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Today's goodbye is an attempt to help myself and you review some very important lessons from one single Aya that belongs to Surtul-Mupminoon, that's the 23rd

of the Quran, and it's a very short aya of the Surah, where Laddinahumly Ammanatihim,

Oahatihim, Rahun.

Before I translate this aya, I'm going to go through some of its important vocabulary and build the meanings of this aye a

through a study, a careful look at some of the words that are involved in this ayea.

And I'd like to start with the word ara-un, which is the last word in this aye. It comes from the Arabic verb

raha, which means to protect or overlook something and from it you get the idea of a pasture like r a-ya and mara. and

I'm a-a-a. Mar-a is actually used for green pasture where cows and sheep are eating their grass and their

their feeding, but it's protected area.

It's protected from wolves and other animals.

And a Raa, the person, the shepherd,

who's always keeping an eye on them and protecting them

because sheep often don't know, or goats don't know that they're

near the edge of a cliff and he's constantly watching them because they're not

smart enough to realize that they might just keep grazing, not look up and tip over.

He has to constantly look out for wolves or predators that are around

the corner or they're hiding away and they can attack at any time. In other words, someone

is not capable, this Arai is someone protecting a group, in this case a group of animals,

that is not capable of protecting themselves. They don't see the danger that they're in,

and only he is capable of seeing that in his job is to watch

over all of them and make sure that they don't end up either hurting themselves or

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