The Qur'an - Translated with a New Introduction - A.J. Droge
52. The Mountain
The Qur'an - Translated with a New Introduction - A.J. Droge
A.J. Droge [+]
A. J. Droge is the translator of The Qur’an: A New Annotated Translation (Equinox, 2013), and the author of Homer or Moses? Early Christian Interpretations of the History of Culture and A Noble Death: Suicide and Martyrdom among Christians and Jews in Antiquity (with J.D. Tabor).
Description
This sūra opens with a series of affirmations of the certainty and imminence of the Day of Judgment. This is followed by a description of the delights awaiting the righteous in Paradise. The latter half of the sūra is an unrelenting diatribe against the disbelievers. Q52 receives its title from the reference to Mount Sinai in the opening verse.