by Quranic | Dec 12, 2022 | General
By Rabi’a Elizabeth Brown In the Revelation of Allah SWT, the harmful stereotype of the “evil stepmother” is turned on its head. The best-known example of a foster mother in the Quran is Asiya (ra) [1], the wife of Firawn (Pharaoh), who took the infant Musa (as)...
by Quranic | Nov 7, 2022 | General
By Rabi’a Elizabeth Brown Many of us who grew up in the West heard the phrase “the Queen of Sheba” on TV, from our parents (especially if we wanted an expensive toy), or maybe even in a children’s version of the holy book used in our faith tradition. The...
by Quranic | Sep 5, 2022 | General
By Rabi’a Elizabeth Brown Part two of two This is the second post of a two-part series on what the Quran and hadith teach about Sayyidah Maryam (Mary) (as), the mother of the prophet Isa (Jesus). You can read the first post here, but you do not have to do so to...
