Author name: sofian

There are some among them who twist their tongues when quoting from the Book so that you might think that what they say is from the Book when it is not. They say that it is from God when it is not from God. Thus they deliberately lie about God. It is inconceivable that any […]

“Whatever Allah grants to people of mercy – none can withhold it; and whatever He withholds – none can release it thereafter.  And He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise.  Oh mankind, remember God’s grace toward you.   Is there any creator other than God that can sustain you from both the sky (rain) and

“O you who believe! Let not a group scoff at another group, it may be that the latter are better than the former; nor let (some) women scoff at other women, it may be that the latter are better than the former, nor defame one another, nor insult one another by (offensive) nicknames.  How bad

“Therefore remind, in case the reminder profits. He who fears [God] will heed the reminder, but the wretched one will avoid it. [He] who will [enter and] burn in the great Fire, neither dying therein nor living. He has certainly succeeded who purifies himself, and mentions the name of his Lord and prays. But you

“Righteousness is not that you turn your faces toward the east or the west, but [true] righteousness is [in] one who believes in God, the Last Day, the angels, the Book, and the prophets and gives wealth, in spite of love for it, to relatives, orphans, the needy, the traveler, those who ask [for help],

“And [yet], among the people are those who take other than Allah as equals [to Him].  They love them as they [should] love Allah.  But those who believe are stronger in love for Allah.  If only, those who are unjust could visualize [the Day of Judgement] when they will see punishment, [they would come to

God has made difference a reality of life.  Even parents and their children differ, in spite of the children being the immediate genetic descendants of their parents and in spite of their parents having raised them from infancy.  They differ in their outlook on life, their personalities, their temperaments, and even their physical appearances.  In

“Is it not time for the believers to humble their hearts to the remembrance of God and the Truth that has been revealed, and not to be like those who received the Scripture before them, whose time was extended but whose hearts hardened and many of whom were lawbreakers? Remember that God revives the earth

“Every soul will taste death and you will be paid in full only on the Day of Resurrection.  Whoever is kept away from the Fire and admitted to the Garden will have triumphed.  The present world is only an illusory pleasure.” (Quran 3:185) This essential verse from the Quran comes from the closing verses of

“But when there comes the Deafening Blast – that Day a man will flee from his brother, and his mother and his father, and his wife and his children.   For each one of them that Day will have enough preoccupations of his own.  Some faces, that Day, will be bright – laughing, rejoicing at good