Al-Baqarah

Al-Baqarah, ("The Heifer" or "The Cow"), is the second and longest chapter (surah) of the Quran. It consists of 286 verses (āyāt).

Summary

• 1-20 Unbelievers and hypocrites reproved
• 21-38 Exhortation to the worship of the true God
• 39-102 Jews and Christians urged to accept the claim of Muhammad to be a prophet of God
• 102-112 The opposition of Jews and Christians to Muhammad’s prophetic pretensions combated
• 113 The doctrine of abrogation enunciated
• 115 A Qibla declared to be redundant
• 116-141The Jews denounced and the religion of Abraham declared to be the true Islam
• 142-153 The Jews finally abandoned and the Arabs accepted by the adoption of Makkah as the Qibla of Islam
• 154-163 The Bereaved friends of those slain at the Battle of Badr comforted
• 164-172 Makkans exhorted to faith in God, and directed to observe the law respecting forbidden meats
• 173-176 Law concerning lawful and unlawful food (delivered at Madina)
• 177 The sum of Muslim duty
• 178-179 The law of retaliation
• 180-182 The law concerning bequests
• 183-185 The law concerning fasting
• 186-187 The fast of Ramadan
• 188-202 The pilgrimage to Makkah and war for the faith
• 203-206 Hypocrites and true believers contrasted
• 207-208 Exhortation to a hearty acceptance of Islam
• 209 The doom of infidels pronounced
• 210-212 The Jews reproached
• 213 Suffering to be patiently endured
• 214-242 Sundry laws relating to almsgiving, war, wine, orphans etc.
• 243-253 The duty of warring in defence of religion enjoined by precept, and illustrated by the history of former prophets
• 255 The Throne Verse
• 256-257 Laa ikraha fid deen.
• 258-260 The doctrine of the resurrection illustrated
• 261-274 Exhortation and encouragement to almsgiving
• 275-277 Usury forbidden
• 278-283 Debts in Islam including the longest verse in the Quran
• 284-286 The three verses of Paradise.

References

1. ↑ Salwa M. S. El - Awa, Introduction to Textual Relations in Qur'an, pg. 1. Part of the Routledge Studies in the Qur'an series. London: Routledge, 2005. ISBN 9781134227471
2. ↑ Wherry, Elwood Morris (1896). A Complete Index to Sale's Text, Preliminary Discourse, and Notes. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, and Co. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Other websites

Wikisource has original writing related to this article:

The Holy Qur'an (Maulana Muhammad Ali)/2. The Cow

• Q2:30, 50+ translations, islamawakened.com
• "The Cow" Archived 2019-10-12 at the Wayback Machine, a manuscript, dating from the 13th-century, of the al-Baqarah via the World Digital Library
• Qur'anic Verses Archived 2019-10-21 at the Wayback Machine, a manuscript for al-Baqarah from the 13th-century