Qur’an
Praise be to God, who with death did break the necks of tyrants
In his magnum opus, Revival of the Religious Sciences, al-Ghazali begins the chapter on death as follows: Praise be to God, who with death did break the necks of tyrants, shattering with it the backs of Persia’s kings, cutting short… Read More ›
Unlike the present Bible the Qur’an claims to be a Revelation from the Almighty
One would expect, as an antecedent probability, that if God wished to send down to mankind a Revelation, that He would announce this amazing fact clearly. The Qur’an does this in many places. The first instance is at the beginning… Read More ›
The affliction of the Jews will continue till the Day of Resurrection
‘And (remember) when your Lord declared that He would certainly keep on sending against them (i.e. the Jews), till the Day of Resurrection, those who would afflict them with a humiliating torment. Verily, your Lord is Quick in Retribution (for… Read More ›
God is One – not a triune or compound deity
God is ONE, this is the core creed of Monotheism. This oneness of God as an aspect of His absolute nature, must be understood properly in order to worship HIM. Maimonides[1] had laid out a principle to understand the Oneness of God… Read More ›
‘Structure and Qur’anic Interpretation: A Study of Symmetry and Coherence in Islam’s Holy Text’ (book by Professor Raymond Farrin)
One other miraculous aspect of the Qur’an which I am personally interested in is its astonishingly coherence and unity in its structure and contents. Interest in the structure of the Qur’an has its beginnings in the ninth century CE with Muslim… Read More ›
