 As-salamu alaikum peace be upon you our respected viewers and welcome to a new episode of the beliefs of Islam Today's episode is the miracle of the Quran the prophecy of Surat al-Kothar in the previous episode We had introduced the concept of prophecies as being another miraculous facet of every divine scripture Now this miraculous facet has allowed believers to judge between true revelation and false revelation And for many individuals functions as the strongest form of evidence For demonstrating the existence of God the Almighty now It's worth noting that the Quran includes several prophecies Which have come to pass and therefore function as confirming evidence of the Quran's miraculous nature Yet in this episode we wish to analyze a very simple example of a miraculous prophecy Surat al-Kothar namely the 108th surah of the Quran is the shortest surah of the Quran It goes as follows Namely in the name of Allah the all merciful the ever merciful To thee have we granted you an abundance Therefore to thy Lord turn in prayer and sacrifice For he who insulted you he will be cut off from hope nature Now the historical context of this surah will make the entire difference in explaining how this surah is miraculous We find that some exegities say it was revealed in Medina and according to some it was revealed in Makkah But from the nature of this surah and given its background there appears no doubt that this surah was revealed in Mecca One day as Ibn Wal a leader of the polytheists of Mecca saw Prophet Muhammad coming out of Masjid al-Haram So he stopped and conversed to him for some time Meanwhile the other elders of the polytheists observed their chatting from a distance When the talk was over and as joined his people they asked the following All asked whom were you chatting to as pointed towards the prophet of Islam and said With that person who is after Now after an arabic is a person who is tailless In other words, it's a reference to one without posterity The holy prophet Allah's blessings on peace be upon him and upon his pure family has two sons from Khadija Allah's blessings on peace be upon her namely Qasem and Tahir also known as Abdullah Since both of them died the holy prophet of Islam remained without sons So the Arabs began calling him after meaning tailless Surah al-Kothar was revealed as a consolation to the holy prophet of Islam In the culture of the pre-islamic Arabs a man without mail-off spring Was viewed as a person cut off from having lineage as he would have no sons to carry his name Yet this surah came to confirm that the prophet Allah's blessings on peace be upon him through his daughter Fatima alaihi salam would be granted an abundance of offspring This is miraculously fulfilled today as we see that there is no man in the history of mankind Whom people can trace their lineage to with the same precision as they can trace their lineage to the prophet of Islam Throughout the muslim world in asia africa the middle east and every corner of the globe There are people who having precise family trees Countries their ancestry all way to the holy prophet such as people called sayids or sheriffs Today the prophet's descendants number tens of millions and yet we find that As bin wa'il has no one who claims to be descended from him in the world This is for today's episode until we meet with the new episodes Thank you very much indeed for joining us and assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh