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Quran Talk BlogBasmalah 19 LettersThe Basmalah, the opening verse of the Quran, is written with exactly 19 letters in every manuscript, including an early Birmingham manuscript. That count went undisputed until the discovery of the Quran's mathematical miracle based on 19, after which critics challenged it. The long custom of writing 786, the gematrical value of the Basmalah, serves as evidence that its letters were never in question.November 14, 2021

Quran Talk BlogIs Atheism Dead?Scientific evidence for a Creator, drawn from Eric Metaxas's book Is Atheism Dead?, set beside verses of the Quran. The Big Bang and the perfect solar eclipse come first, then the unique properties of water and visible light that make life possible, fine-tuning, and the failure of abiogenesis research to explain how life began. A chess story frames atheism as a game already lost.November 11, 2021

Quran Talk BlogPoisonous IdeasThe devil's tactic, drawn from the Quran, of selling his followers an ideology and then disowning them before its ruin arrives. The article traces this through Karl Marx, the Satanic Temple's Baphomet and the Church of Satan, then turns to Rob Henderson's idea of luxury beliefs: defunding the police, rejecting marriage, celebrating obesity, denying free will, and San Francisco's drug policies.November 5, 2021

Quran Talk BlogRecalibrationSocial media's harm to teenage girls, shown in leaked Facebook research on Instagram, is treated as a deeper problem of ingratitude toward God rather than something regulation can fix. Drawing on how Amplified Pain Syndrome is cured by recalibration, it urges readers to recalibrate by recounting God's countless blessings. Quran verses on appreciation, the devil's aim to make people unappreciative, and the envy of Qaroon support the argument.October 29, 2021

Quran Talk BlogKind vs. SternBelievers who differ over small points often condemn one another, which the Quran treats as transgression and sectarian idol worship. Kindness within the family of believers is weighed against sternness toward disbelievers, with the Quran's criteria for whom not to befriend and its bans on aggression and compulsion. Abraham's gentle words to his father model pardon, tolerance, and staying within God's limits.October 22, 2021

Quran Talk BlogComplete BookThe Quran's completeness as the sole source of religious law, set against man-made contracts and rule books that never anticipate every case. Drawing on 6:114, 16:89 and 5:101, the article explains why some matters are left out and argues that Hadith and Sunna are incomplete and contradictory, including on whether saying there is no god but God alone earns Paradise.October 15, 2021

Quran Talk BlogThe False ShahadaThe common Muslim declaration of faith adding Muhammad's name is argued to contradict the Quran, set against the Shahada of God, the angels, and the knowledgeable in 3:18. Six reasons follow: the hypocrites' testimony in 63:1, the command to make no distinction among messengers, bearing false witness, Muhammad's death, the religion of Abraham, and being satisfied with God alone.October 6, 2021

Quran Talk BlogHeart and MindThree Classical Arabic words in the Quran, qalb, sadr, and fawd, can mean heart or mind, unlike their typical modern sense. Using verses 7:179, 17:49 to 17:51, and 53:11, the article argues that translating them as mind is more accurate where the verse describes understanding, imagining, or perceiving, while granting that the words do not always mean mind.October 2, 2021

Quran Talk BlogMuhammad Was Not IlliterateMuhammad's literacy, defended against the claim by Muslim scholars that he could not read or write and that this made the Quran his miracle. Drawing on the first revelations, his work as a merchant, and verses on the pen and purified pages, the article argues that he wrote the Quran with his own hand. It shows that ummy means gentile, not illiterate.September 30, 2021

Quran Talk BlogLet go and let GodSubmitting to God and trusting Him fully with the outcome, even when it differs from what we hoped. Moses moves from reluctance before Pharaoh to unwavering trust at the sea, and the article traces Joseph's life from the well to prison to treasurer of Egypt as a steady migration toward absolute submission. It also weighs standing up for our rights against patience and forgiveness, citing 2:286, 17:11, and 42:39 to 43.September 24, 2021

Quran Talk BlogThe False Doctrines of HadithThe Quran alone as the source of religious law, set against Hadith and Sunnah attributed to the prophet. The article answers the claim that Hadith is needed to perform the contact prayer, contrasting traditional ablution with verse 5:6, and rebuts arguments from Muhammad's other inspiration and from majority belief. It calls upholding Hadith idol worship and a test God permitted, citing 6:112 to 6:116 and 39:23 to 39:36.September 16, 2021

Quran Talk BlogIllusion of ControlThe false sense of control people feel over their lives, and why total submission to God's will removes fear and grief. Drawing on airplane turbulence, pregnancy, the news, and Hiroshima, it turns to Joseph, David's dying son, Noah's plea for his son, and Job to show that God's decree is always for the best, even when we cannot understand it.September 9, 2021

Quran Talk BlogImportance of Reverting Back to Original Sources When Studying ScriptureMistranslation of scripture, and why readers should return to the original Arabic and Hebrew. Starting from phonetic borrowings in Farsi and Arabic, the article examines the valley of Baka in Psalms 84, then Quran 38:44, where traditional commentary claims Job beat his wife, and 22:15, often read as urging suicide. Root meanings show Job told to travel and preach, and 22:15 calling for complete dependence on God.September 8, 2021

Quran Talk BlogHadith And Quranic HistoryA response to the claim that Hadith is needed to understand the historical references in the Quran, such as the identity of Abee Lahab in Sura 111. The article argues that the Quran gives everything needed for salvation, that some knowledge is meant for particular people or times, like the Quranic initials decoded in 1974, and that Hadith may serve history but never religious law.September 6, 2021

Quran Talk BlogDavid’s Judgment: A Biblical ViewDavid's judgment between two brothers over their sheep in Sura 38 is read alongside Nathan's parable in 2 Samuel 12, with close attention to the Arabic of verses 38:20 to 38:26. The Quran confirms and supersedes the Bible, yet the Bible can shed light on this story. The lesson is that a wise person applies to himself the same judgment he passes on others, as 2:44 warns.September 2, 2021

Quran Talk Blog3:195 and 4:25: Meaning of Badukum min BadinThe Arabic expression baʿḍukum min baʿḍin appears in 3:195 and 4:25, both times concerning men and women. Comparing related forms in 4:32, 6:65, and 25:20 and the use of the preposition min, the article argues the phrase means you are equal to one another. It also explains why as far as belief is concerned is implied in 4:25.August 31, 2021

Quran Talk BlogMen and Women Equal Yet DistinctMen and women stand equal before God in faith and righteousness, as verses 3:195 and 4:25 show, while the Quran also acknowledges real differences between them. Verse 4:32 forbids coveting the qualities God bestows on each sex, and 20:131 reinforces the point, with a note on the Arabic word azwajan used there to mean counterpart rather than spouse.August 31, 2021

Quran Talk BlogTransformational ExperiencesWeighing pros and cons fails for transformational experiences, since the person after the change values different things than the person before. Using parenthood, Mike Tyson, near death experiences and meditation, the author turns to accepting the Quran, recounts his own transformation through Rashad Khalifa's mathematical miracle, and urges judging the message by the lives of those it changed, including Moses, Abraham and Noah.August 26, 2021

Quran Talk BlogThirstWhy most people, even those we love, stay indifferent or hostile to the Quran's message, drawing on Rumi's saying about thirst and water. Only God guides, opening hearts to those who choose to change, and He sends hardship in measure so people feel their need for Him. Believers are urged to pray for loved ones, set a good example, and answer rejection with patience and gentleness.August 19, 2021

Quran Talk BlogThe Heifer, Murder, and the BibleThe Quran's account of Moses commanding his people to sacrifice a heifer, their repeated questions about her, and the murder victim brought back to life (2:67 to 2:73) set beside two Bible passages. Numbers 19 gives the law of the unblemished red heifer, and Deuteronomy 21 prescribes a heifer's sacrifice when a killed person is found and the killer is unknown.August 14, 2021

Quran Talk BlogSin, Hardship, and GrowthSin and the loss of easy provision are traced through the three Quranic uses of ragadan: Adam and Eve, the Children of Israel at the Promised Land, and the unappreciative community, alongside parallels from Genesis and Leviticus. The article then asks why believers like Joseph, Moses, and Job faced hardship, arguing that struggle strengthens us and that God provides ease after difficulty, even through divorce.August 13, 2021

Quran Talk BlogWho Named Moses?Moses' rescue as an infant, as told in Sura 28, raises the question of who named him, likely Pharaoh's wife who adopted him. The article compares the Bible's account and Egyptian, Hebrew, and Greek meanings of the name, such as a child drawn from water, then links it to God parting the sea. It concludes that only God, who knew his future, could see how fitting the name was.August 7, 2021

Quran Talk BlogKnowledge and DivisionReligious knowledge brings greater responsibility, not greater righteousness, and the Quran shows it often leads its recipients to dispute and split into sects out of jealousy. Drawing on the Children of Israel and 2:62, 6:52, and 42:13, the article warns submitters against labeling those who differ as idol worshipers and urges unity on common ground, since dividing the religion into sects is itself idol worship.August 5, 2021

Quran Talk BlogHuman Space Travel and The QuranThe 2021 Branson and Bezos flights open a Quranic look at whether humans or jinns can reach the outer limits of the universe, citing 55:33 and the guarded seven universes. It argues the jinn companion, freed during sleep as a form of death, may travel beyond physics, and contrasts forbidden routes through sorcery and psychedelics with the Quran's call to meditate at night.July 28, 2021

Quran Talk BlogRecognition of SinRecognizing one's own sins separates a weak believer, whom God will redeem, from a disbeliever destined for Hell. Drawing on 7:46 to 49 and 9:102, the article links the Arabic root shared by the Purgatory (Al A'araf), recognition, and confession. It shows disbelievers confessing only after death, and it presents the Quran as the Statute Book for telling good from evil.July 14, 2021

Quran Talk BlogCriteria For Believing in the HereafterBelief in the Hereafter, a requirement for Paradise, must be proven by actions and tested by God rather than merely claimed. Citing the Quran, the article gives three signs of disbelief: aversion when God alone is mentioned, objection to the Quran alone, and accepting religious law from sources other than God's word. Readers are urged to apply these criteria to themselves, then reflect, repent, and reform.July 2, 2021

Quran Talk BlogInceptionSatan's power of suggestion, the one power God allowed him to test humans, is traced from Derren Brown's illusions through Adam and Eve, the Samarian's golden calf, and Cain's envy of his brother. The article then applies the Overton window to pride month and gender identity, and urges seeking refuge in God from Satan when reading the Quran and throughout the day.June 30, 2021

Quran Talk BlogContrasting PairsThe Quran teaches through contrasting pairs, reading 39:23 as describing a book of compared pairs, and verses such as 35:19 to 35:22 show how light is understood against darkness. Examples include Pharaoh's tower set against his wife's prayer for a home in Paradise, Moses rushing to God while the Samarian led the people to the calf, and Adam repenting while Satan grew arrogant.June 25, 2021

Quran Talk BlogAnimal Miracles from the QuranQuranic accounts of God's messengers and animals are offered as evidence that the Quran is untampered. Jonah's fish is linked to modern whale swallowing cases and the Arabic word for whale, and Solomon's hoopoe to birds that guide humans. Solomon's exchange with the ant is set beside E. O. Wilson's findings on how ants signal danger and identify colonies.June 14, 2021

Quran Talk BlogClaiming Muhammad was the Last Messenger Contradicts the QuranMuhammad was the final prophet (nabi) according to 33:40, but the Quran never calls him the final messenger (rasool). The argument draws on angel messengers, the messenger sent to every community, the assumption of a last messenger after Joseph in 40:34, and the covenant of 3:81. It also cites the smoke prophecy of Sura 44, whose well educated messenger could not be Muhammad.June 13, 2021

Quran Talk BlogSlavery or FreedomFreedom and slavery are weighed through the Children of Israel longing for Egypt, former American slaves, and convicts who prefer prison, framed by the link between the Arabic words for slave and worship. Whatever a person puts before God becomes their god. The article applies this to COVID restrictions and social pressure, urging believers to stand for the truth despite persecution, like the believing Egyptian at Pharaoh's court.June 2, 2021

Quran Talk BlogShore of RighteousnessWord choice in the Quran's Arabic, studied through verse 17:67, where people afflicted at sea implore God alone and then revert once saved to the shore. The article notes that ḍalla, elsewhere meaning strayed, links hardship to straying from the right path, and that al‑barr, shore, shares its root with al‑birr, righteousness. Verses 17:68 and 17:69 warn against reverting.May 26, 2021

Quran Talk BlogHow To Perform Salat Based on Quran AloneQuranist debates over what the Salat is and how to perform it, answered through the lesson of the heifer in Sura 2 and Elbert Hubbard's A Message to Garcia. The contact prayer came down from Abraham, so the Quran gives no instructions. Its commonly practiced steps are listed, and innovations that contradict the Quran are rejected, such as mentioning names beside God or altering the Shahada.May 25, 2021

Quran Talk BlogWhat is the Jizya According to Quran?The Quranic meaning of jizya, tested against the common view of it as a yearly tax on non-Muslim subjects. Drawing on the Arabic root and the context of 9:29, including 9:13 and the battle of Hunayn, the article argues that jizya means war reparations owed by those who started a war and lost. It adds that the Quran permits fighting only in self-defense and to end oppression.May 25, 2021

Quran Talk BlogAdam and JesusThe claim that Jesus is divine because he had no father, answered through Quran 3:59, which likens his creation to that of Adam, created from dust by God's command Be. The article then traces numerical links: both names occur twenty-five times, verse 3:59 is the seventh occurrence of each, and Mary's name appears 34 times in the Quran and 19 times in the Bible.May 20, 2021

Quran Talk BlogSplitting of the MoonVerse 54:1, The Hour has come closer and the moon has split, is read as a prophecy rather than a Hadith claim that Muhammad split the moon, since the Quran says his only miracle was the Quran itself. The article links the verse to Apollo 11's lunar liftoff at 54 minutes in 1969, the Hijri year 1389, and to people dismissing such signs as old magic.May 19, 2021

Quran Talk BlogThe Lowest LandThe prophecy of Sura 30 about the defeat and later victory of the Romans, read against the Byzantine and Sassanian war and the fall of Jerusalem around 614. The article argues that adna al-ard means the lowest land, pointing to Jericho and the Dead Sea basin, and links the believers rejoicing to the conquest of Mecca and the Muslim expansion that followed.May 13, 2021

Quran Talk BlogSijjeen and ‘ElleyyeenSura 83 names two books: Sijjeen, the prison record of the wicked, and 'Elleyyeen, the elevated record of the righteous. Starting from the cheaters who deny the Hereafter, the article argues that marqum means a numerically structured book, a tally of every deed. It then explains how sincere repentance and reform can erase sins, and warns against treating repentance as a loophole.April 27, 2021

Quran Talk BlogMortgaging Our SoulsThe Arabic word rahinatun in 74:38, a pledge held as collateral, frames the soul as the security deposit for everything God has given us in this life. Neglecting worship and the contact prayer leaves a person trapped like a delinquent mortgage holder who loses the house. Repentance and reform restore the pledge, and God can transform sins into credits for anyone who never despairs of His mercy.April 21, 2021

Quran Talk BlogIdols and AbortionAbortion as modern idol worship, read through 6:137, where idols dupe their worshipers into killing their own children, against the claim that the Quran tells only tales from the past. Science, environmentalism, economic arguments about crime, and the ego appear as today's idols, each rooted in fear, the devil's tool. A reading of 6:151 and 17:31 shows God provides for parents and children alike.April 15, 2021

Quran Talk BlogSpending in the Cause of GodThree Quranic words for giving are compared: Zakat as obligatory purification, Sadaqa as free charity tied to truthfulness, and spending in the cause of God, which 2:219 defines as the excess, in moderation. Spending is framed as voting with our money for what we value. The shared root of spending, hypocrite and tunnel shows how spending against one's beliefs undermines faith from beneath.April 9, 2021

Quran Talk BlogCapital Punishment and the QuranCapital punishment is weighed against the Quranic standard that killing one innocent person is like killing all humanity, set beside wrongful convictions and historical ratios like Blackstone's. The article limits execution to those who wage war and commit horrendous crimes without repenting, and to murder under strict equivalence. It stresses family forgiveness, Dr. Khalifa's Appendix 37, God's final justice, and an Iranian mother who spared her son's killer.March 13, 2021

Quran Talk BlogW-A-H-D in the QuranThe Arabic word for one, a name of God, has a gematrical value of 19, the foundation of the Quran's mathematical structure. Against the claim that the word is written without an alif and totals 18, the article examines verses 2:61, 14:48, and 16:51 in ancient manuscripts. It finds the word written with the alif, whether as a number, as the One, or as One.March 8, 2021

Quran Talk BlogThe Magicians Were Thrown DownPharaoh's magicians, on seeing Moses' miracle, are described in the Quran with the passive Arabic form ul'qiya, meaning they were thrown down prostrate rather than simply falling. The article links this wording to the overwhelming conviction that comes from truly recognizing God's nearness, citing the mountain that crumbled before God and the Quran's effect on a mountain, and contrasts the expert magicians with the laymen who saw nothing.March 3, 2021

Quran Talk BlogImportance of Translating The QuranTranslation and the Arabic of the Quran clarify each other, a point the article opens with a Canadian contract dispute settled by its French version. Arabic roots reveal meanings a translation can miss, as in Al-Rahman and the womb, Muslim and peace, and the dietary prohibitions. Translation in turn resolves Arabic ambiguities in 3:7, 2:54, the ablution steps of 5:6, and 56:79 on menstruating women touching the Quran.February 26, 2021

Quran Talk BlogDioecious And Non-DioeciousThe Arabic word ṣinwān in verse 13:4 of the Quran, often rendered as of the same root, is read here as dioecious and non-dioecious. Drawing on verses that say God created all plants in male and female pairs, the article explains dioecious date palms, bisexual grapes, and monoecious crops like corn and wheat, and contrasts created pairs with God, the One, who has no mate or son.December 25, 2020

Quran Talk BlogKhamr (Intoxicants) vs. Sukara (Intoxication)The Quran's distinction between sukara, the state of intoxication, and khamr, the intoxicant itself. Tracing every occurrence of the root for intoxication, the article shows it includes being blinded by lust or dazzled by deception, starting from 4:43 on the contact prayer. It then links khamr to the root meaning to cover, as in 24:31, defining an intoxicant as a substance that covers a person's mental faculties.December 4, 2020

Quran Talk BlogImportance of UnderstandingUnderstanding the Quran, not merely memorizing and reciting it in Arabic, is presented as a duty, with sincerity named as the only requirement for grasping it. The article challenges claims that recitation alone earns credit or that scholars must interpret, and warns against blindly following parents' religion. It cites verses calling the Quran a reminder meant for reflection, and compares reciters without understanding to parrots.November 24, 2020

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