Quranic Sciences

Baseless Reasoning Against Religion Now when we have established intellect and instinct as the base of the Belief in Allah, intellect indicates that there must be someone who reveals the vast spectacle of the Universe as wherever we have seen a syst...

Baseless Reasoning Against Religion Now when we h...

Name The Surah takes its name from the word al-ghishiyah in the first verse. Period of Revelation The whole subject matter of the Surah indicates that this too is one of the earliest Surahs to be revealed; but this was the period when the Holy Prophe...

Name The Surah takes its name from the word al-ghi...

Name The Surah takes its name from verse 4 in which the word hujurat has occurred. Period of Revelation Traditions show and the subject matter of the Surah also supports the same that this Surah is a collection of the commandments and instructions se...

Name The Surah takes its name from verse 4 in whic...

Name The Surah takes its name from the alphabetic letter Sad with which it begins. Period of Revelation As will be explained below according to some traditions this Surah was sent down in the period when the Holy Prophet had started calling the peopl...

Name The Surah takes its name from the alphabetic ...

Name The Surah has been so named after the wordal balad in the first verse. Period of Revelation Its subject matter and style resemble those of the earliest Surahs revealed at Mecca, but it contains a pointer which indicates that it was sent down in ...

Name The Surah has been so named after the wordal ...

Name The Surah takes its name Al Mu'min from verse 28 implying thereby that it is a Surah in which Al Mu'min (the Believer of Pharaoh's people) has been mentioned. Period of Revelation According to Ibn 'Abbas and Jabir bin Zaid this Surah was sent d...

Name The Surah takes its name Al Mu'min from verse...

Name The Surah takes its name from the very first verseWan shaqq al-Qamar, thereby implying that it is a Surah in which the word al-Qamar has occurred. Period of Revelation The incident of theshaqq-al-Qamar (splitting of the moon) that has been menti...

Name The Surah takes its name from the very first ...

Name The Surah takes its name Al-ḌUHA from the very first word. Period of Revelation Its subject matter clearly indicates that it belongs to the earliest period atMecca. Traditions also show that the revelations were suspended for a time, which cause...

Name The Surah takes its name Al-ḌUHA from the ver...

Name It is derived from the word zukhruf-an; which occurs in verse 33 of this Surah. Period of Revelation It could not be known from any authentic tradition, but a study of its subject matter shows that this Surah also was sent down in the same perio...

Name It is derived from the word zukhruf-an; which...

Name The name of this Surah is composed of two words, Ha-Mim and As-Sajdah, which implies that it is a Surah which begins with Ha-Mim and in which a verse requiring the performance of sajdah (prostration) has occurred. Period of Revelation According ...

Name The name of this Surah is composed of two wor...

This Surah takes its name (Bani Israil) from v. 4. But this name is merely a distinctive appellation like the names of many other surhas and not a descriptive title and does not mean that "Bani Isra'il" is the theme of this Surah. Period of Revelatio...

This Surah takes its name (Bani Israil) from v. 4....

Name The Surah takes its name from the wordal-waqi`ah of the very first verse. Period of Revelation According to the chronological order that Hadrat Abdullah bin Abbas has given of the Surahs, first Surah Ta Ha was sent down, then Al-Waqi'ah and then...

Name The Surah takes its name from the wordal-waqi...

Name The Surah takes its name from the wordal-'asr occurring in the first verse. Period of Revelation Although Mujahid, Qatadah and Muqatil regard it as a Madani Surah, yet a great majority of the commentators opine that it is Makki; its subject matt...

Name The Surah takes its name from the wordal-'asr...

Name The Surah takes its name from verse 224 in which the word Ash-Shu'ara occurs. Period of Revelation The subject matter and the style show, and the traditions confirm, that it was revealed during the middle Makkan period. According to Ibn Abbas, S...

Name The Surah takes its name from verse 224 in wh...

Name "Nuh" is the name of this Surah as well as the title of its subject matter, for in it, from beginning to the end, the story of the Prophet Noah has been related. Period of Revelation This also is one of the earliest Surahs to be revealed atMecca...

Name "Nuh" is the name of this Surah as well as th...

Name The Surah has been so named after the very First wordat-tin. Period of Revelation According to Qatadah, this Surah is Madani. Two different views have been reported from Ibn Abbas: first that it is a Makki Surah, and second that it is Madani. Bu...

Name The Surah has been so named after the very Fi...

Name The Surah takes its name from verse 41 in which the word Ankabut (Spider) has occurred. Period of Revelation Verses 56 to 60 clearly show that this Surah was sent down a little before the migration to Habash and this is supported by the internal...

Name The Surah takes its name from verse 41 in whi...

Name It is derived from the very first verse; Wayl-ul-lil mutaffifin. Period of Revelation The style of the Surah and its subject matter clearly show that it was revealed in the earliest stage atMecca, when surah after surah was being revealed to imp...

Name It is derived from the very first verse; Wayl...

Name The Surah takes its name from the wordwal-lail with which it opens. Period of Revelation Its subject matter so closely resembles that of Surah Ash-Shams that each Surah seems to be an explanation of the other. It is one and the same thing which ...

Name The Surah takes its name from the wordwal-lai...

Name In verse 10 of this Surah it has been enjoined that the women who emigrate to dar al-Islam (the Islamic State) and claim to be Muslims, should be examined hence the title Al-Mumtahinah. The word is pronounced both as mumtahinah and as mumtahanah...

Name In verse 10 of this Surah it has been enjoine...

Name The Surah takes its name from the wordal-Haaqqah with which it opens. Period of Revelation This too is one of the earliest surahs to be revealed at Mecca. Its subject matter shows that it was sent down at the time when opposition to the Holy Pro...

Name The Surah takes its name from the wordal-Haaq...