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Human Face and Nature / Commentary of the Qur’an (Chapter 2:65-66)

بِسْمِ اللَّـهِ الرَّحْمَـنِ الرَّحِيمِ وَلَقَدْ عَلِمْتُمُ الَّذِينَ اعْتَدَوْا مِنكُمْ فِي السَّبْتِ فَقُلْنَا لَهُمْ كُونُوا قِرَدَةً خَاسِئِينَ ﴿٦٥﴾ فَجَعَلْنَاهَا نَكَالًا لِّمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهَا وَمَا خَلْفَهَا وَمَوْعِظَةً لِّلْمُتَّقِينَ ﴿٦٦

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A gnostic notice Know that for every being of the invisible and visible worlds, and of this world and the Hereafter, there is a beginning and a destination.

A Commentary on the Hamd Surah (part 18)

Know that the blessed Surah al-Fatihah (the Opening), as it contains all the stages of existence, also contains all the stages of conducts and, further, it contains, by way of allusion [isharah], all the objectives of the Qur’an.

The virtue of “Kursi”‌ verse

Our Holy Qur’an is a universal book that covers all sorts of themes and subjects. While some of its verses are anecdotal, relating the stories of Prophets; others are allegorical, endowed with two levels of meanings; literal and metaphorical. Other verses illuminate the excellence and reverence of our Creator.

A Commentary on the Hamd Surah (part 15)

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What is the precise meaning of Alhamdulillah and Subhan’Allah

Hamd literally means praise, the opposite of condemnation and dishonor. [1]

The Collection of the Qur'an

The manner in which the Qur'an was collected is among the issues that have been used by those who maintain the belief in tahrif (alteration) to prove that there has been tahrif [in the sense of the corruption of the text] as well as taghyir (change) in the Qur'an, and that the very manner of the Qur'an's collection would, in the normal course of events, involve this corruption and change in it.

Lessons on Interpretation of the Hamd Surah

There is a class of people who have accomplished this: they have migrated in this way; and attained their goal (although in another sense their migration is continuing), and it had become incumbent upon God to reward them. There are others who have migrated but not yet reached the goal of being “overtaken by death.”‌

Lessons on Interpretation of the Hamd Surah

Last time I discussed the possibility that the expression “In the Name of God,”‌ in every surah that it heads, is syntactically connected to the surah itself, or to the first part of its subject matter.

Lessons on Interpretation of the Hamd Surah

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