Islam

Al-Qurtubee in his tafseer, he talks about such people who say when they read the Qur’an in my mind this comes to my mind, or my heart tells me this, and he concludes who reads the Qur’an and says, “ask your heart” or “my heart tells me,” and so forth, they are speaking about Allah without knowledge (‘ilm), which, as ...

The entire World is crying and suffering from Economic Crisis! What are the reasons for it? Why did such a calamity hit Human kind?? Check out the Islamic view point on this great debacle!...

Cheating is one of the major evils of the society. It is because of this that many have been destroyed and some have even lost their lives. Although cheating sounds something very small, but the effect it leaves cannot be described. An entire family might die of hunger just because they were cheated. A person might loose all his wealth ...

Hadith Qudsi (Hadith 40) are the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) as revealed to him by the Almighty Allah. Hadith Qudsi (or Sacred Hadith 40) are so named because, unlike the majority of Hadith which are attributed to the Prophet as his sayings, their Sanad (authority)is traced back not to the Prophet but to the Almighty Allah. Among the ...

The Identity in the Fingerprint While it is stated in the Qur’an that it is easy for God to bring man back to life after death, peoples’ fingerprints are particularly emphasized: “Does man think that We cannot assemble his bones? Yes, We are able to put together in perfect order the very tips of his fingers” [Surat al-Qiyama 75: 3-4] ...

Barrier Between Sweet & Salt Water “He has let free the two bodies of flowing water, meeting together: Between them is a Barrier which they do not transgress.” [Al-Qur’an 55:19-20] In the Arabic text the word barzakh means a barrier or a partition. This barrier, however, is not a physical partition. The Arabic word maraja literally means ‘they both meet ...

Blood Circulation & Milk The Qur’an was revealed 600 years before the Muslim scientist Ibn Nafees described the circulation of the blood and 1,000 years before William Harwey brought this understanding to the Western world. Roughly thirteen centuries before it was known what happens in the intestines to ensure that organs are nourished by the process of digestive absorption, a ...

The Function of Mountains The Qur’an draws attention to a very important geological function of mountains. “And We have set on the earth mountains standing firm, lest it should shake with them.” [Al-Qur’an 21:31] As we have noticed, it is stated in the verse that mountains have the function of preventing shocks in the Earth. This fact was not known ...

The Proportion of Rain One of the items of information given in the Qur’an about rain is that it is sent down to Earth in due measure. This is mentioned in Surat az-Zukhruf as follows: “It is He who sends down water in measured amounts from the sky by which We bring a dead land back to life. That is ...

A group of Muslim Scholars, under the direction of an eminent Yemani Scholar, Sheikh Abdul Majid Azzindani, collected information concerning embryology1 and other sciences in the Qur’an and undisputed Hadith2 and translated it into English. They then followed the Qur’anic advice: “If ye realise this not, ask of those who possess the Message.” [Al-Qur’an 16:43 & 21:7] All the information ...