Deep study · دِرَاسَة
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Deep study · دِرَاسَة
Arabic · translations · word-by-word · tafsīr · mutashabihat watchlist
Verse · Āyah
2:179
وَلَكُمْ فِى ٱلْقِصَاصِ حَيَوٰةٌۭ يَـٰٓأُو۟لِى ٱلْأَلْبَـٰبِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ ١٧٩
And there is life for you in retaliation, O men of understanding, that ye may ward off (evil).
And there is for you in legal retribution [saving of] life, O you [people] of understanding, that you may become righteous.
There is security of life for you in the law of retribution. It is expected that you will refrain from breaking this law.
About this surah
Madani · order 87
Summary
Al-Baqarah (the Cow) has been so named from the story of the Cow occurring in this Surah (67-73). It has not, however, been used as a title to indicate the subject of the Surah. It will, therefore, be as wrong to translate the name Al-Baqarah into "The Cow" or "The Heifer" as to translate any English name, say Mr. Baker, Mr. Rice, Mr. Wolf etc., into their equivalents in other languages or vice versa, because this would imply that the Surah dealt with the subject of "The Cow". Many more Surahs of the Quran have been named in the same way because no comprehensive words exist in Arabic (in spite of its richness) to denote the wide scope of the subject discussed in them. As a matter of fact all human languages suffer from the same limitation.
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