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Al-Nas or Mankind (Arabic: ٱلنَّاس, romanized: an-nās) is the 114th and last chapter 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.
(Al-Lahab) ٱلْمَسَد al-Masad: The Plaited Rope, The Palm Fibre, The Twisted Strands: 5 (1/3) Makkah: 6: 3: v. 5 [6] Allah cursing Abu Lahab and his wife, who was Muhammad's uncle and at the time of the revelation of this verse, Muhammad's brother in law, due to his hostility towards Islam and Muhammad. [6] 112: Al-Ikhlas ...
The genre of these surahs has been described as prophylactic incantations, meant to ward off evil, and to be recited in a private as opposed to a public domain. [6] One stylistic feature of the Al-Mu'awwidhatayn, shared only in Surah 1 and Surah 109 elsewhere in the Quran, is the use of the first-person human voice throughout the entire surah. [7]
Al-Falaq or The Daybreak [1] (Arabic: ٱلْفَلَقِ, al-falaq) is the 113th and penultimate chapter of the Qur'an. Alongside the 114th surah ( Al-Nas ), it helps form the Al-Mu'awwidhatayn . Al-Falaq is a brief five ayat (verse) surah, asking God for protection from evil:
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] Al-Fatiha (chapter 1) through an-Nisa (chapter 4) consisting of 4 chapters .
The Pen (Arabic: القلم, al-qalam), or Nūn (Arabic: نٓ) is the sixty-eighth chapter of the Qur'an with 52 verses . Quran 68 describes God 's justice and the judgment day . Three notable themes of this Surah are its response to the opponents' objections, warning and admonition to the disbelievers, and exhortation of patience to the ...
For example, the section of this surah about dealing fairly with orphan girls addresses the pre-Islamic Arabic practice of marrying orphan girls to take their property. [ 7 ] Shirk (refer 4:48 and 4:116 ) [ 8 ] is held to be the worst form of disbelief, and it is identified in the Quran as the only sin that God will not pardon.
Sirat al-Mustaqim (Arabic: الصراط المستقيم, romanized: al-ṣirāṭ al-mustaqīm) is an Arabic term that means 'the straight path'. It is commonly understood as the path that leads to God. In Islamic thought, the straight path is variously used as a reference to the Quran or Muhammad, or Islam as a whole.