S 50:1 Qaf. By the glorious Quran. In Tanwîr al-Miqbâs min Tafsîr Ibn ‘Abbâs we read: And from his narration on the authority of Ibn...

S 5:3 Forbidden to you have been dead animals and blood and pork and what has been permitted to other than Allah and the strangled and...

There are those who think that Allah is a contraction of al-ilah (‘the god’). In Arabic ‘the god’ is الإله But when invoking Allah...

In S 16:69 we read: Then eat from all the fruits and travel along your lord’s ways, compliant ones. A drink, its colours varying, comes...

In a number of passages Allah is referred to as a wakil. For example: S 3:173 Those to whom the people said: The people have gathered...

The Quran uses the word ‘Nasrani’ and ‘Nasara’ to mean Christian and Christians respectively. Of course, Arabic-speaking Christians call...

Muslims will say that Jesus didn't know the Hour. Does Allah? S 33:63 People ask you about the Hour. Say: The knowledge of it is only...

A number of passages indicate that Allah is a physical being. S 6:101 The originator of the skies and the Earth. How can he have a child...

S 3:184 So if they have called you a liar then messengers were called liars before you who came with the proofs and the Zubur and the...

What are muhsanat? In most translations of S 4:24 the word is translated along the lines of ‘married women’. And the muhsanat of the...

Exactly how long can a woman be pregnant in Islam? From Islamqa: مسألة " أطول مدة لحمل المرأة " من مسائل الخلاف بين علماء الشرع ، وهي...

S 3:83 So is it other than Allah’s religion they seek? And to him have surrendered {أَسْلَمَ aslama} those in the skies and the Earth,...

In Islam there is the concept of the angel of death, although the Quran speaks of angels (plural) in a number of passages causing a man...

A brief look at the terms used in the Quran and non-Quranic ahadith. S 69:44-47 And had he fabricated some speeches against us We would...

S 18:50 And when we said to the angels: Do sujud to Adam. So they did sujud except Iblis. He was of the jinn. And he acted immorally...

S 9:32 They want to extinguish Allah’s light with their mouths, and Allah refuses except to perfect his light, even if the kafirun have...

S 2:106 What we abrogate from a verse or cause it to be forgotten we bring better than it or the like of it. Have you not known that...

In S 25:33 we read: And they do not bring you a similitude but we have brought you the truth and the best tafsir. If the Quran is the...

What does this phrase mean, literally ‘between his/its hands’? ‘Before’? If so, in which sense? ‘Before’ can have a temporal sense, e.g....

S 69:40 It is a noble messenger’s speech. See also S 81:19 and note below. It will be argued that it is Allah’s word conveyed by Jibril...