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The Ocean of the Quran

Chapter 85 of 114

Al-Burūj · The Houses

22 versesMeccanPublished · 22 of 22 verses

Read from the beginning

سُورَةُ البروج

About this chapter

This is a Meccan surah, said to have been revealed after Sūrat al-Shams and before Sūrat al-Tīn. As it is a Meccan surah, it was revealed at a time when the Muslims were under intense pressure and facing brutal persecution.

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 the sky with its houses.
  2. 2 By the Promised Day.
  3. 3 By the witness and the witnessed.
  4. 4 Perish the Men of the Ditch!
  5. 5 The fire, abounding in fuel.
  6. 6–7 Above which they sat,
  7. 8 They were vindictive towards them only because they had faith in Allah, the all-mighty, the all-laudable.
  8. 9 To whom belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and Allah is witness to all things.
  9. 10 Indeed those who persecute the faithful men and women, and then do not repent, for them there is the punishment of hell, and for them there…
  10. 11 Indeed those who have faith and do righteous deeds – for them will be gardens with streams running in them. That is the supreme success.
  11. 12 Indeed your Lord’s striking is severe.
  12. 13 It is indeed He who originates and brings back again.
  13. 14 And He is the all-forgiving, the all-affectionate.
  14. 15 Lord of the Throne, the all-glorious.
  15. 16 Doer of what He desires.
  16. 17–18 Did you receive the story of the hosts,
  17. 19–20 Rather, the faithless dwell in denial,
  18. 21–22 Rather, it is a glorious Quran,

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