The straight Way is often the narrow Way, or the steep Way, which many people shun (xc.11). By the world's perversity the straight Way is sometimes stigmatized and the crooked Way praised.
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/1/6
O ye people! adore your Guardian-Lord who created you and those who came before you that ye may have the chance to learn righteousness. For Taqwa see ii. 2 n. 26.
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/2/21
Verses 26 and 27 form one sentence and should be read together. "Forsaking the path" is defined in ii. 27, viz.
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/2/26
How can ye reject the faith in Allah? Seeing that ye were without life and He gave you life; then will He cause you to die and will again bring you to life; and again to Him will ye return.
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/2/28
1-2, also 8-9); a terrible punishment ensued, including the plague of which 24,000 died. The word which the transgressors changed may have been a pass-word.
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/2/58
whose name was changed to Israel (soldier of God) after he had wrestled, says Jewish tradition, with God (Genesis xxxii. 28). Israel had twelve sons (Gen. xxxv. 22-26), including Levi and Joseph.
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/2/60
Perhaps it brought them profit for the time being; but it was a miserable profit if they "gained the whole world and lost their own souls" (Matt. xvi. 26).
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/2/78
And this was the legacy that Abraham left to his sons and so did Jacob; "O my sons! Allah hath chosen the faith for you; then die not except in the faith of Islam."
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/2/132
Those who reject faith and die rejecting on them is Allah's curse and the curse of angels and of all mankind.
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/2/161
And if any of you turn back from their faith and die in unbelief their works will bear no fruit in this life and in the Hereafter; they will be Companions of the Fire and will abide therein.
https://www.islamhelpline.net/quran/2/217