Surah Al-Kahf

1.-->Its meaning-The Cave
2.-->The 18th Surah
3.-->110 Ayat
4.-->Meccan Surah
5.-->9-16--verses tell the story of the people of the cav(Ashabu Al-Kahf).
Some number of young monotheistic men lived in a time where they were persecuted. They fled the city together, and took refuge in a cave where they fell asleep.[still researching the whole story]
6.-->Surah al-Kahf also mentions the ruh, or soul/spirit in verse 28, and in the Parable of Two Men in verses 32-44. This story discusses two men who had both been given blessings from God, but one wronged his soul by saying that none of it could ever be taken away from him. At the end of the parable God destroys what he had given the man.
7.-->The third main story within the chapter (verses 60-82) is that of Moses traveling to gain knowledge from another servant of God who is never mentioned by name, but from other sources is called Al-Khidr.
8.Finally, the surah mentions in verses 83-98 a man who traveled a great deal and reached the east and the west of the earth - namely, Dhul- Qarnayan

THE FAMILY OF AL-IMRAN!
1)
a.Allah.
b.There is no god but
--> He,-the Living,
-->the Self-Subsisting,(Philosophically..speaking
timeless or abstract existence)
-->Eternal without beginning or end or lasting forever.
2).

a)IT IS ALLAH WHO sent down to you(step by step)....in truth,the book
confirming what went before your time AND it is allah who sent down
i) the law of moses
ii)the gospel of jesus......before this as a guide to mankind......
b)It is allah who sent down the criterion of judgement btw right & wrong.

Surah 7. Al-A'raf (The Heights)
1.Alif, Lam, Mim, Sad.
2.A Book revealed .......To YOU,
-->So that you may be free from ambiguties.....and thus your heart remains free from oppression caused by difficulties coming into your life .
With it
(THE BOOK) you may warn the people who are in the err & teach the Believers.!

The Koran and the History of Religion

The Koran and the History of Religion

a) The message that God has been sending down has been the same all throughout hi story, same in every way (Koran42:13).
b) Even though the Koran says in well over 15 places, that it is explained in detail, Tafseel (Koran 6:114 etc.), and contains a full explanation of whatever is needed by a believer (Koran 16:89), and should be enough, Kaafi, for them (Koran 29:51), and contains the complete law (Shariah) of God (Koran 45:18 and 42:13), as against man-made law or Shariah (Koran 42:21), “Muslims” insist that the Koran needs supplements to be understood, and lacks details.
c) This amounts to disbelieving what God himself says in unequivocal terms in the Koran.
1.The Koran claims that it contains answers to ALL relevant questions (25:33) and contains the best explanation (Tafseer) of itself (25:33 & 2:159).
2. The Koran claims to be the Hukm or commandments of God, according to which humankind is to be judged (5:48).
3. It also states that it is the Shariah or law/way with which God sent the messenger (45:18 & 42:13).
Who would know best on how to talk to humankind but their creator? Therefore, it makes no sense to say that outside sources better explain God’s word.

4.The Koran claims that it is explained fully in detail and lacks nothing.
5. Therefore it must, according to its claim, contain a full explanation of everything in Islam, including Salaah (prayer).
6.It surely does, we just need to study it.
7. A careful reading of the Koran reveals that we are to get our Salaah from the Masjid-el Haraam [the continuous practice at Mecca since the time of Abraham], specifically the “place of Abraham (moqaam e Ibraheem).”
8. The Koran tells us that the purpose of Hajj is to educate Muslims in Islam (Koran 22:27-28) and that the Masjid-el-Haraam is “guidance for all the worlds


Humankind were one community, then God sent prophets as bearers of good news and as warners and revealed with them the Book with the truth that it [the Book] might judge between humankind concerning that in which they differed. And only those to whom the book was given differed concerning it, after clear proofs had been given them, through mutual hatred and rivalry&127;(Koran 2:213)

Quran a book of signs!

1."Any scripture claiming to be a divine revelation must also be acceptable on the strength of
its own reason and logic."
2."The Qur’aan is not a book of science but a book of ‘Signs’, i.e. Ayats.
3.There are more than

• =>Six thousand ‘signs’ in the Qur’aan
• =>of which more than A Thousand deal with science."

First converts...!!!

The first of all his converts was his wife Khadijah,
the second his first cousin Ali,
whom he had adopted,
the third his servant Zayd, a former slave.
His old friend Abu Bakr also was among those early converts.

The Hunafa

The Hunafa
-->"The Makkans claimed descent from Abraham through Isma`il and tradition stated that their temple, the Ka`bah, had been built by Abraham for the worship of the One God. It was still called the House of Allah, but the chief objects of worship here were a number of idols, which were called “daughters” of Allah and intercessors. The few who felt disgust at this idolatry, which had prevailed for centuries, longed for the religion of Abraham and tried to find out what had been its teaching.
-->Such seekers of the truth were known as Hunafa (sing. Hanif), a word originally meaning “those who turn away” (from the existing idol-worship), but coming in the end to have the sense of “upright” or “by nature upright,” because such persons held the way of truth to be right conduct. These Hunafa did not form a community.
-->They were the non-conformists of their day, each seeking truth by the light of his inner consciousness. Muhammad son of Abdullah became one of these. "