Brief Introduction to the Contents

In this Issue …

Surah Falaq

Presented here is the commentary of the Surah Falaq, the second last surah of the Holy Qur’an, as penned by Amin Ahsan Islahi.

Determining the Addressees and the Addressors

One of the critical factors to assimilate the Qur’anic text is to appreciate the address – who is being addressed by whom. Since most of the difficulties encountered in text deciphering emanate from identification of the addressor and the addressee, this is an area where students of the Qur’an really need to excel. Hamid Uddin Farahi, the celebrated exegete of the Holy Qur’an, has delineated some indicators in this short exposition which, if absorbed properly, would provide immense help in tracing the direction of address in the Holy Qur’an.

The Signs and Events of the Day of Judgement

The Day of Resurrection is bound to come though no one knows exactly when this crucial event is going to take place. Nonetheless, the Holy Qur’an and the Hadith literature both guide us as to some landmarks that, when sighted, approximate the advent of Doomsday. In the above captioned article, Javed Ahmad Ghamidi has elaborated these landmarks. 

Shahadah: Witnessing of the Truth

The author has attempted to capture in this article the concept of “shahadah” and its implications as encapsulated by Javed Ahmad Ghamidi in his seminal work on Islam – Mizan.

Found

This is a poem by Dania ‘Abdullah. She is a Muslim convert of Bosnian Serb origin and embraced Islam 18 years ago. In this poem, she verbalizes her emotions of gratitude for having found Islam.