Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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The Message of The Quran (English) July 4, 2009

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References in this lecture 14
Quran 2:193 · Al-Baqarah
Quran 1:1 · Al-Fatihah
Quran 1:2 · Al-Fatihah
Quran 90:4 · Al-Balad
Quran 38:29 · Sad
Musnad Ahmad, Hadith no. 7504
Quran 20:76 · Ta-Ha
Quran 2:2 · Al-Baqarah
Quran 2:26 · Al-Baqarah
Musnad Ahmad, Hadith no. 23814
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4 min 41 sec
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Quran was revealed gradually, preserved, needs background to understand
“Quran was revealed paradoxically, because it's a book of mission”
1 min 32 sec
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why you must know the background of each verse
“You have to know that situation, otherwise you fail”
2 min 51 sec
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Bismillah's message of hope amid difficulty
“This verse gives you a very positive kind of ideology”
1 min 50 sec
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problems activate your mind's dormant potential
“This Quran was revealed to you for contemplation”
40 sec
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difficulties are a blessing not a curse
“All progress, all development are due to problems”
43 sec
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gratitude to mankind before gratitude to God
“I felt a storm of gratefulness towards mankind”
1 min 25 sec
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the thrill of scientific discovery, Eureka to Einstein
“Archimedes was in pursuit of the law of hydrostatics”
48 sec
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Einstein and Newton thrilled by discovery
“When Newton discovered the law of gravity, he was thrilled”
2 min 42 sec
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Quran's subject is the ideology of human life
“Everyone faces some questions: who am I, why am I”
3 min 55 sec
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why the Quran keeps appearing in the news
“Yesterday I happened to meet a doctor”
45 sec
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journalist says this small book shook the world
“I presented this Quran to a senior journalist from Delhi”
50 sec
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crime is only the misuse of freedom
“God almighty created man with freedom”
2 min 13 sec
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society's control system has collapsed on this issue
“God wanted a control system in this world to manage this problem”
4 min 19 sec
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the story of the Lot community's destruction
“Four thousand years ago there was a Lot community”
4 min 37 sec
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eternal life, doomsday, and why God must intervene
“Man was created as an eternal being”
58 sec
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newspaper headline it's okay to be gay
“Yesterday there were some comments in that judicial verdict”
5 min 48 sec
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correcting the misunderstanding that Quran preaches violence
“The greatest misunderstanding is that Quran teaches violence”
2 min 16 sec
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Prophet's wars were brief skirmishes, not real wars
“Then there was some war, but these wars are not really wars”
28 sec
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individual, not the system, is Islam's target
“Individual is the target of Islam, not the system”
51 sec
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positive personality is Quran's only goal
“I think positive personality is the only target of Quran”
43 sec
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doomsday will come suddenly, no one knows when
“There is a verse in Quran: doomsday will come suddenly”
2 min 1 sec
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why Quran guides some and misguides others
“How does the same Quran guide some people and misguide others?”
2 min 51 sec
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why the Prophet forgave murderers in his last sermon
“Why did Prophet give amnesty to murderers in his last sermon?”