Scratching at the Infinity of the Quran

Wisdom = Force X Distance?

It is perhaps universally understood that elders are not wise simply because they have been alive for a long time. They are wise because they have experienced more by virtue of the time they have been alive.

Sorcery forgets the Source

قَالَ مُوسَىٰ أَتَقُولُونَ لِلْحَقِّ لَمَّا جَاءَكُمْ ۖ أَسِحْرٌ هَٰذَا وَلَا يُفْلِحُ السَّاحِرُونَ

“Moses said: Do you say [this] about the truth when it comes to you. Is this sorcery? And the sorceres will not prosper.” (Quran 10:77)

Tawaf: A Lesson in Centripetal Acceleration?

The repentance (tawbah) accepted by Allah is only for those who do wrong in…

Revelation: A Love Letter from The Merciful

When We sent to them two but they denied them, so We strengthened them with a third…

True effacement is to face God

“And who is better in religion than one who submits his face to Allah while being a muhsin and follows the religion of Abraham, inclining toward truth? And Allah took Abraham as an intimate friend.” (Quran 4:125)

Find the Stream and you will find its Source

Indeed, We have granted you, the abundance (al-Kawthar). So pray to your Lord and sacrifice. Indeed, your enemy is the one cut off. (Quran, Surah Al-Kawthar [Chapter 108])

Breath saves us from Death. So inspire yourselves!

“…Indeed I have come to you with a sign from your Lord in that I design for you from clay [that which is] like the form of a bird, then I breathe into it and it becomes a bird by permission of Allah…” (Quran 3:49)

Beware the ‘I’ in idol

The only difference between the Arabic preposition ila (to) and the word for deity in Arabic, ilaah, is the final ha, the letter by which one exhales his breath. Thus, to seek a deity to worship is similar to seeking to release one’s breath: it is obligated by our very physiology…

Thunder is often more vivid than lightning

One of often wonders what Allah meant behind the lightning and thunder of that famous…