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Al-Qaria or The Calamity [1] (Arabic: القارعة, al-Qāriʻah, also known as The Striking), [2] is the 101st chapter of the Quran, with 11 āyāt or verses. This chapter takes its name from its first word "qariah", [3] referring to the Quranic view of the end time and [[Islamic eschatology|eschatology]'" has been translated as calamity, striking, catastrophe and clatterer. [4]
The first twenty verses discuss the wonders of the worldly creation (the earth, plants, the peace of night, the mountains and rain); the final twenty verses are about the eternal wonders and horrors of the next world, with the raging sinner (the Arabic triliteral root TGY "taagheena" is used) being punished starkly opposed with the rewarding of dutiful believers in paradise. [3]
Ar-Ra'd, (Arabic: الرعد ar-raʻd), or the Thunder, [1] is the 13th chapter of the Qur'an, composed of 43 verses . It has Muqattat (Quranic initials) المر (Alif. Lam. Mim. Ra or ALMR). Verse 15 contains a prostration symbol ۩ : [ 2 ]
The Qur'an has been translated into most major African, Asian and European languages from Arabic. [1] Studies involving understanding, interpreting and translating the Quran can contain individual tendencies, reflections and even distortions [2] [3] caused by the region, sect, [4] education, religious ideology [5] and knowledge of the people who made them.
1622, Latin, Animadversiones, Notae ac Disputationes in Pestilentem Alcoranum (MS A-IV-4), which also includes the complete original Arabic text. It was translated by the Genoese Jesuit priest Ignazio Lomellini (1560–1645). [13] 1632, Latin, Turcarum Alcoranus from Arabic by Johann Zechendorff (1580–1662), unpublished manuscript [14]
Al-Fajr (Arabic: الفجر, "The Dawn", "Daybreak") is the eighty-ninth chapter of the Quran, with 30 verses . [3] The sura describes destruction of disbelieving peoples: the Ancient Egyptians, the people of Iram of the Pillars, and Mada'in Saleh. It condemns those who love wealth and look with disdain upon the poor and orphans.
Being American, like 6-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume was, does not protect us from the stigma of being Palestinian or Arab, Muslim and from the “Middle East.” Rather, these latter identities keep ...
A 16th-century Quran opened to show sura (chapter) 2, ayat (verses) 1–4. An āyah ( Arabic : آية , Arabic pronunciation: [ʔaː.ja] ; plural: آيات ʾāyāt ) is a "verse" in the Qur'an , one of the statements of varying length that make up the chapters ( surah ) of the Qur'an and are marked by a number.