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This will be a blog to collect notes of my readings of the Quran, and musings about Islam in general.

I endeavour to understand the Quran through Quranism. This often leads to interpretations of the Quran which radically differ from traditional readings. They are not intended to replace traditional readings, they only represent my own thoughts.

These notes are incomplete, and will remain so.

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Annotations: al-masad, 111 (lemmy.ml)

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๏ Perished the hands of the father of the flame – and he perished! (1) What he benefited for himself of his wealth and what he earned, (2) still he will burn in a fire of blazing flames! (3) and his companion, the carrier of the fuel, (4) about her slender neck is a cord of binding rope. (5) ๏

— al-masad, 111/1-5

This comes after a chapter which says God's help results in people embracing the moral philosophy of the way. God's victory is not accumulating wealth.

Two archetypes are mentioned.

The one who with a fiery disposition, with a burning ambition for wealth, will perish.

His enabler and accomplice, the one who fuels his flames, will perish with him. Her beautiful slender neck will be bound to him with a noose. They share the punishment for disrupting the social living of the previous chapter, and defying the unity of God of the next chapter.

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