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...

1 By the era. 2 Man is in loss 3 Except those who have believed and have done the righteous deeds and have enjoined one another with...

1 Increase has diverted you 2 Until you have visited the burial grounds. 3 Not at all! You will know. 4 Then: Not at all! You will know....

1 Al-Qari’ah. 2 What is Al-Qari’ah? 3 And what will make you know what Al-Qari’ah is? 4 On a day people are like scattered moths 5 And...

1 By the chargers panting, 2 By the sparkers striking, 3 By the raiders at dawn. 4 Then they have raised dust thereby 5 And are in the...

1 When the Earth has been shaken with its earthquake 2 And the Earth has brought out its loads 3 And man has said: What is wrong with it?...

1 Those who had disbelieved of the People of the Book and of the mushrikun were not to be dissolved until the proof should come to them,...