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...

S 2:23 And if you are in doubt about what we have sent down upon our slave then bring a surah of the like of it and invoke your witnesses...

We may see in ‘rabb al-’alamin’ a calque of the Hebrew רבון העולמים Ribbon ha’’Olamim, Sovereign of the Worlds, a Jewish expression used...

1 Say: He is Allah, one of, 2 Allah the Samad. 3 He did not beget nor was he begotten. 4 And there was none good enough for him. On ahad...

Regarding S 13:31 - عن ابنِ عباسٍ أنه كان يقرؤها : أَفَلَمْ يَتَبَيَّنِ [ يعني أَفَلَمْ يَيْأَسِ ] ويقول : كتبها الكاتبُ وهو ناعسٌ الراوي...

In S 112:2 we read: Allah the Samad. What is a samad? Various Muslim translators have rendered it in a number of ways. From one of Sam Shamoun’s articles: The commentators don’t really help the situation, but provide more confusion. The late Abdullah Yusuf Ali stated: Samad is difficult to translate by one word. I have used two, "Eternal" and "Absolute". The latter implies: (1) that absolute existence can only be predicated of Him; all other existence is temporal or conditio

What might the Arabic صلى على ‘pray upon’ have signified at the time of composition of the Quran? In S 33:43 we read: He is the one who...

‏ لاَ تُؤْذِينِي فِي عَائِشَةَ، فَإِنَّ الْوَحْىَ لَمْ يَأْتِنِي، وَأَنَا فِي ثَوْبِ امْرَأَةٍ إِلاَّ عَائِشَةَ Do not hurt me regarding...

In the Quran we read some verses about Solomon. S 21:81 And to Sulayman the wind, a storm, running by his command to the land which we...