Non Muslims can read this too.
Anas Zubedy has embarked on a new project. Its called 40 Ahsan Al-hadith. You can read about his new project here at: https://letusaddvalue.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-forty-ahsan-al-hadith-project.html?m=1
For the last few years, I have been researching, reflecting upon, and collecting a set of Qur'anic verses that have profoundly shaped my life. Today, I am finally ready to begin sharing them.
The working title is: Forty Ahsan al-Hadith. Forty Qur'anic Verses That Shaped My Life.
Over the coming months, I will be sharing forty Qur'anic verses that have inspired, guided, challenged, comforted, and shaped me throughout my life.
This is a project that has been quietly taking shape in my mind and research over the last few years.
The Qur'an has accompanied me through poverty and prosperity, success and failure, certainty and doubt, youth and old age. Like many Muslims, I have turned to its guidance in moments of joy, confusion, gratitude, and hardship.
Every verse of the Qur'an is important. Every verse contains guidance, wisdom, and signs for those who reflect.
Allah says: "Allah has sent down the best Hadith (أَحْسَنَ الْحَدِيثِ): a consistent Book wherein is reiteration. The skins shiver therefrom of those who fear their Lord; then their skins and their hearts relax at the remembrance of Allah. That is the guidance of Allah by which He guides whom He wills. And one whom Allah leaves astray, for him there is no guide." (Qur'an 39:23, Saheeh International)
Most importantly, these are my forty Ahsan al-Hadith (أَحْسَنَ الْحَدِيثِ), forty Qur'anic verses that have profoundly impacted my life. You may have a different forty. In fact, I hope you do.
One of my hopes is that this project will encourage other Muslims to identify and share their own forty Ahsan al-Hadith from their own list of Qur'anic verses that shaped their lives.
As always, I welcome your thoughts, feedback, questions, disagreements, and suggestions. If a particular verse has profoundly shaped your life, I would be delighted to hear about it.
Peace, Anas Zubedy
My Comments: There is plenty magic in reading the Quran. No it is NOT a book of magic. The magic is in the light it throws on many subjects which we thought we knew but maybe we did not know them as well.
Here is a verse which I have shared before: Surah 29:6 وَمَنْ جَاهَدَ فَإِنَّمَا يُجَاهِدُ لِنَفْسِهِ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَغَنِيٌّ عَنِ الْعَالَمِينَ
which means "And whoever jihad only jihad for himself. Indeed, Allah is free from need of the worlds."
Indeed Allah is free from need of the worlds.
