The Qurʾān - A New Annotated Translation - Arthur Droge
52 The Mountain ۞ Al-Ṭūr
The Qurʾān - A New Annotated Translation - Arthur Droge
A. J. Droge [+]
A. J. Droge is the author of Homer or Moses? Early Christian Interpretations of the History of Culture and, with James Tabor, of A Noble Death: Suicide and Martyrdom among Christians and Jews in Antiquity.
Description
This sūra opens with a series of affirmations of the certainty and imminence of the Day of Judgment. This is followed by a description of the delights awaiting the righteous in Paradise. The latter half of the sūra is an unrelenting diatribe against the disbelievers.