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  • Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     OP - August 29, 2011, 12:50 AM
    I notice that a few people here, like myself, still appreciate at least some parts of the Qur'an despite being of the ranks of the kuffar, and so I ask, what surahs, ayahs or passages of the Qur'an are your favourites? What parts do you like and why?

    For me, as with music of any kind, it changes from time to time, but presently, I think certain surahs rank above others in some aspect of the Qur'anic eloquence, be it rhyme, rhythm, insight, etc.

    With regards to rhythm, my personal favourite at the moment is Surat al-Humazah, the Slanderer, chapter 104.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYlNOcDa43o&feature=channel_video_title

    Woe to every slanderer, backbiter -- who collects wealth and counts it -- thinking his wealth will immortalize him -- Nay, he will certainly be thrown into the Crusher -- and what will inform you of what the Crusher is? -- the Fire of Allah, kindled -- which rises over the hearts --  Indeed, it will close over them -- In rising columns

    And of course, Surat al-Sharh, the Solace/Opening, chapter 94, for its elegant simplicity, it's symmetrical rhyme and rhythm, and its agreeable, and indeed moving, message.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QlKyaiE0mQ&feature=channel_video_title

    Did We not ease your heart for you? -- and We lifted your burden from you -- which burdened your back -- and We raised your remembrance for you --  for truly, with hardship comes ease -- truly with hardship comes ease -- so when your are released, strive -- and then turn towards your Lord
  • Re: Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #1 - August 29, 2011, 04:24 AM
    I love Surah kafiroon  Tongue and the ayah "hasbunallahu wa nimal wakil" because my grandma used to say it all the time, think its in surah al-Imran.
  • Re: Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #2 - August 29, 2011, 06:11 AM
    Yeah, I've always appreciated the beauty of describing people being burned in hell too.

    I heard this one on a documentary are a Nazi concentration camp recently.  It sounds very good in German, and the sentiment is quite the opposite of what Islam encourages.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Gedanken_sind_frei
    I don't come here any more due to unfair moderation.
    http://www.councilofexmuslims.com/index.php?topic=30785
  • Re: Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #3 - August 29, 2011, 09:04 AM
    Said it before but Surat al-Sharh was always the best for me, just calmed me down and made me forget my sorrows.
    Teach us to care and not to care / Teach us to sit still.
    What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other
    You are the music while the music lasts.
    T.S.Eliot
  • Re: Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #4 - August 29, 2011, 09:05 AM
    And ayat al Kursi, repeated it after prayer.
    Teach us to care and not to care / Teach us to sit still.
    What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other
    You are the music while the music lasts.
    T.S.Eliot
  • Re: Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #5 - August 29, 2011, 09:36 AM
    Aside from the usuals like Ar-Rahmaan and Yaseen, recently I've come to like 83:22-36, http://tanzil.net/#83:22 (I especially like the wordplay with "yandhoroon" and "nadhrata 'n-na3eem".)

    Also, pretty much all the little Meccan surahs at the end of the Quran are really beautiful.

    Other than that, no one's mentioned this aaya yet so I will:

    http://tanzil.net/#24:35

    Also, someone should create a thread for our favorite qurraa2, but I'll just mention mine here: Ash-Shateri. I think he just does wonders with the Quranic verses.
    قل للمليحة في الخمار الأسود
    مـاذا فـعــلت بــناسـك مـتـعـبد

    قـد كـان شـمّر لــلـصلاة ثـيابه
    حتى خـطرت له بباب المسجد

    ردي عليـه صـلاتـه وصيـامــه
    لا تـقــتـلــيه بـحـق ديــن محمد
  • Re: Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #6 - August 29, 2011, 10:20 AM
    Aside from verses explaining to me the nature of God, I like verses that inspire wisdom. Here are a few *rephrased* quotations, I can remeber for now, inspired from the Quran:

    - Always give a true testimony, even if it is against yourself or your loved ones. 4:135.

    - Be fair, even to your enemies. 5:8.

    - One way to atone for your sins is to forgive those sins committed against you. 5:45.

    - If you want things to change, then change yourself first. 13:11.

    - What are men compared to rocks and mountains! 17:37.

    - Most people are idiots who don't know what they're talking about, don't listen to them! 6:116.

    - Don't believe a claim without evidence. 21:24.


    Also, there are some parables I really like, for example this one: 68:17-33.
    A googolplex is *precisely* as far from infinity as is the number 1.--Carl Sagan
  • Re: Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #7 - August 29, 2011, 10:38 AM
    Debunker's back, yaaaaay!!  grin12
  • Re: Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #8 - August 29, 2011, 10:39 AM
    Quote from: TheRationalizer on August 29, 2011, 06:11 AM
    Yeah, I've always appreciated the beauty of describing people being burned in hell too.


    Oh, so do I. In fact, with the horribly graphic imagery of the Qur'an one can almost smell the roasted kafir! Awesome.  Afro
  • Re: Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #9 - August 29, 2011, 10:47 AM
    Quote from: Zebedee on August 29, 2011, 10:38 AM
    Debunker's back, yaaaaay!!  grin12


    only passing by. I do browse the forum from time to time though, and i noticed you've been missing for a while!
    A googolplex is *precisely* as far from infinity as is the number 1.--Carl Sagan
  • Re: Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #10 - August 29, 2011, 10:54 AM
    Just got back myself, man. Had to take some time off for uni and stuff  Afro
  • Re: Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #11 - August 29, 2011, 11:11 AM
    Quote from: Fara7 on August 29, 2011, 09:04 AM
    Said it before but Surat al-Sharh was always the best for me, just calmed me down and made me forget my sorrows.


    Yes, I really like it, in addition to Surah al-Duhaa, which is very much similar.
  • Re: Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #12 - August 29, 2011, 11:18 AM
    Quote from: Aphrodite on August 29, 2011, 04:24 AM
    I love Surah kafiroon  Tongue and the ayah "hasbunallahu wa nimal wakil" because my grandma used to say it all the time, think its in surah al-Imran.


    Surah al-Kafiroon struck me the first time I read it. It's quite interesting to find what is essentially a statement of pluralism, tolerance and acceptance in a book from such an age and such a place, and it's a shame that its message has not come to represent the mainstream in Islam. Having said that, maybe if it hadn't been for the unsavoury circumstances that characterised much of Muhammad's life then there would be more emphasis on such teachings and less on the violent, militant, ideological expansionism.
  • Re: Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #13 - August 29, 2011, 11:36 AM
    Quote from: harakaat on August 29, 2011, 09:36 AM
    Aside from the usuals like Ar-Rahmaan and Yaseen, recently I've come to like 83:22-36, http://tanzil.net/#83:22 (I especially like the wordplay with "yandhoroon" and "nadhrata 'n-na3eem".)

    Also, pretty much all the little Meccan surahs at the end of the Quran are really beautiful.

    Other than that, no one's mentioned this aaya yet so I will:

    http://tanzil.net/#24:35

    Also, someone should create a thread for our favorite qurraa2, but I'll just mention mine here: Ash-Shateri. I think he just does wonders with the Quranic verses.


    Al-Rahman is pretty cool, and everyone always mentions Ya Seen, but I don't really know what's so excellent about it, not that it's bad, I guess you have to read it or listen to it in Arabic.

    But as for a favourite verse of mine, and there are a few, but this one comes to mind now, Q 13:35:

    مَّثَلُ ٱلْجَنَّةِ ٱلَّتِي وُعِدَ ٱلْمُتَّقُونَ تَجْرِي مِن تَحْتِهَا ٱلأَنْهَارُ أُكُلُهَا دَآئِمٌ وِظِلُّهَا تِلْكَ عُقْبَىٰ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّقَواْ وَّعُقْبَى ٱلْكَافِرِينَ ٱلنَّارُ

    The likeness of the Garden that is promised to the pious; rivers flow from beneath it, its sustenance and shade are everlasting; this is the end for the pious, while the end of the disbelievers is the Fire.
  • Re: Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #14 - August 29, 2011, 11:44 AM
    Some more surahs that I think have particular merit, both for their structure and the interesting concepts they mention and allude to.

    Surah al-Shams:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL8kK7Y-DiE&feature=channel_video_title

    Surah al-Layl

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgoDVUcHydk&feature=channel_video_title
  • Re: Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #15 - August 29, 2011, 01:15 PM
    Tawfiq al-Sayegh is one my favorite reciters, btw. The best one though is this guy:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VawVzxWoKg
    A googolplex is *precisely* as far from infinity as is the number 1.--Carl Sagan
  • Re: Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #16 - August 29, 2011, 02:24 PM
    Quote from: harakaat on August 29, 2011, 09:36 AM
    http://tanzil.net/#24:35

    Also, someone should create a thread for our favorite qurraa2, but I'll just mention mine here: Ash-Shateri. I think he just does wonders with the Quranic verses.

    We had one somewhere... and yeah I like Shateri too.

    Anyway, I'm not particularly fond of the meaning of this verse, but I always loved reciting it.
  • Re: Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #17 - August 29, 2011, 07:14 PM
    Quote from: debunker on August 29, 2011, 01:15 PM
    Tawfiq al-Sayegh is one my favorite reciters, btw. The best one though is this guy:



    Nice, sounds a bit like Abdul Basit.

    And yeah, I must have listened to that recitation of suratul Jinn about a thousand times   dance
  • Re: Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #18 - August 29, 2011, 07:43 PM
    Quote from: harakaat on August 29, 2011, 09:36 AM
    Also, pretty much all the little Meccan surahs at the end of the Quran are really beautiful.

    +1

    Surah An-Najm is nice, and this qari is nice too:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTFVC21v59E&feature=related
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  • Re: Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #19 - August 29, 2011, 07:45 PM
    The shortest ones so my prayer could be over.

    Inhale the good shit, exhale the bullshit.
  • Re: Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #20 - August 29, 2011, 08:03 PM
    Quote from: BerberElla on August 29, 2011, 07:45 PM
    The shortest ones so my prayer could be over.




    +1
    قل للمليحة في الخمار الأسود
    مـاذا فـعــلت بــناسـك مـتـعـبد

    قـد كـان شـمّر لــلـصلاة ثـيابه
    حتى خـطرت له بباب المسجد

    ردي عليـه صـلاتـه وصيـامــه
    لا تـقــتـلــيه بـحـق ديــن محمد
  • Re: Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #21 - August 29, 2011, 08:11 PM
    I also really really like it when little girls read the Quran.

    I swear I don't mean this in a perverted way.

    It just sounds so beautiful.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAtOiTw6wRE
    قل للمليحة في الخمار الأسود
    مـاذا فـعــلت بــناسـك مـتـعـبد

    قـد كـان شـمّر لــلـصلاة ثـيابه
    حتى خـطرت له بباب المسجد

    ردي عليـه صـلاتـه وصيـامــه
    لا تـقــتـلــيه بـحـق ديــن محمد
  • Re: Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #22 - August 29, 2011, 09:40 PM
    Quote from: BerberElla on August 29, 2011, 07:45 PM
    The shortest ones so my prayer could be over.




    +2

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    harakaat, friend, RIP
  • Re: Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #23 - August 29, 2011, 11:14 PM
    Quote from: asbdsp#J on August 29, 2011, 09:40 PM
    +2

    Al Kawthar, Al Asr, and Al Ikhlas were my homeboys.


    You serious? Al Kawthar was my homeboy. Repeat it four times in prayer if you have to Tongue
    قل للمليحة في الخمار الأسود
    مـاذا فـعــلت بــناسـك مـتـعـبد

    قـد كـان شـمّر لــلـصلاة ثـيابه
    حتى خـطرت له بباب المسجد

    ردي عليـه صـلاتـه وصيـامــه
    لا تـقــتـلــيه بـحـق ديــن محمد
  • Re: Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #24 - August 30, 2011, 01:58 AM
    I considered that, but it just made prayers too fucking boring.

    Also it would put to waste my years of quranic memorization, which amounted to me memorizing less than half of 1/30th of the quran of which I only used a handful of surahs from the back pages of the quran in prayers anyways.
    Quote from: yeezevee on February 11, 2016, 02:05 PM
    how fuck works without shit??


    Let's Play Chess!

    harakaat, friend, RIP
  • Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #25 - March 30, 2016, 07:31 PM
    I’ll throw Surah Qiyamah on this list. I like the unique, terse rhyming scheme. I like that the rhyme set changes throughout the surah, almost in congruence with the change in thematic subject matter.

    This sounds a bit morbid as I write it out, but I like the pause that proper tajweed will have you put on verse 27, "wa qeela man. raq?," as well as the elongation of that last word, as scholars have commented that this pause and elongation is a manifestation of the gasping despair a dying person might display as the soul leaves the body. If intentional, it was an excellent use of sound symbolism, and really drives home the point that death is the ultimate qiyaamah.

    I also like the interruption of verses 16-19. It reminded me of the intimate nature of “revelation” in that it breaks the flow of the content and references the process of the revelation itself. Even as a reciter, you can’t help but slow down a bit at that verse and take the following messages to heart.

    I was also a fan of Surah Haqqah. A similar thing happens when the despair of the regretful person and joy of the successful person are manifested in verses 19-29. Linguistically, there is no need for the addition of the h (pronounced as h), but again, scholars have mentioned that it is there to add to the effect of the emotional display. It creates for the ultimate tear-jerker moment when the rhyme scheme switches to khuthoohu fa ghullooh....

    I also like longer surahs that tell a complete story. Surah Yusuf will obviously top the list here. Also, Surah Taha and Surah Hud are pretty superb in their ability to narrate a familiar tale: just enough detail to get your imagination going, but not so much to lose you in the specifics.


    If we're talking strictly content and a message that still resonates, then certainly Surah Duha.
  • Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #26 - March 30, 2016, 08:30 PM
    Wow, I could've written that! I love al qiyamah, and still listen to it especially when Fahd al Kandari reads it in tarawih. My favourite juzz was tabaarak. I also like the first 50 or so verses of Baqarah, I still read them often, but after verse 80 or so I move on to tabaarak.. Smiley must say the Kandari brothers are my favourite reciters.
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  • Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #27 - March 30, 2016, 09:34 PM
    I do wonder if, properly applied, فَبِأَيِّ آلَاءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ could be one of the best atheistic slogans of all time.
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  • Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #28 - March 30, 2016, 11:23 PM
    Surat an-Nas is the best as the rhymes are hypnotic.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHVGmeIer-A
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  • Favourite Surah, Ayat, etc.?
     Reply #29 - March 31, 2016, 04:02 AM
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl3-G48jdMY

    Maher al Muaiqly is awesome, I went to Mecca while still a muslim and even though I dont understand a word of arabic, it still sounds awesome, I appreciate it like music, I do not care what it says, I am not interested in its doctrine, if something in a foreign language sounds awesome then I can take it at face value and forget the meaning.
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