One of the parts of the Qur'an that I read, over and over, with fascination, is verses 15:28-50: the conversation between Iblis and Allah (swt) after the creation of the first human and the infamous refusal to acknowledge. I've read this in so many different ways through years, turning the verses over and over again …
Category: interpretation
Buried Banaat and Bal بل : TFF Tafsir of Prophet Lut [a.s]
as understood by Mehedi. Note: As of November 2023, The WordPress article is updated, but the PDF is an old, incomplete draft. Introduction and Methodology Anahita Nisa Sultana, writer and exegete has readily accepted the invitation from the Quran itself, to study It. Her work uncovered that Lut (a.s). clarifies homosexuality was not the sin …
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Same-Sex Love
Let’s talk about homosexuality, which my previous article does not. I actually don’t like the term “homosexuality,” and I prefer the title of this article, but I’m using the word here because I know you all are searching it when you’re looking for my legal opinions on this website. No one, not even patriarchal scholars, …
The Rapists of Sodom
were serial rapists, who drank heavily to fuel their crimes, attacked visitors in gangs, lusted after the power of angels, knew first hand of the God/dess but refused morality and cheated and lied and thieved. And raped. Raped. Over and over. In mobs. Will religious leaders have you believe they were destroyed them for raping …
What does the Quran really say about a Muslim woman’s hijab? | Samina Ali
You are obligated to watch this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J5bDhMP9lQ
But how could you know?
A man described me as “thoughtful” recently after speaking to me for five minutes. I’m always surprised when people develop ideas about my character in such a short period of time. How does he know? We had not been discussing anything that would outright reveal this. This perplexity isn’t new. I’ve also had teachers describe …
4:25 [muḥ’ṣanāti]: Consent is Integral to the Qur’an
When I was writing my exegesis, “Polygamy is haraam.” I remembered a conversation I had with Orbala ages ago in which I had demanded to know why the supposed permissibility of polygyny did not conventionally extend to polyandry. She responded that polyandry, the marriage of one woman to multiple men, was explicitly forbidden in the …
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the fatal feminist 