{
  "number": 75,
  "slug": "qiyamah",
  "name": "Al-Qiyamah",
  "arabicName": "القيامة",
  "meaning": "The Resurrection",
  "juz": 29,
  "period": "Makkan",
  "tagline": "THE SELF THAT KNOWS & THE LIFE TO COME",
  "overview": "Resurrection and the self that reproaches itself open a searching account of responsibility. Cosmic upheaval, the receiving of revelation, human haste and the moment of death converge in a final question: can the One who first created life not restore it?",
  "sources": [
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      "title": "Arabic text · quranjson (MIT)",
      "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/semarketir/quranjson/master/source/surah/surah_75.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=75&verse=1"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=75&verse=6"
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      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=75&verse=13"
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      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=75&verse=18"
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      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=75&verse=25"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=75&verse=31"
    },
    {
      "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)",
      "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=75&verse=37"
    },
    {
      "title": "Surah introduction · Quran.com",
      "url": "https://quran.com/al-qiyamah/info"
    },
    {
      "title": "Receiving and reciting revelation · Bukhari 5",
      "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5"
    },
    {
      "title": "622 CE · Hijrah period boundary · Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911)",
      "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira"
    }
  ],
  "verses": [
    {
      "n": 1,
      "arabic": "لَآ أُقْسِمُ بِيَوْمِ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ",
      "translation": "I swear by the Day of Resurrection"
    },
    {
      "n": 2,
      "arabic": "وَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِٱلنَّفْسِ ٱللَّوَّامَةِ",
      "translation": "And I swear by the reproaching soul [to the certainty of resurrection]."
    },
    {
      "n": 3,
      "arabic": "أَيَحْسَبُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ أَلَّن نَّجْمَعَ عِظَامَهُۥ",
      "translation": "Does man think that We will not assemble his bones?"
    },
    {
      "n": 4,
      "arabic": "بَلَىٰ قَٰدِرِينَ عَلَىٰٓ أَن نُّسَوِّىَ بَنَانَهُۥ",
      "translation": "Yes. [We are] Able [even] to proportion his fingertips."
    },
    {
      "n": 5,
      "arabic": "بَلْ يُرِيدُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ لِيَفْجُرَ أَمَامَهُۥ",
      "translation": "But man desires to continue in sin."
    },
    {
      "n": 6,
      "arabic": "يَسْـَٔلُ أَيَّانَ يَوْمُ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ",
      "translation": "He asks, \"When is the Day of Resurrection?\""
    },
    {
      "n": 7,
      "arabic": "فَإِذَا بَرِقَ ٱلْبَصَرُ",
      "translation": "So when vision is dazzled"
    },
    {
      "n": 8,
      "arabic": "وَخَسَفَ ٱلْقَمَرُ",
      "translation": "And the moon darkens"
    },
    {
      "n": 9,
      "arabic": "وَجُمِعَ ٱلشَّمْسُ وَٱلْقَمَرُ",
      "translation": "And the sun and the moon are joined,"
    },
    {
      "n": 10,
      "arabic": "يَقُولُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ يَوْمَئِذٍ أَيْنَ ٱلْمَفَرُّ",
      "translation": "Man will say on that Day, \"Where is the [place of] escape?\""
    },
    {
      "n": 11,
      "arabic": "كَلَّا لَا وَزَرَ",
      "translation": "No! There is no refuge."
    },
    {
      "n": 12,
      "arabic": "إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ يَوْمَئِذٍ ٱلْمُسْتَقَرُّ",
      "translation": "To your Lord, that Day, is the [place of] permanence."
    },
    {
      "n": 13,
      "arabic": "يُنَبَّؤُا۟ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ يَوْمَئِذٍۭ بِمَا قَدَّمَ وَأَخَّرَ",
      "translation": "Man will be informed that Day of what he sent ahead and kept back."
    },
    {
      "n": 14,
      "arabic": "بَلِ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ عَلَىٰ نَفْسِهِۦ بَصِيرَةٌۭ",
      "translation": "Rather, man, against himself, will be a witness,"
    },
    {
      "n": 15,
      "arabic": "وَلَوْ أَلْقَىٰ مَعَاذِيرَهُۥ",
      "translation": "Even if he presents his excuses."
    },
    {
      "n": 16,
      "arabic": "لَا تُحَرِّكْ بِهِۦ لِسَانَكَ لِتَعْجَلَ بِهِۦٓ",
      "translation": "Move not your tongue with it, [O Muhammad], to hasten with recitation of the Qur'an."
    },
    {
      "n": 17,
      "arabic": "إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا جَمْعَهُۥ وَقُرْءَانَهُۥ",
      "translation": "Indeed, upon Us is its collection [in your heart] and [to make possible] its recitation."
    },
    {
      "n": 18,
      "arabic": "فَإِذَا قَرَأْنَٰهُ فَٱتَّبِعْ قُرْءَانَهُۥ",
      "translation": "So when We have recited it [through Gabriel], then follow its recitation."
    },
    {
      "n": 19,
      "arabic": "ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا بَيَانَهُۥ",
      "translation": "Then upon Us is its clarification [to you]."
    },
    {
      "n": 20,
      "arabic": "كَلَّا بَلْ تُحِبُّونَ ٱلْعَاجِلَةَ",
      "translation": "No! But you love the immediate"
    },
    {
      "n": 21,
      "arabic": "وَتَذَرُونَ ٱلْءَاخِرَةَ",
      "translation": "And leave the Hereafter."
    },
    {
      "n": 22,
      "arabic": "وُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ نَّاضِرَةٌ",
      "translation": "[Some] faces, that Day, will be radiant,"
    },
    {
      "n": 23,
      "arabic": "إِلَىٰ رَبِّهَا نَاظِرَةٌۭ",
      "translation": "Looking at their Lord."
    },
    {
      "n": 24,
      "arabic": "وَوُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍۭ بَاسِرَةٌۭ",
      "translation": "And [some] faces, that Day, will be contorted,"
    },
    {
      "n": 25,
      "arabic": "تَظُنُّ أَن يُفْعَلَ بِهَا فَاقِرَةٌۭ",
      "translation": "Expecting that there will be done to them [something] backbreaking."
    },
    {
      "n": 26,
      "arabic": "كَلَّآ إِذَا بَلَغَتِ ٱلتَّرَاقِىَ",
      "translation": "No! When the soul has reached the collar bones"
    },
    {
      "n": 27,
      "arabic": "وَقِيلَ مَنْ ۜ رَاقٍۢ",
      "translation": "And it is said, \"Who will cure [him]?\""
    },
    {
      "n": 28,
      "arabic": "وَظَنَّ أَنَّهُ ٱلْفِرَاقُ",
      "translation": "And the dying one is certain that it is the [time of] separation"
    },
    {
      "n": 29,
      "arabic": "وَٱلْتَفَّتِ ٱلسَّاقُ بِٱلسَّاقِ",
      "translation": "And the leg is wound about the leg,"
    },
    {
      "n": 30,
      "arabic": "إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ يَوْمَئِذٍ ٱلْمَسَاقُ",
      "translation": "To your Lord, that Day, will be the procession."
    },
    {
      "n": 31,
      "arabic": "فَلَا صَدَّقَ وَلَا صَلَّىٰ",
      "translation": "And the disbeliever had not believed, nor had he prayed."
    },
    {
      "n": 32,
      "arabic": "وَلَٰكِن كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ",
      "translation": "But [instead], he denied and turned away."
    },
    {
      "n": 33,
      "arabic": "ثُمَّ ذَهَبَ إِلَىٰٓ أَهْلِهِۦ يَتَمَطَّىٰٓ",
      "translation": "And then he went to his people, swaggering [in pride]."
    },
    {
      "n": 34,
      "arabic": "أَوْلَىٰ لَكَ فَأَوْلَىٰ",
      "translation": "Woe to you, and woe!"
    },
    {
      "n": 35,
      "arabic": "ثُمَّ أَوْلَىٰ لَكَ فَأَوْلَىٰٓ",
      "translation": "Then woe to you, and woe!"
    },
    {
      "n": 36,
      "arabic": "أَيَحْسَبُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ أَن يُتْرَكَ سُدًى",
      "translation": "Does man think that he will be left neglected?"
    },
    {
      "n": 37,
      "arabic": "أَلَمْ يَكُ نُطْفَةًۭ مِّن مَّنِىٍّۢ يُمْنَىٰ",
      "translation": "Had he not been a sperm from semen emitted?"
    },
    {
      "n": 38,
      "arabic": "ثُمَّ كَانَ عَلَقَةًۭ فَخَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ",
      "translation": "Then he was a clinging clot, and [Allah] created [his form] and proportioned [him]"
    },
    {
      "n": 39,
      "arabic": "فَجَعَلَ مِنْهُ ٱلزَّوْجَيْنِ ٱلذَّكَرَ وَٱلْأُنثَىٰٓ",
      "translation": "And made of him two mates, the male and the female."
    },
    {
      "n": 40,
      "arabic": "أَلَيْسَ ذَٰلِكَ بِقَٰدِرٍ عَلَىٰٓ أَن يُحْۦِىَ ٱلْمَوْتَىٰ",
      "translation": "Is not that [Creator] Able to give life to the dead?"
    }
  ],
  "glosses": [
    [
      "Nay!",
      "I swear",
      "by (the) Day",
      "(of) the Resurrection."
    ],
    [
      "And nay!",
      "I swear",
      "by the soul",
      "self-accusing."
    ],
    [
      "Does think",
      "[the] man",
      "that not",
      "We will assemble",
      "his bones?"
    ],
    [
      "Nay!",
      "(We are) Able",
      "on",
      "that",
      "We can restore",
      "his fingertips."
    ],
    [
      "Nay!",
      "Desires",
      "[the] man",
      "to give (the) lie",
      "(to) what is before him."
    ],
    [
      "He asks,",
      "\"When",
      "(is the) Day",
      "(of) the Resurrection?\""
    ],
    [
      "So when",
      "is dazzled",
      "the vision,"
    ],
    [
      "And becomes dark",
      "the moon,"
    ],
    [
      "And are joined",
      "the sun",
      "and the moon,"
    ],
    [
      "Will say",
      "[the] man",
      "that Day,",
      "\"Where",
      "(is) the escape?\""
    ],
    [
      "By no means!",
      "(There is) no",
      "refuge."
    ],
    [
      "To",
      "your Lord,",
      "that Day,",
      "(is) the place of rest."
    ],
    [
      "Will be informed",
      "[the] man",
      "that Day",
      "of what",
      "he sent forth",
      "and kept back."
    ],
    [
      "Nay!",
      "[The] man",
      "against",
      "himself",
      "(will be) a witness."
    ],
    [
      "Even if",
      "he presents",
      "his excuses."
    ],
    [
      "Not",
      "move",
      "with it",
      "your tongue",
      "to hasten",
      "with it."
    ],
    [
      "Indeed,",
      "upon Us",
      "(is) its collection",
      "and its recitation."
    ],
    [
      "And when",
      "We have recited it,",
      "then follow",
      "its recitation."
    ],
    [
      "Then",
      "indeed,",
      "upon Us",
      "(is) its explanation."
    ],
    [
      "No!",
      "But",
      "you love",
      "the immediate,"
    ],
    [
      "And leave",
      "the Hereafter."
    ],
    [
      "Faces",
      "that Day",
      "(will be) radiant,"
    ],
    [
      "Towards",
      "their Lord",
      "looking,"
    ],
    [
      "And faces",
      "that Day",
      "(will be) distorted,"
    ],
    [
      "Thinking",
      "that",
      "will be done",
      "to them",
      "backbreaking."
    ],
    [
      "No!",
      "When",
      "it reaches",
      "the collar bones"
    ],
    [
      "And it is said,",
      "\"Who",
      "(will) cure?\""
    ],
    [
      "And he is certain",
      "that it",
      "(is) the parting."
    ],
    [
      "And is wound,",
      "the leg",
      "about the leg,"
    ],
    [
      "To",
      "your Lord",
      "that Day",
      "(will be) the driving."
    ],
    [
      "And not",
      "he accepted (the) truth",
      "and not",
      "he prayed."
    ],
    [
      "But",
      "he denied",
      "and turned away."
    ],
    [
      "Then",
      "he went",
      "to",
      "his family,",
      "swaggering."
    ],
    [
      "Woe",
      "to you,",
      "and woe!"
    ],
    [
      "Then",
      "woe",
      "to you,",
      "and woe!"
    ],
    [
      "Does think",
      "man",
      "that",
      "he will be left",
      "neglected?"
    ],
    [
      "Was not",
      "he",
      "a semen-drop",
      "of",
      "semen",
      "emitted?"
    ],
    [
      "Then",
      "he was",
      "a clinging substance,",
      "then He created",
      "and proportioned."
    ],
    [
      "Then made",
      "of him",
      "two kinds,",
      "(the) male",
      "and the female."
    ],
    [
      "Is not",
      "[that]",
      "(He) Able",
      "[over]",
      "to",
      "give life",
      "(to) the dead?"
    ]
  ],
  "titles": [
    "An oath by resurrection",
    "The self that reproaches",
    "Can bones be gathered?",
    "Even the fingers restored",
    "Wanting to continue without restraint",
    "When will that day come?",
    "Sight overwhelmed",
    "The moon darkened",
    "Sun and moon brought together",
    "Where can one flee?",
    "No refuge",
    "The final recourse",
    "What was sent ahead and left behind",
    "A witness against oneself",
    "Excuses do not conceal",
    "Do not hasten the recitation",
    "Gathering and recitation assured",
    "Follow the recitation",
    "The explanation assured",
    "Loving the immediate",
    "Neglecting the Hereafter",
    "Faces radiant",
    "Looking toward the Lord",
    "Faces downcast",
    "Expecting a crushing outcome",
    "Life reaches the throat",
    "Who can heal?",
    "The parting recognized",
    "Distress upon distress",
    "The return to the Lord",
    "Neither trust nor prayer",
    "Denial and turning away",
    "Returning in self-satisfaction",
    "A warning draws near",
    "The warning repeated",
    "Is life without purpose?",
    "Remember the first drop",
    "Formation and proportion",
    "Male and female",
    "Can the Creator not restore life?"
  ],
  "notes": [
    "The opening names resurrection immediately, placing the central claim before the listener. The forceful oath sets the tone for what follows. This is a chapter about accountability rather than a timetable for predicting the end.",
    "The accusing or self-reproaching soul brings attention inward after the opening cosmic horizon. Human beings can recognize a gap between conduct and conscience. The verse invites honest reflection without authorizing harsh judgment of another person’s inner life.",
    "The objection to resurrection is expressed through the gathering of bones. It presents a familiar image of bodily death and dispersal. The next verse answers by emphasizing a capacity more detailed than assembling a skeleton.",
    "The response reaches even to the fingers, rendered fingertips in the word aid. The argument concerns complete restoration. The verse need not be turned into a modern forensic claim to appreciate its precise and personal force.",
    "The chapter moves from a stated intellectual objection to a desire about future conduct. It asks whether denial can serve a wish to continue without restraint. The reader is invited to examine motives alongside arguments.",
    "The question about when resurrection will occur follows that examination of motive. In this setting it carries challenge rather than a simple request for a calendar. The response describes the event’s seriousness instead of giving a date.",
    "Sight is overwhelmed as the scene begins to change. The verse turns the listener’s attention from argument to experience. Its compact language starts a sequence in which ordinary points of orientation no longer provide assurance.",
    "The moon loses its familiar light. Read this as part of the chapter’s judgment imagery, alongside the next verse. The text does not identify a past eclipse or provide an astronomical date for revelation.",
    "Sun and moon are brought together within the unfolding scene. The image intensifies the disruption of familiar order. An illustration can suggest that disturbance without claiming to reproduce the future event as a physical observation.",
    "The challenging question of verse 6 becomes an urgent search for escape. This change in speech reveals a change in perspective. What was dismissed at a distance is now faced as an immediate reality.",
    "The answer removes the possibility of refuge. Its brevity contrasts with the urgency of the question before it. The passage emphasizes the limits of escape, turning the listener toward the final recourse described next.",
    "The Lord is named as the destination of recourse that day. This gives the upheaval a moral center beyond the collapse of familiar surroundings. The concern is a return for accountability, not direction on a map.",
    "The person is informed of what was sent ahead and left behind. The wording reaches beyond the immediate present. It invites reflection on actions and the continuing traces a life may leave for others.",
    "The human being becomes a witness against the self. Knowledge of one’s own conduct remains important even when outward explanations sound persuasive. The verse asks for honesty before it asks for an account of others.",
    "Excuses do not erase the self’s witness. This completes the short movement from disclosed deeds to inward recognition. The practical reflection is whether explanations are helping us understand responsibility or merely avoid admitting it.",
    "The address briefly turns to the receiving of revelation. The messenger is told not to hurry his tongue. A report from Ibn Abbas explains this passage through the Prophet’s concern while receiving the Quran.",
    "Gathering and recitation are assured by the One sending the message. The reassurance answers the haste described in the preceding verse. It places confidence in divine care at the center of receiving revelation.",
    "The instruction is to follow the recitation once it is recited. The transmitted explanation emphasizes attentive listening. Read within this passage, patient reception comes before speaking, rather than hurriedly trying to secure every word.",
    "The explanation is also assured. This completes the sequence about receiving, reciting and understanding the message. The verses offer reassurance to the messenger while drawing the reader’s attention to the seriousness of listening well.",
    "The chapter returns to the human attraction to the immediate. Pickthall’s fleeting Now makes the contrast vivid. The issue is not simply that earthly life exists, but that its urgency can dominate judgment.",
    "Neglect of the Hereafter is paired with love of the immediate. The two brief verses belong together. They ask what disappears from consideration when present advantage becomes the only measure of a decision.",
    "Radiant faces introduce one response to the coming day. The focus shifts from the sky and earth to personal experience. The brightness prepares a hopeful counterpart to the downcast faces described shortly afterward.",
    "Pickthall renders the verse as looking toward their Lord. The reader preserves that wording without attempting a picture of divine presence. The scene remains within the promise conveyed by the text, beyond documentary illustration.",
    "Other faces are described through despondency. The contrast shows that the same day is experienced differently according to its outcome. Read this beside the radiance above rather than isolating either feeling from the chapter’s accountability.",
    "Expectation itself becomes distressing as a crushing outcome approaches. The verse continues the description of downcast faces. It returns the reader to the present opportunity for reflection, before consequences are faced in that scene.",
    "Attention moves from the great day to the individual’s final moments. The image of life reaching the throat makes mortality close and personal. It is a moral reminder, not guidance for diagnosing a medical emergency.",
    "Those nearby ask who can provide a cure. Pickthall’s older word wizard can sound unfamiliar; the word aid preserves the question about healing. The scene conveys human urgency when familiar means of help fail.",
    "The person recognizes that parting has arrived. This certainty contrasts with the earlier questioning of resurrection. The verse concentrates on a human threshold everyone approaches, without supplying the biography of a named dying individual.",
    "The Arabic image joins leg with leg, while Pickthall conveys accumulated agony. Both draw attention to the intensity of the moment. The reader should distinguish a close word aid from the translator’s fuller interpretive expression.",
    "The destination is again the Lord, recalling verse 12. The repeated return links individual death with the chapter’s wider account of resurrection. The passage leaves earthly routes behind without assigning the Hereafter geographic coordinates.",
    "The preceding scene is followed by a description of neglected trust and prayer. The chapter connects the final outcome with lived response. The focus is moral conduct, not the reader’s ability to identify an unnamed person.",
    "Denial and turning away provide the positive actions behind that neglect. The verse emphasizes a response to the message rather than mere absence of information. Read it beside the earlier invitation to examine motives.",
    "The person returns to familiar company with self-satisfaction. This ordinary social detail contrasts sharply with the final moments just described. Confidence in the approval of one’s circle does not settle the chapter’s questions.",
    "A brief warning interrupts the description of complacency. Pickthall renders its force through the repeated nearness of doom. The line serves as a wakeful challenge to the sense that consequences are always distant.",
    "The warning is immediately repeated, giving it stronger weight in recitation. It breaks the rhythm of casual confidence. The listener is invited to reconsider before the final argument returns to the origin of life.",
    "The question asks whether the human being is left without purpose or responsibility. It gathers conscience, deeds and mortality into one challenge. The closing verses answer by returning to the dependent beginning of every life.",
    "The first drop recalls a state far removed from later pride and self-assurance. The verse is part of an argument about creation and return. It invites humility without pretending to supply a complete biological account.",
    "Formation and proportion follow the initial fluid. The sequence emphasizes an ordered development that the person did not perform for themselves. Read it in relation to the final question about the capacity to restore life.",
    "Male and female are named as a pair within the account of creation. The verse continues the movement from a small beginning to formed human life. Its place here supports the broader argument about divine capacity.",
    "The chapter ends by asking whether the One who creates is able to revive the dead. The question draws its force from all that preceded it. Reflection on a first beginning becomes an invitation to consider return."
  ],
  "sections": [
    {
      "start": 1,
      "end": 15,
      "title": "The day and the self that knows",
      "summary": "Resurrection, cosmic upheaval and the self’s own witness challenge denial and excuses.",
      "reflection": "When do you already know the truth about a choice before offering an explanation?"
    },
    {
      "start": 16,
      "end": 25,
      "title": "Listen patiently; look beyond the immediate",
      "summary": "Reassurance about revelation interrupts the warning before the contrast between radiant and troubled faces.",
      "reflection": "How does haste change what you are able to hear and understand?"
    },
    {
      "start": 26,
      "end": 40,
      "title": "Parting and the power to restore",
      "summary": "The nearness of death and the memory of human creation lead to the chapter’s final question.",
      "reflection": "What deserves attention now because life is neither limitless nor without consequence?"
    }
  ],
  "timeline": [
    {
      "title": "Before 622 CE · Makkan mission · a challenge to denial",
      "year": 622,
      "body": "The introduction classifies the chapter as Makkan and connects it with denial of resurrection. The surah itself gives no calendar date, named eclipse or precisely dated argument. The year 622 marks the Hijrah boundary of the Makkan period; it is not an assigned revelation year for this passage.",
      "source": "https://quran.com/al-qiyamah/info"
    },
    {
      "title": "Receiving revelation · patient listening",
      "year": null,
      "body": "Ibn Abbas’s transmitted explanation links verses 16–19 to the Prophet’s haste while receiving revelation. It describes listening and reciting, without assigning a dated session to these verses.",
      "source": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5"
    },
    {
      "title": "The final parting · an individual horizon",
      "year": null,
      "body": "Verses 26–30 evoke the recognition of death and return. They describe no named person’s deathbed and do not provide a historical year to calculate.",
      "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/075.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "Resurrection · a promise beyond dating",
      "year": null,
      "body": "The chapter’s opening and closing concern life restored and deeds disclosed. Its answer to questions about the day is moral and theological, not a date for a future calendar.",
      "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/075.htm"
    }
  ],
  "places": [
    {
      "id": "makkah",
      "name": "Makkah · the broad setting",
      "body": "The chapter is classified as Makkan. No house, market or hill is named in the text; this setting identifies the broad mission period rather than a verified location of a particular verse.",
      "lat": 21.4225,
      "lon": 39.8262,
      "source": "https://quran.com/al-qiyamah/info",
      "image": 0
    },
    {
      "id": "recitation",
      "name": "A place of listening · no exact room identified",
      "body": "The report explaining verses 16–19 describes the receiving of revelation and attentive listening. It does not identify a room to reconstruct, so the artwork uses a quiet symbolic setting.",
      "source": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5",
      "image": 1
    },
    {
      "id": "parting",
      "name": "The final parting · no named earthly site",
      "body": "The dying person in verses 26–30 is not given a name or location. The passage brings mortality close without establishing a particular historical deathbed or grave.",
      "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/075.htm",
      "image": 2
    }
  ],
  "people": [
    {
      "id": "self",
      "title": "The self that reproaches itself",
      "body": "The chapter’s second oath brings inward moral awareness into view. This is a human theme rather than the name of a historical figure, and it invites the reader to consider their own response.",
      "verse": 2
    },
    {
      "id": "muhammad",
      "title": "Muhammad · reassured about revelation",
      "body": "The verses on recitation address the messenger. Bukhari 5 transmits Ibn Abbas’s explanation of his initial haste and the instruction to listen; the site does not depict him receiving revelation.",
      "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5",
      "label": "Read Bukhari 5"
    },
    {
      "id": "ibn-abbas",
      "title": "Ibn Abbas · explaining the recitation passage",
      "body": "The report preserves Ibn Abbas’s explanation through Said ibn Jubair. It describes the receiving and reciting of revelation, providing a transmitted context for the brief change of address in verses 16–19.",
      "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5",
      "label": "Read the transmitted explanation"
    },
    {
      "id": "dying-person",
      "title": "The person facing parting",
      "body": "The final passage describes a person and the people seeking help nearby. They remain unnamed; the moral significance of the scene does not depend on attaching it to a known grave or biography.",
      "verse": 26
    }
  ],
  "history": [
    {
      "title": "Makkan classification and verse numbering",
      "body": "Quran.com identifies the chapter as Makkan and notes different traditional verse counts. This reader follows the 40-verse numbering shared by its Arabic source, Corpus word references and Pickthall presentation.",
      "source": "https://quran.com/al-qiyamah/info"
    },
    {
      "title": "A pause within the argument",
      "body": "Verses 16–19 concern revelation within a chapter otherwise focused on resurrection. Bukhari 5 supplies the transmitted account of the messenger listening rather than hurrying his recitation.",
      "source": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5"
    },
    {
      "title": "A day, not an eclipse forecast",
      "body": "The moon, sun and overwhelmed sight occur in a sequence about judgment. The chapter supplies no astronomical date or particular observed eclipse that this reader could identify as its historical occasion.",
      "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/075.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "The final question recalls the first objection",
      "body": "The early question about gathering bones is answered at the end by reflection on first creation. This close reading follows the chapter’s own argument without adding a modern scientific prediction.",
      "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/075.htm"
    }
  ],
  "revelationNote": "Makkan. Uses the 40-verse numbering of the Arabic and Corpus sources. No exact revelation year, eclipse date, named dying person or grave is asserted."
}
