The Heart of the Qur'an

A verse by verse tafsir of the 36th chapter of the Qur’an, Surah Ya Sin.

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This profound Lecture Series on Surah Yasin, Heart of the Qur’an, approaches the Quranic verses and Quranic Suras, verse by verse, and even word by word to give us a real sense of the power, the force, and the emotions that arise from each of these items of vocabulary and how they come together to express a particular meaning.

This will be useful, insightful and beneficial, both for students of Arabic who get a chance to see Arabic in action: Quranic style, vocabulary and expression; and also for people who have no previous study in Arabic at all, to give them a taste of a very classical approach to studying the suras of the Holy Qur’an.

These sessions were broadcast on YouTube weekly in Ramadan 2020.


Course Introduction

Watch Shaykh Sohail Hanif provide an overview of the course and its topics.


Your Instructor


Sohail Hanif
Sohail Hanif

Dr Sohail Hanif works on Islamic legal theory, with a focus on the Ḥanafī school of law. He received a MA and DPhil from the University of Oxford. His doctoral thesis, A Theory of Early Classical Ḥanafism: Legal Epistemology in the Hidāyah of Burhān al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī (d. 593/1197), studies the interplay of rationality and tradition in a major work of legal commentary.

Dr Hanif spent over a decade in Jordan where he studied a full curriculum of Islamic sciences with traditional ‘ulamā’. He was previously Head of Arabic Sciences at Qasid Arabic institute in Amman, an instructor in Islamic studies at Qibla online academy, and has taught undergraduate classes on Modern Islam and Qur’anic studies at the University of Oxford. He has also served as Head of Research and Development at the National Zakat Foundation.


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Frequently Asked Questions


Do I need to be a student of Arabic to enrol?
This Lecture Series will be useful, insightful, beneficial for students of Arabic who get a chance to see Arabic in action: Qur'anic style, vocabulary & expression. This is also suited for people who have no previous study in Arabic at all, to give them a taste of a very classical approach to studying the suras of the Holy Qur'an.
Does this include Ramadan Moments from Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad?
No, these are available as a separate free Lecture Series on this Online Learning Platform, and include Ramadan Moments delivered in previous years!
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