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The Qur'ân, ed. Palmer (SBE9): LII. The Chapter of ...

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This is Sura 52 ("Al-Tur," The Mount) from the Qur'an, presented in E.H. Palmer's 1880 English translation published as part of Max Müller's Sacred Books of the East series. The surah opens with a series of oaths sworn on sacred phenomena — the mountain, inscribed scripture, the Kaaba, the celestial vault, and the sea — before declaring the inevitability of divine judgment. The bulk of the text contrasts the fate of the damned, thrust into hellfire they once dismissed as fiction, with the pleasures awaiting the faithful: gardens, food, drink, reclining couches, large-eyed companions, and youthful servants. The latter portion shifts to a polemical defense of Muhammad's prophethood, systematically rebutting Meccan objections through a series of rhetorical challenges — if his opponents claim he is a poet, soothsayer, or fabricator, let them produce a comparable discourse, or explain who else could have created the heavens and earth. The surah's distinctive feature is its compressed logical assault: rather than extended argument, it fires rapid rhetorical questions that expose the incoherence of polytheist skepticism, closing with an instruction to the Prophet to wait patiently for God's judgment while continuing ritual praise.

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