Al-Muzzammil المزمل

Makki · 20 ayat · 20 with pondering

• Ayah 1Allah calls His Messenger by the blanket he is wrapped in, a name of tenderness, not blame, before asking him to rise.
• Ayah 2Stand through the night, save a little for rest: an invitation into the hours when the King of all calls out for anyone asking.
• Ayah 3The night's measure is a range, half or a little less, giving obedience room to breathe; the Prophet ﷺ lived it almost to the hour.
• Ayah 4Recite the Quran the way it was sent, each word given its space like evenly set petals, so the heart has time to be moved.
• Ayah 5Allah warns His Messenger that a weighty word is coming, and the night prayer is the training that readies a soul to carry it.
• Ayah 6The hours that rise in the night give firmer footing and clearer speech: heart and tongue agree when the day's noise falls away.
• Ayah 7The day is a long swim through affairs, so the night is kept for Allah; and the day can catch what the night missed.
• Ayah 8Keep His name on your tongue and cut yourself free to Him, like a palm shoot cut from its mother tree and rooted anew.
• Ayah 9Every sunrise and sunset belongs to Him alone, so hand Him your affairs the way you would hand them to no one else.
• Ayah 10Bear what they say, and leave them the way you would leave a room: without slamming the door, and without staying to argue.
• Ayah 11Hand Me the ones who have everything and still deny; a little more time is not forgetting, it is patience before justice.
• Ayah 12What is held in reserve is not Allah performing cruelty; it is the exact, external shape of a bondage some people are already living in, unchained.
• Ayah 13The very appetite that was never restrained in life meets, in the next, a food it can neither swallow nor refuse.
• Ayah 14The mountains, the oldest proof anyone has for the word solid, will one day pour like sand through open fingers.
• Ayah 15The messenger sent to you is not new strategy; Pharaoh had one too, and how that went is already on record.
• Ayah 16One word, disobeyed, undid a man who thought himself beyond anyone's reach; power this total had never actually been his to begin with.
• Ayah 17A Day heavy enough to age a child asks one honest question now, while there is still time to prepare for it.
• Ayah 18The sky that was first opened into being will be opened again at its end, by the same word that has never once failed to keep its promise.
• Ayah 19Here, 'this' is the warning just given; the same sentence that closes a chapter of reward elsewhere closes a passage of fear here, and still opens the…
• Ayah 20The surah's last ayah answers its first: Allah saw the year of standing, knew they could not keep count, and eased the night.