077- AL-MURSALAT
THOSE SENT FORTH
Al-Mursalāt is an early Makkan sūrah, although some early commentators, such as Ibn ʿAbbās and al-Qatādah, maintain that v. 48 is Madinan. It takes its name from the mention of those sent forth in the first verse and is also known as al-ʿUrf after the second word in the first verse, ʿurf an, which can mean in succession. According to a ḥadīth: “While we were with the Messenger of God in a cave, the sūrah By those sent forth was revealed to him, and we received it directly from his mouth as soon as he had received the revelation. Suddenly a snake came out, and the Messenger of God said, ‘Get it and kill it!’ We ran to kill it, but it outstripped us. The Messenger of God said, ‘It has escaped your evil, as you too have escaped its evil’”
After a series of oaths and reminders of the Last Day (vv. 1–6) and descriptions of its signs (vv. 8–14) is the first appearance of the phrase Woe that Day to the deniers! (v. 15), which thereafter serves as a refrain repeated ten times in the sūrah. The sūrah then affirms that the guilty of all generations will meet the same end (vv. 16–19) and points to the stages of gestation as a sign of God’s Power (vv. 20–24), followed by a reference to the created order as a sign of God’s Power and Mercy (vv. 25–28). It then addresses the disbelievers, ordering them toward that which they deny and warning them of the punishments such denial entails (vv. 29–40). This is subsequently contrasted to the rewards of the reverent and the virtuous (vv. 41–45). The sūrah concludes with a final address to the disbelievers and criticism of their failure to pray and to believe (vv. 46–50).
(source: “The Study Quran” a new translation and commentary by Seyyed Hossein Nasr)
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