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Islam · Adab, speech & listening

Read 12 sourced passages and explore 10 practices around adab, speech & listening.

A short introduction

Adab can concern appropriate conduct, manners, and cultivated ways of relating; meanings vary across communities. These readings address speech, assumptions, privacy, and responses to anger. Verification and listening can help distinguish an observation from a rumor. Humility does not require accepting humiliation. A calm response is an option, not a guarantee of safety; someone facing coercion may need distance and qualified support rather than another conversation.

Words to explore

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Selected passages preserve the named source’s wording; translations differ. The studio’s activities and interpretations are original reflections, not additional scripture.

Islam · Adab, speech & listening

And (remember) when We made a covenant with the Children of Israel, (saying): Worship none save Allah (only), and be good to parents and to kindred and to orphans and the needy, and speak kindly to mankind; and establish worship and pay the poor-due. Then, after that, ye slid back, save a few of you, being averse.

Qur’an 2:83

Marmaduke Pickthall · 1930 English rendering · complete ayah as transcribed by Islamic Internet Archives

Context before application

Read the surrounding ayat and surah. This is an English rendering of meanings, not the Arabic Qur’an or a ruling about a specific person. Studio application is an invitation to explore adab, speech & listening, not the only interpretation of the text.

Studio reflection: What meaning, if any, do you find here? What would need clarification before applying it?

Read the source in context ↗

Islam · Adab, speech & listening

Those who spend (of that which Allah hath given them) in ease and in adversity, those who control their wrath and are forgiving toward mankind; Allah loveth the good;

Qur’an 3:134

Marmaduke Pickthall · 1930 English rendering · complete ayah as transcribed by Islamic Internet Archives

Context before application

Read the surrounding ayat and surah. This is an English rendering of meanings, not the Arabic Qur’an or a ruling about a specific person. Studio application is an invitation to explore adab, speech & listening, not the only interpretation of the text.

Studio reflection: What meaning, if any, do you find here? What would need clarification before applying it?

Read the source in context ↗

Islam · Adab, speech & listening

(O man), follow not that whereof thou hast no knowledge. Lo! the hearing and the sight and the heart - of each of these it will be asked.

Qur’an 17:36

Marmaduke Pickthall · 1930 English rendering · complete ayah as transcribed by Islamic Internet Archives

Context before application

Read the surrounding ayat and surah. This is an English rendering of meanings, not the Arabic Qur’an or a ruling about a specific person. Studio application is an invitation to explore adab, speech & listening, not the only interpretation of the text.

Studio reflection: What meaning, if any, do you find here? What would need clarification before applying it?

Read the source in context ↗

Islam · Adab, speech & listening

Tell My bondmen to speak that which is kindlier. Lo! the devil soweth discord among them. Lo! the devil is for man an open foe.

Qur’an 17:53

Marmaduke Pickthall · 1930 English rendering · complete ayah as transcribed by Islamic Internet Archives

Context before application

Read the surrounding ayat and surah. This is an English rendering of meanings, not the Arabic Qur’an or a ruling about a specific person. Studio application is an invitation to explore adab, speech & listening, not the only interpretation of the text.

Studio reflection: What meaning, if any, do you find here? What would need clarification before applying it?

Read the source in context ↗

Islam · Adab, speech & listening

O ye who believe! Enter not houses other than your own without first announcing your presence and invoking peace upon the folk thereof. That is better for you, that ye may be heedful.

Qur’an 24:27

Marmaduke Pickthall · 1930 English rendering · complete ayah as transcribed by Islamic Internet Archives

Context before application

Read the surrounding ayat and surah. This is an English rendering of meanings, not the Arabic Qur’an or a ruling about a specific person. Studio application is an invitation to explore adab, speech & listening, not the only interpretation of the text.

Studio reflection: What meaning, if any, do you find here? What would need clarification before applying it?

Read the source in context ↗

Islam · Adab, speech & listening

And if ye find no-one therein, still enter not until permission hath been given. And if it be said unto you: Go away again, then go away, for it is purer for you. Allah knoweth what ye do.

Qur’an 24:28

Marmaduke Pickthall · 1930 English rendering · complete ayah as transcribed by Islamic Internet Archives

Context before application

Read the surrounding ayat and surah. This is an English rendering of meanings, not the Arabic Qur’an or a ruling about a specific person. Studio application is an invitation to explore adab, speech & listening, not the only interpretation of the text.

Studio reflection: What meaning, if any, do you find here? What would need clarification before applying it?

Read the source in context ↗

Islam · Adab, speech & listening

The (faithful) slaves of the Beneficent are they who walk upon the earth modestly, and when the foolish ones address them answer: Peace;

Qur’an 25:63

Marmaduke Pickthall · 1930 English rendering · complete ayah as transcribed by Islamic Internet Archives

Context before application

Read the surrounding ayat and surah. This is an English rendering of meanings, not the Arabic Qur’an or a ruling about a specific person. Studio application is an invitation to explore adab, speech & listening, not the only interpretation of the text.

Studio reflection: What meaning, if any, do you find here? What would need clarification before applying it?

Read the source in context ↗

Islam · Adab, speech & listening

Turn not thy cheek in scorn toward folk, nor walk with pertness in the land. Lo! Allah loveth not each braggart boaster.

Qur’an 31:18

Marmaduke Pickthall · 1930 English rendering · complete ayah as transcribed by Islamic Internet Archives

Context before application

Read the surrounding ayat and surah. This is an English rendering of meanings, not the Arabic Qur’an or a ruling about a specific person. Studio application is an invitation to explore adab, speech & listening, not the only interpretation of the text.

Studio reflection: What meaning, if any, do you find here? What would need clarification before applying it?

Read the source in context ↗

Islam · Adab, speech & listening

Be modest in thy bearing and subdue thy voice. Lo! the harshest of all voices is the voice of the ass.

Qur’an 31:19

Marmaduke Pickthall · 1930 English rendering · complete ayah as transcribed by Islamic Internet Archives

Context before application

Read the surrounding ayat and surah. This is an English rendering of meanings, not the Arabic Qur’an or a ruling about a specific person. Studio application is an invitation to explore adab, speech & listening, not the only interpretation of the text.

Studio reflection: What meaning, if any, do you find here? What would need clarification before applying it?

Read the source in context ↗

Islam · Adab, speech & listening

O ye who believe! Guard your duty to Allah, and speak words straight to the point;

Qur’an 33:70

Marmaduke Pickthall · 1930 English rendering · complete ayah as transcribed by Islamic Internet Archives

Context before application

Read the surrounding ayat and surah. This is an English rendering of meanings, not the Arabic Qur’an or a ruling about a specific person. Studio application is an invitation to explore adab, speech & listening, not the only interpretation of the text.

Studio reflection: What meaning, if any, do you find here? What would need clarification before applying it?

Read the source in context ↗

Islam · Adab, speech & listening

O ye who believe! If an evil-liver bring you tidings, verify it, lest ye smite some folk in ignorance and afterward repent of what ye did.

Qur’an 49:6

Marmaduke Pickthall · 1930 English rendering · complete ayah as transcribed by Islamic Internet Archives

Context before application

Read the surrounding ayat and surah. This is an English rendering of meanings, not the Arabic Qur’an or a ruling about a specific person. Studio application is an invitation to explore adab, speech & listening, not the only interpretation of the text.

Studio reflection: What meaning, if any, do you find here? What would need clarification before applying it?

Read the source in context ↗

Islam · Adab, speech & listening

O ye who believe! Shun much suspicion; for lo! some suspicion is a crime. And spy not, neither backbite one another. Would one of you love to eat the flesh of his dead brother? Ye abhor that (so abhor the other)! And keep your duty (to Allah). Lo! Allah is Relenting, Merciful.

Qur’an 49:12

Marmaduke Pickthall · 1930 English rendering · complete ayah as transcribed by Islamic Internet Archives

Context before application

Read the surrounding ayat and surah. This is an English rendering of meanings, not the Arabic Qur’an or a ruling about a specific person. Studio application is an invitation to explore adab, speech & listening, not the only interpretation of the text.

Studio reflection: What meaning, if any, do you find here? What would need clarification before applying it?

Read the source in context ↗

Apply through experience

branch · 10–20 MIN

A privacy-respecting question

Try two short scenarios. Explore how choice, context, and practical care change the response.

Islam · Adab, speech & listening
sort · 10–20 MIN

Verified information versus rumor

Sort actions and claims. Explain why an application respects the reading’s limits or needs revision.

Islam · Adab, speech & listening
compare · 10–20 MIN

Replying now or pausing first

Choose two realistic options related to the title. Compare their fit through four lenses; the board does not choose for you.

Islam · Adab, speech & listening
request · 10–20 MIN

A modest tone with a clear limit

Rehearse a concrete request or boundary connected to the readings. Keep it brief enough to say in your own voice.

Islam · Adab, speech & listening
ifthen · 10–20 MIN

A repair after sharing unverified news

Turn an insight into a cue, an available response, and a backup. Check that the plan fits real conditions.

Islam · Adab, speech & listening
chairs · 10–20 MIN

The forwarded-message scenario

Use a fictional version of the titled dilemma. Hear three perspectives without assigning a person’s faith or forcing resolution.

Islam · Adab, speech & listening
ladder · 10–20 MIN

A ladder toward a more careful reply

Build a small, adjustable sequence. Reorder or remove steps, then decide what would make the first step feasible.

Islam · Adab, speech & listening

Carry one thing forward.

What fits? What needs adaptation? What question would you bring to someone qualified in this tradition?

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