Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

Heart of the Qur'an: A Commentary to Sura al Yasin

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• [Foreword]
• Heart of the Quran is Surah Yasin
• Muhammad (s) is the heart of universe
• Surah Yasin has all the themes of Quran
• Argument of monotheism
• Various kinds of foods are signs of God
• Creation of pairs and of days and nights
• The ship and other means of transportation are also signs of God
• Animals are signs for men
• Resurrection, Paradise and Hell
• Invitation towards truth and help to messengers
• Imamat - An exalted divine rank
• The Dominion of Everything is in the control of God
• The return of all is also towards Him
• [Introduction]
• Oath is for emphasizing the truth
• So He swears for emphasizing His statement.
• Swearing by the sanctified objects of polytheists is mockery
• Notes:
• Sura al Yaaseen
• Chapter: 36
• Chapter 1
• Verses 1-4
• Titles of the Prophet in Quran
• Eternal miracle for an everlasting religion
• Who is a Prophet? Difference between a Prophet and a Messenger
• True path in this world and in the Hereafter
• Monotheism - the true path of proximity to God
• Sin is a fall from the path of worship
• Ali - the distributor of Paradise and Hell
• Notes:
• Chapter 2
• Verse 5
• Absolute honor is for only One God
• Much frightening but less dreadful
• Utbah trembles on hearing the Quran
• Balance (Mizan) is for Muslims
• Fear the Day which will turn a child into an old person.
• Notes:
• Chapter 3
• Verses 5-9
• Holy Prophet shown all ways and kingdoms
• Passions and aspirations make one blind and deaf
• God releases water for Firaun also
• No one is dejected in His court
• Chapter 4
• Verses 10-11
• A heart immune to good counsel is dead
• Signs of the lowest degree of faith
• Temporal well and drinking delight with a thousand stings
• Chapter 5
• Verse 12
• Only he fears who follows the admonition.
• Fearfulness of Yusuf in secrecy
• Fasting is an act purely for God :
• Tastes ‘Kauthar’ at the last moment and dies
• News of Resurrection is a good tiding for the virtuous and a warning for sinners
• Children and everlasting deeds are the imprints we leave at death
• Income of a salt mine and mourning for Husain (‘a)
• Hours from man’s age after death
• Notes:
• Chapter 6
• Verses 13-15
• Arguments and quarrels with Prophets
• Acceptance without seeing is more important
• A tanner falls unconscious in perfume market
• Three bounties of paradise, which are better than paradise
• Chapter 7
• Verses 18-21
• Attributors of bad omens to others suffer badly
• Muhammad (‘s) never made a sortilege
• Supporters of prophets slain
• Habib Najjar rises up to support the messengers
• Three persons who took lead in putting faith
• A sympathetic savant and selfless truth-teller is worth following
• Messengers never demand compensation for propagation
• Notes:
• Chapter 8
• Verses 20-21
• Cheaters talk of reforms in deceitful words
• Dawood earned his livelihood by making armors
• Noteworthy points from the life of Muhammad(‘s)
• House of the Holy Prophet and returning of trusts at the time of his passing away 
• He does not demand any recompense from people.
• Selfless Jurist and instructions without wages
• Ibne Ziyad also was deceived by his own words
• Note:
• Chapter 9
• Verses 22-23
• One who manifests is worthy of worship
• Habib Najjar dies in torture
• Asking for testification of faith is desirable
• An amazing story about testification to faith
• Today’s death of adversity
• Chapter 10
• Verses 26-27
• The one in whose view death is perdition
• Fix your place in paradise while you are here
• I long for you at my last moment
• Notes:
• Chapter 11
• Verses 26-29
• A martyr enters paradise at the very moment of his martyrdom
• Words of Imam Hasan (‘a) in his last moments
• We killed them all with a shriek
• A weak person who disobeys the strong
• Umar bin Abdul Aziz falls hearing the cry
• Words of Imam Sajjad (‘a) and guidance of a man
• Chapter 12
• Verses 30-31
• Qiyamat is a bright day in comparison with this dark world
• In king’s company and manifestation of truth
• Hit by deep desires after revelation of facts
• This Ummah is blessed for taking lesson from the predecessors
• Note:
• Chapter 13
• Verses 32-35
• All come up before God, willingly or otherwise
• Sign of Qiyamat - enlivening of a dead earth
• From a grain of wheat, he gives seven hundred or even more
• Germination of a seed is a sign of resurrection
• God produces both sweet juice and sour vinegar from grapes
• Whatever bounty reaches us, it is from Him and there is no bounty for us except from God.
• Bounty worship or benefactor worship
• Chapter 14
• Verses 33-35
• Eat dates and grapes and be thankful
• Wife, a divine bounty and thanklessness with regard to it
• A thankful companion of Prophet Dawood in paradise
• Bounties of life, wealth, and thankfulness for it
• Thankfulness with regard to money is to spend it in the path of God
• Chapter 15
• Verses 36-38
• We created pairs from earth
• Wind and insect pollination
• Exploding of the atom proved the pairing of things
• Night - a sign of God and having benefits
• Force of gravity ensures safety of the universe
• Crescent moon and the lunar calendar
• A big world is woven in the body of man
• Day of the soul is remembrance of God and its night is mindlessness
• Ali is right and Muawiyah wrong in everyone’s life
• Religious blindness due to prohibited acts
• Chapter 16
• Verses 41-44
• Camel, the ship of desert and the airplane also are from God
• Worship only one God with your body and wealth
• Monetary worship acts are connected with man’s relationships.
• Take precautions regarding past and present sins
• They are turning away their faces from the signs of God
• God Himself would have given to the poor
• Wealth and poverty - a test for the people
• Building on rented land
• Generosity of Imam Hasan and Imam Reza (‘a)
• Chapter 17
• Verses 45-52
• Some theists also turn fatalists
• He takes away the lives with one shriek
• So let us find out the rightful
• With second blowing all become alive again
• A point about the grave and Barzakh
• Compared to Barzakh, Qiyamat is awakening
• No one will be able to disobey the command to become alive
• Chapter 18
• Verses 53-57
• Qiyamat will arrive after the two blowings
• Manifestation of justice of God in Mahshar Field
• Enjoyment of paradise bounties and unawareness of hell
• Wives of the people of paradise, a great divine bounty
• Copulation in Paradise reminds one of God’s bounties
• Food of Paradise entails no refuse
• Hourie - manifestation of the mercy of the Beneficent and the Merciful
• Beauty equal to a hundred Yusufs
• Expansion of heart for perceiving the beauty
• Brightness on the cheeks of Hourie is due to tears of the faithful
• Shade of God’s kindness over the inmates of Paradise
• Notes:
• Chapter 19
• Verses 58-59
• Allah directly salutes the people of Paradise
• Two big defects in a beautiful palace
• Salam from God - what a great honor for the Faithful
• It makes Him happy on the Great Throne.
• Letter from the Lord to the Faithful servant
• Are you ready to seek death?
• It is distressing to go from company to loneliness
• Sinners must get separated in Mahshar
• They will fall on hell fire like bats
• Drag me to fire, perhaps I may wake up
• Remembrance of death cures negligence
• Notes:
• Chapter 20
• Verses 60-61
• Reply to the sinners’ objection
• Satan is one of the limitless creations of God
• Why is he inimical towards man?
• The business of Satan is to rob you or destroy your deeds
• Satan replies to his slave
• Weapons to fight the Satan
• A repenting heart cuts down Satan
• Note:
• Chapter 21
• Verses 61-62
• True path is the worship of one God
• Pretence and conceit is falling away from path of worship
• Qaroon is swallowed by the earth
• A wise man should always beware of the satanic traps.
• Will you not take a lesson? Will you not be warned?
• Adulteration brought calamity on the perfumer
• Mouths of the claimants will be closed, their organs will testify
• Voluntary surrender or forced arrest
• Note:
• Chapter 22
• Verses 60-63
• How to avoid the unknown enemy?
• Is Satan male or female?
• Then how do people fall in his trap even after recognizing him?
• Then how is he deceived and indulges in sins while he has already known the enemy and also his trap?
• One prefers death to thirst
• How to overpower Satan
• Worshipper deceived by false piety
• God is kind to those who show kindness to others
• God will be kind to you and to them also, Satan’s advises Nuh
• Impartiality with contending parties
• Understand the job of Satan
• Even if a single flame is reduced
• Considering death near, is a sign of coming under God’s guardianship
• Bigger ropes of Satan for Shaykh Ansari
• Tranquility and peace in the servant of God, restlessness in the path of Satan 
• Men must guard women from slipping
• Seek help from Prayer to repel Satan
• A nomadic woman and patience in calamity
• Inspire your children to offer Prayer
• Notes:
• Chapter 23
• Verse 63-65
• God took covenant from the prophets about worshipping Only One God
• A hundred thousand ropes of hell in the hands of a hundred thousand angels
• Enter into it this day because you disbelieved.
• A sinner believer will get salvation at last
• Tongues of the liars will be sealed, not of the confessors
• Several witnesses in the court of divine justice
• No testimony against sinners who repent
• How limbs and organs testify?
• For God Almighty, making hands and feet speak is just like speaking of the tongue
• Count glorification on your fingertips, they will testify to it
• Rosary (Tasbih) of Kerbala soil is a part of Paradise
• Notes:
• Chapter 24
• Verse 66-67
• Deniers warned of the chastisement that befell the people of Lut
• One of these angels signaled and all of them became blind. No sign of an eye remained on their face.
• May the eyes be blind, which cannot see you
• After this blindness they are unable to find the path.
• We would transform them according to their habits
• A greedy scholar turned into a dog
• Inattentiveness in Prayer
• Chapter 25
• Verse 66-68
• Haste in punishment to prevent the convict from flight
• Benefit from the bounty of youth
• Make the most of five things before the arrival of their opposites
• God makes you strong from a weak state and again returns you to weakness
• Weakness shows up year after year or even earlier
• So understand that you are in control of God
• Three wishes of the prince
• Attain good abilities by forty
• Note:
• Chapter 26
• Verse 67-68
• Husain releases the stuck hands
• Her face stuck when she turned it during Prayer
• Prevent open breach of fasting
• Honoring the aged protects one from the great terror
• Abilities ripen in old age
• Man is having two directions: Creation and Command.
• Prime time worships recorded in the old age scroll of deeds
• Notes:
• Chapter 27
• Verse 69
• Allegation of magic on the Prophet and Quran
• Poetry is a creation of the poet’s imagination, having no reality
• Quran has in fact condemned poetry.
• Didactic poems, panegyrics and elegies for Ahle Bayt (‘a) is good poetry
• Poetry is an undesirable way of earning livelihood
• Poetry of Husain bin Hajjaj in the presence of Syed Murtaza and Aale Booyah 
• Quran, the reminder of God and the hereafter
• Human life is affected by Quran
• Notes:
• Chapter 28
• Verse 71-76
• God created the quadrupeds for you
• Benefits of riding and use of milk, meat and wool
• Rebels try to achieve Godship behind the excuse of idols
• Mobilized armies have no ability to help
• Chapter 29
• Verse 77
• Benefits of remembering ones origin
• Proof of origin through embryo
• The second rising must also occur
• A third example
• Chapter 30
• Verse 77-80
• Seeing with mind and heart is more important
• Particles of the body are not beyond the knowledge of God
• Fire from vegetation
• O the one whose greatness is seen in the skies. (Supplication)
• Chapter 31
• Verse 78-81
• Man’s decisions are based on limited knowledge
• Second statement:
• The third statement:
• Grades of man and substitutes of that which cannot be dissolved
• What is resurrected is ‘the similar body’ not ‘the body’
• Position of the eye and the extra intestine
• Chapter 32
• Verse 82-83
• Man’s limited ability is in the matter of discovery, not creation
• God does not require any time to do or create something
• In the world of creation stages are in the subject, not in the action
• Sovereignty over everything is the specialty of God