Outlines of the Qur’án by Suráh from Reverend E. M. Wherry’s 1896 edition

Note: Outlines were introduced in the print copy in each chapter as “Analysis of the Chapter as to its Teaching”  or “Principal Subjects”

Note2: the verses below reflect Wherry’s adoption of the versification scheme of the Roman Urdú edition of Malvi Abdul Qádir’s translation and have not been altered yet to reflect Rodwell’s versification scheme as we use elsewhere at this site (in the Multilinear Qur’án, in many versions presented here by Sale (which originally had no versification), and in the Rodwell translation itself that we’ve made available on-site), but hopefully the availability of the mere ordering of content (according to Wherry) will be useful or inspire someone to undertake the work of changing the verse numbers below (and even adding links to the beginning of the respective set of verses).

Suráh 1 - No Outline provided (though discussed in detail)

Suráh 2

Unbelievers and hypocrites reproved	verses 1-20
Exhortation to the worship of the true God	21-38
Jews and Christians urged to accept the claim of Muhammad	39-102
    to be a prophet of God
The opposition of Jews and Christians to Muhammad’s prophetic	102-112
   pretensions [sic] combated
The doctrine of abrogation enunciated	113
A Qibla declared to be unnecessary	115
The Jews denounced and the religion of Abraham declared to be	116-141
   the true Islám.
The Jews finally abandoned and the Arabs accepted by the	142-153
   adoption of Makkah as the Qibla of Islám
The bereaved friends of those slain at Badr comforted	154-163
Makkans exhorted to faith in God, and directed to observe the law	164-172
   respecting forbidden meats
Law concerning lawful and unlawful food (delivered at Madína)	173-176
The sum of Muslim duty	177
The law of retaliation	178, 179
The law concerning bequests	180-182
The law concerning fasting	183-185
The fast of Ramadhán	186, 187
The pilgrimage to Makkah and war for the faith	188-202
Hypocrites and true believers contrasted	203-206
Exhortation to a hearty acceptance of Islám	207, 208
The doom of infidels pronounced	209
The Jews reproached	210-212
Suffering to be patiently endured	213
Sundry laws relating to almsgiving, war, wine, lots, orphans,	214-242
   marriage, women, oaths, and divorce
The duty of warring in defence of religion enjoined by precept, and	243-253
    illustrated by the history of former prophets
The Throne Verse	254-257
The doctrine of the resurrection illustrated	258-260
Exhortation and encouragement to almsgiving	261-274
Usury forbidden	275-277
The law concerning contracts and debts	278-284
The prophet’s confession and prayer	285, 286
Suráh 3

God one and self-existent	verses 1, 2
The Qurán to be believed	3, 4
God omniscient	5, 6
Plain and obscure verses of the Qurán	7
The prayer of those versed in Quránic mystery	8, 9
The punishment of Pharaoh a warning to infidels	10, 12
The victory at Badr alluded to	13
The faithful, their character and reward	14-18
Islám the true religion	19, 20
The punishment of unbelievers eternal	21-25
God omnipotent and sovereign	26, 27
Obedience to God enjoined	28-34
The Virgin Mary–her conception–nurtured by Zacharias	35-38
John Baptist, his birth	39-41
Christ announced to the Virgin–his miracles–apostles, &c.	42-57
Muhammad’s dispute with the Christians of Najrán	58-65
The hypocritical Jews reproached	66-77
Prophets not to be worshipped	78-83
God’s curse on infidels	84-91
Almsgiving enjoined	92
The Jews unlawfully forbid certain meats	93-95
The Kaabah founded	96, 97
Muslims are warned against the friendship of Jews, &c.	98-105
The lot of infidels and believers contrasted	106-109
Muslims safe from the enmity of Jews and Christians	110-112
Certain believing Jews commended for their faith	113-115
Muslims not to make friends of Jews and Christians	116-120
The battle of Ohod alluded to	121, 122
Disheartened Muslims encouraged	123-129
Usury forbidden	130-136
The doom of calumniators of the apostles	137, 138
Islám not dependent on Muhammad for success	139-144
The former prophets are examples of perseverance	145-148
Unbelievers to be avoided	149-151
Certain Muslims disobedient at Ohod	152-154
The hypocrites rebuked	155-157
Muslims slain at Ohod to enter paradise	158, 159
Mild treatment of vacillating Muslims	160, 161
The spoils of war to be honestly divided	162-165
The faithful sifted by defeat at Ohod	166-169
The joy of the Ohod martyrs in paradise	170-172
Certain Muslims commended for faithfulness	173-176
The fate of unbelievers	177-180
The miser’s doom	181
Scoffing Jews denounced–they charge Muhammad with	182-190
   imposture
Meditations and prayers of the pious	191-195
God’s answer to the prayers of the pious	196-198
Certain believing Jews and Christians commended	199
Exhortation to patience and perseverance	200
Suráh 4

	verses
Man and his Creator	1
Orphans, the duty of guardians to such	2-5
The law of inheritance	6-13
The punishment of adulteresses	14, 15
Repentance enjoined	16, 17
Women’s rights	18, 19
Forbidden and lawful degrees in marriage	20-27
Gaming, rapine, and suicide forbidden	28-30
Man’s superiority over woman recognised	31-33
Reconcilement of man and wife	34
Parents, orphans, the poor, &c., to be kindly treated	35, 36
Hypocrisy in almsgiving condemned	37-41
Prayer forbidden to the drunken and polluted	42
Jewish mockers denounced	43-45
Idolatry the unpardonable sin	46-53
The rewards of faith and unbelief	54, 55
Trusts to be faithfully paid back	56
Disputes to be settled by God and his Apostle	57-68
Precautions, &c., in warring for the faith	69-74
The disobedient and cowardly reproved	75-84
Salutations to be returned	85
Treatment of hypocrites and apostates	86-90
Believers not to be slain or plundered	91-93
Believers in heathen countries to fly to Muslim lands	94-99
Special order for prayer in time of war	100-102
Exhortation to zeal for Islám	103
Fraud denounced	104-114, 133
Idolatry and Islám compared	115-125
Equity in dealing with women and orphans enjoined	126
Wives to be subject to the will of husbands	127-129
God to be feared	130-132
Muslims exhorted to steadfastness	134-138
Hypocrites to be shunned	139-143
The reward of hypocrisy and belief compared	144-151
Presumptuous and disobedient Jews destroyed	152-154
The Jews calumniate Mary and Jesus	155-158
Certain kinds of food forbidden to Jews as punishment	159, 160
Muhammad’s inspiration like that of other prophets	161-168
Christians reproved for their faith in Jesus as the Son of God and	169-174
   in the doctrine of the Trinity
The law of inheritance for distant relatives	175
Suráh 5

	Verses
Covenants are to be fulfilled	1
Lawful meats	2
Heathen pilgrims not to be molested	3
Islám completed–last revelation of the Qurán	4
Certain kinds of food, gaming, and lots forbidden	4, 5
Muslims permitted to eat the food of Jews and Christians, and	6
   to marry their women
The law of purifications	7
Believers reminded of the covenant of Aqabah	8
Muslims should forget old quarrels with brethren	9-11
God’s favour to Muslims	12
Disobedience of Jews and Christians exposed	13-15
Jews and Christians are exhorted to accept Islám	16-18
The divinity of Christ denied	19, 20
Jews and Christians not the children of God	21
Muhammad sent as a warner	22
Israel’s rebellion at Kadesh Barnea	23-29
The story of Cain and Abel	30-34
The sin of homicide	35, 36
The punishment of theft accompanied by apostasy	37, 38
The faithful exhorted to fight for religion	39
The punishment of infidels	40, 41
The penalty of theft	42-44
Muhammad to judge the Jews and Christians by the law,	45-55
   gospel, and the Qurán
Muslims forbidden to fraternise with Jews and Christians	56
Hypocrites threatened	57, 58
Believers warned and instructed	59-61
Muslims not to associate with infidels	62, 63
The Jews exhorted and warned	64, 65
The hypocrisy and unbelief of the Jews rebuked	66-69
Promises to believing Jews and Christians	70
Muhammad required to preach	71
He attests Jewish and Christian Scriptures	72
Believing Jews, Sabeans, and Christians to be saved	73
The Jews rejected and killed the prophets of God	74, 75
The doctrines of the Trinity and Christ’s Sonship rejected	76-81
Disobedient Jews cursed by their prophets	82-84
Jewish hatred and Christian friendship compared	85-88
Muslims to use lawful food, &c.	89, 90
Expiation for perjury	91
Wine and lots forbidden	92-94
Law concerning hunting and gaming during pilgrimage	95-97
Pilgrimage and its rites enjoined	98-100
The Prophet not to be pestered with questions	101, 102
Heathen Arab customs denounced	102-104
Wills to be attested by witnesses	105-107
The prophets ignorant of the characters of their followers	108
Jesus–his miracles–God’s favour to him	109, 110
The apostles of Jesus were Muslims	111
A table provided by Jesus for the apostles	112-114
Jesus did not teach his followers to worship him and his mother	115-118
The reward of the true believer	119
God is sovereign	120
Suráh 6
	Verses
Praise to the Almighty and Omniscient Creator	1-3
The wilful unbelief ot he Makkah infidels	4, 5
They are threatened with the divine judgment	6
The people of Makkah hopelessly unbelieving	7
Why angels were not sent to the infidels	8, 9
Those who rejected the former prophets were punished	10, 11
Why the true God should be served	12-18
God the witness between Muhammad and the infidels	19
The Jews recognise Muhammad as a prophet	20
Idolaters on the judgment-day–their condition	21-23
Scoffing idolaters rebuked and threatened	24-29
The condition of believers and unbelievers after death	30, 31
Unbelievers make God a liar	32, 33
God’s word and purposes unchangeable	33
Miracles of no avail to convince infidels	34
God will raise the dead to life	35
Why God did not grant the signs asked by unbelievers	36
Animals and birds to be brought into judgment	37
Infidels are deaf and dumb	38
Idolaters will call upon God in their distress	39, 40
Adversity and prosperity alike unmeaning to infidels	41-44
God is the only helper in trouble	45
Unbelievers, if impenitent, sure to perish	46-48
Muhammad unacquainted with the secrets of God	49
There shall be no intercessor on the judgment-day	50
The motives of professing Muslims not to be judged	51-54
Muhammad declines the proposals of idolaters	55-57
God the Omniscient and Sovereign Ruler	58-61
God the Almighty Deliverer	62-64
Muhammad charged with imposture	65
Unbelievers will certainly be punished	66
Mockers to be avoided by Muslims	67-69
The punishment of idolaters certain and dreadful	70, 71
Muslims commanded to obey God only	71-74
Abraham’s testimony against idolatry	75-84
The prophets who succeeded Abraham	85-91
The unbelieving Jews (of Madína) rebuked	92
The Qurán confirms the former Scriptures	93
The fate of those who forge Scriptures	94
Idolaters deserted by their gods on the judgment-day	95
The God of nature the true God	96-100
God has no offspring	101-103
God’s favour in sending the Qurán	104, 105
The command to retire from Makkah	106-108
Muhammad not permitted to work miracles	109
The people of Makkah given over to unbelief	110-113
Muhammad the prophet of God	114
The direction of Muslims and idolaters contrasted	114-117
Law of permitted and forbidden meats	118-121
The righteous and unbelievers compared	122
Wicked leaders of the people–conduct and punishment	122-125
The blessedness of the faithful	126, 127
God’s threatenings against unbelieving men and genii	128-130
God always warns men before punishing idolatry	131
Rewards and punishments shall be according to works	132, 133
The punishment of unbelievers certain	134
The idolaters of Makkah rebuked	135, 136
Evil customs of the Quraish exposed	137-139
The idolaters of Makkah threatened	140
The fruit of trees to be eaten	141
Controversy between the Quraish and Muhammad concerning	142-144
   forbidden meats referred to	
The law concerning forbidden meats rehearsed	145
The Jewish law of forbidden meats	146
God will punish those who accuse the prophets of imposture	147
The idolaters of Makkah are reprobate	148, 149
Their testimony unworthy of credit	150
Forbidden things rehearsed	151-153
The Qurán attests the teaching of Moses and Jesus	154-157
The fate of the wicked on the judgment-day	158
Sectaries reproved	159
The reward of the righteous and wicked compared	160
Islám the true religion	161, 162
Muhammad’s self-consecration to God	163
The idolaters exhorted to believe in God	164, 165

Suráh 7

	Verses
Muhammad not to doubt the Qurán	1, 2
The people exhorted to believe in it	3
Many cities destroyed for their unbelief	4, 5
Prophets and their hearers on the judgment-day	6-9
The ingratitude of infidels	10
The creation of Adam	11
Satan refuses to worship Adam	11, 12
He is driven from Paradise	13
He is respited until the resurrection	14, 15
He avows his purpose to beguile man	16, 17
God threatens Satan and his victims	18, 19
The fall of Adam and Eve	20-24
They are expelled from Paradise	25, 26
Indecent customs condemned	27-29
God to be sought in prayer	30, 31
True worshippers to be decently clad	32-34
Every nation has a fixed term of life	35
The doom of those who reject the apostles of God	36-42
The blessed reward of true believers	43-45
God’s curse on the infidels	45-46
The veil of Aráf and its inhabitants	47-50
The rejecters of God’s apostles to be forgotten	51, 52
A warning against rejecting Muhammad	53, 54
The Creator and Lord of the worlds to be served	55-59
Noah rejected by his people–their fate	60-65
Húd rejected by the Ádites–their fate	66-73
Sálih rejected by the Thamúdites–their destruction	74-80
Lot rejected and the Sodomites destroyed	81-85
Shuaib rejected by the Madianites, and their doom	86-94
Unbelievers at Makkah unaffected either by adversity or	95, 96
   prosperity
The dreadful fate of those cities who rejected the apostles of	97-101
   God and charged them with imposture
They are reprobated	102, 103
Moses is sent to Pharaoh and his princes	104, 105
The miracles of the serpent and leprous hand	106-108
The magicians of Egypt called	109-115
Contest by miracles between Moses and the magicians	116-120
Several magicians converted to Moses	121-123
Pharaoh’s anger kindled against them	124-127
Pharaoh and his princes persecute Moses and his people	128
Moses exhorts his people to patient trust in God	129, 130
Adversity and prosperity alike unavailing to bring Pharaoh to	131, 132
   repentance
The Egyptian unbelievers plagued	133, 134
The hypocrisy of the Egyptians	135
They are destroyed in the Red Sea	136
The people of Moses triumph, and possess the eastern and	137
   western land
The children of Israel become idolatrous	138, 141
Moses makes Aaron his deputy, and fasts forty days	142
He desires to see the glory of God, but repents his rashness	143
God gives Moses the law on two tables	144, 145
Infidels threatened for calling their prophets impostors	146, 147
The people of Moses worship the golden calf	148
They repent their sin	149
Moses in indignation assaults Aaron	150
He prays for forgiveness for himself and Aaron	151
He calls for vengeance on the idolaters	152
God merciful to believers	153
Moses’s anger is appeased	154
He chooses seventy elders	155
Moses prays for deliverance from destruction by lightning	155, 156
The Illiterate Prophet foretold by Moses	156, 159
Some Jews rightly directed	160
The Israelites divided into twelve tribes	161
The rock smitten, and manna and quails given	161
The command to enter the city saying Hittatun, and the fate of	162, 163
   the disobedient
The Sabbath-breakers changed into apes	164-167
Dispersion of the Jews among the nations	168, 169
Some of their successors faithful to the law of Moses	170, 171
God shakes Mount Sinai over the Israelites	172
God’s covenant with the children of Adam	173-175
The curse of Balaam a warning to infidels	176-179
Many genii and men created for hell	180
The names of God not to be travestied	181, 182
God’s method of leading infidels to destruction	183, 184
Muhammad not possessed of a devil	185
No hope for the reprobate	186
The coming of the “last hour” sudden	187
Muhammad no seer, only a preacher	188
Adam and Eve were guilty of idolatry	189, 190
The folly of idolatry	191-198
Muhammad commanded to use moderation	199
He is to repel Satan by using the name of God	200, 201
The people of Makkah incorrigible	202
They charge Muhammad with imposture	203
The Qurán to be listened to in silence and holy meditation	204-206
Suráh 8

	Verses
Spoils belong to God and his Apostle	1
True believers and their future reward	2-4
Muslims reproved for distrusting their Prophet	5, 6
God gives the Muslims either the Quraish or their caravan	7
The victory of Badr a seal to Islám	8
Angelic aid vouchsafed to Muhammad	9
The Muslims refreshed and comforted before the battle	10, 11
The angels enjoined to comfort the faithful by destroying the	12
   infidel Quraish
Infidels are doomed to punishment here and hereafter	13, 14
Muslims are never to turn their backs on the infidels on pain of	15, 16
   hell-fire
The victory of Badr a miracle	17, 18
The Quraish are warned against further warfare with the Muslims	19
Muslims exhorted to steadfastness in faith	20, 21
Infidels compared to deaf and dumb brutes	22, 23
Believers are to submit themselves to God and his Apostle	24
They are warned against civil strife, deception, and treachery	25-28
God’s favour to true believers	29
Plots against Muhammad frustrated by God	30
The infidels liken the Qurán to fables	31
The Quraish were protected from deserved punishment by	32, 33
   Muhammad’s presence among them
The idolaters of Makkah rebuked and threatened	34-38
An amnesty offered to the Quraish	39
Impenitent idolaters to be extirpated from the earth	40, 41
How the spoils of war are to be divided	42
The Muslims were led by God to fight at Badr to attest the truth	43, 44
   of Islám
The Muslims encouraged, and the infidels lured to destruction, by	45, 46
   each seeing the other to be few in number
Believers exhorted to obedience	47, 48
Believers warned against impious vainglory	49
The devil deserts the Quraish at Badr	50
The fate of hypocrites	51-53
Their doom like that of Pharaoh and his people	54-56
The worst of beasts are the infidels	57
Treachery to be met with its like	58-60
God is against the infidels	61
The Muslims excited to war against unbelievers	62
Condition of peace with unbelievers	63
The miracle of Arab union	64
God with the Prophet and the Muslims in warring for the faith	65, 66
Muslims reproved for accepting ransom for the captives taken at	68-70
   Badr
Captive Quraish exhorted to accept Islám, and warned against	71
   deception
The brotherhood of the Ansárs and Muháj Jirín	73-75
The hereditary rights of blood-relations re-established	76
Suráh 9

Four months’ immunity proclaimed to idolaters	1, 2
After four months, all idolaters to be slain, with exception of those	3, 5
   with whom treaties have been made
Ignorant idolaters to be taught the religion of Islám, after which, if	5, 6
   they repent, they are to be spared alive
No new league to be made with idolaters	7
Idolaters are not to be trusted	8-10
Penitent idolaters to be regarded as brethren	11
Muslims exhorted to fight against the truce-breakers of Makkah	13-16
All but Muslims to be excluded from the sacred temples	17, 18
Abbás rebuked for his vainglory	19
The Muhájjirín assigned the first rank among Muslims–their reward	20-22
True believers to refuse friendship with nearest kin if they be	23, 24
   infidels
The victory of Hunain due to God’s help	25-27
Idolaters excluded from the Kaabah	28
The Jews and Christians as well as idolaters to be attacked	29
Jews and Christians reproved for applying the epithet “Son of	30
   God” to Ezra and Jesus
They also worship their priests and monks	31, 32
Islám superior to all other religions	33
Stingy Muslims likened to covetous monks–their punishment	34, 35
Infidels may be attacked in sacred months	36
The sacred months not to be transferred	37
Muslims exhorted to go on expedition to Tabúq by reference to	38-41
   God’s help to Muhammad and Abu Baqr in the cave
The lukewarm Muslims rebuked for wishing to stay at home	42
Muhammad rebuked for excusing some of these from going.	43
Willingness to fight for Muhammad, a test of faith	44-46
Seditious Muslims rebuked	47-50
The sure reward of the faithful	51, 52
God refuses the offerings of infidels and hypocrites	53-55
The wealth and prosperity of infidels a sign of their reprobation	55
Half-hearted Muslims reproved	56, 57
Those who had spread libellous reports regarding Muhammad’s	58, 59
   use of alms rebuked
How alms should be expended	60
Grumblers and hypocrites threatened	61-69
They are warned by the example of the wicked in former ages	70
The faithful described–their rewards	71-73
Hypocrites denounced and threatened	74, 75
Prosperity of infidels a prelude to their destruction	76-79
God shall scoff at the scoffers	80
The traducers of the faithful shall never be forgiven	81
Punishment of the “stayers at home”	82-84
Muhammad forbidden to pray at the grave of unbelievers and	85
   hypocrites
The Prophet not to wonder at the prosperity of the wicked	86-88
Reward of those who assist the Apostle in his wars	89, 90
Hypocritical Arabs of the desert reproved	91
Who may lawfully remain at home in time of war	92, 93
Other hypocrites reproved	94-97
The Baduín, the worst of hypocrites	98, 99
Some of them true believers	100
The reward of the Ansars and Muhájjirín	101
The desert Arabs and some of the people of Madína reproved	102
The penitent confessors in Madína are pardoned	103-106
Others await God’s decision in their case	107
Denunciation against those who built a Masjid in opposition to	108-111
   Muhammad and his faithful ones
True believers are sold to God	112, 113
Muslims not to pray for idolatrous relatives	114
Why Abraham prayed for his idolatrous parents	115
God merciful to the faithful	116-118
The three recreant Ansars pardoned	119
The people of Madína rebuked for want of loyalty to Muhammad	120-122
Some believers excused from going to war	123
True believers to war against neighbouring infidels and hypocrisy	124
Reproof of those who doubt the revelations of God and	125-128
   Muhammad
The Apostle trusts in the help of God	129, 130

Suráh 10

	Verses
The Makkans charge their Prophet with sorcery because he is a	1, 2
   man from among them
The Creator and Ruler of the universe the only true God	3
Believers rewarded at death for good deeds	4
Unbelievers punished after death	4
God’s works are signs to all men	5, 6
Rewards and punishments of the faithful and the unbelieving	7-11
God’s purpose in prospering the wicked	12
Men pray to God in affliction, but forget Him with the return of	13
   prosperity
The people of Makkah warned by the example of former	14, 15
   generations
The Quraish desire a different Qurán–Muhammad protests his	16-18
   inability to alter it
Idolaters trust intercessors who can neither profit nor harm them	19
All men originally professed one religion	20
The people demand of Muhammad a sign	21
When men despise the judgments of God he threatens greater	22
   suffering
Unbelievers remember God in distress by land and sea, but	23, 24
   forget Him when delivered
Life likened to water which sustains vegetable life	25
Paradise for Muslims and hell for the infidels	26-28
Idolaters will be deserted by their gods in the judgment-day	29-31
Idolaters exhorted to worship him whom they recognise as their	32-37
   Creator, Preserver, and Governor
The Qurán no forgery; it confirms the former Scriptures	38
Those who charge Muhammad with imposture challenged to	39, 40
   produce a chapter like it
Some believe in the Qurán, others reject it	41
The unbelieving Quraish declared to be reprobate	42-47
An apostle is sent to every nation	48
Unbelievers mock at the threatenings of their prophet	49
Every nation has its fixed period of existence	50
Infidels will believe when their punishment comes upon them	51-55
God is the Author of life and death	56, 57
The Qurán an admonition and direction to the unbelievers	58, 59
Lawful food not to be prohibited	60, 61
Muhammad ever under Divine guidance	62
The blessedness ot those who believe and fear God	63-65
Unbelievers cannot harm the Prophet	66-68
Those rebuked who say that God hath begotten children	69-71
Muhammad likened to Noah and other prophets	72-75
Moses and Aaron sent to Pharaoh and his princes	76
They are rejected as sorcerers and perverters of the national	77-82
   religion
A few of the people only believe on them	83
Moses and Aaron with the believers put their trust in God	84-86
The Israelites commanded to be constant in prayer to God	87
Moses’s prayer, that God would destroy the Egyptians, is heard	88, 89
Pharaoh and his people drowned in the sea	90
He repents and is raised out of the sea for a sign to the people	90-92
The Israelites are provided with a habitation and blessing	93
Jews and Christians appealed to in confirmation of the statements	94, 95
   of the Qurán
No kind of miracle will suffice to make the reprobate believe	96-98
Infidels do not believe on Muhammad because God does not	99-103
   permit them to do so
The people of Makkah exhorted to accept the true orthodox faith	104-107
Muhammad not responsible for the faith or unbelief of the people	108
The Prophet exhorted to be patient	109
Suráh 11

	Verses
The Qurán a revelation from God	1, 2
Muhammad a warner and a preacher of goodness	3-5
Infidels cannot hide their sin from God	6
God the Creator and Preserver of all creatures	7, 8
The resurrection rejected by the infidels as sorcery	8
They scoff at threatened punishment	9
Mercy and judgment alike disregarded by infidels	10, 11
Those who persevere in good works shall be rewarded	12
The unbelievers demand a sign from heaven	13
Muhammad charged with forging the Qurán	14
He challenges the infidels to produce ten chapters like it, or to	14, 15
   become Muslims
The miserable fate of those who live for this present world	16, 17
Moses and the Jews attest the truth of the Qurán	18
The maligners of prophets shall be cursed	19-23
The blessed portion of believers	24
Similitudes of believers and unbelievers	25

The History of Noah:–
     He is sent as a public preacher	26, 27
     The chiefs of his people reject him as a liar	28
     Noah protests his integrity–Refuses to drive away his poor	29-32
        followers–Deprecates being thought a seer or an angel
     His people challenge him to bring on the threatened judgment	33
     Noah declares that God destroys and saves whom he pleaseth	34, 35
     Noah’s people declare his message a forgery	36
     God tells Noah that no more of his people will believe on him	37
     He is commanded to make an ark	38
     Noah builds the ark and is derided by the people	39
     Embarks with his followers and one pair of each of the animals	40, 41
     Noah in vain entreats his unbelieving son to embark	42, 43
     The waters abate and the ark rests on Al Júdi	44
     Noah pleads with God for his son	45
     God reproves him for his intercession for his son	46
     Noah repents and asks pardon for his fault	47
     He descends from the ark	48
     This history a secret revealed to Muhammad	49

The History of Húd:–
     He is sent to call Ád from idolatry	50-52
     The Ádites reject him as a liar	53
     Húd protests his integrity, and declares his trust in God to save	54-57
        him from their plots
     God delivers Húd and his followers	58
     The Ádites reject their messenger and are destroyed	59, 60

The History of Sálih:–
     He is sent to call the Thamúdites from idolatry	61
     They reject his message	62
     Sálih protests his integrity, and gives them a she-camel as a	63, 64
        sign from God
     They kill the camel, and are threatened with destruction	65
     Sálih and his followers are saved from destruction	66
     The Thamúdites are miserably destroyed	67, 68

The History of Abraham and Lot:–
     God’s messengers sent to Abraham–He entertains them	69
     He is filled with fear because they refuse to eat his meat	70
     The angels quiet his fears and tell him they are sent to the	70, 71
        people of Lot
     Sarah receives the promise of Isaac and Jacob	71-73
     Abraham intercedes for the people of Lot	74
     The angels refuse his request	75
     Lot is anxious for the safety of his angel visitors	76
     The Sodomites attack his house	77-79
     The angels warn Lot to leave the city and inform him of the	80
        destruction impending over his people and his wife
     The cities are overthrown and the people killed by a shower of	81, 82
        bricks

The History of Shuaib:–
     He is sent to call the Midianites from idolatry	83
     He reproaches them for dishonest weights and measures	84-86
     The people reject him, refusing to leave their idols	87
     Shuaib protests his integrity, and exhorts them to flee the fate	88-90
        of the people of Noah, Húd, Sálih, and Lot
     The people threaten to stone him	91
     Shuaib threatens them with Divine judgment	92-94
     God destroys the infidels, but saves Shuaib and his followers	95, 96

The History of Moses:–
     He is sent with signs to Pharaoh and his princes	97
     They reject him, and are consigned to hell-fire	98-100

Exhortation and warning drawn from the fate of these cities	101-105
The condition of the righteous and wicked in judgment	106-109
Muhammad not to doubt about the religion of the Quarish	110
The Quarish doubt the Qurán as the Jews did the Pentateuch	111
God will punish their evil deeds	112
Muhammad exhorted to be steadfast	113, 114
An exhortation to prayer	115
God just in destroying the unbelieving cities	116-118
The unbelievers predestinated to damnation	119
The whole history of the prophets related to Muhammad	120
Unbelievers threatened	121, 122
Muhammad exhorted to put his trust in God	123
Suráh 12

	Verses
The Prophet acquainted by inspiration with the history of Joseph	1-3
Joseph tells his father of his vision of the stars	4
Jacob warns Joseph against the jealousy of his brethren	5
Jacob understands the dream to signify Joseph’s future	6
   prophetic character
Joseph’s story a sign of God’s providence	7
Joseph’s brethren are jealous of him and of Benjamin	8
They counsel together to kill or to expatriate him	9
One of them advises their putting him into a well	10
They beg their father to send Joseph with them	11, 12
Jacob hesitates through fear that Joseph may be devoured by a	13
   wolf
Joseph’s brethren, receiving their father’s consent, take him with	14, 15
   them and put him in a well
God sends a revelation to Joseph in the well	15
The brethren bring to Jacob the report that Joseph had been	16, 17
   devoured by a wolf
Jacob does not believe the story of his sons	18
Certain travellers finding Joseph carry him into bondage	19, 20
An Egyptian purchases Joseph and proposes to adopt him	21
God bestows on him wisdom and knowledge	22
The Egyptian’s wife endeavours to seduce Joseph	23
By God’s grace he was preserved from her enticements	24
She accuses Joseph of an attempt to dishonour her	25
The rent in his garment testifies Joseph’s innocence	26, 27
Potipher believes Joseph and condemns his wife	28, 29
The sin of Potipher’s wife becomes known in the city	30
The wives of other noblemen, seeing Joseph’s beauty, call him	31
   an angel
Potipher’s wife declares her purpose to imprison Joseph unless	32
   he yield to her solicitations
Joseph seeks protection from God	33
God hears his prayer and turns aside their snares	34
Joseph imprisoned notwithstanding his innocence	35
He undertakes to interpret the dreams of two of the king’s	36, 37
   servants who were also imprisoned with him
Joseph preaches the Divine unity to his fellow-prisoners	38, 40
He interprets the dreams of the two servants	41
Joseph asks to be remembered to the king, but is forgotten	42
The dreams of the king of Egypt	43
The king’s interpreters fail to interpret the king’s dream	44
Joseph remembers and interprets the king’s dream	45-49
The king calls Joseph out of prison	50
The women of the palace acknowledge their sin in endeavouring to	51
   entice Joseph to unlawful love
Joseph vindicated, yet professes his proneness to sin	52, 53
The king restores Joseph	54
Joseph made king’s treasurer at his own request	55-57
His brethren come to him, but do not recognise him	58
Joseph requires his brethren to bring to him their brother Benjamin	59-61
Their money returned in their sacks to induce their return	62
Jacob reluctantly permits Benjamin to go to Egypt with his brethren	63-66
Jacob counsels their entering the city by several gates	67
This counsel of no avail against God’s decree	68
Joseph, receiving Benjamin, makes himself known to him	69
He, by guile, brings his brethren under charge of theft	70-76
He insists on retaining Benjamin instead of a substitute	77, 79
After consultation, Benjamin’s brethren all return to Jacob but one	80-82
Jacob refuses to credit their story, yet puts his trust in God	83
Jacob grieves for Joseph, and yet tells of his hope	84-86
Jacob sends his sons to inquire after Joseph	87
Joseph makes himself known to his brethren	88-90
He pardons his brethren and sends his inner garment to his father	91-93
   to restore his sight
Jacob foretells the finding of Joseph, and receives his sight	94-97
He asks pardon for his wicked sons	98, 99
Joseph receives his parents unto him in Egypt	100
Jacob and his sons and wife all do obeisance to Joseph	101
Joseph praises God for his mercies and professes the Muslim	102
   faith
The infidels will not believe the signs of the Qurán	103-107
The Makkan idolaters invited to the true faith	108
God’s apostles in all ages have been but men	109
Unbelievers invariably punished for rejecting the messengers of	109, 110
   God
The Qurán no forgery, but a confirmation of the writings of former	111
   prophets
Suráh 13

	Verses
The infidels reject the Qurán	1
God manifests himself to man in his works	2-4
The unbelievers deny the resurrection	5
Their punishment	6
Threatened judgments sure to come to pass	7
Unbelievers demand a sign	8
God is omniscient	9-12
God’s purposes are unchangeable	12
Thunder and lightning manifest God as the true object of worship	13, 14
Idolaters invoke their gods in vain	15
All nature worships the Creator	16, 17
The separation of infidels from true believers typefied in the	18
   flowing stream and the melting metal
True believers described	19-22
Their reward	23, 24
The end of the infidels	25
Abundance of wealth no sign of God’s favour	26
The infidels demand a sign from heaven	27
God directs true believers	28
Muhammad sent to an unbelieving people	29
Signs unavailing to make infidels true believers	30
God will punish the unbelievers	31, 32
Idolaters are reprobate	33, 34
Paradise described	35
Certain Jews acknowledge Muhammad to be a prophet	36
Muhammad exhorted to make no compromise with idolatry	36, 37
Wives and children no hindrance to the prophetic office	38
God is lord of his own book	39
Muhammad a preacher only	40
God’s judgments sure to come to pass	41
The plots of God’s enemies not hidden from him	42
God attests the claims of his Prophet	43
Suráh 14

	Verses
The Qurán given to guide men out of darkness into light	1
A grievous punishment awaits the infidels	2, 3
Apostles always use the language of their people	4
Moses sent to Pharaoh and his people	5
His message to the children of Israel	6-8
Former prophets were rejected in spite of their miracles	9-13
Miracles only possible by the will of God	13, 14
The prophets suffer persecution with resignation	15
The unbelievers determine to expel their prophets out of the land	16
God reveals to them the overthrow of the wicked	17
Infidels fail of success through the prayers of the apostles	18
The doom of the unbelievers	19-21
God able to destroy the infidels and to create others in their stead	22, 23
Idolatrous leaders will confess themselves unable to assist their	24, 25
   deluded followers in the day of judgment
Even Satan will desert idolaters in hell	26, 27
The reward of the righteous in Paradise	28
Parables of the good and evil tree	29-32
The idolaters threatened with hell-fire	33-35
True believers exhorted to steadfastness and prayer	35, 36
Manifold favours of God to mankind	37
Abraham prays for himself and children that they may be kept	38-41
   from idolatry
He asks pardon for himself and his parents	42
God is not regardless of what infidels do, and will certainly punish	43-46
    them
The subtle plotting of the unbelievers will be brought to confusion	47, 48
The earth and heavens to be changed at the resurrection	49
The dreadful doom of the wicked	50, 51
Warning intended to lead men to the true God	52
Suráh 15

	Verses
Unbelievers will one day wish themselves Muslims	1-3
Every nation has its day of grace	4, 5
Muhammad charged with demoniacal possession	6
The unbelievers say a true prophet would have come with a	7
   company of angels
Angels are not sent to gratify curiosity, but to minister judgment	8
God the author and preserver of the Qurán	9
The former prophets were laughed to scorn	10, 11
The scoffing Quraish judicially blinded	12-15
God declares his glory in the heaven and the earth	16-20
He is active in every part of Nature	21, 22
He is the God of life, death, and judgment	23-25
Men created of clay–the genii of fire	26-29
Iblís among the angels refuses to worship Adam	29-33
He is cursed and respited until the judgment	34-38
Satan declares to God his purpose to seduce men	39, 40
The elect are safe from Satan’s power	41, 42
The seven gates of hell will receive Satan’s followers	43, 44
Paradise joys in store for true believers	45-50
The story of Abraham and Lot	51-77
The unbelieving Midianites are destroyed	78, 79
The scoffing inhabitants of Al Hajr reject their prophets though	80, 81
   accompanied with miracles
Rock-hewn houses fail to save them	82-84
The heaven and earth created in righteousness	85, 86
Command to repeat the seven verses	87
Muhammad not to envy the prosperity of infidels	88-90
The enemies of God will surely be punished	91-93
Muhammad commanded to preach boldly	94-96
He is exhorted to praise and serve God until death	97-99
Suráh 16

	Verses
God’s judgment sure to be visited on the infidels	1
Revelation is from God by the ministry of angels	2
God the Creator, as his works testify	3-8
God the true instructor of man	9
His works in heaven, earth, and sea described	10-14
The earth made firm by the mountains	15
The stars appointed to guide man	16
God not to be compared to idols	17
God merciful and omniscient	18, 19
The character of the idols declared	20-22
Infidels reject the one true God	23
The Omniscient hates the proud	24, 25
Muhammad charged with forgery	26
The unbelievers will be destroyed	27, 28
Idolaters will be disappointed in the resurrection	29-31
The reward of the righteous	32-34
Infidels can only look for judgment	35, 36
They lay their crimes to God’s charge	37
Every nation has its own prophet	38
The dreadful end of infidelity	38, 39
The infidels deny the resurrection	40
They shall be taught their error	41
God creates by a word	42
Promises to the Muhájirín	43
The patient believer will be rewarded	44
The custodians of the Scriptures to be inquired of	45
The Qurán sent to be proclaimed to the people	46
The Prophet’s enemies will be punished	47-49
All God’s creatures worship him	50-52
The true God to be worshipped and obeyed	53-55
Idolaters are ungrateful	56-58
Hating daughters, the Quraish attribute daughters to God	59-61
The human race dependent on God’s mercy	62, 63
Idolatry unreasonable	64
Satan the patron of the ungodly	65
Why the Qurán was sent	66
God’s witness to himself in nature	67-69
The bee taught of God	70, 71
All man is and all he has is of God	72-74
Yet man worships idols	75
God not to be likened to anything	76
The parable of a slave and his master	77
The parable of the blind man and one having sight	78
The affairs of the judgment-day shall be accomplished in a moment	79
God to be obeyed because he is Creator and Preserver	80-83
Muhammad only a public preacher	84
Idolaters recognise God’s mercy and yet deny him	85
Every nation has a witness against it	86, 87
Idolaters shall be deserted by their idols	88, 89
Infidel leaders to be severely punished	90
Muhammad is God’s witness against the Arabians	91
Exhortation to loyalty to God	92-99
Muhammad to have recourse to God in reading the Qurán	100
Satan has no power over believers	101, 102
The doctrine of abrogation announced	103
The Qurán sent down by the “holy spirit”	104
Muhammad charged with writing the Qurán with foreign help	105
The unbelievers shall be punished	106, 107
Forced apostasy no offence against God	108
Wiflul apostates condemned	108-110
The Muhájirín blessed	111
The rewards of the judgment-day will be just	112
Makkah punished by famine for unbelief	113, 114
Lawful and unlawful food	115-119
Sins of ignorance may be pardoned	120
Muhammad exhorted to adopt the religion of Abraham	121-124
Friday to be observed instead of the Sabbath	125
Infidels not to be treated harshly	126
Patient forbearance better than vengeance	127
God is with the righteous	128
Suráh 17

	Verses
God praised for the night-journey	1
The law of Moses a direction to the Israelites	2
Noah’s gratitude commended to his posterity	3
The double sin of Israel and its punishment	4-8
The Qurán a direction to both the faithful and the unbelievers	9-11
Men inconsiderate in their prayers	12
The night and day are signs to men	13
Every man’s fate bound about his neck	14
God will give every man the record of his life at the judgment-day	14, 15
No nation left without an apostle	16
The cities destroyed which rejected their apostles	17, 18
Rewards and punishments of the faithful and unbelieving	19-21
Degrees of honour belong to the life to come	22
Men should worship only one God	23, 24
Kindness to be shown to parents, the poor, and the stranger	24-27
Extravagance forbidden	28, 29
Those unable to contribute for the support of the poor may help	30, 31
   them by speaking kindly to them
Stinginess and foolish extravagance forbidden	32
Infanticide, fornication, and murder forbidden	33-35
The murdered man to be avenged	35
The substance of the orphans to be sacredly preserved	36
Men should lead lives of honesty and humility	37-40
God not to be dishonoured by idol-worship	41
Angels not daughters of God	42
Various warnings for the Quraish	43
A plurality of gods would lead to rebellion in heaven	44, 45
All things praise God	46
The Quraish are judicially blinded to the Qurán	47-49
Muhammad called a madman	50
The Quraish reject the doctrine of the resurrection	51-53
The dead when raised will fancy they have been dead but a little	54
   while
Idolaters and unbelievers to be mildly treated	55, 56
Some prophets peculiarly favoured	57
The false gods need divine protection	58, 59
Every city to be destroyed before the judgment-day	60
Muhammad not allowed to work miracles because of the unbelief	61
   of former tribes
The night-journey and the Zakkum tree causes of contention	62
Iblís disobeys God, and is cursed in consequence	63, 64
He receives permission to delude men	65, 66
He shall have no power over God’s servants	67
God protects the merchant while on the sea	68
Idolaters forget their idols in times of danger	69
They are ungrateful	69-71
The special privileges of mankind	72
In the judgment all shall be fairly judged	73, 74
Muhammad almost seduced from Islám	75-77
The unbelievers almost Muhammad to leave them	78, 79
Exhortation to prayer	80-82
The truth of the Qurán to be proclaimed	83, 84
Man’s perversity seen both in prosperity and adversity	85
The spirit created of God	86
Revelation (inspiration) a peculiar favour from God to Muhammad	87-89
Men and genii could not produce a book like the Qurán	90
Muhammad excuses his inability to work miracles	91-95
Men appointed messengers for men and angels for angels	96-98
The dreadful fate of the idolaters at the resurrection	99, 100
God is able to raise the dead	101
Man covetous even in respect to God’s mercy	102
The nine signs of Moses fail to convince Pharaoh	103, 104
Pharaoh destroyed	105
The children of Israel succeed Pharaoh in his possession of the	106
   land of Egypt
Why the Qurán was revealed in parcels	107
Some Jews and Christians believe on the Qurán	108, 109
God and the Merciful the same	110
God hath neither son nor partner	111
Suráh 18

	Verses
God praised for the gift of the Qurán	1
The Qurán a warner to unbelievers and good tidings to the faithful	2
Those who say God has sons or daughters are liars	3, 4
Muhammad grieves for the unbelief of his people	5
Earth’s adornment to be reduced to dust	6, 7
The story of the companions of the cave	8-22
Muhammad rebuked for promising a revelation on a fixed date	23
The sleepers of the cave sleep 309 years	24
Times and seasons are in God’s hands	25
None can change the Qurán	26
The pious are the Prophet’s guardians	27
Truth is from the Lord	28
Sufferings of the wicked contrasted with the rewards of the	28-30
   righteous
The parable of the two men	31-42
Life on earth likened to water from heaven	43
Good works better than wealth and children	44
Mankind assembled on the judgment-day	45
The manner of the judgment–the book of personal action delivered	46, 47
Iblís refuses to worship Adam	48
Genii, the offspring of Satan, not present at the creation	49
Idol-worshippers deserted by their idols in the judgment	50
The wicked doomed to hell-fire	51
The Qurán rejected by men through unbelief	52, 53
Prophets are sent with threats and good news	54
The sin of apostasy	55-57
Unbelief destroyed the former cities	58
Moses and Joshua visit Khidhar	59-64
Moses desires to be taught by Khidhar	65
Khidhar, knowing Moses’s inability to receive his wisdom, yields	66-69
   to his importunity
He scuttles a boat, kills a man, and builds a tottering wall	70-76
Khidhar refuses to communicate further with Moses on account of	77-81
   his protests against his conduct, but condescends to explain his
   conduct
Dhu al Qarnain journeys to the setting sun	82-84
He finds a people, whom he is permitted to treat as he will	85-87
He travels east and north, where he finds an ignorant race, who	88-93
   plead his protection against Gog and Magog
He builds a rampart against them	94-96
Gog and Magog to be let loose before the judgment-day	97-99
Rewards and punishments in the judgment	100-108
Were the ocean ink, it would not suffice to write all the words of	109
   God	
Muhammad only a mortal man	110

Suráh 19

	Verses
Zacharias prays for offspring	1-6
Gabriel is sent with an answer promising a son	7, 8
Zacharias asks a sign which is given	9-12
John’s mission and character described	13-15
Story of Mary’s miraculous conception	16-22
The birth of Jesus	22, 23
Mary in distress is comforted by Jesus	23-27
Mary brings her child to her people, who reproach her	28, 29
Jesus (speaking in infancy) vindicates his mother and describes his	30-34
   own prophetic character
Jesus the Word of Truth	35
God has no son	36
God alone to be worshipped	37
The miserable fate of Jewish and Christian sectaries	38-41
The story of Abraham:–
     He reproaches his father for idolatry	42-46
     His father threatens to stone him	47
     Abraham prays for his father, but separates himself from him	48-50
     God gives him Isaac and Jacob, who were notable prophets	50, 51
Moses–an apostle and prophet	52
     Discourses with God privately	53
     Aaron given him for an assistant	54
Ismaíl was a prophet acceptable to his Lord	55, 56
Idrís was taken up to heaven	57, 58
God is bounteous to all true prophets	59
The followers of former prophets compared with those of	59, 60
   Muhammad
The reward of the faithful in Paradise	61-64
Gabriel comes down from heaven only when commanded	65
God is the only Lord–no name like his	66
The dead shall surely rise	67, 68
The dead shall be judged on their knees	69-73
Believers and unbelievers compared	74, 75
The prosperity of infidels a sign of God’s reprobation	76, 77
Good works better than riches	78, 79
The doom of the wicked certain	80-83
Even the false gods will desert idolaters in the judgment	84, 85
God sends devils to incite infidels to sin	86, 87
The pious to be honoured before God	88
The wicked to be driven into hell	89, 90
Attributing children to God a great sin	91-93
God the only Lord–all creatures his servants	94, 95
Believers to be rewarded with love	96
The Qurán made easy for Muhammad	97
Miserable doom of all God’s enemies	98

Suráh 20

	Verses
The Qurán an admonition from God to the faithful	1-3
God one, a Sovereign King, omniscient, and possessed of most	4-7
   excellent names

The History of Moses:–
     He sees the burning bush	8-10
     God speaks to him out of the fire	11, 12
     He is chosen and instructed by God	13, 14
     A day of judgment will surely come	15-17
     God bestows on him signs and miracles	18-24
     He is commanded to go to Pharaoh	25
     Moses prays for the assistance of Aaron	26-35
     God reminds Moses of former favours	36-42
     He is sent with Aaron to Pharaoh	43-50
     Conversation between Pharaoh and Moses	51-57
     Pharaoh rejects Moses and accuses him of imposture	58, 59
     Pharaoh proposes to meet Moses and Aaron with counter-	60-62
        miracles
     Moses warns the magicians against deception	63, 64
     The magicians dispute among themselves	65
     They counsel Pharaoh against Moses	66
     Pharaoh encourages the magicians to do their best	67
     The contest between Moses and the magicians	68-72
     The magicians are converted	73
     Pharaoh threatens the magicians with dire punishment	74, 75
     The magicians defy the wrath of Pharaoh, and express hope	75-78
        in God
     God commands Moses to lead the Israelites through the Red	79, 80
        Sea
     Pharaoh pursues them, and is overwhelmed by the sea	81
     God feeds the Israelites on manna and quails in the desert	82, 83
     God’s treatment of the unbelieving and penitent	83, 84
     The Israelites worship a golden calf	85-87
     Moses reproaches them with idolatry	88-89
     They lay the blame on al Sámirí	90, 91
     The people disobey Aaron	92, 93
     Moses rebukes Aaron–his apology	94, 95
     Sámirí’s explanation of his conduct	96
     Sámirí’s doom to social ostracism	97, 98
The penalty of rejecting God’s revelations	97-101
The resurrection and the conduct of those judged on the judgment-	102-107
   day
No intercession on that day, except by permission	108
The fate of the wicked and reward of the righteous	109-111
The Qurán made easy for Muhammad, but he is not to be hasty in	112, 113
   repeating it

The Story of Adam:–
     Adam disobeys God	114
     All the angels worship Adam except Iblís	115
     Adam warned against Satan	116, 117
     Satan beguiles Adam and Eve	118, 119
     God pardons, but expels them from Paradise	120, 121
     An admonition promised, with penalty of rejection of it	122-124
Infidels will appear in the judgment blind, and reasons for blindness	125-127
The Makkans warned	128, 129
Muhammad comforted and encouraged	130-132
The Jews demand a sign, and the Quraish disbelieve	133, 134
God directs Muhammad to proclaim his readiness to wait the final	135
   issue of the controversy between them
Suráh 21

	Verses
The judgment of careless and mocking Quraish near	1-4
The Makkan people regard Muhammad as “a forger”	5
Miracles not performed by Muhammad because former nations	6
   received no benefit from seeing them
The former prophets were but mortal men	7, 8
God favours his prophets but judges infidels	9
The Quraish mentioned in the Qurán	10
The unbelieving cities and scoffers destroyed	11-15
God not given to sport	16, 17
The truth must triumph	18
Angels serve God, therefore not to be worshipped	19-22
God is sovereign	23
The great sin of idolatry	24
All apostles testified to God’s unity	25
Angels are the daughters of God	26-28
Angelic intercession only by divine permission	29
The doom of angels who usurp divine honours	30
God’s works the proof of his divinity	31-34
None immortal but God	35, 36
Muhammad regarded by the Makkans as a scoffer	37
Men hasty to call down divine wrath on themselves	38, 39
Threatened vengeance will descend suddenly	40, 41
The doom of those who mocked former prophets	42, 43
The gods of the idolaters unable to deliver their votaries	44
God will triumph over the infidels	45
Muhammad only a warner	46
The deaf will not hear the warnings of God	47
God will judge righteously	48
Moses and Aaron, like Muhammad, received a revelation	49-51

The Story of Abraham–
     He receives a revelation	52
     Reproaches his father and people with idolatry	53-57
     He devises a plot to destroy the idols	58
     He destroys the idols of the Chaldeans	59, 60
     He is accused before the people	61, 62
     He lays the blame on the largest idol	63, 64
     The Chaldeans at first disposed to repent, but they draw back	65, 66
     Abraham reproaches them for their idolatry	67
     They command him to be burned alive	68
     God miraculously delivers him	69, 70
     He receives the promise of Isaac and Jacob	71-73
Lot delivered from Sodom	74, 75
Noah delivered from the Flood	76, 77
The persecutors of Noah drowned	77
The wisdom of David and Solomon	78-80
Winds and demons subject to Solomon	81, 82
Job is delivered from his affliction	83, 84
Other prophets receive mercy from God	85-88
Zachariah’s prayer answered	89, 90
God’s favour to Mary and Jesus	91
The true religion one, but Jews and Christians have sects	92, 93
The faithful certain to be rewarded	94
Infidels to be judged at the resurrection	95-97
Idolaters with their gods to be cast into hell	98-100
The reward of the righteous	101-103
The heavens to be rolled away at the judgment	104
The righteous shall inherit the earth	105, 106
Muhammad proclaims himself to be a warner	107-109
God knoweth the secret thoughts of the infidels	110, 111
God will judge the infidels and show mercy to his prophet	112
Suráh 22

	Verses
The dreadful character of the judgment-day	1, 2
Nudhár Ibn al Hárith rebuked for his infidelity	3, 4
Proofs of the doctrine of the resurrection	5-7
Abu Jahl’s obstinate infidelity and its punishment	8-10
Hypocrites exposed and rebuked	11-13
God will reward the righteous	14
God will cause Muhammad and the Qurán to triumph	15, 16
God will judge between the followers of conflicting faiths	17
All creatures praise God	18
The awful fate of unbelievers contrasted with the joy of believers	19-24
Profaners of the Kaabah will be punished	25, 26
God appointed the site of the Kaabah an abode for Abraham	27
The pilgrimage to Makkah instituted for Muslims	28-32
Rites to be observed by the pilgrims	32-35
Sacrifices appointed for the professors of every religion	36
The humble believer encouraged	37
The sacrifices at Madína symbolical of obedience to God	38, 39
War against infidels permitted when in self-defence	40-43
All God’s prophets have been accused of imposture	44, 45
Infidels blind to God’s judgments on the ungodly	46, 47
Though God is forbearing he will punish unbelievers	48, 49
Muhammad a public preacher	50
Reward and punishment of believers and infidels	51, 52
All prophets have been subject to Satanic deception	53-55
The unbelievers incorrigible, but God will judge between them and	56-58
   the righteous
Blessed condition of the Muhájjarín and martyrs	59, 60
Revenge of personal injuries permitted	61
God the Creator and Preserver of all things	62-67
Professors of other religions not to dispute with Muhammad	68
How Muhammad should treat those who dispute with him	69, 70
The Omniscient God has decreed all things	71
Idolaters have no proof from God for their idolatry	72
Unbelievers (Quraish) ready to use violence towards the Muslims	73
The Makkan idols unable to keep the flies off themselves	74
Idolaters have a low estimate of the power of God	75
God chooses messengers from among men and angels	76
God knoweth all things, and all shall return to him	77
True believers exhorted to worship God and to fight in defence of	78, 79
   his religion
Muslims exhorted to be steadfast in the faith of their father Abraham	79
Suráh 23

	Verses
True believers described	1-9
Their reward hereafter	10, 11
God the creator of mankind	12-14
The dead shall be raised by him	15, 16
God created the seven heavens	17
God the author of all our blessings	18-23
Noah, sent as an apostle of God, preaches against idolatry	24
The people reject Noah as a madman	25-27
Noah is commanded to make the ark, to save himself and true	28-32
   followers from the Flood
Other nations after that of Noah perish in their infidelity	33-46
Moses and Aaron are rejected as impostors	47-50
The unbelievers are destroyed, but God gives a book to Moses	50, 51
   for the direction of believers
Jesus and Mary created a sign	52
Apostles exhorted to be steadfast in the true faith	53, 54
The sectarians to be left in their confusion	55-58
True believers sure of their reward	59-62
God judges men according to their ability	63
The idolatrous Quraish will not believe the Qurán	64, 65
Idolaters will cry unto God in vain when in distress	66-68
The Quraish reject their Prophet as a madman	69-72
A gracious invitation rejected by them	73-75
God continues the calamity of the Makkans in mercy to them	76
The chastisements of the Lord rejected	77, 78
God, the author of life and intellect, can raise the dead	79-81
The Quraish persist in denying the resurrection	82-84
They are judged out of their own mouths	85-91
Angels not the offspring of God	92, 93
The Prophet takes refuge in God against every evil spirit	94-99
Repentance after death will be in vain	100, 101
The awful doom of unbelievers	102-109
They are punished for persecuting believers	110-112
Time will pass slowly in hell	113-115
Triumph of the faithful over the unbelieving idolaters	116-119
Suráh 24

	Verse
This chapter revealed from heaven	1
Law relating to fornication	2, 3
Punishment for defaming virtuous women	4, 5
Law relating to charge of adultery when made by a husband	6-10
   against his wife
Ayesha’s slanderers reproved, and their punishment	11-20
Believers warned against evil deeds	21
The rich to forgive the poor, and bestow charity upon them	22
False accusers of virtuous women for ever accursed	23-25
Wicked men and women condemned to each other’s society	26
Manners to be observed in visiting each other’s homes	27-29
Pious men and women exhorted to modest demeanour	30, 31
Marriageable women to be married if possible	32
Men-servants and maid-servants to be married when honest	32
Unmarried Muslims exhorted to continence	33
Masters to encourage slaves to purchase their freedom	33
The Qurán an admonition to the pious	34
The similitude of God’s light	35
The conduct of true believers described	36-38
Infidelity likened to a desert mirage or the darkness of a stormy sea	39
God praised by all his creatures	40, 41
God revealed in all the phenomena of nature	42-45
Hypocrites rebuked and warned	46-56
Regulations relating to personal and family privacy	57, 58
Exception in case of aged women, blind, lame, and sick	59, 60
Muslims commanded to salute one another	61
True believers exhorted to implicit obedience to the Apostle of	62, 63
   God
The Omniscient God will judge all men	64
Suráh 25

	Verses
God praised for the Qurán	1
The one God a sovereign Creator and Ruler	2
The idolaters worship gods that are helpless	3, 4
The Qurán said to be Muhammad’s won forgery	5, 6
Muhammad protests that the Qurán is from God	7
Unbelievers reject Muhammad because he is like other men	8, 9
Muhammad said to be a madman	9
God comforts Muhammad on account of these calumnies	10
Unbelievers doomed to hell-fire	11-16
The reward of the pious in Paradise	16, 17
Even the false gods will desert their worshippers in the judgment-	18-21
   day
The former prophets were all like Muhammad	22
The blasphemous unbelief of the Quraish	23
They shall be punished and their works demolished	24, 25
Relative condition of the faithful and the unbelievers in the	26-32
   resurrection
Former prophets had their enemies among unbelievers	33
The Qurán sent down by piecemeal a stumbling-stone to infidels,	34-36
   but a comfort to believers
Those who accused Moses and Aaron of imposture were	37, 38
   destroyed
Noah’s calumniators drowned	39
Ádites, Thamúdites, and Sodomites destroyed for infidelity	40-42
The Quraish warned in vain by these examples	43-45
God’s works testify to his being	46-52
God could have sent a preacher to every city	53
Muhammad not to obey the will of infidels	54
God the Creator and Ruler of all things	55, 56
Unbelievers worship idols and assist Satan	57
Muhammad sent to be a preacher and a warner	58
Muhammad only desires the conversion of his people	59
He is exhorted to trust the merciful Creator and Ruler of heaven	60
   and earth
The infidels refuse to worship the God of Muhammad	61
God praised for his benevolent works	62, 63
The servants of God described	64-68
Wicked men saved by repentance and good works	69-71
True penitents described	72-74
Their reward in Paradise	75, 76
God reprobates the Quraish	77
Suráh 26

	Verses
Muhammad is grieved at the unbelief of the Quraish	1, 2
God will grant them no miracle save the Qurán	3, 4
The Quraish regard the Qurán as a forgery	5
God will send a grim messenger whom they shall respect	5-8
The story of Moses:–
     He is sent to Pharaoh and his people	9, 10
     Fearing that he will be called an impostor, Moses asks that	11, 12
        Aaron be sent with him
     Moses being assured that he will not be put to death for	13-16
        murder, is sent to demand release of the Israelites
     Pharaoh charges Moses with ingratitude	17, 18
     Moses apologises to Pharaoh for killing the Egyptian	19, 21
     Moses is charged with being a madman	22, 27
     Pharaoh threatens Moses if he do not worship him	28
     Moses performs miracles before Pharaoh	29-32
     Egyptian magicians called to compete with Moses	33-41
     Moses contests with the magicians, who are converted	42-47
     Pharaoh, enraged, threatens to crucify the magicians	48, 49
     The magician converts put their trust in God	50, 51
     Moses commanded to take Israelites forth from Egypt	52
     Pharaoh and his people pursue them	53-60
     The Red Sea is divided by Moses, and Israelites pass over	61-65
     The Egyptians are drowned, and become a warning to all	66-68
        unbelievers
The story of Abraham:–
     He preaches against idolatry	69-82
     Abraham prays for himself and his father	83-92
     He warns his people of the vain repentance of idolaters in hell	93-102
     Most of his people rejected him	103, 104
The story of Noah:–
     His people accused him of imposture	105
     Noah exhorts them to have faith in God	106-110
     Unbelievers desire Noah to reject his poor followers	111-115
     Refusing, they threaten him with violence	116
     Noah takes refuge in God, and is saved in the ark	117-119
     The unbelievers are drowned	120-122
The story of Ád:–
     They charge God’s messengers with imposture	123
     Húd claims the prophetic office, and preaches to the Ádites	124-135
     They reject his warnings and charge him with imposture	136-139
     The unbelieving Ádites are destroyed	139-140
The story of the Thamúdites:–
     They charge the prophets with imposture	141
     Sálih, declaring himself a prophet, preaches to them	142-152
     The Thamúdites reject Sálih and call him a madman	153
     They demand a sign, and a she-camel is given for a sign	154-156
     They slay the she-camel, and are destroyed for infidelity	157-159
The story of Lot:–
     The Sodomites accuse their prophets with imposture	160
     Lot proclaims himself a prophet, and preaches to them	161-166
     The Sodomites threaten him with violence	167
     God saves Lot from Sodom, but Lot’s wife is destroyed	168-171
     The unbelievers destroyed by a shower of stones	172-174
The story of the Midianites:–
     They call God’s messengers impostors	175
     Shuaib proclaims himself a prophet, and preaches to them	176-184
     They call him a madman and a liar, and challenge him to cause	185-187
        the heavens fall on them
     They are destroyed in their unbelief	188-191
The Qurán given to Muhammad, through Gabriel, in the Arabic	192-195
   language
The Qurán attested as God’s Word by the former Scriptures	196, 197
The hearts of the Quraish are hardened by the Qurán	198-203
The Quraish scorn Muhammad’s threatenings	204
God’s mercy deepens the condemnation of impenitent infidels	205-207
God never destroys a people without first warning them	208-209
The Devil did not assist in revealing the Qurán	210-212
Muhammad warned against idolatry, and admonished to preach	213, 214
   Islám to his relatives
True believers to be treated meekly, and unbelievers to be	215-220
   treated with forbearance
Devils descend on the hearts of unbelievers	221-223
Unbelieving poets are mad; believing poets commended	224-228
The unjust will speedily be punished	228
Suráh 27

	Verses
The Qurán is a direction of good tiding to the faithful	1-3
Unbelievers are losers here and hereafter	4, 5
The Qurán certainly given by God to Muhammad	6
The story of Moses at the burning bush	7-12
Moses rejected by Pharaoh and the Egyptians as an impostor	13, 14
David and Solomon praise God for their wisdom	15
Solomon’s dominion over genii, men, and birds	16, 17
The wise ant pleases Solomon	18, 19
The story of the Queen of Sabá and her conversion to Islám	20-45
Thamúd rejects Sálih their prophet	46-48
Nine men plot the destruction of Sálih and his family	49-51
The Thamúdites and their plotters destroyed, but Sálih and his	52-54
   followers are saved
The story of Lot and the destruction of Sodom	55-59
God, the creator and preserver, more worthy of praise than false	60-68
   gods
The unbelievers scoff at the warnings of Muhammad	69, 70
They shall certainly be destroyed as were those who rejected the	71, 72
   prophets of old
Judgment on the wicked delayed through the mercy of God	73-77
The Qurán decides the points of controversy among the children	78-80
   of Israel
Muhammad comforted by the assurance of his integrity	81
Reprobate infidels blind to the error of their ways	82, 83
Signs of judgment and doom of unbelievers	84-90
The righteous secure from the terror of judgment	91
The wicked shall be punished	92
Muhammad commanded to worship God, to be a Muslim, and to	93, 94
   proclaim the Qurán
God will show his signs to true believers	95
Suráh 28

	Verses
Muhammad receives the story of Moses for the benefit of	1, 2
   believers
Pharaoh oppresses the Israelites	3
God determines to befriend the weak and to destroy oppressors	4, 5
Moses’s mother directed to commit her child to the river	6
Pharaoh’s family take up the infant Moses	7, 8
The anxiety of Moses’s mother–his sister watches him	9, 10
Moses refuses the Egyptian nurse, and his mother is employed	11, 12
God bestows on him wisdom and strength	13
He slays an Egyptian and flies to Madian	14-20
By divine direction he reaches the wells of Madian	21, 22
He waters the flocks of the daughters of Shuaib (Jethro)	23, 24
Meeting Shuaib, he relates his history	25
Shuaib gives him one of his daughters in marriage	26-28
Fulfilling the marriage contract, Moses journeys towards Egypt	29
He sees the burning bush, and receives prophetic commission	29-32
   and power to perform miracles
Moses, fearing Pharaoh, asks the help of Aaron	33-35
Egyptians regard Moses and Aaron as sorcerers	36
Moses threatens them with God’s judgment	37
Pharaoh, claiming to be a god, asks Hámán to build a tower up to	38
   heaven
Pharaoh and his princes blaspheme God	38, 39
God drowns Pharaoh and his princes in the sea	40
They shall be rejected of God in the resurrection	41, 42
Moses receives the Pentateuch for a direction to his people	43
Muhammad inspired to preach to the Arabs	44-46
His preaching renders unbelievers inexcusable	47
The Quraish reject both Pentateuch and Qurán	48
They are challenged to produce a better book than these	49
The Makkans warned by the faith of certain Jews	50-53
Reward of converted Jews and Christians	54
Character of true converts to Islám	55
Men are only directed to true faith by God	56
The Quraish fear to follow Muhammad lest they be expelled from	57
   Makkah
Cities destroyed for unbelief in, and persecution of, God’s true	58, 59
   prophets
Present prosperity no sign of God’s favour	60, 61
False gods will desert their votaries in judgment-day	62, 64
The idolaters shall be speechless then, but penitents shall be	65-67
   saved
God, the only true God, produces the recurrence of day and night	70-73
God shall produce a witness against every nation at the judgment	74, 75
The story of Qárún	76-82
Pardon granted to the humble and obedient	83-85
Muhammad received the Qurán unexpectedly	86
Muhammad exhorted to steadfastness in the faith of Islám	86-88
Suráh 29

	Verses
Religious faith is proved by trials	1, 2
Evil deeds will surely be punished	3
The righteous shall be rewarded for their good deeds	4-6
Parents not to be obeyed when they oppose God’s law	7
Salvation by faith and good works	8
Hypocrites exposed and rebuked	9, 10
Unbelievers shall be punished for deceiving others by false	11, 12
   promises
The enemies of Noah drowned for their unbelief	13, 14
Abraham preached against idolatry	15, 16
Abraham accused of being an impostor	17
He shows the idolaters how God’s power is manifested in nature	18, 19
He declares that none shall escape the judgment of God	20-22
His people attempt to burn him, but God saves him	23
He discourses against the idolatry of his people	24
Lot believes in Abraham, who determines to fly his country	25
God gives Abraham descendants who possess the gift of	26
   prophecy and the Scriptures
The story of Lot and his ministry in Sodom	27-34
Shuaib’s ministry to the unbelieving Madianites	35, 36
Ád and Thamúd destroyed in unbelief	37
Qárún, Pharaoh, and Hámán destroyed in unbelief	38
Various means by which God destroyed infidels	39
Idolatry likened to a spider’s web	40
God knoweth the idols worshipped by men	41
God’s works and signs only understood by true believers	42, 43
Muhammad is commanded to recite the Qurán and to give himself	44
   to prayer
Muslims not to fight against Jews and Christians except in self-	45
   defence
The Qurán and the former Scriptures one revelation	45, 46
The miracle of Muhammad’s reading and writing a proof of the	47
   inspiration of the Qurán
Unbelievers only reject the Qurán	48
Muhammad challenged to work a miracle	49
The Qurán itself a sufficient miracle	50
God will judge between Muhammad and the infidels	51, 52
The infidels call for judgment, and it will find them unprepared	53-55
Believers exhorted to fly from persecution	56
The reward of the righteous dead	57-59
God’s works in creation and providence witness his being	60-63
The present life a vain show	64
Unbelievers are ungrateful	65, 66
The ingratitude of the Arab idolaters	67, 68
God will reward the faithful	69
Suráh 30

	Verses
A prophecy concerning the ultimate triumph of the Greeks over the	1-5
   Persians
God’s power manifest in nature	6, 7
The Quraish heed not the warnings of God	8, 9
The despair of the infidels in the resurrection	10-12
The righteous and wicked shall be separated on the judgment-day	13-15
God to be worshipped at stated periods	16, 17
The changes in nature a proof of the resurrection	18
Various signs of God’s omnipotence	19-26
The idolaters convinced of folly by reference to their own customs	27, 28
Muhammad exhorted to follow the orthodox faith and to avoid	29-31
   idolatry
The ingratitude of idolaters, who call on God in adversity but forget	32-35
   him in prosperity
Muslims exhorted to charity	36-38
The idols unable to create and preserve life	39
God’s judgments follow man’s iniquity	40, 41
Exhortation to repentance before the judgment	42
The separation of the wicked and the just in the judgment-day;	42-44
   rewards and punishments
God’s goodness in his providence a sign to men	45
Those who rejected the former prophets were punished	46
God’s mercy manifest in his works	47-49
A blasting wind sufficient to harden the hearts of the unbelievers	50
Muhammad unable to make the dead to hear or the blind to see	51, 52
God the Creator	53
Believers and unbelievers on the resurrection-day	54-57
The parables of the Qurán rejected	58
Unbelievers are given over to blindness	59
Muhammad encouraged to steadfastness in the true religion	60
Suráh 31

	Verses
The Qurán a direction and mercy to the righteous	1, 2
The righteous described	3, 4
An unbeliever rebuked for his contempt for the Qurán	5, 6
Blessed rewards of the righteous	7, 8
God the Creator of heaven and earth	9, 10
Luqmán gifted with wisdom	11
Luqmán’s discourse to his son	12, 15-17
Parenthesis on the duty of children to their parents	13, 14
Modesty and humility enjoined	18
God’s favour to mankind	19
The unreasonableness of infidel contention	19, 20
The security of true believers	21
The certain punishment of unbelief	22, 23
Praise to God, the self-sufficient Creator	24, 25
God’s words infinite in number	26
Man’s creation an evidence of God’s sovereignty	27
The heavens declare the glory of God	28, 29
The ingratitude of idolaters to God	30, 31
Men warned to prepare for judgment	32-34

Suráh 32

	Verses
The Qurán is without doubt inspired revelation	1
Muhammad did not forge the Qurán	2
The heavens and earth created in six days	3
God will judge all men after the resurrection	4
The Omniscient God the Creator of mankind	5-8
Yet man, the creature, denies the resurrection	9, 10
Unbelievers shall be brought before God	11
They shall repent too late to avail for pardon	12
Hell must be filled with genii and men	13, 14
The reward of true believers	15-19
The punishment of unbelievers here and hereafter	20, 21
To reject God’s signs a great sin	22
The Pentateuch given to Moses	23
Teachers chosen from among the Israelites to direct them in the	24
   way of God
God will settle their disputes in the Judgment-day	25
The people of Makkah warned by the fate of their predecessors	26
The resurrection typified in nature, but infidels do not understand	27
The infidels urge Muhammad to hasten the judgment-day	28-30
Suráh 33

	Verses
Muhammad to obey God rather than the unbelievers	1-3
Adopted sons not to be regarded as real sons by Muslims	4, 5
Muhammad’s wives the mothers of the faithful	6
The covenant of the prophets with God	7, 8
God’s favour to the Muslims at the Ditch	9-11
The disaffected people of Madína rebuked	12-15
None can flee from God’s anger	16, 17
The treachery of the hypocrites of Madína exposed	18-20
Muhammad an example to the faithful	21
Patient endurance of the believers at the Ditch	22-24
The triumph at the Ditch attributed to God’s favour	25
Reference to the slaughter of the Bani Qainuqáa	26, 27
Muhammad’s wives rebuked	28, 29
Muhammad’s wives, if incontinent, to be doubly punished, but if	30, 31
   faithful, to be doubly rewarded
They are exhorted to modest behaviour and piety	32-34
Blessings promised to faithful men and women	35
Revelations touching the Zainab scandal	36-40
The blessedness of true believers	41-43
Muhammad a witness and preacher of good tidings	44-47
The law of divorce modified	48
Special privileges of Muhammad in respect to women	49-51
Muhammad limited in respect to wives	52
Conduct to be observed by believers at the Prophet’s house	53-55
God and the angels bless Muhammad, who should be treated	56
   with respect by believers
The curse of those who offend Muhammad or the Muslims	57, 58
Command respecting the veiling of Muslim women	59
Threatened punishment of Madína hypocrites	60-62
Men know not the hour of judgment	63
Awful fate of infidels	64-68
Believers exhorted to respectful treatment of their Prophet	69-71
The responsibilities of the faithful	72, 73
Suráh 34

	Verses
Praise to the All-wise and Sovereign God	1, 2
Unbelievers shall not escape the judgment-day	3
The reward of believers and the punishment of infidels sure	4, 5
Certain Jews accept the Qurán as the word of God	6
The Quraish scoff at the doctrine of the resurrection	7
Muhammad accused of being a forger of the Qurán and a madman	8
Divine judgments threatened against the unbelievers	8, 9
David received blessing and knowledge from God	10
Solomon received dominion over the winds and the genii	11
The palaces, statues of Solomon, &c., constructed by genii	12
Solomon’s death concealed from the genii	13
The people of Sabá rebel against God and are punished	14-16
They are dispersed on account of covetousness	17, 18
All but a few believers follow Iblís	19, 20
The idolaters worship imaginary deities	21
Only those who are permitted shall intercede on the judgment-day	22
The bountiful God will judge between true believers and the	23-26
   infidels
Muhammad sent to man as a warner	27
The infidels will feel God’s threatened punishment in the judgment-	28, 29
   day
Mutual enmity of the idolaters and their leaders on the day of	30-32
   judgment
God’s prophets have always been opposed by the affluent	33
The Makkans boast in their riches in vain	34, 35
The righteous only shall be saved	36
Muhammad’s adversaries shall be punished	37
The Lord will reward the almsgivers	38
The angels shall repudiate their worshippers	39, 40
Idolaters shall be unable to help one another in the judgment	41
The unbelievers call Muhammad a forger of the Qurán and	42
   blasphemer
Rejecting their Prophet as did those before them, the Makkans	43, 44
   shall receive like punishment
Muhammad protests the truth of his claims	45-49
Unbelievers shall repent when too late to avail	50-54
Suráh 35

	Verses
God praised as the Sovereign Creator	1, 2
The Quraish exhorted to worship the true God	3
Muhammad told that it is no strange thing for a prophet to be called	4
   an impostor
God’s promises true, but Satan is a deceiver	5, 6
Reward for believers and punishment for infidels sure	7, 8
Reprobate sinners shall not be as the righteous before God	9
The desert made green by rainfall a type of the resurrection	10
God exalteth the righteous but bringeth to nought the devices of	11
   sinners
God, who is man’s Creator, knoweth all things	12
God’s mercy to man seen in the waters	13
Day, night, the sun, and moon glorify God	14
The vanity of idol-worship	14, 15
Man is dependent on God, but God is self-sufficient	16-18
Every one shall bear his own burden in the judgment-day	19
Muhammad commanded to admonish secret believers	19
God will not regard the righteous and the unrighteous alike	20, 21
Every nation has its own prophet	22
Those who accused the former prophets of imposture were	23, 24
   punished
God’s mercy seen in nature	25
God rewards the prayerful and the charitable	26, 27
The Qurán a confirmation of former Scriptures	28
The varied conduct of those who receive the Qurán	29
The rewards of the faithful in Paradise	30-32
The just punishment of unbelievers in hell	33-35
God knoweth the secrets of the heart	36
Unbelievers shall reap the fruit of their infidelity	37
God gave the idolaters no authority for their idolatry	38
God alone sustains the heavens	39
The Quraish impiously reject their Prophet	40, 41
They shall receive the punishment bestowed upon those who	42, 43
   rejected the former prophets
Were God to punish sinners the world would be bereft of its	44
   human population
God will regard his servants in the judgment-day	45
Suráh 36

	Verses
God swears that Muhammad is a prophet	1-3
The Qurán given to warn the Makkans	4, 5
The greater part of the people of Makkah reprobate	6-9
Muhammad’s preaching only profitable to secret believers	10
The dead shall be raised; all their deeds are registered	11
Two apostles of Jesus sent to Antioch	12, 13
They are rejected as impostors and threatened with stoning	14-17
The apostles warn the people of Antioch of impending divine	18
   judgments
A certain believer is put to death by the infidels	19-26
The persecutors are suddenly destroyed	27, 28
Men generally reject God’s messengers	29
The lessons of the past are forgotten	30
The doctrine of the resurrection asserted and illustrated	31-33
God’s power and goodness manifested by his works	34-44
Unbelievers unmoved by either fear or the signs of the Qurán	45, 46
They scoff at almsgiving and the resurrection	47, 48
The resurrection trumpet and the judgment-day shall surprise the	49-53
   unbelievers
God’s judgment shall be according to works	54
The rewards of the righteous and the punishment of the wicked	55-65
God deals with the wicked as he pleaseth	66-68
Muhammad not a poet; the Qurán is the word of God	69, 70
God manifest in his works of benevolence	71-73
Idolaters will find their trust in idols vain	74, 75
The Prophet not to grieve at the hard speeches of the idolaters;	76
   God knoweth all
The Creator of all things able to raise the dead to life	77-81
God says Be, and it is	82
Praise be to the Sovereign Creator and raiser of the dead	83
Suráh 37

	Verses
The Prophet swears that God is one	1-5
The devils not permitted to hear the discourse of heaven	6-10
The audacity of the Makkan infidels	11, 12
They scoff at the Qurán as the product of sorcery	13-15
They reject the doctrine of the resurrection	16, 17
The despair of the infidels on the judgment-day	18-21
Idolaters and their idols and gods to be called to account	22-24
They will dispute among themselves and reproach one another	25-29
They shall all be punished in hell	30-33
Makkan idolaters call their Prophet “a distracted poet”	34, 35
Muhammad protests his prophetic character and threatens the	36-38
   infidels
Reward of believers in Paradise	39-47
Believers shall look down from heaven upon their infidel	48-53
   acquaintance in hell
The righteous attribute their salvation to the grace of God	54, 55
They rejoice in life eternal	56-59
The tree at Zaqqúm described	60-62
The awful portion of the damned	63-66
Makkan infidels follow in the footsteps of their fathers	67-72
The story of Noah–
     Noah calls on God in his distress	73
     He and his family are delivered	74
     His name to be revered by posterity	75-79
     The unbelievers are drowned	80
The story of Abraham–
     Abraham a follower of Noah’s religion	81, 82
     He reproaches his father and neighbours for their idolatry	83-85
     He excuses himself from attending the idolatrous rites of his	86-88
        townsmen
     He first mocks the idols and then breaks them in pieces	90-91
     God delivers him from the fire	95, 96
     God tries the faith of Abraham	97-107
     His name to be revered by posterity	108-111
     He receives Isaac by promise, who is blessed with him	112, 113
The story of Moses and Aaron–
     God delivers them and their people from great distress	114, 115
     They conquer the Egyptians	116
     God gives them the Book of the Law (Fourth)	117, 118
     Their names to be revered by posterity	119-122
The story of Elias–
     He is sent a prophet to his people	123
     He preaches against idolatry	124-126
     They accuse him of imposture	127
     The infidels to be punished	128
     His name to be revered by posterity	129-132
The story of Lot–
     God delivers him and his family, except his wife	133-135
     The rest of his people are destroyed	136
     The Makkan infidels warned by the example of the Sodomites	137, 138
The story of Jonas–
     He is sent as a prophet and flees to a ship	139, 140
     He is swallowed by a fish for his sin	141-144
     He is cast on the shore and shaded by a gourd	145, 146
     He is sent to a multitude who believe	147, 148
The Makkans are rebuked for attributing offspring to God	149-160
The reprobate only will be seduced by idolatry	161-163
Muslims worship God, arranging themselves in ranks	164-166
Infidels excuse their unbelief in vain	167-170
Former apostles were assisted against the infidels	171-173
The Prophet exhorted to await divine vengeance on unbelievers	174-179
Praise be to God and peace on his apostles	180-182
Suráh 38

	Verses
Unbelievers are addicted to pride and contention	1
They are unmoved by the fate of former infidels	2
They wonder at their warner, and call him a sorcerer and a liar	3
The Divine unity is denied by the infidels as a marvellous error	4-6
The confederates are challenged	7-9
Former bands of confederate infidels destroyed	10-13
Judgment impending over the scoffers at Makkah	14, 15
The story of David–
     He was a true believer	16
     Mountains and birds joined him in praising God	17, 18
     He is endowed with a kingdom, wisdom, &c.	19
     He is rebuked by the two adversaries	20-23
     David repents for his fault and is forgiven	23, 24
     He is exhorted to judge righteously	25-27
     He receives the Book of Psalms	28
The story of Solomon–
     He is a devout servant of God	29
     Reviewing his horses, he forgets his prayers	30, 31
     He slays the horses to atone for his neglect	32
     The trial of the counterfeit body	33, 34
     The wind and the devils are made subject to Solomon	35-39
The story of Job–
     He cries to God in his calamity against Satan	40
     God discovers fountains of water for his comfort	41
     His family and property restored him double	42
     He chastises his wife in fulfilment of his oath	43
     He is patient and prayerful	43, 44
Other prophets commended as examples of piety	45-48
Paradise, its glorious described	49-55
Hell, its miseries delineated	55-58
Idolaters and their leaders shall mutually reproach each other in hell	59-61
They shall not find the Muslims there	62-64
Muhammad enjoined to preach against idolatry	65-68
The story of the creation of Adam and the fall of Iblís revealed to	69-74
   Muhammad
Iblís refuses to worship Adam through pride	75-77
God curses Iblís, but respites him till the resurrection-day	78-82
Iblís declares to God he will seduce mankind, except the servants	83, 84
   of God
God declares his purpose to fill hell with Satan and his followers	85
Muhammad asks no reward for his services	86
The Qurán an admonition yet to be vindicated before unbelievers	87, 88
Suráh 39
	Verses
The Qurán a revelation from God to Muhammad	1, 2
Muhammad to exhibit a pure religion to God	2, 3
God will not show favour to idolaters	4, 5
God hath not chosen to have a son	6
God manifest in his works of creation and providence	7, 8
God is Sovereign in his dealings with men	9, 10
The ingratitude of idolaters	11
The righteous and wicked not equal before God	12
The righteous shall be rewarded	13
Muhammad, the first Muslim, must exhibit the pure religion of God	14-16
The loss of the idolaters	17, 18
Idolaters who repent shall be rewarded	19
Muhammad cannot deliver the reprobate	20
The reward of the faithful	21
God revealed in the growth and decay of Nature	22
The Muslim and the infidel not equal	23
The Qurán first frightens, then comforts, the Muslims	24
The punishment of the wicked in hell	25
Former infidels punished for maligning their prophets	26, 27
Every kind of parable in the Qurán	28-30
Muhammad and the infidels shall debate before the Lord	31, 32
The reward and punishment of believers and unbelievers	33-36
The infidels of Makkah threaten Muhammad	37
True believers shall be rightly directed	37, 38
Idolaters acknowledge God as creator	39
Muhammad yet to be vindicated	40-42
God shall raise the dead as he raiseth from sleep	43
None can intercede except by God’s permission	44, 45
Idolaters dread God but joy in their false gods	46
God shall judge between the faithful and the idolaters	47
Idolaters will give two worlds to escape God’s wrath	48
They shall not escape the evils of the judgment-day	49, 50
The infidels of former times were punished	51, 52
The idolaters of Makkah shall not escape	52, 53
Idolaters exhorted to repent; their sin will be forgiven	54-56
The regrets of the impenitent at the judgment-day	57-59
God shall reject their apologies and blacken their faces	60, 61
But he will save the righteous	62
God the Sovereign Ruler of heaven and earth	63
Muhammad cannot worship idols, seeing he has received a	64-66
   revelation from God
The resurrection and the judgment-day, fearful scenes of	67-69
Troop of the righteous and wicked, their reward and punishment	70-73
God shall be praised by righteous men and angels	74, 75
Suráh 40

	Verses
The Qurán a revelation from the only true God	1-3
It is denied by none but unbelievers	4
Confederated infidels, however prosperous, are doomed	4-6
The angels intercede for true believers	7-9
Infidels shall repent in hell, but in vain	10-12
God to be worshipped as the Supreme Being	13-15
The judgment-day shall come suddenly	16-18
Ungodly men shall have no intercessor	19-21
Former infidels destroyed to warn those coming after	22, 23
Moses called a sorcerer and a liar	24, 25
He and his followers persecuted by Pharaoh and his people	26, 27
Moses takes refuge in the Lord	28
A true believer espouses the cause of Moses	29, 30
He warns Pharaoh and his people against unbelief	31-37
Pharaoh orders a tower to be built up to heaven	38, 39
Pharaoh regards Moses as a liar	40
The true believer exhorts the Egyptians to believe in the God of	41-47
   Moses
God delivers the true believer from the devices of Pharaoh and his	48
   people
Pharaoh and his people condemned to hell-fire	49
Infidels shall reproach each other in hell, and call on their keepers for	50-53
   help in vain
God assists his apostles in this world and in the next	54, 55
Moses received the Book of the Law	56
Muhammad commanded to be patient, and to ask pardon for his	57
   sin
Muhammad to fly for refuge to God against proud infidels	58
God manifested to creation, but few men understand	59
The righteous and the evil not equal	60
The judgment-day sure to come	61
Rejectors of God shall be rejected	62
The true God rejected by ungrateful men	63-66
The true God alone to be worshipped	67, 68
God the Sovereign Creator of all things	69, 70
The miserable lot of those who reject the Scriptures	71-76
Muhammad to persevere patiently	77
No apostle ever wrought miracles without God’s permission	78
God revealed in his works of providence	79-81
Former infidels were destroyed for their unbelief	82, 83
They all repented when too late to avail	84, 85
Suráh 41

	Verses
The Qurán declared to be given by inspiration	1-3
The people generally rejected it	3, 4
Muhammad only a man, yet a prophet	5
The woe of the wicked and the blessedness of the righteous	6, 7
God’s power manifested in the creation of earth and heaven	8-11
The Quraish are threatened with the fate of Ád and Thamúd	12-16
Believers among the Ádites and Thamúdites were saved	17
In the judgment the unbelievers shall be condemned by the	18-22
   members of their own bodies
The fate of the genii to befall the infidels	23, 24
Unbelievers counsel blasphemous levity–their punishment	25-28
False teachers to be trodden under foot by their own followers in	29
   hell
The glorious rewards of the faithful	30-32
The consistent Muslim commended	33
Evil to be turned away by good	34, 35
God the refuge of the Prophet against Satan’s suggestions	36
God’s works testify to himself as alone worthy of worship	37-39
Unbelievers shall not escape in the resurrection	40
The Qurán a revelation of God	41, 42
The infidels offer no new objections to Muhammad and the Qurán	43
Why the Qurán was revealed in the Arabic language	44
The books of Moses at first rejected by his people	45
God rewardeth according to works	46
The hour of the judgment known only to God	47
The false gods will desert their worshippers in the judgment	47, 48
The perfidy of hypocrites	49-51
Rejecters of God’s Word exposed to awful punishment	52-54
Suráh 42

	Verses
The Almighty reveals his will to Muhammad	1, 2
Angels intercede with God on behalf of sinful man	3
Muhammad not a steward over the idolaters	4
The Qurán revealed in the Arabic language to warn Makkah	5
God the only helper, creator, and preserver, the all-knowing	6-10
Islám the religion of all the former prophets	11-13
Muhammad commanded to declare his faith in the Bible	14
Disputers with God shall be severely punished	15
God only knows the hour of the judgment	16, 17
The Almighty will reward the righteous and the wicked according to	18, 19
   their deeds
Sinners only spared through God’s forbearance	20
Rewards of the just and of the unjust	21, 22
Muhammad charged with imposture	23
The sovereign God forgives and blesses whom he will	24-27
God’s power manifested in his works	28-33
A true believer’s character decided	34-41
The miserable fate of those whom God causes to err	42-45
Sinners exhorted to repent before it is too late	46
Muhammad only a preacher	47
God controls all things	48, 49
Why God reveals himself by inspiration and through apostles	50, 51
Muhammad himself ignorant of Islám until he had received the	52, 53
   revelation of the Qurán
Suráh 43

	Verses
The Arabic Qurán copied from a divine original	1-3
Former nations, like the Quraish, rejected the prophets	4-7
Idolaters acknowledge God to be creator, yet worship the creature	8-14
The Arabs hate female offspring, and yet attribute such to God	15-18
Idolaters vainly excuse their unbelief by saying they will follow the	19-24
   religion of their fathers
Abraham rejected the idolatry of their fathers	25-27
God prospered the idolatrous Quraish until a prophet came, and	28, 29
   now they reject him
The unbelievers rebuked for saying they would have received the	30, 31
   Qurán from some great man
Poverty only permitted to save men from idolatry	32-34
Devils are constituted the companions of infidels, who lead them to	35-38
   destruction
Muhammad exhorted to remain steadfast in faith notwithstanding	39-44
   the unbelief of his countrymen
Moses rejected with contempt by Pharaoh and the Egyptians, who	45-56
   were drowned
The Arab idolaters justified their idolatry by reference to the	57, 58
   Christian worship of Jesus
But Jesus did not say he was a god, but was a servant and a	59-64
   prophet of God
Unbelievers warned of approaching judgment	65-67
The joys of Paradise reserved for Muslims and their wives	68-73
The damned shall vainly seek relief in annihilation	74-78
Angels record the secret plottings of infidels	79, 80
If God had a son, Muhammad would be the first to worship him	81, 82
God knoweth the folly of idolaters	83-87
Muhammad commanded to turn aside from the unbelieving	88, 89
   Quraish
Suráh 44

	Verses
The Qurán sent down on the Blessed Night	1-6
God the only source of life	7
Unbelievers threatened with the tormenting smoke of the	8-15
   judgment-day
Pharaoh and his people destroyed for rejecting Moses	16-32
The people of Makkah threatened with the fate of the people	33-37
   of Tubbá
God did not create the universe in jest	38, 39
The judgment-day a day when none shall be helped	40-42
Punishment of the wicked in hell	43-50
Rewards of the righteous in Paradise	51-57
The Qurán revealed in Arabic as an admonition	58
Suráh 45

	Verses
The Qurán a revelation from God	1
God revealed in his works	2-5
Punishment of those who reject the Qurán	6-10
God’s mercy seen in his works of providence	11, 12
Muslims exhorted to forgive the unbelievers	13, 14
The Book of the law, wisdom, and prophecy given to the Israelites	15, 16
Muhammad received the Qurán	17-19
The wicked and just not rewarded alike	20
Unbelievers and idolaters threatened	21, 22
God the author of life, therefore may raise the dead	23-25
Contrasted condition of believers and unbelievers in the judgment	26-34
Praise to the Lord of the universe	35, 36
Suráh 46

	Verses
The Qurán a revelation from God	1
Creation a witness for God against idolaters and idolatry	2-5
Muhammad charged with forging the Qurán	6, 7
Muhammad, like other apostles, only a warner	8
Believing Jews confirm the Qurán; unbelieving Jews call it an	9, 10
   antiquated lie
The Qurán confirms the Book of Moses	11
True believers, their happy condition	12, 13
Obedient sons and true believers, their life here and here-after	14, 15
The conduct and fate of the disobedient son	16, 17
Rewards and punishments bestowed in accordance with works	18, 19
The fate of the people of al Ahqáf, &c., a warning to Makkah	20-27
The genii converted by hearing Muhammad recite the Qurán	28-31
God able to raise the dead; Muhammad exhorted to patience and	32-35
   forbearance

Suráh 47

	Verses
The works of those who oppose Islám shall come to naught	1
True believers shall receive the expiation of their sins	2, 3
How enemies of Islám are to be treated in war	4, 5
God will reward those who fight for Islám	6-8
God will utterly destroy the unbelievers	9-12
The final condition of believers and infidels contrasted	13-17
Hypocrites reproved and warned	18-20
Muhammad commanded to ask pardon for his sins	21
Cowardly Muslims and hypocrites rebuked and warned	22-33
Those who would dissuade Muslims from their duty warned	34-36
Muslims exhorted to boldness in warring for their faith	37
Muslims exhorted to liberality in contributing towards the	38-40
   expenses of holy war
Suráh 48

	Verses
The victory (at Khaibar) the earnest of the pardon of the sins of the	1-3
   Prophet
The mighty God the comforter of true believers, but the punisher of	4-7
   hypocrites
Loyalty to Muhammad is loyalty to God	8-10
Bedouin Arabs denounced for their treachery at Hudaibiyah and	11-14
   their subsequent hypocrisy
The Bedouin Arabs refused a share of the booty taken at Khaibar,	15, 16
   but encouraged with promises
Those alone excused from going to war who are incapacitated	17
Muslim fidelity at Hudaibiyah rewarded by the victory at Khaibar	18, 19
   and much spoil taken there
Many spoils assured to the believers though God had prevented	20-24
   the plunder of Makkah
God spared Makkah in the expedition to Hudaibiyah out of	25, 26
   compassion
The conquest of Makkah the divine attestation to Muhammad’s	27-29
   apostleship and the religion of Islám
Suráh 49

	Verses
The Prophet of God to be treated with honour and respect	1-5
Believers warned against misrepresenting any matter to the	6-8
   Prophet
The duty of peacemaking enjoined	9-11
Sundry faults of the Muslims exposed	11-13
Bedouin Arabs rebuked and warned on account of hypocrisy	14-18
Suráh 50

	Verses
The unbelievers wonder at the doctrine of the resurrection	1-3
This wonder due to their unbelief	4, 5
God’s works a proof of his power to raise the dead	6-11
The Quraish warned by the fate of other nations who rejected their	12, 13
   prophets
God not so exhausted by the creation that he cannot raise the dead	14
God nearer man than his jugular vein	15
Angels record all human thoughts and actions	16, 17
Death and judgment shall overtake all men	18-20
The testimony of the two angels shall condemn the unbelievers	21, 22
God shall cast the wicked into hell	23-25
The devils shall disclaim the idolaters in hell	26-28
Hell shall be filled with the wicked	29
Paradise shall receive the true believers	30-34
Former generations destroyed as a warning to the people of	35, 36
   Makkah
The heavens and the earth created in six days	37
Muhammad exhorted to patience with unbelievers	38-43
Muhammad not sent to compel men to believe, but only to warn	44, 45
   them
Suráh 51

	Verses
Numerous oaths that the judgment will come	1-6
Oaths and curses relating to unbelievers	7-11
Doom of infidels and reward of true believers	12-16
The piety and charity of Muslims	17-19
God reveals himself in his work of providence	20-22
Muhammad swears by the Lord that the Qurán is true	23
The story of Abraham’s entertaining angels	24-30
Story of the destruction of Sodom	31-37
Pharaoh, Ád, Thamúd, and the people of Noah destroyed for	38-46
   rejecting their prophets as impostors
God reveals himself to men in his works of creation	47-49
Makkans warned to leave their idols and to fly to God	50, 51
Every apostle of God called a magician or madman	52, 53
Muhammad to withdraw from idolaters and yet to admonish them	54, 55
   for the sake of true believers
Men and genii created to serve God	56, 58
Woe to unbelievers who injure the apostles of God	59, 60
Suráh 52

	Verses
Oaths by various objects that the judgment-day will come	1-8
The terrors of the unbelievers in that day	9-16
The bliss of Paradise described	17-28
Muhammad not a soothsayer, madman, poet, or impostor	29-34
Unbelievers reproved for their ignorance and idolatry	35-47
Plots of the enemies of Muhammad exposed	42, 43
Muhammad to leave the idolaters to their fate	44-47
Muhammad exhorted to praise and trust the Lord	48, 49
Suráh 53

	Verses
Oath that Muhammad received the Qurán from the Angel Gabriel	1-5
Description of the angelic visions vouchsafed to Muhammad	6-18
The revelation concerning Al Lát, Al Uzzah, and Manáh, &c.	19-23
The vanity of trusting to the intercession of female deities	24-31
God almighty and omniscient	32, 33
Rebuke of a man who employed another to bear his punishment	34-56
   on the judgment-day
Muhammad a preacher like other prophets	57
The judgment-day approacheth, therefore prepare for it	58-62
Suráh 54

	Verses
The moon shall be split as a sign of the judgment-day	1, 2
Muhammad commanded to withdraw from the infidels	3-6
Infidels shall surely be overtaken suddenly by the judgment	6-8
Noah was charged with imposture by his enemies, who were	9-14
   destroyed by the flood
Noah’s Ark, like the Qurán, a sign to unbelievers who will not be	15-18
   warned
The Ádites destroyed for calling their prophet an impostor	19-22
The Thamúdites destroyed for rejecting their prophet as an	23-32
   impostor
The Sodomites destroyed because they rejected Lot as an	33-40
   impostor
Pharaoh and his people destroyed for rejecting Moses as an	41, 42
   impostor
The people of Makkah warned by these examples of coming	43-48
   judgment
God’s decree certain and irresistible–illustrated by destruction of	49-51
   former nations
All actions recorded in the Divine records	52, 53
The pious shall dwell in the gardens of Paradise	54, 55
Suráh 55

	Verses
God taught the Qurán to Muhammad	1
God the creator of all things	2-15
God controlleth the seas and all that is therein	16-25
God ever liveth, though all else decay and die	26-30
God will certainly judge both men and genii	31-40
God will consign the wicked to hell-fire	41-45
The joys of Paradise described	46-78
Suráh 56

	Verses
The coming of the judgment-day inevitable	1, 2
Its terrors described	3-7
Its coming shall separate men into three classes	8-11
Joys of the Muslim heaven described	12-39
The punishment of the wicked in hell depicted	40-56
Arguments for the resurrection of the dead drawn from God’s work	57-73
   in creation and providence
Oath by the stars that the Qurán is divinely inspired	74-81
Men should believe in God since they cannot save the dying from	82-96
   death
Suráh 57

	Verses
God omniscient and omnipresent	1-6
Muslims exhorted to give alms and help on the holy war	7-11
The wise and the foolish in the judgment-day	12-14
True believers admonished to submit humbly to God	15-17
God will reward the faithful but will punish the wicked	18
The present life a vain show	19, 20
Men exhorted to seek the life to come	21
All things recorded in God’s book of decrees	22, 23
God hateth proud and covetous persons (therefore the defeat at	24
   Ohod)
Apostles sent to former nations	25
Noah, Abraham, the prophets, and Jesus, with the Gospel, sent	26, 27
Christians exhorted to become Muslims	28, 29
Suráh 58

	Verses
An ancient Arab custom of divorce abrogated	1-5
Those who oppose Muhammad threatened	6, 7
Clandestine discourse against Muhammad censured and	8-11
   forbidden
The prophet of God to be approached with due reverence and	12-14
   honour
Muslims reproached for keeping company with Jews and infidels	15-21
Nearest relatives, if unbelievers, to be avoided as enemies of	22
   Islám
Suráh 59

	Verses
Everything in the universe praiseth God	1
Passage relating to the expulsion of the Baní Nadhír	2-5
Ruling of Muhammad concerning spoils	6, 7
Special ruling for the benefit of the Muhájirín	8-10
Hypocrites in Madína reproved for treachery	11-17
Muslims exhorted to fear God	18-20
Had the Qurán descended on a mountain, it would have split	21
   asunder
God hath excellent names, and he only to be worshipped	22-24
Suráh 60

	Verses
Muslims forbidden to make friends with the enemies of God	1-3
This precept enforced by the example of Abraham	4-6
Enemies of God may become friends of Muslims by conversion	7
Distinction between enemies and mere unbelievers	8, 9
Female refugees, being true believers, are to be regarded as	10
   divorced from their heathen husbands
How to recover dowers of Muslim women who apostatise	11
The confession of faith required of converts from Arab idolatry	12
True believers not to make friends with infidels	13
Suráh 61

	Verses
All things in the universe praise God	1
Muslims exhorted to be faithful and to fight for Islám	2-4
This exhortation enforced by the example of Moses	5
Jesus foretells Muhammad by the name Ahmad	6
Jesus was rejected as a sorcerer notwithstanding his miracles	7, 8
Islám to be exalted above every other religion	9
Muslims exhorted to seek wealth by fighting for Islám	10, 11
The rewards of those who fight for the faith	12, 13
Muslims exhorted to follow the example of the apostles of Jesus	14
Suráh 62

	Verses
A wise, powerful, and holy God sent Muhammad as his apostle to	1-4
   the Arabians
The Jews rebuked for their opposition to Islám	5-8
Admonition concerning the observance of worship on Friday	9-11
Suráh 63

	Verses
The treachery of the hypocrites of Madína exposed and rebuked	1-3
Muhammad warned to beware of trusting the hypocrites	4
Hypocrites cursed and declared reprobates	5, 6
They are threatened with expulsion from Madína	7, 8
The duty of almsgiving enjoined	9-11
Suráh 64

	Verses
All things in heaven and earth praise God	1
God hath fore-ordained men to be either believers or unbelievers	2
God, the Creator, knoweth all things	3, 4
Former nations destroyed for their unbelief	5, 6
Unbelief will not prevent infidels from rising from the dead	7
Exhortation to believe in God and his Apostle	8-10
God sovereign, therefore should be trusted	11-13
Muslims exhorted to abjure worldly ties and to devote	14-18
   themselves to God
Suráh 65

	Verses
Certain limitations to the law of divorce	1-7
The apostate and disobedient chastised for their sin	8-10
True believers exhorted to faith in Muhammad	11
God hath created the seven heavens	12
Suráh 66

	Verses
Muhammad reproved for making a vow to please his wives	1
He is relieved from his vow	2
Muhammad’s wives reproved and threatened for their jealousy in	3-5
   the affair of Mary, the Coptic slave
Exhortation to believers to exercise faith, repentance, &c.	6-8
Muhammad commanded to treat infidels and hypocrites with	9
   severity
The wives of Noah, Lot, Pharaoh, and the daughter of Imrán	10-12
   examples to Muslim women
Suráh 67

	Verses
Praise to the Almighty, the Creator and Ruler of all things	1-3
The perfection of the works of God, seen in the heavens, glorify	3-5
   him
The heavens adorned with shooting stars	5
Torments of hell prepared for unbelievers	6-8
Infidels shall confess in hell their folly in calling Muhammad an	8-11
   impostor
The righteous shall receive great reward	12
God knoweth all things	13, 14
God shall destroy unbelievers	15-18
Unbelievers ungrateful to the God who sustains them in life	19-24
The Prophet challenged to hasten the judgment-day, but they	25-28
   shall dread its approach
The Merciful the only protector on that day	29, 30
Suráh 68

	Verses
Muhammad not a madman nor an impostor	1-8
Invective against a prominent enemy of Islám	9-16
The example of certain gardeners a warning to the Makkans	17-34
Unbelievers warned of coming judgment	35-47
Muhammad exhorted not to be impatient, like Jonah	48-50
Extreme hatred of the Quraish towards Muhammad and the Qurán	51, 52
   exposed
Suráh 69

	Verses
The judgment of God will infallibly come	1-3
Ád, Thamúd, and Pharaoh destroyed for rejecting their prophets	4-10
As the flood came, so shall the judgment certainly come	11-16
On the judgment-day God’s throne shall be borne by eight mighty	17
   angels
The good and bad shall receive their account-books and be judged	18-29
   according to their deeds
Infidels shall be bound with chains seventy cubits in length and be	30-37
   cast into hell-fire
With terrible oaths Muhammad asserts the truth of his prophetic	38-39
   claims
Suráh 70

	Verses
A man demanded that the day of judgment might come at once	1
The day, whose space is fifty thousand years, will surely come	2-4
Muhammad to bear the insults of the infidels patiently, because	5-14
   judgment is near
Riches, children, and friends will not save the wicked from hell	12-18
The wicked are niggardly in health, but full of complaint when evil	19-24
   befalleth
The character of true believers described	25-35
Unbelievers need entertain no hope they shall escape destruction	36-41
Muhammad counselled to permit the unbelieving Makkans to sport	42-45
   themselves, because their damnation is nigh
Suráh 71

	Verses
Noah sent as a warner; his message to his people	1-4
Noah’s people refuse to believe him, notwithstanding every effort	5-20
The people of Noah plot against him and are destroyed	21-26
Noah prays for the destruction of the infidels, and for the pardon of	27-29
   his parents and the true believers
Suráh 72

	Verses
Certain of the genii converted to Islám by hearing the Qurán	1, 2
The folly of men and genii in ascribing offspring to God	3-7
Genii prying into heavenly secrets are driven away with fiery darts	8, 9
Different classes of genii, some Muslims and others infidels	10-14
Believing genii rewarded in Paradise, the unbelievers punished in	15-18
   hell
The genii pressed upon Muhammad to hear the Qurán	19
Muhammad can only publish what hath been revealed to him	20-24
The judgments of God shall overtake the unbelievers	25, 26
God revealeth his secrets to his apostles only	27, 28
Suráh 73

	Verses
Muhammad and the Muslims bidden to pray during the night	1-4
The Qurán to be pronounced with a distinct sonorous tone	5-9
Muhammad exhorted to bear patiently the contumelies of the	10, 11
   infidels
God will visit the infidels with dire calamities	11-14
The punishment of Pharaoh a warning to the people of Makkah	15-19
Modification of the law given in vers. 1-4	20
Suráh 74

	Verses
Muhammad commanded to rise and preach Islám	1-7
The judgment-day shall be a sad day for the unbelievers	8-10
God exhorts Muhammad to leave his enemy in his hands	11-26
The pains of hell described	27-29
Nineteen angels set as a guard over hell, and why nineteen are	30-34
   mentioned
Oath to attest the horrible calamities of hell-fire	35-40
The wicked shall in hell confess their sins to the righteous	41-49
Infidels shall receive no other warning than that of the Qurán	50-55
Suráh 75

	Verses
God is able to raise the dead	1-4
Unbelievers may mock, but they shall be overtaken by the	5-11
   resurrection-day
Man shall be his own accuser on that day	12-15
Muhammad rebuked for anticipating Gabriel in receiving the Qurán	16-19
Men choose this life, but neglect the life to come	20-21
Various thoughts of the righteous and the wicked on the	22-25
   resurrection-day
Man helpless in the hour of death	26-36
God, who created man, can raise him from the dead	37-40
Suráh 76

	Verses
Man conceived and born by the power of God	1, 2
Unbelievers warned by the terrors of hell	3, 4
The rewards of the Muslims in Paradise	5-22
The Qurán revealed by degrees	23
Muhammad and the Muslims exhorted to patience and prayer	24-26
Unbelievers love the present life	27, 28
Only those saved whom God willeth to save	29-31
Suráh 77

	Verses
Oath by the messengers of God that the judgment-day is	1-7
   inevitable
Woe on that day to those who accuse Muhammad of imposture	8-15
In former times infidels were destroyed for accusing their prophets	16-19
   of imposture
God the Creator of all things, therefore woe to those who accuse	20-28
   his messengers of imposture
The woe of those who have been cast into hell for calling their	29-40
   prophets impostors
The joy of those who did not call their prophets impostors	41-44
The infidel Quraish soon to be overtaken by the woes of the	45-50
   judgment-day
Suráh 78

	Verses
Unbelievers shall yet learn the truth of the resurrection	1-5
God the Creator and Preserver of all things	6-16
Judgment-day scenes described	17-20
The recompense of unbelievers in hell described	21-30
The joys of believers in Paradise described	31-37
No intercessor except by God’s permission	37, 38
Sinners exhorted to flee from the day of wrath	39-41
Suráh 79

	Verses
Oaths by the messengers of death that there will be a resurrection	1-7
   and judgment-day
Infidels shall be restored to life notwithstanding their unbelief	8-14
The story of Moses and his mission to Pharaoh	15-26
The Creator can raise the dead	27-33
The righteous and the wicked in judgment, their various condition	34-41
No one knows the time of judgment, but whenever it comes it will	42-46
   be soon for the infidels
Suráh 80

	Verses
Muhammad rebuked for frowning on a poor blind Muslim	1-11
The Qurán written in honourable, exalted, and pure volumes	12-15
Man cursed for turning aside from his Creator	16-23
It is God who provides man with food	24-32
On the judgment-day men will desert their nearest relatives and	33-37
   friends
The bright and sad faces of the resurrection-day	38-42
Suráh 81

	Verses
The terrible signs of the judgment-day	1-14
Oaths that the Qurán is the word of God, and that Muhammad is	15-25
   neither a madman nor deluded by the devil
The Qurán an admonition to all men	26-29
Suráh 82

	Verses
Signs of the judgment-day	1-5
Astonishing unbelief of man in his Creator	6-9
Guardian angels record the deeds of men	10-12
In the judgment the righteous shall be rewarded and the wicked	13-16
   punished
On the day of judgment there shall be no intercessor	17-19
Suráh 83

	Verses
Denunciation of those who use false weights and measures	1-6
The acts of the wicked are recorded in the book Sajjín	7-9
Woe to those who reject Muhammad and deny the judgment-day	10-18
The acts of the righteous are registered in Illíyún	18-21
The rewards of the righteous in Paradise	22-28
Unbelievers mock at Muslims now, but shall be laughed at in turn	29-36
Suráh 84

	Verses
Signs of the judgment-day	1-5
The books of the righteous and the wicked given into their hands,	6-15
   and the consequence thereof
Oaths attesting the doctrine of the resurrection	16-20
The unbelievers denounced and threatened	21-25
Suráh 85

	Verses
Cursed were the persecutors of the believers burned with fire	1-7
The believers persecuted for their faith in God	8, 9
For the infidels is hell-fire, but for believers Paradise	10-12
God is Creator and Sovereign Ruler of the universe	13-16
Pharaoh and Thamúd examples to warn those who reject the	17-20
   Qurán
The glorious Qurán is kept in the Preserved Table	21
Suráh 86

	Verses
Oath by the star of piercing brightness	1-3
Every soul has its guardian angel	4
God the Creator, and therefore can raise the dead	5-8
The judgment-day shall reveal secret thoughts	9, 10
Oaths by heaven and earth that the Qurán is God’s word	11-14
Muhammad exhorted to bear patiently with the unbelievers	15-17
   plotting his ruin
Suráh 87

	Verses
God, the Most High, praised for his works	1-5
God promises to help Muhammad to proclaim the Qurán	6-9
The God-fearing only shall be admonished	10, 11
The wicked shall be punished, but the righteous shall be blessed	12-15
Men choose the present life rather than the life to come	16, 17
The books of Abraham and Moses attest the Qurán	18, 19
Suráh 88

	Verses
The terrible day of judgment	1-3
Description of the torments of hell	4-7
The joyful state of the Muslims on the judgment-day	8-16
God manifests himself in his works	17-20
Muhammad only to warn, not to rule over, the infidels	21, 22
God will himself punish the unbelievers	23-26
Suráh 89

	Verses
Various oaths by natural objects	1-4
Unbelievers are warned by the fate of Ád, Thamúd, and Pharaoh	5-13
Man praises God in prosperity, but reproaches him in adversity	14-17
Oppression of the poor and the orphan denounced	18-22
The wicked will vainly regret their evil deeds on the judgment-day	23-25
The believing soul invited to the joys of Paradise	26-30
Suráh 90

	Verses
Man, though created in misery, yet boasts of his riches	1-7
Captives to be freed and the poor and orphan to be fed	8-16
Description of the companions of the right and left hand	17-20
Suráh 91

	Verses
Oaths that man’s happiness and misery depends on the purity or	1-10
   corruption he hath wrought in it
Thamúd destroyed for rejecting their prophet	11-15
Suráh 92

	Verses
Oaths by various natural objects	1-4
The obedient blessed and the covetous accursed	5-13
The covetous threatened with hell-fire	14-16
True believers shall be rewarded hereafter	17-21
Suráh 93

	Verses
Muhammad comforted by the assurance that God is with him	1-3
The life to come to be preferred to the present life	4, 5
Muhammad exhorted to care for the orphan and beggar	6-11
Suráh 94

	Verses
God made Muhammad’s mission easy to him	1-4
He is exhorted to labour and pray after the mission is ended	5-8
Suráh 95

	Verses
Oaths that God created man “a most excellent fabric”	1-4
God has made all men vile except true believers	5, 6
None may rightly deny the judgment-day	7, 8

Suráh 96

	Verses
Command to Muhammad to recite the Qurán	1-5
Rebuke of Abu Jahl for hindering the Muslim cause	6-14
Abu Jahl threatened with the pains of hell	15-19
Suráh 97

	Verses
The Qurán or a divine illumination vouchsafed to Muhammad on	1
   the night of al Qadr
The night of al Qadr described and lauded	2-5
Suráh 98

	Verses
The idolaters stagger at the revelations of the Qurán	1, 2
Jews and Christians dispute among themselves since the advent	3, 4
   of Muhammad and his new religion
Unbelievers of all classes threatened with divine judgments	5
Muslims are “the best of creatures;” their reward	6-8
Suráh 99

	Verses
The judgment-day shall be ushered in by a great earthquake	1-3
The earth shall be inspired to declare why she trembles	4, 5
Men shall be judged according to their deeds	6-8

Suráh 100

	Verses
Oaths that man is ungrateful to his God	1-6
Man loves the things of this world	7, 8
Man’s secret thoughts shall be discovered in the judgment-day	9-11
Suráh 101

	Verses
The day of judgment a day of striking	1-5
The good and bad shall be judged according to their works	6-9
Háwíyah described	10, 11
Suráh 102

	Verses
Men spend their time seeking the things of this world	1-3
The judgment-day shall reveal their folly	3-5
In consequence they shall see hell-fire	6-8
Suráh 103

	Verses
Men generally seek for gain and find loss	1, 2
The righteous, however, are the exception to this rule	3, 4
Suráh 104

	Verses
Woes pronounced on slanderers and backbiters	1-4
Al Hutama described	5-9
Suráh 105

	Verses
The army of Abraha destroyed for attacking the Kaabah	1-5
Suráh 106

	Verses
The Quraish exhorted to thank God for commercial privileges	1-4
Suráh 107

	Verses
Denunciation of the infidels, who deny the Qurán and oppress the	1, 2
   orphan
Hypocrites rebuked for neglect of prayer and charity	3-7
Suráh 108

	Verses
Muhammad comforted with abundance of goods	1-3
Suráh 109

	Verses
Muhammad declines to compromise with idolatry	1-6
Suráh 110

	Verses
Command to praise God for the victory of Islám	1-3
Suráh 111

	Verses
The curse of Muhammad against Abu Lahab and his house	1-5
Suráh 112

	Verses
The unity of God declared	1-4
Suráh 113

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Suráh 114

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