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Al-Anfal [1] (Arabic: ٱلأنفال, al-ʾanfāl; meaning The Spoils of War, [2] Earnings, Savings, Profits) [3] is the eighth chapter of the Quran, with 75 verses . Regarding the timing and contextual background of the revelation ( asbāb al-nuzūl ), it is a " Medinan surah ", completed after the Battle of Badr .
His sons, al-Sharif al-Radi (d. 406/1015) and al-Sharif al-Murtada (d. 436/1044), followed in his footsteps, continuing these responsibilities. [20] During the time of al-Shaykh al-Tusi (d. 460/1067), the collection and use of khums were internal matters for the Shi’i religious community, rather than an official responsibility of the state ...
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]
Al-Araf [2] [3] (Arabic: ٱلأعراف, al-ʾAʿrāf; meaning: The Heights) is the 7th chapter of the Qur'an, with 206 verses . Regarding the timing and contextual background of the revelation ( Asbāb al-nuzūl ), it is a " Meccan surah ", which means it was revealed before the Hijra .
"Al Anfal", literally meaning the spoils (of war), [8] was used to describe the military campaign of extermination and looting against the Kurds. It is also the title of the eighth sura , or chapter, of the Qur'an [ 8 ] which describes the victory of 313 followers of the new Muslim faith over almost 900 non-Muslims at the Battle of Badr in 624 AD.
The Hebrew Bible does not directly mention it, ... (1895), the Adana massacre, the Assyrian genocide, the Simele massacre, and the al-Anfal campaign. ...
The Anfal genocide of 1988 killed between 50,000 and 182,000 Kurds and thousands of Assyrians during the final stages of the Iran-Iraq War. This act committed during the Anfal Campaign was led by Ali Hassan al-Majid, under the orders of President Saddam Hussein. Anfal, which officially began in 1988, had eight stages in six geographical areas.
The Qaṣaṣ thus usually begins with the creation of the world and its various creatures including angels, and culminating in Adam.Following the stories of Adam and his family come the tales of Idris; Nuh and Shem; Hud and Salih; Ibrahim, Ismail and his mother Hajar; Lut; Ishaq, Jacob and Esau, and Yusuf; Shuaib; Musa and his brother Aaron; Khidr; Joshua, Eleazar, and Elijah; the kings ...