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Allah SWT has honored us by revealing to us the best of all speech and that is the Quran.

The Quran is the most effective and the most powerful and the most eloquent of all speech.

And the Quran uses different mechanisms, different rhetorical devices to convey its message.

So Allah SWT conveys to us facts and he conveys to us via taribn tarheb which is incentivizing us,

making us yearn and desire, making us scared of certain things.

And Allah SWT conveys to us information via stories and via examples.

And one of the mechanisms that the Quran uses is the mechanism of amthal or parables.

And this series, inshaAllah, that we're going to be starting today is going to deal with some of the parables and the aphorisms of the Quran.

Allah tells us in the Quran, these are the parables that we give for mankind.

And it is only those who ponder and understand.

It is only the alim who truly benefits from the parables.

Allah says in the Quran, we have given every type of parable in this Quran so that they can understand and understand.

In another verse, Allah says,

these are the parables we give to mankind so that they can benefit and ponder.

So Allah is telling us that the Quran has every type of parable.

The Quran has every type of method.

The purpose of the method is for us to ponder, for us to reflect, for us to benefit from.

And that will be our series, inshaAllah, in this month of Ramadan.

Now, there are many types of parables in the Quran.

And we can say that there are two simple categories.

The first is a historical parable.

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