015- AL-HIJR
HIJR
Al-Ḥijr
Al-Ḥijr is the last in a series of six sūrahs whose opening verses include the letters alif, lām, and rāʾ, and which speak of the Book. Like the previous five sūrahs in this series, it belongs to the Makkan period (JJ) and seeks to address the Makkan idolaters’ negative reactions to the Prophet’s message. The sūrah begins with a discussion of the inevitability of God’s Punishment and the inescapability of His Decree, after whose declaration it will be too late to submit to God or defer His Chastisement (vv. 2–5). It then offers responses to the Makkan idolaters’ challenge that the Prophet bring angels to them (vv. 7–8) and reminds them that nothing the Prophet brings them would cause them to gain faith and believe (vv. 14–15).
The sūrah also seeks to console the Prophet in light of the insults and mockery (v. 7) he received from the Makkan idolaters (vv. 95–97), reminding him that this was a common phenomenon among prophets (v. 11). The rebelliousness of the Makkan idolaters in face of the truth is then juxtaposed with the refusal of Iblīs to bow before Adam when Adam was created by God (vv. 28–43). The sūrah goes on to recount the stories of the prophets Abraham (vv. 51–60), Lot (vv. 61–77), and Shuʿayb (vv. 78–79). The account of the inhabitants of al-Ḥijr (vv. 80–84), the community to whom the Prophet Ṣāliḥ had been sent, then follows. They bear this name because they inhabited a rocky plain (ḥijr, from which the sūrah derives its title). The sūrah ends by encouraging the Prophet to have forbearance, to worship, to be resolute in spreading the message, and to not grieve over his people’s rejection of it (vv. 88–99).
(source: “The Study Quran” a new translation and commentary by Seyyed Hossein Nasr)
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