•
1-4 The judgment of careless and mocking
Quraysh near •
5 The Meccan people regard Muhammad as “a forger” •
6 Former nations did not heed the miracles •
7-8 The former
prophets were but mortal men •
9 God favors His prophets but judges infidels •
10 The Quraysh mentioned in the Quran •
11-15 The unbelieving cities and scoffers destroyed •
16-17 The heavens and the earth not created in play •
18 The truth must triumph •
19-22 Angels serve God, therefore not to be worshipped •
23 God is sovereign •
24 The great sin of idolatry •
25 All apostles testified to God’s unity •
26 Angels are not the daughters of God but only 'His' honored servants •
27-28 Angelic intercession only by divine permission •
29 The doom of angels who usurp divine honors •
30-33 God’s works the proof of His divinity •
34-35 No human is immortal, all souls will taste death and be returned to God •
36-37 Muhammad regarded by the Makkans as a scoffer •
38-39 Men hasty to call down divine wrath on themselves •
40 Threatened vengeance will descend suddenly •
41-42 The doom of those who mocked former prophets •
43-44 The gods of the idolaters unable to deliver their votaries, God will triumph over the infidels •
45-46 Muhammad only a warner, the deaf will not hear the warnings of God •
47 God will judge righteously •
48-50 Moses and Aaron, like Muhammad, received a revelation •
The story of Abraham •
51 He receives a revelation •
52-56 Reproaches his father and people with idolatry •
57 He devises a plot to destroy the idols •
58 He destroys the idols of the Chaldeans •
59-61 He is accused before the people •
62-63 He lays the blame on the largest idol •
64-65 The Chaldeans at first disposed to repent, but they draw back •
66-67 Abraham reproaches them for their idolatry •
68 They command him to be burned alive •
69-70 God miraculously delivers him •
71-73 He receives the promise of Isaac and Jacob •
74-75 Lot delivered from Sodom •
76 Noah delivered from
the Flood •
77 The rejecters of Noah drowned for being evil •
78-80 The wisdom of David and Solomon, the hills and birds sang with David •
81-82 Winds and demons subject to Solomon •
83-84 Job is delivered from his affliction •
85-86 Other prophets receive
mercy from God •
87-88 Jonah repents to God and is saved from affliction •
89-90 Zachariah’s prayer answered •
91 The miraculous conception of Jesus through the virgin Mary •
92-93 The true religion is one, but Jews and Christians have sects •
94 The faithful certain to be rewarded •
95-97 Infidels to be judged at the resurrection •
98-100 Idolaters with their gods to be cast into hell •
101-103 The reward of the righteous •
104 The heavens to be rolled away at the judgment •
105-106 The righteous shall inherit the earth •
107-109 Muhammad is a mercy to mankind and an informer •
110-111 God knows the secret thoughts of the infidels •
112 God will judge the infidels and show mercy to His prophet ==Historical context==