#big-picture
A Wise Father's Greatest Advice
Allah tells us about a wise man named Luqman, and all the loving advice he gave his son: worship Allah alone, remember that Allah sees even a hidden speck, keep the prayer, stand for good with patience, and move through the world with a humble, gentle heart.
Chapter 1The Qur'an - The Big Picture
Before we open the Qur'an page by page, let us stand back and see the whole beautiful shape of it: what the Qur'an is, why it is not like any other book, and the few big ideas it comes back to again and again.
Chapter 3The Real Meaning of Goodness
What does it really mean to be a good person? In one long, beautiful verse of Surah Al-Baqarah, Allah paints the full picture of goodness, and it turns out to be so much bigger than we might have guessed.
Chapter 2The Secret of Time
One of the shortest surahs in the Qur'an holds one of its biggest secrets. It swears by time itself, proves that we are all losing, turns upside down everything we thought about success, and then hands us four lifelines to safety.