Explanation
Breakdown
- 1-2 The Makkans charge their Prophet with sorcery because he is a man from among them
- 3 The Creator and Ruler of the universe the only true God
- 4 Believers rewarded at death for good deeds
- 4 Unbelievers punished after death
- 5-6 God’s works are signs to all men
- 7-11 Rewards and punishments of the faithful and the unbelieving
- 12 God’s purpose in prospering the wicked
- 13 Men pray to God in affliction, but forget Him with the return of prosperity
- 14-15 The people of Makkah warned by the example of former generations
- 16-18 The Quraish desire a different Quran — Muhammad protests his inability to alter it
- 19 Idolaters trust intercessors who can neither profit nor harm them
- 20 All men originally professed one religion
- 21 The people demand of Muhammad a sign
- 22 When men despise the judgments of God he threatens greater suffering
- 23-24 Unbelievers remember God in distress by land and sea, but forget Him when delivered
- 25 Life likened to water which sustains vegetable life
- 26-28 Paradise for Muslims and hell for the infidels
- 29-31 Idolaters will be deserted by their gods in the judgment-day
- 32-37 Idolaters exhorted to worship him whom they recognise as their Creator, Preserver, and Governor
- 38 The Quran no forgery; it confirms the former Scriptures
- 39-40 Those who charge Muhammad with imposture challenged to produce a chapter like it
- 41 Some believe in the Quran, others reject it
- 42-47 The unbelieving Quraish declared to be reprobate
- 48 An apostle is sent to every nation
- 49 Unbelievers mock at the threatenings of their prophet
- 50 Every nation has its fixed period of existence
- 51-55 Infidels will believe when their punishment comes upon them
- 56-57 God is the Author of life and death
- 58-59 The Quran an admonition and direction to the unbelievers
- 60-61 Lawful food not to be prohibited
- 62 Muhammad ever under Divine guidance
- 63-65 The blessedness of those who believe and fear God
- 66-68 Unbelievers cannot harm the Prophet
- 69-71 Those rebuked who say that God hath begotten children
- 72-75 Muhammad likened to Noah and other prophets
- 76 Moses and Aaron sent to Pharaoh and his princes
- 77-82 They are rejected as sorcerers and perverters of the national religion
- 83 A few of the people only believe on them
- 84-86 Moses and Aaron with the believers put their trust in God
- 87 The Israelites commanded to be constant in prayer to God
- 88-89 Moses’s prayer, that God would destroy the Egyptians, is heard
- 90 Pharaoh and his people drowned in the sea
- 90-92 He repents and is raised out of the sea for a sign to the people
- 93 The Israelites are provided with a habitation and blessing
- 94-95 Jews and Christians appealed to in confirmation of the statements of the Quran
- 96-98 No kind of miracle will suffice to make the reprobate believe
- 99-103 Infidels do not believe on Muhammad because God does not permit them to do so
- 104-107 The people of Makkah exhorted to accept the true orthodox faith
- 108 Muhammad not responsible for the faith or unbelief of the people
- 109 The Prophet exhorted to be patient [6]
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