At-Takwīr ( ar, التكوير, literally “The Turning Into a Sphere”) is the eighty-first chapter (''
sura
A ''surah'' (; ar, سورة, sūrah, , ), is the equivalent of "chapter" in the Qur'an. There are 114 ''surahs'' in the Quran, each divided into '' ayats'' (verses). The chapters or ''surahs'' are of unequal length; the shortest surah ('' Al-K ...
'') 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 was
Ho (or the transliterations He or Heo) may refer to:
People Language and ethnicity
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buried 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
Al-Inshiqāq ( ar, الانشقاق, “The Sundering”, “Splitting Open”) is the eighty-fourth chapter (''surah'') of the Qur'an, with 25 verses (''āyāt''). It mentions details of the Last Judgment#Islam, Day of Judgment when, according t ...
.”
*
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
Al-Inshiqāq ( ar, الانشقاق, “The Sundering”, “Splitting Open”) is the eighty-fourth chapter (''surah'') of the Qur'an, with 25 verses (''āyāt''). It mentions details of the Last Judgment#Islam, Day of Judgment when, according t ...
)’”
* It was narrated that
Umar ibn Horayth Amr ibn Hurayth ibn Amr ibn Uthman al-Makhzumi ( ar, عمرو بن حريث بن عمرو بن عثمان , ʿAmr ibn Ḥurayth ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān; died 705) was a prominent member of the Quraysh in Kufa and the deputy governor of the city und ...
said: "I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) reciting: 'When the sun is wound round.' in
fajr. (at-Takwir (81:1)) "
*
Sahabah
The Companions of the Prophet ( ar, اَلصَّحَابَةُ; ''aṣ-ṣaḥāba'' meaning "the companions", from the verb meaning "accompany", "keep company with", "associate with") were the disciples and followers of Muhammad who saw or m ...
reported that Muhammad used to recite surahs
An-Naba
An-Naba or The News ( ar, النبأ, ''an-nabaʼ'', also known as "The Tidings", "The Announcement") is the seventy-eighth chapter (surah) of the Quran, with forty '' ayat'' or verses.
Summary
The first twenty verses discuss the wonders of t ...
(78) and
Al-Mursalat
Al-Mursalāt ( ar, المرسلات, "The Emissaries", "Winds Sent Forth") is the 77th chapter ( sura) of the Quran, with 50 verses. The chapter takes its name from the word Al-Mursalāt in the first verse. The subject is seen to provide evide ...
(77) in one rak'ah, and surahs
Ad-Dukhan
Ad-Dukhan ( ar, الدخان, ; Smoke) is the 44th chapter (''surah'') of the Quran with 59 verses ('' ayat''). The word ''dukhan'', meaning 'smoke', is mentioned in verse 10.
:حم The first verse is one of Quran's Muqatta'at, the lett ...
(44) and At-Takwir (81) in one rak'ah.
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