Spiritual Struggle

Satan threatens you with poverty and orders you to immorality, while Allah promises you forgiveness from Him and bounty. And Allah is all-Encompassing and Knowing.

And Allah wants to lighten for you [your difficulties]; and mankind was created weak.

They will wish to get out of the Fire, but never are they to emerge therefrom, and for them is an enduring punishment.

And when he saw the moon rising, he said, "This is my lord." But when it set, he said, "Unless my Lord guides me, I will surely be among the people gone astray."

And when he saw the sun rising, he said, "This is my lord; this is greater." But when it set, he said, "O my people, indeed I am free from what you associate with Allah.

[Allah] said, "Descend, being to one another enemies. And for you on the earth is a place of settlement and enjoyment for a time."

And fight them until there is no fitnah and [until] the religion, all of it, is for Allah. And if they cease - then indeed, Allah is Seeing of what they do.

Go forth, whether light or heavy, and strive with your wealth and your lives in the cause of Allah. That is better for you, if you only knew.

And I do not acquit myself. Indeed, the soul is a persistent enjoiner of evil, except those upon which my Lord has mercy. Indeed, my Lord is Forgiving and Merciful."

And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm tree. She said, "Oh, I wish I had died before this and was in oblivion, forgotten."

And thus have We made for every prophet an enemy from among the criminals. But sufficient is your Lord as a guide and a helper.

So do not obey the disbelievers, and strive against them with the Qur'an a great striving.

Ta, Seen, Meem.

Perhaps, [O Muhammad], you would kill yourself with grief that they will not be believers.

[Pharaoh] said, "If you take a god other than me, I will surely place you among those imprisoned."

[Moses] said, "Even if I brought you proof manifest?"

[Pharaoh] said, "Then bring it, if you should be of the truthful."

So [Moses] threw his staff, and suddenly it was a serpent manifest.

And he drew out his hand; thereupon it was white for the observers.

[Remember] when they came at you from above you and from below you, and when eyes shifted [in fear], and hearts reached the throats and you assumed about Allah [various] assumptions.