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Nouman Ali Khan

How Did Surahs in the Quran Get Their Names Q&A

Nouman Ali Khan

Muslim Central

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Islam

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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0:20.6

So normally from brother I always wondered how the stories actually got their names

0:25.5

I mean it's like what are actually predetermined by Allah in general and then upon

0:31.2

revealing the sort of through Juppil to the Prophet Ali Selam was it like I can tell

0:38.4

you so there are some narrations in which the Prophet himself described the

0:45.8

Surah by a name so those seems to be the Prophet named them okay so right

0:51.0

there are other Suras in which the companions gave the Surah many names okay it seems

0:57.2

to me that the Suras don't officially have a name from Allah generally speaking

1:02.8

that they are remembered by the most prominent feature of that so the most unique

1:08.8

yeah are some unique heart of that Surah like obviously Zoot al-Baqarah has

1:15.0

very little to do with the cow yeah but the story of the cow is a very unique

1:19.4

feature of that Surah and the family of Imran is not talked about anywhere else in

1:24.6

the way that it is in Surah Ali Imran so it seems to me that every in every

1:31.2

Surah something that really seems to make that Surah give it a unique

1:36.8

signature is the one that kind of the name God coined with there were some

1:41.9

Suras where it's just the opening is unique so Surah Taha becomes Taha

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things like that right and there there are again like there are like the Mu'awwah

1:55.0

that Ayn or Hudun shehibatni Hudun wa Aqawatuhad Hudan its sisters gave my

2:01.6

hair made my hair gray so it could be that the Prophet's name to many of

2:06.1

them if not all of them that's also possible okay because that question was

2:10.6

kind of bothering me who are quite a time I didn't that's almost as though the

2:16.6

names are not as important as the contents yeah of course they're not but

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