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...

S 2:78 And of them are ummiyun not knowing the book but desires and they but think. S 3:20 And if they argue with you say: I have...

Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "You should not say, 'Feed your lord (Rabbaka), help your lord in performing ablution, or...

In quran, supposedly composed by Allah, supposedly God, we find the two forms of the plural for 'prophet'. Why might 'God' not be...

Quran speaks of an Isa, who is supposedly Jesus. This is عيسى. Muslims will argue that this represents the Syriac ܝܶܫܽܘܥ Yeshu'. The...