The substance of the call in the opening of al-Muddaththir

In the opening commands of Surat al-Muddaththir, al-Rahiq al-Makhtum reads the materials of the call and proclamation, and summarises them in five: monotheism, faith in the Last Day, the purification of the soul, and the committing of all matters to God, all of this after faith in the mission of Muhammad and under his leadership. ¹

The author holds that the warning itself implies that there are deeds with evil consequences that their doers will meet, and that in this world not everything people do is repaid. The warning therefore requires a day of recompense other than the days of this world, which is the Day of Resurrection, and this entails another life. ¹ He holds that the other verses demand from the servants clear monotheism, the committing of all matters to God, and leaving the pleasure of the self and of people for the pleasure of God. ¹

The author counts the commands in the verses as: rising to warn, magnifying the Lord, purifying garments and abandoning uncleanness, not seeking abundance by favour, and patience for the Lord (al-Muddaththir 2 to al-Muddaththir 7). He holds that they are simple in appearance and powerful in effect. ² Their aims, in his view, are that no dissenter be left unwarned, that no pride remain in the land without being broken, that the purification of outward and inward reach its goal, that a person not regard his efforts as great, and that he be patient with the harm of the obstinate for God's pleasure alone. ² The details of the event are in the revelation of al-Muddaththir.

• This whole entry is the author's reading of the verses, relying in part on Fi zilal al-Qur'an. It is neither a historical description nor a sourced traditional commentary.