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One passage in the Koran, cited in support of the hijab, reads as follows: “Enjoin believing women to turn their eyes away from temptation and to preserve their chastity; not to display their adornments (except such as are normally revealed); to draw their veils over their bosoms and not to display their finery ...”
The Economist: Muslims and the Veil JDsg 2007
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Enjoin beneficence and forbid malevolence: so shalt thou be loved of
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Enjoin but the terms I can make my peace with you upon, and I will instantly comply.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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QUOTATION: Enjoin this upon the Officers, and let them inculcate, and press home to the Soldiery, the Necessity of Order and Harmony among them, who are embarkd in one common Cause, and mutually contending for all that Freeman [sic] hold dear.
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Enjoin him to play so many hours every day, and look that he do it; and you shall see he will quickly be sick of it, and willing to leave it.
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P: Enjoin ye righteousness upon mankind while ye yourselves forget (to practise it)?
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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Y: Enjoin prayer on thy people, and be constant therein.
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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Enjoin that which is just and forbid that which is evil, so shalt thou be beloved of God.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II Anonymous 1879
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Enjoin beneficence and forbid malevolence: so shalt thou be loved of Allah.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Enjoin prayer on thy family, and persevere therein.
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