78: The Announcement

This chapter containing 40 short, early Meccan verses was revealed after Staircases Upward 70. It deals with cosmogony or the subject of how the world was
created in section i; still in the first section we hear the Last Trumpet announcing
the final judgment, which continues in ii. It achieves this message with a stirring
yet quiet dignity, especially towards the end. Again the mood is assisted by rhyme
or assonance.
Chapter 78 also marks the beginning of Part XXX, the final and most lyric
part of the Qur'an. This follows the traditional manner of dividing the sacred text
into equal divisions for the purpose of continuous reading or recitation especially
during Ramadan, the month of Fasting.