[Unknown] - Qur'anic leaf - 1680

A miniature leaf from a dispersed C17th Qur’an, likely from the eastern Persia given the interlinear translation in red, containing the end of Surat al-Mursalat (Those Winds Sent Forth) v.35-50, and the header plus v.1-13 of chapter 78, An-Naba (The Monumental News).

The end verses of chapter 77, serve as a stern, vivid warning about the Day of Judgment, contrasting the undeniable fate of the deniers with the eternal reward of the righteous. These verses are profoundly important in Islamic theology as they underscore the inevitability of the Hereafter, absolute divine justice, and personal accountability. The chapter repeatedly uses the refrain "Woe on that Day to the deniers!" to stress how grave a consequence awaits those who reject truth and morality. The passage culminates in a rhetorical, thought-provoking question to mankind: "Then what message after this [the Quran] would they believe in?

Verses 1–13 of Chapter 78 (Surah An-Naba) address the skeptics of early Mecca who mocked the concept of the Day of Judgment. Through logical observations of nature, these passages argue that the Creator of the universe is entirely capable of resurrecting the dead, establishing both the reality of human accountability and God's expansive mercy

Then script is black naskh, separated by red interlinear translations and contains simple roundels in gold as verse markers. The whole is framed in a thick gold line. The marginal gold and polychromatic hizb (or juz) marker was a standard convention in Persian and Ottoman Qur'ans to mark the division of the text (the hizb system used for recitation over a month). A cluster of small marginal glosses in Persian, written vertically in a fine script beneath the medallion, likely records supplementary notes. The condition is generally very good.

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