Al-Tawḥīd →
The first article of faith — and the one the Qurʾān argues for by reason: «had there been gods besides God, both heaven and earth would be ruined».
12 verses
Al-Ṣalāh →
The Qurʾān never once tells you how to pray — but it tells you why: «establish prayer for My remembrance», and it almost never lets prayer stand alone.
8 verses
Al-Dhikr →
The Qurʾān's most-commanded act — and the word it uses for itself. Its statistical companion is not feeling but understanding, and its opposite carries a strange penalty: forget God, and you are made to forget yourself.
11 verses
Al-Muʾminūn →
The Qurʾān's portrait of the believers — carved from the same root as security and trust, and named after one of God's own names.
9 verses
Al-ʿIlm →
The first word revealed was «read»; the root runs 854 times — yet it names God's knowing far more often than ours, and its true opposite is not ignorance but heedless conduct.
13 verses
Al-Kāfirūn →
The Qurʾān's word for denial means, at root, «to cover» — and the same root covers a hidden truth, an unthanked gift, and even the sin an expiation wipes away.
8 verses
Al-Raḥma →
The word that opens all but one sūrah, shares its root with the mother's womb, and that God «has written upon Himself» — «My mercy encompasses all things».
8 verses
Infāq →
What the Qur'ān counts as giving, what it grows into, and what it stands against.
10 verses
Al-Māl →
Wealth in the Qurʾān — an adornment and a trial, made lawful by honest trade and mutual consent, and the stake in «a trade that never perishes».
13 verses
Al-Ribā →
The one gain the Qurʾān answers with «a war from God» — false increase (ribā) set against the true increase of charity.
10 verses
Al-Mīrāth →
The one place the Qurʾān legislates in exact fractions — half, quarter, eighth, sixth — and calls them God's own limits.
8 verses
Al-Nikāḥ →
The Qurʾān calls it a solemn covenant and a sign of God — and governs its keeping and its ending by a single word: maʿrūf, kindness.
20 verses
Muḥammad →
The book is his, and it names him four times — never once calling him by name to his face. What does it say in the place where the name would go?
19 verses
Mūsā →
The most-named person in the Qurʾān — an infant set on a river, a shepherd called from a fire, the one prophet the text says God «spoke to directly».
11 verses
Banī Isrāʾīl →
The Qur'ān's most sustained case study of a favoured people — grace, test, turning, and a future written as a repeating law.
20 verses
Ṣabr →
Not passive endurance but active holding-fast — paired with prayer, priced in reward without measure.
13 verses
Taqwā →
The Qur'ān's measure of nobility — a guarding awareness that opens provision and discernment.
11 verses
Al-Hudā →
The one thing the Qurʾān asks for in the prayer it opens with — «guide us to the straight path» — and the word it uses for its own purpose: «a guidance for the God-conscious».
9 verses
Al-Ẓulm →
One root carries both the wrong a person does and the dark a person walks in — and the Qurʾān names the wrongdoer 129 times, the wronged once.
10 verses
Jannah ↔ Nār →
The two destinations the Qurʾān holds up side by side — a garden with rivers running beneath, a fire whose companions call across the gulf — and the one word, *khuld*, they both turn on.
8 verses
Al-Ākhira →
The horizon the whole Qurʾān leans toward — the life it calls 'better and more lasting'.
14 verses
War →
War in the Qurʾān — permitted, fenced on every side, and always aimed at ending the persecution it answers.
8 verses
Slavery →
The Qurʾān addresses an institution it found in place. This page counts its vocabulary — eight commands to release, none to acquire, and five verses a critic reaches for first — and leaves the argument open.
15 verses
Al-Qalb →
The Qurʾān's word for the seat of conviction is built from a root meaning «to turn over» — and the book names far more ways for a heart to close than to settle.
10 verses
Al-Nafs →
The Qurʾān never calls the self good or evil. It names three *states* of it — one that commands, one that reproaches, one that has come to rest — and puts the founding oath on the fact that both roads were laid inside it.
10 verses
Al-Khalq →
The Qurʾān's most Makkī argument — creation offered as a sign rather than an account, from a root that also gives the word for a person's character.
10 verses
Al-ʿIbāda →
The Qurʾān's word for worship means «to serve» — and it is the title the book reaches for at the very moments it raises its Prophet highest.
9 verses
Al-Shukr →
The Qurʾān's opposite of gratitude is not ingratitude but *kufr* — the same word it uses for unbelief. Both are about covering a thing over.
8 verses
Human powers →
Hearing, sight, an inward heart, speech, naming, choice, restraint — the Qurʾān lists what a person holds, and four times out of six the list ends in the same question: what did you do about it?
6 verses