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...

In the Quran we read in S 27:18-19 Until when they came upon the wadi of the ants an ant said: Ants, enter your dwellings lest Sulayman...

Did the founder of Islam get his idea for his '99 names' from the Zoroastrians? They have two more than he. Link: The 101 Names Of Ahura...

We are told that Allah has 99 ‘names’. In Al-Bukhari we read: Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Allah has ninety-nine...

Al-Mutakabbir, The Arrogant, is a ‘name’ that we find in S 59:23 He is Allah, who is no god but him, the king, the holy one, the peace,...

Did the author of the Quran think that Fir’awn (Pharaoh) was a proper name? In a number of passages we come across al Fir’awn, but we...

We are told that Allah creates by saying ‘Be’, and it is. In a number of passages we read that Allah says to IT ‘Be’ and it is. S 2:117...

We are often told that Allah is in the Arabic Bible but provided is a link to a site which has an online Arabic Bible without the name of...

S 81:8-9 “And when the maw’udah has been asked/ Which sin it was killed for.” Maw’udah is, so we are told, a nominative feminine passive...