Surah: 88. al-Ghashiyah

God will chastise him with the greater chastisement the chastisement of the Hereafter the lesser chastisement being that of this world that of being killed or taken captive.

Truly to Us will be their return their coming back after death

then truly with Us will lie their reckoning their requital which We will never abandon.

So remind them of God’s graces and the proofs affirming His Oneness. For you are only an admonisher;

you are not a taskmaster over them a variant reading for musaytir has musaytir that is to say not one who has been given authority over them — this was revealed before the command to struggle against the disbelievers.

But he who turns away he who rejects faith and disbelieves in the Qur’ān

Will they the Meccan disbelievers not consider by way of reflection the camels how they are created?

And the heaven how it was raised?

And the mountains how they were set?

And the earth how it was laid out flat? and thus infer from this the power of God exalted be He and His Oneness? The commencing with the mention of camels is because they are closer in contact with it the earth than any other animal. As for His words sutihat ‘laid out flat’ this […]