Surah 2: Good Stuff

1. Don't confuse truth with falsehood or knowingly conceal the truth. 2:42
2. Pay the poor-due. 2:43, 110, 277
3. Be good to parents, relatives, orphans, and the needy. Speak kindly and pay the poor-due. 2:83
4. If you believe it, prove it. (A good rule, but does it apply to Muslims, too?) 2:111
5. The Jews say the Christians are wrong, and vice versa. Yet they both believe in the Scriptures. 2:113
6. Give of your wealth to family, relatives, and the needy. Set slaves free. 2:177
7. Do not fight wars of aggression. (Does this apply only during Ramadan?) 2:190
8. "Do good." 2:195
9. Spend your money for good: to help your parents, your family, orphans, wayfarers, and the needy. 2:215
10. Help orphans. 2:220
11. "Make not Allah, by your oaths, a hindrance to ... making peace among mankind." 2:224
12. "There is no compulsion in religion." (But see the next verse which says that disbelievers will burn forever in Hell.) 2:256
13. "If the debtor is in straitened circumstances, then (let there be) postponement to (the time of) ease." 2:280