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Quranic Quote of the Week #12: Race to Do Good

There is an unfortunate and incorrect stigma that Islam is an intolerant faith. So to wrap up my Quranic Quotes of the Week series, I’d like to give 10 examples of how the Quran REALLY instructs believers to view and treat those of other religions.

Quranic Quote of the Week #11: The Sincere Gift

“The only thing that prevents what they give from being accepted is the fact that they disbelieve in God and His Messenger, perform the prayer lazily, and give grudgingly.” (Quran, 9:54)

Quranic Quote of the Week #10: Lord of Mercy

“If any one does evil or wrongs his own soul but afterwards seeks Allah’s forgiveness, he will find Allah Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.” (Quran, 4:110)

“In the name of God, the Lord of Mercy, the Giver of Mercy.” (nearly every sura)

Quranic Quote of the Week #9: Neither Their Meat nor Their Blood

“Devote yourselves to God and assign Him no partners, for the person who does so is like someone who has been hurled down from the skies and snatched up by the birds or flung to a distant place by the wind. …

“We have made camels part of God’s sacred rites for you, … so invoke God’s name over them as they are lined up for sacrifice. … It is neither their meat nor their blood that reaches God but your piety.” (Quran, 22:31, 36–37)

Quranic Quote of the Week #8: Just a Heap of Clouds

“Even if disbelievers saw a piece of heaven falling down on them, they would say, ‘Just a heap of clouds,’ so leave them, Prophet, until they face the Day when they will be thunderstruck.” (Quran, 52:25)

Quranic Quote of the Week #7: True Religion

“True Religion, in God’s eyes, is islam: devotion to Him alone. … Ask those who were given the Scripture, as well as those without one, ‘Do you too devote yourselves to Him alone?’ If they do, they will be guided, but if they turn away, your only duty is to convey the message.” (Quran, 3:19–20)

Quranic Quote of the Week #6: What Is Fair and Kind

“Live with women in accordance with what is fair and kind: if you dislike them, … you dislike something in which God has put much good.” (Quran, 4:19)

Quranic Quote of the Week #5: The Happy Ending

“We grant Home in the Hereafter to those who do not seek superiority on earth or spread corruption: the happy ending is awarded to those who are mindful of God.” (Quran, 28:83)

Quranic Quote of the Week #4: Nothing but a Game and a Distraction

“The life of this world is nothing but a game and a distraction, the Home in the Hereafter is best for those who are aware of God—why will you not understand?” (Quran, 6:32)

Quranic Quote of the Week #3: I Only Follow What Is Revealed to Me

“When Our clear revelations are recited to them, those who do not expect to meet with Us say, ‘Bring us a different Qur’an, or change it.’ Prophet, say, ‘It is not for me to change it of my own accord; I only follow what is revealed to me, for I fear the torment of an awesome Day, if I were to disobey my Lord. … I lived a whole lifetime among you before it came to me. How can you not use your reason?’” (Quran, 10:15–16)