Lo! religion with Allah is The Surrender to His will and guidance.

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And when a token cometh unto them, they say: We will not believe till we are given that which Allah's messengers are given. Allah knoweth best with whom to place His message. Humiliation from Allah and heavy punishment will smite the guilty for their scheming.


And whomsoever it is Allah's will to guide, He expandeth his bosom unto the Surrender, and whomsoever it is His will to send astray, He maketh his bosom close and narrow as if he were engaged in sheer ascent (at the very thought of Islam). Thus Allah layeth ignominy upon those who believe not.


This is the path of thy Lord, a straight path. We have detailed Our revelations for a people who take heed. 6:124-126





Unto Him belongeth whatsoever resteth in the night and the day. He is the Hearer, the Knower.


Say: Shall I choose for a protecting friend other than Allah, the Originator of the heavens and the earth, who feedeth and is never fed? Say: I am ordered to be the first to surrender unto Him. And be not thou O Muhammad of the idolaters.


Say: I fear, if I rebel against my Lord, the retribution of an Awful Day. 6:13-15





Say: Lo! As for me, my Lord hath guided me unto a straight path, a right religion, the community of Abraham, the upright, who was no idolater.


Say: Lo! my worship and, my sacrifice and my living and my dying are for Allah, Lord of the Worlds.


He hath no partner. This am I commanded, and I am first of those who surrender unto Him. 6:161-163





Say: Shall we cry, instead of unto Allah, unto that which neither profiteth us nor hurteth us, and shall we turn back after Allah hath guided us, like one bewildered whom the devils have infatuated in the earth, who hath companions who invite him to the guidance saying: Come unto us? Say: Lo! the guidance of Allah is Guidance, and we are ordered to surrender to the Lord of the Worlds,


And to establish worship and ward off evil, and He it is unto Whom ye will be gathered.


He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in truth. In that day when He saith: Be! it is. His word is the truth, and His will be the Sovereignty on the day when the trumpet is blown. Knower of the invisible and the visible, He is the Wise, the Aware. 6:71-73