Al-Qasas القصص

Makki · 88 ayat · 88 with pondering

• Ayah 1Ṭā Sīn Mīm returns, the same three letters as Ash-Shuʿarāʾ, now opening the fullest telling of Musa's life in the Quran.
• Ayah 2The twin of 26:2, but here the clear Book turns at once to a story, told by the One who saw it.
• Ayah 3Allah Himself recites the story of Musa and Pharaoh, true in every part, for people ready to let it steady them.
• Ayah 4Pharaoh raised himself above the land, split its people, crushed one group, killed their sons and kept their women: the anatomy of a corrupter.
• Ayah 5While Pharaoh crushed them, Allah was already willing to favour the weakened, and to make them leaders and heirs of all he held.
• Ayah 6Pharaoh's precautions end by showing him, through the people he crushed, the very thing he spent his reign trying to prevent.
• Ayah 7A frightened mother is told to nurse her baby, then set him on the river and put down her fear: his return is already promised.
• Ayah 8Pharaoh's household lifts a baby from the river as a lucky find, unaware they have carried home their own enemy and their own grief.
• Ayah 9Inside the tyrant's own house, one woman looks at the baby and pleads: a joy for me and for you, do not kill him.
• Ayah 10The morning after she let him go, a mother's heart held nothing but her son, and only Allah's binding kept the secret in.
• Ayah 11The mother sends his sister to follow the chest, and the girl watches from the side while a palace full of watchers notices nothing.
• Ayah 12Allah closed every breast to the baby but one, and his sister offered the palace a household that would care for him sincerely.
• Ayah 13Allah returned Musa to his mother so her grief would end and she would know His promise true, a truth most people never learn.
• Ayah 14Grown to full strength and level maturity, Musa was given judgement and knowledge: the reward Allah gives all who do good.
• Ayah 15One call for help, one blow of the fist, and a man lies dead; Musa's very first words name the enemy who lit his anger.
• Ayah 16Musa owns the wrong in one plain sentence and asks only for forgiveness; it is granted at once, because that is who his Lord is.
• Ayah 17Fresh from forgiveness, Musa turns gratitude into a line he will not cross: never again to lend his back to those who do wrong.
• Ayah 18The morning after, a watchful Musa hears yesterday's man shrieking for help again, and this time he tells him the truth first.
• Ayah 19Reaching to strike again, Musa hears the charge that stops his hand: you want to be a tyrant, not one who mends.
• Ayah 20While the chiefs confer over his death, one man runs the length of the city to give Musa a single sentence of pure advice: leave.
• Ayah 21Musa walks out of the city afraid, looking over his shoulder, and turns his fear into a prayer: my Lord, save me from the wrongdoers.
• Ayah 22Turning towards Madyan with nothing and no map, Musa voices a herdsman's hope: perhaps my Lord will guide me to the level road.
• Ayah 23Arriving starved and hunted at Madyan's well, Musa notices two women holding back their flock at the crowd's edge, and asks them why.
• Ayah 24Hungry and alone after watering a stranger's flock, Musa sits in the shade and tells his Lord, and no one else, that he is empty.
• Ayah 25One of the women returns, walking in deep shyness, with her father's invitation; Musa tells the old man everything, and hears that he is safe.
• Ayah 26One afternoon at a well was enough: a young woman saw a stranger's strength and his restraint, and named the two things worth hiring.
• Ayah 27An old man offers a penniless stranger marriage for eight years' work, leaves two more to his generosity, and promises not to break him.
• Ayah 28Musa seals the agreement in one sentence: the choice of term is mine, nobody may push past it, and Allah keeps what we have said.
• Ayah 29Only when the ten years were honoured and the road home begun did Musa see the fire that would change everything.
• Ayah 30On a patch of ground in an unnamed valley, a lost shepherd hears the Owner of every world say who He is: I am Allah.
• Ayah 31His staff quivers like a darting snake and Musa runs without turning back, until he hears: come forward, do not fear, you are safe.
• Ayah 32A hand drawn into the robe comes out shining, an arm drawn in steadies fear: two proofs for Pharaoh and his chiefs.
• Ayah 33Sent back to the city he fled, Musa tells his Lord the plain fact and the plain fear: I killed; they may kill me.
• Ayah 34Musa asked for his brother as a buttress against a leaning wall: not a voice saying 'he is right', but one making the truth plain.
• Ayah 35Allah answers a frightened man with a certainty only He can give: an arm made strong, a proof granted, both brothers kept safe.
• Ayah 36Shown clear signs, Pharaoh's court answered with two labels, 'magic' and 'unheard of', because a label costs less than an answer.
• Ayah 37Called a magician, Musa traded no insults; he handed the verdict to his Lord, who knows who brought guidance and whose end is good.
• Ayah 38Pharaoh tells his chiefs he knows of no god for them but himself, then orders clay fired for a tower to seek Musa's God.
• Ayah 39Pharaoh and his soldiers swelled with pride on the earth with no right to it, assuming they would never be brought back to Allah.
• Ayah 40Allah seized Pharaoh and his army and tossed them into the sea, then tells the reader to look closely at how wrongdoers end.
• Ayah 41Pharaoh and his people became leaders who still call others to the Fire, and on the Day of Resurrection no one will help them.
• Ayah 42The man who chased a fleeing people into the sea is chased in turn: by a curse here, and by exposure on the Last Day.
• Ayah 43After the ruins came a Book: lamps for the heart's own eyes, a road, and mercy, so that people might recall what they already knew.
• Ayah 44You were not there when the command was handed, finished, to Musa: and being somewhere is not the same as witnessing it.
• Ayah 45Generations rise and pass like cloud, and long years slacken every covenant; yet the One who raises them has never stopped sending.
• Ayah 46The Prophet missed Musa's calling on the mountain, yet told it, because the telling was a mercy sent to wake a forgetting people.
• Ayah 47Allah sent a messenger before any reckoning, so that no one could say they were never told; the excuse is answered before it is spoken.
• Ayah 48When the truth came, those who had asked for a messenger demanded a different sign, because evidence was never their real obstacle.
• Ayah 49Answering the charge of magic, the Prophet makes an open offer: bring a book from Allah that guides better, and he will follow it.
• Ayah 50When people refuse a fair test, the evidence was never the problem; no one is more lost than one following desire without Allah's guidance.
• Ayah 51Allah did not send His word once and walk away; He kept joining it, piece to piece, so that people might remember.
• Ayah 52While the near refused, people who already knew revelation heard the Quran and believed: the best-placed judges recognised it.
• Ayah 53Hearing the Quran, they recognised the voice of their own Lord and said: we were already given over to Him before this came.
• Ayah 54Paid twice for patient faith across two revelations, they push back harm with good and give from what they were given.
• Ayah 55When empty or hurtful talk reaches them, they turn aside, part with a word of peace, and refuse to go looking for the ignorant.
• Ayah 56Not even the Prophet ﷺ could place faith in his beloved uncle's heart; Allah alone guides, and knows best who will accept it.
• Ayah 57Afraid that faith would cost them their land, they forgot who had kept that land safe and fed while they ignored Him.
• Ayah 58Towns that could not carry their plenty became empty houses, used only by passing travellers; every owner leaves, and Allah alone inherits.
• Ayah 59Your Lord never destroys a town before a messenger has recited His words to it, and never while its people are doing right.
• Ayah 60Everything you have been given is the enjoyment and adornment of this life; what is with Allah is better and lasts, so think.
• Ayah 61Both lives are given by one hand: one walks out to meet a promise, the other enjoys a season and is then summoned.
• Ayah 62On the Day He calls them, He asks one question that has no answer: where are the partners you used to claim?
• Ayah 63Those who led others astray speak first on the Day, admitting the luring, denying the force, and disowning the very people who followed them.
• Ayah 64Told to call their partners, they call, and nothing turns towards them; they see the punishment, and the ayah ends on an unfinished 'if only'.
• Ayah 65On the Day He calls them, one plain question is put: what answer did you give the messengers?
• Ayah 66Asked how they answered the messengers, they find every excuse gone dark, and no one even turns to ask another.
• Ayah 67Amid silenced excuses a door opens: whoever turns back, believes and does good holds a Generous Lord's 'perhaps', which is a promise.
• Ayah 68The One who alone creates alone chooses whom and what to honour; no one is consulted, and He is far above every partner they propose.
• Ayah 69The Lord who chooses is the Lord who sees inside: what chests keep, even from their owners, is as open to Him as speech.
• Ayah 70Every praise given or received ends with Allah, here and hereafter; His is the final word, and to Him you are going back.
• Ayah 71Were the night never to lift, no power but Allah could bring the light back; in the dark, the ear is what still reaches you.
• Ayah 72Were the day never to end, no one but Allah could bring you a night to rest in; even your stillness is His gift.
• Ayah 73Night and day are one mercy in two halves: stillness by night, seeking His bounty by day, and thanks running through both.
• Ayah 74The question about partners returns word for word; asked a second time, it meets not bewilderment but silence.
• Ayah 75On that Day a witness is drawn from every nation, proof is demanded, and every invented support dissolves like milk lost in water.
• Ayah 76Qarun, one of Musa's own people, was given treasure whose keys bent strong men, and his people warned him: do not exult.
• Ayah 77Seek the lasting home with what you hold, keep your share of this world, do good as good was done to you, spoil nothing.
• Ayah 78Told what his wealth was for, the richest man answered with his credentials; the reply points to stronger men already gone.
• Ayah 79Qarun paraded his finery before his people, and those who wanted only this world sighed: if only we had what he has.
• Ayah 80In the same street, those given knowledge answered the sighing crowd: Allah's reward is better, and only the patient receive it.
• Ayah 81He rode out to be looked up at and went down out of sight, house and all; no one, not even he, could hold him.
• Ayah 82By morning the people who had envied Qarun were thanking Allah for the fortune they never got, and saying aloud that they had been wrong.
• Ayah 83The home everyone hopes for is given to those whose hearts have stopped sending out scouts for height over others or for spoiling the earth.
• Ayah 84Whatever good you arrive with comes back as something better; whatever evil you arrive with comes back only as itself, never inflated.
• Ayah 85To a hunted man looking back at the city he loved, the One who laid the Quran on him promises: I will bring you back.
• Ayah 86The Book came by mercy alone to a man who never hoped for it, and such a gift is answered by never backing its deniers.
• Ayah 87Three commands for a man under pressure: stay with the revelation, call people to your Lord, and never join the other side.
• Ayah 88Call on no one beside Allah: everything is perishing except His Face, the judgement is His, and to Him you are all being brought back.