(Revealed at Madina)

120 Verses in 16 Sections

Sections Of Surah Al-Ma’idah

1. General Discipline.

2. Special cleanliness for prayer - Equity enjoined.

3. The covenants with the Jews and the Christians.

4. The Israelites breaking the covenant.

5. Jews warned against their wicked plots.

6. Penal Regulation against offenders.

7. Relation of Qur’an to the previous scriptures.

8. The relations of the Muslims with their opponents - Mockers.

9. The Mockers.

10. The Christian deviation from the Truth.

11. Christian nearness to Islam.

12. Intoxicants and games of chance prohibited.

13. Security of the Ka’ba inviolable.

14. All polytheistic traditions denounced.

15. Covetousness of this worldly life.

16. Teachings of Jesus corrupted after his departure.

Important Topics

1. The use of the flesh of the cattle quadrupeds as food - allowed - (Verse 1)

2. Regard to the ‘Sha’aairullah’ - the signs of God - enjoined - (Verse 2)

3. To help one another only in goodness and not in sin and aggression - (Verse 2)

4. The forbidden animal food - (Verses 3, 4)

5. The completion of the religion Islam and God’s approval of Islam being the religion for mankind - (Verse 3)

   Note: This Verse needs to he read along with the Verse 5:67 with the notes given to each of them.

6. The forbidden matrimony - (Verse 5)

7. The denial of the faith (Kufr) renders all the good deeds of the denier as null and void - of no avail to him - (Verse 5)

8. The ordinance about ‘Wozu’ i.e., ablution and its method - (Verse 6)

9. To always remember the favours of God - (Verse, 7)

10. Believers (the Muslims) to depend only upon God and none else - (Verse 11)

11. The covenant taken from the Children of Israel - (Verse 12)

12. Advancing a goodly loan (Qarze Hasana) to God wipes out the sins of the lender - (Verse 12)

13. The curse on those who break the covenant - (Verse 13)

14. The Light and the Manifesting Book from God - (Verse 15)

15. Whomsoever God wills, guides him towards His pleasure, takes him out of the darkness to light and guides him to the right way - (Verse 16)

16. The wrong belief in the godhead of Jesus - (Verses 17, 72, 75)

17. The false claims of the Jews and the Christians that they are the children of God and they are His beloved ones - (Verse 18)

18. The arrogance of the Israelites and the disgust of Moses - (Verses 20-26)

19. Offerings are accepted by God only from the pious - (Verse 27)

20. The method of the burial of the dead, shown through a crow - (Verse 31)

21. The slaying of even a single soul unjustly, equal to the slaying of the human race as a whole and helping even a single soul to live, is enlivening humanity as a whole - (Verse 32)

    Note: - Read this Verse with the note on it.

22. To seek a medium or a source of approach to God - (Verse 35)

23. The punishment for theft - (Verse 38)

24. Most people’s profession of the faith, was only verbal-faith not entering their hearts - (Verse 41)

25. The Taurat (the scripture given to Moses) contained guidance and light - (Verse 44)

26. The prescribed retaliation for unprovoked aggression - (Verse 45)

27. Jesus given the (Injeel) the Evangel to judge the matters by it - (Verses 47, 48)

28. Every people in the world were given a law - (Verse 48)

29. Not to befriend the Jews and the Christians - (Verse 51)

30. Those who turn back after believing (in Islam) - (Verse 54)

31. The True guardians of the believers (Muslims) - (Verse 55)

32. Those who worshipped others besides God - turned into apes and swines - (Verse 60)

33. The taunt of the Jews against God - (Verse 64)

34. Enmity against the Jews divinely effected till the Day of Judgement - (Verse 64)

35. Belief in God (Islam) wipes out the past sins - (Verse 65)

36. The command of God to the Holy Prophet Muhammad to convey that which had already been sent down to him (i.e., the Wilayat of Ali Ibn Abi Talib) - (Verse 67) Note: - This Verse needs to he read along with or until reference to Verse 3 along with the notes on them.

37. There is no God but the One - (Verse 73)

38. The Israelites cursed by David and Jesus - (Verse 78)

39. The sincere and the humble ones of the monks of the Christians - (Verses 82-86)

40. Not to forbid good things which God has allowed - (Verse 87)

    Note: Compare this to the forbidding of the Muta-e-Nisa, Muta’ Haj and the exclusion of Hayya ala Khairil Amal from Azan (the call for prayer).

41. Accountable are only the deliberate and the solemn oaths and not the vain ones - (Verse 89)

42. Even an approach to all kinds of intoxicants and gambling of all kinds, forbidden - (Verses 90, 91)

43. To obey God and the Holy Prophet - On the apostle is only to convey the Word of God - (Verse 92)

44. A trial to the believers (Muslims) when in the pilgrim garb (Ehram) - (Verse 95)

45. The Holy Ka’ba declared as the Sacred House - (Verse 97)

46. The good and bad ones, not equals - (Verse 100)

47. The customs warranted by God - (Verses 101-103)

48. Unreasonable and blind persistence on the ancestral belief and customs against the invitation to what has been revealed to the Holy Prophet, condemned - (Verse 104)

49. The behest of a dying man and witnessing it by just witnesses - (Verses 106, 108)

50. The reply to God by the apostles in their assembly on the Day of Judgment about the response each one had from his respective people - (Verse 109)

51. The miracles given to Jesus - (Verse 110)

52. The apostles of God being given the knowledge by God Himself - (Verse 110)

53. The disciples of Jesus demanding a table with food for them, from God - (Verses 112-115)

54. Jesus questioned by God about the trinity started in his name and Jesus’ reply to it - (Verses 116-118)

55. A mighty reward awaits the truthful ones - (Verse 119)

56. The kingdom of the heavens and the earth is God’s - (Verse 120)

    Note: - The above references to be read along with the notes on each of them.