God revealed to Prophet Muhammad that a group of jinn listened to his recitation of the Quran. They returned to their own society and described the recitation as wondrous, saying that it called to what is true and sensible by distinguishing between right and wrong.
The Evangelist quoted Jesus as having said, “I am the way. The truth. And the Life. This is how we know Jesus was divine by nature” as a proof that Jesus was God. I didn’t disagree with the fact that Jesus said such a thing...
I took the magazine to my room and skimmed through the pages. One name that kept coming up was “Jesus”, and how we had to have him part of our life. As a youngster, my ‘Google’, in the days before the internet, was my mom...
The stories of Mary in Islam and in the Gospels have many aspects in common; however the opinion that Mary was betrothed or married is totally rejected. Islam tells us absolutely nothing about a person named Joseph or like the Joseph we read about in the Christian teachings.
When we speak of the will of God, there are two aspects to it. One is the aspect of what He brings about in Creation – what He decrees in His infinite wisdom to take place. The other is what He commands of us to carry out of our own free will and what He is pleased with.
Did recent hurricanes on the news trigger in you deep thoughts and new reflections? The scale of destruction Hurricanes Harvey and Irma left behind in the Caribbean and the US in the last few weeks is unbelievable.
These are powerful images that provide a serious atmosphere for what comes next. Doomed are the people referred to as the "people of the ditch." The people of the ditch (sometimes translated as trench) were the agents of a tyrannical King...
Since the Islamic calendar is lunar, its year is 10 or 11 days shorter than the Gregorian year. This means that Muslim months fall in different seasons. For example, Ramadan and Hajj can fall in the summer as well as in the winter.
The holy Quran mentioned 2 types of heavy storms (hurricanes): 1- Storm that can “Break everything” Or are ye secure that he will not send you back therein another time and then send upon you a gale of wind (Kaasefan) and drown you...
Of all the things our friends and families could get into, we in the West seem to fear Islam the most. Which is ...
Knowledge is the best asset one can have. The righteous scholars are the witnesses of the truth and Allah’s Oneness. They know that true knowledge and fear of Allah could be attained only by reading and grasping Allah’s signs (ayat) in the Quran...
From among trillions and trillions of incidents that have occurred throughout human history, Allah picked just a few to narrate in the Quran. Obviously, these stories are special. Let us look at some of these stories and what lessons...
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