenger (Muhammad), and the Scriptures He revealed before (Torah and Gospel). Indeed whoever denies Allah, His angels, His books, His messengers, and the Last Day has clearly gone far astray.

4.137 Why would God ever punish you if you are grateful and believe in Him? And God is ever Appreciative, All-Knowing!