Surah 009 - AT-TAWBAH (THE REPENTANCE) - سورة...

Name Why the name Al-Baqarah? Al-Baqarah (the Cow) has been so named from the story of the Cow occurring in this Surah (vv. 67-73). It has not, however, been used as a title to indicate the subject of the Surah. It will, therefore, be as wrong to translate the name Al-Baqarah ...  Show more

Name This Surah takes its name from v.33. Al-i-Imran, like the names of many other surahs, is merely a name to distinguish it from other surahs and does not imply that the family of Imran has been discussed in it. The Period of Revelation This Surah consists of four discours ...  Show more

(Recall the time) when you said to the believers, ‘Does it not suffice you that your Lord should reinforce you with three thousand angels sent down (by Him)? (3:124)

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NUMBER 3,000: Although as humans, we have been given the freedom ...

The Treaty of Hudaybiyya had included a vow of there being no fighting between the Quraysh and the Muslims. However, when the tribe of Banu Bakr asked the leaders of Quraysh for help in a raid against their long time foe Banu Khuza'ah, a tribe with many Muslims and who were ...  Show more

And We sent him (back as a Messenger at Nineveh) to a people hundred thousand strong, rather they were even more. (37:47)

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NUMBER 100,000: This verse from Sūrah al-Sāffāt speaks about the great Prophet, ...

This Khutbah was recorded in the Euless Masjid on 11/18/2016. During times of tribulation and hardship, what kind of a Muslim are you, asks Sheikh Abdullah Oduro as he recounts the inspiring story of Um Salama, one of the wives of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Her resilience in the fa ...  Show more