History Literature / TheQuran

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Or rather The First Is Not Like The Others. The very first chapter, Al-Fatiha (''The Opening'') is the only one where the bismillah phrase, e.g. ''Bismillahi rrahmani rrahim''[[note]]In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful[[/note]], is a part of the chapter, instead of being an "appetizer"; you have to read it to start the chapter, lest your reading becomes invalid. In all other chapters, except the ninth (see below), it is only merely recommended. On the flip side, the ninth chapter, At-Tawba (''The Repentance''), is the only one of the 114 not to have the bismillah as an opening. According to scholarly opinion, this is because the surah is considered a direct continuation of the previous one, Al-Anfal.

* {{Satan}}: He's a Jinn called Iblis, Satan (or [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Shaytan]]) translates as "adversary" or "astray".

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: There is no universally agreed upon-romanization of Classical Arabic, so application of this trope is in ''spades''. Jews might be familiar with this, since Classical Hebrew also has no universally agreed upon-romanization (hence (C)han(n)ukka(h)). For one thing, Arabic has a lot of consonants and vowels that English simply cannot do justice without diacritics, which can be cumbersome to write.

* {{Hell}}: As with Heaven, there are 7 layers of them. There are also many names and {{Deadly Euphemism}}s, like the Fire (''An-Nar''), the Blaze (''Jahim''), the Crusher (''Al-Huthamah''), and the Abyss (''Hawiyah''). Hell is guarded by an angel called Malik, who will question its visitors whether they have heard the message from the Prophet and why they did not heed them. The tormented's only "nourishment" in Hell is the fruit of a tree called Zaqqum, which neither nourishes them nor abates their hunger, and [[ManOnFire boiling hot water]] to drink. The Qur'an in general is rather obsessed in telling the unbelievers, infidels (or at least those of them who deny God's signs) and hypocrites about what fiery punishment will await them after death if they don't repent to God, almost to the point of a BrokenRecord.

* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: The Qur'an is written in a version of Arabic that was archaic even in Muhammad's time. A SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} happened when one of his proponents bashed him for using words that were hard to understand, just to have ''another'' proponent appeared and bashed him incorporating those very same words.

* JewishComplaining: The Jews' debates with Muhammad and the early Muslim community are chronicled in many chapters. Also, there is an addition to the Moses story, set during the Israelites' journey throughout the Sinai Peninsula. It is said that Moses met a wise man (named "Khidr" in Muslim tradition) and accompanied him on a journey. The wise man told Moses not to question anything that he did and Moses initially agreed. However, what the man did was rather questionable (e.g. killing a boy, reinforcing the walls of a wicked city) that Moses kept pestering him with questions anyway. Eventually, the wise man became fed up and told Moses the reasons why he did what he did (e.g. the boy was wicked, the wall contained riches belonging to a faithful people), before parting ways with him.

* ReflexiveRemarkOfReverence: *It's customary to follow the name of a prophet, especially Muhammad with "Peace be upon him" as a show of respect. (Wiki/TheOtherWiki devotes [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_be_upon_him_(Islam) a whole article]] to this.)

** In one verse, two women are required to give testimony for trials concerning interest of the monetary kind, whereas one man is enough[[note]]This is commonly thought to be because men would intimidate women into perjury, whereas two women would provide support and protection for one another.[[/note]]. Nowhere else in the Qur'an does the gender of the witness matter.

* EldritchAbomination: Consider this: it's stated that if humankind craft every trees in the world into pens and use so much ink that the volume can fill the ocean, it still won't be enough to write down the knowledge that Allah has.

* CondescendingCompassion: The usual treatment reserved to non-Muslims. While the Qu'ran strongly advises tolerance and fairness towards non-Muslims (but never commands it outright), non-Muslims are still unsurpisingly considered untrustworthy, ignorant and delusional lost souls. Hence, the Qu'ran clearly discourages Muslims from forming strong bonds with them [[note]]although many of these exhortations were situational.[[/note]].

* MadeASlave: Vanquished unbelievers are to be killed ([[MenAreTheExpendableGender men especially]]), converted or enslaved. While it's possible to become a subjugated ''dhimmi'' when you're Jewish or a Christian, any other denomination will either be enslaved, executed or exiled. However, being a slave is usually just a transitional state before becoming a Muslim through exhortation of one's master. If that fails, masters of slaves must treat their slaves fairly and make sure they don't resent their servitude, even though slavery in and of itself is not forbidden at all. If an infidel doesn't convert but wishes to be free, exile is the only alternative since only Christians and Jews ("People of the Book") are considered acceptable as dhimmis. Subverted in that for even the slightest trangression, the consequence would be that the slave-owner would have to emancipate a slave and set them up for life. Muhammad himself bought Bilal's[[note]]who was one of Muhammad's most trusted companions[[/note]] emancipation.

The Qur'an (القرآن, ''Al Qur'an'', literally "the recitation") is a [[SacredLiterature holy text]] of [[UsefulNotes/{{Islam}} the Islamic faith]], the first and smallest text in the Islamic trilogy with the Sira[[note]]The stories of Muhammad's life, basically biographies.[[/note]] and the Hadiths[[note]]The collected words and actions of Muhammad[[/note]] being the other eighty-four percent of it. The Qur'an differs from the Jewish and Christian [[Literature/TheBible Bible]], in that the work is not a collection of various other works, but rather a collection of sayings in verse attributed to Allah/God-given to UsefulNotes/TheProphetMuhammad via the ArchangelGabriel. Think of it as ''God: The Collected Poems'', or perhaps as the Psalms of Islam.

The sections of the Qur'an are ordered by (mainly) length[[note]]The Prophet told the scribes what order to put it in, but they follow a rough order by length. The first chapter, for instance, is one of the shorter ones, and the shortest chapter, while near the end, is not at the end.[[/note]], not by theme (as in the Christian Bible) or chronologically (as in the Tanakh).

There are a total of 114 chapters (سورة, ''surah'', plural سور, ''suwar'') in the Qur'an, all of varying degrees of length and the number of verses (آية, ''ayah''). Because the Quran is ordered by length, there is no specific theme between each surah. The Qur'an, is however, divided into 30 ''juz'' (جزء, plural أجزاء, ''ajza'', literally "parts"), which are mainly useful when one is about to read the Qur'an a specific order each day/week/month; an imam can read one juz per tarawih prayer during the 28-30 nights of Ramadan, Islam's holiest month.

** In one verse, two women are required to give testimony for trials concerning interest of the monetary kind, whereas one man is enough[[note]]This is commonly thought to be because men would intimidate women into perjury, whereas two women would provide support and protection for one another.[[/note]]. Nowhere else in the Quran does the gender of the witness matter.

* FalseRapeAccusation: When Yusuf (= Joseph in the Bible; surah 12) is the slave of a rich Egyptian (only referred to as Al-´Aziz, "Mighty One" a.k.a. Potiphar from the Bible), the wife of his master tries to seduce him. Yusuf refuses her and tries to run away, and as the wife is trying to hold him back, she rends his shirt. Her husband comes by and she explains the situation as Yusuf assaulting her. However, Al-'Aziz does not believe her, because he notices that Yusuf's shirt is torn from the back, not from the front. As a result, 'Aziz' wife is mocked by the other women of the city for being in love with a slave. She retaliates by inviting the other women to their house so they can see Yusuf themselves, with the effect that all of them now want Yusuf. Yusuf again rejects them and is eventually thrown into prison on account of the scorned women (although the Quran does not say under what accusation he is imprisoned). More so than the Bible, the Quran is somewhat sympathetic to 'Aziz' wife because it makes clear that Yusuf is incomparably beautiful, and that Yusuf is also attracted to her in turn and rejects her only because adultery is a sin.

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: The angels of Literature/TheQuran are ''definitely'' of the EldritchAbomination variety. They are described as having anywhere from two wings to thousands, and [[TheNeedless they do not eat or drink]]. They are also ''huge.'' It would take 700 years to go the distance between the ear-lobes and shoulders of the angel who carries Allah's throne, and the ArchangelGabriel has 600 wings which span from the Eastern to the Western horizon. They're invisible to humans but animals can see them. If they do show up to humans (mostly towards [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophets_and_messengers_in_Islam Prophets and Messengers]]), they assume [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith human form]]. Angels are the servents of Allah. It is impossible for an angel, no matter how powerful, to disobey Allah, because they have no free will. They carry out Allah's will by doing things like praising and worshiping him, testing people by giving them wealth or healing their illnesses, and throwing the wicked into hell and mercilessly tormenting them for all of eternity. Belief in them is considered one of the five Articles of Faith in Islam, and Gabriel is said to have revealed the Quran to Muhammad.

* TakeThat: Even though The Qur'an has a lot of {{Continuity Nod}}s towards the Gospels and the Torah, no love is lost toward [[CorruptChurch those who exploited or -Allah forbid!- altered the texts just to gain political power]]. There are also a lot of {{Take That}}s toward the {{Hypocrite}}s amongst Muslims. Muslims consider hypocrites even worse than infidels, since the infidels are at least [[AtLeastIAdmitIt honest about their opinion regarding Islam]].

* UnwantedFalseFaith: In the Quran, Jesus tells God he never asked men to worship him nor his mother.

* FalseRapeAccusation: When Yusuf (= Joseph in the Bible; surah 12) is the slave of a rich Egyptian (only referred to as Al-´Aziz, "Mighty One" a.k.a. Potiphar from the Bible), the wife of his master tries to seduce him. Yusuf refuses her and tries to run away, and as the wife is trying to hold him back, she rends his shirt. Her husband comes by and she explains the situation as Yusuf assaulting her. However, 'Aziz does not believe her, because he notices that Yusuf's shirt is torn from the back, not from the front. As a result, 'Aziz' wife is mocked by the other women of the city for being in love with a slave. She retaliates by inviting the other women to their house so they can see Yusuf themselves, with the effect that all of them now want Yusuf. Yusuf again rejects them and is eventually thrown into prison on account of the scorned women (although the Quran does not say under what accusation he is imprisoned). More so than the Bible, the Quran is somewhat sympathetic to 'Aziz' wife because it makes clear that Yusuf is incomparably beautiful, and that Yusuf is also attracted to her in turn and rejects her only because adultery is a sin.
* FantasticRacism: Iblis the Djinn refused to bow before Adam, because Adam was made of clay and Djinn were made of fire, which somehow made them superior according to him. Though, if you're a Muslim, you're gonna drop the "fantastic" part.

* HonorThyParent: According to 17:23-24: "Your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him, and that you be kind to parents. Whether one or both of them attain old age in your life, say not to them a word of contempt,[[note]]A more literal translation is "say not to them (so much as) 'Ugh'"; IE don't even grumble at them[[/note]] nor repel them, but address them in terms of honor. And, out of kindness, lower to them the wing of humility, and say: 'My Lord! Bestow on them your Mercy even as they cherished me in childhood.'"

* {{Catchphrase}}: "O ye who believe!"

-->'''24:35''': "Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The parable of His Light is a niche wherein is a lamp—the lamp is in a glass, the glass as it were a glittering star—lit from a blessed olive tree, neither eastern nor western, whose oil almost lights up, though fire should not touch it. Light upon light. Allah guides to His Light whomever He wishes. Allah draws parables for mankind, and Allah has knowledge of all things.

* AGodAmI: If humans or djinni call themselves gods, then s/he's [[{{Pride}} a very bad person]]. Examples include the Fir'aun[[labelnote:*]]Pharaoh[[/labelnote]] of Egypt during Prophet Musa's[[labelnote:*]]Moses[[/labelnote]] era, it's explicitly for this sin that he was punished severely. And then Allah made sure [[{{Mummy}} his dead body remains to this day]], to serve as a warning and a proof of historicity.

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* TitleDrop: Each chapter's name is always namedropped somewhere. Noteworthy that many chapters have verses which don't actually have much to do with the titles, being essentially tacked in.

* LightIsGood: In keeping with the Abrahamic belief that God created the world by separating light from darkness. Also, one verse in An-Nur (''[[MeaningfulName The Light]]'') chapter compares God to a majestic light:

* MalignedMixedMarriage: The scripture forbids Muslims from marrying non-Muslims, except for the "People of the Book" who belong to anterior revelations i.e. Jews and Christians. Contrary to popular belief, [[https://submission.org/marriage_in_Quran.html nowhere in the scripture]] forbids Muslim women from marrying Jews or Christians like their male counterparts. In both Islam and Christianity, there are verses that explicitly state that there is virtually no racial or national border for marriage.

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: The angels of Literature/TheQuran are ''definitely'' of the EldritchAbomination variety. They are described as having anywhere from two wings to thousands, and [[TheNeedless they do not eat or drink]]. They are also ''huge.'' It would take 700 years to go the distance between the ear-lobes and shoulders of the angel who carries Allah's throne, and the ArchangelGabriel has 600 wings which span from the Eastern to the Western horizon. They're invisible to humans but animals can see them. If they do show up to humans (mostly towards [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophets_and_messengers_in_Islam Prophets and Messengers]]), they assume [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith human form]].Angels are the messengers of Allah. They carry out Allah's will by doing things like praising and worshiping him, testing people by giving them wealth or healing their illnesses, and throwing the wicked into hell and mercilessly tormenting them for all of eternity. Belief in them is considered one of the five Articles of Faith in Islam, and Gabriel is said to have revealed the Quran to Muhammad.