Qasa un Nabiyeen

Volume Four

CHAPTER TWO

Vocabulary

No wonder	لا غرابة	struggle	صراع
Exciting, inspiring	مثيرة	interesting	شائقة
Assessment, also means prophecy	تخمين	dogma	جزم
Lesson, moral	عبرة	victory	انتصار
Fabricated, maligned	يفترى	People of intellect	اولى الالباب
reminder	ذكرى	Sermon, advice	موعظة

English translation 

The story of struggle between the truth and the falsehood

And no wonder these are interesting and inspiring stories. These are the stories of a struggle between the truth and the falsehood, between knowledge and ignorance, between light and darkness, between humanness and brutality, between dogmatism and certainty and between speculation and assessment.

Hence these are the stories of the triumph of truth over falsehood, knowledge over ignorance, the weak over the strong and the few over many. These are the stories that contain knowledge, wisdom, advice and reminder.

And Allah the Great has spoken the truth:

“In their history verily there is a lesson for men of understanding. It is no invented story but a confirmation of the existing (Scripture) and a detailed explanation of everything, and a guidance and a mercy for folk who believe.” Pickthall’s translation.

Sura Yusuf verse 111.