Category: The Qur'an

  • 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…

  • 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 a fair­er reli­gion than he who sub­mits his will to God being a good-doer, and who fol­lows the creed of Abra­ham, a man of pure faith ? AND GOD TOOK ABRAHAM FOR A FRIEND.” (Arber­ry’s…

  • 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 pun­ish­ment for apos­tates. The said verse is as follows They long that ye should dis­be­lieve even as they dis­be­lieve, that ye may be upon a lev­el (with them). So choose not friends from them…

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

    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 nushuwza­hun­na”) even­tu­al­ly to beat them (“wa- dribuwhun­na”, ​“and beat them!”)  The issue of a giv­en scrip­tur­al verse and its impli­ca­tions are twain. First, there is the actu­al mean­ing of the verse. Sec­ond,…

  • A Study of Two 20th-Cen­tu­ry Qur’an­ic Commentaries

    Asif Iqbal There are pri­mar­i­ly two fac­tors that call for the inter­pre­ta­tion of the Qur’?nic rev­e­la­tion. First­ly it?s the Qur’?nic lan­guage. The lan­guage in which the Qur’?n was revealed was the high­est lev­el of the lit­er­ary lan­guage (Hochsprache) of the Clas­si­cal Ara­bic poet­ry. It is not the Ara­bic which the likes of Hariri, Mutan­ab­bi, Zamakhshari…

  • Mary, the Sis­ter of Aaron ?

    Mary, the Sis­ter of Aaron ?

    Is it wisdom or folly? Has the Qur'an committed an anachronism or does it reflect comprehensive understanding?