32: Worship OR Adoration
This chapter was revealed after
Believers 23 and before The Mount 52. The act
of kneeling in worship or prostration
is mentioned in II, 15:III, and 41:V. However I
do not care for the term prostration `that has often been given as a translation
for
the title since it has neurotic overtones in contemporary English. Islamic
worship
requires more reverence.
This is the last chapter initialed with the letters A. L. M. (these
have
already appeared in Chapters 2 , 3 , 29 , 30 , & 31). It consists of
30 Meccan
verses arranged in three sections, except for vv. 16-20 in section ii which
date
from Madina. Creation and man are the initial themes heard in section I.