Criticism on the People of the Book The manner in which the Jews of Madinah used the movement of Nadr ibn Harith to damage the message of the Prophet (sws) has been discussed in detail earlier. The an...
The Migration to Abyssinia As Muslims continued to face difficulties put in their way by the Quraysh, the Qur’an impressed upon them to counter these with fortitude and firm belief, and predicted rewa...
Objections on the Prophet’s Personality Observing the interest and the manner in which people belonging to all walks of life were impressed by the message being preached by the Prophet (sws), the lead...
The Call for Help from the Quraysh to the Jews The Qur’an was delivering a series of attacks on the beliefs, worship rituals and religious concepts of the Quraysh and the Prophet (sws) was communicati...
Reasons for Fearing the Qur’an by the Quraysh The Quraysh were afraid of the message of the Prophet (sws) because the religion that they had established in Makkah on account of their trusteeship of th...
The Migration to Abyssinia As Muslims continued to face difficulties put in their way by the Quraysh, the Qur’an impressed upon them to counter these with fortitude and firm belief, and predicted rewa...
Objections of the Quraysh on the Qur’an Poetry and Story Telling When the Qur’an began to be revealed, the initial verses that are included in the latter part of the Book were in the form of concise,...
Observing the interest and the manner in which people belonging to all walks of life were impressed by the message being preached by the Prophet (sws), the leaders of the Quraysh began to see clear ev...
Instructions to Warn the Quraysh The tolerance towards the Prophet (sws) by the Quraysh was only a temporary phase. As soon as the Qur’an began to criticize the trustees of the Baytullah and their wro...
The Beginning of wahi It has been explained earlier that the issue of the first revelation of the Qur’an had been raised during the times of the companions. Some people considered these to be the firs...
The status of prophethood brings huge responsibilities with it. Whosoever God wishes to impart this status to is also given special training from his birth. A prophet is entrusted to deliver messages...
Arrival of the Promised Prophet Five hundred and fifty years after the departure of Jesus (sws) from this world, it was time for Abraham’s (sws) prayer to be answered, for that individual to be born,...
Reasons for Supremacy of the Ishmaelites over the Jews Abraham’s real legacy comprised of belief in the oneness of God, Hanīfiyyat (hatred of polytheism and attention to oneness), the prayer and arran...
The Trusteeship of the House of God to the Israelites Ishmael (sws) was married into Hagar’s tribe, Banū Jurham, which was a devotee of Abraham (sws). The people of this tribe had also come and settle...
The Creation of Adam (sws) and His Representative Status The history of human beings began with the creation of the first man, Adam (sws), on this earth. No one can claim to possess information on whe...
On the whole surface of the earth, and in every region of the habitable world, I never encountered a man who as his equal. (Nizami 1 of Samarqand) Ghiyāth al-Din Abū al Fath ’Umar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khayy...
The history of mankind began with the creation of Adam (sws). That is what everyone acknowledges. However, specifics concerning when, where and how, remain unanswered as yet. Where did Adam (sws) sust...
The year was 1960. Along with several other enthusiastic young minds, I was accepted into the tutelage of Mawlānā Amīn Ahsan Islāhī under the banner of his institute, Halqa-i-Tadabbur-i-Qur’ān. Establ...
Writer, traveller and explorer, Muhammad Asad had a truly chequered life spanning three continents and two cultures. Born Leopold Weiss in the summer of 1900 in the Polish city of Lwow, then under Aus...
Throughout the period of the Indian National movement, precisely at the second half of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century when the concept of nationalism was being intensively set in motion, a...
