Qur’an Cover-to-Cover: Day 19 (“Hud”)
As you may have noticed, as the chapters of the Qur’an have got longer, I’ve pretty much resorted to only doing only one a day. Yesterday, I went back and recaculated when I’m going to finish the Qur’an. I’ve concluded that, if I stay at a rate of about one hundred verses a day, I should be finishing the Qur’an at the end of January.
Here are today’s verses:
Surah 11 – “Hud” (Hud)
The first few pages of this chapter are filled with very standard stuff:
- Worship Allah alone
- Seek forgiveness, there will be punishment for the disbeliever on the Day of Judgement
- Allah is all-knowing
- Allah created the heavens and the earth
- Those who disbelieve in the Messengers claim magic is at work
- Mankind is ungrateful for the mercies of Allah
- The disbelievers ask why Muhammad doesn’t come with some heavenly treasure or an angel
- Muhammad is told to challenge those who say he invented the Qur’an, by demanding that they “bring ten surahs like it”
- Those who believed in the former revelations (e.g. the Torah) believe in the Qur’an.
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