The Qur'an - Translated with a New Introduction - A.J. Droge
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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 criticizes those who take the easy path and neglect the steep ascent to virtue. Only the latter path leads to the promised rewards, wheras the former ends in certain punishment.