Surah 062 - AL-JUMU'AH (THE CONGREGATION, FRI...

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

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

Commentary

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

Now Moses selected from his people seventy men (to take with him) to Our appointed place and time, but when the earthquake seized them he said, ‘My Lord! if You so willed You could have destroyed them as well as me before (this). But would You destroy us on ac ...

In  this Podcast, in part TWO of a TWO part series, we go over the commentary of the fifth verse of Surat  al-Saff (Chapter 61) - The Ranks - as authored by Shaykh Mohsin Qaraati  in Tafseer-e Noor.

Verse 5: "When Moses said to his people, ‘O my peop ...

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