Taha طه

Makki · 135 ayat · 135 with pondering

• Ayah 1Two letters open the surah, their full meaning kept by Allah: some heard a tender call, 'O man', others a mercy, 'tread the earth'.
• Ayah 2The Quran was not sent down to wear you out or make you wretched, whatever those who call faith a misery may say.
• Ayah 3The Quran brings the soul back what it once knew, and it lands in the heart soft enough to feel awe.
• Ayah 4The Quran comes down from the One who made the ground under your feet and the heavens above, so it carries its Sender's weight.
• Ayah 5Over the Throne of all dominion is the One whose name is mercy, so the highest seat in existence is governed by the Most Merciful.
• Ayah 6Everything above, everything around, everything in the air between, and everything hidden in the damp earth beneath belongs to Him alone.
• Ayah 7Speak aloud if you wish; He already knows the secret, and what lies deeper still, even the thought you have not yet had.
• Ayah 8At the top of the staircase stands one name, Allah: no one else deserves worship, and every name He holds is the most beautiful.
• Ayah 9The question that opens Musa's story in 79:15 opens it here too, leading into the fullest telling of that story in the Quran.
• Ayah 10Lost, cold and with a family to keep warm, Musa walked towards a fire for a firebrand or directions, and found far more.
• Ayah 11He reached the fire and, before he could take a flame, a voice called him by his own name: O Musa.
• Ayah 12Before any mission came a first instruction: I am your Lord, so take off your sandals, for reverence begins with the feet.
• Ayah 13Being chosen came with one immediate duty: not to speak, not to act, but to listen closely to what was about to be revealed.
• Ayah 14Musa's first lesson was truth before power: I am Allah, no god but Me, so worship Me and pray to remember Me.
• Ayah 15The Hour is already on its way, its time kept almost hidden even in the telling, so that every effort will meet its due.
• Ayah 16Even a newly chosen prophet is warned: let no one who denies the Hour and follows his desire turn you aside, or you will fall.
• Ayah 17After overwhelming words, Allah asks Musa the simplest question about the plainest thing he owns: what is in your right hand?
• Ayah 18Asked one short question, Musa answers at length about his staff, as a man answers when he does not want the conversation to end.
• Ayah 19Musa has just said he leans on his staff; now he is told, in three words, to throw it down.
• Ayah 20He threw it down, and the dead wood he had leaned on for years was suddenly alive and moving fast across the ground.
• Ayah 21Take hold of the very thing that frightens you, and do not fear: the One who changed it will return it to what it was.
• Ayah 22A second sign, on his own body: his hand pressed to his side comes out shining without disease, then returns to its colour.
• Ayah 23Before Pharaoh saw anything, Musa was shown first, privately, some of his Lord's greatest signs, so that he would carry the message with certainty.
• Ayah 24The command met at 79:17 comes here as the goal of all Musa was shown: go to Pharaoh, for he has transgressed.
• Ayah 25Sent back to the tyrant he fled, Musa asked first not for armies or eloquence, but for a chest wide enough to carry it.
• Ayah 26Musa asked not to be excused from the task, but for the task to be eased: a safe delivery of what he must carry.
• Ayah 27Musa did not ask for a golden tongue, only for a knot to be untied: enough to be understood, and no more than he needed.
• Ayah 28Musa did not ask to impress Pharaoh's court; he asked only that they understand him, and that is a different prayer altogether.
• Ayah 29A wazīr was first a load-carrier and a mountain to shelter in; Musa asked for both, and he asked for them from home.
• Ayah 30Two words, a name and a bond: Musa asked to share the highest honour he had ever been given, and he asked for his brother.
• Ayah 31Musa asked his Lord to tie his back tight through his brother, the way a labourer knots his waist-cloth before a heavy lift.
• Ayah 32Musa asked for his brother with the very word that ruins worship, because a share given in the right place builds.
• Ayah 33Musa wanted his brother beside him to glorify Allah much, in the court of a man who called himself lord.
• Ayah 34Remembrance is the opposite of forgetting, and Musa asked for help to forget Allah less in the busiest work of his life.
• Ayah 35Musa closes his whole prayer by resting it on one fact: You have always been watching us, and You see what we cannot.
• Ayah 36Eight requests, one reply, and his own name at the end of it: you have been given what you asked, Musa.
• Ayah 37Before Musa could pray or even remember, his Lord had carried him, and grace that came unasked promises the asked-for.
• Ayah 38The story of a prophet begins with a frightened mother receiving a word from Allah that no one else could hear.
• Ayah 39A river is told where to set a chest down, and a baby is raised in his enemy's house under the eye of his Lord.
• Ayah 40A whole life in one ayah, the sister, the mother, the killing, the trials, the exile, and then: you arrived exactly when I decreed, Musa.
• Ayah 41Three words close the story of his rescue, I have fashioned you for Myself, and a life learns whose it is.
• Ayah 42Sent with signs into the hardest room on earth, the two brothers are given one instruction for the road: do not flag in remembering Me.
• Ayah 43Almost word for word the command of 79:17, with one change that answers Musa's prayer: go, both of you.
• Ayah 44Two prophets are told to speak softly to a self-declared god, and every believer learns how gently they are spoken to.
• Ayah 45Two prophets, freshly commissioned and promised everything, say the most human thing in the passage: our Lord, we are afraid.
• Ayah 46Two frightened men are given not an army but a presence: do not fear, I am with you both, I hear and I see.
• Ayah 47The first demand of the message was not about ritual but about people: let them go, and stop tormenting them.
• Ayah 48After the offer of peace comes the honest warning, kept impersonal and exact: the punishment is for the one who denies and turns away.
• Ayah 49The most powerful man on earth answers the message with a question, and the oldest question of all: then who is this Lord of yours?
• Ayah 50Asked who his Lord is, Musa points to everything around him: the One who gave each thing its form, then guided it.
• Ayah 51Unable to answer Musa's argument, Pharaoh changes the subject: and what about all the generations before us?
• Ayah 52Pressed about the vanished generations, Musa answers with what he does not know and Who does: my Lord neither loses track nor forgets.
• Ayah 53The earth laid out like a cradle, roads threaded through it, rain sent down, and then Allah's own voice breaks in: so We brought forth.
• Ayah 54The argument ends at the dinner table and the pasture: eat, feed your animals, and let the mind that knows its limits read the signs.
• Ayah 55The ground under your feet is your origin, your long lodging and your exit, and none of the three was ever your choice.
• Ayah 56Pharaoh was not short of evidence: he was shown every sign, saw them with his own eyes, and still called them lies and refused.
• Ayah 57Faced with signs he could not answer, Pharaoh changed the question: not "is this true?" but "are you here to take your homes?"
• Ayah 58Pharaoh answers a sign with a promise of a copy, and asks for a fair, level meeting ground, certain the imitation will win.
• Ayah 59Musa chose the most public moment Egypt had, the festival day in full morning light, because only the side with the truth wants everyone watching.
• Ayah 60Three verbs tell the whole story of resisting truth: Pharaoh turned his back, gathered everything he could force into service, and then, slowly, came.
• Ayah 61Musa's first words on the field are a warning to his opponents, for their sake: a lie told about Allah never catches fire.
• Ayah 62One sincere warning was enough to split the magicians: they pulled their affair between them like a rope and lowered their voices.
• Ayah 63After their whispered debate, the magicians settled on a slogan: these two are only magicians, come for your land and your cherished way.
• Ayah 64The magicians' battle cry defines success as rising above your rival today; the rest of the surah answers with a very different definition.
• Ayah 65Before the contest, the magicians courteously offer Musa the first throw; one commentator sees in that courtesy the seed of their faith.
• Ayah 66Musa lets falsehood go first and spend everything it has; suddenly the ground seems to crawl, though not one rope has come alive.
• Ayah 67Facing a field that seemed to crawl, a prophet of Allah felt fear rise quietly inside him, and the Quran does not hide it.
• Ayah 68Into a fear no one else could see, Allah speaks: do not fear, you are the uppermost, with height lent by the Most High.
• Ayah 69Allah does not even name the staff: throw what is in your right hand, and a valley of manufactured illusions is swallowed whole.
• Ayah 70An hour after throwing their ropes for Pharaoh, the magicians threw themselves down before Allah, naming Him in words Pharaoh could not twist.
• Ayah 71Pharaoh demands that belief wait for his permission, and threatens palm trunks; his boast "more lasting" will be thrown back at him.
• Ayah 72Believers of one hour tell a threatening king: we will never prefer you to the truth or our Maker; your power ends with this life.
• Ayah 73Facing death, the new believers ask only for forgiveness, own the magic they were made to do, and return Pharaoh's boast: Allah lasts.
• Ayah 74Every person will come to their Lord; whoever arrives having harvested only against himself meets a state where he neither dies nor truly lives.
• Ayah 75Whoever arrives before Allah with faith and with lives spent setting things right is given the highest steps, climbed one at a time.
• Ayah 76The highest ranks are gardens of permanent residence with rivers running beneath, the full reward of everyone who works to purify and grow the soul.
• Ayah 77Allah calls the enslaved "My servants", sends them out by night, and opens a dry road through the sea, removing both fears before they arrive.
• Ayah 78Pharaoh drove his army after the fleeing slaves into the open sea, and the water covered them with something too vast for words to name.
• Ayah 79Seven words sum up a ruler's legacy: Pharaoh led his people astray, and the guidance he had boasted of never came.
• Ayah 80After the sea, Allah reminds a freed people of three gifts in order: rescue, an appointment for revelation, and food sent down like hospitality.
• Ayah 81Eat freely from what He gave, but do not let the gift flood its banks: abundance is the season in which people fall furthest.
• Ayah 82Straight after the warning of a fall, the door: He forgives again and again whoever comes home, believes, repairs, and then keeps walking.
• Ayah 83Musa raced ahead to meet his Lord and was met with a question: eagerness that leaves your people behind is not yet whole devotion.
• Ayah 84Musa's answer is a lover's confession: they are just behind me, and I hurried to You, my Lord, so that You would be pleased.
• Ayah 85On the Mount, Musa learns what happened in the valley: his people were tested the moment he left, and an insider led them astray.
• Ayah 86Musa comes down angry and grieving, and asks the only two questions that matter: did the wait feel too long, or did you choose this?
• Ayah 87The people's excuse is a lesson in the grammar of blame: not in our power, we were made to carry it, and he threw too.
• Ayah 88A golden body that made a noise, presented in Musa's own name: the calf shows how false gods arrive, solid, shiny, loud and lifeless.
• Ayah 89Two plain questions expose any false god: does it answer you, and does it own any harm or good for you?
• Ayah 90Before Musa came back, Harun had already said it all: this is only a test, your Lord is the Most Merciful, so follow me.
• Ayah 91Faced with a prophet's clear warning, the people dug in: we will not leave our place beside the calf until Musa comes back.
• Ayah 92Having dealt with the people, Musa turns to his own brother and deputy: what stopped you, when you saw them going astray?
• Ayah 93Musa's question to Harun exposes the hardest choice any deputy faces: walk out in protest, or stay and hold the line.
• Ayah 94Seized by the beard, Harun answers his angry brother with their mother's name and one reason: I was afraid of tearing our people in two.
• Ayah 95Three words to the man behind it all, what is your story, Sāmirī, show that even the instigator is heard before he is sentenced.
• Ayah 96Al-Sāmirī's defence opens with a claim to secret insight and closes with a confession: it was only his own self dressing up the idea.
• Ayah 97Musa's sentence falls in three blows: a life untouched, an appointment that cannot be missed, and a god burnt and scattered on the sea.
• Ayah 98With the calf in ashes, Musa says what remains: your god is Allah alone, whose knowledge holds everything and never overflows.
• Ayah 99Musa's long story closes by turning to the Prophet ﷺ: thus We tell you the past, and give you a Reminder from Our presence.
• Ayah 100Turning your side to the Reminder seems weightless now; on the Day of standing it becomes a load carried on the back.
• Ayah 101They remain inside what they carried, and on that Day the load that once looked attractive shows its true and ugly face.
• Ayah 102One breath into the Horn, and everyone is driven to a single gathering, the guilty with eyes drained of colour by what they now see.
• Ayah 103Those who once spoke so loudly now whisper to each other a single verdict on their whole life: it lasted only ten.
• Ayah 104Allah hears every whispered estimate, and the shrewdest of them shrinks a whole lifetime to a single day.
• Ayah 105Asked about the mountains, the most fixed things anyone knows, the Prophet ﷺ is told to answer: my Lord will blow them away like dust.
• Ayah 106Where the mountains stood, He leaves a bare and level plain, smooth as a row of people standing shoulder to shoulder.
• Ayah 107No dip and no rise, not even the bend only a surveyor's instruments could find: the earth of that Day is level beyond measuring.
• Ayah 108On that Day all follow the Caller without swerving, voices fall still before the Most Merciful, and only soft footsteps are heard.
• Ayah 109On that Day nobody walks in on a connection; even the best of creation falls down first, and waits for permission to speak.
• Ayah 110He holds what lies ahead of you and what you left behind; you cannot put a wall round even a corner of Him.
• Ayah 111Every face will be lowered like a captive's before the Ever-Living who holds all things up, and whoever arrives carrying wrong has hoped in vain.
• Ayah 112In the court that matters most, nothing you did in faith is shaved off, and nothing you did not do is added.
• Ayah 113The warnings were turned every which way, in a tongue made to be understood, so hearts might shield themselves or at least remember.
• Ayah 114The famous prayer for knowledge follows a command to slow down: let it finish, then ask for a bigger vessel, not a faster pour.
• Ayah 115The first human let his one clear charge slip, like a tent-peg left at an old campsite: not for lack of wisdom, but of resolve.
• Ayah 116Adam forgot and Iblis refused: one failure a slip that could be mended, the other a stance that would not bend.
• Ayah 117Before the test, the enemy was named and his tell shown, and the cost of listening to him was given in one word: toil.
• Ayah 118In the Garden, nothing inside you would be empty and nothing outside you exposed: the two oldest humiliations, simply absent.
• Ayah 119No burning within and no burning without: the Garden had no thirst between waterings and no noon sun, only the soft light before sunrise.
• Ayah 120The first temptation came as a whisper, used his name, asked a helpful question, and offered him forever: the oldest sales pitch there is.
• Ayah 121They ate, saw themselves uncovered, and began stitching leaves like a cobbler: the first sin, the first shame, the first useless patch.
• Ayah 122After the fall comes 'then': his Lord drew him in, turned to him and guided him, like a bolting horse walking home.
• Ayah 123Humanity was sent down into conflict, but not alone: guidance would follow, and whoever walks behind it neither loses the road nor ends in misery.
• Ayah 124Turn your side to His remembrance and life grows narrow, however wide it looks: a glass office over the city whose windows will not open.
• Ayah 125‘I used to see,’ he protests on that Day: and he did, keenly, everything except the one thing his eyes were given for.
• Ayah 126The signs came and you treated them as forgotten; so today you are treated as forgotten: not a memory lapse, but a choice returned.
• Ayah 127Pharaoh boasted whose punishment was harsher and more lasting; the surah settles it: what truly lasts awaits those who overlooked the signs.
• Ayah 128They walk where vanished generations lived; the signs are there for minds that know how to stop.
• Ayah 129Only a word spoken beforehand and a date already set hold back the clamp from the wrongdoer: the delay is His, not their escape.
• Ayah 130When their words wound, answer with prayer that frames the whole day, from before sunrise into the night, so you may be content.
• Ayah 131Do not stretch your eyes after the world's bloom in other hands; it tests them, and your Lord's provision is better and lasts.
• Ayah 132Call your household to prayer and hold to it yourself; He asks no provision of you, He provides, and the end belongs to the mindful.
• Ayah 133They demanded a sign, while the greatest sign was being recited to them: a book that made plain what every earlier scripture held.
• Ayah 134Allah sent the messenger before any reckoning so that no one could say ‘nobody told us’: the excuse was answered before it could be spoken.
• Ayah 135Everyone is waiting for something; wait well, for soon it will be clear who walked the level road, and who found it again.