59: Banishment
This chapter of 24 verses which
are arranged in three sections was revealed at
Madina after Evidence 98. It deals
with the expulsion of the Jewish clan called
the Banu-Nadir who lived three miles outside of Madina, and how to distribute
the booty resulting from the campaign in which they had been defeated (I).
This
incident occurred six months after the battle of Uhud in the year 4 / 625.
In the final section (III), the description of how, if the Qur!an should
be delivered
to a mountain. it would shudder at receiving such a burden gives us a graphic
picture, while the !0nc!ding passage forms a beautiful doxology. in praise
of the
Deity.