Surah Quraish
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Creator: Muhammad Alshareef
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Subject: quran
Title: Surah Quraish
Created on: Tue Jan 29 11:02:41 -0500 2008
Updated on: Tue Jan 29 11:02:41 -0500 2008
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Abstract: ... he one sentence he knew. The boy whispered softly, "You are donkey!" I said, "What?" He shouted, "You are donkey!" Then he ran down the street squealing in gleeful mockery. Later that afternoon, when the boy had forgotten what he said, I snuck up behind him and proceeded to wrestle him to the ground. He shouted for his sister, and this girl, who was seven years older than me, started raining down on me with her fists. Shouts came from all directions. "Stop! He's Kanadee (Canadian)! He's Kanadee (Canadian)!" With tears in her eyes, the girl apologized for what she had done. How could she have harmed a Kanadee, she kept asking herself. So, you're thinking, what does this have to do with tafseer? Imagine yourself back in Makkah over 1,400 years ago. The unstoppable army of Abraha Al-Ashram was annihilated miraculously, the house of Allah was still standing, and victory had come to the tribe of Quraish. If you were a tribe member of Quraish, how high would your head be raised? When the Bedouins in the desert would see someone from Quraish, they would warn others from harming them. They would say, "These are the neighbors of the house of Allah, the inhabitants of his sanctuary. They are the keepers and custodians of the house, so do not harm or oppress them." The Arabs before Islam were a proud people and in this Surah Allah reminds them of that which makes them proud. For the accustomed security of the Quraish / Their accustomed security (in) the caravan of winter and summer (Al-Quraish 106 / 1-2). ... [Full Article...]
