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Surah 103
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Three verses and fourteen words, the second fewest words of any surah in this canon: an oath, then that man is in loss, except those who believe, do right, and urge truth and patience on one another.
وَٱلْعَصْرِ
Easy-read (simplified)wal-'asr
DIN 31635wal-ʿaṣri
By Time.
By the declining day
By the afternoon
I SWEAR by the declining day
By the afternoon
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إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ لَفِى خُسْرٍ
Easy-read (simplified)inna l-'insaana lafee khusr
DIN 31635ʾinna l-ʾinsāna lafī ḫusrin
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The human being is in loss.
Lo! man is a state of loss
verily, man is in loss
Verily, man's lot is cast amid destruction
verily man employeth himself in that which will prove of loss
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إِلَّا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلْحَقِّ وَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِٱلصَّبْرِ
Easy-read (simplified)illaa lladheena aamanoo wa'amiloo s-saalihaati watawaasaw bil-haqqi watawaasaw bis-sabr
DIN 31635ʾillā llaḏīna ʾāmanū waʿamilū ṣ-ṣāliḥāti watawāṣaw bil-ḥaqqi watawāṣaw biṣ-ṣabri
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Except those who believe, and do good works, and encourage truth, and recommend patience.
Save those who believe and do good works, and exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to endurance
save those who believe and do right, and bid each other be true, and bid each other be patient
Save those who believe and do the things which be right, and enjoin truth and enjoin stedfastness on each other
Except those who believe, and do that which is right; and who mutually recommend the truth, and mutually recommend perseverance unto each other
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Surah 104
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Nine verses against one figure: a slanderer who gathers wealth and counts it and thinks it will make him last, and the fire that closes over him in outstretched columns. It takes its name from the slander at verse 1.
وَيْلٌ لِّكُلِّ هُمَزَةٍ لُّمَزَةٍ
Easy-read (simplified)waylun likulli humazatin lumazah
DIN 31635waylun likulli humazatin lumazatin
Woe to every slanderer backbiter.
Woe unto every slandering traducer
Woe to every slanderous backbiter
Woe to every BACKBITER, Defamer
Woe unto every slanderer, and backbiter
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ٱلَّذِى جَمَعَ مَالًا وَعَدَّدَهُۥ
Easy-read (simplified)alladhee jama'a maalan wa'addadah
DIN 31635allaḏī ǧamaʿa mālan waʿaddadahu
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Who gathers wealth and counts it over.
Who hath gathered wealth (of this world) and arranged it
who collects wealth and counts it
Who amasseth wealth and storeth it against the future
Who heapeth up riches, and prepareth the same for the time to come
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يَحْسَبُ أَنَّ مَالَهُۥٓ أَخْلَدَهُۥ
Easy-read (simplified)yahsabu anna maalahu akhladah
DIN 31635yaḥsabu ʾanna mālahu ʾaḫladahu
Thinking that his wealth has made him immortal.
He thinketh that his wealth will render him immortal
He thinks that his wealth can immortalize him
He thinketh surely that his wealth shall be with him for ever
He thinketh that his riches will render him immortal
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كَلَّا لَيُنۢبَذَنَّ فِى ٱلْحُطَمَةِ
Easy-read (simplified)kallaa layunbadhanna fee l-hutamah
DIN 31635kallā layunbaḏanna fī l-ḥuṭamati
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By no means. He will be thrown into the Crusher.
Nay, but verily he will be flung to the Consuming One
Not so! he shall be hurled into ElHutamah
Nay! for verily he shall be flung into the Crushing Fire
By no means. He shall surely be cast into al Hotama
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وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلْحُطَمَةُ
Easy-read (simplified)wamaa adraaka maa l-hutamah
DIN 31635wamā ʾadrāka mā l-ḥuṭamatu
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And what will make you realize what the Crusher is?
Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Consuming One is
And what shall make thee understand what ElHutamah is
And who shall teach thee what the Crushing Fire is
And what shall cause thee to understand what al Hotama is
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نَارُ ٱللَّهِ ٱلْمُوقَدَةُ
Easy-read (simplified)naaru llaahi l-mooqadah
DIN 31635nāru llāhi l-mūqadatu
God's kindled Fire.
(It is) the fire of Allah, kindled
the fire of God kindled
It is God's kindled fire
It is the kindled fire of God
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ٱلَّتِى تَطَّلِعُ عَلَى ٱلْأَفْـِٔدَةِ
Easy-read (simplified)allatee tattali'u 'alaa l-'af'idah
DIN 31635allatī taṭṭaliʿu ʿalā l-ʾafʾidati
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That laps to the hearts.
Which leapeth up over the hearts (of men)
which rises above the hearts
Which shall mount above the hearts of the damned
which shall mount above the hearts of those who shall be cast therein
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إِنَّهَا عَلَيْهِم مُّؤْصَدَةٌ
Easy-read (simplified)innahaa 'alayhim mu'sadah
DIN 31635ʾinnahā ʿalayhim muʾṣadatun
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It closes in on them.
Lo! it is closed in on them
Verily, it is an archway over them
It shall verily rise over them like a vault
Verily it shall be as an arched vault above them
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فِى عَمَدٍ مُّمَدَّدَةٍۭ
Easy-read (simplified)fee 'amadin mumaddadah
DIN 31635fī ʿamadin mumaddadatin
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In extended columns.
In outstretched columns
on long-drawn columns
On outstretched columns
on columns of vast extent
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Surah 105
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Five verses recalling what was done to the owners of the elephant, which this surah is named for: a plan brought to nothing, birds, stones of baked clay, and an end like stubble eaten down.
أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَٰبِ ٱلْفِيلِ
Easy-read (simplified)alam tara kayfa fa'ala rabbuka bi'ashaabi l-feel
DIN 31635ʾalam tara kayfa faʿala rabbuka biʾaṣḥābi l-fīli
Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with the People of the Elephant?
Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with the owners of the Elephant
Hast thou not seen what thy Lord did with the fellows of the elephant
HAST thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with the army of the ELEPHANT
Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with the masters of the elephant
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Edward Henry Palmer, English translation of the Qur'an ·1880 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work ·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
George Sale, English translation of the Qur'an ·1734 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work ·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
John Medows Rodwell, English translation of the Qur'an ·1861 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work ·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran ·1930 translation, digital edition of unverified printing·None — public domain work ·Public domain — copyright term expired·retrieved 24 Aug 2026
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