Ramadan 2015 - Day 10

Yasir Qadhi

Muslim Central

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🗓️ 28 June 2015

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi shares some of the wisdom and purpose of stories in the Qur'an and how it is an easy and simple method of driving essential points across for the Muslim Ummah to reflect and ponder. "So relate the stories that perhaps they will give thought." -Surat Al-Araf, verse 176 The Quranic stories do not have any of the details like the Biblical stories which is ideal from the point of view of driving a message through for easy comprehension. There are three kinds of stories in the Qur'an: Stories of the Prophets. Stories of incidents and place and people. Strories of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Wisdom and benefits of stories: Stories inspire us to derive good morals. Stories help us to get affirmed in one’s resolve. Helps us have role models. Methodology of preaching and tactics to preach. Serves as a warning for those who reject the Prophet ﷺ. Has lessons and ethics.

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0:00.0	This audio is brought to you by Muslim Central.com. So in these entire Suras that we're doing.
0:14.0	Sura, we did Sura Tylkahaf and then Sura Mariam.
0:17.0	Now we're going to do Surah Taha.
0:18.0	Eventually we're going to get to Sura that Ambia.
0:21.0	All of these stories, all of these Suras are about stories, nothing but stories.
0:25.9	In fact from the beginning to the end you have nothing but one story after another.
0:30.1	So I thought that in today's Khattara, I'll take a step back instead of talking about a specific
0:34.4	story, a specific aye.
0:36.2	Let's talk about the wisdom and the purpose of stories in the Quran.
0:40.6	Why does Allah Shabbhana with Ta'il mention so many stories in the Quran?
0:44.0	And the word of course for story in Arabic is Kissa and the plural is Kossas.
0:49.0	And the word Kissa in Arabic actually comes from khasa and khasa means to retrace your steps.
0:56.6	Khasa means to go back from the beginning and then do it all over again.
1:01.2	And that is why, for example, the mother of Musa says to the sister of Musa that go
1:09.0	will call it le Uchtihi Kossi. She said to the sister,
1:12.8	Kussihi.
1:14.0	Kussi means follow the footsteps of Musa.
1:16.6	So the verb Assa means to follow the footsteps.
1:19.5	Why does the story have to do with following the footsteps?
1:22.3	Because what does the story do? You have to
1:24.5	go back from the beginning and follow the footsteps of the character that you are searching
1:30.4	about. So the word story comes from the Arabic verb, which means to go back and
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