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Annotated Qur'an
Sura 91: The Sun
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Qur'an 91:1 By the sun and its radiance.	Qur'an 91:1 Notes The sun is the commanding master of his own domain.

Qur'an 91:2 And the moon as it follows it.	Qur'an 91:2 Notes The moon quietly follows behind him careful to make no sound with every meek and appologetic step she makes.

Qur'an 91:3 And the day as it reveals it.	Qur'an 91:3 Notes The masculine day shines a bright light everywhere showing it's brilliant strength.

Qur'an 91:4 And the night as it conceals it.	Qur'an 91:4 Notes The female night darkens everything, clouds the mind and brings confusion.

Qur'an 91:5 And the sky and He who built it.	Qur'an 91:5 Notes An insecure sky-tyrrant created the universe?

Qur'an 91:6 And the earth and He who spread it.	Qur'an 91:6 Notes A petty totalitarian entity that rules by terror and fear...created the Earth?

Qur'an 91:7 And the soul and He who proportioned it.	Qur'an 91:7 Notes Humans have some undefinable, invisible and non-falsifiable thing inside them that somehow is connected to their physical body and brain...survives brain and body death...and in some non-defined and magical way...moves to another dimension and spends eternity on happy fluffy clouds or screeching torment?

Qur'an 91:8 And inspired it with its wickedness and its righteousness.	Qur'an 91:8 Notes The petty angry sky-tyrrant defines morality?

Qur'an 91:9 Successful is he who purifies it.	Qur'an 91:9 Notes Just look at the absolute success of the countries that follow the faith of the sky-tyrrant and see how incredibly prosperous and peaceful most of these countries are.

Qur'an 91:10 Failing is he who corrupts it.	Qur'an 91:10 Notes Just look at all those European and Anglo-Saxon countries with few Allah believers and see what a poor, violent, downtrodden evil disaster they all aren't!

Qur'an 91:11 Thamood denied in its pride.	Qur'an 91:11 Notes Some irrelevant tribe of people we know almost nothing about and are long gone...apparantly refused to believe in a sky-tyrrant...because (so is their excuse) there was no evidence. That is no excuse. The sky-tyrrant will have none of that.

Qur'an 91:12 When it followed its most wicked.	Qur'an 91:12 Notes Smite and smite away these rational people!

Qur'an 91:13 The messenger of God said to them, “This is the she-camel of God, so let her drink.”	Qur'an 91:13 Notes A bizzarely shaped animal that makes creepy sounds that just happens to live in the area where the religion was born...is somehow of incredible importance for the sky-tyrant.

Qur'an 91:14 But they called him a liar, and hamstrung her. So their Lord crushed them for their sin, and leveled it.	Qur'an 91:14 Notes Based on no evidence given...the people ignored the superstitious cruft and woo...and the sky-tyrant made those who didn't accept the existence of some fantastical being by pure faith along...pulverized dust...just as a caring forgiving loving sky-tyrant would!

Qur'an 91:15 And He does not fear its sequel.	Qur'an 91:15 Notes More mass murder of those who don't blindly believe in a fantastical being with no evidence...is to come! Praise the loving compassionate sky-tyrant!