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Annotated Qur'an
Sura 87: The Most High
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Qur'an 87:1 Praise the Name of your Lord, the Most High.	Qur'an 87:1 Notes The all powerful and amazing sky-God needs puny humans to say how amazing he is...all the time.

Qur'an 87:2 He who creates and regulates.	Qur'an 87:2 Notes Everything on earth is a bunch of lego pieces that can be discarded whenever the sky-God wants to.

Qur'an 87:3 He who measures and guides.	Qur'an 87:3 Notes I think one can learn more from a guide-dog and from the French accademie of sciences measurement division.

Qur'an 87:4 He who produces the pasture.	Qur'an 87:4 Notes God came up with the idea of green grass.

Qur'an 87:5 And then turns it into light debris.	Qur'an 87:5 Notes As well as despressing sad brown dying grass.

Qur'an 87:6 We will make you read, so do not forget.	Qur'an 87:6 Notes Read this text...or else. And also, don't forget this text...or else.

Qur'an 87:7 Except what God wills. He knows what is declared, and what is hidden.	Qur'an 87:7 Notes The sky-God knows everything.

Qur'an 87:8 We will ease you into the Easy Way.	Qur'an 87:8 Notes Following the Koran makes life easy and simple and the best way to get people into the easy life is certainly not to force them to do so with a sword or bloody invading armies, but in a kind gentle way...one finger at a time.

Qur'an 87:9 So remind, if reminding helps.	Qur'an 87:9 Notes There is no shortage of people reminding us that some singular sky God (of one description or another) exists.

Qur'an 87:10 The reverent will remember.	Qur'an 87:10 Notes You are supposed to be afriad of the loving sky-God

Qur'an 87:11 But the wretched will avoid it.	Qur'an 87:11 Notes And if you don't accept the existence of this God without any notable evidence or proof of his existence...then you are hapless.

Qur'an 87:12 He who will enter the Gigantic Fire.	Qur'an 87:12 Notes And the loving sky-God will scorch you in agonising torture.

Qur'an 87:13 Where he will neither die, nor live.	Qur'an 87:13 Notes FOREVER!

Qur'an 87:14 Successful is he who purifies himself.	Qur'an 87:14 Notes Wrong. Some organisms grow and last a long time but are not successful in countless ways (passing on genes, flourishing, being a decent living being).

Qur'an 87:15 And mentions the name of his Lord, and prays.	Qur'an 87:15 Notes Another reminder.

Qur'an 87:16 But you prefer the present life.	Qur'an 87:16 Notes Only the foolish prefer a world that isn't entirely made up of a particular world view that came from the Arabian peninsula in the middle ages...

Qur'an 87:17 Though the Hereafter is better, and more lasting.	Qur'an 87:17 Notes along with an eternity of happiness if you do believe in it.

Qur'an 87:18 This is in the former scriptures.	Qur'an 87:18 Notes And if you don't believe this book...

Qur'an 87:19 The Scriptures of Abraham and Moses.	Qur'an 87:19 Notes just check out the even more old and more archaic books that came from the Levant!