Category: Qur’anic Commentary
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Furqaan: Commentary on the Zaman-Heger Debate
Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi When Dr. Christoph Heger, an Orientalist scholar with unknown qualifications and disputed credentials, wrote his commentary on the opening verse of Sura’ al-Furqaan in July of 1999, his treatise was soundly responded to by Brother Shibli Zaman, who is quite familiar with the Semitic languages employed in the study. While it…
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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,…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…