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Quran Talk Blog
Zul-Qarnain: The One With the Two Horns or Two Generations (18:83 – 18:93)
Zul-Qarnain's journeys in 18:83 to 18:93, west to the setting sun, east to the rising sun, and to the valley between two palisades, with the meaning of his name as two horns or two generations. The article draws parallels with Moses and his teacher and with the people of the cave, and suggests Gog and Magog lie in a comatose state until 2270 AD.
September 4, 2017
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There is a Good Reason for Everything (18:78 – 18:82)
God's wisdom behind seemingly harsh events, drawn from Moses's teacher explaining the damaged ship, the boy, and the wall in 18:78 to 18:82. The notes point to property rights, God's care for the children of the righteous, and the footnote's example of Adolf Hitler as a child. They also argue that the teacher's words we saw and We willed suggest he was an angel in human form.
August 28, 2017
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Valuable Lessons from Moses and His Teacher (18:60 – 18:77)
Moses' journey with the servant blessed with God's knowledge in 18:60 through 18:77, asking when in Moses' life it happened and suggesting it came before he became a prophet. Moses' failure to say GOD willing may explain missing the meeting place, which leads into remembering God at every chance, the devil causing forgetfulness, and the principle that God is never questioned about what He does.
August 28, 2017
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Classification of God’s Creatures (18:50 – 18:53)
Verses 18:50 to 18:53 and Dr. Khalifa's footnotes explain how the great feud in the heavenly society classified all creatures into angels, jinns, and humans, with Satan becoming a jinn through disobedience. God excludes Satan and his supporters from witnessing creation. Related verses 28:64 and 23:100 describe idols failing their worshipers on the Day of Judgment and the barrier that awaits the guilty.
August 21, 2017
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Disbelievers Refuse to Accept the Completeness of the Quran (18:54 – 18:56)
Verses 18:54 to 18:56 and 17:89 to 17:95 describe how disbelievers reject the Quran, which cites every kind of example, by arguing and demanding miracles like those of earlier generations. The article covers the challenges put to God's messengers and their reply that they are only human messengers, and it presents messengership itself as an essential test.
August 21, 2017
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Divine Intervention (18:57 – 18:59)
Verses 18:57 through 18:59 on God placing shields on the hearts of those who disregard His proofs, while His mercy grants them respite until a predetermined time. Related passages on God diverting the arrogant from His revelations, the righteous not really dying, and the dead never returning to this world until the Day of Resurrection.
August 21, 2017
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Rearranging Our Priorities (18:46 – 18:49)
Verses 18:46 through 18:49 frame money and children as the joys of this life, set against righteous works and the Day of Judgment. The study asks whether a troubled relationship with a spouse or children signals wrongdoing, citing Jacob and verses 25:74 and 64:14. It then turns to the record of every deed, drawing on 17:13, 17:58, 78:29, and 4:147.
August 21, 2017
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Author Douglas Axe presents his book “Undeniable”
August 16, 2017
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Absolute Freedom of Religion (18:29 – 18:31)
Freedom of religion in the Quran, drawn from 18:29 through 18:31, where God leaves each person free to believe or disbelieve and sets the recompense for each choice. Related verses on no compulsion in religion (2:256, 109, 6:107) follow, along with the graphic, symbolic description of Hell in 22:19 through 22:22 and the note that Heaven and Hell are almost always mentioned together.
August 14, 2017
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Important Commandment (18:39 – 18:45)
The commandment in 18:39 to acknowledge that whatever we have is what God has given and that no one possesses power except God, illustrated by the parable of the destroyed garden. Verses on God's total power and knowledge follow, with water as a recurring sign: its surface tension, its return to the sky, and this worldly life as rain turned to hay in 18:45 and 57:20.
August 14, 2017
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Property as an Idol (18:31 – 18:38)
Property as an idol, through the parable in Sura 18 of two men, one boasting of his gardens and doubting the Hour while his friend declares God alone his Lord. A footnote lists other gods people set up beside God, such as children, religious leaders, dead saints and the ego. The owners of the ruined garden in Sura 68 who failed to say God willing follow, then 16:125 on inviting others with wisdom.
August 14, 2017
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Quranic Study Groups (18:28)
Verse 18:28 and the question of whether its command to stay with those who worship their Lord applies to every social gathering of believers or to Quranic study groups. Verses on believers as one family, bowing down with those who bow down, choosing friends among believers rather than disbelievers, studying the Quran carefully, and frequenting God's masjids frame the answer.
August 14, 2017
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[300 + 9]* (18:25 – 18:27)
Verses 18:25 to 18:27 tell how the people of the cave stayed three hundred years increased by nine, the gap between 300 solar and 300 lunar years. The article links this to the end of the world being discovered in 1980 AD and notes that three is the 309th word of the cave story. It also observes that people who wanted to destroy idols were themselves turned into idols.
August 7, 2017
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A Guiding Teacher is a Prerequisite (18:17 – 18:20)
Verses 18:17 to 18:20 on the sleepers of the cave introduce the idea that God guides and that every community receives a guiding teacher. Believers who guided without being messengers, such as Zul-Qurnain, the believing Egyptian, Luqman, and Moses' teacher, serve as examples. Dating from the Nicene Conference places the sleepers' awakening around 625 AD, matching the timing of this revelation to Muhammad.
August 7, 2017
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Connection With the End of the World* (18:21 – 18:22)
Verses 18:21 and 18:22 describe God causing the people of the cave to be discovered so that everyone knows His promise is true and all doubt about the end of the world is removed. The footnote points to Appendix 25, where this story helps pinpoint the end of the world. Verse 43:61 follows, presenting Jesus as a marker for knowing the end of the world.
August 7, 2017
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Remembering God Every Chance We Get (18:23)
Saying God willing before any statement about the future, as commanded in 18:23 and 18:24, is a daily chance to remember God. Drawing on Appendix 27, the article holds that your god is whatever occupies your mind most, and lists habits that keep God foremost: the contact prayers, mentioning God before eating, saying This is God's gift, and glorifying Him. James 4:13 to 17 offers a parallel.
August 7, 2017
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Sura 18, The Cave (Al-Kahf) (18:1 – 18:6)
The opening verses of Sura 18, The Cave, praise God for revealing a flawless scripture that warns of retribution and gives good news to righteous believers. They condemn the claim that God has begotten a son as a gross lie. A note points out that the word for narration in 18:6 is hadith in the Arabic.
August 7, 2017
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The Dwellers of the Cave (18:9 – 18:15)
The people of the cave in 18:9 through 18:15, the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, whose history connects to the end of the world. The article links God sealing their ears in 18:11 to sleep and death, drawing on 39:68, 30:23, 2:19, and 10:67 about the blowing of the horn, the Day of Resurrection, and sleep as a proof for those who can hear.
August 7, 2017
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The End of the World (18:7 – 18:8)
The end of the world is presented through Appendix 25 of Dr. Rashad Khalifa's translation, starting from 18:7 and 18:8. It lists the Quran's signs of the approaching end, including the splitting of the moon, the 19 based code, the computer as the creature, and the messenger of the covenant. It then shows how the Quranic Initials' gematrical total of 1709 points to the year 1710 AH, or 2280 AD.
August 7, 2017
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The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (18:16)
The youths of the cave in Sura 18, known as the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, who seek refuge in a cave to avoid their people's worship of other than God. Starting from verse 18:16, the article asks who is speaking in 18:19 and whether it is the guiding teacher.
August 7, 2017
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Moses and Pharaoh (17:101 – 17:104)
Moses and Pharaoh as told in verses 17:101 through 17:104 of the Quran: the nine profound miracles God gave Moses, Pharaoh's charge that Moses was bewitched, Pharaoh's drowning with his followers, and the command to the Children of Israel to live in the land until the final prophecy. Verse 29:50 is added, stating that all miracles come only from God.
July 24, 2017
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The Quran Released Slowly To Facilitate Memorization (17:105 – 17:110)
God sent the Quran down all at once yet released it to Muhammad gradually, so he could read it to the people over a long period and fix it in memory. Verses 17:105 to 17:110 are set beside 25:32, 53:1 to 53:18 on the divine inspiration, and 20:114, with a note on prostration in Jewish prayer and those with prior scripture falling to their chins.
July 24, 2017
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Tone of the Contact Prayers (Salat) (17:111)
The tone of the contact prayers (Salat), which God commands be uttered neither too loudly nor secretly but in a moderate tone. It questions the traditional practice of praying Zuhr and Asr silently, then turns to the proclamation that God has never begotten a son. It notes that the first edition Revised Standard Version omitted begotten from the verses of John.
July 24, 2017
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God Is My Witness (17:96 – 17:97)
God as the sufficient witness between the messenger and those who deny him, drawn from 17:96 and 13:43, alongside God's sole authority to guide or send astray. The article links these verses to a guiding teacher in 18:17 and to Appendix 32, where Dr. Khalifa states that his message is a duty as God's Messenger of the Covenant, not personal opinion.
July 17, 2017
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God’s Messengers Challenged (17:90 – 17:93)
Disbelievers' demands that messengers produce springs, gardens, mansions, masses from the sky, or a book they can read, with the footnote applying these challenges to Rashad Khalifa, God's Messenger of the Covenant. Verses stress that messengers are only human and that demanded miracles never produce belief. A closing section on the prophecy of the smoke gathers verses about masses falling from the sky.
July 17, 2017
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Mathematical Composition of the Quran (17:88 – 17:89)
The challenge of 17:88 that no one can produce a Quran like this one, read alongside verses where God cites every kind of example. The numbers of those verses add up to a multiple of 19, and the word Quran, excluding 10:15's reference to another Quran, occurs 57 times. A table of suras and verses containing the word gives sums that are also multiples of 19.
July 17, 2017
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Messengership: An Essential Test (17:94 – 17:95)
God's choice of human beings as messengers is a test, and people throughout history have rejected guidance because it came through a man like them. Drawing on verses such as 17:94 to 17:95, 6:9 and 25:20, the article explains why an angel messenger would not suit humans on earth. It compares this blindness to the Joshua Bell experiment, where commuters passed a great violinist without recognizing him.
July 17, 2017
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Their Innermost Thoughts (17:98 – 17:100)
Verses 17:98 to 17:100 frame a study of human stinginess and the disbelievers' denial of resurrection, set against verses on God's inexhaustible provisions and bounties. A section on jealousy condemned gathers verses on hidden arrogance and the innermost thoughts God knows. It asks what the human being truly desires, drawing on a lesson on population and Malthus and the 5 Whys technique for finding root causes.
July 17, 2017
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Divine Revelation: The Source of All Knowledge (17:85 – 17:87)
Divine revelation as the sole source of knowledge, drawn from 17:85 to 17:87, where human knowledge is called minute and God can take back what He reveals. Verses gathered with it teach that wisdom and the knowledge of the Hour belong to God, that everything comes from God, and that those whose god is their ego go astray despite their knowledge.
July 10, 2017
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Healing and Mercy (17:82 – 17:84)
Verses 17:82 to 17:84 describe the Quran as healing and mercy for the believers while it increases the wickedness of the transgressors. Through related verses, the article asks how the same revelation can guide some and push others deeper into disbelief. It traces the answer to arrogance, violating the covenant, and the principle that God guides people according to their own belief and will.
July 10, 2017
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Meditation (17:79 – 17:81)
Night meditation as a source of extra credit and honorable rank, drawn from 17:79 through 17:81. The article reflects on why the prayer for an honorable admittance comes before an honorable departure, suggesting one may enter God's Kingdom on earth before death, and links 73:6 on the greater effectiveness of meditation at night and 21:18 on truth defeating falsehood.
July 10, 2017
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The Noon Prayer (17:78)
The noon contact prayer, observed when the sun declines from its highest point, is presented through verse 17:78 with its command to recite the Quran at dawn. Further verses describe righteous followers of the scripture who recite God's revelations through the night, God's pardon allowing believers to read what they can of the Quran, and jinns who heard the Quran.
July 10, 2017
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Marib Dam & The Homeland of Sheba
Sheba's homeland and its two gardens, as described in Quran 34:15 to 34:19, and the disastrous flood God sent when its people turned away and became unappreciative. The verses are paired with references on the Marib Dam and a documentary segment on ancient Persia and the Arabian Peninsula, connecting the Quranic account to the historical site.
July 6, 2017
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Bad Weather Friends (17:67 – 17:72)
Verses 17:67 to 17:72 and related passages show people who implore God alone when storms at sea or other adversity strike, then revert to idolatry once saved. Grouped verses also cover fair weather believers and hypocrites, the vanity of this worldly life against the Hereafter, the fate of tyrants, and the allegory of total darkness for those whom God deprives of light.
July 3, 2017
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God Strengthens the Messenger (17:73 – 17:77)
Peer pressure and the temptation to compromise, which even God's messengers faced, read through 17:73 to 17:77 and God's strengthening of the messenger. Related verses show Muhammad forbidden from issuing teachings or explaining the Quran, doubled retribution for those with special responsibility, and social pressure as a disaster, with examples from Jonah, Moses, and Abraham.
July 3, 2017
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Old Kind of Miracles Made Obsolete (17:59 – 17:60)
God explains in 17:59 and 17:60 why the old kind of miracles stopped: earlier generations rejected them. Gathering verses from Suras 11, 7, and 54, the article traces the miracle of God's camel sent to Thamûd through Sãleh, the people's slaughter of her, and their annihilation. It also notes that the believers among them were convinced by the message itself as proof of messengership.
June 26, 2017
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Satan Dupes the People (17:61 – 17:66)
Satan's refusal to prostrate before Adam and his vow to possess most of Adam's descendants, as told in Quran 17:61 to 17:66, with 2:268 on the devil's empty promises. The post pairs the verses with Jordan Peterson on evil as arrogance, Wayne Dyer on ego, and talks on buoyancy and the unique properties of water that let ships float.
June 26, 2017
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The Righteous Idols Worship God Alone ( 17:57 – 17:58)
Verses 17:57 and 17:58 teach that the righteous ones people idolize, such as Jesus, themselves worship God alone, seeking His mercy and fearing His retribution. The article asks whether every community will be annihilated before the Day of Resurrection, drawing on 21:6, Matthew 7, and Jesus' testimony before God in 5:116 to 5:120. It closes by asking how one shows reverence for the miracle.
June 26, 2017
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Treat Each Other Amicably (17:53 – 17:56)
God's command in 17:53 to treat each other in the best possible manner, since the devil tries to drive a wedge among believers, and how to respond when kindness is not returned. Related verses cover answering evil with the nicest response, inviting to God with wisdom, forgiveness and standing up for one's rights, and the unity of all submitters in one religion, including Jews and Christians.
June 26, 2017
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Crucial Advice (17:36 – 17:38)
God's command in 17:36 to verify all information before accepting it, using the hearing, eyesight, and brain He gave us, alongside the warnings against arrogance and bad behavior in 17:37 and 17:38. Cross references cover examining inherited beliefs, investigating rumors, following the best of God's words, and the humble traits of the righteous.
June 19, 2017
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Disbelievers Cannot Understand Quran (17:45)
An invisible barrier that God places between the reader of the Quran and those who do not believe in the Hereafter, drawing on 17:45 and related verses. The verses describe veils on the hearts and deafness in the ears of disbelievers, so that no proof convinces them and they dismiss the Quran as tales from the past.
June 19, 2017
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Everything Glorifies God (17:44)
All creation glorifies God, according to verses such as 17:44, 59:1, and 24:41, even when people do not understand that glorification. The article gathers Quranic passages showing that the heavens, the earth, the birds, the angels, and even shadows prostrate to God, and that all creation has submitted to Him willingly or unwillingly.
June 19, 2017
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Quran Is Wisdom (17:39 – 17:43)
The Quran as wisdom from God, read through verses 17:39 to 17:43: the command never to set up another god beside God, and the blasphemy of assigning Him daughters among the angels. Supporting verses present wisdom as a great bounty, refute claims that angels are female, and warn against blasphemies such as saying God's hand is tied down.
June 19, 2017
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Quran: The ONLY Source (17:46 – 17:52)
Verses 17:46 to 17:52 on preaching the Quran alone and the aversion it provokes, with the footnote showing through the number 19 that alone in 17:46 refers to the Quran. The selection adds the disbelievers' doubts about resurrection, the messenger's complaint that his people deserted the Quran, and Abraham's example of disowning idol worship until his people believe in God alone.
June 19, 2017
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2017 Submitter Charity Water Campaign
A 2017 Submitter fundraising campaign invites donations to Charity Water, offering a blessing for those who strive and linking to the Masjid Tucson donation page. It cites Quran 2:272, which teaches that GOD alone guides, that charity is for the giver's own good and for the sake of GOD, and that it will be repaid without injustice.
June 12, 2017
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Abortion is Murder (17:31 – 17:35)
Quran verses 17:31 through 17:35 serve as the basis for treating abortion as the killing of children, alongside the commands against adultery, unjust killing, misusing orphans' money, and cheating in trade. The article defines an orphan as one missing a father or breadwinner until maturity, raises the question of pregnancies conceived in rape, and links videos on the abortion business and the Kermit Gosnell case.
June 12, 2017
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Major Commandments (17:22 – 17:28)
The major commandments of 17:22 through 17:28: worship God alone, honor and care for parents without the slightest annoyance, and give the due alms to relatives, the needy, the poor, and the traveling alien. It asks why extravagance in charity is wrong, likening it to showing off and noting that extravagance is relative to a person's means. A video on honoring father and mother follows.
June 12, 2017
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Stinginess Condemned (17:29 – 17:30)
Verses 17:29 and 17:30 of the Quran set a balance in spending, forbidding both stingy withholding and foolish overspending lest one end up blamed and sorry. The passage reminds the reader that God alone increases or reduces each person's provision, fully Cognizant of His creatures.
June 12, 2017
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