ABSTRACT
Surat al-Furqiin, in the textus receptus Q. 25, is a medium length sura, consisting of 77 verses. By general consensus, it is late Meccan, apart
from verses 68-70, which are attributed to Medina. In order of revelation it is variously put as 66 (Fliigel)l and 68 (Blachere).2 It presents, with a distinctive pattern in its distribution of emphases, the three great themes of the Qur'anic revelation: Divine Unity, Prophecy, and the Resurrection. It elaborates this core with subtle variations of imagery, rhetoric, and dialectic that are characteristic of the Qur'an as a whole.
