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The order of the following paragraphs is:
Q: Does the frightening sound of thunder mean something?
A: And the thunder praises His glory, so do the angels from His awe (fear). And He sends the thunderbolts
that strike whom He wants. Yet they argue in Allah and He is a hard plotter (who can punish).
Translation (from Arabic into English) of: Ayah 13, Surat AlRa'd.
Words from the Ayah (Arabic = English): Ra'd = Thunder, Yusabih = Praises, Bihamdihi = His Glory,
AlMalaika = The Angels, AlSawa'iq = Thunderbolts,
Yujadiloun = They argue, Shadeed = Powerful, AlMihal = Punishment plans.
Q: Are mountains stable in one place?
A: You see the mountains and think they are not moving but they pass like the clouds. It's the work of
Allah who made everything perfect. Allah is Expert with what you do.
Translation of: Ayah 88 Surat AlNaml.
Words: Aljibal = The mountains, Jamidah = Not moving, Alsihab = The clouds, Khabeer = Expert - Well-
Acquainted.
Q: If the river pours in a sea, why doesn't the fresh water mix up with the salt water?
A: Allah lets flow the two bodies of water, this is fresh water and the other is salty and He made a divider and
a forbidden restraint between them.
Translation of: Ayah 53 Surat AlFurkan.
Words: Al Bahrain = Two seas, Athb = Sweet, Milh = Salt, Barzakh = Divider, Partition, Hijr =
Forbidden restraint - Forbidden control.
Q: What does Allah do to the shadow?
A: Can't you see how your God spread the shadow, and if He wants He could have made it stable (not moving) and then We made
the sun a proof for it. Then We easily held it back to Us.
Translation of: Ayah 45 Surat AlFurkan.
Words: Al D'l = The shadow, Sa'kin = Stable in one place, Al Shams = The sun, Daleel = Proof.
Q: Why does the shadow move?
A: Have not they seen how the shadows of the non-living things that Allah created move to the right and the left, yielding to
God by lying flat on the ground in prostration (worship).
Translation of: Ayah 48 Surat AlNahl.
Words: Yarau = They see, Khalaka = created, Shay'e = Thing, Yameen = Right, Lil'lah = For God.
Q: What are the steps involved in Allah's creation of man?
A: We created the human being from an offspring of clay. Then We made him a sperm in a deep-rooted resting place.
Then We created the sperm into a blood clot, then created the clot into a (fetus) lump then we created the lump into
bones then We
covered the bones with flesh then We made him into another formation so Exalted is Allah, The Best of creators.
Translation of: Ayah 12-14, Surat AlMou'minoun.
Words: Al-Insan = The human being, Teen = Clay, Notfah = Sperm, Alakah = Blood Clot, Mudhghah =
(foetus) lump, Itham = Bones,
Lahm = Flesh, Tabaraka = Exalted is, Khalq = Formation - Creation.
Q: Do animals belong to communities?
A: There isn't an animal on earth or a bird that flies with its wings but nations like you. We didn't miss in The
Book anything then they will come back to their God.
Translation of: Ayah 38, Surat AlAna'm.
Words: Dabbah = Animal, Ta'ir = Bird, Umam = Nations.
Q: Why is the night different from the day?
A: And We made the night and the day two wonders then We darkened the wonder of the night and made the wonder of the day
with light so that you seek favour from your God and learn the number of years and counting and We classified
everything in detail.
Translation of: Ayah 12 Surat AlIsra'.
Words (Arabic = English) Ja'alna = We made, AlLai'l = The Night, Fadhl = Favour, Ad' ad =
Number, Sineen = Years.
Q: When the birds fly, is it only the gravity that does not pull them down?
A: Haven't they seen the birds above them spreading their wings and folding them in, no one holds them up but The Most
Merciful (Allah). Indeed He is observant of all things.
Translation of: Ayah 19, Surat AlMulk.
Words Yarou = They see, AlTayr = The Birds, Faouqahum = Above them, Sa'ffat = Lined up,
Yumskik = Holds them up, Baseer = Observant.
Q: When the birds glide (spread their wings in the air without moving them) can that mean something?
A: Can't you see how those in the Heavens and the earth praise the glory of Allah. Even the birds with their wings
spread in a line have known their way of praying and praising. And Allah has infinite knowledge of what they do.
Translation of: Ayah 41 Surat AlNoor.
Words Yara = See, Yusabih = Praise, Saffa = Line Up, Alima = Knew.
Q: What did God create the animals from?
A: Allah created every animal from water. Some of them slither on their bellies, and some of them walk on two legs and
some of them walk on four. Allah creates what He wills. Allah is capable of everything.
Translation of: Ayah 45 Surat AlNoor.
Words: Khalka = Created, Da'bah = Animal, Yamshi = Walks, Rijl = leg, Arba' = Four,
Yasha' = Wills.
Q: Has Allah created the world according to a balanced mathematical order?
A: He lifted the sky and made the balance. Do not spoil the balance. Set the weight with justice and do not lose
the balance.
Translation of: Ayat 7-9 Surat AlRahman.
Words: Rafa' = lift, AlMi'zan = The Balance, AlWazna = The Weight, Khasar = Lose.
Q: What is the major function of the mountains?
A: And He fastened in the earth mountains to protect against the earth shaking with you. And He made rivers and roads
so that you might get the right guidance.
Translation of: Ayah 15 Surat AlNahl.
Words: Tameed = Shakes, Anhar = Rivers, Subul = Roads.
Q: Has the Qur'an predicted man's travel into space?
A: O communities of AlJinn and humans! If you can penetrate the zones of the Heavens and the earth, do
penetrate! You will not penetrate without authority (from Allah). So which of the Signs of your God do you deny as lies? (Otherwise)
a flame of fire and copper will be sent on you and you won't win. So which of the Signs of your God do you deny as
lies?
Translation of: Ayat 33-36 Surat AlRahman.
Words: Ma'shar = Communities - People, AlJinn = Creatures Allah created before man, Yanfuth = Penetrate
(go through), Aqtar = Zones - Boundaries, Sultan = Authority (power), Nar = Fire, Nuhas = Copper (Or
smoke of a fire), A'la' = Signs, Rub = God. Tukaththiban = (both of you) deny as lies.
Q: Does the size of the land of the earth change?
A: Haven't they seen that We reduce the land of the earth from its sides. And Allah rules and there is no reviewer to His rule. And
He is quick in judgment.
Translation of: Ayah 41 Surat AlRa'd.
Words: Nankusuha = We reduce it, Atrafiha = Its sides, Yahkum = Rules, La = No, Saree' = Quick,
AlHisab = The judgment (account).
Q: Has the science of neurology proved that the human brain becomes dead for some time during the human sleep?
A: Allah takes away the souls at the time of their death and the souls of those who have not died during
their sleep . Then
He holds back those who have died and sends the others to (life to) a fixed time. Certainly in such are miraculous
signs (ayat) for the people who contemplate.
Translation of: Ayah 42 Surat AlZumar.
Words: Yatawaffa = Takes away - Makes dead, AlAnfus = The Souls, Heena = At, Mawt = Death, Manam = Sleep, AlUkhra = The Others,
Ajal = Time, Yatfakkar = Contemplate - Understand.
Q: In pre-historic times, were the sky and the earth joined together?
A: Haven't those who don't believe in Allah thought that the Heavens and the earth were joined together and We
separated them. And We made from the water every creature alive, so why they can't have faith.
Translation of: Ayah 30 Surat AlAnbiya'.
Words: Yara = See or Think, Kafaru = Don't believe in Allah, Rataka = Joined, Fataka = Separate,
Ja'la = Made, AlMae' = The Water, Ha'y = Alive, Yu'minoun = Have Faith.
Q: How do the bees know how to make honey?
A: Your God has inspired the bees to make houses in the mountains, trees and what humans raise.
Then eat from all the fruits and flowers and follow the channels of your God without difficulty. From their bellies
a drink of different colors comes out; in it a healing for people. There is a sign in that for the people who contemplate.
Translation of: Ayat 68-69 Surat AlNahl.
Words: Awha = Inspired, Rabuka = Your God, AlNahl = The Bees, Boyout = Houses,
AlShajar = The Trees, AlThamarat = Fruits and flowers, Botoun = Bellies, Alwan = Colors, Shifa' =
Healing.
Q: Does the Qur'an mention that the body of 'Pharaoh' will be preserved?
A:And made the people of Israel cross the sea, so Pharaoh (Phiroun) followed them in tyranny and assault (attack). When he was
about to drown he said :" I have faith there is no god but the One in whom the people of Israel have faith and I am from
the muslims (submission to God)". Now?! And you rejected before and were from the corruptors. Today We will
save your body so as you become a sign to those who come after you and a lot of people are unmindful (careless) about
Our signs.
Translation of: Ayat 90-92 Surat Yunus.
Words: Bani = people, AlBahr = The Sea, Bagyan = Tyranny, Adwan = Assault (attack),
AlGarak = Drowing, Kabl = Before, Mufsideen = Corruptors, Badan = Body, Ayah =
Sign, AlNa's = The People, Ghafil = careless.
Q: What happens to the clouds before the rain?
A: Haven't you seen how Allah moves clouds then He combines them then He makes them in a cumulus (heap). So you can see
the rain coming out from them. And He sends down from the sky mountain masses (of clouds) in them hail. So He strikes with
it whom
He wants and He keeps it away from whom He wants. The flash of its lightning almost takes away the eyesight. He
alternates the night and the morning. In this a lesson for those who think.
Translation of: Ayat 43-44 Surat AlNoor.
Words: Yuzji = Moves slowly, sahab = clouds, Yualif = Combines, Rukam = cumulus (heap),
Alwadq = The rain, Yukhrij = Comes out, AlSama' = The Sky, Barad = Hail,
Yuseeb = Strikes, Yasrif = Keeps away, Sana = Flash, Barq = Lightning, Absar = Eyesight.
Q: Why doesn't water cover the entire earth?
A: And We sent from the sky water according to measurement and We made it stay on earth. And We are capable of taking
it away.
Translation of: Ayah 18 Surat AlMo'minoun.
Words: Anzalna = We sent down, AlSama = The Sky, Ma' = Water, Bikadar = With measurement,
AlArdh = The Earth, Kadir = Capable.
Q: Will the history of the first creation be repeated?
A: The Day We fold the sky like the folding of the book register. As We started the first creation We will repeat it. It
is a promise We had undertaken that We are going to do it.
Translation of: Ayah 104 Surat AlAnbiya'.
Words: Youm = day, Natwi = Fold, AlSama = The Sky, Kama = As, Bada'na = Started, Khalq =
Creation. Noeeduh = We repeat it, Wa'ad = Promise
Q: Do the human sperm shape themselves?
A: Have you thought about the sperm that you throw out? Do you shape them? It is We who form them (create them into human beings).
Translation of: Ayat 58-59 Surat AlWaqi'ah.
Words: AFaraytum = Have you thought or seen, Mani = Sperm, Antum = You, Khalaka = Created and shaped, Nahnu
= We, AlKhalik = The Creator.
Q: What can be the origin of the stones and the flames coming down from the sky?
A: For We decorated the lowest Heaven (sky) with the decoration of the constellations of stars; And as
a protection from every rebellious
Satan (devil); In order that they (Jinn) do not eaves-drop (secretly listen) to the Highest Assembly (of angels in the heaven) and
they (devils) are hurled down (by stones) from every side; To cast them away and there is a permanent punishment for
them; Only who caught a snatch (of the conversation) so a sharp flame followed him.
Translation of: Ayat 6 - 10 Surat AlSaffat.
Note: Some Jinn listen secretly to the 'AlMala' AlA'la' = The Highest Assembly (meeting of angels)
who receive knowledge of Allah's Commands, If they succeed they pass on the information to some fortune tellers who
can be in contact with those Jinn.
Note: In a summary of a speech by the Prophet Muhammad: Aisha, a wife of the Prophet Muhammad, may Allah
be pleased with her said: Some people asked the Prophet about the fortune tellers. The Prophet said: They are upon
nothing. So they said: But they sometimes speak to us about something then it comes true. So the Prophet said: That is
a word a Jinni (one of Jinn) snatches (listens to it secretly) so he transfers it to the ear of his suppporter (fortune
teller) so he lies with it a hundred lies.
Words: Yuqdhafoun = Are hurled down, Jaanib = Side, Dohouran = To cast them away, Lahum = For them,
Athab = Punishment, Wasib = Permanent, Katafa AlKhatafah = Caught a snatch, Shihab = Flame - Luminous
meteorite - Shooting star, S(th)aqib = Sharp - Piercing.
Q: Is a certain type of apes (monkeys) nowadays the offspring of originally humans?
A: And ask them about the village that was near the sea. They used to trespass on the Sabbath. Their whales used
to clearly come to them on their Sabbath and on other days they don't come to them. That was how we tested them because
of their wrong doing. A group of them said why you advise the people whom Allah will destroy or punish severely. They
said it was an apology to God so that they might fear Him. Then when they forgot what they were reminded
of We saved those who were forbidding the abuse and inflicted a miserable punishment on those who trespassed because of
their wrongdoing. And when they became insolent about what they were forbidden from We said to them be humiliated
apes (monkeys).
Translation of: Ayat 163 - 166 Surat AlA'raf.
Words: AlKarya = Village, AlBahr = The Sea, AlSabt = Sabbath (Jews rest on the seventh day (Saturday),
Heetan = Whales, Kawm = People, Kulna = We said, Kirada = Apes (monkeys), Khasi'een = Humiliated.
Q: Is the human being superior to other creatures?
A: And We had honoured the people of Adam and carried them on land and sea and provided them with good
food. And We favoured them a lot upon many of what We created.
Translation of: Ayah 7 Surat AlIsra'.
Words: Karram'na = We Honoured, Bani = People, Sons, Hammala = Carried, AlBar = Land, AlBahr =
Sea, Razaka = Provided, Min = From, AlTayyebat = Good Food, Faddala = Preferred, Katheer =
Many, Khalakna = Created.
Q: How are the things created by Allah?
A: And from everything We created a pair so that you might remember.
Translation of: Ayah 49 Surat AlThariyat.
Words: Min = From, Kuli = Every, Shaye' = Thing, Khalakna = We Created, Zawjain =
A Pair, La'alakum = You Might, Tazakaroun = You Remember.
Q: Which is more difficult to create: The human being or the Sky?
A: Are you a more difficult creation or the sky He built? He lifted it very high and He smoothed it. And He darkened
its night and brought out its day.
Translation of:Ayat 27-29 Surat AlNazi'at.
Words: Ashad = More powerfull, more difficult, Khalk = Creation, AlSama' = The Sky, Heaven, Bana =
Built, Rafa' = Lifted, Layl = Night, Akhraja = Brought out, Dhuha = Day, daytime.
Q: Is the human being created in stages?
A: What's wrong with you that you don't pay Allah His due reverence and He created you in stages.
Translation of: Ayat 13-14 Surat Nouh.
Words: Lilahi = for Allah, Waka'r = Reverence (respect), Wa = And, Khalaka =, Created, Atwa'r =
Stages,
Q: What does the Qur'an mention about pregnancy?
A: He created you from one soul and then He made from the soul its mate (wife). And He sent down from the livestock eight
pairs. He creates you in the wombs of your mothers a shaping after a shaping in three (veils of) darkness. That is Allah
your God who owns the universe. No God but Him so to whom you turn away!
Translation of: Ayah 6 Surat AlZumar.
Words: Zulumat = Plural of darkness, Thalath = Three, Khalakakum = He created you, Min = From, Nafs = Soul, Wa'hidah = One, Ja'ala = Made, Zaouj
= Mate, Anzala = Sent down, Ana'm = Livestock (farm animals), Fi = In, Botoun = Wombs,
Ummahat =, Mothers, Created, Rabukum = Your God, AlMulk = The Universe, La Ilaha Illa
Howa = No God but Him, Anna = Where to.
Q: Is there a discrepancy (disproportion) in the creation of space?
A: (Allah) Who created the seven Heavens one above another. You will not see any discrepancy in the creation of
The Most
Merciful. Then return your vision do you see any crack? Again return your vision a second time your vision will
come back to you chased away and regretful (because you doubted).
Translation of: Ayat 3-4, Surat AlMulk.
Words: Saba' = Seven, Samawat = Heavens, Tibaka = One above another, AlRahman = The Most Merviful,
Min = From, Fotour = Crack (narrow opening), AlBasar = The Vision, Khasi' = Chased away, Haseer = Regretful.
Q: Why can humans stand up?
A: O man, what tempted you away from your God - The Most Generous? Him who created you and put you in order and straightened
you out; In what shape He wills He put you together.
Translation of: Ayah 6 - 8 Surat AlInfitar.
Note: In a summary of a saying of the Prophet Muhammad: Allah prohibits you from becoming naked in
public so do be shy from the angels who stay with you, the deed writers who do not leave you except in three situations:
Bowel movement, impurity (Janabah), taking a bath so if anyone of you was outside so let him cover up with a cloth, wall
or even his camel.
Words: Ma = What, Gharaka = Tempted away, Rabbika = Your God, Allathi = Who, Sawwak
= Put you in order - Made, Adalak = Straightened out, Rakkabak = Put you together.
Q: Is iron formed on earth or sent down from another place?
A: --- And We sent down the iron which has great strength and benefits for people so that Allah knows who supports Him and
His prophets without seeing Him. Allah is powerful and almighty.
Translation of: Ayah 25 Surat AlHadeed.
Words: Wa = And, AlHadeed = The iron, Ba'as = Strength, Shadeed = Great, Manafi' = Benefits,
Na's = People, Yalam = Knows, Yansur = Supports, Rusul = Prophets, Qawei = Powerful, Azeez =
Almighty.
Q: When should a mother wean (stop breastfeeding) her infant?
A: And We directed the human being to take care of his parents. His mother was pregnant with him: Weakness over
weakness and his weaning in two years. You must be grateful to Me (God) and your parents and your destiny is to Me (Allah).
Translation of: Ayah 14 Surat Luqman.
Words: Wasayna = Directed, advised, AlInsan = The human being, Umoho = His mother, Wahan = Weakness,
Fisaloho = His weaning, Fi = In, A'main = Two years, Ushkur = Thank, Walidayn = Parents,
AlMaseer = The return, destiny.
Q: What happens to humans when they live long?
A: And whom We make live long We degenerate him in the creation so won't they understand?
Translation of: Ayah 68 Surat Ya'Sin.
Words: Men = Who, Nua'miruhu = Make him live long, Nunakis = Degenerate - decline, Fi = In,
AlKhalq = The Creation. Ya'kil = Understand.
Q: Where does the milk that we drink come from?
A: And you have in the livestock a lesson. We give you from what is in their bellies from between the digested food and
blood pure milk tasteful for the drinkers.
Translation of: Ayah 66 Surat AlNahl.
Words: AlAna'm = The Livestock, Ibrah = Lesson, Nuskeekum = We give you to drink, Botounihi =
Their Bellies, Ferth = Digested food, Dem = Blood, Laban = Milk, Kha'lis = Pure, Sa'ig =
Tasteful, Sha'rib = Drinker.
Q: The Qur'an mentions a severe type of punishment by dragging the person who is a sinner and a liar from the
forepart of his head. Is the Frontal Lobe (frontal part) of the human brain involved in planning, and controlling
speech?
A: Can you consider the one who forbids a devoted person from praying --- Can you consider if he lies and
turns away? Doesn't he know that Allah is watching. No if he does not stop We will drag him (into fire) by the forepart
of his head; a forepart which is lying and sinful. So let him call his society, We will call 'AlZabaniyah' (angels
of hell who push the damned into Hell). Never! Do not listen to him and worship and come near (to Allah).
Translation of: Ayat 9-10, 13-19 Surat AlAlaq.
Words: Yanha = Forbids, Salla = Prayed, Yukadib = Lies, Tawalla = Turned away, Ya'lam
= Knows, Yara = Watches, Yantahi = Stops, Nasiyah = Forepart of the head, Khati'eh = sinful,
Iktarib = Come near.
Q: Is there light in the sea at 200 meters and below?
A: And the deeds of those who have not believed are like a mirage in lowlands, supposed to be water by a thirsty
person until he reaches it; he finds nothing and he finds Allah there. So He pays him his account and Allah is swift in
taking account. Or like the depths of darkness in a bottomless ocean covered by waves topped by waves topped by clouds:
Depths of darkness; One above another. If he stretches his hand, he even cannot hardly see it. And whom Allah does
not give light (guidance) will not have light.
Translation of: Ayat 38-40, Surat AlNoor.
Words: Al'latheena = Those, Kafarou = Haven't believed, A'mal = Deeds, Sarab = Mirage, Kee'ah =
Low lands, Hasiba = Account, Bahr = Ocean, Lujji = Bottomless - Deep, Mawj = Waves, Sahab =
Clouds, Yad = Hand, Yara'ha = See it, Noor = Light.
Q: Can modern medicine, during a surgery, replace the lines on the fingertips?
A: I (Allah) do swear by The Day of Judgment and I do swear by the repentful soul. Does man think that We will
not assemble his bones. Yes! We are capable of making his fingertips (with their lines).
Translation of: Ayat 1-4, Surat AlQiyamah.
Words: LaUksim = Do Swear, Yawm AlQiyamah = Day of Judgment, Yahsib = Thinks, Najma' = Assemble,
Izamah = His bones, Bala = Yes, Qadireen = We are capable, Banan = Fingertips with their lines.
Q: Is CLONING predicted in the Qur'an?
A: Indeed Allah does not forgive who makes partner(s) with Him, and He forgives other than that to whom He wills, and
who makes partner(s) with Allah, he had strayed far away from the Right Path. In fact, by excluding Him, they call
upon females (goddesses) and in fact they call upon an obstinate rebellious Satan. Allah had cursed him and he
(Satan) said: I surely will take a dictated share from your people. And I (Satan) will mislead them and will give
them false desires and I will order them to cut the ears of the cattle (livestock), and I will order them and they
will change the creation of Allah, and who takes Satan for a master, leaving Allah, has indeed lost an explicit loss.
He (Satan) promises them and gives them false desires and what Satan promises is only a deception. The
dwelling of those is The Hell and they will not find a shelter from it.
Translation of: Ayat 116-121, Surat AlNisa'.
Words: Yaghfir = Forgives, Yush'rak = Makes partner(s), Dhal'la = Strayed away, Baeed =
Far, Yad'ouna = They call upon, Ina'th = Females, Shaitan = Satan, Mareed = Rebellious,
La'anahu = Cursed him, Iba'd = People, Naseeb = Share, Mafroudh = Dictated - Ordered,
Dha'la = Lost, A'mir = To order, Yubatik = Cuts little or completely, Yugayer = Change, Khalq =
Creation, Yat'akhidh = Takes, Wali = Master, Doon = Without, Khasira = Lost, Mubeen = Explicit -
Unmistakable, Ya'id = Promises, Ghoroor = Deception, Ma'wa = Dwelling, Jahanam = The Hell, Yajid =
Finds, Mahees = Shelter.
Q: What does the fly do to the food that humans cannot take it back from it?
A: O people! An example has been made so listen to it: Those whom you call upon ,leaving Allah, will not
create flies even if they gather for it. And if the flies robs them of something, they cannot rescue it from
them; The pursuer and the sought after (fly) are weak.
Translation of: Ayah 73, Surat AlHaj.
Words: Mathal = Example, Tad'ouna = Call upon, Yakhluq = Creates, Thubab = flies,
Lau = Even if, Ijtama' = Gather, Yaslub = Robs, Shaye' = Something, Da'ufa = Is weak,
Talib = Pursuer, Matloub = Sought after.
Q: Are there are other creatures in the universe beside humans?
A: So ask them (disbelivers) if they are a more powerful creation or whom We created (Jinn and Angels)? We
had created them (humans) from sticking clay.
Translation of: Ayah 11, Surat AlSaffat.
Words: Istafti = Ask, Ash'ed = More Powerful, Khalq = Creation, Am = Or, Teen = Clay, Lazib =
Sticking.
Q: Does the skin contain the body's receptors of pain (nerve endings) so if the skin is burnt, the body doesn't
feel the pain?
A: For those who disbelieve in Our lines We shall throw them into Fire - Everytime their skins become
completely cooked we Will change them into other skins so that they taste the punishment; For Allah is
The AlMighty, The Wise.
Translation of: Ayah 56, Surat AlNisa'.
Words: Nar = Fire, Nadhija = Cooked, Juloud = Skins, Bad'dala = Changed, Yadhouq = Tastes,
AlAdhab = The Punishment, Azeez = Mighty, Hakeem = Wise.
Q: What makes the clouds move?
A: And it is He (Allah) who sends the winds as good news from His (Allah) mercy. So when they have carried
heavy clouds, We (Allah) move them to a dead (bare) land; and We send down rain on it, then We produce thereon from all
the produce. This is how We shall raise up the dead, perhaps you may remember!
Translation of: Ayah 57, Surat AlA'raf.
Words: Yursil = Sends, Riyah = Winds, Ak'kalat = Carried, Sahab = Clouds, Thiqal = Heavy,
Balad = Land, Mayet = Dead (Bare), Anzalna = Sent down, Ma' = Water, Thamarat = Produce - Yield -
Fruits, Nukhrij = Raise up, AlMawta = The dead, La'ala = Perhaps, Tadhak'kar = Remember.
Q: Does the sky have pillars to support it?
A: He (Allah) created the Heavens without pillars that you can see; And he set on the earth fasteners
(mountains) to prevent the earth from shaking with you. And He scattered in it (earth) from every moving creature. And
We (Allah) sent down from the sky water so We grew on it (earth) plants from every useful group. This is the creation of
Allah, so show Me (Allah) what those other than Him (Allah) created?! Yet, the sinners are in a clear straying from
The Right Path (of Allah).
Translation of: Ayat 10-11, Surat Luqman.
Words: Khalaqa = Created, Bighayr = Without, Amed = Pillars, Taraw'naha = You See (plural),
Alqa = Set, Tameed = Shakes, Dabbah = A moving creature, Ma'e = Water, Anbata = Grew plants,
Zawj = group, Khalq = Creation, Min Dounih = Other than Him, Bel = Yet, AlDhlimoun = The sinners, Dhalal =
Straying.
Q: What begins the creation of a human being?
A: Let the human being consider from where he was created. He was created from a gushing out water; It pours out from
between the loins and the ribs. Indeed, He (Allah) is capable of returning him (to life after death); The Day the inner
selves will be tested; and he (man) will have no power and no supporter.
Translation of: Ayat 5-10, Surat AlTariq.
Words: Yandhur = Consider - Think, Khuliq = Was created, Ma'e = Water - Fluid, Sulb = Loins (man's
private parts), Tara'ib = Ribs, Kadir = Capable, Tubla = Will be tested, Sa'rair = Inner selves, Kow'wah
= Power, Na'sir = Supporter.
Q: In the past, was there a huge flood on earth and where is The Ark (ship) that saved life then?
A: (To Noah) And make the Ark under Our (Allah's) care and Our inspiration, and do not
talk to Me (Allah) on behalf of those who committed sins; They are to be drowned. ---. Then when Our order came and the
boiling
face of the earth exploded, We said: Carry on it from every kind two pairs, and your family except upon whom The Word (of
Allah) has been previously uttered, and those who believed; But only a few believed with him. And he (Noah) said: Get on
board! In the name of Allah is its running and its anchorage; Indeed my God is The Most Forgiving and The Most Merciful.
And it was running with them among waves like mountains; and Noah called out to his son who was separated from him: O my
son, get on board with us and do not be with the disbelievers. He said: I will take shelter in a mountain that will protect me
from the water.
He (Noah) said: There is no protection today from the order of Allah except upon whom He (Allah) has mercy; And the
waves separated them and he (the son) was from the drowned. And it was said: O earth! Swallow your water! And O
sky, stop! (the rain) And the water was gone and the order was executed and it (Ark) settled on AlJodi (name of
a mountain); and it was said: Away with the wrongdoing people. And Noah called upon his God and said: O my God! My
son is from my family and Your promise is The Truth, and You are the Best of judges. He (Allah) said: O Noah, he is not
from your family; He is an unrighteous deed; So do not ask about what you do not have knowledge; I (Allah) warn
you not to be from the ignorant! He (Noah) said: O my God; I seek your protection against asking for what I do not
have knowledge about; and if you do not forgive me and have mercy on me, I will be from the losers. It was said: O
Noah, get off board with peace from Us (Allah) and blessings upon you and upon nations from those who are
with you; and nations We will grant them pleasures and then they will receive a severe punishment from us. That is from
the news of the Unseen We (Allah) reveal it to you (Muhammad); You didn't know about it neither did your people before
this (The Qur'an); So be patient! Indeed The End is for the righteous.
Translation of: Ayat 37, 40--49, Surat Hood.
Words: Is'ne' = Make - Manufacture, AlFulk = The Ark - The Ship, Mughraq = Drowned, Tanoor = Boiling Face of Earth -
Boiling Oven, Far = Exploded - Bubbled up, Ehmel = Carry, Zawjain Ithnain = Two pairs, Ahl =
Family, A'mana = Believed, Majra'ha = Its Running, Mursaha = Its anchorage, Mawj = Waves, Jibal =
Mountains, Na'da = He called, SaA'wi = I will seek shelter in, Ya'sim = Protects, A'sim = Protection,
H'ala =
Separated, Abli'ee = Swallow (feminine), Sama' = Sky, Akli'ee = Stop, AlJudi =
A mountain (said to be in Turkey), Ibni = My Son, Wa'd = Promise, Ha'kim = Judge, Ilm = Knowledge,
Ehbet = Get off board, Barakat = Blessings, Ummam = Nations, Adhab = Punishment, Aleem = Severe,
Anba' = News, Nu'hee = We reveal, Kawm = People, Isbir = Be Patient, AlAkibah = The End, Mutaqeen
= Righteous (people).
Q: When a human being dies and his body is buried, what does it gradually change into?
A: And they (disbelievers) were saying: What if we die and become soil and bones are we going to be raised up? Or
our forefathers? Say: The former and the latter are going to be gathered to the time of a fixed day. Then, O
you the wanderers (away from The Right Path) and the deniers are going to eat from a tree of Zaqqoum (Tree in Hell).and you are going to fill from it
your bellies; And you are going to drink on it from very hot water; And you are going to drink like the drinking of
the
camels with burning thirst. This is their hospitality on The Day of The Religion (Judgment Day). It is We (Allah) who
have created you if you weren't believing!
Translation of: Ayat 47-57, Surat AlWaqiah.
Words: A'idha = What if, Turab = Soil, Izam = Bones, AlA'ba' AlAwaloun = Forefathers, AlAwaleen =
The former, AlAkhareen = The latter, majmu'oun = To be gathered, Miqat = Time, Ma'loum = Fixed,
Dhaloun = Wanderers, Shajarah = Tree, Butoun = Bellies, Shurb = Drinking, Hameem = Very hot water,
AlHeem = Camels with burning
thirst. Nuzul = Hospitality, Youm AlDeen = The Day of Religion - The Day of Judgment, Khalka = Created,
Tusadiq = Believe!
Q: Is human time put according to human capability to conceive time and limits?
A: Haven't they walk on earth so that they have hearts with which they can understand (faith) or ears with which
they can listen! It is not that their eyes that become blind but their hearts that are in their chests that have
become blind! And they ask you (Muhammad) to rush with the punishment (Day of Judgment) and Allah will not break His
Promise, and a day according to your God is similar to one thousand years from what you count!
Translation of: Ayat 46-47, Surat AlHajj.
Words: Yasseer = Walk, Kuloub = Hearts, A'dhan = Ears, Yasme' = Listens, Ta'ma = Becomes blind,
Sudour = Chests, Yaste'jelouna = Rush , Adhab = Punishment, Yukhlef = Breaks, Wa'd =
Promise, Yawm = Day, Rabika = Your God (Allah), Alf = One thousand, Sanah = Year, Mimma = From
what, Taud = Count.
Q: Will there be an earthquake that will end the world?
A: O people! Fear your God; Indeed The Earthquake of The Hour (Day of Judgment) is a catastrophic thing. The day
you see it (earthquake) distracting every breast-feeding mother away from whom she has breast-fed; And every pregnant woman
will drop her pregnancy (miscarriage); And you will see the people drunk and they are not drunk; But the punishment of
Allah is severe. And (yet) from the people who disputes in Allah, without knowledge and he follows every rebellious satan!
Translation of: Ayat 1 - 3, Surat AlHajj.
Words: Itaqou = Fear - Be in awe, Zalzalah = Earthquake - Shaking, AlSa'ah = The Hour, Shaye' = Thing,
Adheem = Catastrophic, Yawm = Day, Ardhat = Breast-fed, Tadhau = Drop, Sukara = Drunk, Adhab
Punishment, Shadeed = Severe - Powerful, Yujadil = Disputes, Yattabi' = Follows, Mareed =
Rebellious.
Q: Where did the water, that we drink, originally come from?
A: Do you see the water that you drink? Did you bring it down from the clouds or are We (Allah) who brought it
down? If We want We can make it bitter (salty), so only if you can be thankful!
Translation of: Ayat 68 - 70, Surat AlWa'qiah.
Words: Ra'aytum = You see, Ma' = Water, Tashrab = You Drink, Anzala = Brought Down, Muzn =
clouds, Am = Or, Nahnu = we, Law = If, Nasha' = Want, Ujaj = Bitter - Salty water, Tashkur = Be Thankful.
Q: Is the sun moving from its place? (On The Day of Judgment will the sun be nearer to earth than now?)
A: And the sun moves on to a resting place for it; That is the calculation of The All-Mighty and The
All-Knowledgeable. And the moon We (Allah) have made it into stages until it returns (its shape) like the withered date (fruit)
seed. The sun does not have the authority to catch up with the moon and the night is not outrunning the
day; And every one floats in an orbit.
Translation of: Ayat 38 - 40, Surat Ya'seen.
Words: Shams = Sun, Tajri = moves on, mustaqar = Resting Place, Taqdeer = Calculation, AlAzeez
= All-Mighty, AlAleem = All-Knowledgeable, Qamar = Moon, Urjoon = Date Seed, Kadeem = Withered - Old,
Yanbaghi = Has the authority, Tudrik = Catch up, Qamar = Moon, Layl = Night, Sabiq = Outrunning,
yasbah = Floats - Smoothly moves.
Q: What will happen to the sun and the moon on The Day of Judgment?
A: But the human being wants to keep on sinning (in the time) ahead; He asks: When is The Day of Judgment? It
is when the eyesight is lightened (flashed); And the moon eclipses (darkens); And the sun and the moon are grouped,
the human being will ask that Day where is the way out? By no means! There is no refuge: To Your God that Day is the
destination. The human being will be informed that Day about what he did and what he left*. But the
human being is acutely informed by his own self: And even if he makes his excuses!
Translation of: Ayat 5 - 15, Surat AlQiyamah.
* The deeds that man makes during his life and, after his death, their lasting effects are recorded for him: Good or bad.
Words: Yureed = Wants, Yafjur = Sins, Amam = Ahead, Ayyan = When, Yawm AlQiyamah = Day of
Judgment, Bariqa = Lightened (like from sky lightning) - Flashed, Basar = Eyesight, Jumia' =
Grouped, Shams = Sun, Qamar = Moon, Maffar = Catch up, Khasafa = Eclipse, wazar =
Refuge, Mustaqar = Destination, Kaddama = Forwarded, Akhara = Left for future, Baseerah = Acutely
(sharply Informed, Alqa = Made, Ma'dheer = Excuses.
Q: In old times was the life span longer?
A: And We (Allah) sent Noah (Nooh) to his people and he stayed among them for one thousand years except fifty
years; And the flood took hold of them while they were sinners. So We saved him and the companions of The Ark and We
made it a sign for the inhabitants of the world.
Translation of: Ayat 14 - 15, Surat AlAnkaboot.
Words: Arsalna = We sent, Labistha = stayed, Alf = One Thousand, Sanah = Year, Khamseen =
Fifty, A'm = Year, Akhatha = Took Hold of, Toufan = Flood, Anjay'na = Saved, As'hab = Companions, Safeenah = Ark.
Q: The creation of earth with all of its life forms and the creation of the universe with all its components, can
it be the work of more than one God?
A: And they took gods from the earth (idols - heroes - nature forces etc): Can they raise the dead? If there
were in them (earth and Universe) gods other than Allah, they (Earth and Universe) both would have been in confusion.
So glory to Allah, The Lord of The
Throne from what they attribute! He (Allah) will not be asked about what He does but they will be questioned. Or did
they take gods (self, one's power etc) other than Him; Say (order to Muhammad) : Bring about your proof! This (Qur'an) is
a recollection (remembering) of who are with me and a recollection of who were before me; But most of them
(disbelievers) do not know The Truth
therefore they are from it turning away. And We (Allah) did not send before you any prophet but We had revealed to him
that there is no god but Me (Allah) so worship Me (Allah)!
Translation of: Ayat 21 - 25, Surat AlAnbiya'.
Words: A'li'ha = gods, Yunshir = raises the dead, Illa = Other than, Fasadata (for two) = Would have been in
confusion, Subhana = Glory, Yusal = Will be asked, Yusaloun (plural) = Will be asked. Dhikr
Recollection - Remembering, Ma'e = Who is with me, Min Kabli = Who were before me, Aksthar = Most of them, Yalam = Knows,
AlHaq = The Truth, Mu'ridh = Turning away,
Q: The earth is a part of a galaxy. Can earth vanish?
A: Allah does hold the Heavens and the earth from vanishing; And if they (both) vanished, if there is someone
who could have held them after Him! He has been The All-Tolerant, The Most-Forgiving.
Translation of: Ayah 41, Surat Fatir.
Words: Yumsik = Holds, Samawat = Heavens, Ardh = Earth, Tazoula = Vanish (both), Amsaka =
Could have held - Held, Ahad = Someone, Min Ba'dihi = After Him, Haleem = All-Tolerant, Ghufour =
All-Forgiving,
Q: Does Allah create things according to proportion (balance)?
A: Allah knows what every female bears (of pregnancy) and what the wombs lack (in time and number) and what they exceed; And
everything with Him is according to proportion. The All-Knowing of The World of The Unseen and Witness,
The All-Great, The Most-High (over others).
Translation of: Ayat 8 - 9, Surat AlR'd.
Words: Ya'lem = Knows, Tahmil = Bears, Uns(th)a = Female, Tagheedh = Lacks, Arham = Wombs,
Tazdad = Exceeds, Shaye' = Thing, Miqdar = Proportion, AlKabeer = The All-Great, AlMuta'l =
The Most-High.
Q: What can replace the day light?
A: Say (order to Muhammad from Allah): See if Allah makes upon you the night eternal to the Day of Judgment,
which god other than
Allah can bring you a light so can't you listen?! Say: See if Allah makes upon you the day eternal to
the Day of Judgment, which god other than Allah can bring you a night in which you rest, so can't you see! And
it is out of His mercy He made for you the night and the day so that you rest in it and to seek from his favour, and
hopefully you might be grateful!
Translation of: Ayat 71 - 73, Surat AlQasas.
Words: Layl = Night, Sarmad = Eternal, Dhiya' = Light, Tas'me' = Hear, Nahar = Day, Taskun =
Rest, Tubsir = Look, Rahmah = Peace, Fadhl = Favour, Tashkur = Be grateful.
Q: Inside the womb, is the new born created fully dead and then Allah gives him life by injecting the soul into him?
A: How can you disbelieve in Allah and you were dead (in wombs) then He made you alive then He will make you
dead then He will bring you to life (on Day of Judgment); Then to Him you will return.
Translation of: Ayah 28, Surat AlBaqarah.
Words: Kayfa = How, Takfur = Disbelieve, Amwat = Dead, Ahya = Made you alive, Yumeet =
Make you dead, Yuhyee = Make you alive, Turje' = Return.
Q: At what age does a human being reach the peak of his youth?
A: And We had directed man about kindness towards his parents; His mother carried him under compulsion (forcibly) and
delivered him under compulsion, and his carrying and weaning thirty months*, until he reaches the peak of his strength
and he reaches forty years he says: God! Allow me to be grateful to your favour that you bestowed upon me and my
parents and to make righteous work that you accept and make my offspring righteous; I have repented to you and I am
from the muslims (submitting to God). Those are the ones that We accept from them the best of what they do and We
overlook (pardon) their bad deeds, among the companions of the Paradise; The truth promise that they were promised. And the one
who said to his parents: I am bored of you (= Oof)! Do you promise me that I will be brought out (raised up) and the
generations had passed before me (without being raised up), and they seek help from Allah: Woe to you! Have faith!
The promise of Allah is truthful and he says: This isn't but mythologies of the ancients. Those are the ones against
whom the Word has been uttered among generations that had passed before them from the Jinn and humans - Indeed they were
losers. Any everyone will have grades according to what they did and He (Allah) will pay them for their deeds and
they will not be dealth with injustice.
Translation of: Ayat 15 - 19, Surat AlAhqaf.
* 24 months at most for breastfeeding, and six months at least for gestation (for a living fetus).
Words: Was'sayna = Directed - Advised, Ihsan = Kindness, Hamalat = Carried, Umuhu = His Mother, Kurh
= Under compulsion, Wada'athu = She delivered him, Humluhu = Carrying him, Fisaluhu = Weaning him -
Stop breastfeeding him, Balagha Ashudahu = Reached the peak of his strength, Arba'een Sanah = Forty years,
Awzi'ni = Allow me, Salih = Righteous work, Tardha = You accept, As'lih = Make good, Thuriyeh =
Offspring, Tubtu = Repented, Muslimeen = Muslims - Submitting to Allah, Nataqabal = Accept, Ahsen =
Best, Natajawaz = Overlook - Pardon, Say'et = Bad deeds, Wa'd = Promise, Ukhraj = brought out - Raised up, Khalat
= Had passed, Quroun = Generations, Yastagheeth = Seeks help, Waylek = Woe to you - Destruction to
you (parental swear), A'min = Have faith, Khasireen =
Losers, Darajat = Grades, Yuwaf'fi = Pays, A'mal = Deeds.
Q: In how much time did Allah make the earth and the Heavens? And which was made first?
Note: Remember one year
to Allah is a thousand years of human's time. Also remember that Allah's concepts such as of time and space are
different than humans' so do not ponder on the question 'how'.
A: Say: You are disbelieving in Who created the earth in two days and you are making with Him equals; That is The
God of all the worlds. And He made in it unshakable mountains from above it, and He blessed it and appraised in it
its foodstuff in four days together (two days creation, two days foodstuff) for the seekers.
Then He directed Himself towards the sky while it was smoke (Allah created it first as matter) and He said to it and to
the earth: Come together (in proportion) willingly or by force. They said: We have come willingly. So He completed them into
seven Heavens in two days and He assigned in each Heaven its business.
Translation of: Ayat 9 - 11, Surat Fusilat.
Words: Khalaqa = Created, Yawmain = Two days, Andad = Equals, Rawa'si = Unshakable mountains,
Ba'raka = Blessed, Qad'dara = Appraised - Measured, Sawa' = Together, Sa'il = Seeker - Who asks - Who
looks for, Istawa = Directed Himself, Dukhan = Smoke, I'tiya = Come together, Tawan = Willingly,
Karhan = By force, Atayna = We have come, Qadha = Completed, Sabe' = Seven, Samawat = Heavens,
Awha = Assigned, Sama' = Heaven, Amr = Business.
Q: When we look up we see one sky. Where did Allah create the Seven Heavens?
A: And We built above you powerful seven (Heavens).
Translation of: Ayah 12, Surat AlNabe'.
Words: Banayna = We Built, Fawq = Above, Sab'an = Seven, Shidadan = Powerful - Firm.
Q: Does the term 'The Seven Heavens' and the term 'The Universe' mean the same thing?
Note: Allah in the Qur'an mentions the Seven Heavens. Humans know the Universe
with its galaxies and components.
A: Haven't they looked into the kingdoms of the
Heavens and the Earth and all the things that Allah created; And maybe their time has come near to end;
So with what Word after that they will have faith?
Translation of: Ayah 185, Surat AlA'raf.
Words: Yanthur = Sees, Looks into - Thinks about, Malakout = Kingdoms, Khalaqa = Created; Min Shaye'
= All the things, Asa' = Maybe,
Iqtaraba = Has come near (to end), Hadeeth = Word - Talk - Speech, Ba'd = After, Yu'minoun = To have
faith.
Q: Again if humans can not see The Heavens why does Allah want us to look into them? (So Are the Seven Heavens
and what we know as The Universe with its galaxies the same)
A: Say (order to Muhammad) Look into what is in the Heavens and the Earth! And what use are the Signs (of Allah's
existence) and the Warnings for the people who do not believe (in Allah).
Translation of: Ayah 101, Surat Yunus.
Words: Unthuru = Look into, AlSamawat = The Heavens (notice it is the plural of heaven), AlArdh =
The Earth, Tughni = What use is, Ayat = Signs, Nuthur = Warnings, Qawm = People, La = not, Yu'min = Believe.
Q: How did Allah create the Heavens?
A: Haven't you seen how Allah created seven Heavens (as) layers one above another; And He made the moon in them
an illuminating light and He made the sun* a radiant light.
Translation of: Ayat 15 -16. Surat Nooh.
* Said to be in the fourth Heaven.
Words: Kayfa = How, Sabe' = Seven, Samawat = Heavens, Tibaqa = Layers one above another, Ja'ala =
He made, Qamar = Moon, Noor = Light, Siraj = Radiant Light - lamp.
Q: Do we have more than one place of sunset?
A: No! We created them from what they know (clay, sperm, soul); And I (Allah) do swear by (Myself) the God of The
places of sunrise and the places of sunset (Allah is their God) that We (Allah) are capable to substitute better
than them (disbelievers) and We will not be beat. So leave them to indulge in vain talk and to play about until they meet their Day that
they were promised. The Day they will come out from the graves running as to idols they are rushing; Their
eyesight is cast down, humiliation tires them out; That is the Day that they were promised.
Translation of: Ayat 39 - 44, Surat Nooh.
Words: Ya'lam = Knows, LaUksim = Do swear, Masha'riq = Places of sunrise, Magh'arib = Places of sunset,
Nubad'dil = Substitute, Khair = Better, Masbooq = To be beat - be overcome, Thar = Leave,
Yakhoudh = Indulge in vain talk, Yalab = Plays about, Yu'ad = Is promised, Yakhruj = Come out,
Ajdas(th) = Graves, Sira' = Running, Nusub = Idols, Yufadh = Rushes, Khashi'ah = Cast down, Tarhaq
= Tires out, Thillah = Humiliation.
Q: Why does Allah choose the Universe and the human body as examples of His greatness?
A: We (Allah) will show them Our signs (miracles) in the remote parts and themsleves so that it becomes
clear to them that it is the Truth; Isn't it enough for your God that He is upon everything a Witness! Yet they
are in a doubt from meeting their God; Yet He is of everything aware!
Translation of: Ayat 53 - 54, Surat Fusilat.
Words: Nuri = We will show, A'yat = Signs - Miracles, A'faq = Remote Places - Horizons, Anfusihim =
Themsleves, Yatabayen = Becomes clear, AlHaq = The Truth, Alam Yakfi = Isn't it enough, Ala = Yet,
Miryah = Doubt, Liqa' = Meeting, Muheet = Aware.
Q: Did Allah bring the attention of any of the prophets towards the Heavens?
A: And this how We show Abraham (Ibraheem) the vast kingdom of the Heavens and the Earth.and so that he becomes
from the convinced. So when the night became upon him dark he saw a star. He said: This is my god so when it set (went
down ) he said: I do not like the setters. So when he saw the moon rising he said: This is my god. So when it set he
said: If my God had not guided me I would have been from the straying people (away from The Right Path); So when he
saw the sun rising he said: This is my god; This is bigger so when it set he said: O my people I am free from what you
partner with (become polytheists); I have directed my face towards Who created the Heavens and the earth:
Believing in One God and I am not from the polytheists. And his people disputed with him. He said: Do you dispute with
me in Allah and He has guided me! And I do not fear what you partner with unless my God wills something;
My god has embraced everything with knowledge so will not you remember! And how do I fear what you have partnered with
and you do not fear that you have made partners to Allah with what He has not sent down upon you an authority; So which
team is worthier of the peace of mind if you were to know. Those who have faith and have not mixed their faith with
transgression (sin) those for them is the peace of mind and those are the guided. And that was our argument We gave
it to Abraham upon his people; We make higher in ranks whom We will; Indeed your God is Wise, Knowledgeable.
Translation of: Ayat 75 - 83, Surat AlAn'am.
Words: Nuri = To show, Malakout = Mulk means kingdom. Malkout means the vast, excessive and seemingly limitless
kingdom. Mu'qin = Convinced, Jan'na = Became dark, Layl = Night, Kawkab = Star, Afala = Set -
Went down, Uhib = Like, Qamar = Moon, Shams = Sun, Bazigah = Rising, Wajh = Face, Baree' =
Free from, Tushirk = Partner with - Become polytheists, Fatara = Created, Haneef = Facing One God,
Haj'jahu = Disputed with him, Wasia' = Embraced, Ilm = Knowledge, Yunazzil = Sends down, Ahaq =
Worthier, Amn = Peace of mind, Hujjah = Argument, Narfe' = Make higher, Darajat = Ranks.
Q: When it does not rain how does the plant still get its water?
A: Haven't you seen how Allah sends down from the sky water and He passed it in streams in the earth; Then He
brings out with it plants whose colours are different then it withers (dries) so you see it yellow; Then He makes it
a ruin; Indeed in that is a reminder for those who have brains.
Translation of: Ayah 21, Surat AlZumur.
Words: Anzala = Sent down, Salakhu = Passed, Yanabee' = Streams - Springs, Yukhrij = Brings out,
Zare' = Plants, Yaheej = Withers, Musfir = Yellow, Hutam = Ruin, Thikra = Reminder -
Remembrance, Uli AlAlbab = who have alAlbab -
Men of understanding.
Q: How is the reproduction in plants?
A: And it is He (Allah) Who spread out the earth; And made in it unshakeable mountains and rivers; And from
all the produce* He made in it a couple: Two (male and female); He makes the night cover the day; Indeed in that some signs for
the people who think!
Translation of: Ayah 3, Surat AlRa'd.
* S(th)amarat means types of produce, fruits or yield.
Words: Mad'da = Spread out, Ardh = Earth, S(th)amarat = Fruits - Produce - Yield, Zawjayn = A couple: Male and Female,
Is(th)nayn = Two, Yughshi = Covers, Layl = Night, Nahar = Day, Ayat = Signs - Miracles, Tatafak'kar
= Think - Contemplate.
Q: What type of clouds are there?
A: Allah is Who sends down the winds so they cause clouds; Then He spreads them in the sky however He wills and
He makes
them grow dark so you see the rain coming out from them; So when it (rain) reaches whoever He wills from His servants,
suddenly they become happy with the good news; Although they were before it was sent down upon them before that they
were dumb-struck with despair. So look into the consequences of Allah's mercy; How He brings the earth to life after its death;
It is He Who will bring the dead to life and He is upon everything capable. And if We (Allah) sent down a wind and
they saw it (plant) yellow-coloured they would have remained after that disbelieving (in Allah). So you (Muhammad) do not
make the dead listen and you do not make the deaf listen to the call on Allah when they turned running away. And you are
not going to guide the blind away from their straying! But you make to listen only those who believe in Our signs so
they have submitted to Allah (Muslimoun).
Translation of: Ayat 48 - 53, Surat AlRoum.
Words: Riyah = Winds, Yursil = Sends down, Tus(th)eer = Causes, Sahab = Clouds, Yubsit = Spreads out, Kisf = Dark, Wadq = Rain,
Yastabshir = Bcomes happy with the good news, Mublis = Dumb-struck with despair, As(th)ar = Consequences,
Yuh'yi = Brings to life, AlMawta = The dead, Reeh = Wind, Musfar = Yellow-coloured, AlSum =
The deaf, AlDu'a = The call on Allah, Walla Mudbiran = He turned running away, AlUmye = The blind.
Q: How is the earth similar to the Seven Heavens?
A: Allah is Who created seven Heavens and of the earth like them*; The Command (of Allah)
is (constantly) sent down among them so that you might know that Allah is upon everything capable and that Allah has surrounded
everything with knowledge.
Translation of: Ayah 12, Surat AlTalaq.
* The meaning is either that our earth is layered like the seven Heavens.
Or there are seven earths as there are Seven Heavens.
Words: Khalaqa = Created, Sabe' = Seven, Samawat = Heavens, AlArdh = The Earth,
Misthla'huna =
Like them, Yatanazal = Is (constantly) sent down, Ta'lam = Know, Qadeer = Capable, Ahata =
Surrounded, Kuli Shaye' = Everything, Ilma = With knowledge.
Q: Why is water a basic part of life on earth? Q: Which part of the human body marks the physical strength of man? Q: Which creature's house is the frailest (weakest)? Q: Why does Allah say in the Qur'an that creating man was easy for Him, Glory to Him? Q: Has science discovered all that Allah creates? Q: Only when Christopher Columbus travelled west from Europe in the fifteenth century, it was clearly proved to the world that the earth is a sphere (round). Did the
Qur'an which was sent down in the seventh century refer to the shape of the earth? Q: Why are the mountains of different colours? Q: Will the earth have another shape on the Day of Judgment? Q: What is the secret of sleepiness (drowsiness before sleep) and why do we feel sleepy? Q: Why do some pregnant women deliver boys and the others deliver girls? Q: The creation of man is similar to what creation? Q: Does a fruit stone (kernel) or a date pit split on its own so as a plant grows out of it? Q: Does the Qur'an refer to the earth's deterioration because of people's actions? Q: Is our earth going to last after the Day of Judgment? (God knows better!) Q: Why can not humans control the clouds that carry the rain? Q: Do birds speak in a language that they understand? (Note the long speech of the bird!) Also do ants speak in
sentences they understand? Q: Why don't we have excess of rain, fruits ,other produce...etc. overfilling earth? Q: Does earth experience death and life? Q: Why does the calendar have twelve months? Q: Why does Allah want us to contemplate into how He brings the dead land to life (rain and plants)? Q: What do the orbits of the celectial bodies (stars, planets, comets...etc) suggest about Allah? Q: Man visited the Moon. Are there any signs that indicate that the moon was split into two parts 14 centuries
ago? Q: Why should man think beyond the surface when studying the existence of objects?? Q: According to Allah's standard of time, do humans live a long life? Q: What does show that the earth is a sphere? Note: The Qur'an came down in the sixth century Common Era. Note also the
sequence of Allah's creation.
Q: What can scientists learn from studying the Signs that indicate Allah's existence? And what does
the sequence of the Signs mean?
Q: In what stage of his creation is a human being not worth mentioning because he is nothing?
Q: Is the sky supported by some type of pillars or another type of force that humans cannot see? Allah knows better.
Q: What is behind the frightening sound of the wind during the severe weather which causes wide-spread damage?
Q: What is the base in the following Lines: The Night or the Day?
Q: Can birds perform extraordinary jobs?
Q: Towards what does Allah repeatedly attract our attention to?
Q: Which was created first: The Day or the Night? Allah knows better!
Q: In what situation cannot a person shout even if he desperately wanted to? Q: What is developed first in the fetus inside the womb: Hearing or seeing? Allah knows better! Q: What is created the last in the human body and then at death it is the first to leave the human body? Q: Why does Allah separate an olive tree from the rest of the produce? Q: Why do some women amd some men remain barren (cannot have children) even after seeking medical help? Q: What actually happens to the land before it produces its yield? Q: What is the major noticeable physical difference between humans and animals? Q: In cloud physics, what is the difference between good rain clouds and devastating storm clouds? Q: What is the difference between he light of the sun and the light of the moon? Q: How is water important to the composition of the human body? Q: Why is the creation of humans from earth compared to the creation of plants? Q: Why does the taste of milk change when left in a warm place for a long time? Q: Was man created from the soil of the earth that humans live on (our earth)? Q: How did the plants first come into being? Q: What keeps the earth in its place in the universe? Q: What causes the ocean water to severely flood the land and cause huge damage? Q: Why are there explicit flames flying in the universe? Q: What happens in an aged person's worst part of life? Q: Why will the sun be winded around itself (like a turban) on the Day of Judgment? Has science
discovered that the sun is losing its energy? Q: Is the universe going to end? Q: Why does Allah want us to contemplate in our surroundings? Q: Mountains are of different types. What are the steps of demolishing the mountains on the Day of Judgment? Q: 'Burouj" in Arabic means towers. Are the stars grouped in towers? Q: Where are the billions of galaxies that science had spotted in the Allah's Kingdom that no
one else ever could claim? Q: Were the mountains formed over years? Q: Will our earth still exist after the Day of Judgment? Q: What is the biggest organ in the human body? Will it be able to talk? Q: How were the water bodies created? Q: What was before the creation of the Heavens and the earth? Q: Why does Allah compare a human life to a plant? Why is human life so volatile, fragile and not secure? Q: What are the two known signs of old age? Q: Which one is created first in the womb: The flesh or the bones? Q: Why do scientists continue to discover many new species? Q: Why can not man have control on the kind of the newborn: Boy or girl? Q: What happens to the human body after one dies? Q: Why did the Prophet Muhammad cry when a Qur'anic line about Allah's huge creation came down? Q: When is the shape of each human being decided? Q: Allah created Seven Heavens as layers one above another (Line 15 Chapter Nooh). Which one is the Lowest Heaven? Q: Why should not a human being argue with Allah? Q: Why is it easy for Allah to re-create man on the Day of Judgment? Q: Why do some people with a high Intelligence Quotient score (IQ Testing) still not believe in Allah? Q: What do many people not realize ahout the creation of man? Q: Why does Allah remind us that the creation of the Heavens and the earth is a great creation?
A: And We brought down from the sky blessed water so We planted with it gardens and the seeds of
the crops; And the palm trees tall with stacked spadix (before dates); Sustenance (food) for the servants (of Allah) and
We brought to life with it a dead land; Such will be the resurrection (The dead will be raised).
Translation of: Ayat 9 - 11 Surat Qaf.
Words:
A: It is We Who sent down the Qur'an: A sending down in stages; So (order to Muhammad) be patient and do not obey from them
a sinner or a faith rejector. And mention the name of your God morning and evening; And from the night do prostrate
to Him and glorify Him for a long (time during) night. Indeed these (disbelievers) like
the Quick Life (This Life) and they leave behind them a Heavy Day (Judgment). We created them and We strengthened their
captivity (muscles) and if We want We will change the like of them into a complete change (other people). This is
a reminder so who wants let him take a path to his God (Straight Path).
Translation of: Ayat 23 - 29 Surat AlInsan.
Words: Naz'zala = Sent down, Tanzeel = Sent down in stages, Isbur = Be patient, Tute' = Obey, A's(th)im = Sinner, Kafour
= Faith rejector, Uthkur = Remember, Ism = Name, Bukrah = Morning, Aseel = Evening, Usjud =
Prostrate - bow down in worship, Sab'bih = Glorify, Layl = Night, Taweel = Long, Yuhib = Likes, Ajilah
= Quick Life - Life of Earth, Tathur = Leaves, Yawm = Day, S(th)aqeel = Heavy, Khalaqa = Created,
S(th)aqeel = Heavy, Shadada = Strengthened, Asr = Captivity - tying, Bad'dalna = Changed, Tathkirah
= Reminder, Sabeel = Path - Way.
A: The example of those who took other than Allah protectors is like the spider; It took a house and the frailest
of the houses is the house of the spider if they only knew. Indeed Allah knows whatever that they are calling upon other than
Him and He is The All-Mighty, The All-Wise. And such are the examples that We make them for people and none understands them but
those who have knowledge. Allah created the Heavens and the Earth for a true purpose; Indeed in that is a sign for
the believers.
Translation of: Ayat 41-44, Surat AlAnkaboot.
Words: Awliya' = Protectors - Supporters, Ankaboot = Spider, Itakhathat = Took, Bayt = House,
Awhan = The frailest, Ya'lem = Knows, Am(s)thal = Examples, Nadrib = We make, Yaqil = Understands,
Alim = who has knowledge, BilHaq = For a true purpose - in truth.
A: Your (plural) creation and your (plural) resurrection (on Day of Judgment) is not but as a single soul;
Indeed Allah is All-Listening, All-Seeing.
Translation of: Ayah 28, Surat Luqman.
Words: Ma = Not, Khalq = Creation, Bas(th) = Resurrection - Being alive after death, Nafs = Soul,
Wahidah = One, Samee' = All-Listening, Baseer = All-Hearing.
A: He created the human being from a sperm-drop and suddenly he (man) is an explicit opponent (to Allah). And the livestock He
created them, for you in them warmth and benefits and from them you eat. And for you in them beauty when you leave them
to rest and when you leave them to graze freely. And they carry your loads to lands that you would have reached it
(walking) only with great difficulty; For your God is indeed Most Kind, Most Merciful. And the horses, the mules
and the donkeys (He created) so that you ride them and a decoration; and He creats what you do not
know.
Translation of: Ayat 4-8, Surat AlNahl.
Words: Khalaqa = Created, Nutfah = Sperm-drop, Khaseem = Opponent, Mubeen = Explicit - Fully developed -
Unmistakable, An'am =
Livestock - Cattle, Dife' = Warmth, Manafi' = Benefits, Takul = You eat, Jamal = Beauty, Tureeh =
Leave to rest, Tasrah = Leave to graze freely, Tahmil = Carries, Asthqal = Loads, Balad = Land, Shaq
AlAnfus = With great difficulty, Khayl = Horses, Bighal = Mules, Hameer = Donkeys, Tarkab = You
ride, Zeenah = Decoration, Yakhluq = Creates, Ta'lam = Know.
A: He created the Heavens and the Earth appropriately (in proportion). He makes spherical (round) the night
over the daytime; And He makes spherical (round) the daytime over the night; And He made the sun and
the moon yield: Each one runs (its course) to an appointed time; Well He is The Almighty, The Most-Forgiving.
Translation of: Ayah 5, Surat AlZumur.
Words: Khalaqa = Created, BilHaq = Appropriately, Yukawwir = Makes spherical - Makes round, Layl =
Night, Nahar = Daytime, Sakh'ara = Made yield, Shams = Sun, Qamar = Moon, Ajal = Time, Musamma
= Appointed.
A: Haven't you seen that Allah has sent down from the sky water so We (Allah) brought out with it produce of
different colours; And from the mountains paths white and red with different shades of colour and (also)
black (paths) intense in black hue. And from the humans and the creatures and the cattle of differnt colours too. For
indeed from His servants who
have knowledge fear Allah; Indeed Allah is AlMighty, Most-Forgiving.
Translation of: Ayah 28, Surat Fatir.
Words: S(th)amarat = Produce, Mukhtalif = Different, Alwan = Colours, Jibal = Mountains, Judud
= Paths - Tracts, Beedh = White (plural), Dawab = Creatures, An'am = Cattle - Livestock, Yakhsha
= Fears, Ibad = Servants, Ulama' = Who have knowledge, Azeez = AlMighty, Ghafoor = Most-Forgiving.
A: And they ask you (Muhammad) about the mountains. So Say: My God will blow them up completely; So He will leave
them a leveled bottom; You will not see in it a bend (low) or a curve (high); That Day they will follow the Summoner
(Angel); There is no twistedness (escape from him) to him; And the voices will be hushed to The Merciful so you will not
hear but whispering; That Day there is no pleading but to whom Allah has granted permission and whose speech He has
accepted.
Translation of: Ayat 105 - 109, Surat Taha.
Note: In a summary of a saying of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, the Prophet mentioned that the faithful
from the muslims who
says Allah's blessings and peace be upon him (Muhammad) he will receive The Prophet's pleading for him on the Day of
Judgment.
Words: Yasal = Asks, Jibal = Mountains, Yathar = Leaves, Qa' = Bottom - Plain, Safsaf = Leveled,
Tara =
See, Iwaj = Bend, Amat = Curve - High Place, Tattabe' = Follows, AlDae' = The Summoner - The Caller,
Iwaj = Twistedness, Khashat = Hushed, Aswat = Voices, Tasme' = Hear, Hams = Whispering, Shafaah
= Pleading, Athina = Granted permission, Radhiya = Accepted, Qawl = Speech - Words.
A: When the sleepiness covers you as a peace of mind from Him (Allah) and He sends down upon you from the
Heaven water so as to cleanse you with it; And He removes from you the punishment (whispering) of Satan (AlShaitan); And
so as to strengthen your hearts (with patience) and to make with it the feet firm (brave).*
Translation of: Ayah 11, Surat AlAnfal.
* Reference is to the War of Badr: The first war the muslims fought against their enemies of Mecca.
Words: Yughshi = Covers, Nu'as = Sleepiness - Drowsiness before sleep, Aminah = Peace of mind, Yunazzil
= Sends down, Ma' = Water, Yutahhir = Cleanse, Rijz = Punishment, Yurbit = Strengthen, Yus(th)abit
= Makes firm, Aqdam = Feet.
A: To Allah belongs the Kingdom of the Heavens and Earth; He creates whatever He pleases; He gives to whoever He
wills females and He gives to whoever He wills the males.
Translation of: Ayah 49, Surat AlShoura.
Words: LiAllah = To Allah belongs, Mulk = Kingdom - Control, Yakhluq = Creates, Inas(th) =
Females, Thukour = Males.
A: And Allah has produced you from the earth like a full plant; And then He returns you in
it (at death) and He will produce you from it a complete production.
Translation of: Ayat 17-18, Surat Noah.
Note: In a recent workshop Shaikh (imam) Ahamad Kutty reiterated what one of my science teachers had said very long back. Dr. Ahmad
mentioned
that the tail bone of man has a cell that does not ever get destroyed. That cell will be the beginning of Allah's new
production on the Day of Judgment.
Words: Anbata = Produced like a plant, Nabata = A full plant, Yu'eed = Returns, Yukhrij = Produces out -
Brings forth, Ikhraja = Complete production.
A: For Allah is Who splits open the seeds and the fruit stones; He brings out the living from the dead* and He is
Who brings out the dead from the living**; That is Allah so how can you be deluded away from the Truth?!
Translation of: Ayah 95, Surat AlAn'am.
* a chick from an egg for example.
** an egg from a chicken for example.
Words: Fa'liq = Who splits open, AlHab = The seeds, AlNawa = The fruit kernels stones or pits,
Yukhrij = Brings out, Hayy = Living, Mayyet = Dead, Tu'fak = Be deluded (tempted) away from the truth.
Note: Allah imposed on man to take care of earth.
A: The deterioration has appeared on land and in the sea because of what people's hands have done; So He (Allah)
is making them taste some of what they did (pollution...etc) so that they may turn back (away from wrongdoing). Say (order
to Muhammad): Walk on earth and look for yourselves how the ending was of those from before: Most of them were
disbelievers. So devote yourself to the precious religion (submission to Allah, Islam) before a Day comes no returning
for it from Allah - that Day they will be cracked (broken with terror); Whoever disbelieves so upon him is his disbelief;
And
who does righteous (deeds) so for themselves they are preparing; So that He (Allah) rewards those who have believed and
do the righteous deeds from His favour: For He does not like the disbelievers.
Translation of: Ayat 41 - 45, Surat AlRoum.
Words: Dhahara = Appeared, Fassad = Deterioration, Barr = Land, Bahr = Sea, Aydi = Hands, Nas =
People = Yudheeq = Make taste, Seeru = Walk (plural), Ardh = Earth, A'qibat = ending, Mushrikeen
= Disbelievers - Who partner with Allah, Aqim Wajhaka = Devote yourself, Qayyem = Precious, Marrad =
Returning back, Yas'sad'e' = Be cracked, Yamhad = Prepares, Fadhl = Favour.
Note: On the Day of Judgment the Qur'an mentions that the earth will be pounded to be levelled completely for the
beginning of the Judgment. The Qur'an also mentions that Allah will
come down in shades of clouds accompanied by rows and rows of angels. Moreover the Qur'an says the earth will shine with the Light of Allah.
Also the Qur'an mentions that the Paradise will be brought near to the righteous.
Answer 1: And We (Allah) had written in The Psalm* after (its being written in) The Message Tablet** that
the earth will be
inherited by My (Allah's) righteous servants.
Translation of: Ayah 105, Surat AlAnbiya' in the Qur'an.
* Holy Book sent down on David.
** Allah's Message Tablet is The Origin of all the Holy Books. It is well guarded by angels in the Heaven and it is
referred to as The Mother of the Book = Um AlKitab as mentioned in the Qur'an.
Words: Kataba = Had written, AlZabour = The Psalm - The Scripture, AlThikr
= Allah's Message Tablet - The Origion of Allah's Holy Books, Yaris(th) = Inherits, Ibad =
Servants, Salih = righteous.
Answer 2: And those who feared Allah were led to The Paradise in groups until
when they
reached it its gates were opened and its custodians (angels) said to them: Peace be upon you! Good for you! So
enter it immortal (in it). And they (righteous) said: Praise to Allah Who fulfilled His Promise and He appointed us
inheritors of the earth - We stay in the Paradise wherever we want so how excellent is the reward of the (righteous) workers!
Translation of: Ayat 73 - 74, Surat AlZummar in the Qur'an.
Words: Seeqa = Were led, Itaq'ou = Feared, Zumura = In groups, Futihat = Were opened, Abwab =
Gates, Khazant = Custodians, Khaledeen = Immortal (plural), Natabawa' = We stay (plural), Ni'ma =
Excellent, Ajr = Reward.
A: And We (Allah) sent the winds pollinating then We sent down from the sky water and We gave it to you to drink
it and you are not going to be its guardians. And it is We Who make alive and Who make dead and We are the
Inheritors. And We had known those from you who came before and We had known those who came after; And indeed
your God is gathering them (on Day of Judgment); For He is All-Wise, All-Knowing.
Translation of: Ayat 22 - 25, Surat AlHijr.
Words: Riyah = Winds, Lawaqih = Pollinating, Asqa = Gave to drink, Khazin = Guardian, Waris(th) =
Inheritor, Mustaqdim = Who came before, Musta'khir = who became after, Yahshur = Gathers.
Note 1: The Qur'an is not mythology, a fantasy or man-made. It is the powerful truth from The Ultimate
Truth (Allah = The God).
On the other hand the human mind is of a limited capacity. Mythologies
in man-made religions on in fiction might have somehow based their stories on what prophets were made to know from Allah's World of the
Unseen.
Note 2: Allah granted Solomon the miracle of being able to talk to and control the Jinn, animals and birds.
A: And Solomon (Suleiman) inherited David (Prophet Dawood). And he said: O people we (I) have been taught (from
Allah) the speech
of the birds and we have been given (from Allah) from everything: Indeed this is the manifest favour (from Allah).
And Solomon's (Suleiman) soldiers from the Jinn, men, and the birds were marshalled for him and they were
restrained
(stopped). When they reached the valley of the ants, an ant said:"O ants! Enter your dwellings to
avoid being crushed by Solomon and his soldiers without their realizing that." So Solomon smiled laughingly from
its saying and said:" God allow me to be grateful to your favour which you bestowed on me and my parents and to do
good deeds that You accept and admit me in your mercy among Your righteous people".---
And he inspected the birds; Then he said: Why do I not see the hoopoe (bird) or was he from the absentees? For I will
punish him a severe punishment or I will execute him or let him bring me a manifest supreme reason; So he (hoopoe)
did not remain for long so he said: I have comprehensive knowledge about what you (Solomon) did not know and I have
brought you from Saba'* (city in Yemen) trustworthy news: For I saw a woman who rules over them and she has
been given (from Allah) of everything and she has a magnificent throne; I saw her and her people prostrating to the
sun leaving Allah; And Satan had made their deeds look pleasing to them so he (Satan) prevented them from The Path
(Allah's) so they are not guided (to the Path): Why they do not prostrate to Allah Who brings out the hidden (plants,
rain etc) in the Heavens and the Earth and He knows what you are concealing and what you are revealing: Allah there is
no god but He: The Owner of The Supreme Throne! (Muslims prostrate at this point). He (Solomon) said: We will see if
you told the truth or you were from the liars. Go with this letter of mine then deliver it to them then leave them
alone and see what they send back! She (Queen of Saba') said: O assembly! For it has been delivered to me a high-ranking
letter; For it is from Solomon and it is: In the name of Allah the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate: Do not be
arrogant against me and come to me as Muslims (submitting to Allah). She said: O assembly! Advise me in my matter; I was not going to decide
in any matter until you utter your opinion. They said: We are people of strength and we are people of strong wars and
the command is yours so see what you order. She said: Indeed when the kings enter a village they destroy it and they
make its honourable people disgraced and that is what they do. And I am sending them a present so I am going to wait
for what the messengers come back with. So when he (hoopoe) came to Solomon he (Solomon) said: Do you (people of
Saba') provide me with wealth so
what Allah had given me is better than what He had given you but you rejoice with your present! Go
back to them so we will come to them with soldiers they will not be able to meet and we will cast them out of it
disgraced and being humiliated. He (Solomon) said: O assembly! Who can bring me her throne before they come to me
as Muslims. He said: O assembly! Who can bring me her throne before they come to me in submission to Allah (Muslimeen)?
A demon of the Jinn said: I will bring it to you before you get up from your place and I am strong and
honest upon it. The one who had knowledge of The Book (Holy Book) said: I will bring it to you
before your look comes back to you (blink). So when he (Solomon) saw it placed before him he said: This is from the favour of my God to
test me if I am grateful or I disbelieve; And who is grateful, he is in fact grateful to himself and who disbelieves,
my God is in no need of, and is The Generous.
--- He (Solomon) said: Disguise for her her throne to see if she will know the truth or if she is from those
who do not know the truth. So when she came it was said to her: Is your throne like this? She said: It looks like that.
And we (Solomon and his people) have been given the Knowledge (of Straight Path) before her and we have been Muslims. And what
she was worshipping other than Allah had prevented her from the Right Path for she was from the disbelieving people. It was
said to her: Enter the High Palace! So when she saw it she thought it was the depth of the sea and she uncovered her
legs (to guard her clothes). He (Solomon) said: It is a palace smoothened with bottles. She said: My God (Allah)! Indeed
I have been unjust to myself and I submit with Solomon to Allah: The God of the Worlds.
Translation of: Ayat 16 - 44, Surat AlNaml.
* Saba' was named after its first king Saba' Bin Yashjab Bin Ya'rab Bin Qahtan Bin Hood. Saba' was ruled by the Queen Balqees (Sheba in the Bible).
Words: Waris(tha) = Inherited, Ulima = Was given the knowledge, Mantiq = Speech, Shay' = Thing,
Hushira = Were marshalled (military arrangement); Youzaoun = Restrained by high ranking officers,
Jonoud = Soldiers, AlTayr = The Birds, Atau =
They reached, Wadi = The Valley, AlNaml = The Ants, Yuhattim = Crush, Tabassama = Smiled, Da'hikan
= Laughingly, Ni'ma = Favour, Waliday = My Parents, AlSaliheen = Righteous people, Tafaqada = Inspected, Tayr = Birds, Hudhud =
Hoopoe, Gha'ib = Absentee, Uthabih =Execute, Makas(th) = Remained, Gayr Ba'eed = Not for long, Naba' =
News, Imra'ah = Woman, Tamlik = Rules, Arsh = Throne, Sadda = Prevented, Khaba' = The hidden,
Tukhfi = conceal, Tu'lin = Reveal, Kareem = High-Ranking, Honourable, Kitab = Letter, Alqi = Deliver, A'izzah = Honourable, Athillah
= Humiliated, Ta'mur = Command, Afsada = Destroyed, Mursilah = Sending, Tumid = You provide,
Tafrah = Rejoice - Be happy, Saghir = Humiliated, Ifreet = giant, cunning and strong one of the jinn - Demon,
AlMala' = The assembly, Kabla = Before, Takoum = Get up, Makam = Place, Yartad = Comes back,
Taraf = Look - Eye,
Ilm = Knowledge, Mustaqar'an = Placed, Fadhl = Favour, Rab'bi = My God, Yab'lou = Test, Shakara
= Be Grateful, Kafara = Disbelieves, Ghani = in no need of, Kareem = Generous.Mumarad = Smoothened, Qawareer = bottles.
A: And the earth We (Allah) had spread it out and We set in it fixed mountains and We produced plants in it from
everything measured; And We made for you in it means of living and for those which you are not going to
provide sustenance for (free creatures as birds); And there is nothing except that We have its treasures and We do not send it
down except with a determined amount.
Translation of: Ayat 19 - 21, Surat AlHijr.
Words: Madada = Spread out, Alqa = Set, Rawasi = fixed mountains, Anbata = Produced plants, Mawzoon
= Measured, Ma'ayesh = Means of living, Raziq = Providing sustenance for, Khaza'in = Treasures, Qadar
= Measurement, Ma'loum = Determined - Known.
A: So look at the imprints of Allah's mercy: How He brings the earth to life (with the rain) after its death; Indeed He is Who
will bring the dead to life and He is upon everything capable. And if We (Allah) send a (destructive) wind and they
saw it (the plant) turned yellow they will still remain after it in their disbelief.
Translation of: Ayat 50 - 51, Surat AlRoum.
Words: Unthur = Look, As(th)ar = Imprints - Results, Rahmat = Mercy, Yuhye = Brings to life, Mawt
= Death, Reeh = Wind, Musfar = Turned yellow, Dhalla = Remained, Yakfur =
Be in disbelief.
A: For the number of months with Allah are twelve months in the Record of Allah (written) the day He created the
Heavens and the earth: From them four are sacred*. That is the Valuable Religion (Islam started by Abraham) so do not
transgress upon yourselves in them (sacred months); And (in a fight any month) do fight all together the disbelievers as they
all together fight you and let it be known to you that Allah is with those who fear Him.
Translation of: Ayah 36, Surat AlTawbah.
* Before Islam Arabs did not fight in the sacred months.
Words: iddat = Number, Shahr = Month, Es(th)na Ashar = Twelve, Hurum = Sacred, Khalaqa = Created,
Mutaqeen = Who fear Allah.
A: Let it be known to you all that Allah brings the land to life after its death: We (Allah) had explained to you
the Signs (indicating Allah) so that you might use your brains. ---. Let it be known to you that the life of this world
is nothing but play and a pastime and fashion and boasting among you and increasing in types of wealth and children
just like rain whose plant pleased the disbelievers then it becomes irritated and you see it yellow-coloured then it becomes dry
and withers away; And in the Other Life there is a severe punishmentm (for disbelievers); And forgiveness from Allah and
satisfaction (for believers); And
the life of this world is nothing but the enjoyment of the illusion (temporary life).
Translation of: Ayat 17, 20. Surat AlHadeed.
Words: E'lem = Let it be know, La'ib = Play, Lahu = Pastime, Zeenah = Fashion - Decoration, Tafakhur
= Boasting, Takas(th)ur = Increasing, Amwal = Types of wealth, Awlad = Children, Ghays(th) =
Rain, A'jaba = Pleased, Yaheej = Becomes irritated, Tara = You see, Musfar = Yellow-coloured,
Hutama = Dry and withers away, Mata' AlGhorour = Enjoyment of the illusion - deception.
Note: The things that Allah swears by should be the focus of contemplation.
A: (Allah swears) By the scatterers (winds) of a proper scattering (of clouds); Then by the carriers (clouds) of
heavy loads (of rain); Then by the sailers (ships) with ease; Then by the distributors (angels) of affairs (to
people according to Allah's Commands): Indeed what you are being promised is true for certain; And indeed the
Judgment is going to happen; (Allah swears) And by the sky with the geniously made orbits: You
(disbelievers) are in inconsistent talk (about Allah and Faith)! Deluded from it (Allah's Path) who wants to be
deluded. Condemned to ruin are the untruth tellers; Those who are in a flood of ignorance unaware (of Allah): They ask
when is the Day of Judgment?! The Day they will be punished over the Fire: Taste your punishment that you used
to ask to be hastened (Day of Judgment).
Translation of: Ayat 1 - 14, Surat AlThariyat.
Words: Thariyat = Scatterers - The ones that scatter, Hamil = Carrier, Wiqr = Heavy load, Jariah =
Sailer - Ship, Yusra = With ease, Muqassim = Distributor, Amr = Affair, AlDeen = The Judgment, Sama'
= Sky, Hubuk = Geniously done orbits, Qawl = Talk, Mukhtalif = Inconsistent, Yu'fak =
Is deluded, Qutila = Condemned to ruin, Kharras = Untruth teller, Ghamrah = Flood of ignorance, Sahi
= Unaware, Yuftan = Is punished, Tasta'ji = Ask to be hastened.
Note: According to Hassanain Mohammad Makhlouf, Egypt's ex scholar (mufti): The disbelievers in Mecca were
continuously
asking the Prophet to bring about a miracle. The Prophet Mohammad, his companions and many Arab travellers once noticed two parts of the
moon with the Mount Hira (in Mecca) between them.
A: The Hour (Day of Judgment) has come near and the moon was split (into two parts). And if
they see a Sign (Miracle) they refuse to recognize and they say: Continuous magic! And they rejected (it) as lies and they
followed their desires and every case (of acceptance or rejection) is going to be settled (on Day of Judgment). And it reached them from the news
(of punished nations that perished) that
contains a deterrent: (The news are) Far-reaching wisdom so the warnings are of no use (to the
disblievers)?! So (order to Mohammad) turn away from
them! The Day (of Judgment) when the Caller (Angel Israphil) will call (blow the Trumpet) for something terrible:
Their eyes will be downcast. They will come out from their graves like scattered grasshopper (insects); Hastening with
necks extended forward to the caller; The disbelievers will say: This is a hard Day!
Translation of: Ayat 1 - 8, Surat AlQamar.
Words: Iktarabat = Has come near, Inshakka = Was split, Yara = Sees, Ayah = Sign - Miracle, Yu'ridh
= Refuses to recognize or to follow, Khathabba = Rejected as lies, Amr = Case - Affair, Mustaqir = Is going to be settled,
Muzdajar = Detterent - Restraint that prevents from acting, Anba' = News, Hikmah = Wisdom, Balighah = Far-Reaching
- Strong, Tughni = Be of use, Nuthur = Warnings, Nukur = Terrible, Khusha' = Downcast, Ajdas(th)
= Graves, Jarad = Grasshopper, Muntashir = Scattered, Muhte' = Hastening with neck extended forward,
Asir = Hard.
A: They know what is apparent from the Life of this World and they from the Other World are unaware (heedless).
Haven't they thought in themselves that Allah did not create the Heavens and the earth and what is between them
except for a True Reason* and a Limited Period and indeed a lot of people are rejecting as lies the
Meeting with their God.
Translation of: Ayat 7 - 8, Surat AlRoum.
* To worship Allah.
Words: Ya'lam = Knows, Dhahir = Apparent - Superficial, Ghafil = Unaware, BilHaq = For a true reason,
Ajal = Period, Musamma = Limited, Kafir = Rejecting as lies - Disbelieving.
Note: When the Day of Judgment arrives Allah's standard of time will prevail. For example:
"Allah the Owner of the
ways of the ascent (in the Seven Heavens); The angels and The Spirit (Garbriel = Jibrail)
ascend towards Him in a Day* which equals fifty thousand years (of human time)." Translation of: Lines 1-4, Chapter AlMa'arij. (reference 'The Angels' page in this site.)
A: And when The Hour (Day of Judgment) arrives the sinners will swear that they did not stay in Life except for an
hour - this is how they were being deluded. And those who were given the knowledge and faith will say: You stayed
according to Allah's Record** until the Day of Resurrection and this is the Day.of Resurrection but you were not knowing.
So that Day the excuse of those who transgressed will not be of use to them and they will not be rebuked.
Translation of: Ayat 55 - 57, Surat AlRoum.
* Day of Judgment equals fifty thoussand years.
* The Explicit Record (AlKitab AlMubeen) is a Written Record safeguarded by angels in the Heaven.
Words: Takoum = Arrives, Yuksim = Swears, Labis(th)a = Stayed, Yu'fak = Is deluded, Ba'th =
Resurrection.
A: The Day it will be blown in the Trumpet and We (Allah) gather the sinful that Day blue-coloured (of terror);
They will murmur among themselves: Indeed you stayed less than ten (days); We (Allah) know what they are saying - when
their best in keen insight says: You stayed only a day.
Translation of: Ayat 102 - 104, Surat Taha.
Note: In a summary of a saying of the Prophet Muhammad: The Life of this World in comparison to
the Other World is like when one of you puts his finger in the sea.
Words: Yunfakh = is blown, Sour = Trumpet, Ashr = Ten, Yawm = Day, Ams(th)al Tareeqah = Best in
keen insight, Yawm = Day.
A: Are you a more difficult creation or the Heaven - He (Allah) built it! He (Allah) lifted its roof and
staightened it; And He darkened its night and brought out its day light; And the earth after that He unrolled
it; He brought out from it its water and its pasture; And the mountains He fastened them; (All creation) As
a provision for you and your cattle.
Translation of: Ayat 27 - 33, Surat AlNaziaat.
Words: Ashad = More difficult, Khalq = Creation, Sama' = Heaven - Sky, Bana = He built, Rafa' =
He lifted, Samk = Roof - Ceiling, Sawa' = Straightened, Agtasha = Darkened, Dhuha = Day light, Daha =
Unrolled - Flattened, Akhraja = Brought out, Mara' = Pasture, Mata' = Provision, Anaam = Cattle.
Note: Remember the Qur'an is from Allah - The Most Wise in everthing. Even the sequence of the Qur'anic verses indicates
a purpose.
Hint: What is a more difficult creation? What was created first?...etc.
A: The sending down of the Scripture (Qur'an) is from Allah - The AlMighty, The All-Wise. For in the
Heavens and the earth there are certainly Signs for the believers; And in your (man's) creation and
in what He (Allah) scatters* from creatures there are Signs for the people who are certain about their faith; And the
alternation of the night and the day and what Allah had sent down from the sky from provision so He brought to life
the earth after its death and the direction of the winds are signs for the people who understand; Those are
the lines (verses) of Allah We (Allah) recite them to you (Muhammad) in truth so with which word after Allah and His
lines will they have faith?!
Translation of: Ayat 2 - 6, Surat AlJasthiyah.
* Notice the verb scatters (= Yabusth) here is in the present tense. So does Allah create new creatures other than
what really exists? Remember: "And your God creates what He pleases" translation of Line 68 Chapter AlQasas in the
qur'an.
Words: Tanzeel = Sending down, Ayat = Signs - Miracles - lines of the Qur'an, Khalq = Creation, Yuqin =
Is certain about his faith, Ikhtilaf = Alternation, Layl = Night, Nahar = Day, Rizq = Provision -
Sustenance, Tasreef = Direction, Riyah = Winds, Yaqil = Understands - Uses his brain, Hadeeth = Word -
Speech, Yu'min = Has faith.
A: Has not a period of time come upon a human being when he was nothing to be mentioned. For We (Allah) created
a human being from germ cells* (mingled fluid) of a sperm drop to put him to the trial so We made him a hearer and a
seer. Indeed We
have guided him to The Path (of Allah) either a grateful or ungrateful. For We had prepared for the ungrateful chains and
iron collars and Blazing Fire. Indeed the righteous will be drinking from a glass its blend is of camphor -
a spring from which the servants of Allah drink: They make it flow an abundant flowing (at their wish).
Translation of: Ayat 1 - 6, Surat AlInsan.
* gamete.or germ cell is a cell which fuses with another gamete during fertilization in organisms that reproduce
sexually. (Source: Wikipidia.com). For example: sperm/ovum.
Words: Ata = Has come, Heen mina Aldahr = Period of time, Mathkour = To be mentioned, Nutfah =
Sperm-drop, Amshaj = (plural of masheej) Germ cells, gametes, Samee' = Hearer , Baseer = Seer, Shakir =
Grateful, Kafour = Ungrateful - Disbeliever, Salasil = Chains, Aghlal = Iron collars, Saeer = Blazing
Fire, Yashrab = Drinks, Ka's = Glass, Ayn = Spring, Kafoor = Camphur - Aromatic compound,
Yufajjir = Makes flow, Tafjeer = Abundant flowing.
A: Allah is Who raised the Heavens without pillars that you can see! Then He Settled on the Throne (on the
Seventh Heaven); And He made the sun and the moon yield (through their submission and obedience): Each runs (its course)
for an appointed period; He regulates all affairs, details the Signs (of Allah) perhaps you become certain about
meeting with Your God!
Translation of: Ayah 2, Surat AlRa'd.
Note: Remember Allah's standards are higher than humans' so do not waste your energy pondering Allah's attributes.
Words: Rafa' = Raised - Lifted, Ghayr = Without, Tarawn = You see (plural), Arsh = Throne, Sakh'ara =
Made yield, Shams = Sun, Qamar = Moon, Kulun = Each one, Ajal = Period - Time, Musamma =
Appointed - Timed, Yudabbir = Regulates - Manages, AlAmr = All affairs, Yufassir = Explains in detail,
Ayat = Signs of Allah - Lines of the Qur'an, Laala = Perhaps, Liqa' = Meeting, Tuqin = Become certain.
Note: Remember the Qur'an is not mythology, a fantasy or man-made. It is the powerful truth from The Ultimate
Truth (Allah = The God).
A: (Allah swears*) By those (angels) who line up in rows; And then the screamers with a sharp reprimand (reproof);
And then the loud readers of the Warning: For your God is certainly One: The God of the Heavens and the earth and
whatever is
between them and the God of the points from where the sun rises**.
Translation of: Ayat 1 - 5, Surat AlSaffat.
* What Allah swears by should be the focus of contemplation because of its major impact on human life.
** The sun rises everyday from a different point until it completes a year.
Words: Saffat = Those who line up, Saffa = In rows, Zajir = Screamer, Tali = Loud reader, AlThikr
= The Warning - The Message - From the Qur'an, Ilah = God, Mashariqh = Points from where the sun rises.
A: And a Sign* for them is the Night - We (Allah) skin from it the Day and suddenly they are in
darkness.
Translation of: Ayah 37, Surat YaSeen.
* Mircaculous evidence of Allah's existence.
Words: Layl = Night, Nahar = Day - Opposite of night, Naslakh = Skin - Strip off, Idha = Suddenly,
Mudhlim = Be in darkness.
Note: Remember that the Quran is not mythology, a fantasy or man-made. It is the powerful truth from The Ultimate
Truth (Allah = The God).
A: Have you (Prophet Muhammad) not considered what your God did to the companions of the Elephant*. Did He not make their
plot in
a misdirection! And He sent upon them ranks of birds shooting them with pebbles of baked clay**; So He made them like
edible stalks of grain.
Translation of: Ayat 1 - 5, Surat AlFeel.
* According to Hassanain Mohammad Makhlouf, chief scholar (ex-mufti) of Egypt: In the year 570 C. E. the Ethiopian
Prince of
AlYemen Abraha Al-Ashram, Christian, came with an army on a war elephant to destroy AlKa'bah in Mecca - Allah's Holy
House that the Prophet Abraham (Ibraheem) and his son Ishmael (Ismaeel) built in the past. He wanted to divert the polytheists of
Arabia to the church he built in AlYemen. The birds were coming from Arafa to Mecca in ranks from every direction. It
is said that where the stones hit boils (pimples) developed. In that year Arabia witnessed the diseases of Smallpox
and Measles for the first time. It is reported that the Prophet Muhammad was born after this incident by 50
days. So the incident was a miracle that foretold about the birth of the last prophet - Muhammad peace be upon him.
** Called Sijjeel in Arabic: Allah's special pebbles of punishment from the Heaven. The ancient of nation of the Prophet Lut,
near the land of Jordan, was punished with Sijjeel for leading a dissolute (lacking restraints) life.
Words: Tara = Think - See, Kayfa = What, Fa'ala = Did, Ashab = Companions, Feel = Elephants,
Yajal = Makes, Tadhleel = Misdirection, Tayr = Birds, Ababeel = Ranks, Asf = stalks of grain, Ma'koul = Edible - Eatable.
A: And We made the sky a secure ceiling and they from its Signs (miraculous evidences of Allah's existence) are
turning away!
Translation of: Ayah 32, Surat AlAnbeya'.
Words: Ja'ala = Made, AlSama' = The sky, Saqaf = Ceiling, Hum = They, Ayat = Signs, Mu'ridh =
Turning away.
Note: The Qur'an is sublime in its style. Even the sequence of objects can convey meaning.
A: And it is He (Allah) Who created the Night and the Day and the sun and the moon: Each in an orbit floats.
Translation of: Ayah 33, Surat AlAnbeya'.
Words: Howa = He, Khalaqa = Created, Layl = Night, Nahar = Day - Daylight, Shams = Sun, Qamar =
Moon, Kulun = Each, Falak = Orbit, Yasbah = Floats.
A: And a Sign for them is that We (Allah) carried their human race in the loaded Ark (Noah's Ark). And We created
for them from its similar what they board; And if We please We will drown them so there will be no shouting from them
neither will they be rescued - Except as a Mercy from us and enjoyment for some time.
Translation of: Ayat 41 - 44, Surat YaSeen.
Words: Ayah = Sign, Hammala = Carried, Thurriyah = Human race, Fulk = Ark - Ship, Mashhoon = Loaded, Mis(th)l =
Similar, Yarkab = Boards - Gets on a ship, Nughriqh = We drown, Sareekh = Shouting, Mata' =
Enjoyment, Heen = Some time.
Note: The Qur'an is a miracle from Allah. Pay attention to the sequence of words in the Qur'anic
verses because they can convey important messages for human research.
A: And Allah brought you out from the wombs of your mothers knowing nothing and He made for you
hearing and eye-sight and hearts so that you may be thankful.
Translation of: Ayah 78, Surat AlNahl.
Words: Akhraja = Brought out, Butoun = Wombs, Ummahat = Mothers, Ta'lam = Know, Shaye'
= Thing, Same' = Hearing, Absar = Eye-sight - Vision, Af'idah = Hearts, La'al = Maybe,
Tashkur = Be thankful.
Note: According to the late scholar of Islam 'Muhammad Mutawalli AlSharawi' in the journey back to the Creator the
human soul is the first thing
to leave the human body before the body starts decaying because it is the last thing that entered the body. Just
like a train that goes to a point then it has to go back to where it started from. AlSharawi further illustrates that
according to the Qur'an the human body is created from soil that became mud then stinky sludge (like riverbed) then
argil (potter's clay) like pottery. Then the soul was added. At death the same steps are reversed. (In the Qur'an
= Turab - TTeen - Hama' Masnoun - Salsal KalFakhkhar).
A: That is The All-Knowing of The (World of the ) Unseen and The Witness - The All-Powerful, The
Merciful; Who perfected the creation of everything and He started the creation of man from clay.Then He made
his offspring from a race from despised fluid. Then He (Allah) straightened him and He blew in him from
His Spirit* and He made for you hearing and sight and hearts - a little is that you become thankful.
Translation of: Ayat 6 - 9, Surat AlSijdah.
* Line 17 from Chapter 'Maryam' in the Qur'an reads: So she (Mary
= Maryam) withdrew from her people to an eastern place
(in the temple); Then she took a partition from them so We (Allah) sent to her Our Spirit (ArchAngel Gabriel)
so he appeared before her as a human being of regular build;
Words: Aalim = All-Knowing, AlGhayb = The Unseen, Ahsana = Perfected, Khalq = Creation, Bada'
= Started, Teen = Clay, Nasl = Offspring, Sulalah = Race, Ma' = Water, Maheen = Despised,
Sawwa = Straightened - Shaped, Nafakha = Blew, Feehi = In him, Rooh = Spirit, Same' =
Hearing, Absar = Sight, Af'idah = Hearts, Qaleelan = A little, Tashkuroun = You become thankful
(plural).
Hint: The original (virgin) olive oil has healing properties.
A: And We (Allah) brought down from the sky water in due measure so We made it settle in the earth and
certainly We are Capable of making it disappear. So We produced for you with it gardens of palm trees and
grapes - for you in them a lot of fruits and of them you eat; And a tree that grows out of
Mount Sinai (Jabal Seena') sprouting with the oil (olive oil for oiling) and seasoning (food) for the eaters.
Translation of: Ayat 18 - 20, Surat AlMou'minoun.
Note: In a summary of a saying by the Prophet Muhammad: Eat the oil (olive oil) and and use it for rubbing
(oiling) because it is from a blessed tree.
Words: Anzala = Brought down, Ma' = Water, Biqadar = In due measure, Ala Dhahab
= To make it disappear, Askana = Made
settle, Nakheel = Palm trees, A'nab = Grapes, Fawakih = Fruits, Kas(th)eerah = A lot,
Ta'kul = You eat, Shajarah = Tree, Takhruj = Grows out, Toor = Mount, Tanbut =
Sprouts - Grows, Duhn = Oil, Sibgh = Seasoning - Food that colours, Aakil = Eater.
A: Or He unites them
in marriage - males and females and He makes whoever He wills barren for He is All-Knowing,
All-Capable.
Translation of: Ayah 50, Surat AlShoura.
Words: Yuzawwij = Unites in marriage, Aqeem = Barren - Sterile.
A: --- And you see the land lifeless so when We (Allah) made the water fall on it, it moved
slightly and grew up and produced from every delightful pair. That is because Allah is The Truth and He is
Who brings to life the dead and He is upon everying Capable; And certainly The Hour (Day of Judgment) is nearing
without any doubt
in it and certainly Allah will raise up those in the graves.
Translation of: Ayat 5 - 7, Surat AlHajj.
Words: Tara = You see, Khamidah = Lifeless - Barren, Ehtazzat = It moves slightly -
stirs, Rabat = Grows up, Raises - Swells, Anbatat = Produces, Zawj = Pair, Baheej = Delightful,
AlSa'ah = The Hour, Aatiyah = Nearing - Coming soon, La Rayb = No doubt, Yabas(th) = Raises up, Qubour = Graves.
A: O people of the Book (Jews and Christians)! Have faith in what We (Allah) sent down (Quran) confirming
to what you have with you (Torah and Bible).before We (Allah) make indistinct faces so We turn them down to (the
level of) their lower backs or We curse them as We cursed the companions of Sabbath* and the Command of Allah has to
be done. For Allah does not forgive to be partnered with Him and He forgives other than that to whoever He
pleases and whoever makes partners with Allah so then he has fabricated with lies a grave sin.
Translation of: Ayat 47 - 48, Surat AlNisa'.
* The question on this page of Science: Is a certain type of apes ..? answers
how the companions of Sabbath angered Allah.
Words: Musaddiq = Confirming, Natmis = We make distinct - Efface - Obliterate,
Narud = Turn down, Adbar
= Lower backs, Nalan = We curse, Ashab AlSabt = Companions of Sabbath, Amr = Command, Mafoula
= Has to be done, Yushrik = Makes partners, Iftara = Fabricates with lies - Makes up with lies, Is(th) = Sin, Adeem = Grave.
A: And mention the brother (a national) of 'A'd' (ancient nation) when he warned his people among the
sand dunes* and there were warners (prophets) before him and (also) after him: Do not worship except Allah for
I fear for you the punishment of a severe day. They said: Have you come to us to tell us lies about our gods so bring
us what you are promising us if you were telling the truth! He said: Really the knowledge is with Allah and I
inform you about what I have been sent with yet I do see you people who are ignorant (stupid). So when they
saw it (cloud) wide-spread facing their valleys they said: This wide-spread cloud is bringing
us rain. No! But it is what you asked to be hastened: Wind - in it a painful
punishment; It destroys everything according to the Command of its God so by the morning nothing was
to be seen except their houses - this is how We (Allah) repay the sinful people.
Translation of: Ayat 21 - 25, Surat AlAhqaf.
* According to the late Hassanain Mohammad Makhlouf, Egypt's ex-mufti (a top scholar of Islam): The ancient
nation of A'd first had their homes in north of Hadramout (in Yemen) bordered from the north with AlRube'
AlKhali (vast desert region in Saudi Arabia). They were from the most powerful people.
Also according to Hassanain Mohammad Makhlouf: At the time of the Prophet Moses: The giant people in the Sacred
Land were the remnants of the people of A'd (ancient Arabs). More
information?
Note: In a summary of a speech by the Prophet Muhammad: The wind is from the Mercy of Allah. It brings the
mercy (wanted rain) and it brings the punishment. So when you see it do not curse it. And call on Allah for the
best in it and ask refuge from Allah of its worst.
Words: Akh = Brother, Ahqaf = Sand dunes, Nuthur = Warners, Bay Yadayhi
Before him, Min Khalfihi = After him, Ta'fik = Tells lies, Taaid = Promise, Tajhal =
Be ignorant, Aaridh = Wide-spread cloud, Mustaqbil = Facing, Mumtir = Bringing rain,
Ista'jala = Asked to be hastened, Reeh = Wind, Tudammir = Destroys, Masakin =
Houses, Mujrim = Sinful - Criminal.
A: Raised Far Above is He (Allah) Who made in the sky constellations of stars and made in it a
radiant light (with heat - the Sun) and an illuminating moon (light without heat); And He is Who
made the night and the day followers of each other for whoever wants to mention God's name or wants to be
grateful.
Translation of: Ayat 61 - 62, Surat AlFurqan.
Words: Burouj = Constellations of stars (such as Zodiac), Siraj = Radiant light - Lamp, Qamar =
Moon, Muneer = Illuminating - Shining, Layl = Night, Nahar = Day, Yath'akkar = Mention God's name -
Remember God, Shukour = Grateful.
Note: Research what percentage of the human body is water!
A: And He (Allah) is Who created from water a human being so He made him related by blood and
related by marriage and your God is The Most-Capable.
Translation of: Ayah 54, Surat AlFurqan.
Words: Khalaqa = Created, Ma' = Water, Bashar = Human being, Nasaban = Related
by blood, Sihran = Related by marriage, Qadeer = Most Capable.
A: And Allah produced you like plants from the earth in a proper growing; Then He returns you in it (at
death) and will bring you out (on Day of Judgment) in a complete formation.
Translation of: Ayat 17 - 18, Surat Noah.
Note: In a summary of a speech by the Prophet Muhammad: Reported by Abdulla Bin Amr Bin AlAs may Allah be
pleased with him that the Prophet said: The imposter christ (AntiChrist) will be in my people so he will stay 40 I don't
know 40 days or 40 months or 40 years, then Allah will send Jesus (Issa) bin Maryam so he will
seek him and kill him then people will live 7 years in peace then a cold wind will come from towards AlSham
(Syria and its near countries) and will take away anyone with faith in his heart and only evil doing people
will remain and will follow Satan in everything. Then it will be blown in the Trumpet and people will be
thunderstruck (die) then Allah will send rain like drizzle or shading
so people's corpses will grow up with
it (one cell remains in every human corpse in the tailbone area after death) then it will be blown
again so they will be standing looking...
Words: Anbata = Produced liked plants, Ardh = earth, Nabata = In a proper
growing, Yueed = Returns, Yukhrij = Brings out, Ikhraja = In a complete formation.
A: The comparison of the Paradise that the righteous were promised in it rivers of water that does not
become stagnant (stale) and rivers of milk* whose taste does not change and rivers of wine that is a pleasure
for the drinkers and rivers of honey purified and for them in it from all the fruits and forgiveness from their
God or (answer of comparison) like the one who is everlasting in Hell and they were given to drink hot water so
it cut their intestines.
Translation of: Ayah 15, Surat Muhammad.
Pure milk not mixed with bacteria or anything else.
Words: Anhar = Rivers, Ma' = Water, Ghayr Aasin = Not stagnant, Laban
= Milk, Khamr = Wine, Laththah = Pleasure, Shaarib = Drinker, Asal = Honey,
S(th)amarat = Fruits, Maghfirah = Forgiveness, Khalid = Everlasting, Hameem = Hot, Qatta'
= Cut, Ama' = Intestines.
A: And to Thamud (ancient nation) their brother (national) Saleh - he said: O
my people! Worship Allah - you do not have any god other than Him - He Made you from
the earth and made you settle on it so ask Him for forgiveness then turn to Him in
repentance for my God is Near, Answering (prayers).
Translation of: Ayah 61, Surat Hud.
Note: Map of Prophets
Words: Ilaah = god, Ansha' = Made, AlArdh = The earth, Est'mara = Made you settle, Estaghfar
= Ask for forgiveness, Toub = Turn in repentance, Qareeb =Near, Mujeeb = Answering.
A: So let the human being look into his food: For We (Allah) poured down water an abundant pouring;
Then We made the land split a proper splitting; So We produced therein grains; And grapes and fresh
edible herbs; And olives and palm trees; And superior gardens; And fruits and grass; As enjoyment for you
and your cattle.
Translation of: Ayat 24 - 32, Surat Abasa.
Words: Yanzur = Looks into, Ta'am = Food, Sababna = We poured down, Shaqaqna
= Made to split, Ardh = Land, Habba = Grains - Seeds, Inaba = Grapes, Qadhba = Fresh
edible herbs, Zaitoun = Olives, Nakhl = Palm trees, Ghulba = Superior - Great, Fakiha = Fruits, Abba = Grass, Mata' = Enjoyment, An'am = Cattle.
A: Did not We (Allah) make the earth as a resting place; And the mountains as pegs.
Translation of: Ayat 6 - 7, Surat AlNaba'.
Note: According to the late scholar of Islam Muhammad Mutawali AlSharawi: The mountains are created as pegs
to fasten the atmosphere (the earth's air envelope) around the earth. Otherwise the earth will be lost in
the Universe. He further clarifies that the pegs of a tent do not fasten the earth but the tent.
Words: Alam = Didn't, Naj'al = We made, Mihadan = Resting place, Jibal =
Mountains, Awtadan = Pegs.
A: When the sky is rendered split; And when the stars in constellations are scattered; And when
the bodies of water are exploded (overflowed); And when the graves are scattered; Each soul will know what it has sent
forward (deeds) and what it kept back.
Translation of: Ayat 1 - 5, Surat AlInfitar.
Hint: "O people! Fear your God for the Earthquake of the Day of Judgment is a terrible thing."
Translation of Line 1 Chapter AlHajj in the Qur'an.
Hint: Underwater explosions because of an earthquake can cause a Tsunami.
Words: Sama' = Sky, Inftarat = Rendered split, Kawakib = Stars in a
constellation, Entastharat = Scattered, Bihar =Bodies of water - Seas, Fujjirat = Are exploded, Qubour =
Graves, Nafas = Soul, Qaddama = Sent forward, Akhkhara = Kept back.
A: And We (Allah) made in the sky constellations of stars and We decorated them for the seers; And
We safeguarded it (sky) from every stoned Satan; Except who eaves-drop (secretly listen)
so an explicit flame follows him.
Translation of: Ayat 16 - 18, Surat AlHijr.
Note: Why do the Jinn listen secretly?
Words: Ja'ala = Made, Borouj = Constellations of stars, Zayyana =
Decorated, Naathir = Seer, Rajeem = Stoned, Men Estaraqa Alsame' = Who eaves-drops, Atba'
= Follows, Shihab = Flame.
A: And Allah created you then He makes you dead and from you who is driven
back to the worst part of life (feeble) so that he knows nothing after his (vast ex) knowledge for
Allah is All-Knowing, All-Capable.
Translation of: Ayah 70, Surat AlNahl.
Words: Khalaqa = Created, Yatawafa = Makes dead, Yurad =
Is driven back, Arthal AlUmr = Worst part of life - Feeble age, Ya'lam = Knows. Ilm
= Knowledge.
Hint: There will be no purpose for the sun then. Line 13 from Chapter AlInsan in the Qur'an is translated as:
"Seated in it (Paradise) on couches - they do not see in it a sun neither (feel) bitter coldness.
A: When the sun is encircled (winded); and when the stars become dimmed; ---; a soul will come
to know (by seeing) what it has brought forward (deeds).
Translation of: Ayat 1 - 2, 14, Surat AlTakweer.
Note: In a summary of a speech of the Prophet Muhammad: On the Day of Judgment the sun will be very near to
the earth and people will be immersed in perspiration according to the level of their sins. People will feel
that they cannot take it any longer so they will look around for who can mediate with Allah. They will decide on Adam
- the father of humans to mediate with Allah. Adam will say: Allah was never angry like today
(Day of Judgment). Allah prevented me from the tree but I
disobeyed him. Myself today! Myself! Myself! Go to someone else.
Go to Noah from the
first prophets to humanity. Noah will say: Allah was never angry like today. I called on Allah with a (wrong)
call against my people (
to judge openly between him and his people so the disbelieving people were drowned) Myself! Myself! Myself! Go to Abraham. People will say:
You are called a friend of Allah. Mediate for us! Abraham will say: Allah was never angry like today. I lied three lies (One lie
is that Abraham
broke the idols and blamed it on the top idol). Myself! Myself! Myself!
Go to someone else! Go to
Moses. The people will say: Allah favoured you among the prophets by talking directly to you.
Mediate for us with Allah! Moses will say: Allah was never angry like today. I killed a soul I was not commanded to kill. Myself! Myself!
Myself! Go to someone else! Go to Jesus (= Issa). The people will say: You are the
word of Allah (Be and is made) mediate for us with Allah. Jesus will say: Allah was never angry like today but
he does not mention any sin. Myself! Myself! Myself! Go to someone else! Go to Muhammad.
People will go to Muhammad and they say: O Muhammad! You are a prophet of Allah and the seal of the prophets.
And Allah had forgiven you your former and later sins. Mediate for us with Allah. So I (Muhammad is saying)
will go and reach under The Throne so I will fall down prostrating to my God. So Allah will bestow upon
me (Muhammad) from His recommendations that were never bestowed on anyone else. Then it will be said: O
Muhammad! Raise up your head! Ask and you will be given and mediate and your mediation will be answered. So
I (Muhammad) will raise my head and say: My nation (of Muslims), O God! So it will be said: O Muhammad!
Admit from your nation (in another speech 70 thousand) those who will be admitted without account from the Right Gate of The Garden of
Paradise. And the rest will share the other gates with the other (faithful) people. And then the prophet
said: By (oath) in Whose Hand is my soul! The distance between two Gates of The Garden is like the distance
between Mecca (in Saudi Arabia) and Basrah (in Iraq). (Paradise has Seven Gates).
Words: Itha = When, Shams = Sun, Nujoum = Stars, Inkadarat =
become dimmed, Alimat = Comes to know by seeing, Ma = What , Ahdharat = Brought
forward.
Note: Scientists know that the universe was created billions of years ago.
A: The sending down of the Scripture (Qur'an) is from Allah - The Omnipotent, the All-Wise. We
(Allah) did not create the Heavens and the earth and what is between them except with the truth (as
deemed appropriate) for a limited period and those who disbelieved from what they
were warned against are turning away (following it).
Translation of: Ayat 2 - 3, Surat AlAhqaf.
Words: Tanzeel = Sending down, BilHaq = With the truth, Unthira =
Is warned, Mu'ridh = Turning away.
Hint: To reach the truth about the creation of Allah and to understand the true purpose of human life (To be
grateful to Allah, The Creator and simultaneously work to advance human life).
Note: Remember the Qur'an was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad who was living in a desert environment.
A: So why they do not look into how the camels are formed*; And into the sky how it is raised up**;
And into the mountains how they are pitched (firm)***; And into the earth how it is spread out****.
So do (order to Muhammad) remind! For you are only a reminder; You are not over them a dominant (having
control).
Translation of: Ayat 17 - 22, Surat AlGhashiyah.
* To hold water and remain without drinking water for many days.
** According to the Qur'an "without pillars that humans can see".
*** (Like the pillars of a tent) To prevent the earth atmosphere from getting blown away in the universe.
**** To allow human life.
Words: Yanthur = Look into - Study, Ibil = Camels, Khuliqa = Were
Formed - created, Sam' = Sky, Rufiat = Raised up high, Jibal = Mountains, Nusibat
= Pitched - fixed, Ardh = Earth, Sutihat = Spread out, Thakkir = Remind, Lasta
You are not, Musayter = Dominant.
Note: Remember on the Day of Judgment what happens to the earth: "When the earth is shaken by its (Major) Earthquake:" Translation of Line
1 Surat (Chapter) 'AlZalzalah' in the Qur'an.
A: And when the sky is opened asunder and when the mountains are blown up.
Translation of: Ayat 9 - 10, Surat AlMursalat in the Qur'an.
Words: AlSama' = The sky - Heaven, Furijat = Opened asunder, AlJibal = Mountains, Nusifat =
Blown up.
A: The Day the earth will shake so do the mountains; and the mountains will become loose sand
hills.
Translation of: Line 14, Surat AlMuzammil in the Qur'an.
Words: Tarjuf = Shake, Kas(th)eeban = Sand hills, Maheelan = Loose.
A: And when the earth is shaken its Proper Shaking and when the mountains are crushed its Proper
Crushing so they become scattered tiny dust particles.
Translation of: Lines 4 - 6, Surat AlWaqiah in the Qur'an.
Words: Rujjat = Is shaken, AlArdh = The earth, Rajja = Proper shaking
- Complete shaking, Bussat = Crushed, Haba'an = Tiny dust particles, Munbas(th)a = Scattered.
A: And the mountains will be like the puffed up wool.
Translation of: Line 5, Surat AlQariah in the Qur'an.
Words: Kal Ihn = Like the wool, AlManfoush = The puffed up - Swollen out.
A: And the heaven (sky) will be opened into gates; And the mountains will be moved away so they look like
a mirage.*
* Mountains will no longer exist. But from far away their dust will give the illusion of a mountain.
Translation of: Lines 19 - 20, Surat AlNaba'.
Words: AlSama' = The Heaven - Sky, Futihat = Is opened, Abwab = Gates, AlJibal = The mountains,
Suyyerat = Are moved away, Saraba = A Mirage.
A: And the Day (of Judgment) We (Allah) make the
mountains move away (blown up) and you will see the land prominent
(in sight) and We gathered them (people) so We did not leave from them anyone behind (in the grave).
Translation of: Line 47, Surat AlKahf in the Qur'an.
Words: Yawm = The Day, Barizah = Prominent, Hashara = Gathered, Nugadir = We leave behind, Lem
= Did not, Ahada = Anyone.
A: By the sky with its towering constellations (burouj); And the Promised Day (of Judgment) and a witness*
and a witnessed (on that Day).
Translation of: Ayat 1 - 3, Surat AlBurouj.
* Angels, prophets from humans and who are in their ranks.
Note: The continuing lines in this Surah (AlBurouj) are translated in the section Islam.
Words: Sama' = Sky, Burouj = Towers - Towering constellations, Shahid = Witness,
Mashhood = Witnessed.
Note: Astronomy declared that our Universe contains billions of galaxies that were
created billions of years ago. Allah declared in the Qur'an "We did not miss anything in The Book (Qur'an)". Translation of
Line 38, Chapter AlAn'am in the Quran.
Hint: As implied in the following Lines the the Universe that the astronomers spotted
could be part of Allah's Seven Heavens.
A: (Qur'an) A descending from Who (Allah) created the earth and the
Lofty Heavens; The Most-Merciful upon The Throne Straightened*, To Him belongs
whatever is in the Heavens and whatever is on earth and whatever is
between them and whatever is under the soil.
Translation of: Ayat 4 - 6, Surat Taha.
Note: Probably as implied in the lines the galaxies are part of the Seven Heavens. The evidence is that Line 6 in Chapter AlSaaffat is translated as "For
We decorated the lower Heaven (sky) with the decoration of the stars". However some Islamic top scholars like
"AbdulMutawalli AlSha'rawi" contended that the Seven Heavens are above everything we can spot. Allah knows better!
* Remember that Allah's concepts are sublime and Higher than humans so do not ponder on how.
Words: Tanzeelan = Descending Sending down, Khalaqa = Created, Estawa = Established himself Straight, AlSamawat = The Heavens, AlUla
= Lofty - Very high, S(th)ara = Soil - Sand.
A: And the earth We (Allah) spread it out and We threw in it unshakable
mountains and We
made to grow in it from every kind in due balance.
Translation of: Ayah 19, Surat AlHijr.
Words: Ardh = Earth, Madada = Spread out, Alqa = Threw, Rawasi =
Unshakable mountains, Anbata = Made to grow, Shaye' = Kind - Thing, Mawzoon = In due
balance.
A: And We (Allah) do not delay it (Day of Judgment) except for some time; The Day it comes no
soul will be allowed to talk except with His permission - so from them will be wretched and
some happy; As for those who became wretched so they will be in The Fire - for them in it exhaling and
inhaling (of The Fire); Remaining forever in it with the remaining of the Heavens and the earth
except if your God wills* (something else) for your God is The Doer of what He wants. But those who became
happy so they will be in The Paradise - remaining in it with the remaining of the Heavens and the
earth except if your God wills - An unceasing gift.
Translation of: Ayat 104 - 108, Surat Hood.
* Everything exists according to Allah's will.
Words: Nu'akhir = We delay, Ajal = Time, Ma'doud = Some - Numerable,
Takallam = Will be allowed to talk, Shaqi = Wretched - Miserable, Saeed = Happy, Zafeer =
Exhaling, Shaheeq = Inhaling, Ma damat = With the remaining - as long as, Ataan = Gift, Ghayr Majthouth =
Unceasing.
A: And the Day (of Judgment) when the enemies of Allah are pushed towards the Fire and they are
restrained (to catch up); Until when they reached it their ears, eyes and skins bore
witness of what they were doing. And they said to their skins: Why did you bear witness
against us? They said: Allah Who gave speech to everything has given us speech and He created you (all) the
first time and to Him you have returned; Yet you were not covering up so that your ears or eyes or skins do
not bear witness against you but you thought that Allah does not know a lot of what you were
doing; And that was your negative supposition that you supposed about Your God that brought your ruin so you became from
the losers.
Translation of: Ayat 19 - 23, Surat Fusilat.
Words: Yuhshar Ila = Pushed towards, Yuze' = Restrained, Ja'a = Reached,
Shahada = Bore witness, Antaqa = gave speech, Yastatir = Covers up - Hides, Dhan = Negative
supposition, Dhanntum Bi = You supposed about, Ardakum = Brought your ruin, Khasir = Loser.
Note: Please embrace yourself to the great rhetorical examples in the translation of the
Qur'anic verse down.
A: He (Allah) sent down from the sky water so valleys flew with their due measurement then the
torrent (unwillingly) bore up increasing foam (bubbles) and from what they (people) set on
fire for the purpose of
an ornament or object froth (bubbles) similar to it - that is how Allah speaks in parables
about Truth and Falsehood, so as for the foam it passes away with no use (Falsehood) and as for what
benefits people so it remains on earth (Truth) - that is how Allah sets the examples.
Translation of: Ayah 17, Surat AlRa'd (The Thunder).
Note: The example of the difference between Truth and Falsehood is like natural water and its foam, and
what people set on fire to make ornaments or other objects and the foam that rises then.
Words: Anzala = Sent down, Salat = Flew, Awdiyah = Valleys, Ehtamala =
Bore up, BiQadariha = With their due measurement, Sayl = Torrent - Flowing stream, Zabad =
Foam - Scum, Raabiya = Increasing, Youqad = Sets on fire, Ebtigha' = For the purpose of, Hilyah
= Ornament, Mata' = Object, Yadhrib AlHaq WaAlBatil = Speaks in parables (examples) about
Truth and Falsehood, Zabad = Foam - Froth - Scum - Bubbles formed on a liquid, Yathhab
Jufa' = Passes away with no use, Yanfe' = Benefits, Yamkasth = Remains, Yadhrib AlAmsthal
= Sets the examples.
A: And He (Allah) is Who created the Heavens and the earth in six days and His Throne was (before
their creation) over the water, (why they were created) in order to test you (people) which one of you is better in
deeds and if you (Muhammad) say that you are going to be raised up after death those who disbelieved
would certainly say: This (raising up) is (nothing) but manifest magic.
Translation of: Ayah 7, Surat Hood.
Note: Here the Heavens and the earth are mentioned as Allah's Creation. What about
what we call the Universe with all its galaxies and celestial objects. Is the Universe
and the Heavens one thing? More research is needed.
Note: Remember "and a day according to your God is similar to one thousand years from what you count!"
Translation of Line 47 Chapter AlHajj in the Qur'an.
Words: Khalaqa = Created, Sitah = Six, Arsh = Throne, Ma' = Water,
LiYablou = In order to test, Mabousth = Raised up, Mawt = Death, Sihr = Magic.
A: And do set (order to Prophet Muhammad) for them the example of life of this world is like water
that We (Allah) sent down from the sky so the earth's plants absorbed it so they became dry
stalks (fragile) - moved by the winds and Allah upon everything possesses Power.
Translation of: Ayah 45, Surat AlKahf.
Note: the creation of man is similar to the creation of a plant.
Words: Edhrib = Set, Masthat = Example, Anzala = Sent down, Ekhtalata =
Absorbed, Nabat = Plants - Vegetation, Hasheeman= Dry stalks - Fragile, Tathr = Moves -
Scatters, Riyah = Winds, Muqtadara = Possesses power.
A: K H Y Ain SAd*. Mentioning of your God's Mercy upon His servant Zachariah (Zakaria); When he called his
God with a call in secret; He said: My God! For the bones of me became frail and the
hair turned grey and I was never by calling You miserable (in vain); And I have
indeed feared my kinsmen (from Bani Israel) after me (my death) and my wife is barren so do grant me from
you an heir; To inherit me and inherit from the Family of Jacob (Ya'quob) and my God make him
favorable (to Allah); O Zachariah! For We (Allah) do give you the good news of a boy - his name is
Yahya (John the Baptist) - We (Allah) did not make to him a similar from before; He said:
My God! How can I have a boy and my wife is barren and I reached an awful old age; He (Allah)
said: That is what Your God has said - He (new creation) for Me is easy and I created you from before
and you were nothing.
Translation of: Ayat 1 - 9, Surat Maryam.
* These five letters make a word not known in the Arabic Language. It is from Allah's World of the Unseen.
Words: Thikr = Mentioning, Nida' = Call, Khafeya = In secret, Khiftu = I
Have feared, Mawali = Kinsmen - Heads of relatives, Aqir = Barren, Yaristh = Inherits, Wali =
Heir, Radheya = Favourable, Sameya = Similar, Min AlKibar Ateya = Awful old age - Decrepit,
Hayen = Easy, Shaya = Thing.
A: Or (example) like the person* who passed by a town which was completely devastated. He said: How is
Allah going to bring to life this (town) after its death so Allah made him dead for a hundred years then
He (Allah) raised him up. He said: How many years did you stay (dead)? He said: I stayed a day or part of
a day. He said: No! You stayed a hundred years so do look at your food and drink - not affected by years
and look at your donkey (bones) and to make you a Sign (Miracle) for people - and look at the bones how
We (Allah) revive them then We cover them with flesh so when it became clear to him (man) he said: I know
that Allah upon everything is Capable.
Translation of: Ayat 259, Surat AlBaqarah.
Note: The creation of man.
* Hassanain Mohammad Makhlouf, the Ex-Mufti (ex-top religious scholar of Egypt) and Abdullah Yusuf Ali, the famous Qur'an translator mention that
commentators refer it most probably to Ezra (Esdras, 3 Uzair - a famous priest sent by the Persian King
after the captivity of Jerusalem).
Words: Marra = Passed, Qaryah = Town, Khawiyah Ala Oroushiha = Completely
devastated - Ruined to its roots, Yuhye = Brings to life, Miata Am = A hundred years, Labistha =
Stayed, Ba'dh = Part, Ta'am = Food, Sharab = Drink, Lem Yatasannah = Did not get affected
by years, Himar = Donkey, Idham = Bones, Nunshiz = Revive - Bring to life - Elevate, Naksou = We cover, Lahm = Flesh, Tabayyana =
Became clear.
A: Glory is to Who (Allah) created the mates (males-female) - all of them from what the earth produces and from
themselves (humans) and from what they do not have knowledge of.
Translation of: Ayah 36, Surat YaSeen.
Words: Subhana = Glory, Allathi = Who, Khalaqa = Created, Azwaj =
Mates - Couples, Kulaha = All of them, Tunbit = Produces, Anfusihim = Themselves,
La = Not, Ya'lam = Has knowledge of.
A: And your (Muhammad's) God creates what He wills and chooses - for them (people) there is no choice (in
Allah's Creation), Glory to Him and Sublime is He above what they partner with (Him).
Translation of: Ayah 68, Surat AlQasas.
Note: Among the five questions to test his prophethood some Jews asked the Prophet Muhammad
this question: When does a woman have
a female newborn or a male newborn? The Prophet said: The two waters (= AlMaa'an "sperm and egg") meet and
if the man's water (sperm) becomes on the
top (= ma' alrajul) the woman has a male if the woman's water (egg) becomes on the
top (= ma' alunstha) the woman has a female. Cited in "The Abridged
version of the Explanation (of the Qur'an) of Ibn Kastheer = Mukhtasir Tafseer Ibn Kastheer.who died in
774 Hijri (12th century B.C.), page 91 (in Arabic).
Words: Yakhluq = Creates, Yasha' = Wills - Wants, Yakhtar = Chooses, Kheerah =
Choice, Ta'ala = Sublime - High, Yushrik = Partners with.
A: That is the Day of Truth (Day of Judgment) so whoever wishes let him take towards his God a returning
Path. For We (Allah) had warned you (humanity) of a Punishment coming soon - the day when man will see what
(deeds) his hands had sent forward and the disbeliever will say: I wish I were soil*.
Translation of: Ayat 39 - 40, Surat AlNaba'.
* dead.
Words: AlYawm AlHaq = Day of Truth, Men Sha' = Whoever wills, Etakhatha =
Let him take, Ma'aba = Returning Path, Anthara = Warned, Qareeban = Coming soon, Yathur =
Sees, Mare' = Man - Human being, Qadamat Yadaah = His hands sent forward, YaLaytani = I wish,
Turaba = Soil - Earth.
A: For in the creation of the Heavens and the earth and the alternation of night and day there
are certainly miraculous signs (= Ayat) for those who understand; Those who remember Allah standing
and sitting and when on their sides (lying) and they contemplate in the creation of
the Heavens and the earth - (they say) Our God! You did not create this without purpose. Glory to
You! So protect us against the punishment of the Fire (Hell).
Translation of: Ayat 190 -191, Surat AlImran.
Note: 'Aishah' the Prophet's wife was asked about an matter of the Prophet Muhammad that
filled her with admiration (= Ajaban). In a summary of her narration, she said: All the Prophet's
matter (life) was 'Ajaban'. One night
before going to bed the Prophet asked Aisha if she
gives him permission to pray to Allah. In the long prayer the Prophet cried a lot when standing, bowing and
prostrating to the extent that his beard became very wet. At dawn when Bilal came to ask the Prophet to call for
the dawn prayer he asked the Prophet what makes him cry and Allah has already forgiven him his sins
(mentioned in the Qur'an). The Prophet
said: What prevents me from crying and Allah has sent down the (Ayah 190 of Chapter AlImran) . Then the
Prophet added: Woe to whoever reads it and does not contemplate about it.
Words: Khalq = Creation, Samawat = Heavens (7), Ekhtilaf = Alternation, Layl
= Night, Nahar = Day, Uli AlAlbab = Those who understand - Men of understanding, Yathkur
= Remembers - Mentions Allah's lines, Qiyaman Standing, Quoudan = Sitting, Ala Junoubihim = On
their sides, Yatafakkar = Contemplates - Thinks about, Batilan = Without purpose - In vain,
Qina = Protect us, Athab = Punishment, Nar = Fire.
A: He is Who shapes you in the womb however He pleases - there is no god but He - the AlMighty,
the All-Wise.
Translation of: Ayah 6, Surat AlImran.
Note: In a summary of a saying of the Prophet Muhammad: The creation of each of you is
gathered in the womb: Forty days as a drop (nutfah), then forty days as blood clot (alakah) and forty other days
as foetus lump (mudhghah) then the angel (Gabriel according to another saying of the Prophet) is called. So
he breathes (fayanfukh fihi) the soul in him and he is commanded (
by Allah) with four orders: To write his sustenance, his death time, his work, and whether fortunate (saeed) or unfortunate
(shaqi). Source: Riyadh AlSaliheen min Kalam Sayed AlMursaleen, p. 145.
Words: Yusawwir = Shapes - Forms, Arham = Womb (plural), Kayfa = However,
Yasha' = Pleases.
Hint: Wherever the stars and the lights are located.
A: And We decorated the lowest Heaven with
lamps (sources of light) and safeguarding (by guardian angels); That is the proportion of The AlMighty, The All-Knowing.
Translation of: Ayah 12, Surat Fusilat.
Words: Zayyanna = We Decorated, AlDunya = The Lowest, Masabeeh
= Lamps - Sources of Light, Hifdh = Safeguarding - Protection, Taqdeer = Proportion - Measurement -
Judgment.
A: For We decorated the Lowest Heaven (sky) with the decoration of the constellations of stars.
Translation of: Ayah 6, Surat AlSaffat.
Note: Lines 6 - 10 from Chapter AlSaffat.
Words: Zayanna = Decorated, AlSama' AlDunya = The Lowest Heaven
(sky), AlKawakib = Constellations of stars.
A: And We (Allah) decorated the Lowest Heaven (sky) with lights and We made it a place of stoning the
Satans (evil Jinn) and We had prepared for them the Punishment of the Blazing Fire (Hell).
Translation of: Ayah 5, Surat AlMulk.
Words: Masabeeh = Lights - Sources of Lights - Lamps, Ja'ala = Made,
Rujouman = Place of stoning, E'tadna = We had prepared, AlSa'eer = Blazing FireDecorated, AlSama' AlDunya = The Lowest Heaven
(sky), AlKawakib = Constellations of stars.
A: Has man not yet seen that We (Allah) created him from a sperm-drop then suddenly he is
a visible opponent (to Allah).
Translation of: Ayah 77, Surat Yaseen.
Words: Awa Lem = Has not yet seen, Insan = Man - Human being, Khalqa =
Created, Nutfah = Sperm-drop, Khaseem = Opponent, Mubeen = Visible - Clear.
A: Is not Who created the Heavens and the earth Capable of creating the
like of them (man) - yes indeed! And He is the Originator, the All-Knowing.
Translation of: Ayah 81, Surat YaSeen.
Note: Which one is more difficult to create: Man or the sky?
Words: Awa Laysa = Is not, Allathi = Who, AlSamawat = The Heavens, Yakhluq
= Creates, Misthlahum = Like them, AlKhallaq = The Originator - The Originative.
Hint: They lack the discerning skill of the mind: To see and understand the difference. To grasp
what is obscure. And Satan deludes them away from Allah's Path.
A: And they (disbelievers) will say: Only if we were listening or discerning (
= na'qil) we would not have been
among the companions of the Blazing Fire! So they confessed their sin; So To Hell with the companions of
the Blazing Fire.
Translation of: Ayat 10 - 11, Surat AlMulk.
Note: the people of the Prophet Salih "Thamud" were
discerning but Satan deluded them.
Words: Nasma' = Listening, Na'qil = Discerning - Understanding the difference,
As'hab = Companions, E'tarafou = They confessed, Thanb = Sin, Suhqan = To Hell
with, Sa'eer = Blazing Fire - Hell.
A: For the creation of the Heavens (7) and the earth is greater than the creation of
humans but most of humans do not realize*.
Translation of: Ayah 57, Surat Ghafir.
* The creation of man is easy for Allah. So the recreation of man after death will be even easier.
Words: Khalq = Creation, Samawat = Heavens, Akbar = Greater, Aksthar =
Greater, La = Not, Ya'amoun = Realize - Know.
A: Have they not thought that Allah Who created the Heavens and the earth and did not become
exhausted by their creation is Capable of bringing the dead to life - yes indeed! For
certainly upon everything He is All-Powerful.
Translation of: Ayah 33, Surat AlAhqaf.
Words: Awa Lem = Have they not thought - considered, Khalaqa = Created,
Lem Ya'i = Did not become exhausted, Qaadir = Capable, Ala an Yuhye = Of bringing to
life, AlMawta = The dead, Qadeer = All-Powerful - Omnipotent.
