{
  "number": 51,
  "slug": "dhariyat",
  "name": "Adh-Dhariyat",
  "arabicName": "الذاريات",
  "meaning": "The Scattering Winds",
  "juz": 26,
  "juzEnd": 27,
  "period": "Makkan",
  "tagline": "WINDS, WELCOME & THE PURPOSE OF LIFE",
  "overview": "Moving winds and the ordered sky lead to signs in the earth and within ourselves. Abraham’s hospitality introduces a series of earlier warnings, before the chapter returns to creation, provision and the purpose of worship.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Arabic text · quranjson (MIT)",
      "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/semarketir/quranjson/master/source/surah/surah_51.json"
    },
    {
      "title": "Sahih International · English translation (AlQuran Cloud)",
      "url": "https://alquran.cloud/quran/en.sahih"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=51&verse=40"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=51&verse=43"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=51&verse=56"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=51&verse=52"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=51&verse=46"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=51&verse=50"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=51&verse=1"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=51&verse=23"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=51&verse=37"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=51&verse=18"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=51&verse=26"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=51&verse=33"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=51&verse=9"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=51&verse=29"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=51&verse=14"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=51&verse=59"
    },
    {
      "title": "Surah introduction · Quran.com",
      "url": "https://quran.com/adh-dhariyat/info"
    },
    {
      "title": "622 CE period boundary · Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911)",
      "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira"
    },
    {
      "title": "632 CE period boundary · Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911)",
      "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Mahomet"
    },
    {
      "title": "Abraham’s honoured guests · Ibn Kathir",
      "url": "https://quran.com/adh-dhariyat/24/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir"
    }
  ],
  "verses": [
    {
      "n": 1,
      "arabic": "وَٱلذَّٰرِيَٰتِ ذَرْوًۭا",
      "translation": "By those [winds] scattering [dust] dispersing"
    },
    {
      "n": 2,
      "arabic": "فَٱلْحَٰمِلَٰتِ وِقْرًۭا",
      "translation": "And those [clouds] carrying a load [of water]"
    },
    {
      "n": 3,
      "arabic": "فَٱلْجَٰرِيَٰتِ يُسْرًۭا",
      "translation": "And those [ships] sailing with ease"
    },
    {
      "n": 4,
      "arabic": "فَٱلْمُقَسِّمَٰتِ أَمْرًا",
      "translation": "And those [angels] apportioning [each] matter,"
    },
    {
      "n": 5,
      "arabic": "إِنَّمَا تُوعَدُونَ لَصَادِقٌۭ",
      "translation": "Indeed, what you are promised is true."
    },
    {
      "n": 6,
      "arabic": "وَإِنَّ ٱلدِّينَ لَوَٰقِعٌۭ",
      "translation": "And indeed, the recompense is to occur."
    },
    {
      "n": 7,
      "arabic": "وَٱلسَّمَآءِ ذَاتِ ٱلْحُبُكِ",
      "translation": "By the heaven containing pathways,"
    },
    {
      "n": 8,
      "arabic": "إِنَّكُمْ لَفِى قَوْلٍۢ مُّخْتَلِفٍۢ",
      "translation": "Indeed, you are in differing speech."
    },
    {
      "n": 9,
      "arabic": "يُؤْفَكُ عَنْهُ مَنْ أُفِكَ",
      "translation": "Deluded away from the Qur'an is he who is deluded."
    },
    {
      "n": 10,
      "arabic": "قُتِلَ ٱلْخَرَّٰصُونَ",
      "translation": "Destroyed are the falsifiers"
    },
    {
      "n": 11,
      "arabic": "ٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ فِى غَمْرَةٍۢ سَاهُونَ",
      "translation": "Who are within a flood [of confusion] and heedless."
    },
    {
      "n": 12,
      "arabic": "يَسْـَٔلُونَ أَيَّانَ يَوْمُ ٱلدِّينِ",
      "translation": "They ask, \"When is the Day of Recompense?\""
    },
    {
      "n": 13,
      "arabic": "يَوْمَ هُمْ عَلَى ٱلنَّارِ يُفْتَنُونَ",
      "translation": "[It is] the Day they will be tormented over the Fire"
    },
    {
      "n": 14,
      "arabic": "ذُوقُوا۟ فِتْنَتَكُمْ هَٰذَا ٱلَّذِى كُنتُم بِهِۦ تَسْتَعْجِلُونَ",
      "translation": "[And will be told], \"Taste your torment. This is that for which you were impatient.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 15,
      "arabic": "إِنَّ ٱلْمُتَّقِينَ فِى جَنَّٰتٍۢ وَعُيُونٍ",
      "translation": "Indeed, the righteous will be among gardens and springs,"
    },
    {
      "n": 16,
      "arabic": "ءَاخِذِينَ مَآ ءَاتَىٰهُمْ رَبُّهُمْ ۚ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ قَبْلَ ذَٰلِكَ مُحْسِنِينَ",
      "translation": "Accepting what their Lord has given them. Indeed, they were before that doers of good."
    },
    {
      "n": 17,
      "arabic": "كَانُوا۟ قَلِيلًۭا مِّنَ ٱلَّيْلِ مَا يَهْجَعُونَ",
      "translation": "They used to sleep but little of the night,"
    },
    {
      "n": 18,
      "arabic": "وَبِٱلْأَسْحَارِ هُمْ يَسْتَغْفِرُونَ",
      "translation": "And in the hours before dawn they would ask forgiveness,"
    },
    {
      "n": 19,
      "arabic": "وَفِىٓ أَمْوَٰلِهِمْ حَقٌّۭ لِّلسَّآئِلِ وَٱلْمَحْرُومِ",
      "translation": "And from their properties was [given] the right of the [needy] petitioner and the deprived."
    },
    {
      "n": 20,
      "arabic": "وَفِى ٱلْأَرْضِ ءَايَٰتٌۭ لِّلْمُوقِنِينَ",
      "translation": "And on the earth are signs for the certain [in faith]"
    },
    {
      "n": 21,
      "arabic": "وَفِىٓ أَنفُسِكُمْ ۚ أَفَلَا تُبْصِرُونَ",
      "translation": "And in yourselves. Then will you not see?"
    },
    {
      "n": 22,
      "arabic": "وَفِى ٱلسَّمَآءِ رِزْقُكُمْ وَمَا تُوعَدُونَ",
      "translation": "And in the heaven is your provision and whatever you are promised."
    },
    {
      "n": 23,
      "arabic": "فَوَرَبِّ ٱلسَّمَآءِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ إِنَّهُۥ لَحَقٌّۭ مِّثْلَ مَآ أَنَّكُمْ تَنطِقُونَ",
      "translation": "Then by the Lord of the heaven and earth, indeed, it is truth - just as [sure as] it is that you are speaking."
    },
    {
      "n": 24,
      "arabic": "هَلْ أَتَىٰكَ حَدِيثُ ضَيْفِ إِبْرَٰهِيمَ ٱلْمُكْرَمِينَ",
      "translation": "Has there reached you the story of the honored guests of Abraham? -"
    },
    {
      "n": 25,
      "arabic": "إِذْ دَخَلُوا۟ عَلَيْهِ فَقَالُوا۟ سَلَٰمًۭا ۖ قَالَ سَلَٰمٌۭ قَوْمٌۭ مُّنكَرُونَ",
      "translation": "When they entered upon him and said, \"[We greet you with] peace.\" He answered, \"[And upon you] peace, [you are] a people unknown."
    },
    {
      "n": 26,
      "arabic": "فَرَاغَ إِلَىٰٓ أَهْلِهِۦ فَجَآءَ بِعِجْلٍۢ سَمِينٍۢ",
      "translation": "Then he went to his family and came with a fat [roasted] calf"
    },
    {
      "n": 27,
      "arabic": "فَقَرَّبَهُۥٓ إِلَيْهِمْ قَالَ أَلَا تَأْكُلُونَ",
      "translation": "And placed it near them; he said, \"Will you not eat?\""
    },
    {
      "n": 28,
      "arabic": "فَأَوْجَسَ مِنْهُمْ خِيفَةًۭ ۖ قَالُوا۟ لَا تَخَفْ ۖ وَبَشَّرُوهُ بِغُلَٰمٍ عَلِيمٍۢ",
      "translation": "And he felt from them apprehension. They said, \"Fear not,\" and gave him good tidings of a learned boy."
    },
    {
      "n": 29,
      "arabic": "فَأَقْبَلَتِ ٱمْرَأَتُهُۥ فِى صَرَّةٍۢ فَصَكَّتْ وَجْهَهَا وَقَالَتْ عَجُوزٌ عَقِيمٌۭ",
      "translation": "And his wife approached with a cry [of alarm] and struck her face and said, \"[I am] a barren old woman!\""
    },
    {
      "n": 30,
      "arabic": "قَالُوا۟ كَذَٰلِكِ قَالَ رَبُّكِ ۖ إِنَّهُۥ هُوَ ٱلْحَكِيمُ ٱلْعَلِيمُ",
      "translation": "They said, \"Thus has said your Lord; indeed, He is the Wise, the Knowing.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 31,
      "arabic": "۞ قَالَ فَمَا خَطْبُكُمْ أَيُّهَا ٱلْمُرْسَلُونَ",
      "translation": "[Abraham] said, \"Then what is your business [here], O messengers?\""
    },
    {
      "n": 32,
      "arabic": "قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّآ أُرْسِلْنَآ إِلَىٰ قَوْمٍۢ مُّجْرِمِينَ",
      "translation": "They said, \"Indeed, we have been sent to a people of criminals"
    },
    {
      "n": 33,
      "arabic": "لِنُرْسِلَ عَلَيْهِمْ حِجَارَةًۭ مِّن طِينٍۢ",
      "translation": "To send down upon them stones of clay,"
    },
    {
      "n": 34,
      "arabic": "مُّسَوَّمَةً عِندَ رَبِّكَ لِلْمُسْرِفِينَ",
      "translation": "Marked in the presence of your Lord for the transgressors.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 35,
      "arabic": "فَأَخْرَجْنَا مَن كَانَ فِيهَا مِنَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ",
      "translation": "So We brought out whoever was in the cities of the believers."
    },
    {
      "n": 36,
      "arabic": "فَمَا وَجَدْنَا فِيهَا غَيْرَ بَيْتٍۢ مِّنَ ٱلْمُسْلِمِينَ",
      "translation": "And We found not within them other than a [single] house of Muslims."
    },
    {
      "n": 37,
      "arabic": "وَتَرَكْنَا فِيهَآ ءَايَةًۭ لِّلَّذِينَ يَخَافُونَ ٱلْعَذَابَ ٱلْأَلِيمَ",
      "translation": "And We left therein a sign for those who fear the painful punishment."
    },
    {
      "n": 38,
      "arabic": "وَفِى مُوسَىٰٓ إِذْ أَرْسَلْنَٰهُ إِلَىٰ فِرْعَوْنَ بِسُلْطَٰنٍۢ مُّبِينٍۢ",
      "translation": "And in Moses [was a sign], when We sent him to Pharaoh with clear authority."
    },
    {
      "n": 39,
      "arabic": "فَتَوَلَّىٰ بِرُكْنِهِۦ وَقَالَ سَٰحِرٌ أَوْ مَجْنُونٌۭ",
      "translation": "But he turned away with his supporters and said,\" A magician or a madman.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 40,
      "arabic": "فَأَخَذْنَٰهُ وَجُنُودَهُۥ فَنَبَذْنَٰهُمْ فِى ٱلْيَمِّ وَهُوَ مُلِيمٌۭ",
      "translation": "So We took him and his soldiers and cast them into the sea, and he was blameworthy."
    },
    {
      "n": 41,
      "arabic": "وَفِى عَادٍ إِذْ أَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلرِّيحَ ٱلْعَقِيمَ",
      "translation": "And in 'Aad [was a sign], when We sent against them the barren wind."
    },
    {
      "n": 42,
      "arabic": "مَا تَذَرُ مِن شَىْءٍ أَتَتْ عَلَيْهِ إِلَّا جَعَلَتْهُ كَٱلرَّمِيمِ",
      "translation": "It left nothing of what it came upon but that it made it like disintegrated ruins."
    },
    {
      "n": 43,
      "arabic": "وَفِى ثَمُودَ إِذْ قِيلَ لَهُمْ تَمَتَّعُوا۟ حَتَّىٰ حِينٍۢ",
      "translation": "And in Thamud, when it was said to them, \"Enjoy yourselves for a time.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 44,
      "arabic": "فَعَتَوْا۟ عَنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّهِمْ فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ ٱلصَّٰعِقَةُ وَهُمْ يَنظُرُونَ",
      "translation": "But they were insolent toward the command of their Lord, so the thunderbolt seized them while they were looking on."
    },
    {
      "n": 45,
      "arabic": "فَمَا ٱسْتَطَٰعُوا۟ مِن قِيَامٍۢ وَمَا كَانُوا۟ مُنتَصِرِينَ",
      "translation": "And they were unable to arise, nor could they defend themselves."
    },
    {
      "n": 46,
      "arabic": "وَقَوْمَ نُوحٍۢ مِّن قَبْلُ ۖ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ قَوْمًۭا فَٰسِقِينَ",
      "translation": "And [We destroyed] the people of Noah before; indeed, they were a people defiantly disobedient."
    },
    {
      "n": 47,
      "arabic": "وَٱلسَّمَآءَ بَنَيْنَٰهَا بِأَيْي۟دٍۢ وَإِنَّا لَمُوسِعُونَ",
      "translation": "And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander."
    },
    {
      "n": 48,
      "arabic": "وَٱلْأَرْضَ فَرَشْنَٰهَا فَنِعْمَ ٱلْمَٰهِدُونَ",
      "translation": "And the earth We have spread out, and excellent is the preparer."
    },
    {
      "n": 49,
      "arabic": "وَمِن كُلِّ شَىْءٍ خَلَقْنَا زَوْجَيْنِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَذَكَّرُونَ",
      "translation": "And of all things We created two mates; perhaps you will remember."
    },
    {
      "n": 50,
      "arabic": "فَفِرُّوٓا۟ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ ۖ إِنِّى لَكُم مِّنْهُ نَذِيرٌۭ مُّبِينٌۭ",
      "translation": "So flee to Allah. Indeed, I am to you from Him a clear warner."
    },
    {
      "n": 51,
      "arabic": "وَلَا تَجْعَلُوا۟ مَعَ ٱللَّهِ إِلَٰهًا ءَاخَرَ ۖ إِنِّى لَكُم مِّنْهُ نَذِيرٌۭ مُّبِينٌۭ",
      "translation": "And do not make [as equal] with Allah another deity. Indeed, I am to you from Him a clear warner."
    },
    {
      "n": 52,
      "arabic": "كَذَٰلِكَ مَآ أَتَى ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِم مِّن رَّسُولٍ إِلَّا قَالُوا۟ سَاحِرٌ أَوْ مَجْنُونٌ",
      "translation": "Similarly, there came not to those before them any messenger except that they said, \"A magician or a madman.\""
    },
    {
      "n": 53,
      "arabic": "أَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِهِۦ ۚ بَلْ هُمْ قَوْمٌۭ طَاغُونَ",
      "translation": "Did they suggest it to them? Rather, they [themselves] are a transgressing people."
    },
    {
      "n": 54,
      "arabic": "فَتَوَلَّ عَنْهُمْ فَمَآ أَنتَ بِمَلُومٍۢ",
      "translation": "So leave them, [O Muhammad], for you are not to be blamed."
    },
    {
      "n": 55,
      "arabic": "وَذَكِّرْ فَإِنَّ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ تَنفَعُ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ",
      "translation": "And remind, for indeed, the reminder benefits the believers."
    },
    {
      "n": 56,
      "arabic": "وَمَا خَلَقْتُ ٱلْجِنَّ وَٱلْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونِ",
      "translation": "And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me."
    },
    {
      "n": 57,
      "arabic": "مَآ أُرِيدُ مِنْهُم مِّن رِّزْقٍۢ وَمَآ أُرِيدُ أَن يُطْعِمُونِ",
      "translation": "I do not want from them any provision, nor do I want them to feed Me."
    },
    {
      "n": 58,
      "arabic": "إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ هُوَ ٱلرَّزَّاقُ ذُو ٱلْقُوَّةِ ٱلْمَتِينُ",
      "translation": "Indeed, it is Allah who is the [continual] Provider, the firm possessor of strength."
    },
    {
      "n": 59,
      "arabic": "فَإِنَّ لِلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ ذَنُوبًۭا مِّثْلَ ذَنُوبِ أَصْحَٰبِهِمْ فَلَا يَسْتَعْجِلُونِ",
      "translation": "And indeed, for those who have wronged is a portion [of punishment] like the portion of their predecessors, so let them not impatiently urge Me."
    },
    {
      "n": 60,
      "arabic": "فَوَيْلٌۭ لِّلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ مِن يَوْمِهِمُ ٱلَّذِى يُوعَدُونَ",
      "translation": "And woe to those who have disbelieved from their Day which they are promised."
    }
  ],
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    [
      "By those scattering,",
      "dispersing,"
    ],
    [
      "And those carrying",
      "a load,"
    ],
    [
      "And those sailing",
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    ],
    [
      "And those distributing",
      "Command,"
    ],
    [
      "Indeed, what",
      "you are promised",
      "(is) surely true,"
    ],
    [
      "And indeed,",
      "the Judgment",
      "(is) surely to occur."
    ],
    [
      "By the heaven",
      "full of",
      "pathways."
    ],
    [
      "Indeed, you",
      "(are) surely in",
      "a speech",
      "differing."
    ],
    [
      "Deluded away",
      "from it",
      "(is he) who",
      "is deluded."
    ],
    [
      "Cursed be",
      "the liars,"
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    [
      "Those who",
      "[they]",
      "(are) in",
      "flood",
      "(of) heedlessness."
    ],
    [
      "They ask,",
      "\"When",
      "(is the) Day",
      "(of) Judgment?\""
    ],
    [
      "A Day,",
      "they",
      "over",
      "the Fire",
      "will be tried,"
    ],
    [
      "\"Taste",
      "your trial.",
      "This",
      "(is) what",
      "you were",
      "for it",
      "seeking to hasten.\""
    ],
    [
      "Indeed,",
      "the righteous",
      "(will be) in",
      "Gardens",
      "and springs,"
    ],
    [
      "Taking",
      "what",
      "has given them",
      "their Lord.",
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      "before",
      "that",
      "good-doers."
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    [
      "They used to",
      "little",
      "of",
      "the night",
      "[what]",
      "sleep."
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    [
      "And in the hours before dawn",
      "they",
      "would ask forgiveness,"
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      "And in",
      "their wealth",
      "(was the) right",
      "(of) those who asked",
      "and the deprived."
    ],
    [
      "And in",
      "the earth",
      "(are) signs",
      "for those who are certain,"
    ],
    [
      "And in",
      "yourselves.",
      "Then will not",
      "you see?"
    ],
    [
      "And in",
      "the heaven",
      "(is) your provision",
      "and what",
      "you are promised."
    ],
    [
      "Then by (the) Lord",
      "(of) the heaven",
      "and the earth,",
      "indeed, it",
      "(is) surely (the) truth",
      "(just) as",
      "[what]",
      "you",
      "speak."
    ],
    [
      "Has",
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      "(the) narration",
      "(of the) guests",
      "(of) Ibrahim",
      "the honored?"
    ],
    [
      "When",
      "they entered",
      "upon him",
      "and said,",
      "\"Peace.\"",
      "He said,",
      "\"Peace,",
      "a people",
      "unknown.\""
    ],
    [
      "Then he went",
      "to",
      "his household",
      "and came",
      "with a calf",
      "fat,"
    ],
    [
      "And he placed it near",
      "[to] them,",
      "he said,",
      "\"Will not",
      "you eat?\""
    ],
    [
      "Then he felt",
      "from them",
      "a fear.",
      "They said,",
      "\"(Do) not",
      "fear,\"",
      "and they gave him glad tidings",
      "of a son",
      "learned."
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    [
      "Then came forward",
      "his wife",
      "with",
      "a loud voice,",
      "and struck",
      "her face",
      "and she said,",
      "\"An old woman",
      "barren!\""
    ],
    [
      "They said,",
      "\"Thus",
      "said",
      "your Lord.",
      "Indeed, He",
      "[He]",
      "(is) the All-Wise,",
      "the All-Knower.\""
    ],
    [
      "He said,",
      "\"Then what",
      "(is) your mission,",
      "O",
      "messengers?"
    ],
    [
      "They said,",
      "\"Indeed, we",
      "[we] have been sent",
      "to",
      "a people",
      "criminal,"
    ],
    [
      "That we may send down",
      "upon them",
      "stones",
      "of",
      "clay,"
    ],
    [
      "Marked",
      "with",
      "your Lord",
      "for the transgressors.\""
    ],
    [
      "Then We brought out",
      "(those) who",
      "were",
      "therein",
      "of",
      "the believers."
    ],
    [
      "But not",
      "We found",
      "therein",
      "other than",
      "a house",
      "of",
      "the Muslims."
    ],
    [
      "And We left",
      "therein",
      "a Sign",
      "for those who",
      "fear",
      "the punishment",
      "the painful."
    ],
    [
      "And in",
      "Musa,",
      "when",
      "We sent him",
      "to",
      "Firaun",
      "with an authority",
      "clear."
    ],
    [
      "But he turned away",
      "with his supporters",
      "and said,",
      "\"A magician",
      "or",
      "a madman.\""
    ],
    [
      "So We took him",
      "and his hosts",
      "and threw them",
      "into",
      "the sea,",
      "while he",
      "(was) blameworthy."
    ],
    [
      "And in",
      "Aad,",
      "when",
      "We sent",
      "against them",
      "the wind",
      "the barren."
    ],
    [
      "Not",
      "it left",
      "any",
      "thing",
      "it came",
      "upon it,",
      "but",
      "it made it",
      "like disintegrated ruins."
    ],
    [
      "And in",
      "Thamud,",
      "when",
      "was said",
      "to them,",
      "\"Enjoy (yourselves)",
      "for",
      "a time.\""
    ],
    [
      "But they rebelled",
      "against",
      "(the) Command",
      "(of) their Lord,",
      "so seized them",
      "the thunderbolt",
      "while they",
      "were looking."
    ],
    [
      "Then not",
      "they were able to",
      "[of]",
      "stand",
      "and not",
      "they could",
      "help themselves."
    ],
    [
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      "[from]",
      "before;",
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      "were",
      "a people",
      "defiantly disobedient."
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    [
      "And the heaven",
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      "and indeed, We",
      "(are) surely (its) Expanders."
    ],
    [
      "And the earth,",
      "We have spread it;",
      "how excellent",
      "(are) the Spreaders!"
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    [
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      "thing",
      "We have created",
      "pairs,",
      "so that you may",
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    ],
    [
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      "indeed, I am",
      "to you",
      "from Him",
      "a warner",
      "clear."
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    [
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      "Allah",
      "god",
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      "Indeed, I am",
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      "from Him",
      "a warner",
      "clear."
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    [
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      "[from]",
      "before them",
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      "but",
      "they said,",
      "\"A magician",
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      "a madman.\""
    ],
    [
      "Have they advised one another",
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      "Nay,",
      "they",
      "(are) a people",
      "transgressing."
    ],
    [
      "So turn away",
      "from them,",
      "for not",
      "you",
      "(are) to be blamed."
    ],
    [
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      "for indeed,",
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      "the believers."
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    [
      "And not",
      "I have created",
      "the jinn",
      "and the mankind",
      "except",
      "that they worship Me."
    ],
    [
      "Not",
      "I want",
      "from them",
      "any",
      "provision",
      "and not",
      "I want",
      "that",
      "they (should) feed Me."
    ],
    [
      "Indeed,",
      "Allah,",
      "He",
      "(is) the All-Provider,",
      "Possessor",
      "(of) Power",
      "the Strong."
    ],
    [
      "So indeed,",
      "for those who",
      "do wrong,",
      "(is) a portion",
      "like",
      "(the) portion",
      "(of) their companions,",
      "so let them not",
      "ask Me to hasten."
    ],
    [
      "Then woe",
      "to those who",
      "disbelieve",
      "from",
      "their Day",
      "which",
      "they are promised."
    ]
  ],
  "titles": [
    "Winds that scatter",
    "Bearers of a burden",
    "Gliding with ease",
    "Distributing by command",
    "The promise is true",
    "Judgment will occur",
    "A heaven of pathways",
    "Conflicting claims",
    "Turning away",
    "Conjecture without truth",
    "Lost in heedlessness",
    "Asking for the day",
    "The answer in the Fire",
    "What was demanded in haste",
    "Gardens and springs",
    "A life of doing good",
    "Wakefulness in the night",
    "Forgiveness before dawn",
    "A share for those in need",
    "Signs upon the earth",
    "Signs within yourselves",
    "Provision and promise",
    "As certain as your speech",
    "Abraham’s honoured guests",
    "A greeting of peace",
    "A meal quietly prepared",
    "The invitation to eat",
    "Fear answered with good news",
    "A wife’s astonishment",
    "Wisdom beyond expectation",
    "The visitors’ mission",
    "Sent to a guilty people",
    "Stones of clay",
    "A marked consequence",
    "Believers brought out",
    "One household of surrender",
    "A sign left behind",
    "Moses and a clear warrant",
    "Power used to dismiss",
    "Pharaoh and his forces",
    "The wind sent against Ad",
    "What the wind left",
    "A respite for Thamud",
    "Defiance and the thunderbolt",
    "Unable to rise or resist",
    "The earlier people of Noah",
    "The heaven built with might",
    "The earth spread out",
    "Creation in pairs",
    "Flee toward Allah",
    "No partner beside Him",
    "An accusation repeated",
    "An inherited refusal?",
    "The limits of persuasion",
    "The benefit of reminding",
    "Created for worship",
    "No provision required from creation",
    "The enduring Provider",
    "A share of consequence",
    "The promised day"
  ],
  "notes": [
    "The opening oath evokes scattering motion, reflected in the chapter’s name. Wind makes an unseen force perceptible through its effects. The listener is invited to notice movement in creation before hearing the declaration about promise and judgment.",
    "Bearers of a burden follow the scattering winds. Pickthall’s parenthesis associates the image with rain, while the Arabic wording remains compact. The sequence presents creation as active and purposeful, preparing the way for the chapter’s account of provision.",
    "Effortless movement enters the opening sequence through those that glide. Pickthall evokes travel upon the sea. The image invites attention to a world in which motion and support are already experienced, even when their larger significance goes unconsidered.",
    "The final opening oath speaks of distribution by command. The emphasis falls on ordered activity rather than independent forces competing without direction. These concise images prepare the listener to hear the coming promise within a creation governed by purpose.",
    "The oaths reach their declared point: what has been promised is true. The statement shifts attention from the signs to the response they seek. The chapter will explore why certainty about accountability matters to the way people live.",
    "Judgment is affirmed as something that will occur, not merely a topic for speculation. This completes the opening declaration. The verses that follow contrast ways of receiving that warning, from careless conjecture to worship and generosity.",
    "The sky is described through pathways, adding order to the opening images of motion. The oath directs the listener upward once more. Its purpose is contemplative and theological; it does not supply a diagram of modern astronomy.",
    "Against the ordered heaven stands the inconsistency of human claims. The verse draws attention to divided speech about the truth. It asks readers to examine whether their conclusions rest on sound conviction or on shifting reactions and inherited assumptions.",
    "Turning away is described as part of the response to the message. The brief wording gives the surrounding disagreement a moral dimension. The chapter is concerned with the direction of attention, not only with the existence of differing opinions.",
    "Conjecturers are sharply rebuked for speaking without reliable truth. The criticism is directed at claims that replace knowledge while influencing the response to revelation. It invites care about the difference between acknowledging uncertainty and presenting guesswork as certainty.",
    "Heedlessness deepens the description of conjecture. People can remain absorbed in confused claims while failing to recognise what matters most. The image asks whether an abundance of talk is accompanied by awareness, or simply helps sustain distraction.",
    "The question asks when the Day of Judgment will come. In the surrounding passage it carries the tone of challenging the warning. The answer will focus on its reality and consequence rather than satisfying curiosity with a date.",
    "The response places the questioners at the very consequence they dismissed. The movement from asking to experiencing is abrupt. The verse belongs to the chapter’s account of divine judgment, not to a human instruction to inflict suffering.",
    "They are reminded that this is what they sought to hasten. The warning exposes the danger of demanding proof without considering its cost. What sounded like a confident challenge becomes a recognition of the seriousness previously refused.",
    "The scene changes from torment to gardens and springs for those who were mindful. Water and cultivated life express welcome and renewal. The contrast ensures that the chapter’s account of the future includes hope as well as warning.",
    "The recipients accept what their Lord gives, and their earlier goodness is remembered. The promise does not detach the hereafter from ordinary conduct. What they practised before the outcome became visible remains part of the explanation of their welcome.",
    "Their nights are remembered for wakefulness in devotion. This detail places faith within a rhythm of time rather than a public claim alone. The verse describes the people being praised; it should not be turned into an unqualified sleep prescription.",
    "Before dawn they sought forgiveness. Their devotion did not make them regard themselves as beyond need or fault. The combination of worship and repentance offers a portrait of humility that persists alongside serious effort to do good.",
    "Their wealth contained a due share for those who asked and those deprived. Care reaches beyond the most visible request. The verse places material responsibility beside night worship, joining inward devotion with attention to people whose needs may remain unnoticed.",
    "The earth itself offers signs to those prepared to recognise them. The invitation broadens contemplation beyond exceptional events. Soil, growth and the inhabited world become part of the chapter’s argument that the surrounding creation deserves thoughtful attention.",
    "The field of observation turns inward to human beings themselves. The question asks why these signs are not seen. It encourages attentive reflection on one’s own existence without reducing the verse to a single modern anatomical or scientific claim.",
    "Provision and the promise are related to heaven, directing attention beyond the illusion of complete self-sufficiency. The verse does not erase work or practical means. It places their results within a larger dependence upon the One who sustains creation.",
    "An oath by the Lord of heaven and earth reinforces the promise’s truth. Human speech becomes the familiar comparison for certainty. The argument moves from signs around and within the listener toward something immediately experienced in ordinary life.",
    "The chapter introduces Abraham through the story of his honoured guests. A domestic encounter now carries the larger themes of promise and judgment. The question invites listeners to enter the narrative, without supplying an earthly date for the visit.",
    "Peace is exchanged before the guests are recognised. Courtesy precedes certainty about who has arrived. Abraham’s observation that they are unknown introduces a quiet tension within the welcome, preparing for the unexpected purpose of their visit.",
    "He turns to his household and brings a substantial meal. Hospitality is expressed through action rather than a claim about generosity. The scene gives ordinary domestic care an important place within a narrative that will soon disclose extraordinary news.",
    "The food is brought close and the guests are invited to eat. The brief question preserves a gentle manner of welcome. Attention to another person’s comfort remains visible even as uncertainty about the visitors begins to deepen.",
    "Fear arises, then is answered with reassurance and the promise of a knowledgeable son. The encounter changes direction from unease to unexpected hope. The verse does not name the son here; that identification belongs to the wider narrative and commentary.",
    "Abraham’s wife responds with astonishment, referring to her age and inability to bear children. Her reaction makes the news concrete within human experience. The scene preserves surprise rather than pretending that the promise matched what the household already expected.",
    "The visitors answer by pointing to the Lord’s wisdom and knowledge. Human expectations do not set the limits of the promise. The verse closes this part of the encounter by directing attention from apparent impossibility toward the source of the announcement.",
    "Abraham asks about the visitors’ further mission. The narrative turns from news for the household toward events beyond it. His question connects the intimate scene of hospitality with the chapter’s broader consideration of accountability among earlier peoples.",
    "The visitors describe a mission to a guilty people. The wording gives a moral explanation without supplying a complete biography of every inhabitant. The passage should be read with its following distinction between those judged and the believers brought out.",
    "Stones of clay are named as the means of punishment in the account. The detail makes the warning specific within the narrative. It does not identify a modern archaeological deposit or authorise readers to attach the story to an unsupported excavation.",
    "The stones are described as marked by the Lord for those who transgressed. The account presents judgment as directed, not accidental. Its emphasis is moral responsibility; the verse gives no geological test for identifying objects from the event today.",
    "Believers are brought out before the punishment described in the narrative. The distinction matters because the account does not treat every person in the place as identical. The passage makes deliverance part of the same story as judgment.",
    "Only one household of those surrendered to Allah is found there. Small numbers do not make their faith insignificant. The verse narrows the scene to a family whose response differs from the surrounding community, without giving its street address.",
    "A sign remains for those who fear painful judgment. The narrative’s purpose is remembrance and warning. It does not identify a precise surviving ruin here, so the reader should distinguish its moral claim from proposed archaeological locations.",
    "Moses is introduced as another sign, sent to Pharaoh with clear authority. The account is brief because the chapter’s focus is the response to warning. It does not identify the Pharaoh by dynasty, personal name or burial site.",
    "Pharaoh turns away in confidence drawn from his strength and dismisses the messenger with familiar accusations. Power does not function as evidence against the message. The verse exposes how labels can protect an established position from serious examination.",
    "Pharaoh and his forces meet their end in the sea. The narrative reverses the confidence in strength expressed in the previous verse. This passage does not establish a particular modern crossing point, mummy or tomb for the ruler.",
    "The people of Ad are recalled through the destructive wind sent against them. Wind, which opened the chapter as a sign in creation, now appears within a warning. The same created world that sustains life is not beyond divine command.",
    "The wind leaves what it reaches reduced to ruin. The compressed description conveys the collapse of apparent strength. The chapter uses the event as a warning from earlier peoples, without providing measurements or an archaeological reconstruction of the settlement.",
    "Thamud are remembered through a period of respite. The invitation to enjoy life for a time makes delay part of the warning rather than proof that none exists. A remaining opportunity should not be confused with freedom from accountability.",
    "They defy the command and are overtaken by the thunderbolt while looking on. The contrast is between a period in which response was possible and an outcome they cannot stop. The verse preserves that moral sequence without an exact calendar date.",
    "Their inability to rise or defend themselves completes the account of failed security. Strength proves limited at the moment it is most needed. The narrative asks the listener to learn before facing a consequence that leaves no room for action.",
    "Noah’s people are mentioned as an earlier example of transgression. The brief reference connects separate stories through a recurring response to warning. It does not require the reader to invent a chronology for events the chapter leaves undated.",
    "The heaven is described as built with might and vast extent. The verse directs attention to divine power in creation. Its contemplative claim should be heard in its own language rather than reduced to a precise modern cosmological formula.",
    "The earth is presented as spread out for its inhabitants. The image turns attention from the height of heaven to the ground that supports ordinary life. Gratitude arises from recognising provision in surroundings that familiarity can make easy to overlook.",
    "Creation in pairs becomes another invitation to reflection. The verse presents a broad sign of order and relationship. Its purpose is not an exhaustive biological classification, but to direct thought from the patterns of created things toward their Creator.",
    "The response to the signs is expressed as fleeing toward Allah. Escape is given a positive destination rather than left as fear alone. The messenger declares his role clearly: to warn on behalf of the One who calls people back.",
    "The call is joined with rejection of another god beside Allah. Returning to Him includes a change in allegiance, not merely seeking relief from distress. The repeated declaration of warning reinforces the messenger’s responsibility to make this invitation plain.",
    "The accusations against messengers recur across generations. Calling a bearer of revelation a magician or madman is presented as an old pattern. Recognising repetition helps the reader ask whether the dismissal answers the message or simply avoids its challenge.",
    "The question imagines the accusation passed down as an inheritance, then locates its recurrence in rebellion. The verse draws attention to how familiar resistance can become. A repeated claim is not made sound merely because many generations have used it.",
    "The messenger is told to turn away without bearing blame for their refusal. This sets a limit to personal responsibility for another’s response. Delivering a warning faithfully does not give its bearer control over every listener’s eventual choice.",
    "Reminding nevertheless remains valuable because it benefits believers. The instruction balances the previous limit: withdrawal from fruitless confrontation does not mean abandoning the work of teaching. The message continues to nourish those willing to receive and remember it.",
    "The purpose of creating jinn and humanity is stated as worship. The verse places human life within relationship and responsibility toward Allah. It does not say that the Creator needs the service; the next verses explicitly address that distinction.",
    "Allah requires neither provision nor food from those created. Worship is therefore not a transaction that supplies a divine lack. The statement challenges human habits of imagining need and dependence in the One upon whom creation itself depends.",
    "Allah is named as the Provider, possessing enduring strength. The chapter’s themes of rain, wealth, hospitality and food meet in this declaration. Human beings receive and share provision; its ultimate source is not exhausted by the giving.",
    "Those who do wrong are warned of a share like that of earlier counterparts. The recurring demand to hasten judgment is rejected. Past narratives are brought into the present address, asking listeners to learn instead of treating delay as safety.",
    "The chapter ends by returning to the promised day. Its final warning gathers the oaths, signs and earlier accounts into one horizon of responsibility. The time is not disclosed; the reader’s immediate question is how to respond now."
  ],
  "sections": [
    {
      "start": 1,
      "end": 23,
      "title": "Winds, provision and signs within",
      "summary": "Creation’s movements lead toward certainty, night prayer, generosity and signs around and within us.",
      "reflection": "Which familiar gift of provision have you stopped noticing?"
    },
    {
      "start": 24,
      "end": 37,
      "title": "A prepared meal and unexpected news",
      "summary": "Abraham’s hospitality opens onto a promise for his household and a warning concerning another community.",
      "reflection": "What does sincere welcome look like before you know who has arrived?"
    },
    {
      "start": 38,
      "end": 46,
      "title": "When the strength of earlier peoples failed",
      "summary": "Moses and Pharaoh, Ad, Thamud and Noah’s people recall the limits of power before judgment.",
      "reflection": "When does confidence become an obstacle to listening?"
    },
    {
      "start": 47,
      "end": 60,
      "title": "Creation and the purpose of worship",
      "summary": "Heaven, earth and paired creation lead to the call to return to Allah, the self-sufficient Provider.",
      "reflection": "How does receiving provision change the way you worship and share?"
    }
  ],
  "timeline": [
    {
      "title": "Before 622 CE · Makkan classification",
      "year": 622,
      "body": "The chapter is classified as Makkan. The calendar marker uses the Hijrah as a boundary for that period, not an exact year in which these verses were revealed.",
      "source": "https://quran.com/adh-dhariyat/info"
    },
    {
      "title": "Earlier generations · the guests and their mission",
      "year": null,
      "body": "Verses 24–37 recount Abraham’s guests and the rescue of a believing household. Neither the verses nor the commentary cited here supplies a secure Gregorian year for these events.",
      "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/051.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "Earlier warnings · Moses, Ad, Thamud and Noah",
      "year": null,
      "body": "These examples appear in a thematic sequence. The chapter does not give a dated chronology, and the order of mention should not be mistaken for a complete historical timeline.",
      "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/051.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "The promised day · future accountability",
      "year": null,
      "body": "Judgment frames the chapter from its opening declaration to its final warning. The text gives no earthly date for that promised event.",
      "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/051.htm"
    }
  ],
  "places": [
    {
      "id": "makkah",
      "name": "Makkah · the broad revelation setting",
      "body": "The chapter’s Makkan classification situates its address within the earlier mission. The city marker provides broad orientation, not a verified place where the opening oaths were first delivered.",
      "lat": 21.4225,
      "lon": 39.8262,
      "source": "https://quran.com/adh-dhariyat/info",
      "image": 0
    },
    {
      "id": "hospitality",
      "name": "Abraham’s household · a meal prepared for guests",
      "body": "The Quran describes the offered calf and invitation to eat. It gives no floor plan or exact address here. The empty meal scene evokes hospitality while leaving Abraham, his wife and the visitors unpictured.",
      "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/051.htm",
      "image": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "earlier-peoples",
      "name": "Earlier peoples · places recalled as warnings",
      "body": "The accounts mention a sea, a destructive wind and a thunderbolt. This chapter does not establish exact modern sites for these scenes or identify a Pharaoh’s tomb. The landscape illustrates themes without asserting an excavation.",
      "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/051.htm",
      "image": 2
    },
    {
      "id": "earth",
      "name": "Earth and sky · the shared setting of signs",
      "body": "Verses 20–23 and 47–49 direct attention toward creation rather than one sacred location. The earth, the self and the vast sky are invitations to reflection available beyond a single journey or map.",
      "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/051.htm",
      "image": 3
    }
  ],
  "people": [
    {
      "id": "abraham",
      "title": "Abraham · the generous host",
      "body": "The chapter names Ibrahim and describes his welcome of honoured guests. His actions introduce reassurance, a promised son and the visitors’ mission. The scene remains textual; no prophet is portrayed or grave identified.",
      "verse": 24
    },
    {
      "id": "wife",
      "title": "Abraham’s wife · astonishment at the promise",
      "body": "The Quran describes her surprise without naming her in this passage. Ibn Kathir connects the promised son with Ishaq through the parallel account in Surah Hud. That identification is commentary alongside this chapter’s wording.",
      "url": "https://quran.com/adh-dhariyat/24/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir",
      "label": "Read the account’s commentary"
    },
    {
      "id": "moses-pharaoh",
      "title": "Moses and Pharaoh · authority and rejection",
      "body": "Verses 38–40 contrast the messenger’s clear warrant with the ruler’s reliance on strength. The Pharaoh remains unnamed here; the passage supplies no evidence for identifying him as a particular king or mummy.",
      "verse": 38
    },
    {
      "id": "givers",
      "title": "Those who give · a right within their wealth",
      "body": "The people praised in verses 16–19 combine worship and seeking forgiveness with a share for those who ask and those deprived. Their portrait connects private devotion with responsibility toward others.",
      "verse": 19
    }
  ],
  "history": [
    {
      "title": "A Makkan call to recognise the signs",
      "body": "Quran.com places the surah within the Makkan dispute about resurrection and prophethood. Its introduction gives a traditional ordering but not a secure year; this reader therefore uses a broad period boundary.",
      "source": "https://quran.com/adh-dhariyat/info"
    },
    {
      "title": "Hospitality in the commentary",
      "body": "Ibn Kathir draws attention to the food being prepared quietly, brought close and offered courteously. He reads the visitors as angels through the wider Quranic account. These details are attributed and do not justify literal portraits of unseen beings.",
      "source": "https://quran.com/adh-dhariyat/24/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir"
    },
    {
      "title": "Stories without invented dates",
      "body": "The chapter recalls earlier peoples to illuminate a recurring response to warning. Its verses give neither regnal dates nor authenticated tomb locations. The absence of those details is preserved rather than filled with a speculative historical identification.",
      "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/051.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "Worship and provision belong together",
      "body": "The final passage says that creation exists for worship while Allah needs neither food nor resources from it. This clarifies the earlier theme of provision: dependence belongs to the created, and generosity responds to what they have received.",
      "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/051.htm"
    }
  ],
  "revelationNote": "Makkan; no precise revelation year is claimed. The 622 CE marker is the Hijrah boundary. The chapter begins in Juz 26 and continues into Juz 27; earlier prophetic accounts remain undated here.",
  "glossNote": "Some Corpus glosses repeat a complete English phrase across adjacent Arabic words. This edition separates those into individual word meanings using the same page’s Arabic and grammar, so word hover does not repeat a whole phrase. Original glosses and every adjustment are retained in the source audit; idiomatic expressions may include a literal component gloss."
}