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No compulsion in religion: 6 facts about Quran 2:256

Was 2:256 abrogated, and did it exclude idolaters? 6 facts from al-Tabari, al-Qurtubi, Ibn Qudama and the conquest of Sind.

What naskh means, how many verses scholars say it covers and how the Sword Verse is read: 5 facts.

Do 72 virgins await martyrs? 5 facts about the houris, what the Quran says about Paradise and what no eye has seen. Read on.

Does the Quran tell men to beat their wives? 5 facts on Quran 4:34, the Prophet’s practice and how scholars read it. Read on.

Six days or eight, a thousand years or fifty thousand, and who takes the soul: the classical answers. 4 points. Read on.

What the verses on apes and pigs say, who they address, and how commentators read them: 6 facts.

Khidr, Gog and Magog, the Companions of the Cave, Harut and Marut and the People of the Rass: 5 puzzles in the Quran’s stories, explained.

Critics say no Jews called Ezra son of God and no Christians put Mary in the Trinity. 5 points on both verses. Read them.

The Quran, the Prophet’s sayings, the Companions and the scholars on taḥrīf, graded by strength. 7 points. Read on.

Was Jesus crucified? What historians hold, what Quran 4:157 says, and why Islam rejects atonement by proxy. Read on.

Shooting stars, mountains, figs, earthquakes and the meeting of two seas: 5 Quranic verses on nature and how scholars have read them.