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Annotated Qur'an
Sura 101: The Terrible Calamity
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Qur'an 101:1 The Shocker.	Qur'an 101:1 Notes Oh the humanity!

Qur'an 101:2 What is the Shocker?	Qur'an 101:2 Notes A question after an emphatic statement.

Qur'an 101:3 What will explain to you what the Shocker is?	Qur'an 101:3 Notes Perhaps a very well done youtube video with realistic renderings of the Earth falling apart and people tortured for eternity.

Qur'an 101:4 The Day when the people will be like scattered moths.	Qur'an 101:4 Notes Moths in general scatter around in irregular patterns. They cannot be thickly scattered nor even thinly.

Qur'an 101:5 And the mountains will be like tufted wool.	Qur'an 101:5 Notes If there was an enormous giant he could knit his wife a sweater out of the mountain-wool!

Qur'an 101:6 As for he whose scales are heavy.	Qur'an 101:6 Notes One definitely hopes they are in this group.

Qur'an 101:7 He will be in a pleasant life.	Qur'an 101:7 Notes A great motivator do be good and do good things, not because they are good, but because the sky-tyrant tells you and the sky-tyrant will reward you.

Qur'an 101:8 But as for he whose scales are light.	Qur'an 101:8 Notes Spending endless days not believing in the sky-tyrant and not praying to the sky-tyrant will add up to a very negative balance sheet.

Qur'an 101:9 His home is the Abyss.	Qur'an 101:9 Notes Oh the humanity!

Qur'an 101:10 Do you know what it is?	Qur'an 101:10 Notes I always find things are well conveyed to me, when things are well described, make sense and and a proper explanation is given. I cannot find any of this per the fire in this book of rants.

Qur'an 101:11 A Raging Fire.	Qur'an 101:11 Notes The sky-tyrant takes great pleasure in the eternal torture of those who offended his highly sensitive ego.