1. SURAH AL-BAQARAH (THE COW) IS MADINITE. IT COMPRISES OF 286 VERSES, 6201 WORDS AND 25 500 LETTERS. SOME VERSES WERE REVEALED AT MAKKAH AT THE TIME OF LAST HAJJ OF THE HOLY PROPHET (SAW/PBUH). IT WAS THE FIRST SURAH TO BE REVEALED AT MADINAH.
2. THE SURAH IS THE LONGEST SURAH IN THE HOLY QUR’AN.
3. THE PROPHET (SAW/PBUH) HAS SAID:”MAKE A HABIT OF READING THE SURAH AL-BAQARAH, FOR READING IT BRINGS DOWN ON YOU THE BARAKAH AND NEGLECTING IT IS A MATTER OF REGRET AND A MISFORTUNE. AND MEN OF FALSEHOOD CANNOT OVERCOME IT.”
THE MEN OF FALSEHOOD REFERRED TO HERE ARE SORCERERS. AND THE IMPLICATION IS THAT ONE WHO KEEPS READING THIS SURAH BECOMES IMMNUNES TO THE EFFECT OF BLACK MAGIC.
4. THE PROPHET HAS ALSO SAID THAT SYAITAN FLEES FROM THE HOUSE IN WHICH THIS SURAH IS READ OR RECITED.
5. THIS SURAH IS THE APEX OF THE HOLY QURAN, AND THAT A RETINUE OF EIGHTY ANGELS HAD ACCOMPANIED EACH OF ITS VERSES WHEN IT WAS REVEALED.
6. THERE IS A VERSE (THE VERSE OF THE KURSI= AYAT AL-KURSI; 2;255) ENJOYS A SUPERIORITY OVER ALL THE OTHER VERSES OF THE HOLY QUR’AN.
7. TEN VERSES (THE FIRST FOUR VERSES, THREE VERSES IN THE MIDDLE; 255, 256, 257 AND THE LAST THREE VERSES OF THE SURAH) HAVE SUCH AN EFFICACY THAT IF ONE RECITES THEM AT NIGHT, NEITHER SYAITAN NOR JINN WOULD ENTER ONE’S HOUSE.
8. IBN ARABI REPORTS FROM HIS ELDERS THAT IN THIS SURAH THERE ARE ONE THOUSAND INJUNTIONS, 1000 PROHIBITIONS, 1000 SUBTLE POINTS OF WISDOM, 1000 PARABLES AND REFERENCES TO HISTORICAL EVENTS.
9. CALIPH UMAR AL-KHATTAB SPENT TWELVES YEARS IN LEARNING AND MEDITATING OVER THIS SURAH, WHEREAS ABDULLAH IBN UMAR SPENT EIGHT YEARS.
10. CONTENTS: VERSE 1-20
VERSES 1-5: ABOUT THE BELIEVERS
VERSES 6-7: ABOUT NON-BELEIVERS
VERSES 8-20: ABOUT THE HYPOCRITES
SOURCE: TAFSEER MAARIF AL-QUR’AN
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