Surah 2: Al Baqarah (Day 12) | Original English Commentary | Project Illumine

Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl presents his Quranic commentary on Surah 2: Al Baqarah (Day 12) as part of the ongoing Project Illumine: Light of the Quran series at The Usuli Institute (www.usuli.org). The verses of Baqarah covered in day five are roughly, numbers seventeen to one hundred twenty-one, which have also been touched on previous days. Watch the previous days on our YouTube channel, starting with Day 1 here: https://youtu.be/rCKnt_S8I5U Project Illumine is a year-long intensive immersion into the unique moral messages in each of the 114 surahs (chapters) of the Quran, the fruit of this scholar's lifetime relationship with the Quran. This is the sixty-eighth chapter in the series. This is not the traditional line-by-line exegesis, but a chapter-by-chapter thematic approach that seeks to rediscover the original meaning received by the early Muslims that sparked their passion such that they transformed from desert dwellers to civilization builders. It is an investigation of the timeless moral and ethical lessons of the Quran then applied to our modern day. In the introduction, our Executive Director Grace Song shares a message she received about the transformative nature of Project Illumine and talks about how Project Illumine has even affected the vocabulary and world of meaning among those who have been engaged with the Quran through the halaqas. Recorded at The Usuli Institute on 23 October 2021.