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Sura al-Kawthar in plain English

the plenty

Posted on June 1, 2019

We have given you O Muhammad plenty of things in this world and the Hereafter. Among them are the Quran and prophethood and kept a special river for you in paradise. [Read More]

Sura al-Qadr in plain English

the Night of Decree

Posted on May 31, 2019

The reward of fasting, praying, and doing all righteous deeds in this night exceeds the reward of doing righteous deeds in a thousand months that do not have this night. [Read More]

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Sura al-Maoun in plain English

These hypocrites combined their negligence towards Allah with negligence towards fellow human beings. They do not even lend simple assistance in terms of money or other goods that could benefit their neighbors or others [Read More]

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Sura Quraish in plain English

the tribe of Quraish

Posted on May 30, 2019

Let you know O people of Makkah that if you disobeyed the message of my Messenger Muhammad, who called you to worship me alone and leave all deities then I can lift these two bounties from you, so you return to the misery of hunger and wars. [Read More]

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Sura al-Feel in plain English

the elephant

Posted on May 30, 2019

Remember O people of Makkah that I have protected you not because you are better than those army, or that your religion of polytheism is better than the religion of that army (i.e., Christianity), rather I have protected you to preserve my House which I would later honor further by... [Read More]

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Sura Fatiha in plain English

Posted on May 30, 2019

I find it helpful to explain a verse of the Quran with a very short elaboration to make the verse closer to the reader. In this series -which I start here with chapter 1 (al-Fatiha) - I try to get a gist of the verses from the book of commentary... [Read More]

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Is the Quran over Nineteen

Posted on May 17, 2019

Rashad Khalifa and all those created a huge research thread on 19 might have started from wrong premises and created a huge enterprise on unwarranted hypothesis. [Read More]

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The Quran as the solution to perpetual confusion of ideologies

Posted on May 17, 2019

Studying the history of Western thoughts are indeed studying a drowning man trying to cling to a straw only to discover that it can not hold him, and then move to another straw in the perpetual drama of thought and a contradicting anti-thought battle. [Read More]

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Philosophical counterpart of empirical theories in the West

Posted on May 12, 2019

Studying the history of Western thoughts is like studying a drowning man trying to cling to a straw in the middle of ocean, and then leaving that straw and cling to the next in perpetual moves of frustration and agony. [Read More]

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A React-Redux App to display Quranic Chapter Info Cards

Posted on April 24, 2019

This app illustrates the working of Redux with React following from Stephen Grider tutorials in Udacity. [Read More]

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