az-Zalzala
Az-Zalzala ( Arabic الزلزلة, DMG az-Zalzala 'The Quake') is the 99th sura of the Koran , it contains 8 verses . Its title refers to the first verse. Although the content of the sura would fit into the first Meccan period of the Koranic tradition (610–615), the majority of Muslim commentators consider it Medinic . Together with sura 81 and sura 82 it belongs to the so-called apocalyptic suras.
The violent earthquake described in the first verse is a omen of the resurrection and the approaching Last Judgment . On Judgment Day, people are divided into groups, whereupon they can see their good and bad deeds, even the weight of a speck , during their earthly life.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frederik Leemhuis: Apocalypse. In: Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān. Vol. 1, Brill, Leiden / Boston / Cologne 2001, ISBN 90-04-11465-3 .
- ^ Adel Theodor Khoury : The Koran. Translated and commented by Adel Theodor Khoury. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2007, ISBN 978-3-579-08023-9 , p. 581.
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