In this post I shall show the Jewish background of the notion that Allah prays. In Ibn Kathir's tafsir for S 33:56 we read: And Ibn Abi...

S 2:133 Or were you witnesses when death attended Ya’qub, when he said to his sons: What will you worship after me? They said: We shall...

Hour S 7:34 And for every nation a term. So when their term has come they do not delay an hour nor do they bring forward. S 9:117 Allah...

S 17:106 And a quran that we have split that you may read it to people at intervals. And we sent it down as a tanzil . The descent of...

S 16:67 And from the fruits of the date palm and grapes you take therefrom an intoxicant and a good provision. In that there is a sign...

Muslims will say that man is designed. They will likely say that hands, for example, betray design, and if designed then created. Quran...

In S 18:74 we read: Then they set out until when they met a boy; then he killed him. He said: Have you killed a pure soul for other than...

S 2:62 Those who have believed and those who were Jewish and the Nasara and the Sabians--those who have believed in Allah and the last...

Islam, as so many of us know, has a death penalty for apostasy. Ibn 'Abbas said: "The Messenger of Allah [SAW] said: 'Whoever changes his...

S 50:6 So have they not looked at the sky above them, how we have built it and adorned it and it has no cracks? S 51:47 And the sky, we...

S 15:58-71 They said: We have been sent to a criminal people 59 Except Lut’s family. We are saving them all 60 Except his woman. We have...

Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 6382, 6383 6382. Narrated Anas ibn Malik: Umar saw a slave-girl wearing a veil, so he struck her. He said: "Do...

How was the unnamed Sodom destroyed in the Quran? Was it tipped upside down? S 9:70 Has the news of those before them not come to them,...

S 7:157 Those who follow the messenger, the ummi prophet, whom they find written with them in the Torah and the Injil. He commands them...

S 21:30 Have those who have disbelieved not seen that the skies and the Earth were sewn-up and we cut them and made every living thing...

The word nushuz occurs twice in S 4. I have translated it 'recalcitrance'. S 4:34 Men are supporters of women because Allah has preferred...

S 2:284 Lah’s is what is in the skies and what is on the Earth. And if you reveal what is in yourselves or conceal it, Allah calls you to...

Did the sun set and rise only from Dhul Qarnayn's perspective? S 18 83 And they ask you about Dhul Qarnayn. Say: I shall read to you a...

S 2:164 In the creation of the skies and the Earth and the difference of night and day and the ships which run in the sea with what...

The recompense of those who war against Allah and his messenger and chase corruption in the land is only that they be massacred or...