"O you who have believed, decreed upon you is fasting as it was decreed upon those before you that you may become righteous..
The sentence that God decreed upon the people of Judah has expired.
As a physician, I strive to live out one of my favorite verses from the Quran, an interfaith call to action which references the Talmud, "[Allah] decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever... saves one person -- it is as if he had saved mankind entirely".
Last November, as Monday's letter publicly disclosed, federal officials sent the sheriff a draft consent decree, an agreed-upon but judicially mandated blueprint for comprehensive reform.
In 1149 the Crusaders, who had conquered Gaza in 1100, built a cathedral dedicated to John the Baptist atop the ruins of the church upon a decree by Baldwin III of Jerusalem.
We should remember Allah has decreed this upon our brother.
The family was encouraged by the consent decree recently imposed upon the Cleveland police in a settlement with the US Department of Justice.
However, this decree proved challenging upon the first instance of its application.
He also claimed that Poe had said, quite poetically, as he prepared to draw his last breath: "The arched heavens encompass me, and God has his decree legibly written upon the frontlets of every created human being, and demons incarnate, their goal will be the seething waves of blank despair".
"The society of Islam is ultimately based not upon human volition or upon contract but upon divine decree," Mr. Pagden writes.
Clodius then passed two laws which banished Cicero, on the grounds that he had deprived several of Catiline's conspirators of their due process (provocatio) rights when he had them executed upon a mere decree of the senate.
