وَلَوْ تَقَوَّلَ عَلَيْنَا بَعْضَ الاٌّقَاوِيلِ – لأَخَذْنَا مِنْهُ بِالْيَمِينِ – ثُمَّ لَقَطَعْنَا مِنْهُ الْوَتِينَ (And if he had forged a false saying concerning Us, We surely would have seized him by his right hand, And then We certainly would have cut off his life artery.) (69:44-46) Allah said; إِنَّهُ كَانَ بِعِبَادِهِ خَبِيرًا بَصِيرًا (Verily, He […]
Guidance and Misguidance are in the Hands of Allah Allah tells us how He deals with His creation and how His rulings are carried out. He tells us that there is none who can put back His judgement, for whomever He guides cannot be led astray, وَمَن يُضْلِلْ فَلَن تَجِدَ لَهُمْ أَوْلِيَآءَ مِن دُونِهِ (and […]
Allah says: ` This punishment, being resurrected blind, dumb and deaf, is what they deserve, because they disbelieved بِـَايَـتِنَآ (Our Ayat), i.e., Our proof and evidence, and did not think that the resurrection could ever happen.’ وَقَالُواْ أَءِذَا كُنَّا عِظَـماً وَرُفَـتاً (and said: “When we are bones and fragments…”) meaning, when we have disintegrated and […]
Allah says: ` This punishment, being resurrected blind, dumb and deaf, is what they deserve, because they disbelieved بِـَايَـتِنَآ (Our Ayat), i.e., Our proof and evidence, and did not think that the resurrection could ever happen.’ وَقَالُواْ أَءِذَا كُنَّا عِظَـماً وَرُفَـتاً (and said: “When we are bones and fragments…”) meaning, when we have disintegrated and […]
Holding back is Part of Man’s Nature Allah says to His Messenger : “Tell them, O Muhammad, even if you had authority over the treasures of Allah, you would refrain from spending for fear of exhausting it.” Ibn `Abbas and Qatadah said, “This means for fear of poverty,” lest it run out, despite the fact […]
The Nine Signs of Musa Allah tells us that He sent Musa with nine clear signs, which provided definitive proof that his prophethood was real and that what he was conveying from the One Who had sent him to Fira`wn was true. These clear signs were: his staff, his hand, the years of famine, the […]
The Demand of Quraysh for a specific Sign, and the Rejection of that Ibn Jarir recorded from Muhammad bin Ishaq, “An old man from among the people of Egypt who came to us forty-odd years ago told me, from `Ikrimah, from Ibn `Abbas, that `Utbah and Shaybah — the two sons of Rabi’ah, Abu Sufyan […]
The Demand of Quraysh for a specific Sign, and the Rejection of that Ibn Jarir recorded from Muhammad bin Ishaq, “An old man from among the people of Egypt who came to us forty-odd years ago told me, from `Ikrimah, from Ibn `Abbas, that `Utbah and Shaybah — the two sons of Rabi’ah, Abu Sufyan […]
The Demand of Quraysh for a specific Sign, and the Rejection of that Ibn Jarir recorded from Muhammad bin Ishaq, “An old man from among the people of Egypt who came to us forty-odd years ago told me, from `Ikrimah, from Ibn `Abbas, that `Utbah and Shaybah — the two sons of Rabi’ah, Abu Sufyan […]
The Demand of Quraysh for a specific Sign, and the Rejection of that Ibn Jarir recorded from Muhammad bin Ishaq, “An old man from among the people of Egypt who came to us forty-odd years ago told me, from `Ikrimah, from Ibn `Abbas, that `Utbah and Shaybah — the two sons of Rabi’ah, Abu Sufyan […]