al-Kauthar
Al-Kauthar ( Arabic الكوثر, DMG al-Kauṯar 'The Abundance') is the 108th sura of the Koran . With only three verses it is the shortest surah of the Koran. The sura is one of the early parts of the Qur'an that was revealed in Mecca . According to Ibn Ishaq , the revelation of this sura happened shortly before the ascension of Muhammad .
Kauthar , after whom the sura is named, appears in the first verse as the last word and is a Hapax legomenon . In most Koran translations , including Rudi Paret , it is translated as “abundance”. In the Koranic exegesis this abundance is related to a river in paradise , to which the believing Muslims are led on the day of judgment . With the abundance but all divine gifts are meant also to Muslim tradition, particularly the revelations that make up the Koran. According to Muslim commentators, the curse in the third verse is directed at various men who mocked the prophet at the death of Abdallah , a son of Mohammed and Khadijah , and said that he was now without followers.
“(Yes) it is your hater who is trimmed (or: tailless, i.e. without attachment (?) Or without offspring?). (Or (as a curse): Whoever hates you should be clipped or tailless! "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rudi Paret: The Koran . 10th edition. W. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-17-019829-6 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ^ Adel Theodor Khoury : The Koran. Translated and commented by Adel Theodor Khoury. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2007, ISBN 978-3-579-08023-9 , p. 590.
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