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