Tag : Quran

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.

Can There Be A Son With­out A Moth­er Or Father ? Respond­ing To Banal Mis­sion­ary​“Log­ic”

Unfor­tu­nate­ly for the mis­sion­ary, an under­stand­ing can be reached if a lit­tle more thought can be put into their argu­ment. The mis­sion­ary has tak­en the under­stand­ing of these vers­es out of its intend­ed con­text and is con­fus­ing Mary’s nature (since she is only human, and hence pro­cre­ates) as a cre­ation of the Almighty, with God Him­self who is the Uncre­at­ed. Cer­tain­ly, God Almighty could have tak­en a wife” and have chil­dren” or have chil­dren” with­out any con­sort what­so­ev­er (nau’zu­bil­lahi min zaa­lik).

Al Sir­at­ul Mus­taqi­im : The Mis­sion­ary Book of Deception

It is known that the Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ar­ies are des­per­ate to resort to the tac­tics of Paul by using guile and trick­ery in order to dupe Mus­lims une­d­u­cat­ed in their reli­gion to their worth­less cause. Such tac­tics have been exposed when they attempt to imi­tate the Islam­ic cal­lig­ra­phy of Qur’an­ic vers­es by apply­ing that cal­lig­ra­phy to the Ara­bic vers­es of the New Tes­ta­ment. The mis­sion­ar­ies have now resur­faced with their lat­est under­hand tac­tics. They have pub­lished a small book­let, enti­tled Al Sir­at­ul Mus­taqi­im” (The Straight Path) with Qur’an­ic vers­es and Islam­ic imagery on its cov­er to dupe Mus­lims into buy­ing it. The title of this book­let itself is tak­en from Sura’ al-Fati­hah, the first chap­ter of the Qur’an.

Six or Eight Days of Cre­ation” Revis­it­ed : A Col­lec­tion of Major Com­men­taries on Qur’an, 41:10

We have not­ed in our ear­li­er rebut­tal to a Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ary fan­ta­sy that A. Yusuf Ali had allud­ed to the com­men­taries of the major…

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