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Verse: "We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth." (41:53) …

Verse: "No calamity befalls except by Allah's permission. Whoever believes in Allah — He guides his heart." (64:11) Combining decree an…

Verse: "We created the human in the best form. Then returned him to the lowest of the low — except those who believe and do good." (95:4-6…

Verse: "Indeed those who believed and did good — We do not waste the reward of one who does good." (18:30) "We do not waste" (la nudhi'…

Verse: "Have you seen the one who denies the religion? That is the one who drives away the orphan and does not encourage feeding the poor.…

Verse: "When Our command came We saved Hud and those who believed with him — by a mercy from Us." (11:58) — Salvation "by a mercy from Us"…

Verse: "The believers are brothers — so make peace between your two brothers." (49:10) — "Innama" for restriction: brotherhood is restrict…

Verse: "We created man in the best form — then reduced him to the lowest of the low." (95:4-5) — "Best form" — man is born with sound natu…

Verse: "By time — man is in loss — except those who believe, do righteous deeds, enjoin truth upon each other, and enjoin patience upon ea…

Verse: "They resented them only because they believed in Allah, the Exalted in Might, the Praiseworthy" Reflection: The story of the …

Verse: "He who sent down tranquility into the hearts of the believers that they might increase in faith along with their faith." (48:4) — …

Verse: "In the creation of the heavens and earth and the alternation of night and day are signs for those of understanding." (3:190) — "Th…

Verse: "O believers, respond to Allah and His Messenger when He calls you to that which gives you life." (8:24) — "To what gives you life"…

Verse: "Say: Nothing will befall us except what Allah has decreed for us. He is our Protector — and upon Allah let the believers rely." (9…

Verse: "And upon Allah rely if you are believers." (5:23) — "If you are believers" makes tawakkul a condition for faith, not optional. Fro…

Occasion of Revelation (Hasan — Abu Dawud & Bazzar): Two Ansar men from Aws and Khazraj quarreled; their respective tribes took sides, ra…

Verse: "Had We sent down the angels and the dead had spoken to them and We had gathered everything before them — they would not have belie…

Verse: "Those who believed and those who were Jews and Christians and Sabians — whoever believed in Allah and the Last Day and did righteo…

Verse: "Say: I do not tell you that I have the depositories of Allah, nor do I know the unseen, nor do I tell you that I am an angel. I on…

Verse: "Indeed those who tormented the believing men and believing women and then did not repent — for them is the punishment of Hell, and…

Verse: "The sorcerers fell down in prostration, saying: 'We believe in the Lord of Harun and Musa!'" (20:70) The sorcerers — fastest be…

Source: Narrated by Muslim (3005) — one of the most beautiful Islamic narratives Summary: A tyrannical king worshipped by his people. …

Quranic context: Ilyas (AS) was sent to a people who worshipped Baal. He called them to Allah but they rejected and threatened him. Yunus…

Quranic context: When Pharaoh decided to kill Musa, a man from Pharaoh's own family who had been concealing his faith stood up and public…

Quranic context: Three messengers were sent to a city and the people rejected them. A man came running from the far end of the city to su…

Quranic context: Al-Baqarah 260 Context: Ibrahim said: "My Lord, show me how You give life to the dead." Allah said: "Do you not belie…

Quranic context: Al-Araf 120-126 / Ash-Shuara 46-52 / Ta-Ha 70-76 Context: Pharaoh assembled his sorcerers to face Moses. When they sa…

Quranic context: At-Tahrim 11 Verse: "And Allah presents an example of those who believed: the wife of Pharaoh, when she said: My Lord…

Quranic context: Ad-Dukhan 37 / Qaf 14 The verses: "Are they better or the people of Tubba?" (Ad-Dukhan: 37) — a rhetorical question: …

Quranic context: Nuh (peace be upon him) called his people for nine hundred and fifty years — yet only a few believed. Then Allah commande…

Verse: "If a wound has touched you, a similar wound has already touched those people. Such days We alternate among the people so that Alla…

Definition: Belief in heart, profession on tongue, action with limbs — increases through obedience, decreases through disobedience. Six…

The key verse: "The bedouins say: We have believed. Say: You have not believed. Rather say: We have submitted, for faith has not yet enter…