The Miraculously Integrated Surah 95 “The Fig”

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 Surat At-Teen (“The Fig”) 95 brings us more than meets the eye. Often not much attention is paid to the oaths that headline some surahs, but they do indeed have meaning as we shall see here. This is also a highly integrated and “celestial” surah that brings us a wealth of clarity to the idea that Islam is specifically designed by Allah as a system which, if we follow its beautiful and enlightened path, will enable us to become the enlightened and even “celestial” beings we were created to be. (Below is a YouTube reading of the surah in Arabic with the text as a visual.)

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Fascinating Connections between Worldly Pursuit and the Hereafter in Surah 100 Al-‘Adiyat

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The color-coding connects these lines, not in the mirror pattern of a ring composition, but rather connects the upper and lower halves in order as shown by matching the colors: the upper referring to this world from the our human point of view, and the lower being from Allah the Exalted’s point of view. Here almost every element lends to an intense convergence of two very different worlds.

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