Category: Quran Speaks
Witnesses on the Day of Judgement
In the Name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful On the day when God’s enemies will be gathered together before the fire, they will be driven onwards until, when they reach it, their ears, their eyes and their very skins will bear witness against them, speaking of what they used to do [on earth]. They [...]
Cure for Social Ailments in the Quran
In the Name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful We bestow of the Qur’an from on high what serves as a healing and a blessing to true believers, while it only adds to the ruin of the evildoers. Yet when We bestow Our blessings on man, he turns his back and draws arrogantly aside, and [...]
Division in religion
In the Name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful In matters of faith, He has ordained for you the same as He had enjoined on Noah, that which We have revealed to you (Muhammad) and as We enjoined on Abraham, Moses and Jesus: “Steadfastly uphold the faith and do not divide into factions”. Hard for [...]
Refuting Arguments of False Belief
Ha. Mim. By the Book that makes things clear! We have made the Qur’an a discourse in Arabic so that you may understand. It originates in the source of revelation kept with Us; it is indeed sublime, full of wisdom. (Gold; Al-Zukhruf: 43: 1-4) By Adil Salahi This surah presents a detailed picture of problems, [...]
Happiness or Misfortune is Determined by God
In the Name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful Respond to your Lord before there comes, by God’s will, a day that cannot be put off. There shall be no refuge for you on that day, nor shall you be able to deny your sins. If they turn away, We have not sent you to [...]
Inevitable Tests for Believers
In the Name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful Alif. Lam. Mim. Do people think that once they say: We are believers’, they will be left alone and will not be put to a test? We certainly tested those who lived before them; and so most certainly God knows those who speak the truth and [...]
Hastening the Last Hour – The Time That May Well Be Near
In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful “It is Allah, Almighty who has bestowed revelation from on high, setting forth the truth, and established the balance. For all you know, the Last Hour may well be near. Those who do not believe in it seek to hasten it, whereas the believers stand in [...]
The Night of Power
We revealed it (the Quran) on the Night of Power. Would that you knew what the Night of Power is like. Better is the Night of Power than a thousand months. On that night, the angels and the Spirit descend by their Lord’s permission, with all His decrees. That night is peace, till the break [...]
Benefits of Fasting
In his “Treatise of the Bewildered Ecstatic Traveller” the noted Indian Sufi Shaykh Najmuddin Kubra outlines some of the benefits of fasting, including: * The restraining of the ego, which incites towards evil. * The receipt of a recompense without end as: “Only the patient will obtain their recompense without reckoning” (Quran: 39:10). * The purification of the sins of the ego. * Your [...]
Fasting-A Duty of Obedience to Allah
(Commentary by Sayyid Qutb. Translated by Adil Salahi) In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Believers, fasting is decreed for you as it was decreed for those before you, so that you may remain God-fearing! Fast a certain number of days. But whoever of you is ill, or on a journey, shall fast instead [...]
