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Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 1–6The call for Truth reveals itself with total clarity.Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 7–9The sprouting of a green and flourishing tree from the earth is as wonderful an event as the sudden emergence of a camel from the earth and its starting to walk on its surface.Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 10–14Moses was required to preach monotheism to Pharaoh of Egypt, the king of the greatest and most civilized empire of his times.Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 15–19One chosen by God to represent Him is in every way under His protection.Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 20–22Moses called for the acceptance of Monotheism in Pharaoh’s presence and showed him the miracles of his rod and the shining bright hand.Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 23–35‘What is this: Lord of the Worlds?’Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 36–42Pharaoh and his courtiers considered Moses’s feats as magical in nature.Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 43–48The magicians threw down their ropes and sticks, and the spectators felt as if these ropes and sticks had changed into snakes and were running along the ground.Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 49–51The embracing of the Faith by the magicians was a cause of great disgrace to Pharaoh.Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 52–59In spite of the years spent by Moses in spreading the word of God, Pharaoh did not embrace the Faith.Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 60–68Pursued by Pharaoh, the Children of Israel reached a place where before them was the sea, and behind them were Pharaoh and his army.Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 69–74Abraham’s community went on doing whatever they saw their forefathers doing.Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 75–82Man is an independent being.Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 83–89These verses deal with right understanding, i.e. seeing things as they really are.Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 90–104A man’s heaven and hell are not far away from him.Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 105–115Noah’s community rejected him, though his call was fully borne out by the strength of arguments.Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 116–122Noah strove for centuries so that his community could realize the truth, but they refused to accept it.Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 123–135The ‘Ad was a community which rose to prominence after Noah’s people were destroyed (see 7:69).Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 136–140The false self-confidence of the ‘Ad community prevented them from accepting the preaching of their prophet and they went to the extent of ridiculing it.Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 141–152After the ‘Ad, the other community which gained ascendance was the Thamud (7:74).Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 153–159When a prophet arises in a community, that community is not necessarily atheistic or irreligious.Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 160–166The community in which Lot appeared, had crossed all limits in debauchery.Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 167–175The area to the south and east of the Dead Sea now appears to be deserted.Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 176–184Shu‘ayb’s community was the progeny of Abraham.Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 185–191Shu‘ayb’s community had so much faith in the righteousness of their forefathers’ ways that the prophet’s sayings seemed perverse and absurd.Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 192–197Though the Quran has been revealed in a language of human beings, its literary superiority is extraordinary, so much so that its language itself provides proof of the Quran being a superior Divine discourse of God.Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 198–203The Quran was revealed in the Arabic language, which was also the mother tongue of the Prophet who presented it.Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 204–212When, on behalf of God, the call for Truth appears at the level of a prophet, it appears in its final and perfect shape.Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 213–220To take anybody other than God to be worthy of worship is the greatest crime in the eyes of God.Chapter 26, The Poets (Al-Shu‘ara’) · verses 221–227The extraordinary nature of the Prophet’s discourse was so telling that even those who denied the truth could not contradict what he had to say.