THURSDAY, 16 MARCH 2006 15:26 USMAN ALI HITS: 2493 The source behind Quran’s scientific verses have been endlessly debated among Muslim and non-Muslim scholars. The first point that needs to be appreciated is that Quran is not a book of science neither it claims to be so. In other words there is not a single […]
The Need for Messengers and Prophets
SUNDAY, 13 JULY 2003 12:22 CASHIF ANSARI HITS: 1266 Regarding the need for messengers, it can be established through examination of some basic aspects of human life, they being the instinctual drive to worship, the humans need to establish societal relationship and mankind’s natural right to be […]
Huroof-e-Muqatta`aat – The Most Likely Explanation
TUESDAY, 24 JUNE 2003 17:19 ASIF IQBAL HITS: 2304 At the beginning of 29 Qur’anic suras we find a letter or a group of letters, read separately, which are generally called “Huroof-e-Muqatta`aat” (i.e. broken, i.e., separately read letters). Thus we have sura 2 beginning as: «Alif […]
The Creation of the Heavens and the Earth in Context
SATURDAY, 08 FEBRUARY 2003 09:14MARWAN BOUSTANYHITS: 1792 THE RELEVANT QUR’ANIC PASSAGES:- 002.029 It is He Who hath created for you all things that are on earth; Moreover in His design he comprehended the heavens, for He gave order and perfection to the seven firmaments; and of all things He hath perfect knowledge. 041.009 Say: Is […]
The Christian & the Jewish Concept of the Holy Spirit
Question In one of your pages, you report that Mr. Jochen Katz claims that there is a contradiction in the Qur’an, when it in one place (2:97) identifies the angel Gabriel as the entity which brought the Qur’an to the Prophet Muhammad (sAas), while in another place (16:102) it identifies the entity as ‘the Holy […]