Sad (sura)

Sad ( Arabic ص, DMG Ṣād  ' Sad ') is the 38th sura of the Koran , it contains 88 verses . The proclamation of the sura belongs to the beginning of the second Meccan period (615–620). The Muslim authors date most of them to the time after Umar's conversion to Islam in 616. The designation Sad refers to the letter of the same name , which opens the sura as a mysterious letter after the introductory Basmala .

While the first eleven verses turn against the attitude of the unbelievers , sura brings testimony from the story of the prophets . After the people of Noah , ʿĀd , Pharaoh and Thamūd and the people of Lot , David occupies a special place. Most Muslim commentators see the “report on the contendingists” in verses 21-25 as a parallel to David's story with the wife of Uriah , although here the admonishing prophet Nathan is replaced by “two contendingists”. In verse 26 David is referred to as Chalīfa , which means "successor". Subsequently, Solomon is also mentioned as a horse lover, Job and Dhu l-Kifl .

From verse 49 onwards, a comparison is made between the lot of the believers and that of the unbelievers, with a final look at the day of the resurrection .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adel Theodor Khoury : The Koran. Translated and commented by Adel Theodor Khoury. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2007, ISBN 978-3-579-08023-9 , pp. 425-429.

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