THE FIFTH PERIOD.
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Hughes, Thomas Patrick
The Quraish, in spite of their promises and of the examples around them, are more arrogant and unbelieving than other people.
If God were to punish men as they deserve, he would not leave so much as a beast on the earth; but He respites them for a time.
Chapter XXXVI.
Sūratu Yā Sīn.
The Chapter of Yā Sīn.
Muḥammad is God’s messenger, and the Qurʾān is a revelation from God to warn a heedless people.
The infidels are predestined not to believe.
All men’s work shall be recorded.
The apostles of Jesus rejected at Antioch.
Ḥabību ʾn-Najjār exhorts the people to follow their advice.
He is stoned to death by the populace.
Gabriel cries out and the sinful people are destroyed.
Men will laugh at the apostles who come to them, but they have an example in the nations who have perished before them.
The quickening of the dead earth is a sign of the Resurrection.
God’s power shown in the procreation of species.
The alternation of night and day, the phases of the moon, the sun and moon in their orbits, are signs of God’s power.
So, too, the preservation of men in ships at sea.
Almsgiving enjoined.
The unbelievers jeer at the command.
The sudden coming of the Judgment Day.
Blessed state of the believers in Paradise, and misery of the unbelievers in hell.
Muḥammad is no mere poet.
The Qurʾān an admonition.
God’s providence.
The false gods will not be able to help their worshippers.
Proofs of the Resurrection.
Chapter XIX.
Sūratu Maryam.
The Chapter of Mary.
Zachariah prays for an heir.
He is promised a son, who is to be called John.
Is struck dumb for three days as a sign.
John is born and given the Book, Judgment, grace, and purity.
Story of Mary.
The annunciation.
Her delivery beneath a palm-tree.
The infant Jesus in the cradle testifies to her innocence and to his own mission.
Warning of the Day of Judgment.
Story of Abraham.
He reproves his father, who threatens to stone him.