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'''Sura al-Inshiqāq''' (Arabic: {{ia|سورة الإنشقاق}}, the splitting) is the | '''Sura al-Inshiqāq''' (Arabic: {{ia|سورة الإنشقاق}}, the splitting) is the eighty forth sura of the [[Qur'an]]. It is a [[Makki sura]] in the thirtieth [[juz']] of the Qur'an. "Inshiqaq" means "splitting" and this sura has been named so, because at the beginning of which, it is mentioned that the sky will split open on the [[Day of Judgement]]. Sura al-Inshiqaq is about the signs of the Day of Judgement , the end of the world and the [[hereafter]]. | ||
For [[verse]] twenty first of the Sura al-Inshiqaq, [[sajda|prostration]] is [[recommended]]. About the merits of the [[recitation]] of this sura, it is narrated from the [[Prophet (s)]] that anyone who recites this chapter, God will save him from giving his [[Record of Actions|records]] to him from behind on the Day of Judgement . | |||
==Introduction== | ==Introduction== | ||
*'''Naming''' | |||
This sura is called al-Inshiqaq because at the beginning of which, it is mentioned that the sky will split open on the Day of Judgement, | |||
This sura is called al-Inshiqaq because at the beginning of which, it is mentioned that the sky will split open on the Day of Judgement.{{enote|"When the sky is split open"}} This sura is also called Inshaqqat.<ref>Khurramshāhī, ''Dānishnāma-yi Qurʾān'', vol. 2, p. 1262.</ref> | |||
*'''Place and Order of Revelation''' | |||
This sura | Sura al-Inshiqaq is among [[Makki suras]] and the eighty third sura of the Qur'an brought to the Prophet (s). In the current order of compilation, This is eighty forth sura of the Qur'an,<ref>Maʿrifat, ''Āmūzish-i ʿulūm-i Qurʾān'', vol. 1, p. 166.</ref> located in Juz' thirty. | ||
*'''Number of Verses and other Features''' | |||
Sura al-Inshiqaq has twenty seven verses, 108 words, and 444 letters. This sura is among [[Mufassalat]] suras (having several short verses) and among [[Zamaniyya]] suras which begin with "when…" (Arabic: {{ia|إذا}}). For verse twenty first of the Sura al-Inshiqaq, [[sajda]] is recommended,<ref>Khurramshāhī, ''Dānishnāma-yi Qurʾān'', vol. 2, p. 1262.</ref> which means that when a person recites or hears it, it is recommended that he prostrates. | |||
Sura al-Inshiqaq has | |||
== Content == | == Content == | ||
Similar to its two previous suras [[Sura al-Takwir|al-Takwir]] ( | Similar to its two previous suras [[Sura al-Takwir|al-Takwir]] (Quran 81) and [[Sura al-Infitar|al-Infitar]] (Qur'an 82) and generally like all Makki suras, Sura al-Inshiqaq mainly speaks about the [[hereafter]] and pictures its events and the Day of Judgment . Among these events, it mentions the splitting of the sky and describes two groups: the first group is called "[[people of the right hand]]" (Ashab al-Yamin) whose [[Record of Actions|record of deeds]] will be given to their right hand and the other one is [[people of the left hand]] (Ashab al-Shimal), whose record of deeds will be thrown behind them.<ref>Khurramshāhī, ''Dānishnāma-yi Qurʾān'', vol. 2, p. 1262.</ref> | ||
{{Content of Sura al-Inshiqaq}} | {{Content of Sura al-Inshiqaq}} | ||
==Famous Verse== | ==Famous Verse== | ||
'''Verse | '''Verse six ''' | ||
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|"O man! You are labouring toward your Lord laboriously, and you will encounter Him." | |"O man! You are labouring toward your Lord laboriously, and you will encounter Him." | ||
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About this verse, which is considered among moral verses, it is mentioned in ''[[Tafsir al-mizan]]'' that this verse is a fact for the existence of the hereafter and the goal of meeting God is that anything in the hereafter will end to Him and that time, there is no judgment except the judgment of God and His alone will be effective.<ref>Ṭabāṭabāyī, ''al-Mīzān'', vol. 20, p. 242-243.</ref> In ''[[Tafsir-i nimuna]]'', three possibilities have been given for the meeting of God: | About this verse, which is considered among moral verses, it is mentioned in ''[[Tafsir al-mizan]]'' that this verse is a fact for the existence of the hereafter and the goal of meeting God is that anything in the hereafter will end to Him and that time, there is no judgment except the judgment of God and His alone will be effective.<ref>Ṭabāṭabāyī, ''al-Mīzān'', vol. 20, p. 242-243.</ref> In ''[[Tafsir-i nimuna]]'', three possibilities have been given for the meeting of God: | ||
* Seeing the | * Seeing the Day of Judgement and the judgment of God on that day | ||
* Seeing the reward and punishment of God | * Seeing the [[reward and punishment]] of God | ||
* Meeting God via intuition.<ref>Makārim Shīrāzī, ''Tafsīr-i nimūna'', vol. 26, p. 300.</ref> | * Meeting God via intuition.<ref>Makārim Shīrāzī, ''Tafsīr-i nimūna'', vol. 26, p. 300.</ref> | ||
== Merits and Benefites == | == Merits and Benefites == | ||
In tafsir ''[[Majma' al-bayan]]'', it is narrated from the [[Prophet (s)]] that anyone who recites the Sura al-Inshiqaq, God will save him from giving his records to him from behind on the | In tafsir ''[[Majma' al-bayan]]'', it is narrated from the [[Prophet (s)]] that anyone who recites the Sura al-Inshiqaq, God will save him from giving his records to him from behind on the Day of Judgement.<ref>Ṭabrisī, ''Majmaʿ al-bayān'', vol. 10, p. 301.</ref> It is transmitted from [[Imam al-Sadiq (a)]] that anyone who recites Sura al-Inshiqaq especially in his [[prayer|obligatory and recommended prayers]], God will fulfill his requests and nothing will make distance between him and God and on the day people's actions will be reckoned, he will benefit from God's favorable look.<ref>Ṣadūq, ''Thawāb al-aʿmāl'', p. 121.</ref> | ||
[[Recitation]] of this sura has been recommended for the ease of childbirth.<ref>Baḥrānī, ''al-Burhān'', vol. 5, p. 615.</ref> It has also been recommended to be recited among [[Umm Dawud Practices]].<ref>Ḥurr al-ʿĀmilī, ''Wasāʾil al-Shīʿa'', vol. 6, p. 141.</ref>{{fulltext}} | |||
[[Recitation]] of this sura has been recommended for the ease of childbirth.<ref>Baḥrānī, ''al-Burhān'', vol. 5, p. 615.</ref> It has also been recommended to be recited among [[ | |||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||