Month: September 2024

What is Quran?

Facts about Quran

  • The Quran is a book that leads humanity to the straight path of life.
  • This is the Book! There is no doubt about it—a guide for those mindful of Allah. (Al-Quran:Sura Al- Baqarah, Ayat #2)
  • Allah (SWA) says in Quran, ”O People of the Book! Now Our Messenger has come to you, revealing much of what you have hidden of the Scriptures and disregarding much. There certainly has come to you from Allah a light and a clear Book. Through which Allah guides those who seek His pleasure to the ways of peace, brings them out of darkness and into light by His Will, and guides them to the Straight Path. (Al-Quran:Sura AlMaidah, Ayat #15-16)
  • The Quran was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad from Allah (SWA) over the period of 23 years, beginning in the year 609 CE or AD.
  • The Quran is considered the original and unaltered word of Allah (God) since its revelation to the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) over 1,400 years ago. Divine Protection of the Quran i.e. The Quran itself affirms its protection from alteration, “Indeed, it is We who sent down the Qur’an and indeed, We will be its guardian.” (Quran, Surah Al-Hijr 15:9). This verse mean that Allah has taken responsibility for safeguarding the Quran from corruption or alteration over time. Manuscripts of the Quran from the earliest periods, such as the Birmingham Quran manuscript (dated to the lifetime of Prophet Muhammad or shortly after), show remarkable consistency with the Quran that is recited and written today.

Famous sayings about Quran: –

“The Quran speaks to the heart and mind alike.” – Karen Armstrong

“The Quran is a treasure of wisdom, ethics, and guidance.” Christopher Hitchens

“The Quran is a book of great wisdom.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The Quran is a book of divine wisdom.” – Carl Jung

“The Qur’an is the best guide to conduct and speech. It is the book in which one part explains the other, and one section corroborates the other.” – Ali ibn Abi Talib (RA)

“The Qur’an contains, besides revelations, precepts of philosophy, theories of politics, and rules of conduct; it is a law book, as well as a Bible.” – Napoleon Bonaparte:

“The Koran is not a mere book, but a living phenomenon; it is the embodiment of an age, its spirit.”- Thomas Carlyle:

Quran is guidance and criterion:

The month of Ramadan in which the Quran, was revealed, a guidance for mankind, with clear signs of the guidance, and the criterion (of right and wrong)

شَهْرُ رَمَضَانَ ٱلَّذِىٓ أُنزِلَ فِيهِ ٱلْقُرْءَانُ هُدًۭى لِّلنَّاسِ وَبَيِّنَـٰتٍۢ مِّنَ ٱلْهُدَىٰ وَٱلْفُرْقَانِ ۚ

Sura AL-Baqra Ayat .185

What is righteousness?

 ۞ لَّيْسَ ٱلْبِرَّ أَن تُوَلُّوا۟ وُجُوهَكُمْ قِبَلَ ٱلْمَشْرِقِ وَٱلْمَغْرِبِ وَلَـٰكِنَّ ٱلْبِرَّ مَنْ ءَامَنَ بِٱللَّهِ وَٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلْـَٔاخِرِ وَٱلْمَلَـٰٓئِكَةِ وَٱلْكِتَـٰبِ وَٱلنَّبِيِّـۧنَ وَءَاتَى ٱلْمَالَ عَلَىٰ حُبِّهِۦ ذَوِى ٱلْقُرْبَىٰ وَٱلْيَتَـٰمَىٰ وَٱلْمَسَـٰكِينَ وَٱبْنَ ٱلسَّبِيلِ وَٱلسَّآئِلِينَ وَفِى ٱلرِّقَابِ وَأَقَامَ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَءَاتَى ٱلزَّكَوٰةَ وَٱلْمُوفُونَ بِعَهْدِهِمْ إِذَا عَـٰهَدُوا۟ ۖ وَٱلصَّـٰبِرِينَ فِى ٱلْبَأْسَآءِ وَٱلضَّرَّآءِ وَحِينَ ٱلْبَأْسِ ۗ أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ صَدَقُوا۟ ۖ وَأُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْمُتَّقُونَ ١٧٧

Righteousness is not in turning your faces towards the east or the west. Rather, the righteous are those who believe in Allah, the Last Day, the angels, the Books, and the prophets; who give charity out of their cherished wealth to relatives, orphans, the poor, ˹needy˺ travellers, beggars, and for freeing captives; who establish prayer, pay alms-tax, and keep the pledges they make; and who are patient in times of suffering, adversity, and in ˹the heat of˺ battle. It is they who are true ˹in faith˺, and it is they who are mindful ˹of Allah˺.

Al Quran: Sura: Al Baqarah Ayat:177

Why Allah (SWA) created human beings?

ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ ٱلْمَوْتَ وَٱلْحَيَوٰةَ لِيَبْلُوَكُمْ أَيُّكُمْ أَحْسَنُ عَمَلًۭا ۚ وَهُوَ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلْغَفُورُ

He (Allah/God) is the One˺ Who created death and life in order to test which of you is best in deeds. And He is the Almighty, All-Forgiving.

Quran : Sura Al-Mulk , Ayat #2

Allah (SWA) responds to human beings who call him.

وَإِذَا سَأَلَكَ عِبَادِى عَنِّى فَإِنِّى قَرِيبٌ ۖ أُجِيبُ دَعْوَةَ ٱلدَّاعِ إِذَا دَعَانِ ۖ فَلْيَسْتَجِيبُوا۟ لِى وَلْيُؤْمِنُوا۟ بِى لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْشُدُونَ ١٨٦

When My servants ask you ˹O Prophet˺ about Me: I am truly near. I respond to one’s prayer when they call upon Me. So let them respond ˹with obedience˺ to Me and believe in Me, perhaps they will be guided ˹to the Right Way.

Quran (Chapter No. 2, verses No. 186)