{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pick_059_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pick_059_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_pick_059_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/059.htm","summary":"This is Surah 59 (*Al-Hashr*, \"The Exile\") from the Qur'an, presented in M.M. Pickthall's English translation \u2014 a landmark early 20th-century rendering notable for its archaic but reverent prose style. The surah opens by narrating a specific historical episode: the expulsion of the Banu Nadir, a Jewish tribe of Medina, whose fortresses failed to protect them against what the text frames as divine intervention. It then addresses the distribution of war spoils, establishing that such wealth should circulate among the poor rather than concentrate among the rich, with the Prophet Muhammad serving as the divinely authorized distributor. A substantial portion condemns the hypocrites who promised solidarity to the expelled tribe but abandoned them \u2014 comparing their treachery to Satan's seduction and then desertion of humanity. The surah closes with three celebrated verses enumerating divine attributes \u2014 omniscience, sovereignty, holiness, creative power \u2014 culminating in a doxology of God's \"most beautiful names\" (*al-asma' al-husna*), which have become among the most memorized passages in Islamic tradition. Pickthall's translation is distinctive for preserving a liturgical, King James\u2013adjacent register that aims to convey the Qur'an's rhetorical solemnity to English readers, though modern scholars note it occasionally sacrifices precision for stylistic elevation.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Meaning of the Glorious Qur'\u00e2n,: 59. al-Hashr: The Exile","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":947}