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The Final Testament
The KeyAl-Fãtehah1The HeiferAl-Baqarah2The AmramitesÃli-'Imrãn3The WomenAl-Nesa'4The FeastAl-Ma'edah5The LivestockAl-An'am6The PurgatoryAl-A'araf7The Spoils of WarAl-Anfal8UltimatumBara'ah9JonahYounus10HoodHud11JosephYousuf12The ThunderAl-Ra'ad13AbrahamIbrahîm14The Hijr ValleyAl-Hijr15The BeeAl-Nahl16The Children of IsraelBanî Israel17The CaveAl-Kahf18MaryMaryam19T-HTãHã20The ProphetsAl-Anbyã’21The PilgrimageAl-Hajj22The BelieversAl-Mu’minûn23The LightAl-Noor24The Statute BookAl-Furqãn25The PoetsAl-Shu‘arã’26The AntAl-Naml27The HistoryAl-Qasas28The SpiderAl-‘Ankaboot29The RomansAl-Room30LuqmaanLuqmãn31ProstrationAl-Sajdah32The PartiesAl-Ahzãb33ShebaSaba’34InitiatorFãter35Y-SYãSîn36The ArrangersAl-Sãffãt37SSaad38The ThrongsAl-Zumar39ForgiverGhãfer40DetailedFussilat41ConsultationAl-Shoorã42The OrnamentsAl-Zukhruf43The SmokeAl-Dukhãn44The KneelingAl-Jãtheyah45The DunesAl-Ahqãf46MuhammedMuḥammad47VictoryAl-Fatt-h48The WallsAl-Hujurãt49QQãf50Driver of the WindsAl-Dhãreyãt51Mount SinaiAl-Toor52The StarsAl-Najm53The MoonAl-Qamar54The GraciousAl-Rahmaan55The InevitableAl-Waaqe‘ah56IronAl-Hadeed57The DebateAl-Mujaadalah58The ExodusAl-Hashr59The TestAl-Mumtahanah60The ColumnAl-Suff61FridayAl-Jumu‘ah62The HypocritesAl-Munaafeqoon63Mutual BlamingAl-Taghaabun64DivorceAl-Talaaq65ProhibitionAl-Tahreem66KingshipAl-Mulk67The PenAl-Qalam68IncontestableAl-Haaqqah69The HeightsAl-Ma‘aarej70NoahNuh71JinnsAl-Jinn72CloakedAl-Muzzammil73The Hidden SecretAl-Muddath-thir74ResurrectionAl-Qeyaamah75The HumanAl-Insaan76DispatchedAl-Mursalaat77The EventAl-Naba’78The SnatchersAl-Naaze‘aat79He FrownedAbasa80The RollingAl-Takweer81The ShatteringAl-Infitaar82The CheatersAl-Mutaffifeen83The RuptureAl-Inshiqaaq84The GalaxiesAl-Burooj85The Bright StarAl-Taareq86The Most HighAl-A‘alaa87OverwhelmingAl-Ghaasheyah88DawnAl-Fajr89The TownAl-Balad90The SunAl-Shams91The NightAl-Layl92The ForenoonAl-Duhaa93Cooling the TemperAl-Sharrhh94The FigAl-Teen95The EmbryoAl-‘Alaq96The DestinyAl-Qadr97The ProofAl-Bayyinah98The QuakeAl-Zalzalah99The GallopersAl-‘Aadeyaat100The ShockerAl-Qaare‘ah101HoardingAl-Takaathur102The AfternoonAl-‘Asr103The BackbiterAl-Humazah104The ElephantAl-Feel105Quraish TribeThe Quraish Tribe106CharityAl-Maa‘oon107BountyAl-Kawthar108The DisbelieversAl-Kaaferoon109TriumphAl-Nassr110ThornsAl-Masad111AbsolutenessAl-Ikhlaas112DaybreakAl-Falaq113PeopleAl-Naas114
IntroductionOne of the Great Miracles1God's Messenger of the Covenant2We Made the Quran Easy3Why Was the Quran Revealed in Arabic?4Heaven and Hell5Greatness of God6Why Were We Created?7The Myth of Intercession8Abraham: Original Messenger of Submission9God's Usage of the Plural Tense10The Day of Resurrection11Role of the Prophet Muhammad12The First Pillar of Submission13Predestination14Religious Duties: Gift from God15Dietary Prohibition16Death17Quran is All You Need18Hadith and Sunna: Satanic Innovations19Quran: Unlike Any Other Book20Satan: Fallen Angel21Jesus22Chronological Order of Revelation23Two False Verses Removed from the Quran24End of the World25The Three Messengers of Islam26Who Is Your God?27Muhammad Wrote God's Revelations With His Own Hand28The Missing Basmalah29Polygamy30Evolution: A Divinely Guided Process31The Crucial Age of 4032Why Did God Send a Messenger Now?33Virginity/Chastity: A Trait of the True Believers34Drugs & Alcohol35What Price A Great Nation36Criminal Justice in Islam37The Creator's Signature38
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The Mathematical MiracleGod's OnenessSubmissionThe QuranIdol WorshipRighteous WorksSatanThe TestHadith and SunnaSpiritual GrowthFaithSigns of GodRemembrance of GodGod's AttributesCompleteness of the QuranMessengers and ProphetsFastingHeavenGod's SovereigntyThe Messenger of the CovenantCommunity LifeTrust in GodDisbeliefIdolizing the Prophet
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Books
Dr. Rashad Khalifa (Translator)Quran: The Final TestamentEnglish translation of the Quran by Dr. Rashad Khalifa.Dr. Rashad KhalifaQuran, Hadith, and IslamHadith and Sunna, Dr. Khalifa argues, are fabrications unconnected to the prophet Muhammad, and following them idolizes him against his will, since God declares the Quran complete, fully detailed, and the only source of religious guidance. He answers where Salat details come from by tracing all religious practices to Abraham, rejects intercession, and presents evidence based on the number 19.Dr. Rashad KhalifaQuran: Visual Presentation of the MiracleThe mathematical code of the Quran built on the number 19, which Chapter 74 calls one of the greatest miracles, is laid out as a series of physical facts. They include the 19 letters of the opening statement, the 114 chapters, the first revelations, and word counts such as God mentioned 2,698 times. The evidence is offered as proof that the Quran is from God and perfectly preserved.Dr. Rashad KhalifaThe Computer Speaks: God's Message to The WorldOne of the first books published following the 1974 discovery of the Quran's mathematical code.
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Research
ResearchThe Math Miracle: Intentional or Coincidental?Argues that the Quran's code of 19 is intentional, not coincidence.May 19, 2019Abdullah ArikBeyond Probability: God's Message in Mathematics, Series 1Presents the mathematical evidence of the code of 19 in the Basmalah and argues it lies beyond probability.Faiz Currim and Lisa SprayBeyond Probability: God's Message in Mathematics, Series 2Presents the mathematical evidence of the code of 19 in the Opening chapter, Al-Fatehah, and argues it lies beyond probability.Edip YükselNineteen: God's Signature in Nature and ScriptureEdip Yüksel's book on the mathematical code of 19 in the Quran, with findings of his own.
Quran Talk Blog
Quran Talk BlogWas It an Angel or a Spirit That Appeared to Mary? What the Quran Actually SaysThe being who appeared to Mary in human form to announce Jesus is called God's Spirit (rūḥ) and a messenger in Sura 19, never explicitly an angel. The article contrasts this with the angels who address Mary in Sura 3, examines the verses naming Gabriel and the Holy Spirit, and concludes that identifying the Spirit as Gabriel is an interpretive step beyond the text.October 28, 2026Quran Talk BlogCan Something Pagan Become Sacred? The Bible’s Answer to a Common Argument Against IslamAnswers the Christian apologetic claim that the Kaaba, the pilgrimage, and its rituals prove Islam has pagan origins. Using Gideon's altar, Jericho's treasures, Paul on idol meat, the bronze serpent, the high places, and the divine names El and Baal, it argues from the Bible that a practice's origin does not fix its status. It also notes the Quran's account of Abraham restoring the Kaaba.October 27, 2026Quran Talk BlogThe Missing Science: Why Hadith Was Authenticated and the Torah and Gospel Were NotSunni scholarship built an elaborate science to authenticate hadith yet made no comparable effort to recover the Torah and the Gospel, which the Quran calls revelation from God. The article traces how hadith rose from suspect to supreme, from the early ban on writing reports through Abu Hanifa, al-Shafi'i, and Ibn Hanbal, and asks why that labor went to Muhammad's alleged words rather than God's admitted revelation.October 26, 2026Quran Talk BlogThe Talmudic Dilemma That Isn’tA rebuttal of the Talmudic Dilemma, the objection that material shared with the Talmud proves the Quran is man-made. The article argues that wahi, or inspiration, was never limited to prophets, that all truth comes from God, and that the Quran quotes rabbinic claims to confirm or refute them. It also names the genetic fallacy, the gap between compilation date and an idea's age, and the old Meccan charge.October 25, 2026Quran Talk BlogThe Prophet as Witness: How European Painters Enlisted Muhammad in Defense of the Immaculate ConceptionFranciscan preachers and painters from the late Middle Ages into the eighteenth century placed the Prophet Muhammad in altarpieces as a witness to Mary's purity, citing a hadith they wrongly attributed to the Quran. Tracing examples from Split to the Marche, the article explains why the argument was weaker than claimed and how inquisitors later repainted or removed the figure, while Venetian Dalmatia kept him.October 24, 2026Quran Talk BlogThe Bible & SlaveryBiblical slave law in Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy, read to ask whether these texts merely describe or regulate slavery or authorize owning human beings as inheritable property. The article separates debt servitude from chattel slavery, examines laws on captive and enslaved women, weighs the main apologetic defenses, and reviews the New Testament household codes, concluding that the Bible never condemns slavery itself.October 23, 2026Quran Talk BlogThe Quran Is a Genre of Its OwnThe Quran's literary form, set against the genres of the Bible: law, narrative, prophetic oracle, psalm, wisdom, covenant, apocalypse, gospel, and epistle. The Quran draws on each but fits none, speaking in God's unmediated voice, referring to itself, and preserving the prophet's words through the command Say while withholding his biography. Readers are urged to judge the Quran on its own terms.October 23, 2026Quran Talk BlogFishermen’s Greek: The Literary Blemish at the Heart of Early ChristianityEducated Romans dismissed the Gospels for their common Koine Greek, and early Christians answered through Paul, Origen, Augustine, Jerome, the humble style, and biblical epics in classical verse. The essay then turns to Moses's halting speech before Pharaoh and the Quran's Arabic eloquence. That eloquence served as a sign among Arabs but met prejudice from outsiders, showing that a message is judged through its language.October 22, 2026
Archives
Programs
Essentials of SubmissionIslam as submission to God alone, taught by every messenger from Adam on, with its practices delivered through Abraham and its complete scripture, the Quran, through Muhammad. Dr. Khalifa explains the five pillars, from a shahada that names God alone to the contact prayers, fasting, zakat to relatives first, and Hajj without visiting Medina. He closes with the Quran's dietary prohibitions, intoxicants, gambling, and major sins.Dr. Rashad Khalifa (Speaker)King of ChaosSatan, the King of Chaos, is temporarily made a god over the tiny planet Earth, which explains why a merciful God permits famine, war, disease, and the suffering of children. The second program in a series sets God's greatness against seven vast universes and tells how Satan was exposed through Adam. It covers four kinds of disasters, repentance, and idol worship as the only unforgivable sin.Dr. Rashad Khalifa (Speaker)Mathematical Miracle of QuranDr. Khalifa explains how translating the Quran for his children led him to a computer study of the Quranic initials and the discovery of 19 as their common denominator. He walks through counts of verses, surahs, words, and initial letters, including the Basmala and its placement in surahs 9 and 27, and answers why 19: its numerical value equals the Arabic word for one, God alone.Dr. Rashad Khalifa (Speaker)Principles of Contact PrayerThe contact prayer, Salat, is presented as a Quranic commandment originating with Abraham, with its five times located in specific verses and its purpose explained as nourishment for the soul. Dr. Khalifa covers the original call to prayer, the four steps of ablution, and demonstrations of each daily prayer, warning against mentioning any name but God. He also addresses menstruation, missed prayers, joining a group late, and the Friday sermon.Dr. Rashad Khalifa (Speaker)The Computer SpeaksRecorded in 1986 and 1987, Dr. Khalifa announces a mathematically coded message decoded by computer and calls for unity through devotion to God alone, above human factors like Jesus, Muhammad, and Mary. He predicts a new era of God's kingdom, sets out three requirements for membership, and invites Billy Graham, the Pope, Rabbi Kushner, and Muslim leaders to examine the evidence.Dr. Rashad Khalifa (Speaker)The Great DebateDr. Khalifa answers a Muslim interviewer's challenges about his claim to be a messenger of God, the mathematical code of 19 in the Quran, and the removal of the last two verses of Sura 9. The debate also covers the Quran alone versus hadith and sunnah, the correct shahada, intercession, God's preservation of the Quran, and the verse about blessing the Prophet.Dr. Rashad Khalifa (Speaker)Theory of Evolution vs CreationDarwin's theory of evolution is tested against the laws of probability, from the human genetic code to the eye and the simple cell, and found unable to explain the origin of life. The mathematical code of 19 in the Quran is presented as proof of a super intelligent Creator who guides evolution, correcting popular creationist ideas, followed by a 1987 studio debate with anthropologist Jeff Clark.Dr. Rashad Khalifa (Speaker)What Is Life About, Who Is GodNot knowing who we are, as souls rather than bodies, is called the biggest problem in the world, and the daily contact prayer five times a day is the food that nourishes the soul and brings real happiness. A sermon then measures the solar system, the galaxies and the seven universes to show the greatness of God and the blasphemy of idolizing Muhammad, Jesus or Mary.Dr. Rashad Khalifa (Speaker)
Sermons
Sermon, June 1987Belief in God requires knowing that God runs everything, since the Quran shows that most who believe in God, like Satan, still go to hell. Dr. Khalifa proposes the daily dhikr God is running everything as a guard against objecting, complaining, and losing one's temper, and calls attributing action to anyone else idol worship. He also treats free choice, the contact prayer as an appointment with God, and eating in moderation.June 1, 1987Sermon, July 1987Priorities between the body, which dies, and the soul, the real person, which needs worshipping God alone, the five prayers, and constant commemoration of God. Dr. Khalifa contrasts a believer's morning with a heedless neighbor's, reads Sura 18 on the fleeting world, and stresses the Friday prayer. He then reads a passage on Rabbi Judah's defense of the numerical harmony of prayer, likening it to the contact prayer and Al-Fatiha.July 1, 1987Sermon, July 1987Dr. Khalifa contrasts the Quran's mathematical code, built on 19 and letter counts in the initialed chapters, with Israeli computer studies of the Torah dismissed on Larry King. He presents the end of the world as 1710 AH or 2280 AD, information not required for heaven. He also covers universal unity through devotion to God alone, abuse of polygamy, and the vastness of the seven universes showing that God is doing everything.July 1, 1987Sermon, October 1987A new finding about the word God, counted outside the span from the first Quranic initial in sura 2 to the last in sura 68, shows that the numbering of the Quran's suras and verses is dictated by God. Dr. Khalifa presents the mathematical code as perpetual proof of the miracles of Moses and Jesus, then reads Psalm 91 on God's protection of believers through His angels.October 1, 1987Sermon, November 1987Recent findings in the Quran's mathematical code based on 19, drawn from sums of sura and verse numbers for words such as Quran, salat, wahid and God alone, and for the pillars of worship. Dr. Khalifa also discusses the great event of the Day of Resurrection, the contact prayer, refuge from Satan, a visit from Saudi scholars who objected to God's name alone, and fallen governments.November 1, 1987Sermon, January 1988Starting over on New Year's Day 1988 through repentance, and happiness as a quality of the soul that wealth and fame cannot supply. Dhikr, the five daily contact prayers, and a new remembrance that God is here with me nourish the soul. Also covers Sura 56 on the multitudes of an early generation witnessing the message of God alone, and plans for a multilingual video and flashcards on the Quran's code based on 19.January 1, 1988Sermon, January 1988God is doing everything, and life is a test in which God nullifies every excuse, as with the changing times of sunrise for the morning prayer and the length of fasting days. Dr. Khalifa presents Dr. Mansour, a top Azhar scholar who preaches the Quran alone, recounting his imprisonment and release from Egypt and their trip together to the Vancouver community.January 1, 1988Sermon, March 1988God's kingdom and Satan's kingdom, and how to join God's kingdom now through repentance, a covenant with God, and the five prayers that nourish the soul. Dr. Khalifa then turns to God's mercy, citing the 40 years given to decide and the law of equivalence that favors compensation over capital punishment, and argues from the Quran that God never ordered Abraham to kill his son but intervened to save him.March 1, 1988
Newsletters
NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, June 2026June 1, 2026NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, May 2026Righteousness as God defines it in the Quran, contrasted with the dictionary meaning, with verses on how God enjoins it and mercifully allows repentance. A second piece traces steadfastness, wickedness, forgiveness, and righteousness through the Quran. A third urges reading the Quran daily and attending Quran study groups, treating them as seriously as Jumu'ah and setting a good example for newcomers.May 1, 2026NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, April 2026Adam's indecision, Satan's arrogance, and this life as humanity's final chance to obey God, with the messengers' lives showing that hardship, wealth, or family are no excuse for misbehavior. A second article contrasts the Biblical and Quranic accounts of Noah, noting a local flood, a log ark, and the futility of intercession for his son. The issue announces the 41st annual United Submitters conference in Tucson.April 1, 2026NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, March 2026Night and day, the seasons, and the earth's spin and tilt as among God's proofs open the issue, followed by essays on doubt about God and the Quran, how worship and the contact prayer bring certainty, and doubt as Satan's whispered arrow with a mathematical observation. A closing piece urges taking the Quran in its entirety as guide over human opinion. A contact prayer times app is announced.March 1, 2026NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, February 2026Two essays from the February 2026 issue. The first presents the Quran as God's final scripture for all humanity, confirming previous scriptures and teaching duties to God and society, care for orphans and the poor, and repentance. The second describes God as the best planner, drawing on the parable of the two gardens and the stories of Joseph and Moses to urge trust in His will.February 1, 2026NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, January 2026Forgiveness as strength of character and a path to inner peace opens this issue, followed by a reflection on knowing God, spreading His message with wisdom, and the contact prayer as remembrance. Further pieces explain why God alone is worthy of worship, warn of idol worship as the unforgivable sin, and describe Paradise as a place of peace.January 1, 2026NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, December 2025Impermanence and God's unchanging system lead the issue, with Quranic verses on accepting change and taking stock of our deeds. Further essays liken prostration in the contact prayer to the FEMA hurricane crouch as refuge from Satan, and read 7:22 as Adam and Eve losing the garment of righteousness in Paradise. Ramadan 2026 dates and new moon times close the issue.December 1, 2025NewslettersSubmitters Perspective, November 2025Remaining steadfast through hardship and worsening world events, trusting that God is in control and that evil will be exposed. Further pieces treat brotherhood and love among believers, drawing on the Quran and the Bible, and racism as rooted in Satan's arrogance, answered by the common descent of all people from Adam and Eve. A Thanksgiving reflection and an invitation to weekly email reminders close the issue.November 1, 2025
Audio
Audio 1A study session on Sura 73 covers night meditation, the contact prayers with stress on the dawn prayer, and worshiping God alone as the message of every messenger. Speakers discuss why people reject that message, God doing everything, meeting provocation without anger, and the true sizes of believers and idol worshipers in the Hereafter. Dr. Khalifa notes that the generations still to come will receive the Quran's mathematical proof.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 2A community study session on Suras 95 and 96 examines God's oaths by the fig, the olive, Mount Sinai and the honored town, man created in the best design and reverted to the lowliest, and the first revelation to Muhammad. Participants discuss plants as chemical factories, translating alaq as embryo or clot, two false verses rejected by the code 19, and why God gave a second chance.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 2 (PL2)Study circle participants trace how hadith, sunna and jurisprudence displaced free inquiry in Muslim learning, likening it to church tradition overtaking the gospel, and argue that one should turn to God rather than hadith to understand the Quran. They weigh engineering ethics against utilitarian and consumer values, then study Sura 1, reading the straight path as the path of the righteous and the hypocrites as a subset of the disbelievers.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 3God's description of the best community ever raised in Sura 3, verses 110 to 117, anchors a study of unity, advocating righteousness, forbidding evil, God's covenant and the people's covenant, and righteous Jews and Christians who lack the contact prayers. Dr. Khalifa then presents new findings on the word God and the code of 19, which confirm Sura 9's 127 verses, and on the messenger of the covenant in 3:81 and 33:7.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 3 (PL2)A study circle works through Sura 2, verses 16 to 37, led by Dr. Rashad Khalifa with community members. Topics include the hypocrites and conditional worship, the challenge to produce a sura as a mathematical rather than literary one, whether God misleads, the two deaths and two lives, the covenant of Sura 7:172, and Adam, the names, and Satan as a fallen angel.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 3 (PL2)A study session on the story of Adam in the Quran's second sura contrasts it with the Bible, where Adam names the animals himself. Participants debate whether the names God taught Adam are objects or God's own qualities, which angels without bodies cannot exemplify. Discussion moves to Adam and his wife in Paradise, the tree, God's forgiveness, the descent to earth, and God's promise of guidance.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 4A Quran study session works through Sura 3:118 to 129, on the warning against befriending outsiders who wish believers harm, the assurance that their schemes cannot hurt the steadfast, and the Battle of Badr with its 3,000 and 5,000 angels. Discussion turns to Sura 37, the jinns, translating rising of the heavenly bodies, the shahada as witnessing God alone, Ramadan dates, and why the people of Heaven will not grieve for those in Hell.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)Audio 4 (PL2)Arabic language drills on broken plurals make up the core of the tape, with patterns read for repetition, exercises giving plurals and singulars, and sentences changed from singular to plural, closing with the end of lesson 13. Earlier portions hold singing, music, crowd sounds, and unclear speech in several languages.Dr. Rashad Khalifa and community members (Speakers)
What we believe
Devotion to God alone
Worship belongs to God and to no one else. No idols, no intermediaries, no clergy standing between a person and their Lord.
Devotion is not kept for a holy place, a holy person, or a holy time. It goes to God alone: in the Contact Prayers, in charity and fasting, and in asking Him directly for what one needs.
Quran 3:64 calls the people of earlier scripture to a word they share: worship none but God, set nothing beside Him, and take no one as a lord in His place.
3:64
A complete, verifiable scripture
The Quran is complete and fully detailed. Dr. Rashad Khalifa's work showed its text is built on the number 19, a structure anyone can count and check.
Its opening sentence, In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful, has nineteen letters in the Arabic, and its words recur through the Quran in multiples of nineteen, as Dr. Khalifa counted them.
The counts can be checked by anyone with the Arabic text, so a reader can verify the claim instead of taking it on trust.
74:30
The religion of Abraham
Submission to God is the religion of Abraham. Whoever believes in God, believes in the Last Day, and leads a righteous life belongs to it, whatever they were called before.
Quran 3:67 says Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian but a monotheist, a submitter. The word describes a way of life, not a membership.
So it belongs to anyone, in any community, before the Quran or after it, who devotes themselves to God alone, believes in the Last Day and leads a righteous life, as 2:62 says. That is why we say Submission: it names what Abraham practiced, and we claim no more for ourselves than to follow it.
2:62
One message in every scripture
The same God sent the Torah, the Gospel, and the Quran. A believer makes no distinction among His messengers, and honors none above the rest.
Each scripture came to its people in their own language, and the core is the same: worship God alone and live righteously. That is why the passages below stand side by side, each in its own words.
Honoring a messenger means obeying the message he brought. It never means praying to him or placing him between a person and God.
2:285
Nothing between a person and God
No saint, prophet, or scholar brings anyone closer to God. Prayer and repentance go to Him directly, and He answers them directly.
There are no intermediaries to approach and no clergy to confess to. A person turns to God in prayer, repents to Him, and asks Him, and He is near and answers, as 2:186 says.
That rules out saints, shrines, and scholars as ways to God. A teacher can explain the text, but cannot forgive, mediate, or stand in for anyone before Him.
39:3
Freedom of belief
There is no compulsion in religion. Disagreement is answered with the text, never with force, and no one is judged but by God.
Belief that is forced is not belief, so no state, family, or community may impose it, and no one may be punished for leaving or for never joining.
Where people disagree, the answer is the text and the evidence, offered once and left to the listener. Judgment belongs to God alone.
2:256
A righteous life
Belief shows in deeds: honesty, kindness to parents, care for the orphan and the poor, keeping one's word, and patience in hardship.
Quran 2:177 describes righteousness as belief together with action: giving to relatives, orphans, and the poor, keeping the prayer and the charity, honoring one's pledges, and being patient in hardship.
We hold that prayer and charity without honest dealing are not enough, and honesty without devotion is not enough either. The two belong together.
2:177
Reason and evidence
The Quran asks to be verified, not merely accepted. Faith does not require setting the mind aside; it asks the mind to look.
Quran 17:36 tells the believer not to follow what he has no knowledge of, because hearing, sight, and the heart will each be questioned. That is a call to examine, not to accept.
So we publish the text, its structure, and its sources in the open, and invite anyone to check them: read the verses, count the letters, follow the citations.
17:36In the scriptures' own words
One message: each passage in its original language beside the translation.
שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ יְהוָה אֶחָד
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD.
إِنَّ هَٰذِهِۦٓ أُمَّتُكُمْ أُمَّةً وَٰحِدَةً وَأَنَا۠ رَبُّكُمْ فَٱعْبُدُونِ
Your congregation is but one congregation, and I alone am your Lord; you shall worship Me alone.
אֲנִי יְהוָה וְאֵין עוֹד זוּלָתִי אֵין אֱלֹהִים
I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me.
Ἄκουε, Ἰσραήλ, Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν Κύριος εἷς ἐστιν.
Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord.
قُلْ هُوَ ٱللَّهُ أَحَدٌ
Proclaim, "He is the One and only GOD."
एकमेवाद्वितीयम्
One only, without a second.
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