Category: The Qur'an

  • Is The Qur’an Real­ly The Work of Mul­ti­ple Hands ?

    Is The Qur’an Real­ly The Work of Mul­ti­ple Hands ?

    We were recent­ly con­front­ed with the claims of Denis Giron in his arti­cle that the com­po­si­tion of the Qur’an is sim­ply the work of mul­ti­ple authors. In this paper, we shall seek to study the claims made and make a few respons­es to the remarks made in his response to this arti­cle, insha’Allah. Con­tent Overview1 Eval­u­at­ing…

  • Waraqa ibn Naw­fal : Prob­ing Chris­t­ian Polemics

    Waraqa ibn Naw­fal : Prob­ing Chris­t­ian Polemics

    Discover more about the intriguing relationship between Waraqa ibn Nawfal and Prophet Muhammad(P). Dive into the exploration of historical context, narrative accuracy, and understand why Jochen Katz's claims may be disputed by scholars. Can we truly validate the extent of Waraqa's influence? Let's delve deeper.

  • P. Michaelides no 32

    The fol­low­ingAdolf Grohmann, The Prob­lem of Dat­ing Ear­ly Qur’an, in Der Islam 33 (1958), heft 3, pp. 222 – 226. is a detailed exam­i­na­tion of a very ear­ly Qur’an­ic papyrus. Please note the con­clu­sion of the inves­ti­ga­tor at the end of this arti­cle, accord­ing to which this papyrus belongs to the first cen­tu­ry of the Hijra or the sev­enth…

  • Ear­ly Preser­va­tion & Trans­mis­sion Of The Qur’an

    The fol­low­ing shows the text of the first Sura’ of the Qur’an inscribed on the shoul­der blade of a camel, pre­served in the Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty Library.Ency­clopae­dia of the Qur’an, Vol. II (Lei­den : Brill, 2002) We know that the first steps for the preser­va­tion of the Qur’an were tak­en in the life­time of the Prophet. Tra­di­tion records…

  • Response To Claims Made Against The Elo­quence of the Qur’an

    Intro­duc­tion This arti­cle was writ­ten to exam­ine the lan­guage of the Qur’an and the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing it, in ref­er­ence to its super­nat­ur­al elo­quence. We will also at the same time scru­ti­nize a post­ing by a Chris­t­ian apol­o­gist, Pete Nash — or oth­er­wise known as Kip Rid­er, which attacks the elo­quence claim of the Qur’an and see whether it stands…

  • Qur’an­ic Com­men­tary on Sura’ Al-Ikhlas (112)

    The secret about Sura' Al-Ikhlas is more than can meet the shallow thoughts of atheists and critics of Islam. This very short chapter contains in it the summary of many concepts that are to lead people to The One True God and to refute the misguided notions about God. Although the Sura' is very short,…

  • Qur’an­ic Com­men­tary on Sura’ Az-Zukhruf (43): 63 – 64 : The True Mes­sage of Jesus

    The following is the reproduction of the translation of Qur'an 43:63-64 with the accompanying footnotes to the amazing consistency and parallelism with the Message which Jesus (P) had consistently preached as found in the current gospels. It is often the common missionary argument is that since the Qur'an is often found to "contradict" the Bible,…

  • Sabaan Mina Al-Math­ani : The Sev­en Which Are Often Repeated

    In an article marked by a characteristically polemical style which is the hallmark of almost any writing to be found on Answering Islam, the author has exerted his utmost effort to prove that the reference in the Qur'an (15:87) to the "seven oft-repeated" is "an example of the Qur'an's incompleteness and incoherence." Additionally, the author…

  • The Furqan & The Warn­er”: Cor­rect­ing Christoph Heger’s Mis­in­ter­pre­ta­tion of Qur’an 25:1

    The first key term requiring our concentration is al-furq? which occurs seven times in the Qur'an (i.e., 2:53, 185; 3:4; 8:29, 41; 21:48; 25:1) and is also one of the names given to the sura 25. There seem to be three basic elements influencing the Qur'anic usage of this term: (i) a Salvific or Soteriological…