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Alhamdulillah, I’ve been blessed to take the Arabic 201 class with Bayyinah Institute for the second time and mashaAllah br Nouman has this sunnah of taking 10 minutes at the end of each session to share a literary gem of the Qur’an.
InshaAllah I will be posting all nine that he will share with us; one [...]

Bismillah walhamdulillah
May Allah make us among the companions of the Qur’an, Ameen.
Alhamdulillah we have a new page, Characteristics of the Qur’an, where we will post some of the qualities of this miraculous Book to assist us along the path of becoming its companions inshaAllah.
Qur’anic Characteristic #2 is: Qayyiman.
Allah ta’ala begins suratul Kahf:
الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي أَنْزَلَ [...]

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I happened to ask br Nouman (may Allah preserve him, Ameen) a question on Qur’anic vocabulary, and he gave me this awesome gem as an example to show that Qur’anic vocab is all about quality, not necessarily quantity:
Vocabulary in the Qur’an is an intricately connected web of terms that, if not given their [...]

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Br Nouman Khan from Bayyinah Institute has been giving talks at my masjid throughout Ramadaan alhamdulillah and I wanted to share some points he mentioned from one talk that he gave about a few ayaat in surah Luqman which was absolutely amazing mashaAllah. May Allah ta’ala increase him in ‘ilm and ‘amal. Ameen.
Allah ta’ala says [...]

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To continue our Names of Allah series:
Ar-Rahman: The Entirely Merciful, Ar-Raheem: The Especially Merciful
Both of the names Rahman and Raheem come from the root Ra-ha-meem (ر ح م), these names are similar so they require a parallel explanation. What is Rahmah? Rahmah is mercy. In the dictionary it means: ar-rifqa wa ta’attuf, compassion, kindness [...]

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Alhamdulillah we covered: tahmeed, tasbeeh and takbeer. InshaAllah (for now) the last dhikr we will dissect is tabaarak: Blessed is He, He is Greatly Blessed. This word tabaarak is only used for Allah ta’ala.

Bismillah.
To continue our meanings of the dhikr posts, we’ll analyze Takbeer which means to say: Allahu Akbar.
Allah ta’ala says in Suratul Israa ayah 111:
وَكَبِّرْهُ تَكْبِيرًا
“and glorify Him with a great glorification”.
Both of these words in the ayah are from kaaf-ba-ra (ك-ب-ر) or kabar, which means to be great. كَبِّرْهُ Kabirhu means: Make Him great, declare [...]

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Alhamdulillah, we now know what hamd is, let’s move on to tasbeeh!
SubhanAllah, He is Absolutely Flawless. The utter beauty, completeness, total negation, absolute perfection and exaltation that is contained in saying those two words completely boggles my mind and I know I cannot do any justice to it. My intention is to give a tiny [...]

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Ismul Jalaalah, The Grand Name: Allah الله. This is Allah’s Personal Name. His Identifying Name. This Name only belongs to Allah, no one else can have besides Allah. Allah is the Title, the Name, of the One True Ilaah. The Name of Allah, you cannot play around with: there is no plural, there is no [...]