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Feb 21, 20231 min read
Some Thoughts on S 4:82
S 4:82 Do they not ponder on the Quran? Had it been from other than Allah they would have found therein much discrepancy. How many...
S 69:40; 81:19
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S 4:82 Do they not ponder on the Quran? Had it been from other than Allah they would have found therein much discrepancy. How many...
1 Read in the name of your lord who created, 2 Created man from blood clots. 3 Read and your lord is the most generous, 4 Who taught by...
In this post we shall be looking at S 69:17. And the angel on its edges and eight carry your lord’s throne above them on that day. It...
In this post I look at a passage that caught my attention. Sulayman has turned up to the Valley (or Wadi) of the Ants. S 27:18 Until...
S 86:4 There is no soul but a keeper is over it. Who or what is over a soul? The Jalalayn for this verse say: Over every soul there is a...
S 5:15 People of the Book, our messenger has come to you making clear to you much of what you used to conceal of the Book and pardoning...
S 2:142 The fools of the people will say: What has turned them from their qiblah which they used to be on? Say: Lah’s is the rising place...
When told about Allah's being seen, a Muslim may say that this would be on Judgment Day. But there's no indication that they would see it...
'Noun عَوْرَة • (ʿawra) f (plural عَوْرَات (ʿawrāt)) defectiveness, faultiness, deficiency, imperfection quotations ▼ nakedness, awrah...
*S 42:11 The splitter of the skies and the Earth. He has made for you from yourselves husbands and from the cattle husbands ; he...
And the male thief and the female thief--cut off their hands as repayment for what they have earned as an exemplary punishment from...
It is often stated that Allah has two right hands. In the 'best hadith', the Quran, we may see it as having multiple hands, and eyes. In...
S 3:19 The religion with Allah is Islam. And those who were given the Book did not differ except after knowledge came to them wrongly...
S 2:130 And who has an aversion from Ibrahim’s cult but he who has stultified himself? And we chose him in the dunya and he in the...
The Quran calls him Yunus whereas the Arabic Bible calls him Yunan. The name Yunus is given to S 10. S 4:163 We have inspired you as we...
S 2:136 Say: We have believed in Allah and what has been sent down to us and what was sent down to Ibrahim and Isma’il and Ishaq and...
In this post we shall be analysing S 15:41. He said: This is a path upon me, straight. The Arabic as it stands is: قَالَ هَٰذَا صِرَاطٌ...
S 4:163 We have inspired you as we inspired Nuh and the prophets after him and we inspired Ibrahim and Isma’il and Ishaq and Ya’qub and...
S 3:28 Let the believers not take the kafirun as protectors instead of the believers. And he who does that does not have in anything from...
Maryam is directed by a voice 'from beneath her' to say that she had made a vow. S 19:26 So eat and drink and cool the eye. And if you...
