The human origin of the Text – 2
SINCE THE RELIGIOUS TEXT is always sacred and may not be violated, whether by any emendation, alteration, deletion, addition or…
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SINCE THE RELIGIOUS TEXT is always sacred and may not be violated, whether by any emendation, alteration, deletion, addition or…
WHAT GOVERNED, and still governs, the quicksilver, reverential, justifying mentality, is the assumption of divine intervention in the course of historical events. The course…
WHEN IT WAS COLLECTED together following the death of the Messenger, the Qur’ān was assembled in several stages, the last…
THEY WERE NOT stripped of the category of ‘the Faith’ and indeed were at times held to be ‘very religious’.…
BUT WHAT, FIRST OF ALL, is the Sharīʻa? I should say, at the outset, that Sharīʻa is not what the…
THIS IS THE SAME theme that the Jews of Yathrib expressed following the migration, when the Prophet turned the Muslims…
IT IS ALSO NARRATED that he recited the Sūrat al-Najm in the Sacred Mosque before the leaders of Quraysh, along with…
CONSIDERED FROM ANOTHER angle this is one of the verses that strengthens the authority of the sovereign and establishes his…
SUCH A SPEECH has therefore to exist as a result of one of three conditions: either it is written in…
ONCE AGAIN, the problem is not that ‘Uthman set about fixing an official Qur’an – that is what his predecessors…