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The Peace of Allah be upon you.

It is my great honor and my great pleasure to address you in this beautiful and this

historic city of Lahore.

It is my first time ever lecturing in your historic city, insha'Allah it is a city that

has so many beautiful sites, the masjid and so many historic sites, you are very fortunate

and blessed to be in such a historic land.

My talk today is about something that is very near and dear to me, two subjects that are

very near and dear to me, the Qur'an and the Syirah.

And generally speaking, these two topics are discussed in separate classrooms and separate

lectures.

But in fact there is a science and there is a discipline that seeks to combine these

two topics and to interpret the Qur'an and understand the Qur'an through the Syirah

and to benefit from the Syirah by seeing when the Qur'an was revealed after which incident

it was revealed.

And this topic is one that helps us contextualize the Qur'an, understand which ayah was revealed

after which incident.

And this underscores the psychological realities of these verses.

When we understand why Allah revealed this particular verse, when we understand the

subib and muzuud is called in Arabic, we understand the incident that triggered that revelation.

Not only will our understanding of the life of the Prophet ﷺ become better, our understanding

of the Qur'an will also become better.

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