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We're gonna talk today a little bit about

one last example of

Singular and plural actually in fact today. It's plural and then singular

That happens in this really interesting depiction of judgment day from Sulta Shu'ara

Sulta Shu'ara is the 26 Surah of the Quran

And this is kind of you know one of the things when you when you study or read Quran carefully

you'll find that Allah does these unusual

Switches. So he'll switch from past tense to present tense or plural to singular or singular to plural or

Third person to first person or past tense to present tense

We've seen a bunch of these different kinds of switches right

And each one of them they're there to get your attention like why did that happen

Like if a normal speech was going on that typical speech then it would have stayed the same

But something switched right and these unusual switches

That's where a lot of the wisdom and a lot of the the subtlety in the Quran lies

And that's a lot of the stuff that kind of becomes really hard to translate

In a in a flowing translation of the Quran and so we miss it when you're reading it in English translation

You just miss those kinds of subtleties. So let me get right to it in Sulta Shu'ara

And see what we can learn from this example. I jawad if you can show the screen please

This is the end towards the end not really the end

Um, not even the end actually. There's this is a long story. It's more the middle of Sulta Shu'ara

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