Some scholars maintain that verse 12 is from the Medinan period. It is regarded an earlier ' Meccan surah'. Yā Sīn (also Yaseen Arabic: يٰسٓ, yāsīn the letters ' Yāʼ' and ' Sīn') is the 36th chapter of the Quran. Despite the special significance of Chapter Ya-sin in lives of all Muslims, 'this is the only Southeast Asian Qur’an manuscript known in which the beginning of Surat Yasin is marked with illuminated frames'.

Double-page with illuminated frames marking the start of Chapter Ya-Sin in a Malay Qur’an manuscript from Patani.