The arrangement of the Holy Qur’an is not according to chronological order. i.e. (Al-Fatihah), then (Al-Baqara), then (Ali-Imran), then (An-Nisa), then (Al-Ma’ida). This is called a Mushaf arrangement, which the angel Jibril (pbuh) arranged for the Prophet (saws). So the arrangement of the surahs were not according to the revelation sequence, for the first revealed verse was: “Read in the name of your Lord who created” [Al-Alaq]. If we ask why does the revelation order differ from the arrangement? Why was the Holy Qur’an not arranged as it was revealed from the first verse revealed to the last verse revealed before the death of the Prophet (saws)? The answer is: Because the Holy Qur’an is a method and a miracle, if it was only a method, it would have been arranged as it was revealed, but it is an eternal miracle. Among the requirements of the miraculous is its arrangement in this well-known form, and there is a miracle in the letters of the Qur’an, a miracle in every verse when it was located in its place, a numerical and linguistic and historical miracle.

This arrangement of the surahs was arranged by Jibril (pbuh) and it is (Tawqifiy), that is, according to what Jibril states according to Allah’s command. For the Holy Qur’an was presented to the Prophet (saws) by Jibril (pbuh) and he reviewed it with him (saws) twice in Ramadan in the last year before his death (saws).

 When we look into the arrangement of the Qur’an in the way that Jibril states, we see the miraculousness and the solution for every disease, as well as the cosmic facts, the Qur’anic stories, the universal rulings, the precise and unspecific verses. Miracles that last until the last day.

This Surah was called Surat Al-Maida because it includes the story of the supplication that Issa (Jesus) (PBUH) made, when the disciples asked him to send down a table from heaven. He said:

 قَالَ عِيسَى ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ اللَّهُمَّ رَبَّنَا أَنزِلْ عَلَيْنَا مَائِدَةً مِّنَ السَّمَاءِ تَكُونُ لَنَا عِيدًا لِّأَوَّلِنَا وَآخِرِنَا وَآيَةً مِّنكَ ۖ وَارْزُقْنَا وَأَنتَ خَيْرُ الرَّازِقِينَ 

(Said Jesus, the son of Mary, “O Allah, our Lord, send down to us a table [spread with food] from the heaven to be for us a festival for the first of us and the last of us and a sign from You. And provide for us, and You are the best of providers.”) (Al-Maida: 114)