GUIDELINES FROM THE HOLY QUR'AN
 Justice even with the enemy
“Do not let your enmity for others turn you away from justice. Deal justly, that is nearer to being God-fearing.” [5:8]

Respect for human life
Whoever killed a human being- except as a punishment for murder or for spreading corruption in the Land - shall be regarded as having killed all mankind, and that whoever saved a human life shall be regarded as having saved all mankind.” [ 5:33]

Kindness to parents
“Show kindness to your parents; if either of both of them attains old age with you. Say no word of contempt to them and do not rebuke them, but always speak gently to them and treat them humility and tenderness and say, ‘Lord be merciful to them both, as they raised me up when I was little.” [17:23-24]
 “We have enjoined man to show kindness to his parents. But if they bid you associate with Me something about which you have no knowledge, do not obey them”. [29:8]

Upholding justice
“Be strict in upholding justice and bear witness for the sake of God, even though it be against yourselves, your parents, or your kindred, be they rich or poor.” [4:135]

Repel evil with good
 “Good and evil deeds are not equal. Repel evil with what is better; then you will see that one who was once your enemy has become your dearest friend, but no one will be granted such goodness except those who exercise patience and self restraint”. [41:34-35]
“If you want to retaliate, retaliate to the same degree as the injury done to you. But if you are patient, it is better to be so. Endure with patience; truly, your patience is possible only with the help of God.” [16:127]

Law of change
“God does not change the condition of a people’s lot, unless they change what is in their hearts.” [13:11]

Practise what you preach
“Why do you say one thing and do another? It is most hateful to God that you do not practise what you preach.” (The Quran,61:2-3)

Good and evil deeds
 “Help one another in goodness and in piety. Do not help one another in sin and transgression.” [5:2]
“Whoever rallies to a good cause shall have a share in its blessings; and whoever rallies to an evil cause shall be answerable for his part in it: for, indeed, God watches over everything.” [4:85]

Clarity in deals
“Believers! When you contract a debt for a stated term, put it down in writing.” [2:282]

No burden beyond capacity
“God does not charge a soul with more than it can bear.” [2:286]

Common faith
“Say, ‘people of the book, let us come to a word common to us that we shall worship none but God and that we shall associate no partner with Him and that none of us shall take others, besides God, for Lords.” [3:64]

Death at due time
“No soul shall die except with God’s permission and at an appointed time.” [3:145]

Bounties differ
“Do not covet the bounties which God has bestowed more abundantly on some of you than on others.” [4:32]

Nature of knowledge and desire
“Recite to them the tale of the man to whom We gave Our signs, but who then cast them to one side and Satan overtook him. And he became one of those who went astray- if it had been Our will, We could have used these signs to exalt him, but instead he clung to the earth and followed his own desires - he was like a dog that pants whether you chase it away or leave it alone.” [7:175-176]

Respect for privacy
“Believers, let (even) those whom you rightfully possess, and those who are under age ask your leave on three occasions when they come in to see you: before the Morning Prayer, when you have taken off your garments in the heat of noon, and after the evening prayer. These are the three occasions of your privacy. At other times, there is nothing blameworthy if you or they go around visiting one another. Thus God makes clear to you His revelations: God is all knowing and wise. When your children have reached the age of puberty, let them still ask permission as their elders do.” [24:58-59]

Responsible for self-deeds
“Whoever chooses to follow the right path, follows it for his own good; and whoever goes astray, goes astray at his own peril; no bearer of burdens shall bear the burdens of another.” [17:15]
“Whoever rallies to a good cause shall have a share in its blessing; and whoever rallies to an evil cause shall be answerable for his part in it: for, indeed, God watches over everything.” [4:85]

Co-operation for good cause
“Help one another in goodness and in piety. Do not help one another in sin and transgression.” [77:2]

Human life is a test
“God created death and life so that He might test you, and find out which of you is best in conduct.” [67:2]
“Every soul shall taste death; We test you with both good and evil (circumstances) as a trial. To Us you shall return.” [21:35]

Good behaviours
“Believers, do not enter other people’s houses until you have asked their owners’ permission and greeted them. That will be the better for you, so that you may be heedful. If you find no one at home, do not go in until permission has been granted you. If you are told to go away, then go away. That is more proper for you.” [24:27-28]
“Believers, if you are told to make room for one another in your assemblies, then do so, and God will make room for you, and if you are told to rise up, do so.” [58:11]

When harm exceeds benefit
“They ask you (the Prophet) about intoxicants and gambling. Say: there is great sin in both, although they have some benefit for people: but their harm is greater than their benefit.” [2:219]

Investigation
“Believers, if an evil-doer brings you news, ascertain the correctness of the report fully, lest you unwittingly harm others, and then regret what you have done.” [49:6]
“When they hear any news, whether of peace or of something fearful, they spread it about: whereas if they referred it to the Messenger and to those in authority among them, those of them who sought news would have investigated it and could have arrived at the truth of the matter.”[4:83]

Bad leader
 “Do not obey one whose heart We have made headless of Our remembrance, one who pursues his own whims and becomes dissolute.” [18:28]

No backbite
“Believers, avoid much suspicion. Indeed some suspicion is a crime. And do not spy on one another and do not backbite. Would any of you like to eat his dead brother’s flesh? No, you would hate it.” [49:12]

Pledges not to be broken
“Fulfill the covenant of God when you have made one; and do not break your pledges after their confirmation. Indeed you have made God your surety; for God knows all that you do.” [16:91]

Virtue
“Virtue does not consist in whether you face towards the East or the West; virtues means believing in God, the Last Day, the angels, the Book and the prophets; the virtuous are those who, despite their love for it, give away their wealth to their relatives and to orphans and the very poor, and to travelers and those who ask (for charity), and to set slaves free, and who attend to their prayers and pay the alms, and who keep their pledges when they make them, and show patience in hardship and adversity, and in times of distress.” [The Quran, 2:177]

Certainty
“Do not follow what you do not know: for the ear and the eye and the heart shall be called to account.” [17:36]

God knows, you do not
“You may dislike something although it is good for you, or like something although it is bad for you: God knows but you do not.” [2:216]

Good company
“Believers, fear God and stand with the truthful.”[The Quran, 9:119]

No guess-work in belief
“If you obey the majority of those on earth, they will lead you astray from God’s way. They follow nothing but conjecture. They are only guessing.” [6:116]

No wastage
“Eat and drink but don’t be wasteful; God does not like wasteful people. Say, who has forbidden the adornment of God, which He has brought forth for His servants and good things, clean and pure, which God has provided for His servants?” [7:31-32]

Exploitation
‘Believers, many religious scholars and monks wrongfully appropriate people’s possessions and turn people away from God’s path!” [9:34]

Group for calling to goodness and forbidding evils
“Let there be a group among you who call others to good, and enjoin what is right, and forbid what is wrong: those who do this shall be successful.” [3:104]

Sinful groups
“You see many among them vie with one another in sin and transgression and practice what is unlawful. It is vile indeed what they have been doing!” [5:62]

Truth prevails
“God sends down water from the sky that fills river beds to overflowing, each according to its measure. The torrent carries along swelling foam, akin to what rises from smelted ore from which man makes ornaments and tools. God thus depicts truth and falsehood. The scum is cast away, but whatever profits the people, tarries in the earth.” [13:17]

Good news
“There is good news for those who shun the worship of false deities and turn to God, so give good news to My servants, who listen to what is said and follow what is best in it.” [39:17-18]

Universal brotherhood
“O mankind! Fear your Lord, who created you from a single soul. He created its mate from it and from the two of them spread countless men and women.” [4:1]

Noblest one
“Mankind! We have created you from a male and female, and made you into peoples and tribes, so that you might come to know each other. The noblest of you in God’s sight is the one who fears God most.”  [49:13]

Unequals
“The blind and the sighted are not equal, just as those who believe and do good works and those who do evil are not equal: how seldom you reflect!” [40:58]

Limited freedom
“Does man, then, thinks that he is to be left to himself, to go about at will?” [75:36]

Desired behaviours
“Believers, let not some men among you ridicule others: it may be that the latter are better than the former: nor should some women laugh at others: it may be that the latter are better than the former: do not defame or be sarcastic to each other, or call each other by (offensive) nicknames.” [49:11]

Evildoers
“Those who do not repent are evil doers.” [49:11]

Fairness in judgment
“God commands you to hand back your trusts to their rightful owners, and when you judge between people, to judge with fairness.” [4:58]

Balanced persons
“They (good people) are those who are neither extravagant nor niggardly, but keep a balance between the two.” [25:67]

Misfortune
“Whatever misfortune befalls you is of your own doing- God forgives much.” [42:30]
“No misfortune can affect the earth or your own selves without its first having been recorded in a book, before We bring it into being.” [57:22-23]

Increase in knowledge
“My Lord! Increase my knowledge.”  [20:114]

Supplications
“My Lord, bestow wisdom upon me; unite me with the righteous; give me a good name among later generations.” [26:83-84]

Prophet, a reformer
“(Shu’ayb) said: O my people! What do you think? If I have clear evidence from my Lord, and He has sustained me with fair sustenance from Himself (should I not guide you?). I have no desire to do, out of opposition to you, what I am asking you not to do. I only want to reform you as far as I can. Nor can I succeed without God’s help. In Him I have put my trust and to Him I turn.”  [11:88]

Consultation
“(good people) who conduct their affairs by mutual consultation.”  [42:38]

Arbitration
“If you fear any breach between a man and his wife, appoint one arbiter from his family and one arbiter from her family. If they both want to set things right, God will bring about a reconciliation between them.” [4:35]

Soft temper
“It is by God’s grace that you were gentle with them-for if you had been harsh and hard- hearted, they would surely have deserted you-so bear with them and pray for forgiveness for them. Take counsel with them in the conduct of affairs; then, when you have decided upon a course of action, place your trust in God: for God loves those who place their trust in Him. If God helps you, none can overcome you, but if He withdraws His help from you, who is there who can help you besides Him? In God, then, let the believers place their trust!” [3:159-160]

Manner of arguments
“Believers, argue only in the best way with the people of the Book, with such of them as are unjust. Say: We believe in what has been revealed to us, and what has been revealed to you; our God and your God are one; and to Him we submit.”  [29:46]
Argument means a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true.

Relief with hardship
“Surely with every hardship there is ease; surely, with every hardship there is ease.”   [94:5-6]

Desire
“Have you seen him who has taken his own desire to be his god? Can you be a guardian over him? Do you think most of them can hear or understand? They are like cattle. Indeed, they are even more astray.”  [25; 43-44]
“Spend in charity; it is for your own good. Those who guard themselves against their own greed will surely prosper.”  [64:16]

Wealth and family are trials
“Believers! (Even) among your wives and your children you have enemies: so beware of them. But if you overlook their offences and forgive and pardon them, then surely, God is most forgiving and merciful. Your wealth and your children are only a trial; God’s reward is great: so be mindful of God as best as you can.” [64:14-16]

A good loan
“If you give a good loan to God, He will multiply it for you and forgive you, for God is appreciative and forbearing.” [64:17]

Watch out: The Parable
“God sets forth a parable: there are two men-one belonging to many masters, all disagreeing with one another, and the other belonging entirely to one master: are those two equal in comparison?” [39:29]

Own good
 “(God said), if you persevere in doing well, you will be doing good to yourselves; but if you do evil, it will go against you.” (The Quran, 17:7)

Be neither miser nor too-generous
“Be neither miserly, nor so open-handed that you suffer reproach and become destitute. Your lord gives abundantly to whom He will and sparingly to whom he pleases. He is informed and observant about His servants.” [17:29-30]

Evil path
“Come not near to the adultery, for it is an indecent thing and an evil course.”  [17:32]

Call to truth
“Call to the way of your Lord with wisdom and fair exhortation and reason with them in a way that is best. Your Lord knows best those who have strayed away from His path, and He knows best those who are rightly guided.”  [16:125]

The law of guidance
“He lets go astray whoever He will, and guides whoever He will.” [16:93]
“God chooses for Himself whoever He pleases and guides towards Himself those who turn to Him.” [42:13]

No expectation
“Are you asking them for any reward? But the reward of your Lord is the best, for He is the Best of Providers.”  [23:72]

Paradise dweller
“One, who fears to stand before his Lord and restrained himself from impure evil desires and lusts, shall dwell in Paradise.”  [79:40]

Repentance
“God is forgiving and merciful. But God undertakes to accept repentance only from those who do evil out of ignorance and those who repent soon after. God turns towards such people with mercy; He is all knowing and all wise. Forgiveness is not for those who continue to do evil deeds until, when death comes upon one of them, he says: now I repent! Nor from those who die as deniers of the truth. We have prepared a painful punishment for them.” [4:16-18]

Excellence
“Lord, grant us joy in our wives and children and make us leaders of the righteous.”  [25:74]

Thou shall die and return
“Every soul shall taste death; We test you with both good and evil (circumstances) as a trial. To Us you shall return.” [21:35]

Beware of corrupt leaders
“Believers, many religious scholars and monks wrongfully appropriate people’s possessions and turn people away from God’s path!” [9:34]

Grateful and ungrateful
“Remember also the time when your Lord declared; if you are grateful, I will surely bestow more favors on you; but if you are ungrateful, then know that My punishment is severe indeed.” [14:7]

Stability
‘Believers! If you help (in the cause of) God, He will help you and make your footsteps firm.” [47; 7]

Be and it becomes
“When He decrees a thing, He need only say, ‘Be’ and it is.” [36:82]
“We created the heavens, the earth, and everything between them in six days (periods) nor were We ever wearied.” [50:38]

Sustenance on earth
“There is not a living creature on the earth but it is for God to provide its sustenance. He knows its dwelling and its (final) resting place. All this is recorded in a clear book.”  [11:6]

Self-assessment
“Believers! Fear God, and let every soul look to what it lays up for the future. Fear God: God is aware of what you do. Do not be like those who forgot God, so that He caused them to forget their own souls.” [59:18-19]

Useless discussion
“People of the Book, why do you dispute about Abraham when the Torah and Gospel were only sent down after him. Do you not use your reason? You are those who disputed about things of which you had some knowledge. Must you now argue about things of which you have no knowledge? God knows, but you do not know.” [3:66]

Plan your future and act accordingly
“Let every soul look to what it lays up for the future.” [59:18]