Burooj Flashcards
What does this surah start with?
By the heaven with its towering constellations,* 2) by the Promised Day, 3)
meaning of burooj?
the sky containing great stars) where the word “البروج” meaning “The Constellations”
meaning of maŝhud?
maŝhud/ ‘witnessed’
What is said in the next verses?
Disbelievers built pits and set alight and threatened to throw the believers in
Whoever renegaded was allowed to go free and whoever remained firm on his belief was thrown in. This is the extremes of fighting Allah and His party
this represents the limits of coercion and hardness of heart for they combined obdurate rejection of the Signs of Allah with fighting those who believed in them and punishing them with a punishment that would have broken the hearts of normal people.
What is said about those who disbelieved and tortured the believers?
Those who persecuted believing men and women without subsequently repenting will have the punishment of Hell, they will have the punishment of the Searing Blaze al-Hasan said,
Look at His munificence and generosity: they killed His friends yet He invites them to repentance and forgiveness! After mentioning the recompense of the wrong-doers, Allah follows this with mention of the reward of the believers,
But those who believed in their hearts and worked righteous deeds, with their limbs will have Gardens beneath which rivers flow. That is the supreme triumph, the pleasure of Allah and the Abode of His beneficence.
meaning of al majeed?
glorious
and He is the All-forgiving, the All-affectionate in arabic?
Ghafoor
what does the ending of the surah refer to?
Has the story of the Pharaoh and Thamud? how they denied the Messengers and were destroyed.
Yet those who disbelieve persist in denial, remaining in it, the Signs do not benefit them and they are not moved by exhortation.
Your Lord is ever watchful.[8] This verse then contains a severe threat directed at the disbelievers who are in His grasp and under His regulation.
The preserved tablet is the Quran which has everything we need
