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2:66
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Deep study · دِرَاسَة
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Verse · Āyah
2:66
فَجَعَلْنَـٰهَا نَكَـٰلًۭا لِّمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهَا وَمَا خَلْفَهَا وَمَوْعِظَةًۭ لِّلْمُتَّقِينَ ٦٦
And We made it an example to their own and to succeeding generations, and an admonition to the Allah-fearing.
And We made it a deterrent punishment for those who were present and those who succeeded [them] and a lesson for those who fear Allah.
Thus We made their end a warning to the people of their time and succeeding generations, and an admonition for God-fearing people.
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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