{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pick_041_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pick_041_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_pick_041_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/041.htm","summary":"This is Surah 41 (Ha Mim Sajdah / \"Fussilat\") from the Qur'an, in M.M. Pickthall's classical English translation \u2014 a 1930 rendering notable for its archaic King James\u2013style diction. The surah is a Meccan revelation addressed primarily to the Prophet Muhammad and his skeptical Arab contemporaries, arguing for the divine origin and authority of the Qur'an itself. Its central themes are the authenticity of monotheistic revelation, the fate of those who reject it, and God's sovereignty over creation \u2014 illustrated through the cosmological account of earth and heaven being created in six \"days\" and the historical warnings drawn from the destroyed peoples of \u02bf\u0100d and Tham\u016bd. A distinctive passage (verses 20\u201322) describes the dramatic eschatological scene where disbelievers' own ears, eyes, and skin testify against them at judgment, having recorded their deeds without their awareness. The surah closes with one of the Qur'an's most frequently cited verses on moral conduct \u2014 that good and evil are not equivalent and evil should be repelled with good \u2014 alongside a promise that God's signs will become manifest \"on the horizons and within themselves\" until truth is undeniable. For a reader deciding whether to engage further, this chapter is representative of mid-length Meccan surahs: rhetorically urgent, rich in nature imagery as theological argument, and structured around alternating warnings and assurances.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Meaning of the Glorious Qur'\u00e2n,: 41. Ha Mim Sajdah: Revelations Well Expounded","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":1688}