of the nineteen angels by portraying the number as a marker of faith. True believers will not question it, as it is the word of God, and those who God has "led astray" will be troubled by doubts. It is possibly an allusion to the Metonic cycle. The next section of Surat al-Muddaththir uses the tangible, accessible physical world as proof that the devastation which awaits the unbelievers will be equally real (74:32-36). It then transitions back to the theme of individual responsibility. Verses 37-47 describe the trial of the soul in Saqar, and the decisions of the individuals who found themselves there. There will be no intercession for them; once they rejected God's word, their eternal souls were doomed (74:48). Finally, the surah returns to the realm of the living to give its final injunction. Verses 49-56 emphasize the vital need for mankind to fear and glorify God. Having given the believers an image of what happens to those who do not heed the message, the surah ends with a reminder that ultimately, God controls the destiny of all mankind and that nobody will remember what God does not let him. This ultimate authority of God is the final image of Surat al-Muddaththir. The ḥumur and qaswarah Verses 50 and 51 refer to a scene of ḥumur (, 'asses' or 'donkeys') fleeing from a qaswarah (, 'lion', 'beast of prey' or 'hunter'). The wild ass that inhabited the Arabian Peninsula was of the Syrian subspecies. The lion that inhabited this region, at least the sandy deserts north of the southern region, would have been the Arabian population of the Asiatic lion. A reference to the lion in the region of Pilgrimage is in a hadith. Name of Muhammad As mentioned earlier the name is one of the name or title of Muhammad. Later it is used as a male given name spelt as Mudathir or Mudather in the Arabian Peninsula or Africa, and Mudassar in Central Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia. See also Animals in Islam References External links The Holy Qur'an, translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali Quran 74 Sahih International translation Muddathir