Revealed in the late Makkan period, Surah Al-Jathiyah (The Crouching) directs human attention to the clear signs of God's power in the creation of the heavens, the earth, the alternation of night and day, and the sustenance sent from the sky. It condemns those who hear the verses of God but continue to behave arrogantly as if they did not hear them. The chapter takes its name from the dramatic scene on the Day of Judgment depicting every nation crouching on their knees in absolute awe and terror, waiting to receive their record of deeds and face ultimate justice.
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Hameem
Translation
Ha, Meem
These two disjointed letters ('Ha-Mim') are Huruf Muqatta'at, whose true divine meaning rests with Allah alone. This represents the sixth chapter of the seven Hawamim series.
Transliteration
Tanzeelu alkitabi mina Allahi alAAazeezi alhakeemi
Translation
The revelation of the Book is from God, the Exalted in Might, the Wise
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Inna fee alssamawati waalardi laayatin lilmumineena
Translation
In the heavens and the earth are proofs for the believers
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Wafee khalqikum wama yabuththu min dabbatin ayatun liqawmin yooqinoona
Translation
And in your own creation, and in the creatures He scattered, are signs for people of firm faith
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Waikhtilafi allayli waalnnahari wama anzala Allahu mina alssamai min rizqin faahya bihi alarda baAAda mawtiha watasreefi alrriyahi ayatun liqawmin yaAAqiloona
Translation
And in the alternation of night and day, and in the sustenance God sends down from the sky, with which He revives the earth after its death, and in the circulation of the winds, are marvels for people who reason
Transliteration
Tilka ayatu Allahi natlooha AAalayka bialhaqqi fabiayyi hadeethin baAAda Allahi waayatihi yuminoona
Translation
These are God’s Verses which We recite to you in truth. In which message, after God and His revelations, will they believe
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Waylun likulli affakin atheemin
Translation
Woe to every sinful liar
Revealed concerning persistent Meccan mockers like al-Nadr ibn al-Harith, who listened to divine verses only to turn away in haughty arrogance, pretending complete indifference.
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YasmaAAu ayati Allahi tutla AAalayhi thumma yusirru mustakbiran kaan lam yasmaAAha fabashshirhu biAAathabin aleemin
Translation
Who hears God's revelations being recited to him, yet he persists arrogantly, as though he did not hear them. Announce to him a painful punishment
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Waitha AAalima min ayatina shayan ittakhathaha huzuwan olaika lahum AAathabun muheenun
Translation
And when he learns something of Our revelations, he takes them in mockery. For such there is a shameful punishment
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Min waraihim jahannamu wala yughnee AAanhum ma kasaboo shayan wala ma ittakhathoo min dooni Allahi awliyaa walahum AAathabun AAatheemun
Translation
Beyond them lies Hell. What they have earned will not benefit them at all, nor will those they adopted as lords instead of God. They will have a terrible punishment
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Hatha hudan waallatheena kafaroo biayati rabbihim lahum AAathabun min rijzin aleemin
Translation
This is guidance. Those who blaspheme their Lord’s revelations will have a punishment of agonizing pain
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Allahu allathee sakhkhara lakumu albahra litajriya alfulku feehi biamrihi walitabtaghoo min fadlihi walaAAallakum tashkuroona
Translation
It is God who placed the sea at your service, so that ships may run through it by His command, and that you may seek of His bounty, and that you may give thanks
Transliteration
Wasakhkhara lakum ma fee alssamawati wama fee alardi jameeAAan minhu inna fee thalika laayatin liqawmin yatafakkaroona
Translation
And He placed at your service whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on earth—all is from Him. In that are signs for a people who think
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Qul lillatheena amanoo yaghfiroo lillatheena la yarjoona ayyama Allahi liyajziya qawman bima kanoo yaksiboona
Translation
Tell those who believe to forgive those who do not hope for the Days of God. He will fully recompense people for whatever they have earned
An early Meccan ethical directive: early Muslims were instructed to overlook verbal harassment and insults from idolaters who had no belief in the Day of Judgment, leaving ultimate retribution to God.
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Man AAamila salihan falinafsihi waman asaa faAAalayha thumma ila rabbikum turjaAAoona
Translation
Whoever does a good deed, it is for his soul; and whoever commits evil, it is against it; then to your Lord you will be returned
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Walaqad atayna banee israeela alkitaba waalhukma waalnnubuwwata warazaqnahum mina alttayyibati wafaddalnahum AAala alAAalameena
Translation
We gave the Children of Israel the Book, and wisdom, and prophecy; and We provided them with the good things; and We gave them advantage over all other people
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Waataynahum bayyinatin mina alamri fama ikhtalafoo illa min baAAdi ma jaahumu alAAilmu baghyan baynahum inna rabbaka yaqdee baynahum yawma alqiyamati feema kanoo feehi yakhtalifoona
Translation
And We gave them precise rulings. They fell into dispute only after knowledge came to them, out of mutual rivalry. Your Lord will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection regarding the things they differed about
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Thumma jaAAalnaka AAala shareeAAatin mina alamri faittabiAAha wala tattabiAA ahwaa allatheena la yaAAlamoona
Translation
Then We set you upon a pathway of faith, so follow it, and do not follow the inclinations of those who do not know
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Innahum lan yughnoo AAanka mina Allahi shayan wainna alththalimeena baAAduhum awliyao baAAdin waAllahu waliyyu almuttaqeena
Translation
They will not help you against God in any way. The wrongdoers are allies of one another, while God is the Protector of the righteous
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Hatha basairu lilnnasi wahudan warahmatun liqawmin yooqinoona
Translation
This is an illumination for mankind, and guidance, and mercy for people who believe with certainty
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Am hasiba allatheena ijtarahoo alssayyiati an najAAalahum kaallatheena amanoo waAAamiloo alssalihati sawaan mahyahum wamamatuhum saa ma yahkumoona
Translation
Do those who perpetrate the evil deeds assume that We will regard them as equal to those who believe and do righteous deeds, whether in their life or their death? Evil is their judgment
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Wakhalaqa Allahu alssamawati waalarda bialhaqqi walitujza kullu nafsin bima kasabat wahum la yuthlamoona
Translation
God created the heavens and the earth with justice, so that every soul will be repaid for what it has earned. And they will not be wronged
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Afaraayta mani ittakhatha ilahahu hawahu waadallahu Allahu AAala AAilmin wakhatama AAala samAAihi waqalbihi wajaAAala AAala basarihi ghishawatan faman yahdeehi min baAAdi Allahi afala tathakkaroona
Translation
Have you considered him who has taken his desire for his god? God has knowingly led him astray, and has sealed his hearing and his heart, and has placed a veil over his vision. Who will guide him after God? Will you not reflect
Diagnoses the psychology of self-deification: describes an individual who takes their own personal desires and whims ('Hawa') as their ultimate god, bowing to impulses rather than objective moral truth, which eventually blinds their conscience.
Transliteration
Waqaloo ma hiya illa hayatuna alddunya namootu wanahya wama yuhlikuna illa alddahru wama lahum bithalika min AAilmin in hum illa yathunnoona
Translation
And they say, “There is nothing but this our present life; we die and we live, and nothing destroys us except time.” But they have no knowledge of that; they are only guessing
Articulates and refutes the philosophy of materialist atheism ('Ad-Dahriyyah'): materialists claimed that physical life is all there is, asserting that humans merely live and die through random biological chance, and that 'nothing destroys us except the passage of time' ('Ad-Dahr').
Transliteration
Waitha tutla AAalayhim ayatuna bayyinatin ma kana hujjatahum illa an qaloo itoo biabaina in kuntum sadiqeena
Translation
When Our clarifying Verses are recited to them, their only argument is to say, “Bring back our ancestors, if you are truthful.”
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Quli Allahu yuhyeekum thumma yumeetukum thumma yajmaAAukum ila yawmi alqiyamati la rayba feehi walakinna akthara alnnasi la yaAAlamoona
Translation
Say, “God gives you life, then He makes you die; then He gathers you for the Day of Resurrection, about which there is no doubt. But most people do not know.”
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Walillahi mulku alssamawati waalardi wayawma taqoomu alssaAAatu yawmaithin yakhsaru almubtiloona
Translation
To God belongs the kingship of the heavens and the earth. On the Day when the Hour takes place, on that Day the falsifiers will lose
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Watara kulla ommatin jathiyatan kullu ommatin tudAAa ila kitabiha alyawma tujzawna ma kuntum taAAmaloona
Translation
You will see every community on its knees; every community will be called to its Book: “Today you are being repaid for what you used to do
Explains the title 'Al-Jathiyah' (The Kneeling): on Judgment Day, the sheer awe, gravity, and terror of the divine presence will cause every nation and historical civilization to fall humbly onto its knees awaiting their comprehensive moral records.
Transliteration
Hatha kitabuna yantiqu AAalaykum bialhaqqi inna kunna nastansikhu ma kuntum taAAmaloona
Translation
This Book of Ours speaks about you in truth. We have been transcribing what you have been doing.”
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Faamma allatheena amanoo waAAamiloo alssalihati fayudkhiluhum rabbuhum fee rahmatihi thalika huwa alfawzu almubeenu
Translation
As for those who believed and did righteous deeds, their Lord will admit them into His mercy. That is the clear triumph
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Waamma allatheena kafaroo afalam takun ayatee tutla AAalaykum faistakbartum wakuntum qawman mujrimeena
Translation
But as for those who disbelieved: “Were My revelations not recited to you? But you turned arrogant, and were guilty people.”
Transliteration
Waitha qeela inna waAAda Allahi haqqun waalssaAAatu la rayba feeha qultum ma nadree ma alssaAAatu in nathunnu illa thannan wama nahnu bimustayqineena
Translation
And when it was said, “The promise of God is true, and of the Hour there is no doubt,” you said, “We do not know what the Hour is; we think it is only speculation; we are not convinced.”
Transliteration
Wabada lahum sayyiatu ma AAamiloo wahaqa bihim ma kanoo bihi yastahzioona
Translation
The evils of what they did will become evident to them, and the very thing they ridiculed will haunt them
Transliteration
Waqeela alyawma nansakum kama naseetum liqaa yawmikum hatha wamawakumu alnnaru wama lakum min nasireena
Translation
And it will be said, “Today We forget you, as you forgot the encounter of this Day of yours. Your abode is the Fire, and there are no saviors for you
Illustrates exact spiritual reciprocity: just as persistent deniers intentionally 'forgot' and ignored God's guidance during their earthly life, God will abandon them to the consequences of their choices on Judgment Day.
Transliteration
Thalikum biannakumu ittakhathtum ayati Allahi huzuwan wagharratkumu alhayatu alddunya faalyawma la yukhrajoona minha wala hum yustaAAtaboona
Translation
That is because you took God’s revelations for a joke, and the worldly life lured you.” So today they will not be brought out of it, and they will not be allowed to repent
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Falillahi alhamdu rabbi alssamawati warabbi alardi rabbi alAAalameena
Translation
Praise belongs to God; Lord of the heavens, Lord of the earth, Lord of humanity
Transliteration
Walahu alkibriyao fee alssamawati waalardi wahuwa alAAazeezu alhakeemu
Translation
To Him belongs all supremacy in the heavens and the earth. He is the Majestic, the Wise