Sentence examples for sura from inspiring English sources
The phrase "sura" is not correct or usable in written English as it stands.
It may refer to a chapter in the Quran, but without context, it is unclear how to use it appropriately. Example: "In the Quran, Sura 2 is known as Al-Baqarah."
noun
Any of the 114 chapters of the Qur'an.
There are some fine verses about patience in Sura 16, and about modesty in Sura 31, but that is not quite the same thing.Without plunging into theology, I will briefly say what I think lies at the root of this.
"There is no compulsion in religion," it says (in the 256th verse of the second sura, or chapter).
In another passage of the Muslim holy book, in the tenth sura, we find God asking the Prophet Muhammad a rhetorical question: "Had your Lord so willed it, all on earth together would believe, so can you then force the people to be believers?"The same question may be posed to the government of Sudan.
Djinn are mentioned 37 times in the Koran, and have a sura (chapter) devoted to them.
The tulip reminds the poet of the burning bush before which Moses stood (sura 20 9 ff)., and the coy beloved refuses the lover's demands by answering, like God to Moses, "Thou shalt not see me" (sura 7 143); but her (or his) kiss gives the dying lover new life, like the breath of Jesus (sura 3 49).
God has provided clear "signs" (āyāt) regarding the fates of peoples, such as ʿĀd and Thamūd (sura 7, verses 65 79), who ignored this message.
Back in the function room, Zee Ahmed takes the stage and asks the audience for a little quiet so he can sing an Islamic prayer and a few suras.
Moreover, unlike the Bible, the Qur'an is not organised chronologically, and its suras, or chapters, do not contain the sort of paragraphing and punctuation familiar to English-speaking readers.Not so this latest translation by Muhammad Abdel Haleem, professor of Islamic studies at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies.
As a result, revelations devoted to a single topic may be dispersed among several different suras.
Asura, ( Sanskrit: "divine") Iranian ahura, in Hindu mythology, class of beings defined by their opposition to the devas or suras (gods).
The similarities between the suras, particularly the earlier ones, of the Qurʾān and these other types of homiletic texts were tactfully ignored for several centuries, leaving the phenomenon of sajʿ in a kind of critical limbo heavily utilized but historically unanalyzed.
