Sura al-Inshiqaq
Sura al-Inshiqāq (Arabic: 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.
| al-Mutaffifin | |
|---|---|
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| Sura Number | 84 |
| Juz' | 30 |
| Revelation | |
| Revelation Number | 83 |
| Makki/Madani | Makki |
| Information | |
| Verse Count | 25 |
| Word Count | 108 |
| Letter Count | 444\ |
This article is an introduction to the Sura al-Inshiqaq; to read its text see text:Sura al-Inshiqaq.For verse twenty first of the Sura al-Inshiqaq, 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 records to him from behind on the Day of Judgement .
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.[1] This sura is also called Inshaqqat.[2]
- Place and Order of Revelation
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,[3] 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: إذا). For verse twenty first of the Sura al-Inshiqaq, sajda is recommended,[4] which means that when a person recites or hears it, it is recommended that he prostrates.
Content
Similar to its two previous suras al-Takwir (Quran 81) and 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 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.[5]
| Course of human progress up to his meeting with God | |||||||||||||||
| First topic: verses 1-15 Different stages of meeting human being with God | Second topic: verses 16-25 Certainty of the human's course of evolution | ||||||||||||||
| First point: verses 1-5 Collapse of the sky and the earth | First point: verses 16-19 Certainty of the human's course of evolution toward God | ||||||||||||||
| Second point: verses 6-15 Human's meeting with wrath and mercy of God | Second point: verses 20-25 Warning those who reject human’s course of progress | ||||||||||||||
Famous Verse
Verse six
| “ | "O man! You are labouring toward your Lord laboriously, and you will encounter Him." | ” |
| — Qur'an 84:6 | ||
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.[7] In Tafsir-i nimuna, three possibilities have been given for the meeting of God:
- Seeing the Day of Judgement and the judgment of God on that day
- Seeing the reward and punishment of God
- Meeting God via intuition.[8]
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 Day of Judgement.[9] It is transmitted from Imam al-Sadiq (a) that anyone who recites Sura al-Inshiqaq especially in his 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.[10]
Recitation of this sura has been recommended for the ease of childbirth.[11] It has also been recommended to be recited among Umm Dawud Practices.[12]
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Notes
- ↑ "When the sky is split open"
- ↑ Khurramshāhī, Dānishnāma-yi Qurʾān, vol. 2, p. 1262.
- ↑ Maʿrifat, Āmūzish-i ʿulūm-i Qurʾān, vol. 1, p. 166.
- ↑ Khurramshāhī, Dānishnāma-yi Qurʾān, vol. 2, p. 1262.
- ↑ Khurramshāhī, Dānishnāma-yi Qurʾān, vol. 2, p. 1262.
- ↑ Khamagar, Muhammad, Sakhtar-i suraha-yi Qur'an-i karim, Mu'assisa-yi Farhangi-yi Qur'an wa 'Itrat-i Nur al-Thaqalayn, Qom: Nashra, ed.1, 1392 Sh.
- ↑ Ṭabāṭabāyī, al-Mīzān, vol. 20, p. 242-243.
- ↑ Makārim Shīrāzī, Tafsīr-i nimūna, vol. 26, p. 300.
- ↑ Ṭabrisī, Majmaʿ al-bayān, vol. 10, p. 301.
- ↑ Ṣadūq, Thawāb al-aʿmāl, p. 121.
- ↑ Baḥrānī, al-Burhān, vol. 5, p. 615.
- ↑ Ḥurr al-ʿĀmilī, Wasāʾil al-Shīʿa, vol. 6, p. 141.
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