This audio is brought to you hewaraqato. I was digging through my notes and I figured

to Allah I share with you some things about the meanings of the word Aya. I'll dig through my older

notes and probably tomorrow or day after we'll talk about the word Ila. So today's just

about the word Aya, inshall. First of all, I wanted to say some things that are maybe a little

bit philosophical, but still important to understand. The Quran, its ideas are rooted in this one concept called Aya.

And the way if you study the Quran comprehensively

and try to come to a conclusion about what Aya is, it's actually, it's very hard to say what isn't

an Aya. Basically all human experience is an Aya.

Allah describes history as Ayaat.

Allah describes that they are Ayaat inside of creation.

Allah describes his revelation as Ayaat.

Allah describes what you see inside of yourself and the experiences you have inside of yourselves down to your emotions like the love felt between two spouses.

You know, what J'Alabaina Kumba, what that and what-hama, in a-fidale, like a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a, you know, or aa-a-a-a-a, or the Ayaa.

So you have Aya in human experience, in emotion, in history,

in knowledge, in revelation, in the physical world around you,

in the heavens and the earth etc.

In other words all reality that's really the way to put it all reality is not

understood from the Quran's point of view if you don't see it as an aya.

It's actually the Quran's way of unifying our understanding of all of reality

is through aya.

Okay, so now the term itself, the word itself, commonly translated as verse or sign, which sign is okay. I think sign is, at least it's part of the meaning of the word. So it's good to look at that way.

But it's also important to note how the Arabs use the word

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