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| | | Al-Baqarah | Pre Ayat ← 144 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 17. The Kabah as the Spiritual Center | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:We have seen you (O Muhammad), turning your face over and over again towards Heaven. Now, therefore, We turn you towards the qiblah that you like best: so turn your face towards the Masjid Haram. Henceforth, wheresoever you may be, turn your face at prayer towards it.146 The people who were given the Book know it well that the commandment (about the change of qiblah) is in fact from their Lord, and is based on the Truth, but Allah is not unaware of what they are doing (in spite of this) |
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| | | Al-Baqarah | Pre Ayat ← 150 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 18. The Kabah as the Spiritual Center | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:At whatever place you may be, you must turn your face towards the Masjid Haram, and wherever you may be, you must turn your face towards the same at prayer so that people might not find an argument against you. As for the unjust people, they will never stop talking; so do not fear them but fear Me -- (Do this) so that I may complete My favour upon you and you may find the way to real success, |
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| | | Al-Baqarah | Pre Ayat ← 177 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 22. Retaliation and Bequests | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:It is no virtue. That you turn your faces towards the east or the west, but virtue is that one should sincerely believe in Allah and the Last Day and the Angels and the Book and the Prophets and, out of His love, spend of ones choice wealth for relatives and orphans, for the needy and the wayfarer, for beggars and for the ransom of slaves, and establish the Salat and pay the Zakat. And the virtuous are those who keep their pledges when they make them and show fortitude in hardships and adversity and in the struggle between the Truth and falsehood; such are the truthful people and such are the pious. |
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| | | Al-Maidah | Pre Ayat ← 6 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 2. Duty of Uprightness | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:O Believers, when you rise to offer the Salat, you must wash your faces and hands and arms up to the elbows and wipe your heads with wet hands and wash your feet up to the ankles; and if you have become unclean, cleanse yourselves with a full bath; if, however, you are sick or are on a journey, or if any of you has relieved himself or if you have "touched" women and you can find no water, then cleanse yourselves with pure dust: strike your palms on it and wipe your hands and faces with it. Allah does not will to make life hard for you, but He wills to purify you and complete His blessing upon you so that you may show gratitude. |
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| | | Al-Aaraf | Pre Ayat ← 29 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 3. Warning against Devils Insinuations | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:O Muhammad, say to them, "My Lord has enjoined justice and righteousness; (He has also enjoined that) you should keep aright your direction during every act of worship and invoke Him alone, dedicating your faith sincerely and exclusively to Him; you shall be created again just as He has created you now. |
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| | | Bani-Israel | Pre Ayat ← 7 | → Next Ayat | Pre Ruku ← | | 1. Israelites Punished Twice | | → Next Ruku| |
Translation:Behold! If you did good it proved to be good for yourselves and if you committed evil it proved to be bad for your own selves. Then, when the time came for the fulfillment of the second warning, We set other enemies on you so that they might disfigure your faces and enter into the Temple just as the former enemies had entered and destroyed whatever they could lay their hands on. |