Essence of the Holy Qur’an — Page 141
141 Chapter 86 A t - Ta riq M 6 O (Revealed before Hijrah) Date of Revelation and Context Consensus of Muslim scholarly opinion assigns the S u rah to the early period of the Holy Prophet’s ministry. Noldeke and Muir among European scholars agree with this view. It is the last of the series of Chapters which started with S u rah Al-Infi ta r. In all these Chapters the opening verse, in one form or another, furnishes an argument in support of the claim of the Reformer of the Latter Days. The intervening S u rah At-Ta t f i f, which has a different opening is, in fact, a part of S u rah Al-Infi ta r. The present S u rah continues and completes the topics which were dealt with in S u rah Al-Infi ta r, and in the following Chapters, and serves as a sort of barzakh between the Chapters that precede and those that follow it. From this S u rah , however, begins a new subject.