Qur'an - The Big Picture

Chapter 4

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 1

The 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 3

The 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 2

The 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.