Lessons from Surah Al Bakarah:

1. Use Al-Quran as the source of guidance (advise) in all matters (this alone can lead to
true success and happiness)
2. Faith and belief (right intention) must precede and accompany all good actions
3. Be constant in prayer (salah) and charity; Be constant in prayer (salah) and charity
4. Pray in congregation
5. Be ever conscious of The Day of Judgement
6. Spend and share with others the gifts given by The Almighty (money, food, clothes,
time, knowledge etc)
7. Give only good things in charity and not things which you might dislike for yourself
8. Do not give reminders about acts of charity or hurt the ones you have given charity to
9. Live , eat and travel (dwell) with your spouse
10. Maintain contact and do good towards parents and relatives (e.g. our Prophet
instructed us to visit the sick). And do good towards the orphans and the poor
11. Speak kindly to ALL people
12. Seek (complete) knowledge (of all things)
13. Trust in The Almighty’s plan. None can fathom His infinite wisdom
14. Repent with true regret and remorse after sinning and correct yourself
15. Remember, remember all the blessings that The Almighty has bestowed
16. Do not advise others to that which you do not do yourself
17. Seek help through patience, perseverance and prayer
18. Be grateful (say Alhamdulillah) after waking up from sleep
19. Eat pure, wholesome and good food
20. Enter all places humbly
21. Do not complain about food
22. Do not ask unnecessary questions
23. Bear in mind the lessons from Al-Quran. Hold on to it with all strength (2: 93)
24. Seek protection and help from The Almighty (2: 106-7)
25. Do not fear or grieve if you have truly submitted to Allah and are a doer of good (2: 112)
26. Remain conscious of the Day of Judgment (2: 123)
27. Pray for the acceptance of good deeds when doing the deed (2: 127)
28. Enjoin faith and teach religion to your family (2: 132-3)
29. Compete with each other in doing good deeds (2: 148)
30. Do not fear or be in awe of disbelievers or wrongdoers (2: 150)
31. Remember The Almighty and be grateful to Him (2: 152)
32. Do not say that the martyrs are dead
33. Be patient during adversity and bad times (i.e. keep doing good deeds and do not
complain or be unhappy with The Almighty’s decree) (2: 155)
34. When calamity befalls say “Inna lillah hi wa inna ilaihi rawji’un” (2: 156)
35. Eat only lawful and good things and give thanks (2: 168, 172)
36. True piety is not formality but rather sound belief and spending what one loves upon
family, orphans, needy, wayfarer, beggars and for freeing of captives and keeping
promises and patience in adversity (2: 177)
37. Fasting should increase our God-consciousness (2: 183)
38. The Quran should be used in all matters to distinguish between right and wrong and
true and false
39. Do not commit (initiate) aggression; Allah does not love aggressors
40. During Hajj refrain from all bad speech, bad conduct, quarrelling, and keep sufficient
supply of food and water with you at all times. And the best resource is God-
consciousness
41. Remember Allah as the One who guided you after you had been lost and astray
42. We shall have what we have earned in this world and the next
43. Remember Allah after acts of worship with a keen remembrance
44. Sell yourself to please Allah (i.e. sacrifice in order to please Allah)
45. Surrender wholly to Allah
46. Disbelievers will mock believers but endure patiently (let Allah deal with them)
47. We must pass through trials and tests in order to enter paradise
48. Spend first for parents, then relatives, orphans, wayfarers (2: 215)