God Almighty has vowed to preserve the Qur’ān from all possibilities of foreign interference and corruption. The Qur’ān says: It is indeed We Who have sent down this remembrance, and most surely We ar...
One of the areas where there are serious reservations in the minds of some people about the Qur’ānic teachings is the question of the extent of freedom an individual enjoys in being guided towards the...
Your God is one God. There is no God but He. He is the Most Gracious, the Ever Merciful. Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth; in the alternation of night and day; in the ships that sa...
More than one-fourth of the Qur’ānic Sūrahs begin with certain abbreviated letters called Hurūf-i-Muqatta‘āt. These letters are actually the names of the respective sūrahs, as is evident from the Qur’...
There has been a tendency amongst some Muslims writers to argue that Islamic Law has nothing to do with human intellect. Their reasons for such claims are based basically on misunderstanding about the...
The Quran is a book 1 It is not a collection of different, structurally unrelated sayings. The arrangement of the verses of the Quran, though not chronological, is Divinely ordained 2 Therefore, a Mus...
The word sha‘āir is the plural of sha‘īrah and implies certain objects which indicate and symbolically represent certain realities. In religious parlance, it implies those manifestations of the Sharia...
More than one-fourth of the Quranic Surahs begins with certain abbreviated letters called Huroof-i-Muqatta'aat. These letters are actually the names of the respective surahs, as is evident from the Qu...
Though the Holy Quran was revealed in portions, yet it is a mistake to suppose that it remained long in that fragmentary condition. As its very name implies, it was a book from the first, and though i...
A widely held belief about the Qur’ān is that it makes its basic appeal to emotions and not to reason. Among the advocates of this view were the Muslim philosophers of early centuries who used a theor...
While discussing about the possibility of the Qur’ān being the word of God with an atheist, I drew his attention to the fact emphasized quite convincingly, among others, by Maurice Bucaille 1 that the...
It is generally believed in our religious circles that the teachings and directives of Islam only appeal to our emotions and sentiments; they do not address our intellect and as such they have to be a...
The Need for Revelation Before explaining the relationship between Reason and Revelation, a logical starting point would be to affirm at the outset whether or not Revelation is an established need for...
