About answersfromquran

answersfromquran publishes long answers to questions and objections people raise about the Quran. Each answer first states the claim as its best defenders would, then checks it against the Quran itself.

How we read

The Quran is the evidence, read in Arabic. We start from words and grammar as they are commonly understood. When a reading is disputed, we go to how the Quran uses the same words and constructions elsewhere, and that settles it.

Hadith, tafsir and fiqh show up only to report what someone holds. So do modern moral intuitions and scientific consensus. None of them is used to prove a conclusion.

Before an answer goes up, we try to break it: we look for the verse that would refute it and report what we find, even when it cuts against us.

Arabic quotations are copied letter for letter from the KFGQPC Hafs text.

How we label conclusions

Every conclusion carries one of four labels.

text-explicit

The Quran states it.

text-implied

The text compels it as a strong inference, though it does not say it in so many words.

text-compatible

The text allows it but does not require it. Other readings survive too.

text-silent

The Quran does not address it. We say so rather than fill the gap.

We never raise a label to make an answer look stronger. If the honest result is text-compatible, that is the label you'll see.

Who writes

The answersfromquran team writes and reviews every answer. Nothing goes up until it has been read in full and approved.

Part of Linked Quran

Linked Quran shows, for each question, the verses linked to it and where each one stands on the claim. This site has the full argument.