Do Not Join gods with God:

30. Surah ar-Rum

The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:

مُنِيبِينَ إِلَيْهِ وَاتَّقُوهُ ...

30:31. Turn ye back in repentance to Him, and fear Him:

C3543. "Repentance" does not mean sackcloth and ashes, or putting on a gloom pessimism.

It means giving up disease for health, crookedness (which is abnormal) for the Straight Way, the restoration of our nature as Allah created it from the falsity introduced by the enticements of Evil. To revert to the simile of the magnetic needle (n. 3540 above), if the needle is held back by obstructions, we must restore its freedom, so that it points true again to the magnetic pole.

... وَأَقِيمُوا الصَّلَاةَ ... God

establish regular prayers,

... وَلَا تَكُونُوا مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ ﴿٣١﴾

and be not ye among those who join gods with Allah, --