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This Ramadan I resolved to memorise the remaining short suras I have thus far failed to learn. One sura a day, I told myself, for I can do it, for it’s not that hard, for I have learnt twenty ayats in an afternoon or a morning before. But taking stock, on this the nineteenth day [...]

“O you who believe! Avoid much suspicion, for some suspicions are a sin. Do not spy on one another, nor backbite one another. Would one of you love to eat the flesh of his dead brother? Nay, you would abhor it, [so similarly, avoid backbiting]. And fear God. Indeed, God is Most Forgiving, Most Merciful.” [...]

“Don’t they see the earth, how many noble species of all kinds We have produced there? There is surely a sign in that, but most of them are not believers. Yet your Lord is surely the Almighty, the Merciful.” [Qur'an 26:7,8,9]

“If We wished, We would send a sign to them from the sky so their necks would bow to it in submission. But whenever a reminder from the Benevolent One comes to them, newly revealed, they turn away from it, so they have repudiated truth; but news of what they used to sneer at will [...]

And the servant of the Benevolent One are those who walk the earth humbly, and when the ignorant address them, they say, “Peace.” [Quran 25:63]

Avoid suspicion as much as possible: for suspicion in some cases is a sin: And spy not on each other behind their backs. Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? Nay, you would abhor it… But fear God. For God is Oft-Returning, Most Merciful. [49:12]

[49:10]The Believers are but a single Brotherhood: So make peace and reconciliation between your two brothers; and fear God, that you may receive Mercy.

I came across this some weeks back, but thought it was not working because there was no sound – turned out to be a computer problem. Fulaan ibn Fulaan helped me rediscover it after my very long and boring post entitled Hatim – may Allah reward him. And now Ann and my friend Tariq from [...]

This was the question: Which ayat of the Quran contains every single letter of the Arabic alphabet? And so it was that a visitor to this website called Imad left the correct answer in the comments section. There are two: Surah al-’Imran : Ayah 154 (3:154) Surah al-Fath : Ayah 29 (48:29) His source: it [...]

A good soul reminded me of these things this very evening. As Allah wills, the advice we receive is always timely. So what excuse now do we have? I have quoted the ahadith and Qur’an directly from that advice: Abu Musa said, “I said, ‘Messenger of Allah, whose Islam is best?’ He said, ‘The one [...]

“LO! MEN who surrender unto Allah, and women who surrender, and men who believe and women who believe, and men who obey and women who obey, and men who speak the truth and women who speak the truth, and men who persevere (in righteousness) and women who persevere, and men who are humble and women [...]

I HAVE dipped into several books on Islam authored by Christians and the most common charge seems to be that the Qur’an misunderstands the Trinity. Christians do not worship three gods as Muslims often claim, these authors argue, but one God made up of three co-equal parts. This claim, I believe, is itself based on [...]