One of the things about Surah Yasin and all other Surahs of the Quran,
Allah (swt) has very beautifully divided up the Surah. Even though
at first glance, it looks like these verses are not related to one
another. But Allah (swt) divides up the Surahs in a way where each
aspect of the Surah is connected to the other. And this is a science
that is called the science of Munasabat. Basically looking at
different verses and seeing how each one is correlated or connected
to the other. And sometimes scholars of Tafsir like Nazm Al-Durar
he looks at verses and each verse and how it's connected to the
other, right, and also in turn in terms of the connections between
different Surahs as well. But there's also connections between
different segments of the same Surah as well, because there's no
way Allah (swt) and he's the most eloquent of all is going to give a
speech that is not connected, it is our lack of ability to find those
connections that leads us to believe sometimes or assume that
perhaps these things are not very connected. What I'm going to do is
I'm going to try to show you the connection between the first
segment of Surah Yasin and the second segment also of Surah Yasin
as well. So the first segment is divided into three parts. Okay, and
we looked at those three parts. The first part is all the way to verse
number five, in this Allah (swt) talks about the Quran, he talks
about the Messenger (pbuh) as well. And he says [إِنَّكَ لَمِنَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ] you happen to
be among the people who are sent by God. And then soon after, right
after verse number five, Allah (swt) starts talking about warning
the people he says [لِتُنذِرَ قَوْمًا] so that you may warn a people, okay, so
immediately, Allah (swt) is now in the second section of the first
segment, talking about what? He's talking about warning a people. And
then once that finishes, there's a conclusion. And that's ayah number
12. So all the way till 11 all of it is related to warning a people.
And he talks about the results of those who are warned and they don't
accept the warnings of the messengers as well. Ayah number 12
is just a conclusion. Allah (swt) says in this ayah what basically
amounts to the fact that you know Allah (swt) is going to reward you
or punish you for everything you do within this life. So that's the
conclusion, you better be wary when messengers come to you except their
message. Now, the second segment also divided up into three parts
also divided up into three sections. Each of them is directly
correlated with each of the three sections in the first segment. So
the second segment, it starts at verse number 13, obviously, because
the first segment finished at verse number 12, so from 13 to 30, is
this particular segment. And all the way till verse number 19. The
first section of the second segment, Allah is talking about the
messengers who are sent to the Syrian Antioch. And in the first
segment of the surah, in the first section, what is Allah talk about?
The Messenger of God Muhammad (pbuh) saying you are a messenger
[ إِنَّكَ لَمِنَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ] over there, Allah (swt) says, that [إِذْ أَرْسَلْنَا إِلَيْهِمُ اثْنَيْنِ فَكَذَّبُوهُمَا فَعَزَّزْنَا بِثَالِثٍ]. When we send
to the Syrian antiope two messengers, they rejected them so
we send a third as well and we strengthened them with a third as
well. So here Allah is talking about in the first section of the
first segment, messengers in the second segment, the first section
as well messengers as well. Then Allah (swt) in the second segment,
in the second section now, Allah (swt) talks about warning the
people as well because He says that, [وَجَاءَ مِنْ أَقْصَى الْمَدِينَةِ رَجُلٌ يَسْعَى قال يا قوم] He says, Oh my
people again, O Qaum O Qaum over there as well [لِتُنذِرَ قَوْمًا] so that you
may warn people as well. Okay, so here's a warning to people. And
over there, there's a person coming and warning the people as well. So
it's correlated in that way as well.