A detailed tafsir (exegesis) on Surah Yasin by Ayatullah Dastaghaib Shirazi.
- Heart of the Qur'an: A Commentary to Sura al Yasin
- Foreword
- Everything has a heart and the heart of Quran is Surah Yasin
- Heart of the Quran is Surah Yasin
- Muhammad (‘s) is the heart of universe
- ‘Yasin’ is the chief of prophets, Muhammad (‘s)
- 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
- Animals are signs for men
- Resurrection—the second Islamic belief
- 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
- Ayat no. 1-4
- Titles of the Prophet in Quran
- Like a hundred teachers!
- 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
- No risk to the wall of a community that has a supporter like you
- Ali—the distributor of Paradise and Hell
- Ayat no. 5
- Ayat no. 5-9
- Ayat no. 10-11
- Ayat no. 12
- This world is hidden and the Hereafter is visible
- Fearfulness of Yusuf in secrecy
- 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
- Ayat no. 13-15
- Ayat 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
- Ayat no. 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
- Selfless Jurist and instructions without wages
- Ibne Ziyad also was deceived by his own words
- Ayat no. 22-23
- One who manifests is worthy of worship
- Fear of and hope from Only One God to Whom all have to return
- How can I worship something that cannot make me needless?
- “I entrust my daughters to God”
- Habib Najjar dies in torture
- Asking for testification of faith is desirable
- An amazing story about testification to faith
- Today’s death of adversity
- Ayat no. 26-27
- Ayat no. 26-29
- Ayat no. 30-31
- Ayat no. 32-25
- Ayat no. 33-35
- Eat dates and grapes and be thankful
- He is the bestower of bounties covering you (like the animals)
- 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
- Ayat no. 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
- The Sun moves towards its resting place
- 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
- Ayat no. 41-44
- Camel, the ship of desert and the airplane also are from God
- Worship only one God with your body and wealth
- 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
- God’s will with regard to free will of man
- Wealth and poverty—a test for the people
- Building on rented land
- Generosity of Imam Hasan and Imam Reza (‘a)
- Ayat no. 45-52
- Some theists also turn fatalists
- He takes away the lives with one shriek
- I also may not return to my house
- 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
- Ayat no. 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
- Ayat no. 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
- 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 not be asked, as they are known
- They will fall on hell fire like bats
- Drag me to fire, perhaps I may wake up
- Remembrance of death cures negligence
- Ayat no. 60-61
- Reply to the sinners’ objection
- Satan is one of the limitless creations of God
- Why is he inimical towards man?
- I was an angel and the highest Paradise was my residence
- 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
- Ayat no. 60-63
- How to avoid the unknown enemy?
- Is Satan male or female?
- One prefers death to thirst
- How to overpower Satan
- Worshipper deceived by false piety
- God is kind to those who show kindness to others
- Satan’s advises Nuh
- Impartiality with contending parties
- Understand the job of Satan
- Satan’s instigation is accompanied by heart’s inclination
- 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
- Ayat no. 61-62
- Ayat no. 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
- Wilayat of Aale Muhammad is protection from the terror of Qiyamat
- 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
- Ayat no. 66-67
- Ayat no. 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
- Ayat no. 67-68
- Ayat no. 69
- Allegation of magic on the Prophet and Quran
- Poetry is a creation of the poet’s imagination, having no reality
- 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
- Ayat no. 71-76
- Ayat no. 77
- Ayat no. 77-80
- Ayat no. 78-81
- Ayat no. 82-83
- Complete Translation of Sura al Yasin
- Foreword
