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