Shariah and Constitution: A Personal Journey
Source: Muslim Sunrise, the oldest Muslim publication of America, Winter 2013 volume By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times After my training of six years to […]
Could this Quranic translation curb extremism?
By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor CNN: On a warm November night in Washington, a small group of American Muslims gathered at Georgetown University to celebrate “The Study Quran,” new English […]
Historian Demolishes Idea The Quran Is More Violent Than Bible: Christians Have ‘Holy Amnesia’
Source: addictinginfo.org: AUTHOR: JAMESON PARKER To hear Fox News tell it, the Muslim faith – and therefore the 1.5 billion people who practice it – are inherently unable to integrate […]
638. Commandment – Hast thou not seen those who were forbidden to hold secret counsels and again return to what they were forbidden
Commandment – Hast thou not seen those who were forbiddento holdsecret counsels and again return to what they were forbidden, and confer secretly for sin and transgression and disobedience to the Messenger? [58:9] Hast thou not seen those who were forbidden to hold secret counsels and again return to what they were forbidden, […]
Six miracles of Quran you will be amazed to know
Quran holds many things in itself, from advises to admonishes, promises of bounties to promises of punishment and hundreds of miracles as well. The miracles of Quran are unfolding with time and it […]
A Year with the Quran- If the Oceans Were Ink……
If the Oceans Were Ink An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran By Carla Power American writer Carla Power and a madrasah-trained sheikh debated Islam’s […]
A Sexual Offender from ISIS: Is the Quran to Blame?
Epigraph: This day all good things have been made lawful for you. … And lawful for you are chaste believing women and chaste women from among those who were given the Book before you, when you give them their dowries, contracting valid marriage and not committing fornication nor taking secret […]
2nd Holy Quran and Science Conference in Toronto
The international conference on the Holy Qur’an and Science 2015 highlights novel research carried out on the Holy Qur’an to discover the treasures buried in the Holy Book. The speakers […]
Miracles of the Holy Qur’an
http://ahmadiyyapriatim.blogspot.com: Some of the miracles and prophecies of the Holy Qur’an are such that they can be witnessed and experienced by us even in this age and no one can […]
Reading the Talmud in a Most Unlikely Place — Iran’s Holy City
he Shia holy city of Qom teems with mosques, mullahs and madrassas. So, it was a little surprising to hear Qom religious scholar Hossein Soleimani’s response when I asked him […]
A Sexual Offender from ISIS: Is the Quran to Blame?
Epigraph: This day all good things have been made lawful for you. … And lawful for you are chaste believing women and chaste women from among those who were given […]
Prominent women in the Qur’an
By Fatima Gailani In this article I would like to focus on women mentioned in the Qur’an. My intention is not to prove either the superiority or equality of men […]
Quran dating back to Akbar’s period recovered in Mysuru, India
Source: The Hindu The last page bears the year in which it had been written. “It was written in 1050 of the Hijri calendar, which works out to 1605 AD, […]
Pressing Questions on The Relationship Between Religion and Daily Life
Huff Post: by Amr Khaled — We are witnessing a clear attempt to eviscerate Islamic heritage and demolish Islam, all taking place under the guise of a move to reinstate religious discourse. It’s plain for all to see that what they are doing is so far off from this goal. […]
The Oldest Qur’an Controversy
The oldest Qur’ans are actually in Yemen, in danger being bombed By: Juan Cole The discovery of a couple pages [apparently actually 18] of a very old Qur’an (the Muslim […]
The Holy Quran as the Miracle of the Holy Prophet
Source: This article was originally published in Spring 2010 volume of the Muslim Sunrise: read online in the Muslim Sunrise. Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of […]
The Holy Quran’s Translation in Sinhalese to be Launched This Week
Source: A. Abdul Aziz; Press Secretary Sinhalese (/sɪnəˈliːz/), known natively as Sinhala (සිංහල; singhala [ˈsiŋɦələ]),[3] is the native language of the Sinhalese people, who make up the largest ethnic group in […]
Why the Oldest Qur’an Is so Important for Muslims
Source: The Huffington Post By Nafees Syed; Lawyer, Former Congressional staffer The most important miracle in Islam is located in Birmingham, United Kingdom. On Wednesday, the headline of the New York […]
New Light on the History of the Quranic Text?
Source: The Huffington Post By Joseph E. B. Lumbard; Assistant professor of classical Islam, Brandeis University. General Editor for The Study Quran (HarperOne, 2015) The recent discovery of an early manuscript of the Quran has received extensive media attention, appearing on BBC, CNN and even above the fold on the front […]
Discovery of ‘oldest’ Qur’an stirs new passions in UK city
Source: Arab News LONDON: For decades, an ancient relic from the Middle East was unknowingly tucked away in an unlikely place: A library in the British Midlands, thousands of miles […]