Listening to Quran
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The Quran is the religious book of the Muslims
The Quran is the religious book of the Muslims and was revealed to the Last Prophet , Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم in the language of arabic, through the angel Jibraa’il over a period of 23 years. The Quran was revealed in verbal form to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم, and was later compiled into the form of a complete book during the rule of Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddiq رضى الله تعالى عنه though even before this it was memorised by thousands of companions and was recited in the presence of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم. There are many virtues of reciting and memorising the Quran and stories contained within it are of exceptional importance to Muslims. We attempt to share some of these in the articles below. Please visit the Tafsir link (mariful Qur’an) to read the Quran in detail with commentary provided by a reliable and tradionally educated scholar.
By the sky which returns
“By the sky which returns.” (Quran 86:11) “[He] who made for you the earth a bed [spread out] and the sky a ceiling…” (Quran 2:22) In the first verse God swears by the sky and its function of ‘returning’ without specifying what it ‘returns.’ In Islamic doctrine, a divine oath signifies the magnitude of importance of a special relation to the Creator, and manifests His majesty and the supreme Truth in a special way. The second verse describes the Divine Act that made the sky a ‘ceiling’ for the dwellers of earth. Let us see what modern atmospheric science has to say about the role and function of the sky. The atmosphere is a word which denotes all the air surrounding the earth, from the ground all the way up to the edge from which space starts. The atmosphere is composed of several layers, each defined because of the various phenomena which occur within the layer. This image shows the average temperature profile through the Earth’s atmosphere...
The Religion of Islam
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