THE FIFTH PERIOD.
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Hughes, Thomas Patrick
The righteous and the believers are promised Paradise, and the misbelievers are threatened with hell-fire.
Exhortation to believe in the Merciful.
Were the Qurʾān to convulse nature, they would not believe.
Further threats against misbelievers.
God notes the deeds of every soul.
Stratagem unavailing against Him.
Paradise and Hell.
Muḥammad bidden to persevere in asserting the unity of God.
Had he not followed the Qurʾān, God would have forsaken him.
Other apostles have had wives and children.
None could bring a sign without God’s permission.
For every period there is a revelation.
God can annul or confirm any part of His revelation which He pleases.
He has the Mother of the Book (i.e. the Eternal Original).
Whether Muḥammad live to see his predictions fulfilled or not, God only knows.
His duty is only to preach the message.
The conquests of Islām pointed to.
God will support the prophets against misbelievers.
Chapter XXIX.
Sūratu ʾl-ʿAnkabūt.
The Chapter of the Spider.
Believers must be proved.
Kindness to be shown to parents; but they are not to be obeyed if they endeavour to lead their children to idolatry.
The hypocrites stand by the Muslims only in success.
The unbelievers try to seduce the believers by offering to bear their sins.
Noah delivered from the deluge.
Abraham preaches against idolatry.
Is cast into the fire, but saved.
Flees from his native land.
Isaac and Jacob born to him.
Lot and the fate of the inhabitants of Sodom.
Midian and their prophet Shuʿaib.
ʿĀd and S̤amūd.
Fate of Qārūn, Pharaoh, and Hāmān.
Similitude of the spider.
Muḥammad bidden to rehearse the Qurʾān.
Prayer enjoined.
Those who have scriptures are to be mildly dealt with in disputation.
They believe in the Qurʾān.
Muḥammad unable to read.