Stories of the Quran
Start with the story.
Every story here begins with the situation — something you can picture and feel — before a single verse appears. Then you read what Allah says about it, and then a plain explanation of what it means. No prior knowledge is assumed anywhere.
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Imagine you have just given birth. The ruler of your country has been killing the baby boys of your people, and yours is a boy. Then the instruction comes: put him in the river. Not hide him. Not run. Put your newborn into the water and let go. Could you do it?
Where are you right now?
The Quran speaks to specific situations. If something below matches what you are carrying, start there.
All stories
Yusuf
يوسف
Thrown into a well by his brothers, he ended up the one they came begging to
11 minNo prior knowledge neededMaryam
مريم
She gave birth alone, then walked back into a community that had already judged her
7 minNo prior knowledge neededYunus
يونس
He walked away in frustration, and called out from inside the dark
5 minNo prior knowledge neededThe People of the Cave
أصحاب الكهف
Young men who walked away rather than pretend, and woke up three centuries later
6 minNo prior knowledge neededAdam
آدم
The first human, the first mistake, and the first way back
6 minNo prior knowledge neededNuh
نوح
He called his people for lifetimes, and almost nobody listened
7 minNo prior knowledge neededIbrahim
إبراهيم
He asked one question that his people could not answer
8 minBuilds on the basicsDhul-Qarnayn
ذو القرنين
He could have taken anything, and asked for nothing
5 minNo prior knowledge neededSulaiman
سليمان
A king who overheard an ant, and a queen who was never humiliated
7 minBuilds on the basics
Nothing here is retold or dramatised. Every passage is fetched from the Quran and shown with its reference and translator. The writing between passages is Sabeel’s, and is labelled wherever it appears.
There is no imagery of any Prophet on these pages, and there never will be.