Al-An'am الأنعام

Makki · 165 ayat · 29 with pondering

• Ayah 12The Owner of everything asks who owns it, answers the question Himself, and then tells you what He has written upon Himself: mercy.
• Ayah 17Whatever harm touches you, only the One who touched you can lift it, and the good He sends, no one can pull back.
• Ayah 38Every creeping thing and bird is a community like yours, kept in a Register that misses nothing and gathered back to its Lord.
• Ayah 54Those who come carrying their sins are greeted with peace first, then told what their Lord has written: mercy for whoever turns back.
• Ayah 59The keys to everything hidden are with Him alone, and the proof offered is a single leaf He watched fall.
• Ayah 75Before Ibrahim looks at a single star, Allah tells you how the night will end: he was being shown, so that he would be certain.
• Ayah 76Ibrahim's first verdict on the star is not 'that cannot be God' but 'I do not love what sets'.
• Ayah 77In one ayah the word 'my lord' changes owner: it begins on the moon and ends on the One who guides.
• Ayah 78The biggest light in the sky goes down like the others, and only then does Ibrahim turn and speak to his people.
• Ayah 79After a night of watching lights go down, Ibrahim turns his face to the One who split the sky open.
• Ayah 82Real security belongs to those whose faith carries no second cloak of shirk: who have not put worship where it does not belong.
• Ayah 91Whoever says God made people and never spoke to them has measured Him with a tape made for themselves.
• Ayah 95The first proof offered is the thing you spat out after eating a date, and then a question: how are you being turned away?
• Ayah 96The One who split the seed also splits the night, and He made the dark for your rest, not as wasted time.
• Ayah 97The stars Ibrahim's people bowed to are given a humbler job here: to get you home in the dark.
• Ayah 98After the seeds, the dawn and the stars, the next sign is you: grown from one soul, and held in trust.
• Ayah 99From one rainfall come grain, dates, grapes, olives and pomegranates, and then a command anyone can obey: watch a fruit ripen.
• Ayah 102After every argument, the conclusion: this is your Lord, the Maker of everything, so worship Him, and hand Him every affair you carry.
• Ayah 103No eye catches up with Him, yet He has reached every eye: too great to take in, too subtle to feel, fully aware.
• Ayah 108Do not insult what others worship, not because it deserves respect, but because the insult will come home with your Lord's name in it.
• Ayah 116Truth about God is not settled by a show of hands: the crowd follows guesses, and a guess repeated by millions is still a guess.
• Ayah 151Against a pile of invented taboos, the Prophet ﷺ says 'Come': here is what your Lord has really forbidden, and it is short.
• Ayah 152The second part of the charge moves into the marketplace: the orphan's money, the shop's scales, the words you speak, and the promise you made.
• Ayah 153After nine commands, one line: this is My straight path, so follow it, and do not let the side roads scatter you.
• Ayah 160Bring one good deed and receive ten; bring one bad deed and receive only its like: grace on one side, justice on the other.
• Ayah 162The ayah starts with the prayer mat and the sacrifice, and then hands Allah the whole of a life, and the death that ends it.
• Ayah 163The dedication is sealed with three things: no partner shares it, it was commanded, and the one who brought it went first.
• Ayah 164He is Lord of everything, so there is no other lord to seek, and no one else can carry the load on your back.
• Ayah 165You are new growth where others once stood, ranked and tested in what you were given, by a Lord swift to account and deeply merciful.