At-Takweer

At-Takwīr ( ar, التكوير, literally “The Turning Into a Sphere”) is the eighty-first chapter ('' sura'') of the Qur'an, with 29 verses ('' ayat''). It tells about signs of the coming of the day of judgement. Some of these signs include the following:
:(a) When the sun is covered in darkness (solar eclipse),
:(b) When the stars fall,
:(c) And when the mountains vanish (blown away),
:(d) When the camels big with young are abandoned.
:(e) And when the wild beasts are herded together
:(f) And when the seas rise,
:(g) And when the souls are sorted,
:(h) And when the girl ho wasburied alive is asked,
:(i) For what crime she was killed?
:(j) And when the books ecords of deedsare open,
:(k) And when the sky is torn away,
:(l) And when Hell is set ablaze,
:(m) And when Paradise draws near,
:(n) Then every Soul shall know what it has done.

Summary

*1-14 The terrible signs of the judgment-day
*15-25 Oaths that the Quran is the word of Allah, and that Muhammad is neither a madman nor deluded by the devil
*26-29 The Quran an admonition to all men

Hadith

* Whoever wants to see the Qiyamah with his/her eyes should read the verses of at-Takwir, al-Infitar and al-Inshiqaq.”
* Imam Ahmad recorded from Ibn Umar that the Messenger of Allah said: “Whoever wishes to look at the Day of Resurrection, as if he is seeing it with this eye, then let him recite: ‘When the sun Kuwwirat’(At-Takwir) and ‘When the heaven is cleft sunder ( Al-Infitar) and ‘When the heaven is split asunder.( Al-Inshiqaq)’”
* It was narrated that Umar ibn Horayth said: "I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) reciting: 'When the sun is wound round.' in fajr. (at-Takwir (81:1)) "
* Sahabah reported that Muhammad used to recite surahs An-Naba (78) and Al-Mursalat (77) in one rak'ah, and surahs Ad-Dukhan (44) and At-Takwir (81) in one rak'ah.

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