Renaissance Monthly Journal
What went Wrong?
Book Review
Title: What went Wrong? The Clash between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
Author: Bernard Lewis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year of Publication: 2002
Introduction
The supremacy of Islamic civilization is stretched across eleven centuries and almost three continents. Within a few yea
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Delaying Zuhr Prayer in Intense Heat
Hadīth
(This write-up is prepared by the Hadith Cell of Jāved Ahmad Ghamidi)
روى أحد من الصحابة رضي الله عنهم: كنا مع النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم في سفر فأراد المؤذن أن يؤذن الظهر فقال له أبرد ثم أراد أن يؤذن ثم قا
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Mode of Revelation
Qur’ān
(Translated from Farāhī’s Majmū‘ah Tafāsīr by Tariq Mahmood Hashmi)
The Holy Qur’ān itself testifies that it was not revealed in a single instance and that it came down piecemeal.
وَقَالَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لَوْلَا نُزِّلَ عَلَيْ
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Sūrah Al-i ‘Imrān (81-99)
Qur’ānic Exegesis
وَإِذْ أَخَذَ اللّهُ مِيثَاقَ النَّبِيِّيْنَ لَمَا آتَيْتُكُم مِّن كِتَابٍ وَحِكْمَةٍ ثُمَّ جَاءكُمْ رَسُولٌ مُّصَدِّقٌ لِّمَا مَعَكُمْ لَتُؤْمِنُنَّ بِهِ وَلَتَ
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Surah Tin
Qur’ānic Exegesis
(Translated from Tadabbur-i Qur’ān by Shehzad Saleem)
Central Theme, Relationship with Previous Sūrah and Sequence of Discourse
The central theme of this sūrah is to validate reward and punishment. The sūrah begins with a mention of the important places of this world where prophets of God were
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Brief Introduction to the Contents
In this Issue…
Sūrah Tīn
This is a commentary of the Sūrah Tīn by the celebrated exegete of the Holy Qur’ān – Amīn Ahsan Islahī. This sūrah begins with four oaths, the meaning and significance of which has been a subject of much earnest interpretative efforts throughout history. Islah
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