{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pick_052_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pick_052_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_pick_052_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/052.htm","summary":"This is a chapter (surah) from the Qur'an in M.M. Pickthall's English translation \u2014 a 20th-century rendering by a British convert known for its relatively literal, archaic register. Surah 52 (At-Tur, \"The Mountain\") belongs to the Meccan tradition of early revelation, characterized by vivid eschatological imagery and direct address to skeptics. The chapter opens with a series of oaths sworn by sacred phenomena \u2014 the Mount (Sinai), sacred scripture, the Ka'ba, the sky, and the sea \u2014 culminating in a declaration that divine punishment is inevitable and cannot be averted. It then describes the Day of Judgment in graphic terms: the convulsion of heaven and mountains, the casting of unbelievers into hellfire, and the detailed pleasures awaiting the faithful \u2014 gardens, fine food, wine without sin, beautiful companions, and reunion with believing descendants. The second half pivots to a sustained rhetorical assault on those who dismiss Muhammad as a poet, soothsayer, or fraud, deploying rapid-fire questions that challenge their alternative accounts of creation, revelation, and divine authority. Its notably distinctive move is this challenge to produce comparable speech \u2014 an implicit argument for the Qur'an's inimitability \u2014 combined with a closing instruction to the Prophet to wait patiently and maintain continuous worship while his opponents await their reckoning.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Meaning of the Glorious Qur'\u00e2n,: 52. at-Tur: The Mountain","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":765}