THE FOURTH PERIOD.
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Hughes, Thomas Patrick
Denunciation of one who purchased Persian legends and preferred them to the Qurʾān.
God in Nature.
Other gods can create nothing.
Wisdom granted to Luqmān.
His advice to his son.
The obstinacy of the infidels rebuked.
If the sea were ink and the trees pens, they would not suffice to write the words of the Lord.
God manifest in the night and day, in the sun and moon, and in rescuing men from dangers by sea.
God only knows the future.
Chapter LXIX.
Sūratu ʾl-Ḥāqqah.
The Chapter of the Inevitable.
The inevitable judgment.
Fate of those who denied it, of ʿĀd, S̤amūd, and Pharaoh.
The Deluge and the Last Judgment.
Vindication of Muḥammad from the charge of having forged the Qurʾān.
Chapter LXVIII.
Sūratu ʾl-Qalam.
The Chapter of the Pen.
Muḥammad is neither mad nor an impostor.
Denounced by an insolent opponent.
Example from the fate of the owner of the gardens.
Unbelievers threatened.
Muḥammad exhorted to be patient and not to follow the example of Jonah.
Chapter XLI.
Sūratu Fuṣṣilat.
The Chapter “Are Detailed.”
The Makkans are called on to believe the Qurʾān.
The creation of the heavens and the earth.
Warning from the fate of ʿĀd and S̤amūd.
The very skins of the unbelievers shall bear witness against them on the Day of Judgement.
Punishment of those who reject the Qurʾān.
The angels descend and encourage those who believe.
Precept to return good for evil.
Refuge to be sought with God against temptation from the devil.
Against sun and moon worship.
The angels praise God, though the idolators are too proud to do so.
The quickening of the earth with rain is a sign.
The Qurʾān a confirmation of previous scriptures.
If it had been revealed in a foreign tongue the people would have objected that they could not understand it, and that the Prophet, being an Arab, should have had a revelation in his own language.