 Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu this is Rami and Surah and this is part of the MCC Nightly Ramadan Reminders during Ramadan 2020 we hope that you and your families are doing well and may Allah SWT accept your fasts and accept your ibadah. In the last couple of videos I was talking about ring structure or ring composition in the Quran and how it's important for us to try to uncover new things in the Quran not rulings theological or practice wise because those have already been done we already know the rules that are derived from the Quran we already know the Aqidah the theology that's derived from the Quran but to find new pearls and I'll use that example because there was a there during the early Mufassirun period the people who were explaining in the Quran there were certain things in the Quran that they didn't quite understand and I'll give you an example one of them is mentioned in Surah Al-Hadeed in the chapter of iron and Allah explains or describes how he brought iron وأنزلنا الحديد we have sent down وأنزلنا الحديد now for the early Muslims who were looking at this they said well what does this mean this means you know and I mean sent down what we find we find the iron in the ground so they had to look at it linguistically and say oh there's another way that the Arabic language can can use this word which means of the hard not we have brought forth we have brought out and so that's what's happening now we know through modern astronomy and not even so modern it's been known for a while that the irons coming down in the meteorite so we can we can look at it with its original intent another example using the pearl example in Surah Al-Rahman everything's mentioned in pairs and Allah says about the pearls sorry about the the freshwater and the saltwater يخرج منهم اللؤلؤ والمرجان that he takes out of both of them لؤلؤ والمرجان the pearls and coral and so the early scholars they they didn't know about freshwater pearls so they said oh this is that sometimes you can use the dual to refer to just one aspect of it like in Arabic you say the two moons when you mean the moon and the sun or the two Umar as mean Omar and Abu Bakr so you can use one to refer to two but then one time and there's a story actually where a person got a freshwater pearl and he went into a court of scholars or a gathering of scholars and he said I bear witness that this pearl is from freshwater, so that ayah we can consider it to be on its original state. So we're going to be looking for these pearls in the Quran and that's what one of the things that I feel about the patterns of the ring patterns that we can look at it and try to find what are some of the patterns that we find here. So in the previous two lectures I discussed surat al-Baqarah and some of the ring patterns and ring composition that's present there and then in the second video was surat yusuf and some of the ring patterns there. What I want to do with this video is kind of is look at the entire Quran and we have to remember that the Quran was not revealed in the order that we have it right now. It was revealed there's a chronological sequence of how it was revealed and in next week's video I'm going to talk a little bit about that. But now that we look at all of the ayahs as they are in the mushaf. Can we find a ring pattern there? Can we find some patterns where as I mentioned it goes from it starts at one theme and then moves down and then there's a central theme and the author of this book that I'm looking at is called Structure and Quranic Interpretation. He says the meaning is in the middle like look for that middle meaning and then it works backwards as well. So can we apply this to the entire Quran starting at the beginning working down and then working back? And why this is also amazing is that when we find this pattern we have to remember that it was revealed, the Quran was revealed over 23 years and it was coming in different parts and different parts of surahs were revealed in different areas. But now when it's all put together in this final form we see this pattern. So we can refute some of those people who say that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam wrote this on his own because how would he have done this? How would he have maintained this structure in something that was being revealed over 23 years but when it was finally put together it has this pattern. So if we look at the first few verses or the first few chapters, chapter two through five which is Surah Al-Baqarah, Ali-Imran, An-Nisa and Al-Ma'idah and these four were Medinan period surahs which have a lot of laws. But the beginning, one of the themes that we find there is in Surah Al-Baqarah about monotheism and the throne verse, ayat al-Kursi which I also describe the ring structure that is in there. The corresponding at the other end of the Quran is Surah Al-Ikhlas. So we find that. The beginning it's talking about monotheism and then we have Ikhlas. In Surah Ali-Imran there's a discussion about Badr and how the believers were victorious over the disbelievers. Now we go over to its corresponding or approximate corresponding surah at the end of the Quran and it's Surah Al-Lahab. So the damnation of Abu Lahab who died immediately after Badr. So there's a connection there between Badr mentioned there at the front Surah Ali-Imran and Badr or something related to Badr. And then in Surah Al-Ma'idah there's a recollection of a time where the disbelievers prevented the believers from going in to Mecca. And then if we look at its corresponding verse at the end we find crowds entering God's religion and the farewell pilgrimage. So at the beginning it says that when they were prevented from doing the Hajj and then it talks about the Fatiha and at the end. Then we can go on to Surah Al-An'am, livestock. Its corresponding at the end, Surah Al-Kawthar, the abundance. So the idea of livestock and abundance. In Surah At-Tawbah believers are the new custodians of the Ka'bah. We go over to its corresponding at the end of the Quran by sequence, Quraish who are called to the who are the former custodians of the Ka'bah. So in Surah At-Tawbah the believers are the custodians of the Ka'bah. At the end in Surah Al-Quraish the Quraish who are the former custodians of the Ka'bah are called to worship Allah. And then it goes on. So what's amazing and I don't have time to go through everything but you can see some of these similarities as it goes from the beginning and its corresponding from the end. I'll take another one. Surah Al-Furqan, Chapter 25. If we look at what it approximately corresponds to the end using this kind of triangle structure. So the Surah Al-Furqan Chapter 25 corresponds to Chapter 86 that it talks about the Quran separates the truth from the falsehood. There is also in Chapter 32 Surah Al-Sajda. Of course the whole Surah is about Sajda. If we look at its corresponding at the end of the Quran when the Quran is recited to disbelievers they do not bow and worship. SubhanAllah look at these these correlations. Okay so if we do this and we see this structure well then what's in the middle? We got Surahs 50 to 56 which are right there in the middle. It goes up and what do we have in Surah 50 to 56? Or right actually right before that? The last few Surahs 47 to 49 and then 57 to 66. Those Surahs what kind of brings them together at that tail end? Surah to Muhammad. The Surah of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And in its corresponding in 61 Ahmed the story of Isa alaihi salam saying I will bring a prophet named Ahmed and then it goes on. But when I was looking at this I thought to myself SubhanAllah if we're looking for the heart of the meaning of the Quran and it's taking all of these ideas and it comes down to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to him. The prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And another thing as well that it comes down to which is doing tashbih and glorifying your Lord. So basically it comes down to la ilaha illallah praise and recognition and glorifying Allah and then the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So if we really want to get close to the Quran we have to get close to the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. He is the heart of the Quran. He is the one who guides us to the Quran. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to guide us during this month and for the rest of our lives to be closer to the Quran to be closer to the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to get us that much closer to the Quran and to Allah and to bring us closer to him on Yom al Qiyamah. As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullah.