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Chapter 5 - Questions about the Prophets and Messengers
What is the Difference Between a Prophet (Nabi) and a Messenger (Rasul)?
How Many Prophets and Messengers Were Mentioned in the Quran?
Did the Quran Mention All the Prophets and Messengers?
What Reward Did All the Messengers Ask From Their People?
Who Is the Prophet Mentioned in Surah As-Saffat With Two Different Names?
Which Prophet Was Imprisoned, and Where?
Which Prophet’s Name Is Repeated 25 Times in a Single Surah?
Which Surahs Are Named After Prophets?
In Which Surahs Is Musa’s (Moses) Name Mentioned Most?
Two of the Prophets’ Wives Will Be Admitted to Hell-Fire: Who Are They?
Who Was the Pious Woman Married to a Disbeliever?
Which Prophet Asked His Lord to See Him?
Who Were the Two Nations Whom Allah Drowned?
Who Was Both the Wife of a Prophet and the Daughter of a Prophet?
Who Was Luqman?
Which Prophet Was Swallowed by a Whale, Then Rescued by Allah?
Which Messenger Was Placed in a Basket and Cast Into the River as a Baby?
Which Prophet Had the Zamzam Water Gush at His Feet?
Who Raised the Foundations of the Ka’aba in Makkah?
Who Was Namrood (Nimrod)?
To Whom Was the Zabur (Psalms) Sent?
What Was Prophet Yusuf’s Prayer After His Parents Arrived in Egypt?
What Was Prophet Musa’s Prayer After Arriving in Midian?
What Were the Ten Pieces of Advice Luqman Gave His Son?
Was Guiding the People One of the Prophet’s Responsibilities?
Does Allah Confirm That Prophet Muhammad Had Not Read Any Previous Scriptures?
Which Surah Names an Opponent of the Prophet, and Who Was He?
What Was the Fate of the Nine Men Who Plotted Against Prophet Saleh?
How Did Prophet Solomon Invite the Queen of Sheba to Tawheed?
Who Was Dhul-Qarneyn?
What Did Allah Teach Adam?
When Allah Created Adam, What Did He Command the Angels to Do?
What Kind of Prostration Did Allah Command the Angels to Perform?
Who Did Allah Command to Prostrate Before Adam?
Why Did Iblis Refuse to Prostrate Before Adam?
What Did Allah Tell Adam Not to Approach in Paradise?
Who Did Allah Warn Adam About?
Why Were Adam and His Wife Expelled From Paradise?
What Happened to Adam and His Wife When They Ate From the Forbidden Tree?
What Was Adam’s Stance After He Disobeyed His Lord?
When Were the First Commands Given to Adam and All Generations?
What Was the First Crime Committed on Earth, and Who Committed It?
What Was the Reason Behind the Murder of Abel?
How Did Cain Learn to Bury His Brother Abel?
What Special Gifts Did Allah Give Prophet Dawoud?
How Did Allah Test Dawoud Through the Case of the Two Disputants?
Who Is Saul (Talut) in the Quran?
Why Did the Children of Israel Object to Saul as King?
What Sign Confirmed Saul’s Kingship?
Who Was Goliath (Jalut)?
What Was the River Test Saul Set for His Soldiers?
Who Killed Goliath (Jalut)?
Why Was Mary Blessed Since She Was in Her Mother’s Womb?
What Is the Ancestry of Jesus?
Allah Connected the Births of Adam and Jesus. Why This Parallel?
What Was Mary’s Reaction When the Angel Told Her of a Faultless Son?
How Did Mary Get Pregnant and How Did She Give Birth?
How Did Allah Command the Virgin Mary to Pray?
When Mary Felt the Pangs of Childbirth, Where Did She Go?
How Could a Woman in Labor Shake the Trunk of a Palm Tree?
What Was Mary Commanded to Do During the Pangs of Childbirth?
How Did Her People React When Mary Returned Carrying Her Child?
How Did Mary Defend Her Chastity to Her People?
What Is the Stance of the People of the Book Toward Jesus (PBUH)?
Who Is Jesus (PBUH)? Is He the Son of God?
What Did Jesus (PBUH) Tell the Children of Israel About Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)?
How Did the Life of Prophet Jesus End on Earth?
What Book Was Sent With Jesus (PBUH)?
What Miracles Did Allah Give Jesus?
Who Were the Disciples of Jesus?
Why Did the Disciples Ask Jesus (PBUH) for a Table of Food From Heaven?
What Did Jesus (PBUH) Call the People To?
What Is Monasticism, and Did Allah Ordain It for the Christians?
What Were the Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah Known For?
What Crime Did the Wife of Lut Commit, and Why Did She Deserve the Punishment?
What Crimes Did the People of Lut Commit?
How Did Allah Destroy the People of Lut?
What Was Prophet Ayoub Known For?
What Was Prophet Ayoub Tried With, and How Was He Healed?
Why Did Allah Tell Ayoub to Strike His Wife With a Bundle of Grass?
To Whom Was Prophet Hud Sent, and Where Did They Live?
What Strength Did the People of Aad Have?
Why Did Allah Punish the People of Aad?
How Did Allah Destroy the People of Aad?
What Awaits Aad’s Disbelievers in the Hereafter?
Were the Believers Among Aad Also Destroyed by the Wind?
What Was the Religion of Ibrahim?
Who Was the First Person Ibrahim Called to the Religion of Allah?
How Did Ibrahim Handle His Father’s Rejection?
How Did Ibrahim Disprove the Star-Worshippers’ Beliefs?
How Did Ibrahim Prove the Idols Were Powerless?
What Was the Result of Ibrahim’s Argument With His People?
What Punishment Did the People Rule on Ibrahim?
Why Did Ibrahim Ask Allah to Show Him the Resurrection? Was He in Doubt?
Did Ibrahim Obey Allah’s Command to Leave His Wife and Son Ismael in a Barren Valley?
What Was Ibrahim’s Vision About His Son Ismael?
What Was Ismael’s Reaction to His Father’s Vision to Slaughter Him?
Who Built the Ka’aba, and What Did Allah Command After It Was Finished?
How Did Ibrahim Prove Allah’s Existence to Namrood and Win the Argument?
Who Were the Honoured Guests Who Visited Prophet Ibrahim?
Why Was Ibrahim’s Wife Astonished by the Angels’ Glad Tidings of a Child?
What Did Allah Teach Adam That the Angels Did Not Know?
What Did Allah Command the Angels to Do When He Created Adam?
To Which Tribe Was Prophet Saleh Sent, and Where Did They Live?
What Blessing Did Allah Give Thamud, and What Made Them Unique?
What Miracle Did Allah Send to the People of Saleh, and Why That One?
How Did Thamud Respond to Prophet Saleh’s Call?
How Did Thamud Challenge Their Prophet Saleh?
What Crime Did the People of Thamud Commit to Deserve Their Punishment?
How Was Thamud Destroyed for Disobeying Allah’s Command?
Were the Believers Among Thamud Also Destroyed by the Punishment?
Who Is Prophet Zachariah?
What Was Zachariah’s Prayer When He Grew Old, and What Did He Offer Before Asking?
Why Did Zachariah Want a Son So Badly, Despite His Age and His Wife’s Barrenness?
What Did Allah Almighty Grant Prophet Zachariah?
Zachariah Asked Allah for a Sign About Granting Him a Son. What Was the Sign?
Which Prophet Was Blamed and Swallowed by the Whale, and Why?
How Did the Whale Come to Swallow Yunus?
Why Was the Lot Drawn Three Times Before Yunus Was Thrown Overboard?
How Did Allah Deliver Yunus From the Whale’s Belly?
What Are Prophet Yunus’s Different Names in the Quran?
What Was Yunus’s Supplication Inside the Whale?
How Did Nuh’s People React to His Call to Allah?
How Long Did Nuh Stay Among His People?
How Did Nuh Admonish and Warn His People?
What Made Nuh Pray Against His People?
Was Nuh’s Wife a Believer in Her Husband’s Call?
Nuh’s Wife Deserved the Punishment: What Do We Learn From This?
What Punishment Did Allah Send to the People of Nuh?
Why Did Allah Instruct Nuh to Build a Ship?
Was Nuh’s Son a Believer, and How Did He React to the Punishment?
How Did the Ship Noah Built Sail When There Was No Water?
How and Where Did the Ark Land?
What Did Allah Reproach Prophet Nuh About?
How Did Adam’s Knowledge of the Names Answer the Angels’ Own Question?
What Sign Proved That Saul Was Chosen by Allah as King?
How Did Ibrahim Prove to the Idol Worshippers That Their Beliefs Were False?
Why Did Allah Order the Children of Israel to Slaughter the Cow in Surah Al-Baqarah?
How Is Surat Yusuf Different From the Other Chapters of the Quran?
How Many Children Did Prophet Yaqoub Have?
Who Is the Father of Prophet Yusuf, and What Is His Full Lineage?
What Was Yusuf’s Dream, and How Did His Father Respond?
What Did Allah Teach Yusuf About Dream Interpretation?
How Did Yusuf’s Brothers React to Feeling Less Loved by Their Father?
What Did the Brothers Finally Decide to Do About Yusuf?
How Did the Brothers Convince Their Protective Father to Let Yusuf Go With Them?
What Did the Brothers Tell Their Father When They Returned Without Yusuf?
How Did Prophet Yaqoub React to What His Sons Told Him?
What Peace Did Allah Instill in Yusuf While His Brothers Plotted Against Him?
How Long Did Yusuf Stay in the Well, and How Did He Get Out?
What Happened to Yusuf After He Was Pulled Out of the Well?
Who Bought Yusuf in Egypt?
What Was the Greater Trial Yusuf Faced After the Well, and Why Was It Harder to Bear?
Did Yusuf Ever Intend Any Act of Indecency With Al-Aziz’s Wife?
How Did Al-Aziz’s Wife Defend Herself When the Women of the City Gossiped About Her?
Why Was Yusuf Imprisoned Even Though His Innocence Was Known?
How Many Years Did Yusuf Spend in Prison?
Who Was Imprisoned With Yusuf, and Why Did It Matter for His Release?
What Mission Did Yusuf Carry Out Even While Imprisoned?
Why Was Yusuf Released From Prison, and What Events Led to His Great Position in Egypt?
How Did Yusuf Interpret the King’s Dream?
Did Yusuf Leave Prison Immediately When the King Sent for Him?
What Is the Full Name of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)?
What Did Jesus (PBUH) Foretell About the Coming of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)?
What Do We Know About the Prophet’s (PBUH) Hashemite Family Before His Mission?
What Was the Name of the Prophet’s (PBUH) Mother?
Did the Prophet (PBUH) Ever See His Father?
When Was the Prophet (PBUH) Born?
Who Named the Prophet (PBUH)?
Who Was the First Wet-Nurse of the Prophet (PBUH)?
Who Were the Prophet’s (PBUH) Foster Brothers Through Nursing?
What Blessings Did Halimah al-Sa’diyyah Receive While the Prophet (PBUH) Was With Her?
What Was the Splitting of the Prophet’s (PBUH) Chest, and When Did It Happen?
How Did Aminah, the Mother of the Prophet (PBUH), Die?
Who Took Care of the Prophet (PBUH) After the Death of His Mother Aminah?
Who Took Care of the Prophet (PBUH) After His Grandfather Abd al-Muttalib Died?
What Is the Story of the Prophet (PBUH) and the Monk Bahira?
What Work Did the Prophet (PBUH) Do in His Youth?
How Did the Prophet (PBUH) Marry Khadijah (May Allah Be Pleased With Her)?
How Many Children Did the Prophet (PBUH) Have, and What Were Their Names?
Who Made the Decision About Rebuilding the Kaaba?
What Was the Prophet (PBUH) Called Before His Mission?
How Did the Prophet (PBUH) React After His Encounter With Jibril?
What Were the Stages at the Beginning of the Revelation to the Prophet (PBUH)?
What Are the Types of Revelation?
What Are the Stages of the Prophet’s (PBUH) Mission?
What Were the Stages of the Meccan Period?
When Did the Prophet (PBUH) Start Calling to Islam Openly?
How Did Quraysh React When the Prophet (PBUH) Began Calling to Islam Openly?
How Many Times Did the Prophet (PBUH) Perform Hajj?
Where Was the Prophet (PBUH) Buried?
What Was the Character of the Prophet (PBUH) Like?
Why Do Scholars Consider Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) the Greatest Figure in History?
When Given Two Choices, Which Would the Prophet (PBUH) Choose?
Why Did the Prophet (PBUH) Marry Several Women?
How Did the Prophet (PBUH) Marry Aisha When She Was Young?
What Was the Religion of the Prophet (PBUH) Before Islam?
Was Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) Illiterate, and Why Did Allah Choose an Unlettered Prophet?
Why Was the Prophet (PBUH) Not Given Miracles Like Those of Earlier Prophets?
Did the Prophet (PBUH) Forbid His Companions From Writing His Sayings?
Who Was the Father of Sulaiman (Solomon), Peace Be Upon Him?
What Gift (or Power) Did Allah Almighty Give Prophet Sulaiman (Solomon)?
How Did Sulaiman (PBUH) Find Out About Balquees, the Queen of Sheba, and That She and Her People Were Not Believers?
What Is the Lineage of Allah’s Prophet Moses (PBUH)?
Why Did Moses’s Mother Fear for Her Son That She Threw Him in the River?
Who Got Moses (PBUH) From the River?
The Quran Often Talks About the Children of Israel and Moses’s People. Is This Racism Against the Children of Israel?
Why Did Pharaoh Not Kill Baby Moses (PBUH) When His Men Found Him in the Basket?
How Did the Mother of Moses Endure the Pain of Losing Her Child?
How Did Allah Cause Moses’s Mother to Get Her Child Back and Nurse Him?
When Moses (PBUH) Grew Up, Why Did He Run Away Out of Egypt?
Did Allah Almighty Forgive Moses (PBUH) for the Crime He Committed?
Where Did Moses (PBUH) Go After He Left Egypt?
What Happened to Moses (PBUH) Upon Arriving in Midian, and How Did That Affect His Social Life?
What Was the Dua Moses Made That Changed His Life?
How Many Years Did Moses (PBUH) Stay With His Family in Midian, Serving His Wife’s Father?
Where and How Did Allah Speak to Moses (PBUH) the First Time?
What Did Allah Almighty Say to Moses (PBUH) at Mount Tur, and What Was the Message He Asked Him to Convey?
What Were the Miracles (Signs) Granted to Moses (PBUH)?
What Was Allah’s First Mission for Moses After Naming Him a Prophet?
What Was Moses’s (PBUH) Reaction to the First Assignment He Was Given as a Messenger of Allah?
What Is the Meaning Behind the Supplication of Moses (PBUH)?
Who Is Haroun (Aaron), and Why Did Moses Ask for Him Specifically?
What Is the Provision That Moses, Allah’s Interlocutor, Had While Conveying Allah’s Religion?
What Command Did Allah Give Daoud and Sulaiman After Listing His Blessings on Them?
What Did the Hoopoe Discover While It Was Absent from Sulaiman?
What Did Sulaiman (PBUH) Do When He Found Out About a City Ruled by a Woman Who Prostrated to the Sun Instead of Allah?
Did the Queen of Sheba Submit to Allah After She Had Surrendered to Sulaiman (PBUH)?
How Did Sulaiman (PBUH) React to the Queen’s Gift?
Did the Queen of Sheba Submit to Allah, and What Convinced Her?
Many People Believe the Jinn Know the Unseen. When Did the Jinn Find Out That Sulaiman (PBUH) Had Died?
Why Did Allah Almighty Send Moses (PBUH) to Pharaoh as His First Mission?
What Was the Method Moses (PBUH) Was Ordered to Follow While Calling Pharaoh to Allah? What Do We Learn From It?
What Was the Conversation Between Moses (PBUH) and Pharaoh, and What Was Its Outcome?
What Signs Did Moses Show Pharaoh in Front of the Court?
What Accusations Did Pharaoh Bring Against Moses (PBUH)? How Did Pharaoh’s People React?
What Was the Result of the Contest Between Moses (PBUH) and the Magicians?
What Was Pharaoh’s Reaction to His Biggest Loss and That of His Magicians?
What Are the Magicians’ Options in the Face of Pharaoh’s Threats of Cutting, Killing, and Crucifixion?
What Great Position Did Yusuf Hold, and Why Was He Given It?
Why Did Yusuf’s Brothers Come to Egypt, and Where Did They Travel From?
How Did Yusuf Plan to Bring His Younger Brother to Him, and How Did the Brothers Respond?
Why Did Yaqoub Tell His Sons to Enter Egypt Through Separate Gates?
What Trick Did Yusuf Use to Keep His Brother With Him in Egypt?
How Did the Brothers React When the King’s Cup Was Found With Benjamin?
What Did the Brothers Discuss Privately After Losing Their Appeal?
How Did Yaqoub React to the News About Benjamin and Reuben?
How Did Yaqoub Regain His Sight After Going Blind From Grief?
How Did Yaqoub Receive the News That His Sons Had Found Yusuf?
Did Yusuf Take Revenge on His Brothers When He Had the Power To?
How Did Yusuf’s Childhood Dream of Eleven Stars Come True?
What Are the Main Lessons From the Story of Yusuf?
What Was Yusuf’s Prayer at the End of the Surah, and What Does It Teach?
What Made the Magicians Hold Firmly to Their Belief in Allah Despite Pharaoh’s Threat?
What Advice Was Given to Pharaoh to Get Rid of His Problem After Losing to Moses? What Is the Guidance in Facing This Affliction?
What Were the Calamities That Befell Pharaoh and His People Successively?
Who Were the Two Men Who Helped and Protected Moses (PBUH) From Pharaoh’s Oppression?
Pharaoh’s Plan to Kill Moses (PBUH) and Moses’s Response
How Did This Believer Defend the Prophet Moses (PBUH)? What Was Pharaoh’s Reaction?
Did the Believer’s Arguments End There, or Did He Continue to Preach His People? How Did He Complete His Sermon?
How Did Pharaoh Respond to the Words of the Believer, and Stop His People From Believing Moses?
The Believer Reminded His People Continuously of Allah. What Does This Show, and How Did He End His Sermon?
What Prayer Saved Moses and the Believer from Their Enemies’ Plots?
The Salvation of Moses (PBUH) and the Children of Israel From Pharaoh’s Army, and Pharaoh’s Drowning in the Sea
Why Did Allah Almighty Not Accept the Repentance of Pharaoh?
After the Drowning of Pharaoh, Allah Appointed Moses (PBUH) to Speak With Him at Mount At-Tur. What Happened at That Appointment?
How Did Allah Make Pharaoh’s Fate an Example for All Mankind?
What Was the First Religious Violation the Children of Israel Committed After Crossing the Red Sea?
Allah Commanded Moses (PBUH) and His People to Enter the Holy Land. What Was Their Response?
What Was the Punishment of the Children of Israel for Not Obeying Allah’s Command to Enter the Holy Land?
What Blessings Did Allah Bestow Upon the Children of Israel, Which Moses Reminded His People Of? What Was the Purpose?
How Did the Children of Israel Meet the Blessings of Allah Upon Them, Which Included Manna and Quail?
When the Children of Israel Asked Moses (PBUH) for Water, Allah Told Him to Strike the Rock. How Many Springs Gushed Out?
Why Did Moses Ask to See Allah, and Why Was He Told He Could Not?
Why Did Allah Almighty Reproach His Prophet Moses (PBUH)?
In the Absence of Moses (PBUH), an Important Event Occurred Among His People. What Was It?
What Was Moses’s (PBUH) Reaction When He Learned What Happened to His People at Mount Tur?
How Did Moses (PBUH) Punish Al-Samiri? What Did He Do With the Calf?
How Was the Repentance of the Children of Israel From This Heinous Crime?
What Did Allah Command the Children of Israel to Do to Purify Themselves After Worshipping the Calf?
Moses (PBUH) Chose Seventy Men From His People to Meet Allah. What Was the Reason, and What Happened There?
Why Did Allah Almighty Raise Mount Tur Above the Heads of the Children of Israel?
The Children of Israel Were Known for Twisting Allah’s Law. How Did They Manipulate the Prohibition on Saturday Hunting?
Who Is Al-Khidr?
How and Where Did Moses (PBUH) Meet Al-Khidr?
What Did Moses (PBUH) Ask Al-Khidr For? What Was Al-Khidr’s Reply?
What Were the Three Things Al-Khidr Did?
What Was Al-Khidr’s Explanation for the Three Things He Did?
What Lessons Do We Learn from Moses and Al-Khidr’s Encounter?
Why Did Allah Order the Children of Israel to Slaughter a Cow?
What Was the Description of the Cow the Children of Israel Were Ordered to Slaughter?
Why Was the Cow Allah Ordered Slaughtered So Hard to Find?
Why Does the Quran Talk So Often About the Children of Israel? Is It Racism?
Why Was the Revelation Interrupted for a While, as Aisha’s Hadith Says?
When Did the Prophet (PBUH) Start Receiving Revelation?
When Did the Revelation Begin, at What Age, and in Which Month?
Who Was the First Person to Believe in the Prophet (PBUH)?
Why Did Pharaoh Decide to Kill Moses, and What Did He Fear?
Where Did Moses’ People Get Their Food and Water While Wandering in the Desert?
How Did Quraysh Use Threats and Promises Against the Prophet (PBUH) and Abu Talib?
Where Did the Companions Migrate Before the Hijrah to Medina, and Why?
How Did Zachariah Ask for a Child in Old Age When His Wife Was Barren?
What Was the Affliction of Prophet Yunus, and What Was His Prayer?
Which Ayah Shows That Allah Chose Mary Above All the Women of the World?
What Was the Supplication of the Messengers?
Who Was the Prophet Whose Eyes Turned White Due to Grief? Which Ayah Mentions That?
How Did Quraysh Threaten Abu Talib, the Prophet’s (PBUH) Uncle?
Why Did the Prophet (PBUH) Emigrate to Medina, and How Did the Night of the Hijrah Unfold?
What Led the Prophet (PBUH) to Emigrate to Medina?
How Did the Prophet’s (PBUH) Night Journey and Ascension Happen in One Night?
How Did the Call to Islam Begin?
What Are the Miracles of the Prophet (PBUH)?
How Was the Prophet (PBUH) Distinguished Over the Prophets Before Him?
Who Are the Wives of the Prophet (PBUH), and Why Are They Called Mothers of the Believers?
How Is the Prophet (PBUH) a Mercy to the Worlds, to Believers and Disbelievers Alike?
What Is the Difference Between a Ghazwah and a Sariyyah, and How Many Were There?
How Did the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) Pass Away?