Verses of the Qur'an in the Sufi path
Contents
Qur’anic verses cited in the “thoughts of the day” of tariqa.fr, with the sura reference in each title.
Qur’an 10, 32
Such is God, your Lord; and what remains after the truth but error?
Qur’an 12, 101
Make me die Muslim (in submission) and place me among the virtuous.
Qur’an 12, 67
The decision belongs to Allah alone. It is to Him alone that I entrust myself. In Him let the trusting place their trust.
Qur’an 13, 11
Verily, Allah changes nothing in a people until that people changes what is within itself.
Qur’an 14, 43
…Their gazes will not turn back upon themselves and their hearts will be empty…
Qur’an 15, 98-99
Proclaim the glory of thy Lord, be among those who prostrate, and worship thy Lord until certainty comes to thee.
Qur’an 16, 125
With wisdom and fair exhortation, call people to the path of thy Lord. And dispute with them in the best manner.
Qur’an 16, 65
…Thus does God send down water from the sky upon the earth to revive it after it has died. In this lies a sign for those who would listen!
Qur’an 17, 12
And We efface the sign of the night.
Qur’an 17, 20
To all, to these as to those, We give of the gift of thy Lord. The gift of thy Lord cannot be hindered.
Qur’an 17, 7
We have told you: if you do good, or if you do evil, it is to yourselves that you do it.
Qur’an 17, 81
Say: the truth has come and vanity has vanished; truly vanity is doomed to vanish.
Qur’an 18, 110
Whoever hopes for the meeting with his Lord, let him do pious work and associate no being with the worship of his Lord.
Qur’an 19, 67
Does man not remember that before this it was We who created him, when he was nothing?
Qur’an 19, 93
There is no being in the heavens or on the earth who does not come to the Compassionate (otherwise than) as a servant.
Qur’an 1, 5
It is You we adore, and You whose help we implore.
Qur’an 20, 84
I hastened towards You, O my Lord, so that You might be pleased.
Qur’an 21, 20
They exalt His glory night and day and do not cease.
Qur’an 22, 31
…For whoever associates (anyone or anything) with Allah, it is as though he fell from the height of the sky, as though the birds snatched him, or as though the wind hurled him into an abyss.
Qur’an 22, 46
For it is not the eyes that go blind; it is the hearts in the breasts that are blind.
Qur’an 22, 62
So it is, because God is the truth, and what they invoke apart from Him is vanity.
Qur’an 23, 1-3
Blessed indeed are the believers, those who pray attentively and humbly, who turn away from futilities.
Qur’an 24, 36-37
…In houses which God has permitted to be raised, where His name is invoked, where men celebrate His praises at dawn and at dusk. Neither trade nor barter distracts them from the remembrance of God.
Qur’an 25, 20
We have made some of you a trial for others; will you bear it? Thy Lord sees all things.
Qur’an 25, 23
We have considered their deeds and made of them scattered dust.
Qur’an 25, 45
Dost thou not see how thy Lord spreads out the shade? He would have made it still had He willed. We made the sun its guide.
Qur’an 25, 63
The servants of the All-Merciful are those who walk humbly upon the earth and who, when the ignorant address them, say: “Peace.”
Qur’an 27, 88
Thou seest the mountains and thinkest them motionless. Yet they move like the clouds…
Qur’an 28, 88
Everything is perishable except His face.
Qur’an 29, 45
Recite what has been revealed to thee of the Book and accomplish the prayer. Ritual prayer keeps away turpitude and what is blameworthy. The dhikr of Allah is indeed the greatest thing.
Qur’an 2, 105
God holds infinite grace.
Qur’an 2, 125
Purify My House for those who circle around it, make pious retreat there, bow and prostrate there.
Qur’an 2, 136
Say: we believe in Allah, in what has been revealed to us, in what was revealed to Abraham, Ishmael, Jacob and the tribes, in what was given to Moses, to Jesus, to the Prophets on the part of their Lord. We have no preference for one of them over another. We are submitted to Allah.
Qur’an 2, 152
Remember Me, and I will reward you. Thank Me and do not be ungrateful towards Me.
Qur’an 2, 183
O believers! We have prescribed fasting (al-siyam) for you as We prescribed it for those who came before you, so that you may attain piety.
Qur’an 2, 185
God wishes ease for you and does not wish constraint for you.
Qur’an 2, 58
Enter this city and eat of it at will wherever you please; but enter by the gate prostrating yourselves, and ask remission (of your sins).
Qur’an 2, 131-132
When his Lord said to him: submit, he said: I submit to the Lord of the universe. And this is what Abraham enjoined upon his sons, as did Jacob: O my sons… die not except as men submitted to Allah (as Muslims)!
Qur’an 33, 23
…men who have been faithful to the pact they had concluded with God…
Qur’an 33, 36
It is not for a believer, man or woman, once Allah and His messenger have decided a thing, to have any choice left in their way of acting. And whoever disobeys Allah and His messenger has surely strayed, with a manifest straying.
Qur’an 34, 13
Few among My servants are those who are filled with gratitude.
Qur’an 35, 36-37
Are we to abandon our deities for a mad poet?
Qur’an 38, 42
Strike (the earth) with thy foot. Here is cool water for washing, and here is drink.
Qur’an 3, 103
Put yourselves out of peril by clinging, all of you, to the rope of God.
Qur’an 3, 134
…Those who contain their anger and are forgiving towards men; Allah loves virtuous beings.
Qur’an 3, 160
If Allah helps you, none can vanquish you. If He abandons you, who then will aid you? It is in Allah that the believers must place their trust.
Qur’an 3, 193
Forgive us and efface our sins.
Qur’an 3, 31
If you love God, conform to me, and God will love you.
Qur’an 74, 3-7
Of thy Lord, celebrate the greatness. Thy garments (thy faith), purify them. From all sin, keep away. Do not overrate what thou dost. And for thy Lord, endure.
Qur’an 41, 53
We shall show them Our signs in the universe and within themselves, until they see that it is the Real (God).
Qur’an 43, 26-27
…Abraham said to his father and his people: “I utterly disavow what you worship, except Him who created me, for it is He in truth who will guide me.”
Qur’an 44, 59
Watch and wait. They too are waiting.
Qur’an 45, 23
Hast thou not seen him who takes his passion for a deity?
Qur’an 49, 11
He who does not repent is among the unjust.
Qur’an 4, 110
Whoever does evil or wrongs himself, and then asks God’s forgiveness, will find God clement and merciful.
Qur’an 4, 114
In much of their talk there is nothing good, unless one of them enjoins the giving of alms, a good deed, or what reconciles men with one another.
Qur’an 4, 136
O you who believe, be firm in your faith in God…!
Qur’an 4, 171
Do not exceed the measure in your religion; say of God only the truth.
Qur’an 51, 15-19
The pious are amid gardens and springs, taking what their Lord gives them; beforehand they were beneficent; they slept little at night; at every dawn they asked forgiveness; and in their goods the beggar and the outcast had a right.
Qur’an 51, 54
Urge them to remembrance, for remembrance profits the believers.
Qur’an 53, 10
He revealed to His servant what He had to reveal to him.
Qur’an 53, 3
And he utters nothing under the effect of passion.
Qur’an 55, 26-27
All that is on earth is evanescent; only the face of thy Lord subsists, essence of majesty and generosity.
Qur’an 55, 27
Only the Face of thy Lord subsists.
Qur’an 55, 29
All that exists in the heavens and on earth implores Him. Each day He creates something new.
Qur’an 57, 16
Has the time not come for those who believe, that their hearts should humble themselves at the evocation of Allah and before the truth that has come down?
Qur’an 57, 18
Those who give in charity and have made Allah a sincere loan, it will be multiplied for them and they will have a generous reward.
Qur’an 5, 2
…Help one another in the accomplishment of good works, exhort one another to piety, and do not help one another in sin and transgression…
Qur’an 5, 32
…Whoever kills a man, without that man having committed murder or wrought brigandage in the land, it is as though he had killed all men. And whoever restores life to a man will be regarded as though he had granted life to all humanity…
Qur’an 5, 67
O Prophet, make known what has been revealed to thee by thy Lord.
Qur’an 61, 2-3
Why do you say what you do not do? To act thus is greatly hateful in God’s sight.
Qur’an 6, 122
Seest thou not the one who was dead, whom We revived and to whom We gave a light with which he advances among men…?
Qur’an 6, 76
When night wrapped him round, he observed a star and said: “That is my Lord.” Then, when it set, he said: “I do not love things that set.”
Qur’an 6, 91
Say: Allah; then leave them to amuse themselves in their vain prattle.
Qur’an 6, 162-163
Say: my prayer, my devotions, my life and my death belong to God, the Lord of the worlds. He has no associate. That is what I have been commanded, and I am the first to submit.
Qur’an 71, 10-11
Implore the forgiveness of the Master of forgiveness, and from the sky you will have beneficent rains…
Qur’an 71, 7
They put their fingers in their ears, wrapped themselves in their garments, persisted and showed themselves exceedingly proud.
Qur’an 73, 20
…Accomplish the prayer, pay the zakat, and make Allah a sincere loan. Whatever good you prepare for yourselves (in doing so), you will find it with Allah, better and greater in reward. And implore Allah’s forgiveness, for Allah is the One who forgives and shows mercy.
Qur’an 79, 18-19
Then say to him: wouldst thou purify thyself, and that I should guide thee to thy Lord so that thou fearest Him?
Qur’an 7, 172
…Am I not your Lord?
Qur’an 7, 199
Practise forgiveness. Enjoin the good. And keep away from the ignorant.
Qur’an 7, 205
And invoke thy Lord within thyself, with humility and fear, without ostentation of words, morning and evening, and be not of the number of the heedless.
Qur’an 7, 23
Lord, we have wronged ourselves, and if Thou dost not show us mercy, we are among the losers.
Qur’an 87, 14-15
He surely succeeds who purifies himself and remembers the name of his Lord, then performs the prayer.
Qur’an 93, 6-11
Did He not find thee an orphan? Then He sheltered thee! Did He not find thee astray? Then He guided thee. Did He not find thee poor? Then He enriched thee. As for the orphan, then, do not maltreat him. As for the beggar, do not repel him. And as for the blessing of thy Lord, proclaim it.
Qur’an 9, 104
Do they not know that it is Allah Himself who accepts the repentance of His servants and who takes the alms?
Qur’an 9, 119
Believers, fear your Lord and be with those who are truthful.
Qur’an 9, 15
…And He removes the rage from their hearts.