{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pick_076_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pick_076_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_pick_076_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/076.htm","summary":"This is Surah 76 (Ad-Dahr, \"The Man\") from the Quran, presented in M.M. Pickthall's early 20th-century English translation \u2014 a landmark effort notable for being produced by a native English speaker who converted to Islam and aimed for reverent, archaic prose rather than literalism. The surah opens with a rhetorical question about human pre-existence, then asserts that God created humans specifically to test them, having endowed them with hearing and knowledge. The central moral argument is a contrast between the fates of the grateful righteous and the disbelievers: the righteous are described in vivid, sensory detail enjoying Paradise \u2014 silk, silver goblets, shade, fruit, and a spring called Salsabil \u2014 as a reward for feeding the poor, orphans, and prisoners while expecting nothing in return. A distinctive theological claim appears in verses 29\u201330: though the surah calls human choice meaningful (\"whosoever will may choose a way unto his Lord\"), it immediately subordinates that will entirely to God's (\"Yet ye will not, unless Allah willeth\"), a compact statement of divine sovereignty over human volition. The surah closes with a direct address to the Prophet, instructing patient submission, regular worship, and indifference to disbelievers, and frames the entire text as divine revelation sent down as an admonishment.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Meaning of the Glorious Qur'\u00e2n,: 76. ad-Dahr: The Man","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":524}