{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_047_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_047_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_047_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/047.htm","summary":"This is Chapter 47 of the Quran (Surah Muhammad, also called \"Al-Qital\"/\"The Fight\"), here rendered in a 19th-century English translation, belonging to the Medinan period of Quranic revelation when the early Muslim community was engaged in active conflict. The chapter's central concern is the distinction between believers and unbelievers, assigning sharply contrasting fates: believers are promised Paradise with rivers of water, milk, wine, and honey, while unbelievers face fire and boiling water. A substantial portion addresses the conduct of warfare directly, instructing believers to strike enemies in battle, take captives, and choose between ransom or release \u2014 framing armed struggle as a divinely sanctioned trial rather than a failure of God's power. The surah also targets religious hypocrites within the community, people who nominally aligned with the Prophet but recoiled when actual fighting was commanded, describing them as those with \"sickness\" in their hearts whose duplicity God will expose. A recurring rhetorical move is the appeal to historical precedent: destroyed civilizations are cited as proof that God punishes those who reject revelation. The chapter closes with an appeal to financial generosity in God's cause, warning that a community unwilling to sacrifice will be replaced by one that is.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"047","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":1077}