Conscience
THE BELIEVERS DEFINITELY FOLLOW
THE TRUTH THE MOMENT THEY SEE IT
We would be inventing lies against Allah if we returned to your religion after Allah has saved us from it. We could never return to it unless Allah our Lord so willed. Our Lord encompasses everything in His knowledge. We have put our trust in Allah. Our Lord, judge between us and our people with truth. You are the best of judges.' (Qur'an, 7:89)
And He also (turned) towards the three who were left behind, so that when the earth became narrow for them, for all its great breadth, and their own selves became constricted for them and they realised that there was no refuge from Allah except in Him, He turned to them so that they might turn to Him. Allah is the Ever-Returning, the Most Merciful. (Qur'an, 9:118)
SOME OF THE UNBELIEVERS DENY
THE TRUTH IN SPITE OF THEIR
CERTAINTY ABOUT IT
And they repudiated them wrongly and haughtily, in spite of their own certainty about them. See the final fate of the corrupters. (Qur'an, 27:14)
They consulted among themselves and said, 'It is you yourselves who are wrongdoers.' But then they relapsed back into their disbelief: 'You know full well these idols cannot talk.' (Qur'an, 21:64-65)
People of the Book! Why do you mix truth with falsehood and knowingly conceal the truth? (Qur'an, 3:71)
BELIEVERS ACT ACCORDING
TO THEIR CONSCIENCES, EVEN THOUGH
IT IS AGAINST THEIR DESIRES
They give food, despite their love for it, to the poor and orphans and captives: (Qur'an, 76:8)
Those who were already settled in the abode (Madina), and in faith, before they came, love those who have migrated to them and do not find in their hearts any need for what they have been given and prefer them to themselves even if they themselves are needy.It is the people who are safe-guarded from the avarice of their own selves who are successful. (Qur'an, 59:9)
WHEN THEY COMMIT AN ERROR, THEY
APPEAL TO THEIR CONSCIENCES AND ASK
FORGIVENESS AND DO NOT INSIST ON IT
Those who, when they act indecently or wrong themselves, remember Allah and ask forgiveness for their bad actions (and who can forgive bad actions except Allah?) and do not knowingly persist in what they were doing. (Qur'an, 3:135)
And (He) also (turned) towards the three who were left behind, so that when the earth became narrow for them, for all its great breadth, and their own selves became constricted for them and they realised that there was no refuge from Allah except in Him, He turned to them so that they might turn to Him. Allah is the Ever-Returning, the Most Merciful. (Qur'an, 9:118)
Anyone who does evil or wrongs himself and then asks Allah's forgiveness will find Allah Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (Qur'an, 4:110)
THE HEARTS OF THE UNBELIEVERS ARE HARDENED
BECAUSE THEY DO NOT ACT ACCORDING TO THEIR CONSCIENCES
When Our Signs are recited to him, he says, 'Just myths and legends of the previous peoples!' No indeed! Rather what they have earned has rusted up their hearts. (Qur'an, 83:13-14)
Have they not travelled about the earth and do they not have hearts to understand with or ears to hear with? It is not their eyes which are blind but the hearts in their breasts which are blind. (Qur'an, 22:46)
EVERY PERSON HAS A MECHANISM
OF CONSCIENCE WITHIN HIM
And inspired it with depravity or heedfulness, he who purifies it has succeeded, (Qur'an, 91:8-9)
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