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...

Is the term ‘People of the Book’ something that the founder of Islam dreamed up or did he take and use an existing term? In a Hebrew...

Jannah is a word derived from Hebrew meaning ‘garden’. In Islam Adam was created in Al-Jannah, which rivers run beneath, for some reason,...

In my view the mysterious name Isa عيسى probably originally had the same significance as Yassa يسى (Jesse--King David’s father). From the...

1 Say: I take refuge in the lord of people, 2 The king of people, 3 The god of people, 4 From the evil of the khannas whisperer, 5 The...

1 Say: I take refuge in the lord of the daybreak 2 From an evil what he created 3 And from evil of darkness when it comes in 4 And from...

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.

1 May Abu Lahab’s hands perish and may he perish! 2 His money did not avail him and what he earned. 3 He will roast a flaming fire, 4 And...

1 When Allah’s victory comes and the conquest 2 And you see the people entering into Allah’s religion in regiments, 3 Then praise with...

1 Say: Kafirun, 2 I do not worship what you worship 3 Nor do you worship what I worship 4 And I do not worship what you worship 5 Nor do...

1 We have given you Al-Kawthar. 2 So pray to your lord and slaughter. 3 Your hater, he is the one cut off.

1 Have you seen the one who calls the religion a lie? 2 So that is the one who neglects the orphan, 3 And does not exhort to feed the...

1 For the ilaf of Quraysh, 2 Their ilaf, the journey of winter and of summer. 3 Let them worship the lord of this house, 4 The one who...

1 Have you not seen how your lord dealt with the companions of the elephant? 2 Did he not make their scheme a tadil? 3 And he sent a bird...

1 Woe to every slanderer, critic! 2 The one who has collected money and counted it. 3 He thinks that his money has immortalised him. 4...