The Qur'an - Translated with a New Introduction - A.J. Droge
54. The Moon
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 is made up almost entirely of stories about earlier generations who were destroyed for their disobedience, all linked together by a recurring refrain which ends with the question, ‘Is there anyone who takes heed?’ Fittingly, both the beginning and the end warn that judgment is near. Q54 receives its title from the opening reference to the moon being split open, a sign that the end is at hand.