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Ash-Shu‘ara’ [1] (Arabic: الشعراء, ’ash-shu‘arā’; meaning: The Poets) is the 26th chapter of the Qurʾan with 227 verses . Many of these verses are very short. The chapter is named from the word Ash-Shu'ara in ayat 224. [2] It is also the longest Meccan surah according to the number of verses.
In Persian Sufi Illuminationism (see: Najm al-Din Kubra), all creation is a successive outflow from the original Supreme Light of Lights (Nur al-Anwar) (see: Nūr (Islam)). The cosmology of this tradition is a kind of Emanationism in which immaterial Light descends from the Light of Lights in ever-diminishing intensity.
The history of the Quran, the holy book of Islam, is the timeline ranging from the inception of the Quran during the lifetime of Muhammad (believed to have received the Quran through revelation between 610 and 632 CE [1]), to the emergence, transmission, and canonization of its written copies.
The Quran was canonized only after Muhammad's death in 632 CE. According to Islamic tradition the third caliph, Uthman ibn Affan (r. 23/644–35 AH/655 CE) established the canonical Qur'an, reportedly starting the process in 644 CE, [6] and completing the work around 650 CE (the exact date was not recorded by early Arab annalists). [7]
Al-Qamar [1] (Arabic: القمر, romanized: al-qamar, lit. 'The Moon') is the 54th chapter of the Quran, with 55 verses .The Surah was revealed in Mecca. The opening verses refer to the splitting of the Moon. "Qamar" (قمر), meaning "Moon" in Arabic, is also a common name among Muslims.
A large number of pre-1924 Qurans were destroyed by disposing of them in the river Nile. [8] Prominent committee members included Islamic scholar, Muhammad b. ‘Ali al-Husayni al-Haddad, Egypt's senior Qur'an Reader (Shaykh al-Maqâri). [5] Noteworthy Western scholars/academics working in Egypt during the era include Bergsträsser and Jeffery ...
A possible idiom, Surah Al-Qamar 54:1–2 also mentioned in Imru' al-Qais poems, [188] was understood as the physical disintegration and supported by hadiths [189] despite the Quran itself denies [190] [191] miracles, in the traditional sense. [note 8] The Quran is widely regarded as the finest work in Arabic literature.
The Saheeh International translation is an English-language translation of the Quran that has been used by numerous Muslims, including Islam's most conservative adherents. [1] Published by the Publishing House (dar), dar Abul Qasim in Saudi Arabia, it is one of the world's most popular Quran translations.