{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_sbe06_010_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_sbe06_010_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_sbe06_010_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/sbe06/010.htm","summary":"This is a partial English translation of Surah Yunus (Chapter 10) from the Qur'an, rendered by E.H. Palmer for the Sacred Books of the East series (1880). The text belongs to the genre of sacred scripture within the Islamic tradition and follows the conventions of Victorian-era orientalist translation. The selected verses establish core theological arguments: God's sole sovereignty over creation, the folly of polytheism and idol worship, the certainty of judgment and resurrection, and the authenticity of the Qur'an as divine revelation rather than human invention. A recurring rhetorical pattern frames the Prophet Muhammad as a warner delivering an unchanged message, responding to disbelievers who demand miracles or an alternative scripture, with the text challenging them to produce even a single comparable chapter. Distinctively, the sura uses natural phenomena \u2014 the alternation of night and day, storms at sea, the earth's seasonal blooming and withering \u2014 as signs of God's power and as parables for human ingratitude and the transience of worldly life. Palmer's 19th-century translation is notable for its somewhat archaic but readable prose style, characteristic of the Sacred Books of the East project's attempt to render non-Western scriptures accessible to a scholarly European audience.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Qur'\u00e2n, ed. Palmer (SBE6): X. The Chapter of Jonah","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":3612}