S 17:60 And when we said to you: Your lord has encompassed people. And we did not make the vision which we showed you but fitnah for people and the cursed tree in the Quran. And we frighten them but it does not increase them except in big oppression. The anonymous 'we' said to an equally anonymous 'you': "Your lord has encompassed people." So, who are "we"? And what vision? Is the "cursed tree" part of the vision? As it is in "the quran", how might this verse be part of it? A

In this post I provide four ahadith telling us of the spirit's being blown into the fetus. I provide my own translation of each of them going by the vocalisation in the texts. Al-Ḥasan ibn Rabīʿi told us, Abū al-Aḥwaṣ told us, from Al-ʿAmash, from Zayd b. Wahb, ʿAbdullah said: Allah's messenger [SAW], and he is the truthful, the believed, told us, he said: One of you, his creation is gathered in his mother's belly for 40 days, then as a clot like that, then as a gobbet like t

Chronological order: S 50:23 (34th) His qarin said: This is what is ready with me. S 50:27 His qarin said: Our lord, I did not make him oppress but he was in far error. S 37:51 (56th) A speaker among them said: I had a qarin. S 43:36 (63rd) And he who turns away from Al-Rahman’s dhikr, we send him a devil and he is a qarin to him. S 43:38 Until when he has come to us he has said: Would that there were the distance of the two rising places between me and you! And miserable was

From Al-Qurtubi's tafsir on S 3:39 And Al-Tabari has mentioned that Maryam, when she was pregnant with Isa, her sister too was pregnant with Yahya; and her sister came to visit and said: Maryam, did you know that I was pregnant? And Maryam said to her: Did you know that I was pregnant? And she said to her: And I find what is in my belly doing sujud to what is in your belly. And that is because it has been reported that she felt her fetus drop with its head towards the side of

In this post we shall be looking at S 56:29. And clustered talh Al-Baghawi: (And clustered talh ) That is: bananas--its singular is talhah --from most of the mufassirun. And Al-Hasan said: It is not the banana but a tree with a cool, good shade. Al-Farra' and Abu Ubaydah said: The talh among the Arabs: large trees that have thorns. And [Mujalid] narrated from Al-Hasan ibn Sa'd. He said: A man read before Ali, may Allah be pleased with him: "Wa-talhin mandud", and he said: An

From Ibn Kathir's tafsir on S 3:39 And Ibn Abi Hatim said: My father told us, Isa ibn Hammad Zaghbah and Muhammad ibn Salamah al-Muradi told us, they said, Hajjaj told us, from Salman ibn al-Qamari, from Al-Layth ibn Saad, from Muhammad ibn Ajlan from Al-Qa'qa', from Abu Salih, from Abu Hurayrah, that the prophet [SAW] said: "Every son of Adam meets Allah with a sin that he has committed, for which he tortures him, if he wills, or has mercy on him, except Yahya ibn Zakariyya,

S 7:64 But they called him a liar so we saved him and those with him in the ship. And we drowned those who called our signs a lie. They were a blind people. S 10:74 But they called him a liar so we saved him and him who was with him in the ship and we made them successors and we drowned those who called our signs a lie. So see how the result of the warned was. S 11:37 And make the ship under our eyes and our inspiration and do not address me concerning those who have wronged.

Abu Nu'aym told us, Abd al-Rahman ibn Ghasil told us, from Hamzah bin Abi Usayd, from Abu Usayd--may Allah be pleased with him--, he said: We went out with the prophet [SAW] until we started out for a wall called Al-Shaut, until we ended up at two walls and we sat between them. And the prophet [SAW] said: "Sit here." And he entered and the Jauniyyah was brought and was lodged in the house of Umaymah bt Al-Nu'man bin Sharahil and with her was her wet-nurse, her caregiver, and

S 33:32 Women of the prophet’s, you are not like one of the women. If you have feared then do not be submissive in speech so that the one in whose heart is disease desires, and say decent speech. As so often in quran, the author uses the word 'women' in the sense of wives. There is a problem with the clause " you are not like one of the women." The Arabic has لَسْتُنَّ كَأَحَدٍ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ . The author uses the masculine أحد ahad . Now, he should have used the feminine

Muslims opine that Islam goes back to Adam. Ibn 'Umar (May Allah be pleased with them) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "(The structure of) Islam is built on five (pillars): Testification of 'La ilaha illallah' (none has the right to be worshipped but Allah), that Muhammad (ﷺ) is his slave and Messenger, the establishment of Salat, the payment of Zakat, the pilgrimage to the House of Allah (Ka'bah), and Saum during the month of Ramadan." [Al-Bukhari and Muslim] ....

In this post we shall be looking at passages in which the founder of Islam says that he's only human. S 17:93 Or do you have a house of gold or do you ascend into the sky? And we shall not believe in your ascension until you bring down upon us a book we can read. Say: Praise be to my lord! Was I but a man, a messenger? The Meccans have been asking him to provide miracles to prove his messengerhood. As he says: " Was I but a man, a messenger?", is he saying that as he is huma

Narrated `Aisha: Three principles were established because of Barira: (i) When Banra was manumitted she was given the option (to remain with her slave husband or not). (ii) Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said "The Wala of the slave) is for the one who manumits (the slave). (iii) When Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) entered (the house), he saw a cooking pot on the fire but he was given bread and meat soup from the soup of the home. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Didn't I see the cooking pot (on the fire

S 2:125 And when we made the House a resort for people and security. And take from the Station of Ibrahim a musalla. And we covenanted to Ibrahim and Isma’il: Purify my house for the circumambulators and those devoted and those who bow, those doing sujud. S 3:97 Therein are clear signs, the Station of Ibrahim, and he who entered it was safe. And Lah’s, upon people is the Hijj of the House, he who was able a way to it . And he who has disbelieved, then Allah is rich from the ‘

Muslims assume that the moon was split. S 54:1 The Hour has approached and the moon split. According to this, the moon split. But was there an agent? Or did it just split? Definitions of inshaqqa: Verb اِنْشَقَّ • (inšaqqa) VII ( non-past يَنْشَقُّ (yanšaqqu), verbal noun اِنْشِقَاق (inšiqāq)) to split , to part , to be divided , to break to split off , to part ; to defect , to secede to be laid open , to be undone , to split open so as to reveal , to be opened to v

In this post we shall be looking at S 19:93, 94 and 95. S 19:93 There is none in the skies and the Earth but he comes to Al-Rahman as a slave. This follows on from verse 92 which states that it is not befitting for Al-Rahman to take or adopt a child. Now, as verse 93 states that there is none in the skies and Earth but comes as a slave, it suggests physical movement towards Al-Rahman, or Allah. This would mean that the angels and people of the sky physically move towards Al-R

Alif Lam Ra S 10:1 Alif lam ra. That--signs of the wise book. S 11:1 Alif lam ra. A book whose verses have been detailed from a wise one, an expert. S 12:1 Alif lam ra. Those are signs of the clear book. S 14:1 Alif lam ra. A book we have sent down to you that you may bring out people from the darknesses into the light, with their lord’s permission, to the path of the mighty, the praiseworthy, S 15:1 Alif lam mim. Those are the signs of the book and of a clear quran. Alif La

This is an extract from my post Odd Spellings and Other Quranic Oddities There is a number of spelling oddities in the Quran. One consistently misspelled word is 'angel', which is ملك malak in the said book but it should be ملاك mal'ak , from the Hebrew מלאך malakh . The Quranic spelling is the same as the word for 'king', malik . In the Quran the angel in charge of Hell is called Malik. S 43:77 Article: Allah’s Need for Human Sacrifice to Appease Hell’s Angelic Ruler – Answe

Jibril came to me when I was first inspired, and taught me wudu and salat, and when he had finished the wudu, he took a handful of water...

In this post we shall be looking at a hadith. My translation. From Majma' al-Zawa'id wa-Mamna' al-Fawa'id by Nur Al-Din Ali Ibn Abi Bakr...

In non-quranic ahadith we come across the expression ahl al-sama' , the people of the sky. Definitions for ahl : أَهْل • (ʔahl) m or...