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Left-side of a Double-page Opening of the Qur'an from Terengganu with beginning of the chapter Al-Baqara. End of the 18th or 19th century. Asian Civilisations Museum. Al-Baqarah (Arabic: الْبَقَرَة, ’al-baqarah; lit. "The Heifer" or "The Cow"), also spelled as Al-Baqara, is the second and longest chapter of the Quran. [1]
al-Fātiḥah al-Ḥamd: 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]
A surah (/ ˈsʊərə /; [1] Arabic: سُورَة, romanized: sūrah; pl. سُوَر, suwar) is an Arabic word meaning 'chapter' in the Quran. Its plural form in Arabic is suwar. [2][3] There are 114 surah in the Quran, each divided into verses (Arabic: آيات, romanized: āyāt, lit. 'signs'). The suwar are of unequal length; the shortest ...
The Throne Verse (Arabic: آيَة ٱلْكُرْسِيّ, romanized:Ayāh al-Kursī[ a ]) is the 255th verse of the second chapter of the Quran, al-Baqara 2:255. In this verse, God introduces Himself to mankind and says nothing and nobody is comparable to God. [ 2 ][ 3 ] The greatest [ 4 ][ 5 ] and one of the most well-known verses of the ...
v. t. e. A Quran showing verses of Al-Baqarah, Verse 252 to Verse 256, the Ayat al Kursi which is the 255th verse is also shown. 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 ...
Al-An'am[1] (Arabic: ٱلْأَنْعَامْ, al-ʾanʿām; meaning: The Cattle) [2] is the sixth chapter (sūrah) of the Quran, with 165 verses (āyāt). Coming in order in the Quran after Al-Fatiha, Al-Baqarah, Al 'Imran, An-Nisa', and Al-Ma'idah, this surah dwells on such themes as the clear signs of Allah's Dominion and Power, rejecting ...
Al-Qaria or The Calamity[1] (Arabic: القارعة, al-Qāriʻah, also known as The Striking), [2] is the 101st chapter (sūrah) of the Quran, with 11 āyāt or verses. This chapter takes its name from its first word " qariah ", [3] referring to the Quranic view of the end time and eschatology. " Qariah " has been translated as calamity ...
Medinan surah. The Madni Surahs (Surah Madaniyah) or Madani chapters of the Quran are the latest 28 Surahs which, according to Islamic tradition, were revealed at Medina after Muhammad 's hijrah from Mecca. The community was larger and more developed, in contrast to its minority position in Mecca.