TRIBE OF ISRAEL
(CHILDREN OF ISRAEL)
1 Tribe of Israel! Remember the blessing I con-ferred on you. Honour My contract and I will ho-nour your contract. Have dread of Me alone.(2:40)
2 Tribe of Israel! Remember the blessing I con-ferred on you and that I preferred you over all other beings. (2:47)
3 Remember when We made a covenant with the tribe of Israel: ‘Worship none but Allah and be good to your parents and to relatives and or-phans and the very poor. And speak good words to people. And perform prayer and give the
alms.’ But then you turned away–except a few of you–you turned aside. (2:83)
4 Tribe of Israel! Remember the blessing I conferred on you, and that I preferred you over all other beings. (2:122)
5 Ask the tribe of Israel how many Clear Signs We gave to them. If anyone alters Allah’s blessing after it has come to him, Allah is fierce in retribution. (2:211)
6 What do you think about the council of the tribe of Israel after Musa’s time when they said to one of their Prophets, ‘Give us a king and we will fight in the Way of Allah!’? He said, ‘Is it not pos-sible that if fighting were prescribed for you, you would not fight?’ They said, ‘How could we not fight in the way of Allah when we have been driven from our homes and children?’ But then when fighting was prescribed for them, they turned their backs–except for a few of them. Allah knows the wrongdoers. (2:246)
7 He will teach him (‘Isa) the Book and Wisdom, and the Torah and the Gospel, as a Messenger to the tribe of Israel, saying: ‘I have brought you a Sign from your Lord. I will create the shape of a bird out of clay for you and then breathe into it and it will be a bird by Allah’s permission. I will heal the blind and the leper, and bring the dead to life, by Allah’s permission. I will tell you what you eat and what you store up in your homes. There is a Sign for you in that if you are believers.’ (3:48-49)
8 All food was lawful for the tribe of Israel except what Israel made unlawful for himself before the Torah was sent down. Say, ‘Bring the Torah and read it out if you are telling the truth.’ (3:93)
9 Allah made a covenant with the tribe of Israel and We raised up twelve leaders from among them. Allah said, ‘I am with you. If you perform prayer and give the alms, and believe in My Messengers and respect and support them, and make a generous loan to Allah, I will erase your wrong actions from you and admit you into Gardens with rivers flowing under them. Any of you who disbelieve after that have gone astray from the right way.’ (5:12)
10 Then Allah sent a crow which scratched at the earth to show him (one of Adam’s two sons) how to conceal his brother’s corpse. He said, ‘Woe is me! Can I not even be like this crow and conceal my brother’s corpse?’ And he became one of those who suffer bitter remorse on account of that. So We decreed for the tribe of Israel that if someone kills another person–unless it is in retal-iation for someone else or for causing corruption in the earth–it is as if he had murdered all mankind. And if anyone gives life to another per-son, it is as if he had given life to all mankind. Our Messengers came to them with Clear Signs but even after that many of them committed out-rages in the earth.(5:31-32)
11 We made a covenant with the tribe of Israel and We sent Messengers to them. Each time a Messenger came to them with something their lower selves did not desire, they denied some and they murdered others. (5:70)
12 Those who say that the Messiah, son of Maryam, is Allah are disbelievers. The Messiah said, ‘Tribe of Israel! Worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord. If anyone associates anything with Allah, Allah has forbidden him the Garden and his refuge will be the Fire.’ The wrongdoers will have no helpers. (5:72)
13 Those among the tribe of Israel who disbelieved were cursed on the tongue of Dawud and that of ‘Isa, son of Maryam. That is because they re-belled and overstepped the limits. (5:78)
14 Remember when Allah said, ‘‘Isa, son of Maryam, remember My blessing to you and to your mother when I reinforced you with the Purest Spirit so that you could speak to people in the cradle and when you were fully grown; and when I taught you the Book and Wisdom, and the Torah and the Gospel; and when you created a bird-shape out of clay by My permission, and then breathed into it and it became a bird by My permission; and healed the blind and the leper by My permission; and when you brought forth the dead by My permission; and when I held back the tribe of Israel from you, when you brought them the Clear Signs and those of them who disbelieved said, “This is nothing but down-right magic”’ (5:110)
15 Musa (Moses) said, ‘Pharaoh! I am truly a Messenger from the Lord of all the worlds, duty bound to say nothing about Allah except the truth. I have come to you with a Clear Sign from your Lord. So send the tribe of Israel away with me.’ (7:104-105)
16 Whenever the plague came down on them they said, ‘Musa, pray to your Lord for us by the con-tract He has with you. If you remove the plague from us, we will definitely believe in you and send the tribe of Israel away with you.’ (7:134)
17 And We bequeathed to the people who had been oppressed the easternmost part of the land We had blessed, and its western most part as well. The most excellent Word of your Lord was fulfilled for the tribe of Israel on account of their steadfastness. And We utterly destroyed what Pharaoh and his people made and the buildings they constructed. (7:137)
18 We conveyed the tribe of Israel across the sea and they came upon some people who were devoting themselves to some idols which they had. They said, ‘Musa, give us a god just as these people have gods.’ He said, ‘You are indeed an ignorant people.’ (7:138)
19 We brought the tribe of Israel across the sea and Pharaoh and his troops pursued them out of tyranny and enmity. Then, when he was on the point of drowning, he said, ‘I believe that there is no god but Him in Whom the tribe of Israel be-lieve. I am one of the Muslims.’ (10:90)
20 We settled the tribe of Israel in a noble place and gave them good things as provision. They did not differ until knowledge came to them. Your Lord will decide between them on the Day of Rising regarding the things about which they differed. (10:93)
21 We gave Musa the Book and made it guidance for the tribe of Israel: ‘Do not take anyone be-sides Me as a guardian.’ (17:2)
22 We decreed in the Book for the tribe of Israel: ‘You will twice cause corruption on the earth and you will rise to a great height. When the prom-ised first time came, We sent against you servants of Ours possessing great force, and they ran-sacked your houses, rampaging right through them. It was a promise which was fulfilled. Then once again We gave you the upper hand over them and supplied you with more wealth and children and made you the most numerous group. If you do good, you do it to yourselves. If you do evil, you do it to your detriment. When the next promised time arrived, it was so that they could injure you and enter the Temple as they had entered it the first time, and in order to
completely destroy what they had conquered. It may well be that your Lord will have mercy on you. But if you revert to what you did, We also will revert. We have made Hell a prison for the disbelievers.’ (17:4-8)
23 We gave Musa nine Clear Signs. Ask the tribe of Israel about when he came to them and Pharaoh said to him, ‘Musa, I think you are bewitched.’ (17:101)
24 We said to the tribe of Israel after that, ‘Inhabit the land and, when the promise of the hereafter comes, We will produce you as a motley crowd.’ (17:104)
25 Those are some of the Prophets Allah has blessed, from the descendants of Adam and from those We carried with Nuh, and from the descendants of Ibrahim and Isra’il and from those We guided and chose. When the Signs of the All-Merciful were recited to them they fell on their faces, weeping, in prostration. (19:58)
26 (Allah said to Musa,) ‘Go to him (Pharaoh) and say, “We are your Lord’s Messengers so send the tribe of Israel away with us and do not punish them. We have brought you a Sign from your Lord. Peace be upon those who follow the guidance.”’ (20:47)
27 Tribe of Israel! We rescued you from your enemy and made an appointment with you on the right hand side of the Mount and sent down manna and quails for you. (20:80)
28 He (Harun) said, ‘Son of my mother! Do not seize me by the beard or by the hair. I was afraid that you would say, “You have caused division in the tribe of Israel and taken no notice to anything I said.”’ (20:94)
29 (Allah said to Musa,) ‘Go to Pharaoh and say, “We are the Messenger of the Lord of all the worlds to tell you to send the tribe of Israel away with us.”’ (26:16-17)
30 (Musa said to Pharaoh,) ‘And anyway you can only reproach me with this favour because you made the tribe of Israel into slaves!’ (26:22)
31 So it was! And We bequeathed them to the tribe of Israel. (26:59)
32 Is it not indeed a Sign for them that the scholars of the tribe of Israel have knowledge of it? (26:197)
33 Certainly this Qur’an narrates to the tribe of Israel most of the things about which they differ. (27:76)
34 We gave Musa the Book–be in no doubt about the meeting with him–and made it a guidance for the tribe of Israel. (32:23)
35 We gave Musa the guidance and bequeathed the Book to the tribe of Israel. (40:53)
36 He (the son of Maryam) is only a servant on whom We bestowed Our blessing and whom We made an example for the tribe of Israel. (43:59)
37 We rescued the tribe of Israel from the humiliating punishment. (44:30)
38 We gave the Book and Judgement and Prophethood to the tribe of Israel and provided them with good things and favoured them over all other people. (45:16)
39 Say: ‘What do you think? If it is from Allah and you reject it, when a witness from the tribe of Israel testifies to its similarity and believes while you are arrogant…! Allah certainly does not guide wrongdoing people.’ (46:10)
40 And when ‘Isa son of Maryam said, ‘Tribe of Israel, I am the Messenger of Allah to you, con-firming the Torah which came before me and giv-ing you the good news of a Messenger after me whose name is Ahmad.’ When he brought them
the Clear Signs, they said, ‘This is downright magic.’ (61:6)
41 You who believe! Be helpers of Allah as ‘Isa son of Maryam said to the Disciples, ‘Who will be my helpers to Allah?’ The Disciples said, ‘We will be the helpers of Allah.’ One faction of the tribe of Israel believed and the other disbelieved. So
We supported those who believed against their enemy and they became victorious. (61:14)
Makashfa 