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Muqaddimah – Tafsir Nizam-ul-Quran – The Holy Quran and the previous...

A traveller does not need to turn to stars for direction in broad daylight. Similarly, after the revelation of the Holy Qur’ān Muslims do not need guidance from the earlier Scriptures for these are now...

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Muqaddimah – Tafsir Nizam-ul-Quran – Length of the Surahs

In one of the discussions above, I have mentioned that the shorter Sūrahs of the Holy Qur’ān compete with their longer  counterparts in their grandeur, wisdom, and beautiful structure. This brief point...

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Muqaddimah – Tafsir Nizam-ul-Quran – Fundamental Teachings of the Qur’ān

The teachings of Qur’ān can be divided into two major categories: Beliefs Practices Practices are further divided in three sub-categories: Personal Familial Social Similarly, beliefs can also be...

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Muqaddimah – Tafsir Nizam-ul-Quran – Ma‘rūf and Munkar: Good and Evil

The Qur’ānic term ma‘rūf refers to what was welcomed as virtuous by the Arabs of the time of the Prophet (sws) and its opposite munkar signifies what they detested as evil. The Arabs of pre-Islamic age...

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Muqaddimah – Tafsir Nizam-ul-Quran – Naẓm Adds to Meaning of the Text

Arrangement of a discourse creates specific meaning which is over and above the sum total of the whole. If we disregard the arrangement of the text we can never reach to the intended conclusions. For...

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Muqaddimah – Tafsir Nizam-ul-Quran – Structure of the Qur’ān

Division of the Qur’ān in rukū‘ as well as in 30 distinct parts is a post-Prophetic innovation. A little deliberation shows that the basic purpose of the rukū‘ division is to mark a thematic shift....

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Muqaddimah – Tafsir Nizam-ul-Quran – Names of the Sūrahs and their Central...

Four factors seem to have been considered in naming the sūrahs of the Holy Qur’ān: Some of the sūrahs have been named using incipits (i.e. the first few words of the sūrah) . Imām Suyūṭī has recorded...

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Muqaddimah – Tafsir Nizam-ul-Quran – Determining the Addressees and the...

Muslims unanimously hold that the Holy Qur’ān is the word of God revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (sws). This, however, does not mean that all that has been discussed in the Book has been addressed by...

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Muqaddimah – Tafsir Nizam-ul-Quran – Mode of Revelation

The Holy Qur’ān itself testifies that it was not revealed in a single instance, but rather in a piecemeal fashion (25:32): And those who disbelieve say: “Why is not the Quran revealed to him all at...

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2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how Internals did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers About 3...

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