Character

The Quran commands the believers to seek help through patience and prayer, and says that Allah is with those who are patient.

The Quran commands people to thank Allah for His blessings and promises more to those who are grateful, while the benefit of gratitude returns to the grateful themselves.

Allah commands people to worship Him with obedience devoted purely to Him, and the Prophet is told to declare that his prayer, his worship, his life and his death are for Allah alone.

Allah commands the believers to be mindful of Him, to speak what is true, and to be with the truthful, and names truthfulness in faith and in promises as a trait of the believers and the prophets.

Allah commands that trusts be rendered to those entitled to them and forbids betraying Allah, His Messenger and what one has been entrusted with.

Allah commands the believers to fulfil their promises and contracts, both to Allah and to people, for every promise will be asked about.

Allah commands kindness to both parents right after the command to worship Him, forbids saying "uff" to them or scolding them, and recalls the hardship of the mother who carried and nursed her child.

Allah commands people to be mindful of Him and to guard the ties of kinship, praises those who join what Allah has commanded to be joined, and commands giving close relatives their due of kindness and help.

The Quran declares that the believers are brothers, and that Allah united their hearts through Islam so that former enemies became brothers.

The Quran commands helping one another in righteousness and piety and forbids helping one another in sin and aggression.

Allah commands the believers to be mindful of Him and say what is right, to speak good words to people, and to speak gently, including to parents, to those who ask, to orphans, and even to Pharaoh.

Allah commands the believers to avoid much suspicion, not to spy on one another and not to backbite, which is likened to eating the flesh of one's dead brother.

Allah commands the believers to verify news brought by a wrongdoer lest they harm a people unknowingly, forbids following what one has no knowledge of, and rebukes those who spread reports at once instead of referring them to the Messenger and those with knowledge.

Allah does not love the arrogant and boastful, and forbids walking the earth haughtily, turning one's face away from people and claiming purity for oneself.

These verses condemn those who do good deeds to be seen and praised by people: their charity loses its reward like dust on a smooth rock washed away by rain, the hypocrites stand lazily for prayer to show off, and those who pray are warned against showing off.

Allah forbids coveting the bounty He has given to others and commands seeking refuge in Him from the evil of the envier.

The Quran praises those who restrain their anger and pardon others, and commands forgiveness, overlooking faults and repelling evil with what is better.

The Quran forbids wronging others, such as consuming the property of orphans and of others unjustly, aggression against others, taking usury, harming one's wife, punishing the innocent and withholding the rights of the poor, and forbids cooperating in aggression.

The Quran describes the hypocrites as those who claim faith with their tongues while their hearts deny it, who try to deceive Allah and the believers, and whose hearts are diseased with doubt.

Allah forbids the believers from mocking other people, from defaming one another and from calling one another by offensive nicknames, for those mocked may be better in Allah's sight; He also condemns those who hurt the believers undeservedly and warns the backbiter and the slanderer.

Allah commands justice and ihsan, doing good to others as Allah has done good to people, and declares that He loves and is with those who do good.

Allah commands the believers to race one another in good deeds and to hasten towards His forgiveness and a Garden as wide as the heavens and the earth.

The Quran commands the Prophet and the believers to stand firm on Allah's path as they were commanded, and promises those who say 'Our Lord is Allah' and then remain steadfast that they will have no fear and no grief.

Allah commands the believers to rely on Him alone after making a resolve and taking means, and describes reliance on Him as a trait of the believers over whom Satan has no power.

The Quran calls the life of this world play, amusement, adornment and a small, deceiving enjoyment, while the Hereafter is better and more lasting.

Allah forbids squandering wealth wastefully and calls the squanderers brothers of the devils, forbids excess in eating, drinking and spending, and praises those who spend moderately, neither extravagant nor stingy.

The Quran condemns those who are stingy with Allah's bounty and urge others to stinginess, warns that what they withheld will become a collar around their necks, and states that whoever is stingy is stingy only against himself.

The Quran forbids despairing of Allah's mercy and says that none despairs of His mercy except those who are astray, while Allah forgives the sins of those who turn back to Him.

The hearts of the believers find rest in the remembrance of Allah, and Allah sends down tranquility into the hearts of the Messenger and the believers in times of fear and anxiety.

The Quran describes the states of the human heart: the sound heart that is saved on the Day of Judgement, the believer's heart that trembles and humbles itself when Allah is mentioned, and hearts that are hardened, diseased, sealed and blind.

Several verses of the Quran gather many traits of character at once: kindness to parents, relatives, orphans, the poor and neighbours, restraining anger and forgiving, acting justly, and avoiding indecency.

The Quran states that the Messenger of Allah is an excellent example for whoever hopes in Allah and the Last Day, and that he is of a great moral character.

Allah commands the believers to keep patiently in the company of those who call upon their Lord and to be with the truthful, and names the prophets and the righteous as the best of companions.

The Quran affirms that every soul is responsible for what it does, bears no one else's sin, and will be questioned about its deeds, including its hearing, sight and heart.

Allah commands people to do deeds and work, for Allah, His Messenger and the believers will see their work, and He made the day and an earth easy to travel for seeking His bounty and provision, including trade in the Hajj season and dispersing after the Friday prayer.

Allah swears by time: by the declining day, by the dawn, by the forenoon, by the night and the morning, then declares that humankind is in loss except those who believe, do good and counsel one another.

The Quran commands every soul to look to what it has sent ahead for tomorrow and warns against forgetting oneself.

The believers love Allah most, and the proof of loving Allah is following the Messenger, so that Allah loves them in return.

Allah made homes a place of rest, and commands that no one enter another's house before asking permission and greeting its people, and that one turn back when asked to.

Allah repeatedly commands people to travel through the land to see the end of the nations that denied the messengers and how He began creation.

The Quran teaches that it is Allah who heals when one falls ill, as the Prophet Ibrahim said, and calls honey a drink in which there is healing for people and the Quran a cure and mercy for the believers.

Allah commands the believers to be mindful of Him as He should be, as far as they are able, and makes taqwa the best provision and the measure of honour in His sight.