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Al-Isra'ʾ (Arabic: الإسراء, lit. 'The Night Journey'), [1] also known as Banī Isrāʾīl (Arabic: بني إسرائيل, lit. 'The Children of Israel'), [2] is the 17th chapter (sūrah) of the Quran, with 111 verses (āyāt). The word Isra' refers to the Night Journey of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and about the Children of Israel.
List of chapters in the Quran. Al-Fatiha, the first surah in the Quran. The Quran is divided into 114 surahs (chapters), and 6,236 ayahs (verses). Chapters are arranged broadly in descending order of length. For a preliminary discussion about the chronological order of chapters, see Surah. Each surah except the ninth (At-Tawba) is preceded by a ...
About the background and starting of Ma'ariful Qur'an, Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani has written in the foreword of the English translation of the same: ‘The origin of Ma'ariful Qur'an refers back to the third of Shawwal 1373 A.H. (corresponding to the 2nd of July 1954) when the author was invited to give weekly lectures on the Radio Pakistan to explain selected verses of the Holy Qur'an to the ...
Islam portal. Biography portal. v. t. e. The Israʾ and Miʿraj (Arabic: الإسراء والمعراج, al-’Isrā’ wal-Miʿrāj) are the two parts of a Night Journey that Muslims believe the Islamic prophet Muhammad (AD 570–632) took during a single night around the year AD 621 (1 BH – 0 BH). Within Islam, the majority of Islamic ...
The Quran, [c] also romanized Qur'an or Koran, [d] is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God ().It is organized in 114 chapters (surah, pl. suwer) which consist of individual verses ().
Tafsir al-Qur'an al-Azim (Arabic: تفسير القرءان العظيم, romanized:Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm), commonly known as Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Arabic: تفسير ابن كثير, romanized:Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr), is the Qur'anic exegesis (tafsir) by Ibn Kathir. It is one of the most famous Islamic books concerned with the science ...
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 ...
Islamic holy books are certain religious scriptures that are viewed by Muslims as having valid divine significance, in that they were authored by God (Allah) through a variety of prophets and messengers, including those who predate the Quran. Among the group of religious texts considered to be valid revelations, the three that are mentioned by ...