{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pick_031_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pick_031_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_pick_031_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/pick/031.htm","summary":"This is a chapter (Surah 31, \"Luqman\") from M.M. Pickthall's 1930 English translation of the Quran, rendered in a formal, archaic register. The surah centers on the wisdom teachings of Luqman, a sage figure in Islamic tradition, delivered as fatherly counsel to his son: above all, never ascribe partners to God (shirk), give thanks to God and parents, establish prayer, command good and forbid evil, and conduct oneself with humility rather than arrogance. Woven around these moral teachings are theological affirmations of God's absolute sovereignty \u2014 over creation, the natural order, death and resurrection \u2014 with the vastness of divine knowledge illustrated through vivid images: mustard seeds hidden in rock, trees as pens exhausting an ink-sea without capturing God's words. The surah takes a notably dismissive stance toward those who reject revelation through pride, ancestral tradition, or idle amusement, warning that their worldly comfort is temporary before a severe reckoning. It closes on five things God alone knows (the \"five keys of the unseen\"), including the Hour of Judgment and the moment of one's death, underscoring human dependence and the imperative of present-moment piety. The chapter is a representative example of Quranic ethical-theological discourse, blending cosmological argument, narrative wisdom, and eschatological warning within a short, unified composition.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Meaning of the Glorious Qur'\u00e2n,: 31. Luqman: Lukman","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":1081}