Al-Mumtahanah الممتحنة
Madani · 13 ayat · 13 with pondering
- Ayah 1A believer who had stood firm at Badr quietly warned his enemies of an army on its way, and was forgiven before he finished explaining why.
- Ayah 2Their hostility was never hidden; it was only waiting for the grip of power to show itself in full.
- Ayah 3The excuse love for family offers you here will not be the currency that is accepted on the one Day that matters most.
- Ayah 4Ibrahim drew a clear line against everything false his people worshipped, and still asked Allah, not his own pride, to carry what came after.
- Ayah 5Having just given up everything their people relied on, they asked to be shielded not from hardship but from ever becoming proof for the people who doubted.
- Ayah 6Turn away from the example if you wish; nothing is lost from Allah's side, only from yours.
- Ayah 7After describing real enmity without flinching, the surah turns and says the estrangement is not necessarily the end of the story.
- Ayah 8Toward anyone who has genuinely not fought you or driven you from your own home, Allah does not merely permit kindness and fairness, He actively loves it.
- Ayah 9The only alliance genuinely forbidden here is with people who fought you, expelled you, or actively helped expel you, nothing wider than that.
- Ayah 10You are asked to test what you can see, while Allah alone holds final knowledge of what no test can ever fully reach.
- Ayah 11When one believer's loss could be made right from what the community had gained together, the Quran asked that it actually be made right.
- Ayah 12Six named commitments, not a single vague promise to be good, were asked of every woman who came to pledge herself to this faith.
- Ayah 13The surah closes exactly where it opened, because a life that has given up on the Hereafter entirely changes how it treats everyone else.