Contemplation Basic Ethics & Manners

Woe to Every Scorner and Mocker — Backbiting and Ridicule

Verse: "Woe to every scorner and mocker — who collects wealth and counts it." (104:1-2) "Hammaz": One who scorns openly in speech or a…

Contemplation Basic Social Conduct

O Believers Avoid Much Suspicion — Indeed Some Suspicion Is a Sin

Verse: "O believers, avoid much suspicion — indeed some suspicion is a sin." (49:12) — The prohibition is on "much" suspicion, not all — s…

Contemplation Basic Social Conduct

Woe to Every Backbiter Scorner Who Gathers Wealth and Counts It — Critique of Excessive Wealth and Slander

Verse: "Woe to every backbiter, scorner — who gathers wealth and counts it." (104:1-2) — "Humazah luzamah" — one whose constant habit is b…

Contemplation Basic Al-Masad

And His Wife, the Carrier of Firewood — The Person Who Ignites Fires Between People

Verses: "And his wife, the carrier of firewood (4) Around her neck is a rope of twisted fibre" Reflection: The wife of Abu Lahab is m…

Quranic Terms Advanced Rhetoric

Iltifat — The Sudden Style Shift

Definition: Shifting from one style to another in speech — third person to second person, or vice versa. Example in Al-Fatiha: Begins …

Fiqh Rulings Basic Transactions

Prohibition of Backbiting and Tale-Bearing

Verse: "Do not backbite one another. Would any of you like to eat his dead brother's flesh? You would hate it." (49:12) Definition of b…

Fiqh Rulings Intermediate Special Topics

And Do Not Spy — Prohibition of Spying

Verse: "And do not spy and do not backbite one another." (49:12) — Spying: investigating people's faults and secrets without permission. I…

Fiqh Rulings Basic Ethics & Manners

Prohibition of Spying and Backbiting — Sanctity of a Muslim's Honor

Verse: "Do not spy, and do not backbite one another. Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? You would loathe it." (49…

Quranic Rhetoric Advanced Iltifat

Iltifat — Types and Purposes in the Quran

Three basic types: (1) Third to second person: "Praise to Allah...You alone we worship." (2) Second to third: "Until you are in ships, and…

Quranic Rhetoric Intermediate Iltifat

Shift from Third to Second Person — "Praise to Allah... You Alone We Worship"

Iltifat in Al-Fatiha: The opening verses speak about Allah in the third person — "Praise to Allah, Lord of the worlds, the Most Merciful, …

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