Volume VII · Lessons 36–40

Sūrat Al-Nūr – Sūrat Al-Furqān

Lesson 36 opens within Sūrat Al-Nūr with the hypocrites' emphatic oaths of obedience to the Prophet, which Shaykh Ibrāhīm…

Sūrat Al-Shuʿarāʾ – Sūrat Al-Naml

Lesson 37 opens Sūrat Al-Shuʿarāʾ with a survey of interpretive approaches to its disconnected letters (ṭā-sīn-mīm), again…

Sūrat Al-Naml – Sūrat Al-Qaṣaṣ

Lesson 38 opens with the conclusion of the story of Lūṭ within Sūrat Al-Naml: his people's demand that his family be expelled…

Sūrat Al-ʿAnkabūt – Sūrat Luqmān

Lesson 39 opens Sūrat Al-ʿAnkabūt with a reflection on the disconnected letters as symbols of trial (ibtilāʾ), grace (luṭf),…

Sūrat Luqmān – Sūrat Al-Aḥzāb

Lesson 40 opens within Sūrat Luqmān at Q. 31:22, continuing directly from Lesson 39, which covers the sūra's opening, Luqmān's…