The Qur'an - Translated with a New Introduction - A.J. Droge
81. The Shrouding
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 consists of two passages: the first is a description of events of the Last Day; the other relates a vision on the part of the Prophet. Its title comes from ‘the shrouding’ of the sun (Q81.1), one of the cosmic signs that the Last Day is at hand.