Reflection on the Short Surahs of the Holy Qur'an

The shortest Surahs in the Qur'an are often the most paradoxical. They often in so few words have as much expression and impact, both in history and in an individual's spiritual life as an entire long Surah (like Baqarah for instance). 

The shortest Surahs remind me that, as the Qur'an itself is one-thing and a complete divine word, so to is each Surah itself a complete universe of it's own. 

Each Surah itself is anyway, a layer of the Qur'an. 

Each Surah is a layer beyond the last Surah, but not in order of revelation (which itself is objectively vague, though some things are solidly certain) and not in order of Mushaf. 

This non-linear aspect is important. 

Depending on the context and the person, out of several different Surahs, there is always one that a person will consider "the heart of the Qur'an". 

The three Surahs that most prominently reflect this notion are Surah Fatihah (7 verses), Surah Yasin (83 verses) and Surah Ikhlas (4 verses).

Those three Surahs themselves are perfect demonstrations about everything Islamic at it's core. Surah Ikhlas of course, is metaphysically the most profound and total Surah there is, but it's theme is all Tawhid and not other aspects. 

Surah Fatihah is the profession of many of the main doctrines all summed up in the signature obligatory divinely-revealed prayer. Whereas Yasin is an explanation of all the core Islamic doctrines, with a particular focus on both the hereafter and past rejection of Prophets. 

Just thinking, in regard to my present jihads (or as to say, my intellectual debates) with the Christians, I was reminded through having an urge to recite Surah al-Nasr, that the Qur'an's power, both historical and individually, has a nature so greater than the Bible ever has. 

Although the Bible, being a compilation, has various verses that are very commonly repeated, and certain prayers that have been felt in high regard, even certain verses quoted in commemoration of different later historical events, it is not in the way and with the same weight that any single Surah of the Qur'an is to both it's initial history and it's present history. 

The Qur'an is not a story, and it is not about solely Muhammad and the early Meccans, nor is it solely about the many Prophets it reiterates fragmentarily throughout. The Qur'an is, rather about us and God, across time, across continents, across even planets perhaps.