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Quran Talk Blog
The Contact Prayers (Salat) Existed Before the Quran* (8:35)
Verse 8:35 shows that the contact prayers at the Ka'bah were already practiced, though mocked and misused, before the Quran was revealed. Dr. Khalifa's footnote explains that all religious practices of Submission came through Abraham and were already in existence when the Quran came, citing 21:73 and 22:78.
May 8, 2016
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The Disbelievers Blocked Out (8:21 – 8:23)
Verses 8:21 through 8:23 of the Quran warn against claiming to hear while refusing to listen. God calls such people the worst creatures, deaf and dumb, who do not understand. Had God known any good in them He would have made them hearers, yet even then they would turn away in aversion.
May 8, 2016
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The Righteous Do Not Really Die*
The righteous do not really die, according to verse 8:24 and its footnote pointing to Appendix 17: when they exit their bodies, they go straight to Heaven. The article also quotes verse 8:25, which warns that God's retribution may not be limited to the evildoers, with a footnote noting that a community tolerating homosexuality may be hit by an earthquake.
May 8, 2016
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Poverty Inc.
April 27, 2016
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God’s Invisible Solders (8:9)
God supports the believers with invisible soldiers, as in 8:9, where He answers their plea with one thousand angels in succession. The article sets this against 83:29 to 83:33, where the wicked mock the believers and claim they have no invisible guards.
April 18, 2016
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Lessons from History (8:12 – 8:16)
Verses 8:12 through 8:16 on God supporting the believers in battle are studied alongside related passages on war. The article asks whether God is always with the angels, explains His presence everywhere though He is not physically in this universe, and shows God throwing terror into the hearts of disbelievers. It closes with the rules of war: fighting only those who attack, never aggressing, and the basic rule in 60:8 and 60:9.
April 18, 2016
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Sura 8, The Spoils of War (Al-Anfãl)
A verse by verse study of Sura 8 that opens with the spoils of war, which belong to God and the messenger and must be shared righteously. Drawing on 59:7, 8:41 and 3:161, it traces the one fifth given to relatives, orphans, the poor, and the traveling alien, and asks how believers exhort one another to be righteous.
April 18, 2016
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The True Believers (8:2 – 8:4)
Quran 8:2 to 8:4 describes the true believers: hearts that tremble at God's mention, faith strengthened by His revelations, trust in God, the contact prayer, and charity. Sincerity is what counts beyond the outward practices, with verses on reverence, the Quran as the best Hadith, and the heart rejoicing in remembering God. A closing question asks whether personal charity or giving to an organization earns more credit.
April 18, 2016
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The Weak Believers (8:5 – 8:8)
Reluctant believers in Quran 8:5 to 8:8 who wanted to face the weaker group because they did not trust God's support. The article asks why falsehood persists if the truth shall prevail, answering that God's victory comes when He wills and that falsehood exists so true believers can recognize the truth. It also covers how the hypocrites are exposed, God's control over events, and why we were created.
April 18, 2016
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Victory Guaranteed for the Believers (8:10 – 8:11)
God's promise that victory comes only from Him, drawn from verses 8:10 and 8:11, where He reassures the believers with peaceful slumber, cleansing water from the sky, and protection from the devil. Verse 3:13 adds the example of two armies, one fighting in the cause of God, as assurance that He supports with His victory whomever He wills.
April 18, 2016
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Messengers Are Powerless; They Do Not Know the Future. (7:188)
God's messengers have no power to benefit or harm themselves and no knowledge of the future, as verse 7:188 declares. The messenger is only a warner and a bearer of good news for believers, and only what God wills happens to him.
April 11, 2016
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Our Children Can be Idols (7:189 – 7:206)
Quran 7:189 to 7:206 warns that parents who pray for a good baby can turn the child into an idol rivaling God. The verses expose idols as powerless creatures and command pardon, refuge from the devil, listening when the Quran is recited, and constant remembrance of God, with the footnote that your god is whatever occupies your mind most. Psalms 135 and 76:1 appear alongside.
April 11, 2016
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Satan Hypnotizes His Constituents (7:179 – 7:18)
Verses 7:179 through 7:187 describe those committed to Hell who have minds, eyes and ears yet remain unaware, and Satan's hold over his followers is likened to hypnosis, illustrated with videos of a mentalist and a faith healer. The article also asks what 7:187 means by the Hour being heavy in the heavens and the earth, noting its time was revealed in 1980 through God's Messenger of the Covenant.
April 11, 2016
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We Are Born With Instinctive Knowledge About God* (7:172 – 7:178)
Verses 7:172 through 7:178 teach that every human being is born with instinctive knowledge about God, so no one can claim ignorance or blame idolatrous parents on the Day of Resurrection. The study links this to 30:30 on strict monotheism as natural instinct, asks what proof the man in 7:175 disregarded, and explains the purposes of God's proofs through 74:31.
April 11, 2016
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April 4, 2016
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Miracles in Sinai (7:159)
Verse 7:159 of the Quran speaks of the guided Jews, those among the followers of Moses who guide in accordance with the truth and are made righteous by it. The article opens its study of the miracles in Sinai with this verse.
April 4, 2016
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Miracles in Sinai (7:160)
God's miracles for the Children of Israel in Sinai, as told in verse 7:160. Moses strikes the rock with his staff and twelve springs gush out, one for each of the twelve tribal communities. God shades them with clouds and sends manna and quails, and the verse notes that those who transgressed wronged only their own souls.
April 4, 2016
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Mocking and Ridiculing God’s Message (7:164 – 7:171)
Verses 7:164 to 7:171 and the question of how a group's response to preaching amounts to mocking God's message. Two readings are weighed: scorn for a messenger preaching to people deemed unbelievers, drawing on 6:51 and 6:52, or sarcasm aimed at the messengers, answered with Apologize to your Lord. The passage's warnings about upholding the scripture and the contact prayers frame the discussion.
April 4, 2016
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Observing The Commandments Brings Prosperity (7:163)
Observing God's commandments brings prosperity, illustrated by the Sabbath community by the sea, whose fish came abundantly only while they kept the Sabbath (7:163). Further verses show a prosperous community starved for being unappreciative of God's blessings, and the people of Jonah made prosperous once they believed. The Sabbath is presented as decreed only for those who disputed it.
April 4, 2016
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Rebellion Despite the Miracles (7:161 – 7:162)
The Children of Israel's refusal to enter the holy land, read through 7:161 and 7:162 alongside 2:58 and 2:59 and 5:21 through 5:26. Despite the miracles they saw, they lacked confidence in God, substituted other commands for His, and were forbidden the land for forty years. The article asks what those other commands were and argues that disobeying God means following another source.
April 4, 2016
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Requirements For Attaining God’s Mercy: The Importance of Zakat (7:156 – 7:158)
A study of 7:156 through 7:158 and the four conditions God sets for His mercy, chiefly the obligatory charity (Zakat): paying it on net income, as a self-employed person, and why loans are exempt. It also asks whether God's mercy reaches disbelievers, what following the messenger means, who the gentile prophet Muhammad is, and how the Quran was his miracle.
April 4, 2016
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Above All Else
A short video by Live Unbound, hosted on Vimeo and shared on the Quran Talk Blog. The post consists of the embedded video and its credit, with no accompanying written commentary.
March 28, 2016
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After All the Miracles (7:138 – 7:140)
Verses 7:138 to 7:140 describe the Children of Israel, just delivered across the sea, asking Moses for a statue to worship like the gods of people they passed. The article asks why they would want an idol after such blessings and compares it with people today who chase sins they know harm them. It also cites ancient DNA research on the Canaanites, among whom a golden calf idol was found.
March 28, 2016
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After All the Miracles (7:141)
Verse 7:141 reminds the Children of Israel that God delivered them from Pharaoh's people, who persecuted them by killing their sons and sparing their daughters. The article reflects on that persecution as an exacting trial from their Lord and on the deliverance that followed.
March 28, 2016
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Blessings in Disguise (7:94 – 7:95)
Hardship and prosperity as tests from God, drawn from Quranic verses beginning with 7:94 and 7:95, where communities afflicted with adversity are meant to implore Him. The verses show believing nations such as the people of Jonah made prosperous, the good reasons behind seemingly harmful acts in the story of 18:78 to 18:82, and communities punished for turning unappreciative of God's blessings.
March 28, 2016
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Divine Intervention Keeps the Disbelievers in the Dark (7:146 – 7:147)
A study of Quran 7:146 and 7:147, on how God diverts the arrogant from His revelations so that no proof convinces them. It asks what without justification means, contrasts arrogance with confidence in God, and draws on the owners of the garden who failed to say God willing. Further verses show God sealing hearts as the consequence of a choice to disbelieve.
March 28, 2016
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Moses (7:103 – 7:117)
Moses comes to Pharaoh as a messenger from the Lord of the universe, asking him to let the Children of Israel go, as told in verses 7:103 through 7:117 of the Quran. His staff becomes a serpent and his hand turns white, Pharaoh's leaders call him a magician, and the magicians they summon are promised payment. God then inspires Moses to throw his staff, which swallows what they fabricated.
March 28, 2016
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Most People Make the Wrong Choice (7:96 – 7:102)
Verses 7:96 to 7:102 teach that past communities who rejected their messengers lost blessings and had their hearts sealed, and that most people disregard their covenant with God. The article pairs them with verses such as 12:103 to 12:105, which say most people will not believe despite the proofs around them, and with the footnote calling this life our last chance to redeem ourselves.
March 28, 2016
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Our World Cannot Stand the Physical Presence of God (7:142 – 7:145)
Moses asks to see God in 7:142 to 7:145, and the mountain crumbles when God manifests Himself to it, showing that our world cannot stand His physical presence. The article draws a lesson that God can crumble our problems like mountains. It also ties the passage to the greatness of the Quran, God being beyond all visions, and the tablets given to Moses.
March 28, 2016
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The Golden Calf (7:148 – 7:155)
Study notes on Quran 7:148 to 7:155, the golden calf made while Moses was away, his anger at Aaron, and God's forgiveness for those who repent. The notes ask why the Samarian built the calf despite God's signs, explain that believers are inspired by God and disbelievers by the devil according to past deeds, and compare Moses' strength with Aaron's eloquence.
March 28, 2016
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The Inevitable Retribution (7:136 – 7:137)
God's retribution against Pharaoh and his people in 7:136 and 7:137, drowned for rejecting His signs while the oppressed Children of Israel inherit the land. The article asks when the Children of Israel were steadfast, reads harvest as everything earned, linking it to zakat in 6:141, and considers what the annihilation of Pharaoh's works meant for Egypt, warning of the ego that wakes when conditions change.
March 28, 2016
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The Plagues (7:130 – 7:132)
Pharaoh's people are afflicted with drought and shortage of crops so that they may take heed, as told in verses 7:130 through 7:132. When good comes they claim to deserve it, and when hardship strikes they blame Moses and those with him, though their omens are decided only by God. They vow never to believe, whatever sign is shown them.
March 28, 2016
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The Truth Recognized by the Experts (7:118 – 7:129)
Pharaoh's magicians recognize the truth of Moses' signs, fall prostrate, and believe in the Lord of Moses and Aaron despite Pharaoh's threats of crucifixion, praying to die as submitters. Verses 7:118 through 7:129 then show Pharaoh vowing to kill the sons of Moses' people, and Moses urging them to seek God's help and persevere, since the earth belongs to God.
March 28, 2016
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The Warnings Go Unheaded (7:133 – 7:135)
The plagues God sent upon Pharaoh's people in Quran 7:133 to 7:135, the flood, locusts, lice, frogs, and blood, and why God may have chosen these particular signs. The people plead with Moses for relief and promise to believe and free the Children of Israel, then break their pledge once each plague lifts. The article also considers habituation and how people grow used to relief.
March 28, 2016
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Lot: Homosexuality Condemned (7:80 – 7:84)
Lot's condemnation of his people's homosexuality is traced through 7:80 to 7:84, 27:54 to 27:58, 29:28 to 29:32 and 11:81, ending in the rescue of his family but not his wife. The article asks how tolerating bad behavior differs from freedom of expression, citing 8:25 on collective retribution. Appendix 36 lists the traits of a nation that upholds God's laws.
March 14, 2016
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Saaleh (7:73 – 7:74)
Saaleh's mission to Thamoud in verses 7:73 and 7:74, and whether GOD's camel was a miracle, a test, or both. Related verses show messengership itself as an essential test, the camel's water rights and slaying, and the people calling their messengers bad omens. Links on homes carved from rock, including Petra, accompany the verses about mansions carved from mountains.
March 14, 2016
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Shu`aib: Cheating, Dishonesty Condemned (7:85 – 7:93)
Shu`aib's mission to Midyan in 7:85 to 7:93 calls his people to worship God alone, give full weight and measure, and stop cheating others out of their rights, until the quake destroys those who reject him. The study asks what not corrupting the earth after it has been set straight means and compares 11:84 to 11:95 and 83:1 to 83:3. Videos on eminent domain, civil forfeiture, money, and inflation follow.
March 14, 2016
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The Message: Proof of Messengership (7:75 – 7:79)
Saaleh's story in Quran 7:75 to 7:79 shows that the message, not the miracle, is what makes believers. Study notes ask whether the advice in 7:79 differs from the message, why Thamoud slaughtered God's camel and demanded retribution, and how a quake and lightning both struck them, with parallel verses from Suras 11, 26, 27 and 51 showing that God protects the believers.
March 14, 2016
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Hud (7:65 – 7:69) &; Following the Parents Blindly: A Human Tragedy (7:70 – 7:72)
Hood's mission to `Aad in 7:65 to 7:72 and their refusal to abandon what their parents worshiped, read alongside 2:170 on blindly following parents. Using Appendix 2, the article lists the Quran's criteria for telling God's messenger from a false messenger. It also takes up whether a sincere misreading of the Quran makes one an innovator, citing 3:7, 16:119, David's repentance, and 9:11.
March 7, 2016
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Noah (7:59 – 7:64)
Noah's mission to his people in 7:59 to 7:64 frames the question of how someone without education can tell God's messenger from a false one. Recognizing the truth depends on sincerity, not intellect, and is likened to the difference between seeing and blindness. Verses from Suras 26, 56, 2, and 6 show that only the sincere can grasp the Quran.
March 7, 2016
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Quran: Fully Detailed (7:52 – 7:58)
A study of Quran 7:52 to 7:58 presents the Quran as a fully detailed scripture holding all we need for salvation, with cross references to related verses. It discusses the allegorical six days of creation and their 19 based count, how to worship God publicly under oppression, and the good and bad land as an image of our works and of appreciative people.
March 7, 2016
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By God’s Grace (7:43 – 7:47)
A reflection on verses 7:43 to 7:47, where God removes all jealousy from the hearts of Paradise's dwellers, who credit their guidance to God alone. It asks why jealousy, of all traits, is singled out, drawing on 2:105 and 15:47, and also covers the exchange between Paradise and Hell and the people of the Purgatory.
February 29, 2016
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Messengers From Among You (7:35 – 7:37)
Messengers sent from among the people to recite God's revelations, and the disbelievers who reject them and later bear witness against themselves, drawn from 7:35 to 7:37 with related verses. Angels as messengers at death, idols disowning their worshipers, and hidden arrogance follow, with Abraham's opponents and Pharaoh's magicians as examples of how God guides those who choose guidance.
February 29, 2016
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Mutual Blaming (7:38 – 7:39)
Quranic verses on the mutual blaming between followers and leaders in Hell, centered on 7:38 and 7:39, where each generation curses its predecessors and asks God to double their retribution. Related passages from 38:61, 14:21, and 47:34 describe the followers pleading with their leaders on the Day of Resurrection and God's refusal to forgive those who die as disbelievers.
February 29, 2016
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Rejecting God’s Revelations: An Unforgivable Offence (7:40 – 7:42)
Verses 7:40 to 7:42 warn that those who arrogantly reject God's revelations will never enter Paradise, while believers who lead a righteous life abide in it forever. Supporting verses address idol worship nullifying all works, idolatry as the sin God does not forgive, and God never burdening a soul beyond its means. The piece asks what it means that the gates of the sky will never open for them.
February 29, 2016
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The Majority Doomed (7:48 – 7:51)
The Purgatory and its dwellers take the lead, through verses 7:48 to 7:51 and 9:102, which describe people who mixed good deeds with bad and are finally admitted into Paradise. Excerpts from Dr. Khalifa's appendices explain that descriptions of Heaven and Hell are allegorical, how the High Heaven differs from the Lower Heaven, and how souls are stratified on the Day of Resurrection.
February 29, 2016
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Beware: They Believe that They Are Guided (7:30)
Self examination for believers, since even those who stray believe they are guided, as verse 7:30 warns. Drawing on the Quran, the article explains that following anything other than the word of God means following the devil, describes the self deception of the hypocrites, and answers how one can know he is on the right path: God guides the sincere, and only the sincere can grasp the Quran.
February 23, 2016
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Dress Nicely For the Masjid (7:31)
Verse 7:31 of the Quran instructs the children of Adam to be clean and dress nicely when going to the masjid, and to eat and drink moderately because God does not love the gluttons. A short reflection draws from it that God wants believers to be in good shape and well dressed.
February 23, 2016
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