{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_017_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_017_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_017_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/017.htm","summary":"This is the seventeenth chapter (surah) of the Quran, known as \"Al-Isra\" or \"The Night Journey,\" presented here in a 19th-century English translation. It opens with the miraculous night journey of the Prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Jerusalem, then shifts to address the children of Israel, recounting their cycles of sin, punishment, and restoration as recorded in scripture. The bulk of the chapter delivers a dense sequence of moral and theological directives: monotheism, honoring parents, giving to the poor, forbidding the killing of children or the unjustly accused, honest dealing in commerce, and humility \u2014 framed as divine wisdom revealed to the Prophet. It engages directly with skeptics who deny resurrection and the afterlife, arguing that the God who created humanity once can surely recreate it. A distinctive thread running throughout is the tension between divine guidance and human perversity \u2014 the chapter repeatedly notes that even clear signs cause unbelievers to increase in rejection rather than faith \u2014 and it includes a vivid retelling of Satan's (Iblis's) refusal to bow to Adam and his vow to lead humanity astray. The chapter closes with instructions to the Prophet on prayer times, night vigils, and steadfastness, affirming that truth displaces falsehood and that the Quran itself is a healing for believers.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"017","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":3060}