<![CDATA[al Qasim Live: Qur'an]]>https://live.darulqasim.org/s/quranhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rpdm!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fab099f32-bb44-412d-8b1a-c33b08aa25ff_161x161.pngal Qasim Live: Qur'anhttps://live.darulqasim.org/s/quranSubstackTue, 25 Aug 2026 20:09:15 GMT<![CDATA[Our Masjids Must Become Shariah Compatible]]>https://live.darulqasim.org/p/our-masjids-must-become-shariah-compatiblehttps://live.darulqasim.org/p/our-masjids-must-become-shariah-compatibleSun, 16 Aug 2026 14:27:01 GMT“[Fundraising] is not the reason why we build a masjid. We build the masjid only to worship Allah and to find peace, tranquility…quiet, soberness.”

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]]><![CDATA[Don’t Fragment the Qur’an: Joining Guidance with Law]]>https://live.darulqasim.org/p/dont-fragment-the-quran-joining-guidancehttps://live.darulqasim.org/p/dont-fragment-the-quran-joining-guidanceTue, 04 Aug 2026 13:03:23 GMT5-minute read

In our time, the Quran is often approached in ways that fragment its unity. Unqualified interpreters lift āyat from their place and place them into frameworks foreign to their nature, scientific, political, or social, and then shape them to their own purposes. The effect of this is twofold: the immediate aim of the interpreter may be served, but the deeper aim of the Quran, hidāyah (guidance) and ḥukm (law), is compromised.

Any meaningful approach to the Quran must begin with a clear understanding of the relationship between ḥukm and hidāyah. The first is the divine ruling, binding in its authority, precise in its application, and governing the believer’s conduct in matters of worship, ethics, and social interaction. The second is the divine guidance, a broader orientation of the heart, mind, and soul toward Allah, which infuses the ḥukm with purpose and situates it within the totality of human existence. To separate the two is to dismantle the Quran’s own structure, for every ruling is revealed within a framework of guidance, and every strand of guidance finds its form in law.

The same revelation that is a light for some becomes a cause of further darkness for others. This is not because of any deficiency in the revelation, but because of the state of the one approaching it. Rūzbihān’s reflective tafsir returns us to the heart of what it means to approach the Quran as kalām Allāh, divine speech that reveals itself in accordance with the receptivity of the one who hears it. His words remind us that the Quran’s light does not unfold through analysis only but through tajallī, divine disclosure and the humility of ʿubūdiyyah. To read the Quran rightly, then, is to not only interpret its ayat but to be transformed by them. This principle was embodied most perfectly by those who first received the revelation.

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]]><![CDATA[The Quranic Reality of Predictive Markets]]>https://live.darulqasim.org/p/the-quranic-reality-of-predictivehttps://live.darulqasim.org/p/the-quranic-reality-of-predictiveSun, 02 Aug 2026 13:40:15 GMT“The idea was to live a life that is common sense accord and not based on the occult or not based on speculation, not based on false ideas and assumptions, and definitely not based on relying on what others say will happen.”

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]]><![CDATA[The Claim of the Invisible Creation]]>https://live.darulqasim.org/p/the-claim-of-the-invisible-creationhttps://live.darulqasim.org/p/the-claim-of-the-invisible-creationSun, 26 Jul 2026 13:30:52 GMT“Jinn claimed that they had knowledge of the unseen. Then Allah says to the pagan Arabs, and also other people in the world, that the knowledge of the unseen (ghayb) is reserved for Allahﷻ about future events and everything else.”

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]]><![CDATA[The Creation Beyond Science]]>https://live.darulqasim.org/p/the-creation-beyond-sciencehttps://live.darulqasim.org/p/the-creation-beyond-scienceSun, 19 Jul 2026 13:39:39 GMT“The jinn is a creation of Allah which is mentioned throughout the Quran in so many different ayat that you would be almost an unbeliever if you didn’t believe that the jin is a species of Allah; they are created, as the Quran says, from gasless fire and they have volition and they are legally responsible (mukallaf)”

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]]><![CDATA[The Foundation of the True Philosopher ]]>https://live.darulqasim.org/p/the-foundation-of-the-true-philosopherhttps://live.darulqasim.org/p/the-foundation-of-the-true-philosopherSun, 28 Jun 2026 14:55:48 GMT“You must, as a thinker, philosopher, bring everything back to Allah...if the final result is not Allah then your thinking is incorrect.”

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]]><![CDATA[Give Others Hope Like the Prophets]]>https://live.darulqasim.org/p/give-others-hope-like-the-prophetshttps://live.darulqasim.org/p/give-others-hope-like-the-prophetsSun, 21 Jun 2026 22:32:57 GMT“[Nuh] gives them hope. He doesn’t write them off as losers and say, ‘Yeah, you deserve this and I hope you get more…’ He controls himself and he controls his passion and his desires.”

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]]><![CDATA[He Walked the Globe to Deliver Truth]]>https://live.darulqasim.org/p/he-walked-the-globe-to-deliver-truthhttps://live.darulqasim.org/p/he-walked-the-globe-to-deliver-truthSun, 07 Jun 2026 15:47:04 GMT“[Nuh] managed to reach everybody on the planet and give da’wah (the message) to every community, every neighborhood, every village and people. Then that’s why his life was expanded to 950 years, so that he could travel the world because the flood was global..his message was global.”

Tafsīr Pearl from Sūrah Nūḥ (71) Session 1 | Sunday Tafsīr with Shaykh Amin Kholwadia

]]><![CDATA[Fulfill Your Unspoken Agreements ]]>https://live.darulqasim.org/p/fulfill-your-unspoken-agreementshttps://live.darulqasim.org/p/fulfill-your-unspoken-agreementsWed, 06 May 2026 13:40:26 GMT“You don’t need a document where you have an agreement with your parents, ‘I will take care of you.’ That should be natural.”

Tafsīr Pearl from Sūrah al-Maʿārij (70) Session 4

]]><![CDATA[Marriage is Eternal]]>https://live.darulqasim.org/p/marriage-is-eternalhttps://live.darulqasim.org/p/marriage-is-eternalSun, 12 Apr 2026 13:40:51 GMT“You get married in Islam to be with your spouse in Jannah (heaven)…meaning that the temporal arrangement and the limited arrangement of being together for one week or one month or three months is not a valid philosophy of marriage. It’s not marriage.”

Tafsīr Pearl from Sūrah al-Maʿārij (70) Session 3

]]><![CDATA[Prayer Takes Care of Your Panic]]>https://live.darulqasim.org/p/remove-your-attention-from-the-creationhttps://live.darulqasim.org/p/remove-your-attention-from-the-creationMon, 16 Feb 2026 14:22:14 GMT“Remove your attention and your dependence on creation and attach that to the creator through salat (prayer). Those who pray…on a regular basis and the salat (prayer) comes into you, then the salat will take care of you at the times when you panic.”

Tafsīr Pearl from Sūrah al-Maʿārij (70) Session 2

]]><![CDATA[Travel to Allah ﷻ]]>https://live.darulqasim.org/p/travel-to-allahhttps://live.darulqasim.org/p/travel-to-allahMon, 09 Feb 2026 14:27:16 GMT“If you are in sync with Allah and you see Allah in your salah with ihsān ‎(excellence) or Allah sees you with ihsān (excellence) in your salah, you are connected to a world and a being that is more than 50,000 years away”

Tafsīr Pearl from Sūrah al-Maʿārij (70) Session 1

]]><![CDATA[The God-Consciousness of the Prophet ﷺ]]>https://live.darulqasim.org/p/the-god-consciousness-of-the-prophethttps://live.darulqasim.org/p/the-god-consciousness-of-the-prophetSun, 04 Jan 2026 14:05:24 GMT“The Prophet ﷺ has so much integrity that even though he knew that people would reject the message of the Quran in his face, he still delivered it the way it was received.”

Tafsīr Pearl from Sūrah al-Ḥāqqah (69) Session 5

]]><![CDATA[Our Leadership is in Following]]>https://live.darulqasim.org/p/our-leadership-is-in-followinghttps://live.darulqasim.org/p/our-leadership-is-in-followingMon, 29 Dec 2025 17:47:50 GMT“Have you ever thought of creating followers? This ummah is based on following not initiating.”

Tafsīr Pearl from Sūrah al-Ḥāqqah (69) Session 4

]]><![CDATA[Paradise’s Unimaginable Pleasures]]>https://live.darulqasim.org/p/paradises-unimaginable-pleasureshttps://live.darulqasim.org/p/paradises-unimaginable-pleasuresMon, 22 Dec 2025 22:45:20 GMT“There’s no way anyone can refute to this concept [of Jannah] because nobody can think this way. Nobody can conceive of such pleasure in this way…Nobody can bring this picture down to earth literally and say this is where you’re going.”

Tafsīr Pearl from Sūrah al-Ḥāqqah (69) Session 3

]]><![CDATA[The Collapse of the Seven Heavens]]>https://live.darulqasim.org/p/the-collapse-of-the-seven-heavenshttps://live.darulqasim.org/p/the-collapse-of-the-seven-heavensSun, 07 Dec 2025 16:22:38 GMT“The seven heavens have to be kept intact by angels who control the orbits of the seven heavens. They manage it. When they step away, then the seven heavens collapse within themselves and that is Qiyama (The Day of Judgement).”

Tafsīr Pearl from Sūrah al-Ḥāqqah (69) Session 2

]]><![CDATA[No One is Invincible in Front of Allah]]>https://live.darulqasim.org/p/no-one-is-invincible-in-front-ofhttps://live.darulqasim.org/p/no-one-is-invincible-in-front-ofSat, 29 Nov 2025 16:37:22 GMT“You’re not the best civilization that’s ever lived on this planet…Don’t assume that you are in a superpower that is invincible. No one is invincible in front of Allah.”

Tafsīr Pearl from Sūrah al-Ḥāqqah (69) Session 1

]]><![CDATA[Reflecting on the Nature of the Qur’an]]>https://live.darulqasim.org/p/reflecting-on-the-nature-of-the-quranhttps://live.darulqasim.org/p/reflecting-on-the-nature-of-the-quranWed, 22 Oct 2025 21:45:44 GMT

How should our understanding of what the Qur’an is shape the way we engage with it?

Key Quotes:

“The Qur’an is not static, or a lifeless text, it is a living discourse; it is the speech of al-Hayy (The Ever Living) who continues to address humanity through it.”

“To truly reach the Qurans inner light, one must pierce the veil of letters through reflection and ‘aml (action), through lived sincerity until the treasure hidden beneath the words comes and shines forth.”

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]]><![CDATA[Knowing the Haqq (The Real) - Tafsīr Pearls]]>https://live.darulqasim.org/p/knowing-the-haqq-the-real-tafsirhttps://live.darulqasim.org/p/knowing-the-haqq-the-real-tafsirSun, 19 Oct 2025 19:27:21 GMT“When Muslims were alert, then they ruled the world. When Muslims became oblivious, then they lost that power, that authority.”

Tafsīr Pearl from Sūrah al-Jāthiyah (45) Session 1

]]><![CDATA[The Qur’an Gives Guided Lessons - Tafsīr Pearls]]>https://live.darulqasim.org/p/the-quran-gives-guided-lessons-tafsirhttps://live.darulqasim.org/p/the-quran-gives-guided-lessons-tafsirSun, 12 Oct 2025 16:07:15 GMT“You’re rewarded for the recitation [of the Qur’an] but also when you look into the meanings of the Quran, the Quran is giving you a lesson.”

Tafsīr Pearl from Sūrah al-Qalam (67) Session 4

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