Verses to reflect on

Quran text from the Tanzil Project; reflections from named scholars.

• Surah An-Nahl · 16:68–69Why is a chapter named after the bee?Why is a whole chapter of the Quran named after the bee?
• Surah Fussilat · 41:39What does dead earth do when rain falls?What does dry, dead earth do the moment the rain touches it?
• Surah Al-An'aam · 6:97Who guided travellers before maps?Before maps and satellites, who guided travellers through the dark?
• Surah An-Naml · 27:18An ant warned her whole valleyAn ant once warned her whole valley. What did she say?
• Surah Al-Ankaboot · 29:41Why is the spider's house the frailest?Why does the Quran call the spider's house the frailest of houses?
• Surah Al-Ghaashiya · 88:17Why does this verse point to the camel?Of all creatures, why does this verse ask us to look at the camel?
• Surah An-Naml · 27:20–22A small bird with news no one knewA small bird came back with news no one else knew.
• Surah Ar-Room · 30:2–4A defeat, and a promise of victoryA defeat, and a promise of victory within a few years. Did it come true?
• Surah At-Tin · 95:1–3Why swear by the fig and the olive?Why would God swear by a fig and an olive?
• Surah Ar-Rahmaan · 55:19–20Two seas meet. What keeps them apart?Two seas meet, yet neither overruns the other. Why?
• Surah Al-Maaida · 5:31Who first taught us to bury the dead?Who first taught humankind how to bury the dead?
• Surah Al-Hajj · 22:73Could they create a single fly?If they all came together, could they create a single fly?
• Surah Al-Baqara · 2:261One grain becomes seven hundredOne grain becomes seven hundred.
• Surah Al-Ahqaf · 46:15Thirty months minus two yearsThirty months, minus two years. What is left?
• Surah Al-Qadr · 97:1–3One night, better than 83 yearsOne night, better than eighty-three years.

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