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According to most scholars of the Islamic tradition, the chapter is a Medinan surah, i.e. it was revealed during the Medinan phase of Muhammad's prophethood. Some commentators say that verse 24 was an exception and was revealed in Mecca, and others say that verses 23–31 were revealed in Mecca.
[11] [12] [13] The verse is regarded as one of the most powerful in the Quran because when it is recited, the greatness of God is believed to be confirmed. The person who recites this ayat morning and evening will be under protection of God from the evil of the jinn and the shayatin (devils); this is also known as the daily adkhar .
The Isma'ili jurist al-Qadi al-Nu'man (d. 974) writes that the Sunni scholar Hasan al-Basri (d. 728) had once reported on the authority of the early exegete ibn Abbas (d. c. 687) that Muhammad considered Ali, Fatima, and their sons as the al-qurba in this verse. Later, al-Nu'man continues, al-Basri reinterpreted the verse differently to mean ...
Tafsir al-Qurtubi (Arabic: تفسير القرطبي) is a 13th-century work of Qur'an exegesis (Arabic: tafsir) by the classical scholar Al-Qurtubi. [1] Considered one of the best and most iconic tafsirs to date. [citation needed] The tafsir of Al-Qurtubi is regarded as one of the most compendious exegesis of them all and is truly among the ...
The Quran assumes that the audience is familiar with the subject without elaborating on the jinn much further. [42] According to the Quran 51:56-57, Muhammad was sent as a prophet to both human and jinn communities, and prophets and messengers were sent to both communities. [43] [44] [45]
The Verse of Light (Arabic: آیة النور, romanized: āyat an-nūr) is the 35th verse of the 24th surah of the Quran . It has often been closely associated with Sufi thought, primarily because of al-Ghazali's commentary on it, entitled Mishkat al-Anwar (Niche of the Lights). [1]
A 16th-century Quran opened to show sura (chapter) 2, ayat (verses) 1–4. An āyah ( Arabic : آية , Arabic pronunciation: [ʔaː.ja] ; plural: آيات ʾāyāt ) is a "verse" in the Qur'an , one of the statements of varying length that make up the chapters ( surah ) of the Qur'an and are marked by a number.
Illiyin or Illiyun (Arabic: عِلِّيِّين, عِلِّيُّون, romanized: ʿilliyyīn, -ūn literally: Heaven, Upperworld) is a Quranic term referring to either the "most high" and "supreme" places above Jannah, i.e. the Garden of Eden or Paradise, in the seventh Heaven closest to the Throne of God (al-ʿArsh), [1] [2] or, according to a different interpretation, a register for the ...