Brief Introduction to the Contents

In this Issue …

Surah Lahab

This is a translation of Amin Ahsan Islahi’s commentary on Surah Lahab of the Holy Qur’an.

Univocity of the Holy Qur’an

This succinct exposition of Hamid Uddin Farahi critiques the conventional approach of attributing multiple interpretations to the Holy Qur’an. According to him, nothing can be more preposterous than to admit varied interpretations for the text of the Holy Qur’an. He also shares with readers the study approach which ultimately leads to univocal interpretation of the Holy Qur’an.

The Significance of Intentions behind Good Deeds

This write-up, prepared by Javed Ahmad Ghamidi’s Hadith Cell, combines a number of narratives reported by different Hadith scholars to produce a single narrative on the above captioned topic with appropriate annotations.

The Phases and Abodes of the Day of Judgement

We believe that death is not the end of life but a threshold to another life marked by absolute justice and permanence. Given the overriding importance of this life, the Holy Qur’an has explained at length the abodes we are lodged in after we die. Javed Ahmad Ghamidi elaborates on these in this article.

The Relationship between the Spouses – A Qur’anic Perspective

The Holy Qur’an has employed the metaphor of “garment” for wife and husband. The present article while quoting from some of the contemporary commentators of the Holy Qur’an explores myriad dimensions of this metaphor from a linguistic and logical perspective.