The Qurʾān - A New Annotated Translation - Arthur Droge
77 The Ones Sent Forth ۞ Al-Mursalāt
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, unified by the theme of coming punishment, opens with a series of vivid affirmations of the certainty of judgment, and then describes the signs of the Last Day. The remainder of the sūra is a series of eschatological ‘woes’ directed against those who deny the Judgment.