Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
[10] God's revelation and man's acceptance or denial. [10] The Day of Judgement. [10] 33: Al-Ahzaab: ٱلْأَحْزَاب al-ʾAḥzāb: The Clans, The Confederates, The Combined Forces: 73 (9) Madinah: 90: 103: v. 9-27 [6] The War of the Confederates (5 A.H.). (v. 9-27) [6] The relationship between Muhammad and his family. [6] 21-22 34: Saba ...
The surah is entirely Meccan, meaning it was revealed while Muhammad was trying to create a Muslim community in Mecca and before he migrated to Madina. According to the Tanzil version, it was the seventy-first surah revealed. It was revealed after the sixteenth surah, An-Nahl ("The Bee"), and before the fourteenth surah, Ibrahim ("Abraham").
The word surah was used at the time of Muhammad as a term with the meaning of a portion or a set of verses of the Qur'an. This is evidenced by the appearance of the word surah in multiple locations in the Quran such as verse : "a sûrah which We have revealed and made ˹its rulings˺ obligatory, and revealed in it clear commandments so that you may be mindful."
They rank from being very short, a paragraph of less than five verses (for example surah 97, 103, 105, 108 and 111) to being organized in clusters of two (surahs 81, 91), three (surahs 82, 84, 86, 90, 92) or four verses (surahs 85, 89). [11] Some of these surahs also take on a balanced tripartite structure that begin and conclude with.
There are several English names under which the surah is known. These include “The Inevitable Hour”, “The Indubitable”, “The Inevitable Truth”, and “The Reality”. These titles are derived from alternate translations of al-Ḥāqqa, the word that appears in the first three ayat of the sura, each alluding to the main theme of the ...
Al-Suyuti narrates that a man from humanity and a man from the jinn met. Whereupon, as means of reward for defeating the jinn in a wrestling match, the jinn teaches a Quranic verses that if recited, no devil (šayṭān) will enter the man's house with him, which is the "Throne Verse".
The first twenty verses discuss the wonders of the worldly creation (the earth, plants, the peace of night, the mountains and rain); the final twenty verses are about the eternal wonders and horrors of the next world, with the raging sinner (the Arabic triliteral root TGY "taagheena" is used) being punished starkly opposed with the rewarding of dutiful believers in paradise. [3]
For the convenience of those who read the Quran in a week the text may be divided into seven portions, each known as Manzil. [1]The following division to 7 equal portions is by Hamzah az-Zaiyyat (d.156/772): [1]