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100.1 And/by the horses of the warriors, blackening due to fire/changing color.
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The Demonic Locusts
والعديت ضبحا
WaalAAadiyati dabhan
100.1 And/by the horses of the warriors, blackening due to fire/changing color.
Summary of 100.1:
• Revelation details the vision of John, in which he describes the attributes of the demonic locusts (i.e. the fallen angels)
• John begins by describing images of the horses (hippos) as being prepared for warfare (polemos)
• Observe that the initial description is given only to the demonic locusts themselves – it is only later, after they have gone out into the world, that they have picked up their riders (kathemai)
• 100.1 describes the demonic locusts after they have picked-up their riders
• 100.1 begins with “waal” which can be taken as a swearing by a thing
• The juxtaposed “al” informs us that “it is also used to indicate something which has already been mentioned or a concept of which is in the mind of the writer or reader”
• Hence the material in this sura is not only very important, but it relates to something that is already known
• 100.1 elaborates on what is already known, by affixing the word “adiyati”, which tells us of the same warring horse images, and their riders, described by “the horsemen, that charge or assault, in a hostile, or predatory, incursion, especially; or horses making a hostile, or predatory, incursion”
• The root “ada” informs us that this is an evil thing related to the devil
• Revelation describes the horses, and those riding on them, as having iron breastplates
• The breastplates are described as being fire-colored (purinos)
• The color and description is detailed as being red - bordering on black (huakinthinos); or brimstone and sulphurous (theiodes)
• Likewise, 100.1 informs us via the verbal noun “dabhan”, that “fire has taken effect so as to alter its color; blackening due to fire, changing color”
• Further, the root “dzabaha” describes this as applying to horses
• “Dzabaha” also tells us that “The fire, and the sun, altered it; or altered its color”; and special note as to the location “he burned it in a portion of its upper parts” –referring to the breastplates as mentioned in Revelation
• It is quite clear that sura 100 is referring to the Demonic Locusts as described in Revelation chapter 9
