{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_037_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_037_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_037_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/037.htm","summary":"This is Surah 37 (*As-Saffat*, \"Those Ranged in Ranks\"), a Meccan chapter of the Quran presented here in a 19th-century English translation. The surah opens by invoking angelic beings arranged in ranks as witnesses to God's absolute oneness, then contrasts the fates of the righteous (gardens of pleasure, divine provision) with the condemned (the hellish Zaqqum tree, boiling water, eternal torment). A substantial portion rehearses a chain of prophetic precedents \u2014 Noah, Abraham, Moses and Aaron, Elijah, Lot, and Jonah \u2014 each affirming that God rewards patient submission and punishes those who reject His messengers. The Abraham sequence is particularly detailed, narrating his rejection of idol worship, his near-sacrifice of his son (ransomed at the last moment), and his receiving the tidings of Isaac. The surah repeatedly challenges the Meccan polytheists on specific theological inconsistencies \u2014 attributing daughters to God while prizing sons, claiming kinship between God and the jinn, dismissing revelation as \"sorcery\" \u2014 using these as evidence of moral incoherence rather than mere error. It closes by reassuring the Prophet that divine help is guaranteed to God's sent messengers, urging him to turn away from mockers temporarily, since their reckoning is imminent.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"037","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":1773}