Selections from
the Quran

If you tried to count God’s blessings,

you would never be able to number them.

God is ever forgiving and most merciful.

God knows all that you conceal and

all that you reveal.

Al-Nahl 16: 18-19

And that whoever saved a human life

shall be regarded as having saved all mankind. 

Al-Ma’idah 5: 32
 

It is He who gives life and death, and when

He ordains a thing, He says only, ‘Be!’ and it is.

Ghafir 40: 68
 

Your Lord has commanded that

you should worship

none but Him, and show kindness to your parents.

If either or both of them attain old age with you,

say no word of contempt to them and

do not rebuke them,

but always speak gently to them.

Al-Isra’ 17: 23
 

Among His signs is this: you see the earth dry and

barren, but when We send down on it water,

it stirs and swells: most surely He who gives it life is

the giver of life to the dead;

surely He has power over all things.’

Fussilat 41: 39

He created death and life

so that He might test you,

and find out which of you is best in conduct.

He is the Mighty, the Most Forgiving One.

Al-Mulk 67: 2

If all the trees on earth were pens,

and the sea [were] ink,

with seven [more] seas added to it,

the words of God would not be exhausted:

for, truly, God is Almighty and Wise.

Luqman 31: 27
 

When an affliction befalls men,

they cry out to their Lord,

turning to Him in repentance; but then,

when He has made them taste His mercy,

a section of them associate

partners with their Lord.

Al-Rum 30: 33

For those who spend,

both in prosperity and adversity,

who restrain their anger and

are forgiving towards their fellow men—

God loves those who do good works.

Al-‘Imran 3: 134
 

But no one will be granted such goodness

except those who exercise

patience and self-restraint.

Fussilat 41: 35
 

Most certainly We will try you until

We have discovered those among you

who strive their hardest, and those who are

steadfast, and will test your record.

Muhammad 47: 31
 

But as for those who follow guidance,

He adds to their guidance,

and shows them the way to righteousness.

Muhammad 47: 17
 

Had We sent down this Quran on a mountain,

you would certainly have seen it falling down

and splitting asunder, because of the fear of God.

Al-Hashr 59: 21
 

He is God, there is no deity save Him,

the Sovereign, the Most Pure,

the Source of Peace, the Granter of Security,

the Protector, the Mighty,

the Subduer, the Supreme.

Al-Hashr 59: 23

God calls man to the home of peace and

He guides whom

He wills to a straight path.

Yunus 10: 25
 

Read! Your Lord is the Most Bountiful One,

who taught by the pen,

taught man what he did not know.

Al-‘Alaq 96: 3-5

Help one another in goodness and in piety.

Do not help one another

in sin and transgression.

Al-Ma’idah 5: 2
 

Their flesh and blood do not reach God:

it is your piety that reaches Him.

Al-Hajj 22: 37
 

God will enrich you out of His bounty,

if He so wishes.

God is aware and wise.

Al-Tawbah 9: 28

Who can provide for you,

if He withholds His provision?

Al-Mulk 67: 21
 

Do they not know that God grants abundant

sustenance to anyone He wishes

and gives sparingly to anyone He pleases?

Surely there are signs in this for those who believe. 

Al-Zumar 39: 52
 

All that the heavens and the earth

contain belongs to God, whether you disclose

what is in your minds or keep it hidden.

Al-Baqarah 2: 284
 

If God should let any harm touch you,

no one could remove it except He;

while if He should let some good touch you,

know that He has the power to

do all that He wills.

Al-An‘am 6: 17
 

We have explained in various ways in this Quran,

for the benefit of mankind,

all kinds of examples,

but man is most contentious.

Al-Kahf 18: 54
 

We have made it easy indeed to learn

lessons from the Quran.

Is there anyone who would receive admonition?

Al-Qamar 54: 40
 

Those were a people that have passed away;

what they did is theirs and

what you have done is yours.

You will not be answerable for their deeds.

Al-Baqarah 2: 134
 

But God undertakes to accept repentance

only from those who do evil out of ignorance

and those who repent soon after.

Al-Nisa’ 4: 17
 

It is He who sends down water from the sky.

With it We produce vegetation of all kinds;

out of green foliage, We produce clustered grain;

and from the date-palm, out of its sheath,

We produce bunches of dates hanging low.

We produce vineyards and olive groves and

pomegranates, alike yet different.

Look at their fruit as

He causes it to grow and ripen.

In this are signs for people who believe.

Al-An‘am 6: 99
 

Never forget that the life of this world is

only a game and a passing delight,

a show, and mutual boasting and trying to outrival
each other in riches and children.

Al-Hadid 57: 20
 

We have spread out the earth, and set upon it

firm mountains and caused everything to grow in due

proportion. We have provided therein a means of

livelihood for you and for all those creatures for whom

you do not provide.

Al-Hijr 15: 19-20
 

We do indeed know how your heart is distressed

at what they say. But glorify your Lord with His praise,

and prostrate yourself: and worship your Lord until

what is certain [death] comes to you.

Al-Hijr 15: 97-99
 

  I have been afflicted with great distress: but You

are the most merciful of the merciful.’

Al-Anbiya’ 21: 83

Even if We showed them mercy and relieved

them of their afflictions, they would still persist in their

transgression, wandering blindly.

Al-Mu’minun 23: 75

Who responds to the oppressed when he calls out

to Him, and relieves his suffering and who will make

you inheritors of the earth? Then, is there a god besides

God? How little you pay heed!

Al-Naml 27: 62

It is He who created everything on the earth for

you: then He turned towards heaven and fashioned it

into the seven heavens. He has knowledge of all things.

Al-Baqarah 2: 29

He holds the keys to the unseen; none knows

them but He. He has knowledge of all that land and

sea contain. No leaf falls without His knowledge, nor

is there a single grain in the darkness of the earth, or

anything, wet or dry, but is recorded in a clear Record.

Al-An‘am 6: 59

In the alternation of night and day, and in all

that God has created in the heavens and the earth,

there are signs for a God-fearing people.

Yunus 10: 6

Do you not see how God compares a good word

to a good tree? Its root is firm and its branches are in

the sky, it yields its fruit each season with its Lord’s

permission—God makes such comparisons for people,

in order that they may take heed—but an evil word is

like an evil tree torn out of the earth; it has no foothold.

Ibrahim 14: 24-26

Do not walk proudly on the earth. You cannot

cleave the earth, nor can you rival
the mountains in height.

Al-Isra’ 17: 37

He who fears God shall be forgiven his sins and

richly rewarded.

Al-Talaq 65: 5

God does not burden any person with more than

He has given him.

God will soon bring about ease after hardship.

Al-Talaq 65: 7

Every soul is held in pledge against its own deeds.

Al-Muddaththir 74: 38

God lets go astray whom He wills,

and guides whom He wills.

And none knows the forces of your Lord but He.

This is but a Reminder for man.

Al-Muddaththir 74: 31

Theirs shall be gardens and vineyards, and young

maidens of equal age, and overflowing cups. There they

shall not hear any idle talk, or any untruth: all this will

be a recompense, a gift, that will suffice them, from

your Lord.

Al-Naba’ 78: 32-34

O man, having striven hard towards your Lord,

you shall meet Him.

Al-Inshiqaq 84: 6

We shall facilitate for you the Easy Way.

Al-A‘la 87: 8

So, surely with every hardship there is ease.

Al-Sharh 94: 5

This is a Book which We have revealed as a

blessing—follow it and fear your Lord,
so that you may receive mercy.

Al-An‘am 6: 155

And if, after adversity, We let him taste good

fortune he says, ‘All my ills are gone.’ He becomes

exultant and boastful. Not so those who are patient and

do good deeds. They shall have forgiveness and a great reward.

Hud 11: 10-11