Surah Al-Baqarah: The Cow - Verses 231 & 232

What happens when words are used cleverly, or distorted entirely? Today, you'll hear the story of a one-eyed tailor whose work sparks a poetic jab, an Imam who outsmarts a governor's curse, and greetings that seem peaceful but hide deadly meaning. Each tale reveals just how power ...  Show more

Do you trust God to take care of you? Do you trust Him to protect you against a vicious enemy far stronger than you? Would you risk everything—even your life—based on your answer? It is easy to speak of reliance on Allah in times of comfort, but true reliance is revealed in m ...  Show more

Verses 1-10 commands believers that When you divorce women, divorce for waiting period and compute the waiting period accurately and don’t turn them out of their homes during the waiting period unless they have committed a manifestly evil deed. Such are the boundaries set by God. ...  Show more

In this part of our commentary we review the third verse of Surah al-Mujadilah which reads: "Those who declare their wives unlawful for them (by using that abhorred expression) and thereafter wish to go back on the words they have uttered must free a slave before they (the spo ...

An explanation of the verses in the Qur’an that speak of the various ways in which Allah foils the plans of the oppressors.

Khutbah. Referring to the Israelites in Surah Al-Baqarah, Allah stresses that like them, we are in real danger that our hearts will harden even though the Quran is in our hands and we recite it in prayer. In the same surah, Allah teaches us how to protect our hearts from this, fi ...  Show more