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Surah Al-Maarij (70:37) Quran.com
عَنِ الْيَمِينِ وَعَنِ الشِّمَالِ عِزِينَ [To sit] on [your] right and [your] left in separate groups? (Sahih International)
Surah Al-Haaqqa (69:25) Quran.com
وَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِيَ كِتَابَهُ بِشِمَالِهِ فَيَقُولُ يَا لَيْتَنِي لَمْ أُوتَ كِتَابِيَهْ But as for he who is given his record in his left hand, he will say, "Oh, I wish I had not been given my record (Sahih International)
Surah Qaf (50:17) Quran.com
إِذْ يَتَلَقَّى الْمُتَلَقِّيَانِ عَنِ الْيَمِينِ وَعَنِ الشِّمَالِ قَعِيدٌ When the two receivers receive, seated on the right and on the left. (Sahih International)
Surah Al-Kahf (18:18) Quran.com
وَنُقَلِّبُهُمْ ذَاتَ الْيَمِينِ وَذَاتَ الشِّمَالِ And you would think them awake, while they were asleep. And We turned them to the right and to the left, while their dog stretched his forelegs at the entrance. If you had looked at them, you would have turned from them in flight and been filled by them with terror. (Sahih International)
Surah Saba (34:15) Quran.com
لَقَدْ كَانَ لِسَبَإٍ فِي مَسْكَنِهِمْ آيَةٌ جَنَّتَانِ عَنْ يَمِينٍ وَشِمَالٍ There was for [the tribe of] Saba' in their dwelling place a sign: two [fields of] gardens on the right and on the left. [They were told], "Eat from the provisions of your Lord and be grateful to Him. A good land [have you], and a forgiving Lord." (Sahih International)
Surah Al-Kahf (18:17) Quran.com
وَإِذَا غَرَبَتْ تَقْرِضُهُمْ ذَاتَ الشِّمَالِ وَهُمْ فِي فَجْوَةٍ مِنْهُ And [had you been present], you would see the sun when it rose, inclining away from their cave on the right, and when it set, passing away from them on the left, while they were [laying] within an open space thereof. That was from the signs of Allah. He whom Allah guides is the [rightly] guided, but he whom He leaves astray - never will you find for him a protecting guide. (Sahih International)
This is the end of the list. شِّمَال was only mentioned 8 times in the Quran.
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