051- AL-DHARIYAT
THE SCATTERERS
Al-Dhāriyāt is a Makkan sūrah, most likely from the later Makkan period. The sūrah takes its name from the mention of the winds that scatter in the first verse. It can be seen as following upon the previous sūrah in that vv. 5–6 guarantee the advent of the Day of Judgment, which will follow upon the Resurrection and Gathering, mentioned at the conclusion of the previous sūrah.
After attesting to the Judgment in the opening lines (vv. 1–6), the sūrah discusses the intellectual fallacies that lie at the heart of disbelief (vv. 7–14) and contrasts the final end of those who conjecture with the final end of the reverent (vv. 15–19). It then calls upon the signs within creation and the human soul as evidence of the Day of Judgment (vv. 20–23). This is followed by references to the stories of Abraham, Lot, and Moses (vv. 24–40), transitioning into a discussion of the pre-Islamic Arabian tribes of ʿĀd and Thamūd (vv. 41–45), and concluding with a reference to Noah (v. 46), who preceded all of the aforementioned tribes and peoples. The next passage (vv. 47–55) begins with another allusion to the evidence of Divine Omnipotence provided by the natural order (vv. 47–49) and provides counsel to the Prophet Muhammad. The sūrah concludes with a discussion of the relationship between the Divine and the human (vv. 56–58) and a final warning to the disbelievers (vv. 59–60).
(source: “The Study Quran” a new translation and commentary by Seyyed Hossein Nasr)
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