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Islam is one of the smallest minority faiths in Japan, representing around 0.18% of the total population as of 2019. [ 1] Despite a small initial population base, immigration from Muslim majority countries has made Islam one of the fastest growing religions in the country in terms of percentage increase, with its followers growing by ...
According to the Islamic tradition, Al-Mumtahanah is a Medinan sura, that is a chapter that is revealed after Muhammad's hijra to Medina. According to The Study Quran, the revelation likely took place at some point after the 6th year after the hijra (AH) or 628 CE. According to some commentators, the first verse was revealed during the conquest ...
Primary. A fragment of Sūrat an-Nisā' – a chapter of Islam's sacred text entitled 'Women' – featuring the Persian, Arabic, and Kufic scripts. Islam views men and women as equal before God, and the Quran underlines that man and woman were "created of a single soul" (4:1, [ 15] 39:6 [ 16] and elsewhere).
Yā Sīn[ 2] (also Yaseen; Arabic: يٰسٓ, yāsīn; the letters ' Yā' ' and ' Sīn ') is the 36th chapter of the Quran. It has 83 verses ( āyāt ). It is regarded an earlier "Meccan surah". Some scholars maintain that verse 12 is from the Medinan period. [ 3] While the surah begins in Juz' 22, most of it is in Juz' 23.
Al-Fajr ( Arabic: الفجر, "The Dawn", "Daybreak") is the eighty-ninth chapter ( sura) of the Quran, with 30 verses ( ayat ). [ 3] The sura describes destruction of disbelieving peoples: the Ancient Egyptians, the people of Iram of the Pillars, and Mada'in Saleh. It condemns those who love wealth and look with disdain upon the poor and orphans.
Al-Ikhlas means "the purity" or "the refining". It is disputed whether this is a Meccan or Medinan surah. The former seems more probable, particularly since it seems to have been alluded to by Bilal ibn al-Harith, who, when he was being tortured by his cruel master, is said to have repeated "Ahad, Ahad!"
The word surah was used at the time of Muhammad as a term with the meaning of a portion or a set of verses of the Qur'an. This is evidenced by the appearance of the word surah in multiple locations in the Quran such as verse : "a sûrah which We have revealed and made ˹its rulings˺ obligatory, and revealed in it clear commandments so that you may be mindful."
Left-side of a Double-page Opening of the Qur'an from Terengganu with beginning of the chapter Al-Baqara. End of the 18th or 19th century. Asian Civilisations Museum. Al-Baqara, alternatively transliterated Al-Baqarah ( Arabic: الْبَقَرَة, ’al-baqarah; lit. "The Heifer" or "The Cow"), is the second and longest chapter ( surah) of ...