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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 #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)

Quranic Quote of the Week #2: Oceans of Ink

“Say, ‘If the whole ocean were ink for writing the words of my Lord, it would run dry before those words were exhausted’—even if We were to add another ocean to it.” (Quran, 18:109)

“If all the trees on earth were pens and all the seas, with seven more besides, were ink, still God’s words would not run out. God is almighty and all wise.” (Quran, 31:27)