Az-Zumar الزمر

Makki · 75 ayat · 75 with pondering

• Ayah 1Before a single command, the surah names whose words these are: the One beyond reach, whose every word is held by wisdom.
• Ayah 2The Book came down carrying the truth, and its first demand is a purified heart: serve Allah with nothing else mixed in.
• Ayah 3Pure devotion belongs to Allah alone; the old excuse that lesser patrons bring us nearer to Him is answered with a coming verdict.
• Ayah 4Choosing is not fathering: the One who prevails over all things has servants He selects, never a son who shares His being.
• Ayah 5He winds night over day like a turban and runs sun and moon to a named hour, and the One with that power calls Himself the Forgiving.
• Ayah 6You were shaped stage by stage in three darknesses by Someone you could not see, so how are you being turned away from Him?
• Ayah 7Your disbelief costs Allah nothing and your gratitude gains Him nothing; He refuses the one and loves the other purely for your sake.
• Ayah 8In trouble we call on Him alone; once He lifts it and gives us plenty, we walk off and hand the credit to others.
• Ayah 9Set the night worshipper, fearing and hoping, beside the man who forgets his Lord once rescued: are those who know equal to those who do not?
• Ayah 10Guard yourselves with mindfulness of your Lord: good awaits those who do good, His earth is wide, and the patient are paid without measure.
• Ayah 11The Messenger answers the pull of his forefathers' religion in four words, 'I have been commanded', and puts himself first under the command he brings.
• Ayah 12The Messenger is commanded not only to submit but to go first, so that whoever follows has seen the road walked before them.
• Ayah 13The one man certain of his message is told to say aloud that he fears his Lord's punishment if he disobeys; no one stands beyond that fear.
• Ayah 14With the name of Allah moved to the front of the sentence, the Messenger draws a line no offer can cross: Allah alone do I worship.
• Ayah 15Worship what you like, the Messenger tells those who refuse, but the real losers lose their selves and their families on the Day.
• Ayah 16Fire above them and fire below: Allah describes it so that His servants never reach it, then calls them tenderly to be mindful of Him.
• Ayah 17Those who keep every false god at arm's length and turn back to Allah receive good news that shows on the face.
• Ayah 18Good news is for those who truly listen and follow the best of what they hear: Allah guides them, and theirs are the real minds.
• Ayah 19Can you rescue someone already in the Fire, the Messenger is asked, and gently told that guidance is not in his hands however hard he pulls.
• Ayah 20Against canopies of fire, Allah sets chambers built one above another, rivers beneath, for those mindful of their Lord, and He keeps His promise.
• Ayah 21Rain threaded into springs, crops in every colour, then yellow, then crumbling chaff: the whole story of a life, told in one field.
• Ayah 22One chest opened wide to Islam walks on a light from its Lord, while another heart hardens at the very mention of Allah.
• Ayah 23Allah sent down the best speech, consistent and returning on itself: it makes the skin of the awed shiver, then softens skin and heart together.
• Ayah 24He who would not shield himself with mindfulness here is left to shield himself with his face, and is told to taste what he earned.
• Ayah 25Nations before them called the truth a lie, and punishment reached them from a direction they never sensed, while they felt entirely safe.
• Ayah 26The disgrace those nations suffered in this world was only a taste; what waits in the Hereafter is greater, if only they had known.
• Ayah 27Allah has struck in this Quran every kind of likeness people need, so the truth stays with them like a thread tied round the finger.
• Ayah 28A Quran in a plain Arabic tongue, with no bend in it that even insight could find, given so that people might become mindful.
• Ayah 29One servant torn between bad-tempered owners and another belonging to one master alone are not equal, yet most people do not know it.
• Ayah 30Five words announce the death of the best of creation and of everyone who opposed him: no one is exempt, and no one should gloat.
• Ayah 31Every quarrel you leave unsettled in this life will be reopened before your Lord, where the evidence is complete and nothing can be talked away.
• Ayah 32The worst wrong is a double one: saying about Allah what is false, then calling His truth a lie the moment it arrives.
• Ayah 33Being truthful is only half; the God-fearing also say yes to the truth when someone else brings it.
• Ayah 34Those who lived truthfully will have, with their Lord, whatever they wish, the full repayment of those who did things beautifully.
• Ayah 35Allah covers the worst of what the truthful did and repays all their deeds at the level of their best.
• Ayah 36Allah is enough for His servant, so threats made in the name of anything besides Him lose their grip on a heart that knows it.
• Ayah 37Whoever Allah guides, no one can mislead, because the One who guides is Almighty, out of reach of every rival, and repays every wrong.
• Ayah 38Even the deniers admit Allah made the heavens and the earth, so nothing else can lift His harm or hold back His mercy: He is enough.
• Ayah 39With the argument made, the Prophet ﷺ is told to stop arguing: you work from where you stand, I will work, and time will show.
• Ayah 40What 'you will come to know' points to: one punishment that arrives and shames, and another that unpacks and stays.
• Ayah 41The Book came down for people's own sake: whoever follows it gains, whoever strays loses, and the Prophet ﷺ is not their keeper.
• Ayah 42Every night Allah takes every soul in sleep, keeps those whose time has come and sends the rest back: each morning is a returned life.
• Ayah 43An intercessor needs two things, standing and understanding; the go-betweens people take besides Allah have neither.
• Ayah 44All intercession belongs to Allah, because all dominion does: nobody has pull with Him, and every road leads back to Him.
• Ayah 45Mention Allah alone and some hearts shrink; mention anything beside Him and their faces light up: the face tells what the heart loves.
• Ayah 46With argument exhausted, the Prophet ﷺ is taught to pray: to the One who split creation open, sees all, and will settle every dispute.
• Ayah 47The whole earth twice over would buy no way out on that Day, and what appears from Allah is what nobody counted on.
• Ayah 48On the Day, what people gathered comes home to them, and what they laughed at closes around them.
• Ayah 49We call on Allah in trouble and claim the credit in relief, but every gift He grants is a test.
• Ayah 50'I earned it all myself' is an old sentence, said by people long gone, and everything they gathered did not give them enough.
• Ayah 51What people loosed came back and found them; those repeating the same wrong will be found too, and no one outruns Allah.
• Ayah 52Allah spreads provision wide for some and measures it narrowly for others, and neither cleverness nor the stars explain which.
• Ayah 53Allah calls the people who have wasted themselves 'My servants', and the first thing He forbids them is giving up.
• Ayah 54Straight after 'do not despair' comes the next step: turn back to your Lord and hand yourself over, while the door is still open.
• Ayah 55Turning back is followed by walking on: follow the best of what your Lord sent you, before what comes comes suddenly and unnoticed.
• Ayah 56The Quran quotes in advance the cry of a soul that let slip what it owed Allah, so nobody need ever say it.
• Ayah 57The second excuse on the Day blames decree, 'if only He had guided me'; the Quran replies that guidance came and was refused.
• Ayah 58The third regret is the wish for one more turn at life; the reader of this ayah is living inside that turn right now.
• Ayah 59Allah answers the excuse 'if only He had guided me' with one word, Yes: the signs came, and they were denied out of pride.
• Ayah 60Those who spoke falsely about Allah will meet the Day with darkened faces, and the arrogant will find their lodging already prepared.
• Ayah 61Allah lifts the God-conscious clear of that Day: no harm touches them ahead, and no grief roughens them for what is behind.
• Ayah 62Allah made every single thing, and He holds every single thing in His keeping: nothing exists, or goes on existing, outside His care.
• Ayah 63The keys of the heavens and the earth are in Allah's hand alone, and whoever rejects His signs has lost the very capital of life.
• Ayah 64Offered a compromise in worship, the Prophet ﷺ answers with one astonished question: is it other than Allah you tell me to worship?
• Ayah 65Every prophet was told the same: set up a partner with Allah and all your work collapses from within, however full it looked.
• Ayah 66After the refusal comes the alternative: Allah, and Allah alone, worship, and be among those whose lives show the favours they were given.
• Ayah 67People never measured Allah's true greatness: on that Day the whole earth is in His grip, the heavens rolled up in His right hand.
• Ayah 68One blast of the Horn and all fall senseless; a second, and everyone stands at once, looking, waiting to see what will be done.
• Ayah 69The earth lights up with the light of its Lord, the record is laid down, the witnesses arrive, and every case is settled with truth.
• Ayah 70Every soul will be paid the full weight of what it did, by the One who already knows every deed better than its doer.
• Ayah 71The deniers are driven in companies to gates that open only as they arrive, and asked one question to which they can only say yes.
• Ayah 72The verdict is spoken without naming the speaker: enter, to remain; and the last word on the deniers is that they were arrogant.
• Ayah 73The God-conscious arrive in companies, the gates already open, and the keepers greet them: peace be upon you; you are made good, so enter.
• Ayah 74The first words inside the Garden are praise: He kept His promise, gave us the land, and we settle wherever we wish.
• Ayah 75Angels ring the Throne glorifying their Lord, every case is settled with truth, and the last word of the surah is praise.