Sooratul Baqarah Study Questions Based on the Abridged Tafsir Ibn Kathir

سؤال وجواب تفسير ابن كثير باللغة الانجليزية Sooratul Baqarah is the second surah of the Qur’aan. Its name ‘The Cow’ comes from the story mentioned in aayah 67. It is the longest surah with 286 aayaat and 48 pages. It contains a thousand commands and a thousand prohibitions. It will shade a person on the day of Resurrection along with Soorat Aali ‘Imraan. Learning it is a blessing. Reciting it stops the shaytaan from entering the house. A person who memorizes it and understands it will have a good level of knowledge and it will raise his status inshaaAllaah. This book ‘Sooratul Baqarah Study Questions’ is the result of teaching Sooratul Baqarah to my students about 6 years ago. They memorized a page a week and we read the Abridged Tafseer of Ibn Kathir in English to go along with that page. These questions are a result of those classes. The questions do not cover all the information in the tafseer, they are just a starting point and an encouragement to engage with the text of the tafseer. (Even though there are a total of 822 questions for the whole soorah). In Saudi, memorization of the Qur’aan usually takes the form of one page a lesson (15 lines per page and usually 5 pages a week). This is why the questions were divided up according to a page in the mushaf (copy of the Qur’aan). The Madeenah Mushaf is the one we used (so aayaat numbers are according to that and may differ with other publishers). We also looked at benefits from Shaykh Naasir as Sa’dee, Shaykh Muhammad Saalih al ‘Uthaymeen and Shaykh Saalih Fawzaan’s tafaaseer (pl. of tafseer – explanations). We had overviews, vocabulary analyses and other notes to help them on their way. Most of the resources developed for this course were posted on my blogs: www.learnsuratulbaqarah.blogspot.com and www.quraanteacherresources.blogspot.com