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What is the wisdom behind the repetition of stories in the Qur'an?

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The questioner : The thirtieth question: The stories of the Qur'an are repeated in more than one surah, so what is the wisdom in that?

The Shaykh : The wisdom in that is that every time the story is repeated, the question asks: The stories are repeated in the Qur'an, so what is the wisdom in that?
The lesson from them increases, and Allah the Exalted says:
There was certainly in their stories a lesson for those of understandingلَقَدْ كَانَ فِي قَصَصِهِمْ عِبْرَةٌ لِّأُولِي الْأَلْبَابِ
[Yusuf 12:111]
And because this repetition is not pure repetition, as the questioner might think, but rather you find in this story in one place what you do not find in another place, either in terms of the words, with additions and omissions, or in terms of eloquence. How many stories does Surat al-Qamar contain? Hmm? Count them, my son. The story of Noah, Hud, Salih, Lut, and Pharaoh. Count them for yourself. Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. How many are there?
Five stories, no, they are not considered stories, so five stories from the stories of the prophets. But if you compare them to the story of Musa in Surat al-A'raf, oh children. Hmm. In the prayer of sweat, it is longer, and yet the impact of the stories in Surat al-Qamar is a strange impact.
Yes,
(9) The people of Noah denied before them, and they denied Our servant and said, "A madman," and he was repelled. (10) So he invoked his Lord, "Indeed, I am overpowered, so help." (11) Then We opened the gates of the heaven with rain pouring down (12) And caused the earth to burst with springs, and the waters met for a matter already predestined.كَذَّبَتْ قَبْلَهُمْ قَوْمُ نُوحٍ فَكَذَّبُوا عَبْدَنَا وَقَالُوا مَجْنُونٌ وَازْدُجِرَ فَدَعَا رَبَّهُ أَنِّي مَغْلُوبٌ فَانتَصِرْ فَفَتَحْنَا أَبْوَابَ السَّمَاءِ بِمَاءٍ مُّنْهَمِرٍ وَفَجَّرْنَا الْأَرْضَ عُيُونًا فَالْتَقَى الْمَاءُ عَلَىٰ أَمْرٍ قَدْ
[Al-Qamar 54:9-12]
. The weakness of the power of these words; you do not find it in Surat Nuh, a complete surah. You do not find the power of these words in that surah.
Because it addresses the Quraysh who lied to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) despite the clear evidence for it, which is the splitting of the moon. So he came with these great expressions in contrast to these deniers of the great, clear sign. And so it is with the rest of the stories. It becomes clear that the repetition is not pure repetition, but there must be eloquence, and there must be consideration for the circumstances for which this story was brought. Perhaps by completing the thirty questions, I say that we complete the questions from one side, and we prevent the specific questions from the other side, because now the time is more than usual, otherwise? Therefore, only a quarter of an hour?
Source دروس وفتاوى المسجد الحرام لعام 1406هـ - 4 — binothaimeen.net (45:58)

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