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Al Imran (Arabic: آل عِمْرَانَ, āl ʿimrān; meaning: The Family of Imran [1] [2]) is the third chapter of the Quran with two hundred verses . This chapter is named after the family of Imran (Joachim), which includes Imran , Saint Anne (wife of Imran), Mary , and Jesus .
(Al-Lahab) ٱلْمَسَد al-Masad: The Plaited Rope, The Palm Fibre, The Twisted Strands: 5 (1/3) Makkah: 6: 3: v. 5 [6] Allah cursing Abu Lahab and his wife, who was Muhammad's uncle and at the time of the revelation of this verse, Muhammad's brother in law, due to his hostility towards Islam and Muhammad. [6] 112: Al-Ikhlas ...
The Ahl al-Bayt was Muhammad's household. Shi'a and Sunni have differing views regarding who is included among them, and also different views regarding which verses are associated with the household. Sunni considers Muhammad's wives, Children of Muhammad and uncles of Muhammad and their children are the Ahl al Bayt.
They rank from being very short, a paragraph of less than five verses (for example surah 97, 103, 105, 108 and 111) to being organized in clusters of two (surahs 81, 91), three (surahs 82, 84, 86, 90, 92) or four verses (surahs 85, 89). [11] Some of these surahs also take on a balanced tripartite structure that begin and conclude with.
Qadi al-Nu'man, the twelfth century Ismaili Muslim jurist and luminary, in his book on the esoteric interpretation of faith, Asās al-Ta'wīl, talks about the spiritual birth (milad al-bātin) of Jesus, as an interpretation of his story of physical birth (milad al-zāhir). He says that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a metaphor for someone who ...
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 polytheism and unbelief, the establishment of Tawhid (pure monotheism), the Revelation, Messengership, and Resurrection.
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."
Al-Kafirun is classified as a Meccan surah, meaning it's believed to have been revealed in Mecca. According to tradition, the surah was revealed when some chieftains of Mecca, including Walid ibn al-Mughira , proposed peace to Muhammad that one year the Muslims would worship pagan gods, and the next year Meccans would worship Allah.