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List of chapters in the Quran. Al-Fatiha, the first surah in the Quran. The Quran is divided into 114 surahs (chapters), and 6,236 ayahs (verses). Chapters are arranged broadly in descending order of length. For a preliminary discussion about the chronological order of chapters, see Surah. Each surah except the ninth (At-Tawba) is preceded by a ...
According to Tafsir ibn Kathir, this surah is equal to 1/4 of the Quran. This was the last surah to be revealed, only a few months before Muhammad's death. [5] The first ayah means that with God's help, the Muslims prevailed. The second ayah means that after the battle crowds of people came to accept Islam.
Al-Mu'awwidhatayn (Arabic: المعوذتين) is an Arabic expression referring to the last two surahs (chapters) of the Quran: 113 and 114 ().These surahs have been grouped with each other in this manner both because of their consecutive appearance in the Quran and because of the stylistic resemblances between each other, both functioning as incantations that appeal to God's protection from ...
Al-Nas or Mankind (Arabic: ٱلنَّاس, romanized:an-nās) is the 114th and last chapter (sūrah) of the Qur'an. It is a short six- verse invocation. The chapter takes its name from the word "people" or "mankind" (al-nas), which recurs throughout the chapter.
The Quran, [c] also romanized Qur'an or Koran, [d] is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allāh). It is organized in 114 chapters (surah, pl. suwer) which consist of individual verses (āyah). Besides its religious significance, it is widely regarded as the finest work in Arabic ...
Kural translations by language. v. t. e. Following is a list of English translations of the Quran. The first translations were created in the 17th and 19th centuries by non-Muslims, but the majority of existing translations have been produced in the 20th and 21st centuries. The earliest known English translation is The Alcoran (1649) which is ...
[6] [7] In particular, verse 281 in this chapter is believed to be the last verse of the Quran to be revealed, on the 10th day of Dhu al-Hijja 10 A.H., when Muhammad was in the course of performing his last Hajj, 80 or 90 days before he died. [8]
e. The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary is an English translation of the Qur'an by the British Indian Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872–1953) during the British Raj. It has become among the most widely known English translations of the Qur'an, due in part to its prodigious use of footnotes, and its distribution and subsidization by Saudi ...