*Originally uploaded to YouTube on 6 Apr 2017*<br /><br />*I do not own this content. I am a supporter backing up Sam's YouTube channel onto Odysee.*<br /><br />*To contact Sam Gerrans or to view his work go to quranite.com*<br /><br />*Original description:*<br /><br /> This quick talk summarises my understanding – and the reasons for it – of the oath we find in the Qur'an citing "the ten nights and the even and the odd" at 89:1-5.<br /><br />The Traditionalist has some stories he prefers here rather than to apply himself to the Qur’an. I am not interested in his stories and limit myself to the Qur’an, Arabic, real history, and the use of reason. <br /><br />This oath presented at 89:5 is a challenge to think – one which clearly indicates for whom it is intended; so let us presume to apply intelligence. <br /><br />Good example of the pan-textual process which typifies the method behind The Qur’an: A Complete Revelation. It also demonstrates a core doctrine for me.<br /><br /><br />1. By the dawn<br /><br />2. And ten nights<br /><br />3. And the even<br /><br /> And the odd<br /><br /><br />This form (i.e. the plural form of night: layāl) occurs only four times (19:10, 34:18, 69:7 and here at 89:2). <br /> <br />At 19:10 it says ‘Thy proof is that thou shalt not speak to men three nights being sound’. <br /><br />At 69:7 it says: ‘Which he made serviceable against them for seven nights[...]’. <br /><br />If we take the three nights of 19:10 and the seven nights of 69:7 we have the ten nights of 89:2. <br /><br />The verse at 34:18 has no mention of number and simply states nights, and itself serves to connect this part of the riddle with the next (see note on travel by night to 89:4 below).<br /><br /><br />4. And the night when he departs! <br /><br />5. Is there not in that an oath for one of intelligence? <br /><br /><br />This form I verb means to travel by night or depart by night. <br /><br />The instances where travelling or departing at night are portrayed in the Qur’an by means of this verb in this form all treat of destruction for the rejecters: <br /><br />• 11:81, 15:65 (Lūṭ leaving his city prior to destruction)<br />• 20:77, 26:52, 44:23 (Mūsā crossing water prior to the destruction of Firʿawn)<br />• and 34:18 (the people of Saba' allowed the chance to travel by day and night prior to their destruction). <br /><br />Thus, there are total of six instances (even number) treating of a total of three scenarios (odd number).<br /><br />This is, I believe, the meaning of this oath.<br /><br />It also draws the attention to the method by which God overthrows tyranny; a method about which I bang on on this channel. The idea of creating a caliphate etc was invented later. The word caliphate occurs nowhere in the Qur’an.<br /><br />The method is:<br /><br />• A man warns the elite<br />• The elite (usually) reject<br />• The society is destroyed by an act of God<br /><br />The narrative then picks up at 89:5-13 with reminders of stories which followed exactly this pattern:<br /><br />6. Hast thou not considered how thy lord dealt with ʿĀd<br /><br />7. Iram of the pillars<br /><br />8. The like of which had not been created in the lands<br /><br />9. And Thamūd who cut the rocks in the valley<br /><br />10. And Firʿawn, Lord of Stakes:<br /><br />11. Those who transgressed all bounds in the lands<br /><br />12. And increased corruption therein<br /><br />13. 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