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2. The Cow : Good Stuff
- Don't confuse truth with falsehood or knowingly conceal the truth. 2:42
- Be good to parents, relatives, orphans, and the needy. Speak kindly and pay the poor-due. 2:83
- If you believe it, prove it. (A good rule, but does it apply to Muslims, too?) 2:111
- The Jews say the Christians are wrong, and vice versa. Yet they both believe in the Scriptures.
2:113
- Give of your wealth to family, relatives, and the needy. Set slaves free. 2:177
- Do not fight wars of aggression. (Does this apply only during Ramadan?) 2:190
- "Do good." 2:195
- Spend your money for good: to help your parents, your family, orphans, wayfarers, and the needy.
2:215
- Help orphans. 2:220
- "Make not Allah, by your oaths, a hindrance to ... making peace among mankind." 2:224
- "There is no compulsion in religion." (But see the next verse which says that disbelievers will
burn forever in Hell.) 2:256
- Pay the poor-due. 2:43, 110,
277
- "If the debtor is in straitened circumstances, then (let there be) postponement to (the time of) ease." 2:280