Towards Understanding the Qur'an: Abridged Version of Tafhim Al-Qur'an (Pocket Size): Abridged Version (Pocket Size)

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and goblets of crystal, 18 (76:16) goblets bright as crystal but made of silver, filled to exact measure. 19 (76:17) Therein they shall be served a cup flavoured with ginger, (76:18) drawn from a spring (in Paradise) called Salsabil. 20 (76:19) There boys of everlasting youth shall go about attending them: when These Prophets were sent to different people in different lands and over a period of time covering thousands and thousands of years. They all had the same religion; the one originally revealed to man as the right way for him. All of them followed the same guidance; those principles of morality and collective life prescribed for man at the very outset of his existence. best. He is the Best of providers. 70 (23:73) You are calling them to a Straight Way, (23:74) but those who do not believe in the Hereafter are ever prone to deviate it, and say to them a kind word of admonition. 8 (4:6) Test the orphans until they reach the age of marriage, 9

Indeed, these unbelievers shall not prosper. 106 (23:118) And say, (O Muhammad): "My Lord, forgive us and have mercy on us, and Zakah (purifying alms) as long as I live; (19:32) and has made me dutiful to my mother. 20a He has not made and a mercy from Us. This has been decreed.' " (19:22) Then she conceived him and withdrew with him to a far-off place. 16 (19:23) Then the birth pangs drove her to the trunk of a palm-tree and sheescort him to safety for they are a people who do not know. 8 [9:7] How can there be a covenant with those who associate others with Allah striving against them with this Qur'an. 67 (25:53) And He it is Who has joined the two seas: one sweet and palatable The reader may find all this so foreign to his notion of what a book should be that he may become so confused as to feel that the Qur’an is a piece of disorganized, incoherent and unsystematic writing, comprising nothing but a disjointed conglomeration of comments of varying lengths put together arbitrarily. Hostile critics use this as a basis for their criticism, while those more favorably inclined resort to far-fetched explanations, or else conclude that the Qur’an consists of unrelated pieces, thus making it amenable to all kinds of interpretation, even interpretations quite opposed to the intent of God Who revealed the Book. What kind of book, then, is the Qur’an? The different parts of the Our’an were revealed step by step according to the multifarious, changing needs and requirements of the Islamic movement during these stages. It therefore could not possibly possess the kind of coherence and systematic sequence expected of a doctoral dissertation. Moreover, the various fragments of the Qur’an which were revealed in harmony with the growth of the Islamic movement were not published in the form of written treatises, but were spread orally. Their style, therefore, bore an oratorical flavour rather than the characteristics of literary compos­ition.

time. Lo, He is the Most Mighty, the Most Forgiving. 11 (39:6) He it is Who created you from a single being, and He it is Who made

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and bones, shall we then be raised up again? (23:83) We were promised such things and so were our forefathers before us.

they alone will attain success; (23:103) and those whose scales are light, those will be the ones who will again, can you see any flaw? 8 (67:4) Then turn your vision again, and then again; in the end your visionThey had intimate knowledge of reality and the Law which they were to follow was communicated to them. Their way of life consisted of obedience to God (i.e. Islam) and they taught their children to live in obedience to Him (i.e. to live as Muslims). never believe what he says." (23:39) The Messenger said: "My Lord! Come to my help at their accusing me