Category: The Holy Quran

“God: there is no true God but Him.  The Ever-Living, the Eternal Master of all.  Neither drowsiness nor sleep overtakes Him.  His is all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth.   Who is there that can intercede with Him, except by His permission?  He knows all that lies open before them […]

1. By Al-‘Asr (the time).      2. Verily, man is in loss,      3. Except those who believe (in Islâmic Monotheism) and do righteous good deeds, and recommend one another to the truth [i.e. order one another to perform all kinds of good deeds (Al-Ma‘ruf) which Allâh has ordained, and abstain from all kinds of sins and […]

God strikes a parable about His light within the heart of His servant, which only the learned understand: “God is the light of the heavens and the earth. The similitude of His light is a niche in which there is a lamp. The lamp is in a Glass, the Glass, like a glistening star, kindled […]

Does the story about the cave, and the pious young men sleeping for hundreds of years sound familiar to you?  It forms part of a chapter of the Quran known as ‘The Cave’ and it is also an unauthenticated Christian tradition known well in the more Orthodox areas of Christendom.  It takes up a little […]

In the Name of Allâh, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful      1. When the hypocrites come to you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم), they say: “We bear witness that you are indeed the Messenger of Allâh.” Allâh knows that you are indeed His Messenger, and Allâh bears witness that the hypocrites are liars indeed. […]

One thing which surprises non-Muslims who are examining the book very closely is that the Quran does not appear to them to be what they expected.  What they assume is that they have an old book which came fourteen centuries ago from the Arabian desert; and they expect that the book should look something like […]

The first audiences of the Quran were the desert-dwellers of Arabia, who were proud of their language skills.  Their material possessions were meager, but their language was far in advance of their culture.  They earned their livelihood by trading and took many trips abroad to buy and sell goods.  Their long journeys across the desert […]

Although it is proven that the text of the Quran has remained intact till today, how are we sure that the words actually originated from God and not some other source?  This takes us to look at the authenticity, authority, or source of the Quran. Concerning the authorship of the Quran, Muslims believe that it […]

The Quran is the Muslim scripture, that is to say the scripture of the followers of Islam.  Islam is the religion established among the Arabs – a people until then largely confined to the Arabian Peninsula – by the Prophet Muhammad in the early seventh century.  The Quran was revealed to Prophet Muhammad by God […]