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How Life on Earth Began for People
Tells the story of Adam's creation, the angels being told about humans, Iblis refusing to obey, Adam making a mistake, and Allah giving people guidance for life on earth.
Fasting in Ramadan
Explains fasting, why it is prescribed, who must fast, who can make it up later, Ramadan as the month of the Qur'an, and basic rules around eating, drinking, and family life at night.
Marriage and Faith Choices
Gives guidance about marriage and choosing spouses based on faith instead of attraction, status, or social pressure.
Cleanliness and Married Life
Gives private family guidance about menstruation, cleanliness, and intimacy between husband and wife.
Oaths and Marital Separation
Teaches people not to use Allah's name in careless oaths and gives rules for marital separation when a husband distances himself from his wife.
Divorce, Waiting Periods, and Fair Treatment
Gives rules for divorce, waiting periods, reconciliation, nursing children, dowry, and fair treatment between husband and wife.
Widows, Divorce, and Kindness After Separation
Gives guidance about caring for widows and treating divorced women with fairness, support, and dignity.
Writing Down Loans and Being Fair in Business
Gives detailed rules for writing down debts, using witnesses, being honest in contracts, and protecting people from confusion or cheating.
The Family of Imran and the Birth of Maryam
Tells how Maryam's mother dedicated her child to Allah, how Maryam was cared for, and how Zakariyya prayed for a child and was given Yahya.
Maryam and the Birth of Isa
Tells how Maryam was chosen, how she received news of Isa's birth, and how Isa would teach, perform miracles by Allah's permission, and call people to worship Allah.
One Human Family and Respecting Family Ties
Reminds people that all humans come from one soul, and teaches them to respect Allah and protect family relationships.
Taking Care of Orphans and Their Property
Gives rules about protecting orphans' money, not taking what belongs to them, and warning against eating their wealth unfairly.
Inheritance Rules After Death
Gives shares for family members after someone dies, so inheritance is handled fairly instead of being controlled by greed or pressure.
Serious Sin, Repentance, and Changing Before It Is Too Late
Gives early community rules about serious sexual wrongdoing and explains that repentance should happen while people still have time to change.
Treating Women Fairly in Marriage
Tells men not to mistreat women, force them, or take back gifts unfairly. Marriage should have respect, fairness, and kindness.
Who People Cannot Marry
Lists close family relationships that are not allowed for marriage, protecting family structure and clear boundaries.
Marriage Rules and Choosing Lawful Relationships
Explains who can be married, the importance of proper marriage, giving women their due rights, and choosing lawful relationships instead of secret or careless ones.
Do Not Be Jealous of What Others Have
Teaches people not to wish for what Allah has given others. Everyone has their own share, role, reward, and responsibility.
Solving Serious Marriage Problems
Gives guidance for handling serious problems between husband and wife, including family help when the marriage needs fixing.
Being Ready to Defend the Weak
Calls believers to be careful, ready, and willing to defend oppressed people who are asking Allah for rescue.
Migration When People Cannot Practice Faith
Talks about people who stayed in a place where they could not practice faith, even though they had the ability to leave. It praises those who migrate for Allah.
Women, Orphans, and Fair Treatment in Families
Gives more guidance about treating women and orphan girls fairly, especially in marriage, family duties, and separation if peace cannot be kept.
Bani Israel's Repeated Mistakes
Mentions Bani Israel asking for extreme signs, breaking promises, worshiping the calf, rejecting messengers, speaking against Maryam, and making false claims about Isa.
Isa, Maryam, and Worshiping Allah Alone
Corrects wrong beliefs about Isa. It explains that Isa is Allah's messenger, not someone to worship, and calls people to worship Allah alone.
Clear Proof, Guidance, and Inheritance
Calls people to follow the clear proof from Allah, then gives a final inheritance ruling for a person who dies without parents or children.
Food Rules and Completing the Religion
Lists forbidden foods, allows good food, mentions food of the People of the Book, and declares that Allah has completed the religion for believers.
Wrong Beliefs About Isa
Makes clear that Isa called people to worship Allah. It explains that Isa and Maryam were human and that worship belongs to Allah alone.
Isa, His Miracles, and the Table Spread
Mentions Allah's favors on Isa, his miracles by Allah's permission, and the disciples asking for a table of food from heaven as a sign.
Isa Clears Himself Before Allah
Shows Isa saying he never told people to worship him or his mother, and that he only taught them to worship Allah.
Adam and Hawwa Are Tested
Tells how Adam and Hawwa were placed in the garden, Iblis tricked them, they realized their mistake, and life on earth began with guidance and struggle.
Lut Warns His People
Tells how Lut warned his people about their shameful behavior, but they rejected him, so Allah saved Lut and his family except his wife, and punished the wrongdoers.
Hypocrites Compared With True Believers
Contrasts hypocrite men and women, who command wrong and are promised Hell like ruined past nations, with believing men and women who support one another and are promised gardens.
Angels Bring Good News to Ibrahim
Tells how angels visited Ibrahim, who served them a roasted calf. They gave his elderly wife good news of Ishaq and then Yaqub, and Ibrahim pleaded for the people of Lut.
Yusuf Refuses the Wife of the Aziz
Tells how the woman of the house tried to seduce Yusuf, but he sought refuge in Allah. When they raced to the door, his shirt torn from the back showed he was truthful.
The Women of the City and Yusuf's Prayer
Tells how the city women gossiped, then cut their hands in amazement at Yusuf. Threatened with prison, he told Allah that prison was dearer to him than what they invited him to, and he was imprisoned.
Yusuf's Innocence Is Made Clear
Tells how Yusuf asked the king to question the women before he left prison. They cleared him, and the wife of the Aziz admitted that she had tried to seduce him.
Rejecting Daughters and Associating Partners
Tells people not to take two gods. It condemns those who call on Allah in hardship then forget Him, attribute daughters to Him, and grieve at a baby girl's birth, even thinking to bury her.
Justice, Kindness and Keeping Promises
Commands justice, good conduct and giving to relatives, and forbids immorality and oppression. Tells believers to keep oaths and not use them to deceive, and promises a good life to righteous men and women.
Punishments for Zina and False Accusation
Sets the punishment of lashes for unlawful sexual relations and for accusing chaste women without four witnesses. A husband who accuses his wife without witnesses swears five oaths, and she may swear five in reply.
Pardon Others and the Fate of Slanderers
Warns against following Satan. Those with means should not swear to stop helping relatives, the poor and emigrants, but pardon, as they want Allah to forgive them. Those who slander chaste believing women are cursed.
Entering Homes and Lowering the Gaze
Teaches asking permission and greeting before entering others' homes. Believing men and women must lower their gaze and guard their chastity, and women should cover their chests and not display adornment except to close family.
Encouraging Marriage and Freeing Slaves
Tells believers to help the unmarried and righteous slaves marry, and those without means to stay chaste. Slaves seeking freedom by contract should be helped, and no slave girl may be forced into prostitution.
Privacy at Home and Eating Together
Servants and children must ask permission at three private times, and grown children always. Older women may set aside outer garments. There is no blame on eating in relatives' or friends' homes, and people should greet one another.
Baby Musa Is Placed in the River
Allah inspires Musa's mother to put him in the river. Firawn's family takes him in, his sister follows him, he refuses other nurses, and Allah returns him to his mother as promised.
Musa in Madyan and His Marriage
In Madyan Musa waters the flocks of two women and prays to Allah in need. Their father invites him and offers him a daughter in marriage for eight or ten years of work.
The Choice Given to the Prophet's Wives
The Prophet ﷺ tells his wives to choose between worldly life, with a gracious release, or Allah, His Messenger and the Hereafter. Any clear immorality from them would bring double punishment.
Guidance for the Prophet's Wives and Believers' Qualities
Promises the Prophet's wives double reward for obedience and guides them on speech, staying home, prayer and zakah. Then lists the qualities of believing men and women whom Allah will forgive and reward.
Marriage Rules for Believers and the Prophet
Says a woman divorced before the marriage is consummated has no waiting period and should be given provision. Sets out which women are lawful for the Prophet ﷺ to marry, then forbids him any additional wives.
Manners Toward the Prophet's Home and Family
Teaches manners for visiting the Prophet's houses, asking his wives from behind a partition, and never marrying them after him. Tells believers to ask Allah to bless him, and warns those who harm Allah, His Messenger or believers.
Outer Garments and a Warning to Rumor-Spreaders
Tells the Prophet ﷺ to have his wives, daughters and believing women draw their outer garments over themselves so they are recognised and not abused. Warns the hypocrites and rumor-spreaders in Madinah to stop.
The Grateful Child and the Rebellious Child
Commands kindness to parents, recalling the mother's hardship in pregnancy and birth, and teaches the dua of one who reaches forty. Contrasts him with a son who says "Uff" to his parents and denies the resurrection.
No Mocking, Spying or Backbiting
Forbids mocking others, insulting nicknames, suspicion, spying and backbiting, comparing backbiting to eating a dead brother's flesh. Says people were made into nations and tribes to know each other, and the noblest is the most righteous.
Ibrahim's Honored Guests
Tells how Ibrahim welcomed unknown guests with a roasted calf. When they did not eat he grew uneasy, but they gave him news of a learned son, and his wife cried out that she was a barren old woman.
Two Gardens for Those Who Fear Their Lord
Promises two gardens to whoever fears standing before his Lord, with flowing springs, every fruit in pairs, silk-lined couches and modest companions. Asks whether the reward for good can be anything but good.
Two More Gardens Below Them
Describes two further dark green gardens with gushing springs, dates, pomegranates and fair companions in pavilions. Ends by blessing the name of the Lord, Owner of Majesty and Honor.
The Forerunners Brought Near
Describes the forerunners, many from earlier peoples and few from later ones, on woven thrones in gardens. They are served drink that causes no headache or intoxication, fruit and fowl, and hear only words of peace.
The Companions of the Right
Describes the companions of the right among thornless lote trees, layered fruit, long shade and flowing water, on raised couches with companions of equal age. They come from both earlier and later peoples.
Zihar and the Woman Who Pleaded to Allah
Tells that Allah heard a woman pleading about her husband. Declaring a wife to be like one's mother is false speech, and gives the penalty: freeing a slave, fasting two months, or feeding sixty poor people.
Believing Women Who Emigrate and Their Pledge
Gives rules for believing women who emigrate: test their faith, do not return them to disbelieving husbands, and settle dowries. Lists the pledge the Prophet ﷺ accepts from believing women.
Rules for Divorce and the Waiting Period
Gives rules for divorce: count the waiting period, do not expel wives from their homes, bring witnesses, and provide for pregnant and nursing women. Promises a way out to those who fear Allah.
The Prophet and His Wives
Asks the Prophet ﷺ why he forbade himself something lawful to please his wives. Tells how a secret he shared was revealed, and urges two wives to repent, naming Allah, Jibril, and the angels as his supporters.
Examples of Wives Who Believed and Disbelieved
Gives the wives of Nuh and Lut as examples of disbelievers whose husbands could not save them, and Firawn's wife and Maryam as examples of believing women.
When the Sun Is Wrapped Up
Lists what happens at the end: the sun darkens, stars fall, seas blaze, and the girl buried alive is asked why she was killed. Then every soul will know what it has brought.
Abu Lahab and His Wife
Declares ruin for Abu Lahab, whose wealth and gains will not help him as he burns in a flaming Fire, along with his wife, the carrier of firewood with a rope of fiber around her neck.