Explanation
Breakdown
- 1 Man and his Creator
- 2-5 Orphans, the duty of guardians to such
- 6-13 The law of inheritance
- 14-15 The punishment of adulteresses
- 16-17 Repentance enjoined
- 18-19 Women’s rights
- 20-27 Forbidden and lawful degrees in marriage
- 28-30 Gaming, rapine, and suicide forbidden
- 31-33 Husband’s superiority over woman recognised
- 34 Reconcilement of man and wife
- 35-36 Parents, orphans, the poor etc to be kindly treated
- 37-41 Hypocrisy in almsgiving condemned
- 42 Prayer forbidden to the drunken and polluted
- 43-45 Jewish mockers denounced
- 46-53 Idolatry the unpardonable sin
- 54-55 The rewards of faith and unbelief
- 56 Trusts to be faithfully paid back
- 57-68 Disputes to be settled by God and his Apostle
- 69-74 Precautions etc, in warring for the faith
- 75-84 The disobedient and cowardly reproved
- 85 Salutations to be returned
- 86-90 Treatment of hypocrites and apostates
- 91-93 Believers not to be slain or plundered
- 94-99 Believers in heathen countries to fly to Muslim lands
- 100-102 Special order for prayer in time of war
- 103 Exhortation to zeal for Islam
- 104-114 Fraud denounced
- 115-125 Idolatry and Islam compared
- 126 Equity in dealing with women and orphans enjoined
- 127-129 men are protectors of women
- 130-132 God to be feared
- 133 Fraud denounced
- 134-138 Muslims exhorted to steadfastness
- 139-143 Hypocrites to be shunned
- 144-151 The reward of hypocrisy and belief compared
- 152-154 Presumptuous and disobedient Jews destroyed
- 155-158 The Jews defame Mary and Jesus
- 159–160 Certain kinds of food forbidden to Jews as punishment
- 161-168 Muhammad’s inspiration like that of other prophets
- 169-174 Christians reproved for their faith in Jesus as the Son of God and in the doctrine of the Trinity
- 175 The law of inheritance for distant relatives [4]
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