The Branches of Faith - Episode 04 - The Parable of 'The Verse of Light'

Yasir Qadhi

Muslim Central

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🗓️ 21 May 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In this mesmerizing lecture, Shaykh Yasir Qadhi enlightens us on the most often read verse of the Noble Qur'an - Ayat An-Noor, Surah An-Noor (24:35) that says: Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The example of His light is like a niche within which is a lamp, the lamp is within glass, the glass as if it were a pearly [white] star lit from [the oil of] a blessed olive tree, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil would almost glow even if untouched by fire. Light upon light. Allah guides to His light whom He wills. And Allah presents examples for the people, and Allah is Knowing of all things. Shedding light on this powerful verse, we are made to understand the meaning of every word which has immense depth and beauty attached to it!

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0:36.5	continuing on the message of the metaphors of the Quran when it comes to
0:40.7	iman one of the most beautiful and profound symbols or
0:44.9	symbolic verses in the koran one of the most beautiful
0:47.8	powerables that Allah has given is the verse which is called aya to nur
0:52.2	which is verse number 35 of Sura to
0:54.6	no and the commentary of this verse is way beyond what we can give justice to in
0:59.2	10-15 minutes suffice to point out that out of the 6,000 verses of the Quran this one
1:05.3	6,000 plus this one verse has been commented on more than all of the other
1:10.9	verses this one verse a Aya to No,
1:13.9	Allahh, alahunur-Samawati, well,
1:15.8	there has been more commentary on this one verse
1:18.8	and more books and more treatises have been written
1:21.5	about this one verse than all of the other verses in the
1:24.8	Quran it is the most oft commented verse in the whole Quran and therefore what can
1:30.6	I do in 10-50 minutes that will explain to you the profundity of this verse.
1:34.6	However, just to introduce to you because it does relate to our theme of the reality of
1:39.3	I will be taking a standard interpretation.
1:44.3	Obviously there are hundreds of interpretations.
1:46.8	Of them are mainstream, of them are esoteric, of them are mystical and sophisticated.
1:51.0	I will be taking a mainstream interpretation. will go over it very very quickly.
1:55.0	Allah who no-russ-Sama-Wa-T-Oll-O-Lah is the light of the heavens and earth.
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