The Glorious Qur`an

93: Morning Bright! (duha)

These 11 early Meccan verses were revealed after Daybreak 89 and before the next chapter which is called Consolation (or Relief) 94. The first two paragraphs deal with the sense of history, while the third and fourth concern some of the Prophet's personal experience and spiritual striving. Here we glimpse

Muhammad's childhood; one should bear in mind that the Prophet had once been a poor orphan boy, protected only by his extended family.

The passage shows the intimate manner in which God comforted him during the Prophet's deep anxiety. Nicholson has a beautifully rhymed paraphrase of this chapter on pp. 152-3 of his Literary History! of the Arabs.