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The Ocean of the Quran

Chapter 109 of 114

Al-Kāfirūn · The Faithless

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سُورَةُ الكافرون

About this chapter

Sūrat al-Kāfirūn is chapter 109 of the Quran, and according to most commentators this surah was revealed in Mecca, as can be understood from the contents of the surah as well as the narrations that discuss the occasion of revelation. However, it has been attributed to ʿAbd-Allāh ibn al-Zubayr and Qatādah that they have reported the surah to have been revealed in Medina.

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

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  1. 1 Say: ‘O faithless ones!
  2. 2 I do not worship what you worship.
  3. 3 Nor do you worship what I worship.
  4. 4–5 Nor will I worship what you have worshipped;
  5. 6 To you your religion, and to me my religion.’

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