Tag: Ibn Kathir

  • The Expul­sion of Banu al-Qurayzah

    Excerpt­ed from Mad­i­nan Soci­ety At the Time of the Prophet, Inter­na­tion­al Islam­ic Pub­lish­ing House & IIIT, 1991 The date of the campaign The action against Banu Qurayzah took place at the end of Dhu al Qa’­dah and the begin­ning of Dhu al Hij­jah in the fifth year, after the Bat­tle of the Ditch, which took place…

  • Col­lec­tion of Major Com­men­taries on Qur’an, 41:10 : Six or Eight Days of Cre­ation” Revisited

    We have not­ed in our ear­li­er rebut­tal to a Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ary fan­ta­sy that A. Yusuf Ali had allud­ed to the com­men­taries of the major com­men­ta­tors for his expla­na­tion of Qur’an, 41:10. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, Yusuf Ali did not cite the pre­cise quo­ta­tions of the com­men­taries that he was refer­ring to. Here, we would like to fill in that…

  • Prophet Muham­mad’s Night Jour­ney and Ascen­sion to Heaven

    From Muham­mad Asad’s com­men­tary, The Mes­sage of The Qur’an Surah 17 (Al-Isra’), verse 1 reads as : “Lim­it­less in His glo­ry is He who trans­port­ed His ser­vant by night from the Invi­o­lable House of wor­ship [at Mec­ca] to the Remote House of Wor­ship [at Jerusalem] — the envi­rons of which We had blessed — so that We might show him some…