Al-Ma'idah المائدة
Madani · 120 ayat · 11 with pondering
- Ayah 3The most famous sentence about a complete religion stands between a list of forbidden meat and a starving man, and both belong to its completeness.
- Ayah 32The world's favourite line about the value of a life begins at the first grave and ends with people who knew it and killed anyway.
- Ayah 112The closest followers of a prophet ask whether his Lord 'can' send a table, and receive first not food but a warning.
- Ayah 113The disciples give four reasons for wanting the Table, and the second borrows Ibrahim's own words: that our hearts may be at rest.
- Ayah 114Isa takes his disciples' request and lifts it, putting a festival and a sign first, the meal last, and ending on the best of providers.
- Ayah 115Allah grants the Table in a few words, and attaches the passage's heaviest warning to whoever disbelieves after it.
- Ayah 116Asked on the Last Day if he taught people to worship him, Isa begins not with a defence but with 'Glory be to You'.
- Ayah 117Isa sums up his whole message in one line, worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord, then hands his people back to the true Watcher.
- Ayah 118Isa neither curses his wayward followers nor pleads for them; he calls them Your servants and ends on Mighty and Wise.
- Ayah 119Allah's verdict on the passage: on this Day truthfulness is the only thing that still benefits, and the reward beyond the gardens is mutual pleasure.
- Ayah 120The surah that opened with 'fulfil your contracts' ends on ownership, placing Isa and his mother among 'what is in them'.