See how We made some of them excel some others (in this world) and, of course, the Hereafter is far higher in ranks and far greater in degrees of merit.

Do not set up any other god along with Allah, or you will sit condemned, forsaken.

And your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him and do good to parents. If either of them or both reach old age, do not say to them 'uff (a word of anger or contempt) and do not scold them. And address them with respectful words,

and submit yourself before them in humility out of compassion and say, 'My Lord, be merciful to them as they have brought me up in my childhood."

Your Lord knows best what is in your hearts. If you are righteous, then He is Most-Forgiving for those who turn to Him in repentance.

And give the relative his right, and the needy and the wayfarer. And do not squander recklessly.

Surely, squanderers are brothers to satans, and the Satan is very ungrateful to his Lord.

And if you turn away from them while seeking a bounty from your Lord you are expecting, then speak to them in polite words.

And do not keep your hand tied to your neck, nor ex-tend it to the fu11 extent, lest you should be sitting reproached, empty-handed.

Indeed, your Lord expands sustenance for whomsoever He wills, and constricts (for whom He wills). Surely, He is All Aware of His servants, All-Seeing.