QURAN CHAPTER - 96
Al-Alaq - The Clot
Revealed - Meccan
Ruku - 1
Ayat - 19
Theme - The theme of this Surah is Man is the creation of God, God has not left man blind. He has taught man through revelation.
It means humans should follow the laws given to them by Islam in their life and spend a meaningful life
- This Surah has 2 parts:
(1) The first part consists of (Verses: 1-5)
- About the first part a great majority of the Islamic scholars are agreed that it forms the very first Revelation to be sent down to the Holy Prophet (SAW).
- In this regard, the Hadith from Hadrat Aisha, which Imam Ahmad, Bukhari, Muslim, and other traditionists have related with several chains of authorities, is one of the most authentic Ahadith on the subject.
- One day when the Holy Prophet was in the Cave of Hira, Revelation came down to him unexpectedly and the Angel said, to him: "Read".
- After this Hadrat Aisha reports the words of the Holy Prophet himself, to the effect, "I said: I cannot read!"
- There upon the Angel took me and pressed me until I could bear it no more. Then he left me and said: Read. I said: I cannot read!
- He pressed me a second time until I could bear it no more. Then he left me and said: Read. I again said: I cannot read!
- He pressed me for the third time until I could bear it no more. Then he left me and said: Iqra bismi Rabbi kal-ladhi khalaqa : (Read in the name of your Lord Who created) till he reached ma lam ya lam (what he did not know).
(2) The second part consists of (Verses: 6-19)
- The second part was sent down afterwards when the Holy Prophet began to perform the prescribed Prayer in the precincts of the Kaba and Abu Jahl tried to prevent him from this with threats.
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