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The Ocean of the Quran

Chapter 103 of 114

Al-ʿAṣr · Time

3 versesMeccanPublished · 3 of 3 verses

Read from the beginning

سُورَةُ العصر

About this chapter

Sūrat al-ʿAṣr is one of the shortest chapters in the Quran and consists of only three verses. Given its short verses, the majority of scholars believe that it was revealed in Mecca. Chronologically, it is considered to be the thirteenth chapter of the Quran, revealed after Sūrat al-Inshirāḥ (94). Its name – al-ʿAṣr – is taken from its first verse.

The introduction sets out when the chapter came and what it addresses; the merits gather what the narrations say of reading it. Both are written as units of the tafsir, with their own footnotes.

IntroductionWhat the chapter is about, and when it cameMeritsWhat the narrations say of reading it

The verses

Each with the first line of its translation

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  1. 1 By time!
  2. 2 Indeed man is in loss.
  3. 3 Except those who have faith and do righteous deeds, and enjoin one another to [follow] the truth, and enjoin one another to patience.

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