Tafsir Thursday: The Test of Nineteen

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.grounded.dayWhere we left offLast week we paused at ayah 25, in the middle of a sustained portrait of al-Walīd ibn al-Mughīra — the father of Sayyidunā Khālid ibn al-Walīd, and one of the leading poets of Quraysh.For all his hostility, al-Walīd could not stay away from the Qur’an. In the dark of the night he would slip out of his house and stand quietly outside the…