ABSTRACT
THIS chapter is a sort of philippic directed against the covetousness and self-seeking of the Quraish, so often animadverted on in the Quran. For this reason, perhaps, the judgment-day is referred to only to warn the wicked, and not, as usual, t~ comfort the righteous. We have given the explanation of this chapter found in Muslim commentators in Sale's note quoted below, though regarding it as a pure fiction.
