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Javed Ahmad Ghamidi: A brief Introduction to his life and works
ByAl-Mawrid June 8, 2017June 19, 2021

Author: Ammar Baksh A short, humble, witty old man has been creating tremors in the world of Islam that a few have noticed and many do not want to. He has explored almost every old school and has set out to restructure the age-old narratives of Islam. Javed Ahmad Ghamidi is a force to be…

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Coherence in Quran
ByAl-Mawrid March 25, 2017June 19, 2021

Author: Javed Ahmad Ghamidi Each surah is a coherent collection of verses. These verses are not disjoined and haphazardly placed in a surah. In fact, each surah has a theme and all the verses are aptly placed with regard to this theme. When a surah is studied while keeping in consideration its theme and when…

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Is the Quran a Shapeless Book?
ByAl-Mawrid March 25, 2017

Author: Mustansir Mir One of the long-standing objections levelled against the Qur’ān by its non-Muslim critics is that it appears to have no regular form or structure. It is said that its verses follow one another with little sense of interconnection and its sūrahs seem to have been arranged in a sequence based on the…

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