Quran

Islamic Beliefs: Five or Forty: Should We Believe in a List, or What We Come to Know and Understand?

Epigraph الم  ذَٰلِكَ الْكِتَابُ لَا رَيْبَ ۛ فِيهِ ۛ هُدًى لِّلْمُتَّقِينَ  الَّذِينَ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْغَيْبِ وَيُقِيمُونَ الصَّلَاةَ وَمِمَّا رَزَقْنَاهُمْ يُنفِقُونَ  وَالَّذِينَ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِمَا أُنزِلَ إِلَيْكَ وَمَا أُنزِلَ مِن قَبْلِكَ وَبِالْآخِرَةِ هُمْ يُوقِنُونَ ‎ أُولَٰئِكَ عَلَىٰ هُدًى […]

Issues in Focus: Alcohol Abuse

Fazal Ahmad – UKContemporary Issues•Vices 15th June 2026 © Shutterstock Fazal Ahmad, London, UK Ill-Effects of Alcohol On the streets of most major cities across much of the world every evening, there is the sad evidence of the effects of alcoholism in terms of violence, abuse, and other antisocial behaviour. There are […]

Muslim World League launches Arabic language initiative for Qur’an memorizers in Southeast Asia

Previous 1 / 4 The secretary-general of the Muslim World League, Sheikh Mohammed Al-Issa, inaugurated the Fourth Forum of the ASEAN Scholars Council in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, on Monday, which brought together senior Islamic scholars and muftis from across Southeast Asia. (Supplied) 2 / 4 The secretary-general of the Muslim […]

Anxious souls: The Quran’s diagnosis of anxiety

Daniyal Mahmood Ahmad11th June 2026 Image: Library/AI Generated The restless heart Over 359 million people suffer from anxiety all over the world. But this is not a modern illness. Fourteen centuries ago, the Holy Quran identified the restless nature of the human soul: اِنَّ الۡاِنۡسَانَ خُلِقَ ہَلُوۡعًا “Verily, man is born impatient […]

The Semantics of Haqq in the Glorious Quran: An Exhaustive Lexical, Theological, and Epistemological Analysis

Presented by Gemini Audio teaser: How Haqq Bridges Divine Reality and Justice: Abstract The Arabic triliteral root ḥaˉ-qaˉf-qaˉf (H-Q-Q) constitutes one of the most morphologically productive and conceptually central semantic families in the Quranic corpus, appearing in various derived forms across approximately 287 instances. This research report provides a comprehensive […]

The Cybernetics of Mortality and Volition: A Multidisciplinary Commentary on Quran 3:145 in Dialogue with Classical Tafsir and the “Four Books” Cosmology of Dr. Zia H. Shah, MD

Presented by Gemini Audio teaser: Divine destiny in a digital universe: Abstract This research report presents a comprehensive, multi-layered commentary on Quran 3:145, exploring its historical, linguistic, theological, and scientific dimensions. Traditionally understood within the context of the Battle of Uhud, this verse establishes that death occurs only by divine […]