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as Allah will mention a few comments, introductory comments, and those are the most comprehensive

rich comments. They are kind of like, you know, when you go to a college course and you

take an orientation and your professor kind of sets your mind and your thought process

about what's going to happen in the rest of the semester, sets your expectations, tries

to brief you about what take, you know, how to navigate the course successfully. That's

kind of what happens in the beginnings of long suras. I will say a few words, but if you

contemplate those few words, then the rest of the study of that sura and the message of

that sura will become easy to understand because you'll have to keep reminding yourself

of that opening comment. So the same thing happens in Al Bakr, the same thing happens in

Ali Amran, and now the same thing is happening here. Just to give you another outside example,

for instance, in Ali Amran, Allah says,

In the opening comments in Surat Ali Amran, Allah mentioned people, when they come across,

when Allah says something in the book, that something in the book, Allah deliberately on

purpose, He made it very explicitly clear. And some things, He was not as open about

it. He left it, not completely clarified, right? He put some tashabu in it. And then

he says, and people who have fitna in their hearts, they try to find some crazy interpretation

for the thing that he did not make explicit. Here, it's a test for them. They want to

create some kind of a new scandal, a new fitna out of it, a new interpretation, or they

want to be the first to say, nobody could figure this out. I'm the one who just figured

this out. They want to lay claim to that. So somebody can make a new, I don't know,

YouTube video. Nobody knows what Alif Lam memes means all these years, but I, my friends,

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