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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).
Double-page from the Qur'an with chapter heading and the first five verses of the sura An-Nur (left side). Iran, 1186. An-Nur [1] (Arabic: النور, romanized: an-nūr, lit. 'The Light') is the 24th chapter of the Quran with 64 verses. The surah takes its name, An Nur, from verse 35. [2]
Surah 24 of the Quran contains the Ayat an-Nur, the Verse of Light (Q24:35), which reads, "God is the light of the heavens and the earth; the likeness of His light is as a niche wherein is a lamp (the lamp in a glass, the glass as it were a glittering star) kindled from a Blessed Tree, an olive that is neither of the East nor of the West whose ...
The Opening, the Opening of the Divine Writ, The Essence of the Divine Writ, The Surah of Praise, The Foundation of the Qur'an, and The Seven Oft-Repeated [Verses] [6] 7 (1) Makkah: 5: 48: Whole Surah [6] The fundamental principles of the Qur'an in a condensed form. [6] It reads: “(1) In the name of God (Allah), the Compassionate and Merciful ...
The word surah was used at the time of Muhammad as a term with the meaning of a portion or a set of verses of the Qur'an. This is evidenced by the appearance of the word surah in multiple locations in the Quran such as verse : "a sûrah which We have revealed and made ˹its rulings˺ obligatory, and revealed in it clear commandments so that you may be mindful."
The third and fourth volumes were concerned with chapters of Baqarah. Sadra interpreted the 45 verse, referring to meaning and concept of transmigration and its explanations. He mentioned the aims of the verse. [9] In the fifth volume, Sadra interpreted two eminent verses, namely Ayat al-Kursi and Ayat an-Noor. He reminded those who do not care ...
An-Nur Kota Raya Mosque in Johor, Malaysia; An-Nur Tongkang Mosque in Donggang, Taiwan; An-Nur Mosque in Dili, East Timor; An-Nur Great Mosque in Pekanbaru, Indonesia; An-Nur Jamek Mosque in Labuan, Malaysia; Masjid An-Nur Islamic Center in Sacramento, California; Masjid-an-Noor in Newfoundland, Canada; An-Noor Mosque in Guam, U.S. territories
Modern scholarship has long posited an origin for the sabab al-nuzūl based largely on its function within exegesis. William Montgomery Watt, for example, stressed the narratological significance of these types of reports: "The Quranic allusions had to be elaborated into complete stories and the background filled in if the main ideas were to be impressed on the minds of simple men."