An Atheist Explores the Qur'an Part 76: More Pointless Actions by Allah (Lofty Stations (al-Ma’arij))
Lofty Stations (al-Ma’arij) 1-44 More Pointless Actions by Allah. Welcome to the next instalment of An Atheist Explores Sacred Texts (Qur’an version). In this series I work my way chapter-by-chapter through the Qur’an, commenting on it from the point of view of the text as literature and mythology. For more detail, see the introductory post https://bit.ly/2ApLDy0 For the online Qur’an that I use, see here http://al-quran.info and http://quran.com Lofty Stations (al-Ma’arij) 1-22 “An asker asked for a punishment bound to befall —which none can avert from the faithless— from Allah, Lord of the lofty stations.” The “Asker” in the quote above is presumably asking Allah to punish the guilty (or faithless, it seems to be the same). And this surah warns them not to expect an immediate result, because Allah is He to Whom “ a day whose span is fifty thousand years ”. So this at least acknowledges the idea of deep time, and sounds more like the Brahma years. It also suggests t...