East is mentioned in the Quran in these verses:

[2:115] To God belongs the east and the west; wherever you go there will be the presence of God. God is Omnipresent, Omniscient.

[2:142] The fools among the people would say, “Why did they change the direction of their Qiblah?” Say, “To God belongs the east and the west; He guides whoever wills in a straight path.”

[2:177] Righteousness is not turning your faces towards the east or the west. Righteous are those who believe in God, the Last Day, the angels, the scripture, and the prophets; and they give the money, cheerfully, to the relatives, the orphans, the needy, the traveling alien, the beggars, and to free the slaves; and they observe the Contact Prayers (Salat) and give the obligatory charity (Zakat); and they keep their word whenever they make a promise; and they steadfastly persevere in the face of persecution, hardship, and war. These are the truthful; these are the righteous.

[2:258] Have you noted the one who argued with Abraham about his Lord, though God had given him kingship? Abraham said, “My Lord grants life and death.” He said, “I grant life and death.” Abraham said, “God brings the sun from the east, can you bring it from the west?” The disbeliever was stumped. God does not guide the wicked.

[7:137] We let the oppressed people inherit the land, east and west, and we blessed it. The blessed commands of your Lord were thus fulfilled for the Children of Israel, to reward them for their steadfastness, and we annihilated the works of Pharaoh and his people and everything they harvested.

[18:90] When he reached the far east, he found the sun rising on people who had nothing to shelter them from it.

[19:16] Mention in the scripture Mary. She isolated herself from her family, into an eastern location.

[24:35] God is the light of the heavens and the earth. The allegory of His light is that of a concave mirror behind a lamp that is placed inside a glass container. The glass container is like a bright, pearl-like star. The fuel thereof is supplied from a blessed oil-producing tree, that is neither eastern, nor western. Its oil is almost self-radiating; needs no fire to ignite it. Light upon light. God guides to His light whoever wills (to be guided). God thus cites the parables for the people. God is fully aware of all things.

[26:28] He said, “The Lord of the east and the west, and everything between them, if you understand.”

[26:60] They pursued them towards the east.

[37:5] The Lord of the heavens and the earth, and everything between them, and Lord of the easts.

[43:38] When he comes before us he will say, “Oh I wish you were as far from me as the two easts. What a miserable companion!”

[55:17] Lord of the two easts and the two wests.

[70:40] I solemnly swear by the Lord of the easts and the wests; we are able –

[73:9] Lord of the east and the west; there is no other god beside Him. You should choose Him as your advocate.

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