This audio is brought to you by Muslim Central.com. Thank you. Isam de la Oszala, to is Sala al-Lihi,

was Sahibi, woman,

al-Ahabad.

We are doing Sur-T al-Araf,

and Sur-T al-Araf is a unique Sura in that it is,

perhaps, in fact, it is the longest Surah in the Quran

whose primary focus is nothing but stories more than eight prophets are

mentioned in explicit detail.

Their stories one after the other,

beginning with Prophet Adam, Ali his Sala,

going through Noah and Shoaib and all of them

until Prophet Musa, and the bulk of the story

is about Prophet Musa, Ali his-Hissa-Sala.

So today is short, Khatar.

I'm going to remind myself in all of you of the wisdom of the Quranic stories.

Some of our scholars have said that one third of the Quran is theology, one third

is stories and one third is laws, one third is theology, Allah and the angels and

heaven and hell, one third is stories of the past and one third is laws. It's a bit

of an exaggeration nonetheless it is something that is mentioned in our books of

Tafseib. So if one third of the Quran is about stories, then the question arises why and what is the purpose and wisdom of these stories?

The Quranic term for story is kissa, and kissa means from the word kossas, from the word kossa and Kossa means from the word kossa which means to retrace your steps

means to go back and cover the ground you've already covered so when we say a Kissa, it's as if we're going back and doing

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