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Annotated Qur'an
Sura 77: The Emissaries
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Qur'an 77:1 By those unleashed in succession.	Qur'an 77:1 Notes In most suras you have to wait a few verses before you're threatened with judgement day and eternal hell. Not this sura.

Qur'an 77:2 Storming turbulently.	Qur'an 77:2 Notes Fear mongering

Qur'an 77:3 Scattering far and wide.	Qur'an 77:3 Notes Poetic drama fest fear mongering

Qur'an 77:4 Separating decisively.	Qur'an 77:4 Notes Believe in this book or you will suffer terribly on some judgement day nobody can prove will ever happen (and won't)

Qur'an 77:5 Delivering a message.	Qur'an 77:5 Notes That message being believe this garbage or else.

Qur'an 77:6 Excusing or warning.	Qur'an 77:6 Notes It's not a warning it is a threat. Emotional manipulation.

Qur'an 77:7 Surely what you are promised will happen.	Qur'an 77:7 Notes Saying it will happen doesn't make it "surely". Evidence please.

Qur'an 77:8 When the stars are obliterated.	Qur'an 77:8 Notes You mean Allah will destroy the billions of stars he created for no apparent reason than to destroy them in an over-dramatic end of times?

Qur'an 77:9 And the sky is fractured.	Qur'an 77:9 Notes How does the sky fracture? It is gas.

Qur'an 77:10 And the mountains are blown away.	Qur'an 77:10 Notes Is Allah going to plant TNT under all the mountains?

Qur'an 77:11 And the messengers are alerted.	Qur'an 77:11 Notes You mean people who claim to be prophets and say stuff they promise some sky-God told them?

Qur'an 77:12 Until which day is it deferred?	Qur'an 77:12 Notes If the Quran gave an actual date when this would happen we could take this a sliver more seriously.

Qur'an 77:13 Until the Day of Decision.	Qur'an 77:13 Notes When? Tell us when this will happen. Make an actual prediction.

Qur'an 77:14 And what will teach you what the Day of Decision is?	Qur'an 77:14 Notes Nothing because it isn't going to happen.

Qur'an 77:15 Woe on that Day to the liars.	Qur'an 77:15 Notes Another case of calling people who dispute this nonsense as "liars". The liar is the person who makes up stuff and claims it is divine.

Qur'an 77:16 Did We not destroy the ancients?	Qur'an 77:16 Notes You conquered a politically fractious people and then took over part of the world but then that ended. There is an obvious limit to God's power if conquering the world would be a sign.

Qur'an 77:17 Then succeeded them with the others?	Qur'an 77:17 Notes This refers to those who doubted the prophets being murdered.

Qur'an 77:18 This is how We deal with the guilty.	Qur'an 77:18 Notes In a merciful and compassionate way?

Qur'an 77:19 Woe on that Day to the rejecters.	Qur'an 77:19 Notes No...clearly not.

Qur'an 77:20 Did We not create you from an insignificant fluid?	Qur'an 77:20 Notes No life evolved in a far more complicated way than that. Something the guy who made up this nonsense didn't know at the time.

Qur'an 77:21 Then lodged it in a secure place?	Qur'an 77:21 Notes Ahem...

Qur'an 77:22 For a known term?	Qur'an 77:22 Notes 9 months for Homo sapiens, more than a year for dolphins (and varying with the type), and still unknown for as yet unevolved species - yeah, very precisely known.

Qur'an 77:23 We measured precisely. We are the best to measure.	Qur'an 77:23 Notes Just that the evolution of things seem to have happened on their own?

Qur'an 77:24 Woe on that Day to the falsifiers.	Qur'an 77:24 Notes You mean us?

Qur'an 77:25 Did We not make the earth a homestead?	Qur'an 77:25 Notes Full of diseases, predators, other human species to compete with, mostly cave existence till recently, fearing our own fellow specimen - yes, a very comely homestead.

Qur'an 77:26 For the living and the dead?	Qur'an 77:26 Notes Dead as in often ending up in predators' mouths?

Qur'an 77:27 And set on it lofty mountains, and given you pure water to drink?	Qur'an 77:27 Notes I suppose the writer hasn't heard of the water cycle. Anyway, not necessary if you're a wily businessman looking to hoodwink a few fellow tribesmen into adulating you and making an empire.

Qur'an 77:28 Woe on that Day to the deniers.	Qur'an 77:28 Notes Well, most of the woe was caused by your troops.

Qur'an 77:29 “Proceed to what you used to deny.”	Qur'an 77:29 Notes This refers to seeing the prophets as false

Qur'an 77:30 “Proceed to a shadow of three different masses.”	Qur'an 77:30 Notes A shadow having mass. How scientific.

Qur'an 77:31 Offering no shade, and unavailing against the flames.	Qur'an 77:31 Notes Ah, the lovely fire once again.

Qur'an 77:32 It shoots sparks as castles.	Qur'an 77:32 Notes Good enough to scare a few tribesmen. Better luck next time with us.

Qur'an 77:33 As if they were yellow camels.	Qur'an 77:33 Notes Poor camel.

Qur'an 77:34 Woe on that Day to the liars.	Qur'an 77:34 Notes Liars certainly deserve punishment, if lies don't mean not believing this book.

Qur'an 77:35 This is a Day when they will not speak.	Qur'an 77:35 Notes Something forbidden - and always by the same people

Qur'an 77:36 And they will not be allowed to apologize.	Qur'an 77:36 Notes No mercy from the merciful sky-Tyrant, as always.

Qur'an 77:37 Woe on that Day to the rejecters.	Qur'an 77:37 Notes You'll be punished for using your common sense - on a day that will never come.

Qur'an 77:38 This is the Day of Separation; We have gathered you, together with the ancients.	Qur'an 77:38 Notes This is the concept of Jahiliyyah - anyone living before Muhammad was living in a time of ignorance and hence damned. Only the chosen few, who believe in this bullshit acknowledge the greatness of a clever chartalan the noble messenger, will gain access to a non-existent heaven.

Qur'an 77:39 So if you have a strategy, use it against Me.	Qur'an 77:39 Notes No need to devise strategies against something that doesn't exist.

Qur'an 77:40 Woe on that Day to the falsifiers.	Qur'an 77:40 Notes Well, to scare a hardy Bedouin you need to repeat the same things a couple of times for it to sink in. Makes sense.

Qur'an 77:41 The righteous will be amidst shades and fountains.	Qur'an 77:41 Notes Righteous in the sense?

Qur'an 77:42 And fruits as they desire.	Qur'an 77:42 Notes Eee - I hate dates! I'm sure that's the main "fruit" over there.

Qur'an 77:43 “Eat and drink pleasantly, for what you used to do.”	Qur'an 77:43 Notes Dreams are wonderful.

Qur'an 77:44 This is how We reward the doers of good.	Qur'an 77:44 Notes By that you mean - believing in this book?

Qur'an 77:45 Woe on that Day to the deniers.	Qur'an 77:45 Notes The threats in this book are endless.

Qur'an 77:46 “Eat and enjoy yourselves a little; you are indeed criminals.”	Qur'an 77:46 Notes For using our brains.

Qur'an 77:47 Woe on that Day to the liars.	Qur'an 77:47 Notes I.e. people who tried to expose this book for what it is.

Qur'an 77:48 And when it is said to them, “Kneel”, they do not kneel.	Qur'an 77:48 Notes Not to a false prophet.

Qur'an 77:49 Woe on that Day to the rejecters.	Qur'an 77:49 Notes This is getting boring...

Qur'an 77:50 In what message, beyond this, will they believe?	Qur'an 77:50 Notes Science, rationality, and maybe a God, but certainly not this one.