Over the past several months, I have been reading the Quran with the intention of completing it during the blessed month of ...
When you take away 1400 years of historical context to the act of revelation, and you take away belief in that revelation being from a sacred source —God—you are left with a text. I once heard Huston ...
To reflect upon the verses of Allah is a form of worship; it is something that will draw one close to Allah, Most High. This reflection is not a reckless and wandering one, rather, it includes a study ...
The Bible is one of the most read books in the United States, but how much do Americans know about other sacred texts, like the Quran? In an effort to help educate more people about Islam and its ...
Every year, the holy month of Ramadan inspires Muslims to rekindle their devotion to the Quran as it is the month in which it was revealed—as a guidance for people and evidence to their faith. For a ...
Reading the Quran can be a baffling experience. Unlike the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), the Quran is not a collection of books recounting the mythical history of a community of faith. It is not, like ...
Many people today — especially secular feminists — judge the Qur’an through the prism of minority trends within contemporary feminist discourses and find it lacking. This is disingenuous since we know ...
To reflect upon the verses of Allah is a form of worship; it is something that will draw one close to Allah, Most High. This reflection is not a reckless and wandering one, rather, it includes a study ...
Reading the Qur'an in this holy month is not enough because Allah also wants us to ponder on the meanings of what we read. The simple reason for this is because Islam is a religion that is practised ...