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Joachim (/ ˈ dʒ oʊ ə k ɪ m /; Hebrew: יהויקים, romanized: Yəhoyāqim, lit. 'he whom Yahweh has set up'; Greek: Ἰωακείμ, romanized: Iōākeím) was, according to Sacred tradition, the husband of Saint Anne, the father of Mary (mother of Jesus), and the maternal grandfather of Jesus.
Yehoyaqim Islamic tradition holds both Joachim and Amram are named the same, though the Quran only refers to Joachim with the name of Amram and calls Mary the sister of Aaron, [ 10 ] Muslims see this as connecting the two women from two prophetic households in spirit.
Quran says, "We have sent down the Quran in truth, and with the truth it has come down" [245] and frequently asserts in its text that it is divinely ordained. [246] The Quran speaks of a written pre-text that records God's speech before it is sent down, the "preserved tablet" that is the basis of the belief in fate also, and Muslims believe ...
The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary is an English translation of the Qur'an by the British Indian Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872–1953) during the British Raj.It has become among the most widely known English translations of the Qur'an, due in part to its prodigious use of footnotes, and its distribution and subsidization by Saudi Arabian beneficiaries during the late 20th century.
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[2] [3] The Verse of Loan, the longest single verse in the Quran, is in this chapter. The sūrah encompasses a variety of topics and contains several commands for Muslims such as enjoining fasting on the believer during the month of Ramadan ; [ 4 ] forbidding interest or usury ( riba ); and several famous verses such as The Throne Verse , Al ...
The Quran is "the translation of a Syriac text" is how Angelika Neuwirth describes Luxenberg's thesis: "The general thesis underlying his entire book thus is that the Quran is a corpus of translations and paraphrases of original Syriac texts recited in church services as elements of a lectionary." She considers it as "an extremely pretentious ...
Marmaduke Pickthall – British Islamic scholar and former Anglican clergyman, known for an English translation of the Quran [173] Marmaduke Pickthall. Neil Prakash – Australian Islamic State group recruiter [174] Parameswara (king) – last king of Singapura and the founder of Malacca [175] Omar Pasha – Ottoman field marshal and governor ...