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Jinn Who Listened In, a Cloak, and a Fountain Called Salsabil

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Jinn Who Listened In, a Cloak, and a Fountain Called Salsabil

Hizb 58 opens with the whole of Al-Jinn, telling in fuller detail the story this account already met briefly in Al-Ahqaf, of jinn who overhear the Quran being recited and return to urge their own kind to believe, describing their society as containing both the righteous and the wayward, much like humanity's own, and their being barred from eavesdropping on heavenly matters since the Prophet's mission began.

Al-Muzzammil, the Enwrapped One, and Al-Muddaththir, the Cloaked One, follow, among the earliest material revealed, instructing the Prophet to rise in prayer through the night and to arise and warn his people, and describing a stubborn opponent who calculated arguments against the message out of arrogance rather than genuine doubt. Al-Qiyama, the Resurrection, argues that God who can reassemble even a person's fingertips precisely has no difficulty raising the dead, and Al-Insan, Man, describes Paradise's reward in lavish detail for those who fed the poor, the orphan and the captive out of love for God alone, down to a fountain named Salsabil offered to the most devoted among them.

The hizb closes carrying the whole of Al-Mursalat, Those Sent Forth, swearing by winds sent in succession and repeating a solemn refrain, woe that Day to the deniers, across a description of the coming judgment.

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