Any visitor to the Quran can sense that the Quran is not simply collection of verses grouped into Surahs. They find some sort of flow or an axis around which the whole discourse of the Quran is centered. Within Surahs too there generally seems to be a single theme at play. If they fail to…
The Quran is a finely knit and ordered book. How could it not be? It is after all the word of the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth with no flaws in them. It is then only logical that His Word be the in the best piece of literature to the last letter. How…
"[All] praise is [due] to Allah, who has sent down upon His Servant the Book and has not made therein any deviance.” [Quran 18:1] The Quran is the speech of Allah. It was revealed unto Muhammad (peace be upon him) in the Arabic language. It is the Arabic language spoken by the Arabs of the…
Author: Ammar Baksh A short, humble, witty old man has been creating tremors in the world of Islam that a few have noticed and many do not want to. He has explored almost every old school and has set out to restructure the age-old narratives of Islam. Javed Ahmad Ghamidi is a force to be…
Author: Javed Ahmad Ghamidi Each surah is a coherent collection of verses. These verses are not disjoined and haphazardly placed in a surah. In fact, each surah has a theme and all the verses are aptly placed with regard to this theme. When a surah is studied while keeping in consideration its theme and when…
Author: Amin Ahsan Islahi To describe the principles of how to discern nazm is more important than to enumerate the arguments in order to substantiate its existence in the Holy Qur’ān. A person does not feel compelled to deny nazm in the Holy Qur’ān because he does not appreciate its need and import or is…