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Human Purpose What Is the Purpose of Human Life? The Qur'an presents human life as purposeful and accountable: people are called to worship God, cultivate what is good, exercise moral choice, and rec… Read this topic -
Society Intoxicants, Gambling and Riba: Three Safeguards for Human Wellbeing The Qur'an names intoxicants and gambling together as harmful, describing both as a source of enmity between people and a distraction from remembrance… Read this topic -
Listen How Should We Listen to the Qur'an? The Qur'an treats listening as an attentive act: hear the recitation with care, allow space for reflection, and approach its words with respect. Sound… Read this topic -
Messengers One Humanity, Many Messengers The Qur'an describes guidance and warning as reaching every nation, not one people alone: "There is no nation but that a warner has passed among them"… Read this topic -
Moral Values What Moral Values Does the Qur'an Teach? The Qur'an repeatedly returns to a set of core values: justice, honesty, compassion, human dignity, care for parents and orphans, generosity, forgiven… Read this topic -
Difficult Questions What Does the Qur'an Say About Jesus? The Qur'an honours Jesus (‘Isa) as a major prophet and messenger, born of the Virgin Mary through a miraculous act of God, who performed miracles by G… Read this topic -
Knowledge The Qur'an and the Search for Knowledge The Qur'an repeatedly commands its readers to read, observe, and reflect — starting with its very first revealed word, "Read." This intellectual postu… Read this topic -
Start Here What Is the Qur'an? The Qur'an is the central religious text of Islam. Muslims understand it to be the literal word of God, revealed in Arabic to the Prophet Muhammad ove… Read this topic -
God Who Is God According to the Qur'an? The Qur'an describes God (Allah — the Arabic word for God) as one and indivisible, without offspring, parent or equal, and beyond comparison to anythi… Read this topic
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