Quran Chapter 2: Surah Al-Baqarah (The Cow) E...

Name This Surah is named AL-FATIHAH because of its subject-matter. Fatihah is that which opens a subject or a book or any other thing. In other words, Al-Fatihah is a sort of preface. Period of Revelation It is one of the very earliest Revelations to the Holy Prophet. As a matter ...  Show more

(3:1) Alif, Lam, Mim. (3:2) Allah, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsisting, Who sustains the entire order of the universe - there is no God but He. (3:3) He has revealed this Book to you, setting forth the truth and confirming the earlier Books, and earlier He revealed the Torah and ...  Show more

Created by Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi Interviewed By Imam Ibrahim Bakeer #125 --------------------------------------------------- A.L.M. This is the Book; in it is guidance sure, without doubt, to those who fear Allah; Who believe in the Unseen, are steadfast in prayer, and spend out ...  Show more

The chapter was revealed in Mecca. While the Prophet was speaking to some pagan notables, hoping to convert them, a blind Muslim man came up to learn from him, but in his eagerness to attract them to Islam, the Prophet frowned at him. The Prophet was reproached by God. In the sec ...  Show more

This thirty-six verse chapter is towards the end of the Quran where the chapters are short and were predominantly revealed in Mecca. At the beginning, when the Muslim community was small in number and suffered terribly at the hands of the Meccan elite, the chapters and verses ser ...  Show more

In this episode of a Deeper Look: Surah An-Najm, Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan sheds light on a word only used once in the Quran, used to describe the heinous beliefs held by disbelievers. Allah uses this term to describe those who believed that angels were daughters of Allah, a belief ...  Show more