- In the Law of Equality there is (saving of) Life to you, o ye men of
understanding; that ye may restrain yourselves.
[Quran, the Cow Verse 179]
And the remission (of the man's half) is the nearest to righteousness
[Quran, the Cow Verse 237]
- Kind words and the covering of faults are better than charity followed by
injury. Allah is free of all wants, and He is Most-Forbearing.
[Quran, the Cow Verse 263]
- A call to purity:
- And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard
their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what
(must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw their veils over their
bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers, their
husband's fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their brothers or their brothers'
sons, or their sisters' sons, or their women, or the slaves whom their right hands
possess, or male servants free of physical needs, or small children who have no
sense of the shame of sex; and that they should not strike their feet in order to draw
attention to their hidden ornaments. And O ye Believers! Turn ye all together
towards Allah, that ye may attain Bliss.
[Quran, the Light Verse 30-31]
- O Prophet! Tell thy wives and daughters, and the believing women, that they
should cast their outer garments over their persons (when abroad): that is most
convenient, that they should be known (as such) and not molested. And Allah is Oft-
Forgiving, Most Merciful.
[Quran, the Confederates Verse 287]
- O ye who believe! Fear Allah, and give up what remains of your demand for
usury, if ye are indeed believers.
[Quran, the Cow Verse 278]
- O ye who believe! Intoxicants and gambling, (dedication of) stones, and
(divination by) arrows, are an abomination, - of Satan's handwork: eschew such
(abomination), that ye may prosper.
[Quran, the Table spread Verse 7]
- Raising the rank of women by allowing her to inherit and given her own
independent wealth as well as dispelling the notion that her impurity is longer when
she gives birth to a girl.