Compassionate Among Themselves, Fierce Toward Disbelief, and a Verse on Human Equality

Hizb 52 closes Al-Fath with a widely quoted description of Muhammad and his companions as compassionate among themselves while unyielding toward disbelief, an image later art and calligraphy have returned to repeatedly. It then carries the whole of Al-Hujurat, the Private Chambers, instructing believers not to raise their voices above the Prophet's own, prohibiting mockery, backbiting and unfounded suspicion between believers, and closing with one of the Quran's most frequently cited verses on human equality: that people were made into nations and tribes only to know one another, and that the most honored among them in God's sight is whoever is most mindful of Him, regardless of lineage.

The hizb carries the whole of Qaf, arguing for resurrection and describing God as closer to a person than that person's own jugular vein, watched over by two recording angels tracking every word spoken. It then opens Adh-Dhariyat, the Scattering Winds, swearing by winds and clouds as evidence for the certainty of Judgment Day, and retells Abraham's angelic visitors announcing a son in his old age before going on to warn Lot's people, an episode this account has already met in Hud and As-Saffat.

The hizb closes still within that same account, a third telling of one of the Quran's most repeated narrative episodes.