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