Surah 102:1
"Rivalry diverts you,"
The style of many of the Quran’s final sūras is different from most of the Quran to this point. The eight short Arabic lines of Sūra 102 rhyme in couplets.
- from The Quran with Christian Commentary: A Guide to Understanding the Scripture of Islam
102.1–2 – Rivalry diverts you, until you visit the graves
The emphasis on jostling for such things as wealth as a key human problem matches the violent “love for (worldly) goods” in 100.8. As with many of these shortest sūras, the outlook for humanity is bleak. “Furnace” in verse 6 translates the Arabic jaḥīm (also 82.14).
- from The Quran with Christian Commentary: A Guide to Understanding the Scripture of Islam