Quranic parables (al-amthal al-quraniyya)

Sha'rawi holds that Quranic parables bring the unseen closer to understanding through the sensible. God's parables cover monotheism, light, disbelief, hypocrisy and Paradise. ^{1 2}

Sha'rawi reads the parable of the one who kindled a fire, applied to the hypocrites, as God taking away their light and leaving them in layered darkness. He reads the rain-cloud of Al-Baqara 19 with darkness, thunder and lightning, and the frightened who put their fingers in their ears against death. ^{4 5 6}

Sha'rawi discusses the parable of light in the niche, lamp and glass, and says it brings the meaning near and is not a description of God's light. ^{3 7}

This is Sha'rawi's reading and is attributed to him. No other exegetical reading of the parables is given in these pages, and none has been checked.