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Quran Talk BlogShu’aib (26:176 – 26:191)The messenger Shu'aib's call to the People of the Woods and to Midyan is gathered from the Quran, chiefly 26:176 to 26:191 with parallels in suras 7, 11 and 29. He urges them to worship GOD alone, give full measure and weight, and stop cheating and corrupting the earth. They mock and threaten him, and the quake destroys them while he and the believers are saved.August 13, 2018

Quran Talk BlogSura 27: The Ant (Al-Naml)Sura 27 of the Quran, The Ant, in Rashad Khalifa's translation, opening with the initials T. S. as proofs of the Quran, a beacon and good news for believers who observe the contact prayers, give the obligatory charity, and are certain of the Hereafter. It warns that those who disbelieve in the Hereafter blunder on and become the worst losers. A footnote points to Appendix 1 on the Quranic initials.August 13, 2018

Quran Talk BlogThe Quran (26:192 – 26:197)Verses 26:192 to 26:197 describe the Quran as a revelation brought down by the Honest Spirit, Gabriel. The article asks why Gabriel is called honest and whether he is an angel, citing 2:98, 66:4, and Appendix 2 on Gabriel informing Dr. Khalifa of 36:3. It then shows the Quran consummating all scriptures, prophesied in previous books and known to the scholars of the Children of Israel.August 13, 2018

Quran Talk BlogThe Quran Must Be Translated (26:198-26:209)The Quran must be translated, the article argues from 26:198 to 26:209, because people who do not know Arabic could not believe it recited only in Arabic. Verses such as 41:44 and 14:4 show that language is irrelevant, since the Quran guides believers in any tongue. It links the vast resources of 26:207 to Middle Eastern oil and presents Rashad as a warner before retribution.August 13, 2018

Quran Talk BlogThey Will Disown Their Idols (26:92 – 26:104)Idol worshipers on the Day of Judgment face the question of where their idols are, and they disown them, confessing they were far astray and wishing for another chance. The passage, Quran 26:92 to 26:104, notes they have no intercessors or close friends. Abraham appears as the contrast, an exemplary monotheist in submission to God who never worshiped idols (16:120 to 16:122).August 13, 2018

Quran Talk BlogMoses (26:10 – 26:45)Moses is sent by God with his brother Aaron to Pharaoh, told to speak to him nicely and demand that he let the Children of Israel go. Verses 26:10 to 26:45 trace Pharaoh's challenge about the Lord of the universe, the staff and the white hand, and the contest with the magicians. Related verses on reminding, God's support of His messengers, and profound miracles accompany the passage.May 14, 2018

Quran Talk BlogSura 26: The Poets (Al-Shu‘arã’) (26:00 – 26:4)Notes on the opening verses of Sura 26, The Poets, covering the letters T. S. M. as proofs of the scripture and the word ayat as both verse and miracle, with reference to Moses' nine miracles. It explains the sura's name through 26:221 to 226, links the sign of 26:4 to the smoke of sura 44, and touches on why Jewish men cover their heads.May 14, 2018

Quran Talk BlogThe Experts See the Truth (26:46 – 26:52)Pharaoh's magicians fall prostrate and believe in the Lord of Moses and Aaron, holding firm under threat of crucifixion, and the piece asks why these experts saw the truth so quickly while the Children of Israel, despite many miracles, produced only two believers who would enter the holy land. It also turns to 5:33 on when capital punishment is justified.May 14, 2018

Quran Talk BlogThe Inevitable Retribution (26:57 – 26:68)Pharaoh's downfall in Sura 26:57 to 68, where God strips him of his gardens and treasures, parts the sea for Moses, and drowns the pursuers. The article sets Pharaoh's claim to godhood against his mortality, links Moses' trust that God is with him to the messenger in the cave supported by invisible soldiers (9:40), and compares the account with the plagues and departure in Exodus 9, 10, and 12.May 14, 2018

Quran Talk BlogThe Quran’s Mathematical Code (26:5 – 26:9)Verses 26:5 through 26:9 frame the Quran's mathematical code as a new reminder from the Most Gracious that most people turn away from in aversion. Drawing on 6:111, disbelief is presented as a consequence of people's own decision, since no miracle, angel, or proof can make them believe unless God wills it.May 14, 2018

Quran Talk BlogGod’s Evidence is Overwhelming (25:33 – 25:40)God answers every argument of the disbelievers with the truth and a better understanding, as verses 25:33 through 25:40 show. The passage recalls Moses and Aaron, Noah, ʻÃd, Thamûd, the people of Al-Russ and Sodom, each given sufficient examples before annihilation. Related verses add that God possesses the most powerful argument and that the rejectors never believed in resurrection.May 13, 2018

Quran Talk BlogGod’s Messenger of the Covenant (25:27 – 25:32)Verses 25:27 to 25:32 and their footnote, which reads Rashad Khalifa's name, coded mathematically as a multiple of 19, into the messenger who says his people deserted this Quran. Further verses address God's Messenger of the Covenant, social pressure and harmful friendships, hadith and sunna as fabrications by the prophet's enemies, and the Quran as the only source.May 13, 2018

Quran Talk BlogInfinite Blessings From God (25:45 – 25:57)Verses 25:45 to 25:57 present God's blessings in the shadow and sun, night and day, wind, rain, the barrier between fresh and salty seas, and human creation from water, with notes on the sun, the moon, and solar eclipses. The 19 based value of Rashad Khalifa in 25:56 is shown, and cross references cover daily death and resurrection, the Big Bang, and the origin of man.May 13, 2018

Quran Talk BlogMessengers Ridiculed (25:41 – 25:42)Verses 25:41 and 25:42 describe disbelievers ridiculing a messenger and boasting that they steadfastly persevered with their gods. Related verses show that every messenger before has been ridiculed, that messengers are human beings who eat food and walk in the markets, and that God tests people through each other and punishes those who challenge His revelations.May 13, 2018

Quran Talk BlogThe Ego as a god (25:43 – 25:44)Following one's own ego or opinion as a god is presented as a common form of idolatry, drawn from 25:43 and 25:44 and related verses. The article sets this against divine revelation as the source of all knowledge, delivered through God's messengers, and compares those who follow their own opinions to animals, or worse, led astray by Satan and bound for Hell.May 13, 2018

Quran Talk BlogThe Prophets and the Saints Are Dead (25:58 – 25:59)Trust belongs to God, the One who is Alive and never dies, while prophets and saints are dead and unaware of their resurrection. Drawing on 25:58 and 16:20, the article argues that idolizing them sets up gods beside God. Citing 39:30 and 3:144 on Muhammad's death, it rejects as blasphemy the hadith claims that he lives on.May 13, 2018

Quran Talk BlogTraits of the Righteous (25:63 – 25:77)The traits of the righteous described in Sura 25:63 to 77, gathered with related Quran verses on the qualities of believers and submitters. Topics include gentleness, night meditation, moderate giving, forgiveness and standing up for rights, humility, responding to the devil's whispers, what to give in charity, the major commandments of Sura 6, and repentance that wipes the slate clean.May 13, 2018

Quran Talk BlogGrowth Requires SacrificeApril 25, 2018

Quran Talk BlogMessengers Are Just Human Beings (25:20 – 25:26)Messengers as ordinary human beings who eat food and walk in the markets, read through Quran 25:20 to 25:26 alongside related verses. Rejecting a human messenger and demanding angels is presented as arrogance and a test from God, followed by the Day when angels descend and the disbelievers' works are nullified. The Quran stands as the ultimate reference, confirming and superseding previous scriptures.April 25, 2018

Quran Talk BlogRetribution for the Disbelievers (25:12 – 25:14)Hell's rage and fuming as it sees the disbelievers from afar, and their many remorses when they are thrown into it shackled through a narrow place, as described in 25:12 to 25:14. Verse 3:91 adds that those who die as disbelievers cannot ransom themselves even with an earthful of gold, and they will have no helpers.April 25, 2018

Quran Talk BlogReward for the Righteous (25:15 – 25:19)Verses 25:15 through 25:19 contrast eternal Paradise, promised to the righteous as their well deserved reward, with the fate of those who set up idols beside God. The commentary notes that 25:18 shows the idols themselves are righteous servants who deny misleading anyone, while their worshipers, having enjoyed life and disregarded the message, incur severe retribution.April 25, 2018

Quran Talk BlogSura 25: The Statute Book (Al-Furqãn)Sura 25 opens with God revealing the Statute Book to His servant as a warning to the whole world, and with His sole sovereignty over creation. The post asks what a Statute Book is, citing the one given to Moses and Aaron, and reflects on God creating everything in exact measure, from renewable provisions on spaceship Earth to the counting of all things.April 25, 2018

Quran Talk BlogThe Disbelievers Rebutted by the Quran’s Mathematical Code (25:4 – 25:6)Verses 25:4 through 25:6 record the disbelievers' claim that Muhammad fabricated the Quran with outside help, and God's reply that the Quran's mathematical code, a secret guarded for 1400 years and unveiled by God's Messenger of the Covenant, answers them. The article also notes Muhammad's literacy and uses 16:103 to rebut the claim that the Quran was copied from the Bible.April 25, 2018

Quran Talk BlogThe Real Reason (25:11)Disbelief in the Hour, the Day of Resurrection, is the real reason people reject the message, according to verses 25:11 and 25:40 of the Quran. Those who pass by the ruins of Sodom without taking heed, the verses say, never believed in resurrection, and God has prepared a flaming Hell for those who disbelieve in the Hour.April 25, 2018

Quran Talk BlogTypical Utterances of Disbelievers (25:7 – 25:10)Disbelievers' objections in 25:7 to 25:10 to a messenger who eats food, walks in the markets, and has no angel or treasure are compared with similar demands in 17:90 to 17:95 and 6:8. The verses set beside them teach that messengers are human, that revelation comes from God, and that mocking belief in God leads people astray, closing with God's messenger of the covenant.April 25, 2018

Quran Talk BlogWas Prophet Muhammad Infallible?Quranic verses show that God's messengers, Muhammad included, are humans who are tested and make mistakes, and that believers make no distinction among them. Muhammad's errors appear in the Quran's own account: frowning at the blind man, excusing those who stayed behind from war, prohibiting what God made lawful, and hiding God's command about Zeid's wife. The article warns that idolizing the prophet attributes lies to God.April 25, 2018

Quran Talk BlogBe Sure Your Meal is Lawful (24:61 – 24:64)A study of Quran 24:61 to 24:64, on eating in the homes of relatives and friends, greeting one another with God's greeting, and asking the messenger's permission before leaving a community meeting. It asks why the messenger seeks forgiveness for those who leave and why the meeting matters, drawing on 40:7, 24:27 to 29, 48:17, 6:54, and 9:90, and on the note linking 24:62 to the messenger of the covenant.April 17, 2018

Quran Talk BlogBelievers Unhesitatingly Obey God and His Messenger (24:51 – 24:54)Verses 24:51 to 24:54 frame a compilation of Quranic passages on obeying God and His messenger without hesitation, with total submission as the mark of true believers. Further verses show that God's tests are never unreasonable, that the messenger's sole duty is to deliver the message, and that hypocrites in Muhammad's era were exposed when mobilization was called for.April 17, 2018

Quran Talk BlogEtiquette Two Prayers Mentioned by Name (24:58 – 24:59)Verses 24:58 and 24:59 set the etiquette of asking permission before entering private rooms: servants and children ask at three private times, while children who reach puberty ask as adults do. The passage notes that the Dawn Prayer and the Night Prayer are the two prayers mentioned by name, and it links these verses to the divine etiquette of entering homes in 24:27 to 24:29.April 17, 2018

Quran Talk BlogFormula for Success (24:56 – 24:57)Verses 24:56 and 24:57 set out a formula for attaining God's mercy: observing the contact prayers, giving the obligatory charity, and obeying the messenger, while those who disbelieve do not escape Hell. Related verses add patience, praising and glorifying God throughout the day and night, and upholding the scripture rather than choosing the worldly life.April 17, 2018

Quran Talk BlogGod Sends Instructions Through His Messenger (24:47 – 24:50)Obeying the messenger, read through 24:47 to 24:50, means accepting God's instructions delivered through His messengers rather than embracing judgment only when it favors us. The article draws on verses about the sedentary who sought excuses, the jinns' limited knowledge, and 42:51 on how God communicates. It cites Appendix 2 on the messenger of the covenant as mercy from God that resolves believers' disputes.April 17, 2018

Quran Talk BlogGod’s Promise Kings and Queens on Earth (24:55)God's promise in 24:55 to make believers who worship Him alone sovereigns on earth, replacing fear with peace and security. Verses on the earth's balance, the Sabbath community by the sea, and the righteous inheriting the earth tie observing the commandments, the contact prayer and obligatory charity to prosperity and a happy life now and in the Hereafter, alongside videos on rational optimism.April 17, 2018

Quran Talk BlogYou Shall Dress Modestly (24:60)Modest dress as a command of God, drawn from verse 24:60 of the Quran. The verse allows elderly women who do not expect to marry to relax their dress code, provided they do not reveal too much of their bodies, while noting that maintaining modesty is better for them.April 17, 2018

Quran Talk BlogChasing A Mirage (24:39)The works of those who disbelieve are like a mirage in the desert, and verses of the Quran show how evil deeds come to look righteous. The parable of the two men and the gardens shows a man who set up his property as a god beside his Lord. Further verses describe this worldly life as a temporary illusion and the hypocrites seeking light on the Day of Judgment.April 9, 2018

Quran Talk BlogEncourage Marriage to Discourage Immorality (24:32 – 24:34)Marriage as a safeguard against immorality, drawn from Quran 24:32 to 24:34 with related verses 4:25 and 3:75. The verses urge believers to help single people marry, call those who cannot afford it to maintain morality until God provides, permit marrying believing servants, grant servants freedom to marry once found honest, and forbid forcing girls into prostitution.April 9, 2018

Quran Talk BlogExile From God: Total Darkness (24:40 – 24:46)The allegory of total darkness in Sura 24:40 to 24:46 and what it means to be deprived of God's light, read alongside Matthew 6:22 to 23 and verses on blindness in this life and the Hereafter. Cross references show that everything in the heavens and the earth glorifies and prostrates to God, from birds in columns to the sun and stars, and that God created every living thing from water.April 9, 2018

Quran Talk BlogGod (24:35 – 24:36)God as the light of the heavens and the earth, explored through the allegory of the lamp in 24:35 and the exalted houses of 24:36, with supporting verses on God's oneness and fuel from green trees. The oil that needs no fire is compared to diesel ignition and to Copaifera langsdorffii, the diesel tree.April 9, 2018

Quran Talk BlogThose Who Frequent the Masjid (24:37 – 24:38)Frequenting the masjid, drawn from verses 24:37 and 24:38 about people whom business and trade do not distract from commemorating God, observing the Contact Prayers, and giving the obligatory charity. Related verses warn against boycotting God's masjids and describe believers who are reverently conscious of their Lord and eager to do righteous works.April 9, 2018

Quran Talk BlogDivine Etiquette (24:27 – 24:29)Quran verses on the etiquette of entering homes: asking permission, greeting the inhabitants, and turning back when told to go. Further verses cover visiting the prophet's homes, the three private times when servants and children must ask before entering, modest dress for elderly women, and eating lawfully in the homes of relatives and friends.April 3, 2018

Quran Talk BlogDress Code for Believers (24:30 – 24:31)The dress code God sets for believing men and women in 24:30 and 24:31: subduing the eyes, maintaining chastity, and dressing modestly, with women lengthening their garments and covering their chests. The article rejects the Arab tradition of covering women from head to toe as un-Quranic, lists those around whom the code may relax, and links guarding the eyes to light and darkness through Matthew 6 and 24:40.April 3, 2018

Quran Talk BlogGross Sin (24:23 – 24:26)Falsely accusing pious married women is a gross sin, and 24:23 to 24:26 promise condemnation and the witness of tongues, hands, and feet. The article traces the record of every life, likened to a video tape, received in the right or left hand on the Day of Resurrection. It asks whether thoughts are recorded and how repentance, the contact prayers, and charity clean the slate.April 3, 2018

Quran Talk BlogThe Devil Encourages Baseless Accusations (24:21 – 24:22)Verses 24:21 and 24:22 warn against following the steps of Satan, who advocates evil, and command those with wealth to be charitable and tolerant toward relatives, the poor, and immigrants for the sake of God. Related verses explain that God never advocates sin, that relatives should care for one another, and that believers should seek refuge in God when the devil whispers.April 3, 2018

Quran Talk BlogAdultery (24:2 – 24:10)Adultery and its penalty under God's law in 24:2 to 24:10, read alongside 4:15 and 5:38, with public witnessing as the real punishment and the lashes symbolic. The article covers the four witness rule, the oaths between accusing spouses, and repentance. It asks whether a believer may marry someone who committed adultery, weighing 24:3 and the prohibition on marrying idol worshipers.March 27, 2018

Quran Talk BlogHow to Deal With Rumors and Unproven Accusations (24:11 – 24:15)Rumors and unproven accusations are examined through 24:11 to 24:15 and the big lie against the Prophet's wife Aysha. The article asks why the incident was good for the believers, suggesting it exposed the hypocrites, and draws on the story of Joseph, the requirement of four witnesses, and God's command in 17:36 and 49:6 to verify and investigate news before believing it.March 27, 2018

Quran Talk BlogSura 24: Light (Al-Noor)Sura 24, Light, opens as a sura God has sent down and decreed as law, with clear revelations so that people may take heed. The text presents the sura verse by verse in Dr. Rashad Khalifa's translation of the Quran, beginning with the opening invocation of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.March 27, 2018

Quran Talk BlogWhat to Do (24:16 – 24:20)Verses 24:16 to 24:20 instruct believers to reject a gross falsehood when they hear it and warn those who love to see immorality spread among them. The piece asks whether a Submitter is responsible only for his own salvation or also owes something to society, drawing on 103:3 and its call to exhort one another to uphold the truth and be steadfast.March 27, 2018

Quran Talk BlogMost Believers are Destined for Hell* (23:84 – 23:96)Belief in God that does not recognize His qualities, such as His control of all things, is nullified by idolizing prophets and saints, so most believers are destined for Hell. Drawing on 23:84 through 23:96, 12:103 to 106, and 29:61 to 63, the article asks how one knows God truly. It also urges patience and gentleness toward those who reject the message.March 19, 2018

Quran Talk BlogThe Dead Never Come Back Until the Day of Resurrection (23:99 – 23:108)A barrier separates the soul of the dead from this world until the Day of Resurrection, and the plea to be sent back to work righteousness is a false claim. Drawing on 23:99 to 23:108 with related verses, the article covers the weighing of deeds, the severing of all ties and intercessors on that day, and the fate of those who rejected God's revelations.March 19, 2018

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