Al-Ma'un الماعون

Makki · 7 ayat · 7 with pondering

• Ayah 1You will not find the denier of the Judgement in a debate hall; you will find him at the door, pushing away the weak.
• Ayah 2A heart that expects no reckoning shows itself not in a creed but in a shove: the fatherless child pushed from what is his.
• Ayah 3He is blamed not for failing to feed the hungry, but for something cheaper: he would not say one word to move anyone else to.
• Ayah 4After the man who shoves the orphan, you brace for a curse on the unbelievers; instead the word of woe falls on people who pray.
• Ayah 5A mind that wanders in prayer is human; the warning is for the one whose whole heart has wandered away from prayer.
• Ayah 6Showing off is a trade: you show people your good deed, they pay you in admiration, and the account is settled here.
• Ayah 7A surah about the Day of Judgement ends on a borrowed cooking pot, because the smallest kindness you refuse shows what you really believe.