Sunday, 29 April 2012

Ma'ariful Qur'an: Merits and peculiarities of al-Fatihah

Here is a summary of a chapter in Ma'aariful Qur'an which I found greatly beneficial. It describes some distinguishing merits and peculiarities of al-Fatihah, the opening Surah of the Qur'an:
  1. It is the first Surah to be revealed in complete form.
  2. It is the quintessence of the Qur'an and the rest of the Qur'an is its elaboration.
  3. It ends with a request for guidance – the rest of the Qur'an is the answer to this request.
  4. No other chapter of the Qur'an and no other book has anything to compare with it.
  5. It is a cure for all kinds of illnesses.

And eat from it...

Following the previous post, here's another set of verses very very similar in wording and meaning to each other which I often confuse and mix up, the emphasised wa and fa in particular:

"... wa qulnaa yaa aadamu-skun anta wa zawjuka-al-jannata wa kulaa minhaa raghadan 7aythu shi'tumaa..." (2:35)

"... wa idh qulnaa-dkhuloo haadhihi-al-qaryata fa kuloo minhaa 7aythu shi'tum raghadan-wa-dkhuloo-al-baaba sujjadan..." (2:58)

"... wa yaa aadamu-skun anta wa zawjuka-al-jannata fa kulaa min 7aythu shi'tumaa..." (7:19)

"... wa idh qeela lahumu-skunoo haadhihi-al-qaryata wa kuloo minhaa 7aythu shi'tum..." (7:161)

Sunday, 8 April 2012

That, that is the great success

There is this phrase in Surah at-Tawba which repeats four times (with slight variations) and which I keep getting slightly muddled up so writing the four occurrences of this phrase down side to side in hope of solidifying and disambiguating my memory store!

"... jannaatin-tajree min-ta7tihaa-al-anhaaru khaalideena feehaa
wa masaakina Tayyibatan-fee jannaati 3adnin;
dhaalika huwa-al-fawzu-al-aDheemu" (9:72)

"... jannaatin-tajree min-ta7tihaa-al-anhaaru khaalideena feehaa;
dhaalika-al-fawzu-al-aDheemu" (9:89)

"... jannaatin-tajree ta7tahaa-al-anhaaru khaalideena feehaa abadan;
dhaalika-al-fawzu-al-aDheemu" (9:100)

"... wa dhaalika huwa-al-fawzu-al-aDheemu" (9:111)