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This surah warns against polytheism, saying that the pagan gods cannot create anything, [6] and against comparisons between God and any created beings. [7] It praises God for giving the Earth with all its wealth to mankind. According to this surah, all wonders of the natural world, such as seas, stars and mountains, are proofs of God's infinite ...
The Opening, the Opening of the Divine Writ, The Essence of the Divine Writ, The Surah of Praise, The Foundation of the Qur'an, and The Seven Oft-Repeated [Verses] [6] 7 (1) Makkah: 5: 48: Whole Surah [6] The fundamental principles of the Qur'an in a condensed form. [6] It reads: “(1) In the name of God (Allah), the Compassionate and Merciful ...
An-Naml [1] (Arabic: النمل, romanized: ’an-naml, lit. 'The Ant [2] [3] ') is the 27th chapter of the Qur'an with 93 verses (). Regarding the timing and contextual background of the revelation (asbāb al-nuzūl), it is traditionally believed to be a Meccan surah, from the second Meccan period (615-619).
This surah belongs to the last (7th) group of surahs which starts from Surah Al-Mulk (67) and runs until the end of the Quran. According to Javed Ahmad Ghamidi: "The theme of this group is Warning the leadership of the Quraysh of the consequences of the Hereafter, and delivering glad tidings to Muhammad of the supremacy of the truth in Arabia ...
The surah is entirely Meccan, meaning it was revealed while Muhammad was trying to create a Muslim community in Mecca and before he migrated to Madina. According to the Tanzil version, it was the seventy-first surah revealed. It was revealed after the sixteenth surah, An-Nahl ("The Bee"), and before the fourteenth surah, Ibrahim ("Abraham").
They rank from being very short, a paragraph of less than five verses (for example surah 97, 103, 105, 108 and 111) to being organized in clusters of two (surahs 81, 91), three (surahs 82, 84, 86, 90, 92) or four verses (surahs 85, 89). [11] Some of these surahs also take on a balanced tripartite structure that begin and conclude with.
[10] [11] Surat Al-Fajr is a Meccan sura [12] and meccan suras are chronologically earlier suras that were revealed to Muhammad at Mecca before the hijrah to Medina in 622 CE. They are typically shorter, with relatively short ayat , and mostly come near the end of the Qur'an's 114 surahs.
The first twenty verses discuss the wonders of the worldly creation (the earth, plants, the peace of night, the mountains and rain); the final twenty verses are about the eternal wonders and horrors of the next world, with the raging sinner (the Arabic triliteral root TGY "taagheena" is used) being punished starkly opposed with the rewarding of dutiful believers in paradise. [3]