Talk:Ya-Seen

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It was "revealed" at a holy city? How wonderfully sympathetic the tone of that construct. If only wikimedia could approach that level of sympathy among other faith-bashing articles, such as Neurolinguistic programming or Scientology. Xientist 23:34, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

I haven't read the articles in question but do share some of your sentiments regardding faith-bashing. Mecca does come under the wiki list of holy cities Wikipidian 01:16, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

The discussion of the merits of reciting this sura for the dead or dying needs to be supported by references to relevant hadith collections and/or tafsirs - indeed, the actual ahadith and/or commentaries belong on those relevant Wikipedia pages with only links from this page. If someone doesn't do this soon, i'll delete this unsupported discussion from here. Glyns 20:16, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Deleted unreferenced hadith and unsupported discussion:

This Surah is memorized by many Muslims and is read by some at religious ceremonies - for example it is often recited at funeral services and ceremonies in remembrance of the dead, though the validity of this practise is disputed. [1]

One reason for the basis of this action is a Hadith, in which the Prophet Muhammad is reported to have said, that if everything in the world had a heart, the Qur'an's heart would be Surah Ya-Seen - however, the hadith is regarded by the majority of muslim hadith scholars to be mawdoo or fabricated. [2]

Nevertheless, there is evidence for reciting this surah for the dying as opposed to the dead. In addition, there are some authentic hadith which mention the virtues of reciting this particular surah [3].

Glyns 21:14, 23 December 2006 (UTC)