THE FIFTH PERIOD.
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Hughes, Thomas Patrick
Chapter XXXVIII.
Sūratu ʾṣ-Ṣād.
The Chapter of Ṣād.
Oath by the Qurʾān.
Example of former generations who perished for unbelief, and for saying that their prophets were sorcerers and the Scriptures forgeries.
The Makkans are warned thereby.
Any hosts of the confederates shall be routed.
Fate of the people of Noah, ʿĀd, Pharaoh, S̤amūd, and Lot.
The Makkans must expect the same.
Muḥammad exhorted to be patient of what they say.
He is reminded of the powers bestowed on David.
The parable of the ewe lambs proposed to David by the two antagonists.
David exhorted not to follow lust.
The heaven and earth were not created in vain, as the misbelievers think.
The Qurʾān a reminder.
Solomon, lost in admiration of his horses, neglects his devotions, but, repenting, slays them.
A jinn in Solomon’s likeness is set on his throne to punish him.
He repents and prays God for a kingdom such as no one should ever possess again.
The wind and the devils made subject to him.
The patience of Job.
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Elisha and Ẕū ʾl-Kifl.
Happiness of the righteous in Paradise.
Misery and mutual recrimination of the wicked in hell.
Muḥammad only sent to warn people and proclaim God’s unity.
The creation of man and disobedience of Iblīs, who is expelled.
He is respited till the Judgment Day, that he may seduce people to misbelief.
But he and those who follow him shall fill hell.
Chapter XXV.
Sūratu ʾl-Furqān.
The Chapter of the Discrimination.
The Discrimination sent down as a warning that God is one, the Creator and Governor of all; yet the Makkans call it old folks’ tales.
They object that the Prophet acts and lives as a mere mortal or is crazy.
Hell-fire shall be the punishment of those who disbelieve in the Resurrection.
Description of the Judgment Day.
The Quraish object that the Qurʾān was revealed piecemeal.
Moses and Aaron and Noah were treated like Muḥammad, but those who called them liars were punished.
ʿĀd and S̤amūd perished for the same sin.
The ruins of the cities of the plain are existing examples.
Yet they will not accept the Prophet.