{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pick_047_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pick_047_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_pick_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/pick/047.htm","summary":"This is Surah 47 (\"Muhammad\") from the Quran, presented in M.M. Pickthall's early 20th-century English translation \u2014 a foundational text of Islamic scripture rendered in a deliberately archaic, King James-inflected style. The surah addresses a community of believers during a period of active conflict, contrasting the fate of believers against disbelievers across this life and the afterlife: believers are promised paradise (described with rivers of water, milk, wine, and honey), while disbelievers face destruction of their deeds and hellfire. A significant portion deals with rules and ethics of warfare, including instructions on taking prisoners and the options of ransom or clemency once battle ends. The surah is notably direct in calling out hypocrites within the Muslim community \u2014 those who publicly affirm faith but privately resist its demands, particularly the call to fight, whose duplicity God is said to know and will expose. It closes with an appeal for financial commitment to the cause, warning that hoarding wealth is self-harm and that God could replace an unwilling community entirely. Distinctive features include the unusually concrete description of paradise's pleasures and the frank rhetorical pressure applied to wavering believers alongside the harsher condemnation of outright disbelievers.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Meaning of the Glorious Qur'\u00e2n,: 47. Muhammad: Muhammad","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":1186}