Do the denizens of the Jannah and of hell remain in those places forever? S 6:128 And on a day he gathers them all: Company of jinn, you...

What follows is an extract from my post Treatments for and Prevention of Illness Ruqya: Narrated `Aisha: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) used to...

There are Muslims, in trying to defend the notorious S 4:34, will go to the verb daraba and say that it is used of 'making'...

S 2:126 And when Ibrahim said: Lord, make this a secure country and provide its people with fruits, him who has believed of them in Allah...

S 2:257 Allah is the protector of those who have believed. He brings them out of the darknesses into the light. And those who have...

We sent down: S 2:57 And we shaded the clouds over you and we sent down the manna and the quail upon you. Eat of good things what we have...

Who is a kafir? Definitions: Etymology [ edit ] Active participle of the verb كَفَرَ ( kafara , “to disbelieve; to cover ; to conceal ”)...

The word malik ملك means 'king' but it is the quranic spelling of ملاك malak 'angel'. Quran was originally written without dots and vowel...

Quran uses the word آية ayah in the sense of 'sign' and 'verse'. The word was probably pronounced like ' atha ' originally. In unpointed...

The author used the phrase أَلَمْ تَرَ A-lam tara , directed towards a single person, which we may assume to be towards himself, a number...

In non-quranic ahadith we are told of angels cursing without mention of Allah. . Abu Hurairah narrated that the Prophet (s.a.w) said:...

In this post we shall be looking at occurrences of 'the prophet' in connection with Ibn Aminah. S 3:68 The first man of the people with...

I look at this verse in my post A Note on S 5:75 but here I shall be discussing Isa's eating. The Messiah the son of Maryam is nothing...

In this short post we shall be looking at a hadith. Narrated Ibn 'Umar: that a freed a slave girl of his came to him, and said: "Times...

S 23:12-16 We created man from a descendancy of clay. / Then we made him a drop in a solid domicile. / Then we created the drop as a...

In this short post we shall be looking at a verse. S 12:100 And he raised his parents upon the throne and they fell down to him doing...

S 6:48 And we do not send commissaries except as bearers of good news and warners . So those who have believed and reformed--there is no...

According to a number of ahadith, the founder of Islam had a dream in which he was shown a cloth upon which was the image of Aisha or in...

In this post I present a hadith. My translation as the English version leaves chunks of Arabic untranslated. Umar b. Hafs told us, my...

According to the founder of Islam, urine is a major cause of torture in the grave. It was narrated that Abu Hurairah said: "The Messenger...