The Qur'an - Translated with a New Introduction - A.J. Droge
39. The Companies
The Qur'an - Translated with a New Introduction - A.J. Droge
A.J. Droge [+]
A. J. Droge is the translator of The Qur’an: A New Annotated Translation (Equinox, 2013), and the author of Homer or Moses? Early Christian Interpretations of the History of Culture and A Noble Death: Suicide and Martyrdom among Christians and Jews in Antiquity (with J.D. Tabor).
Description
This sūra opens with pronouncements about divine origin of the Qur’ān and the unity and creative power of God. The remainder of sūra contrasts the different fates awaiting believers and disbelievers, before concluding with a vivid description of Judgment Day. Q39 receives its title from the reference to the righteous and wicked entering the Garden and Gehenna in ‘companies’ (Q39.71, 73).