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A Prophet Frowned Gently At, and Infant Girls Questioned for Their Own Deaths

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A Prophet Frowned Gently At, and Infant Girls Questioned for Their Own Deaths

Hizb 59 opens with An-Naba, the Great News, on the certainty of resurrection, and An-Naziat, describing angels who draw out souls, before Abasa, He Frowned, tells its well known episode of gentle correction: the Prophet, occupied with prominent Meccan figures, turns briefly away from a blind man, Abdullah ibn Umm Maktum, who has come earnestly seeking guidance, and the sura addresses the moment directly, later read as a foundational lesson in treating every sincere seeker with equal attention regardless of status.

At-Takwir describes cosmic upheaval, the sun folded up and the stars falling, and asks for what crime an infant girl buried alive was killed, recalling the practice this account already noted being condemned in An-Nahl. Al-Infitar, Al-Mutaffifin, warning specifically against cheating in weights and measures, and Al-Inshiqaq continue describing the Day of Judgment and its recording angels, and Al-Buruj recalls the companions of the pit, believers burned alive for their faith by an earthly tyrant whose power is shown as nothing beside God's own.

The hizb closes carrying the whole of At-Tariq, the Nightcomer, swearing by the sky and the night star and describing the human being's own origin from a fluid, offered as evidence that the same power can raise a person again.

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