The Qur’an

How the Qur’an Was Revealed and Compiled

The fol­low­ing is a video lec­ture made by Hamza Yusof on July 14th, 1997 and in coöper­a­tion with Alham­bra Pro­duc­tions. The top­ic of the his­to­ry of the Qur’an and its com­pi­la­tion, and forms as part of a Foun­da­tions of Islam” series of lec­tures. Hamza Yusof gave a good his­tor­i­cal back­ground of the Qur’an, its his­to­ry and how it was Revealed in stages to the Prophet Muham­mad (P), its com­pi­la­tion after the pass­ing of the Prophet (P) as well as demon­strat­ing the tex­tu­al integri­ty of the Qur’an, as opposed to the tex­tu­al frailty of the Judeo-Chris­t­ian text which stands on shaky ground. Also of inter­est is the Ques­tion & Answer ses­sion towards the end of this lec­ture which we hope our read­ers will find beneficial.

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Waraqa ibn Nau­fal and the Chris­t­ian Polemics

In an arti­cle of his, Jochen Katz has made much of the nar­ra­tives about Waraqa ibn Nau­fal, and has con­jec­tured on his alleged influence…

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…

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…

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…

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, yet it re-stat­ed the Orig­i­nal True Mes­sage of God that was sent to all His prophets from the begin­ning of cre­ation and to cor­rect the mis­guid­ance that built-up with time.

Qur’an­ic Com­men­tary on Sura’ Az-Zukhruf (43): 63 – 64

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, it there­fore fol­lows that the Qur’an is wrong.

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 impos­es a restric­tion on his Mus­lim read­ers” to prove, by con­sult­ing the Qur’an alone”, what is meant by these sev­en oft-repeat­ed. The author claims the appro­pri­ate­ness of this restric­tion by appeal­ing to the Qur’an­ic vers­es 6:38 and 10:37, and their online com­men­tary by Pooya/M.A. Ali”.

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 sense pos­si­bly deriv­ing from an Ara­ma­ic word purk ? (ii) the notion of Sep­a­ra­tion and Dis­cern­ment that is char­ac­ter­is­tic of the Ara­bic root F‑R-Q, and (iii) Scrip­ture and revelation.

Of The Sun Set­ting In Murky Water : Qur’an­ic Com­men­tary on Sura’ Al-Kahf (18):86

Crit­ics of this verse should be aware that the Qur’an is not descrip­tive prose, and the words of the Qur’an is of high poet­i­cal elo­quence, some­thing which the Bible is not able to claim. Since the beau­ty of the Qur’an is in its poet­i­cal nature, there­fore it is only nat­ur­al that the Qur’an uses emphat­ic expres­sions to describe some­thing like a sun­set”. Keep in mind that the Qur’an is in poet­i­cal prose and is meant to be a chal­lenge to the pagan Arabs in Mec­ca who prid­ed them­selves as writ­ers of good poet­ry. Those neo­phytes who like to use this verse as a stick to beat Islam with should try to study the Ara­bi­an Lit­er­a­ture and His­to­ry of that peri­od before com­ing up with sil­ly conclusions.

The Con­cep­tion of Jesus & The Per­vert­ed Mis­sion­ary Claims

The Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ar­ies are tra­di­tion­al­ly known for their bla­tant abuse and mis­in­ter­pre­ta­tions of the text of the noble Qur’an with the most dis­gust­ing and lurid inter­pre­ta­tions imag­in­able. One par­tic­u­lar mis­sion­ary, Sam Shamoun, has con­tin­ued this fine” tra­di­tion of his pre­de­ces­sors by impos­ing his per­vert­ed and repul­sive under­stand­ing of the con­cep­tion of Jesus(P) on the Qur’an­ic text which describes the inci­dent. Our attempt here is to refute this mis­sion­ary from the exeget­i­cal and lex­i­cal sources made avail­able to us, insha’allah.

Insights Into Sura’ At-Tauba

Surat-ul-Tau­ba which is the 9th Chap­ter of the Qur’an was revealed 15 months before the Prophet’s(P) demise. Before its rev­e­la­tion, Mus­lims used to fol­low a very wise pol­i­cy, that is If they charge thee with false­hood, say : my work to me, and yours to you ye are free from respon­si­bil­i­ty for what I do, and I for what ye do!” (Holy Qur’an 10:41). But the poly­the­ists were not sat­is­fied with this pol­i­cy and they did not refrain from treach­er­ous acts against Mus­lims, that was why the com­mand to pun­ish these groups came, and this is the dis­charge from God and His Apos­tle. Mis­sion­ar­ies con­cen­trate upon a piece of verse and ignore the rest of the passage.

When the Evan­ge­list Becomes a Shaikh, the Angels Become Wor­ship­pers of Adam

When the Evan­ge­list becomes a Shaikh, the angels become poly­the­ists, wor­ship­ping Adam instead of Allah. When the Evan­ge­list becomes a Shaikh, the Nasikh becomes Man­sukh, the Mut­laq becomes Muqayyad and the Aamm becomes Makhsus, and vice-ver­sa. Not that it is not hilar­i­ous to read for Evan­ge­lists-turned-Shaikhs. It is at the dis­cov­ery of the lev­el of hor­rif­ic con­fu­sion and plain errors con­tained in the fatawa” of the many Evangelists/​Shaikhs who sprung up in recent years that inten­si­fies one’s amaze­ment and baf­fle­ment, espe­cial­ly not­ing the lev­el of pub­lic­i­ty the writ­ings of the new Shaikhs receive in the west­ern media.

Qur’an 4:125 and Christoph Heger’s Ignorance

Asif Iqbal This is with ref­er­ence to Christoph Heger’s exe­ge­sis on Sura’ 4:125. The cor­rect ren­der­ing of Qur’an 4:125 is : And who is there that has…

Qur’an­ic Com­men­tary on Sura’ An-Nis­sa’ (4):89

Recent­ly, we hear Chris­tians mak­ing strange claims about Sura’ An-Nis­sa’ (4):89, by say­ing that it is a verse meant to be applied as a…

Wife Beat­ing In The Qur’an ? Com­men­tary On Sura’ An-Nis­sa’ (4):34

It is claimed that : Surah 4:34 is the noto­ri­ous verse which advices Mus­lim hus­bands with regard to wives from whom they fear rebel­lion” (“wa-llaatiy takhafuwna…

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The Gospels’ Accounts Regard­ing the Call of the First Disciples

So which is the cor­rect Gospel account con­cern­ing the choice of Jesus’ first apos­tles ? The fol­low­ing Bible con­tra­dic­tion was extract­ed from an unpub­lished the­sis enti­tled Ibn Hazm On The Doc­trine of Tahrif which cites Kitab al-Fasl fi al-Milal wa al-Ahwa’ wa al-Nihal and insha’allah this will be part of an ongo­ing series to repro­duce extracts of Ibn Hazm’s crit­i­cisms of the Bible and Christianity.