{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_035_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_035_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_035_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/035.htm","summary":"This is Surah 35 (Fatir, \"The Angels\") of the Quran, a Meccan chapter belonging to the Islamic scriptural tradition, here in a 19th-century English translation. Its central argument is the absolute sovereignty and uniqueness of God: He alone creates, sustains, and governs the cosmos, while the idols and associates that polytheists invoke possess no power whatsoever and will disown their worshippers on the Day of Resurrection. The chapter advances this through a cascade of contrasting pairs \u2014 the seeing versus the blind, light versus darkness, the living versus the dead, the two seas \u2014 to establish that moral and spiritual realities are as categorically distinct as natural ones, and that only the learned truly fear God. A recurring motif is the consolation of the Prophet Muhammad against rejection: earlier warners and apostles were also called liars, yet divine punishment eventually overtook the disbelievers, and this pattern (the \"course of God\") is immutable. The chapter closes with an emphasis on divine forbearance \u2014 God withholds immediate punishment not from weakness but from mercy, granting people time to heed the warning before an appointed reckoning.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"035","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":1458}