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Whole Surah [6] Unity of the human race and the mutual obligations of men and women towards one another. (v. 1) [6] Rights of women. [6] Questions related to family life (including marriage and inheritance). [6] Peace and war. [6] Relations of believers with unbelievers. [6] Striving in the Cause of Allah . (v. 95–97) [8] 4-6 5: Al-Ma'idah
In Nuh, the seventy-first surah, the Quran refers to Nuh’s prophethood in snippets. Nuh is a messenger of God. When Nuh realizes the messages are not accepted by the community, he supplicated to God, who planned to flood the community of Nuh at a specified time. God commanded Nuh to warn the people.
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 chapter is named Al-Mujadila, "she who disputes", in reference to Khawla bint Tha'laba whose petition was the occasion of revelation for some of the chapter's verses. [5] It is alternatively called Al-Mujadalah , a related word meaning "the dialogue", referring to the use of discourse and the dialectical method that is an important theme in ...
[5] Any chapter that contains the word kalla كلا (never) is Meccan, and are found only in the second half of the Qur'an. Any chapter that has the phrase يأيها الناس O individual, but does not have the phrase يأيها اللذين آمنوا O you who believe is Meccan except chapter 22.
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."
For the convenience of those who read the Quran in a week the text may be divided into seven portions, each known as Manzil. [1]The following division to 7 equal portions is by Hamzah az-Zaiyyat (d.156/772): [1]
Al-Wāqiʻa [1] (Arabic: الواقعة; "The Inevitable" [2] or "The Event" [3]) is the 56th surah (chapter) of the Quran. Muslims believe it was revealed in Mecca (see Meccan surah), specifically around 7 years before the Hijrah (622), the migration of Muhammad to Medina. [4] The total number of verses in this surah is 96. It mainly discusses ...