Surah 003 - ALI 'IMRAN (FAMILY OF IMRAN) - سو...

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

Period of Revelation This Surah comprises several discourses which were revealed on different occasions during the period ranging probably between the end of A.H. 3 and the end of A.H. 4 or the beginning of A.H. 5. Although it is difficult to determine the exact dates of their r ...  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, ...

(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 ...

Allah honors our beloved Prophet Muhammad in a way you do not expect. Learn how in this weeks English Quran Tafsir of Aya 184 of Al Imran. 

Ibn Taymiyyah is known as the “Sheikh of Islam” to his admirers, and to his detractors, one of the most significant antecedents of modern Salafi Jihadism. Simultaneously a genius scholar, brutal warrior and unflinching polemicist, he is one of the most important pioneers of a mil ...  Show more