{"id":63519,"date":"2016-12-29T11:22:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T18:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=63519"},"modified":"2016-12-29T12:55:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T19:55:26","slug":"quran-day-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2016\/12\/29\/quran-day-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Qur\u2019an Cover-to-Cover: Day 21 (“Rock City”)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"thamud\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So, I’ve made a decision… Once I reach the halfway point in the Qur’an (which should happen in a few days), I’m going to take a break from\u00a0this series for a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

I’ve finally managed to make contact with a local\u00a0Imam, so I’m hoping to meet him soon and start working through the large backlog of questions I’ve recorded about the chapters read thus far.<\/p>\n

I’m sure that more than a few of you are getting a bit tired of the relentless posts about Isalm. \u00a0To be honest, I’m also finding that my daily reading and writing is becoming a bit of a grind. It’s time-consuming and\u00a0there are some other long-overdue posts I’d much prefer to complete!<\/p>\n

However, as I am not quite at the halfway point, today I read the chapter of the Qur’an which is rather excitingly titled “Rock City”<\/span>…<\/p>\n

Surah 15 – “Rock City” (Al-Hijr<\/a>)
\n<\/strong>We open with the affirmation that this is a “clear Qur’an [i.e. recitation]”<\/span>. I will no longer point\u00a0out when the Qur’an’s chapters begin like this. Hitherto, I wanted to make sure that I emphasized in these notes how often the Qur’an affirms its perspicuity.<\/p>\n

We are told that no city was ever destroyed which had not previously received a warning of imminent destruction from one of Allah’s Messengers. This will be important for the examples which we will cover later in this surah.<\/p>\n

We hear the common objections given by the disbelievers:<\/p>\n