Lessons From Qur'an
by Professor Muhsin Qara'ati

• Foreword
• Monotheism
• Justice
• Social Justice
• Prophethood
• Imamate
• The Day of Resurrection

The Qur'an: Its Protection from Alteration
by Sayyid Sa'eed Akhtar Rizvi

• Preface
• Introduction
• Appearance of Forged Ahadith
• Confessions of Some Forgers
• Some Ahadith of Omission
• The Sunni Attitude
• The Shi'a Attitude
• Exploitation of Traditions

Quran in Islam
by Allamah M. H. Tabatabai

• Dedication
• The Value of the Qur'an
• The Teachings of the Qur'an
• The Revelation of the Qur'an
• The Relationship of the Qur'an to the Sciences
• The Order of the Qur'an's Revelation and the Growth of the Qur'anic Sciences

• Publisher's Note
• CH. 1
  • The Necessity of Utilizing the Qur'an
  • How to Utilize the Qur'an
  • Deviation in Interpreting the Qur'an
  • The Necessity of Classifying the Islamic Learnings
  • A Plan for Grouping the Ayahs
  • The Plans
  • The Order of the Learnings of the Qur'an
• CH. 2
  • Notes on Knowing Allah
  • Two Types of Knowing Allah
  • The Rational Evidences in the Qur'an on Allah's Existence
  • Indirect Proving of Allah's Existence
  • Knowing Allah Through One's Fitrah (Nature)
  • Ayatul-Fitrah
  • Ayatul-Mithaq
  • Natural Monotheism
  • Conclusion
• CH. 3
  • At-Tawhid and its Limits
  • Stages and Limits of at-Tawhid
  • The Border Between Polytheism and Faith
  • The Opinion Denying Genetic Guardianship
• CH. 4
  • The Qur'anic Proofs of at-Tawhid
  • The Philosophical Induction of Antagonism
  • The third statement
  • Supposing a Multisystem for the World
  • Preference of the Rational Argument
  • Another ayah Proving At-Tawhid
• CH. 5
  • At-Tawhid in Essence, Attributes and Acts
  • Unity of Essence in the View of the Theologians and the Philosophers
  • Unity of Attributes in the View of the Theologians and Philosophers
  • The Unity of Acts in the View of the Philosophers and Theologians
  • Another Version of the Unity of Acts
  • At-Tawhid as Seen by the Gnostics
  • At-Tawhid in Acts as Seen by the Gnostics
  • Unity of Attributes, the Gnostic's Second Stage
  • The Gnostic and the Last Stage of At-Tawhid
• CH. 6
  • To What Extent Can Allah Be Known?
  • The Qur'an's Standpoint Concerning Knowing Allah
  • Mistaking the Concept for the Evidence
  • Knowing the Essence of Allah
  • Knowing Allah Intuitively?
• CH. 7
  • The Divine Acts
  • Creation and Management in the Islamic Tawhid
  • Allah's Connection with the World And Mankind
  • Allah, the Cause of the Causes
  • Allah's Connection with the World in the Qur'an
  • The Connection Between Man's Free Will and Allah's Creation
  • The Generalities of Allah's Acts
  • The Longitudinal Connection Among the Causes
  • Allah's Connection to the Causes
  • Allah, Man and Nature
  • The Connection Among Things
• CH. 8
  • The Principle of Causation in the Qur'an
  • The Connection of the Principle of Causation to the Unity of Acts
  • Causation in the Qur'an
  • The Materialistic Causation
  • The Qur'an and the Materialistic Causation
  • Man's Effectiveness
  • The Connection Between Causation and Miracles
  • Taking Position in Respect to Miracles
  • The First Position
  • The Second Position
  • The Third Position
  • The Fourth Position
  • Prompt and Gradual Acts of Allah
  • The Infinitive and the Gerund
  • Temporal and Non- Temporal Beings
  • The Verb and Its Three Tenses
  • The Timeless Verb
  • Allah's Timed Acts
  • Time as a Dimension of a Corporeal Being
  • Allah's Will and Talk
  • Arttributes of Essence and of Acts
  • The Attribute of Will as an Act
  • The Effectiveness of the Factor and the Receptivity of the Recipient
  • The Conditions of the Recipient's Receptivity
• CH. 9
  • The Extent of Divine Potency and Will
  • The Relation Between Power and Will
  • Allah Does not Will the Impossible
  • Kinds of the Impossible
  • The Connection Between Ability and Will
  • Does Reason Rule Allah?
  • Matching Factor of the Will
  • The Best System
  • The Targets of Divine Acts
  • First: What Does "a Target" mean?
  • Second: Man's objective - Satisfying the Needs
  • Third: Middle and Final Objectives
  • Conclusion
  • The Objectives of Allah and of Man - The Differences
  • The Quality of the Objectives in Allah's Acts
  • The Objectivity of Allah's Acts in the Qur'an's View
  • Explaining Some Terms
  • Creation- A Truth
  • The Term Futility in the Qur'an
  • The Term "La'ibun" in the Qur'an
  • The Term Amusement in the Qur'an
  • Conclusion
  • The Purpose of Creation
  • The Abstracts
  • Graduation in Creation
  • The Middle Objective
  • The Significance of Man's Optional Acts
• CH. 10
  • The Objective of Creation In the Qur'an
  • Stages of Creation
  • Trying Man
  • The Final Objective
  • Stages of Allah's Acts
  • The Acts of Allah
  • The Stages and the Degrees of the Act
  • Allah's Knowledge
  • The Factual Knowledge
  • The Divine Permission
  • Legislative and Genetic Permissions
  • The ayahs Related to Permission
  • Conclusions
  • Teaching the Divine Unity of Actions
• CH. 11
  • Divine Decree
  • Fate and Divine Decree
  • Is Determinism Concomitant of Divine Decree?
  • The Lingual Concept of Taqdir
  • Qadr and Taqdir in the Qur'an
  • The Connection Between Divine Taqdir and Man's Free Will
  • Conditions of Voluntary Acts
  • 1. The two Divisions of Qadar: Specific and Personal
  • 2. The Knowledge-Taqdir and the Corporeal Taqdir
  • 3. The Stages of Taqdir
  • The Preserved, Tablet Eraseable and the Recordable Tablet
  • The Difference between Qada' and Qadar
  • The Qada' in the Qur'an
  • Divine Qada'
  • Connection Between Divine Qada' and Man's Freewill
  • Divine Qada'- A Connection with the Metaphysics
  • The Advantages of Believing in the Qada' and Qadar
• Glossary
• Notes

The Holy Quran From Shia Encyclopedia

• Belief of Shia in the Completeness of Quran
• Different Arrangements of Quran
• Some Sunni Reports on the Incompleteness of Quran
• The Quran Compiled by Imam Ali
• Tabarsi and incompleteness of Quran
• The Book of Fatimah
• Can ANY human do that?
• Early Debates on the Integrity of the Quran (Incomplete)

• A page from what is believed to be the oldest extant Holy Qur'an manuscript.
  In the early Arabic script called al-maail in the late 2nd/8th century.
• Interpretation of the Meaning of The Noble Quran.
  A Summarized Version of At-Tabari, Al-Qurtubi and Ibn Kathir with comments from Sahih Al-Bukhari.
• Recitation of The Holy Qur'aan (TILAWATUL QUR'AN)
  How, where and when as recommended by The Holy Qur'an.
• Beware of how you read the Book of your Lord
  Recite it in an orderly manner and contemplatively and adhere to the limits of His promise and His threat.
• After the Recitation of the complete Qur'an
  At the completion of Al-Qur'an starting from Al-Fatihah to An-Nas the reciter must turn to Almighty Allah with supplications.
• What is the Koran? A view from within
  by Professor Mohamed Elmasry
• What They Say About The Holy Qur'an
  O Man! What has seduced you from your Lord.
• The History and authenticity of The Holy Qur'an
  by Syed Abul 'Aala Muadoodi
• The Holy Qur'an al-Karim
  When thou recitest the Qur'an seek refuge in Allah from Satan the outcast.
• The Amazing Qur'an
  by Gary Miller
• The Koran
  by Sachiko Murata & William C. Chittick
• The way to The Holy Qur'an
  by Khurram Murad.
• Let us Know the Qur'an Better
  by Sayyid Mujtaba Musavi Lari.
• Etiquettes of Reading and Handling The Qur'an al-Kareem
  When the Qur'an is recited, give ear to it and pay heed, that ye may obtain mercy.
• Memorizing The Holy Qur'an
  From Abdur-Rahman Abdul Khaaliq's "Al-Qawaaid adh-Dhahabiyyah lil-Hifdh il-Quran il-Adheem"
• Thematic Approach to Qur'anic Exegesis
  by Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr.
• An Introduction to the al-Mizan
  by Abu al-Qassim Razzaqi
• The Demand of the Qur'an for a Direct Confrontation
  by Musavi Lari
• The Way to the Qur'an
  No other venture in your life can be so momentous and crucial, so blissful and rewarding, as your journey to and through the Qur'an.
• The Holy Qur'an and Modern Science
  Taken from "The Origin of Man", by Dr. Maurice Bucaille.
• Embryology in the Holy Qur'an
  Keith L. Moore, Ph.D., F.I.A.C.
• The Holy Qur'an and Scientific Knowledge
  by Dr. A. Zahoor and Dr. Z. Haq
• Introduction to Surah's of The Holy Qur'an
  By Syed Abu-Ala' Maududi.
• The Exposition of the Holy Qur'an
  by Allama Parwez.
• Merits of The Recitation of the Holy Qur'an
  by Yasin T. al Jibouri.