{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pick_050_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pick_050_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_pick_050_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/050.htm","summary":"This is Surah 50 (Qaf) from the Qur'an, presented in M.M. Pickthall's English translation \u2014 a landmark 1930 rendering notable for being completed by a Muslim convert and praised for its faithfulness to the Arabic's dignity and rhythm. The surah opens with an address to those who find resurrection unbelievable, then argues for its plausibility through observable signs: the constructed sky, the spread earth, rain reviving dead land. It catalogues past peoples (Noah's folk, Thamud, Pharaoh, the tribe of A'ad) who rejected their messengers and were destroyed, framing this as a warning to present doubters. The surah then moves through the Day of Judgment in vivid sequence \u2014 the death agony, the trumpet blast, souls arriving with angelic drivers and witnesses, the damned cast into hell, and the righteous entering paradise. A distinctive recurring claim is God's intimate knowledge of each person (\"nearer to him than his jugular vein\"), and the surah closes by instructing the Prophet to endure mockery patiently and trust in Qur'anic warning rather than compulsion.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Meaning of the Glorious Qur'\u00e2n,: 50. Qaf: Qaf","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":852}