Verse of the day
An-Naba 78:1
عَمَّ يَتَسَآءَلُونَ
عَنِ ٱلنَّبَإِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ
“About what are they asking one another? About the great news —”
The sūrah opens on a question the people of Makkah were already asking — and answers it with the matter that divided them: the Resurrection. A fitting place to begin an encyclopedia: with a question, and the discipline of tracing its answer to the source.
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